Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Egads! Sputnik!

Even though the Cold War is now a chapter in American history textbooks it appears that some people are still scared of Sputnik.

LA Times
:

Google Inc. occasionally features light-hearted doodles on its colorful home-page logo to commemorate special occasions. But now they are drawing criticism from conservatives for not being more patriotic.

The Mountain View, Calif., company bathes its logo in stars and stripes every Independence Day, but last week's decision to honor the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch -- the second "g" in Google was replaced with a drawing of the Soviet satellite -- is being blasted by some conservatives.

Not only did Google honor an achievement by a totalitarian regime that was our Cold War enemy, they griped, but it did so without having ever altered its logo to commemorate U.S. military personnel on Memorial Day or Veterans Day.
So given the variety of problems plaguing the world, the paint job is what some people are spending their time focusing on?

Hmmmm...

Google: misplaced priorities.

1 comment:

benallenallen said...

Sergey Brin (co-founder of Google) is Russian, so we may have a commie on our hands...