A birthday

[ksmith]

Today would have been Jim Henson’s 75th birthday.

Google has a neat little commemorative widget.

Update–and a cool video about said Doodle (hat tip to Anne Laurie over at Balloon Juice for the link)

Mirrored from Kristine Smith.

Comments

[coalboy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this link. I usually find out about them a day too late.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

You're welcome, but since the link is likely now out of date, you must check out the video about said Doodle. I just added it to the post.

[coalboy.livejournal.com]

Ooooh!

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

IS the widget supposed to make sounds? I can get the red critter on the end to eat the tall green critter, but I keep wanting sounds and it won't play sounds.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I have my volume raised, and didn't hear anything. I would have thought that they would have featured sound on the You Tube clip if they had put it in, but maybe not.

Sound would have been nice. Or "it's not easy being green" in the background. But then I might have teared up.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I think if you want sound, you need to do a little extra work. Here's an NYT article about the doodle, with a link on the bottom to a youtube video of the puppets singing along to a Black Eyed Peas song.