Follow the bouncing balls!  If you’re a Google user, and you probably are, you’ll notice that the company’s traditional Google doodle logo has changed, yet again.  It’s not something Labor Day-themed, but it’s a bunch of bouncing balls that, when you mouse over them, they start flying around the screen.  When left alone, they eventually turn into the normal Google logo, just rendered dot-style.  Among the best theories I’ve read on Twitter or seen on various websites is that Google’s balls are somehow related to some sort of HTML5 compliance test for users of Firefox and Google Chrome. Nobody at Google has talked about what it means yet, but they supposedly have some event scheduled tomorrow to discuss their balls.

Then again, it may just be Google showing off.  I mean, do all their Doodles have to mean something?  Generally, all of them have so far (even the bar code!), but this might just be them having a little fun, like they did with their playable Pac-Man logo.  I can’t think of any celebrities they’d honor with bouncing balls, and it’s not some kind of Halloween theme, so really, I’m as clueless as the rest of you.  Still, if pressed, I’d say it’s related to HTML5.

Tags: Google, Google Doodle, Google balls, Google balls logo, unusual images, decorations, interactive Google logo, Google ball-themed logo, Google dots, unusual logos, changed logos, mysteries, HTML5, HTML5 compliance test

Usually, when someone talks about hot beats, it’s just because they really like the music.  However, one unnamed woman on a flight from Beijing, China, to Melbourne, Australia, got exposed to some really hot beats.  A woman’s headphone burst into flames while she was wearing them! It’s just not safe to enjoy yourself anymore, between […]

This will be the last Samsung Galaxy Note 7 to ever be on an airplane.  After all, the phone has been pulled from shelves and pockets all around the world, because the phones tend to, uh… catch fire and/or explode.  It’s not a laughing matter if you’re flying over the Rocky Mountains with one in […]

Since 2014, Craig Sager has been caught in the fight of his life.  He’s been battling leukemia since 2014, and he’s had multiple stem-cell treatments and rounds of radiation, and he continues to struggle against the disease for all he’s worth.  He’s been a very public face for most of his life, and now he’s engaged […]

The Red Cross is a wonderful organization.  When there’s trouble, the Red Cross is there setting up shelters and handing out food and water.  The Red Cross is normally very sensitive to the community needs around them, to boot.  However, sometimes, something will slip through the cracks that just looks wrong.  One of these things is […]

One of the most famous features of Matt Groening’s fictional town of Springfield is a strange one.  Springfield is home to a giant, perpetually burning tire fire.  I guess considering the town also has a nuclear plant that routinely leaks glowing green waste into the town’s water supply, the tire fire isn’t such a big […]

Gas prices don’t usually go down.  They go up.  Gas prices rose for decades, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, but always up on a long enough timeline.  Not long ago, $4 a gallon for gas was a very real proposition.  Nobody thought prices would go in the other direction, and yet… gas prices are going down […]

Fashion designers look for inspiration everywhere.  Some of it is pop culture, like Friday the 13th-inspired hoodies.  Other fashions are inspired by low culture, like deluxe Snuggies.  Some people turn to the culture of their past for inspiration, like the 8-bit video games they grew up on.  Italian fashion house Moschino is partnering with Nintendo […]