Google’s Odd Logo Choices
Charles Johnson
Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 10:22 am PDT • Views: 593
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.
Frank says: