Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

OK, that's maybe a little too cute.

This morning, I was surprised Google was just displaying their usual logo. But OK, it's their site, and they tend to quixotic choices.

I've been using the built-in calculator today, so I've been there quite a bit. A few minutes ago, I noticed they had put up this logo, with the extremely cute letter l.

First thought, you're running late. Second thought, maybe not. Sure enough: they put it up at, or very close to, the to-the-minute anniversary of the moon landing.

Why not? We're that sort of geeks, right?

I am in love with the Web tonight, and with Google which brings me so much of it.

I was online earlier, reading about astronomy, and suddenly found myself wondering what the genitive of "lupus" is [1]. We have a Latin dictionary, but julian_tiger was sitting in my lap and I didn't want to disturb him. So I typed "genitive lupus" (without the quote marks) into the Google search bar. The first result was exactly what I wanted, telling me that the genitive is "lupi" and citing Wikipedia. Below that I was offered an assortment of astronomical sites talking about things in the constellation Lupus.

It's little surprise that a system that answers that quickly and accurately has "about 49,700" hits for "Gimli Manitoba" (with the quote marks; without them, "about 245,000," which I suspect include some people talking about Tolkien).

[1] Yes, I know, -us, -i. But not always: it might have been fourth declension or something else weird.

Google maps claims to have about 19,800 results for the location "thought of this while waiting for an A train".

Bear in mind that a couple of weeks ago I gave it "Earth" and it couldn't find a match.