Google’s Odd Logo Choices

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 10:22 am PDT • Views: 598

Google doesn’t change their logo in any way to mark Memorial Day, or September 11.

But today, they’ve got a special logo in celebration of Roald Dahl’s birthday.

Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was also a virulent Jew-hater. In 1983, he defended himself against accusations of antisemitism with this statement:

There’s a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity … I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.

(Hat tip: Piltdown Man.)

UPDATE at 9/13/07 10:35:20 am:

The logo appears to have been changed back to the default Google logo now.

UPDATE at 9/13/07 2:07:56 pm:

The Roald Dahl birthday logo is still up at the UK branch of Google.

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 Frank says:

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