I’ve been a big fan of Google for a many years and one of the neat things I think they do is the home page “Google doodle”. These are the graphics that sometimes replace the plain blue-red-yellow Google logo to celebrate some event.

For the past week they have been running different Olympic themed pictures to celebrate the London games. Yesterday on August 6th they did a javelin themed one and this is what it looked like when I first visited it in the morning.

Later in the day when I went back to Google they still had the javelin themed doodle up but I noticed it had changed slightly.

See the difference?

The blimp above the “G” has been replaced with the Mars Curiosity landing. August 6th was also the be day the Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars. What a cool little tribute to science just hidden right there.

You can look through the catalog of previous Google Doodles at http://www.google.com/doodles

Is it just me or does this javelin thrower resemble a grown up Pinocchio? Just saying, with a nose like that….