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Posted: 4/20/2006 6:27:39 AM EDT

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Posted: 4/20/2006 6:28:30 AM EDT

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Posted: 4/20/2006 6:28:45 AM EDT

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I was expecting a high-point carbine or tec-9 to be the Google logo.

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:33:15 AM EDT

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They would not honor Veterans Day with a design but they celebrate smoking pot on 4/20?

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:35:29 AM EDT

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They would not honor Veterans Day with a design but they celebrate smoking pot on 4/20?

What would you expect? Their main office is just outside of San Francisco.

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:37:33 AM EDT

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Ok the logo i get is a joan miro styled image.. Am I missing something?

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:39:53 AM EDT

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So that's what that was supposed to mean....

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:44:45 AM EDT

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So that's what that was supposed to mean....

see one post above yours.

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:45:02 AM EDT

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Ok the logo i get is a joan miro styled image.. Am I missing something?

I am too, I guess... How does that relate to pot?

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:47:22 AM EDT

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Doesn't look like dope to me. I figured they were honoring The Fuehrer's birthday.

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:49:37 AM EDT

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Communist Pot Smokers!

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:50:15 AM EDT

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I am too, I guess... How does that relate to pot?

That because smoking pot is decriminalized here in California AND the Google (and Intel, AMD, Cisco, Adobe, and ... ) have offices "just outside San Francisco" that this google image is an attempt by the liberals to get your kids to smoke pot while surfing the Internet.

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:51:32 AM EDT

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Ok the logo i get is a joan miro styled image.. Am I missing something?

Miró was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona.

ETA: Some of you guys are worse than Mr. Hand. Not everyone is on dope.

If anyone had actualy used google, he would have figured it out.

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:51:36 AM EDT

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It's not about pot. Click on the Google pic and you'll see.

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:51:58 AM EDT

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My wife knows the founder, and says he's a real douche.

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:52:38 AM EDT

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I am too, I guess... How does that relate to pot?

That because smoking pot is decriminalized here in California AND the Google (and Intel, AMD, Cisco, Adobe, and ... ) have offices "just outside San Francisco" that this google image is an attempt by the liberals to get your kids to smoke pot while surfing the Internet.

Time for a new hat.

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:52:46 AM EDT

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It's tongue-in-cheek.. everybody is completely stoned out of their minds at Google HQ right now.

Posted: 4/20/2006 6:54:32 AM EDT

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It's funny how people are so quick to rush to conspiracy theories just like the liberals!!

Posted: 4/20/2006 7:02:03 AM EDT

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So that's what that was supposed to mean....

see one post above yours.

1st time I saw it this morning I thought it was about some artist, didn't event think about pot.

Posted: 4/20/2006 9:12:41 AM EDT

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Again, someone asks:

They can't be bothered to come up with a design for Veterans' Day, yet spend the time and effort for the birthday of a painter?

Posted: 4/20/2006 9:18:59 AM EDT

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wo-ow guys, chill for a minute.

Posted: 4/20/2006 9:22:29 AM EDT

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wo-ow guys, chill for a minute.

I know....you guys are like....harshing my mellow......

Posted: 4/21/2006 6:14:52 AM EDT

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Oops, somebody at Google forgot to ask the Miro estate whether they could run the copyrighted images.

Google takes down Miro image:

Google takes down Miro image

A representative of the family of Spanish surrealist Joan Miro asked Google to remove the art from its homepage today.

Google's homepage carried an image containing elements of several of Miro works. Theodore Feder, president of Artists Rights Society, which represents the Miro family, said: ``There are underlying copyrights to the works of Miro, and they are putting it up without having the rights.''

In a written statement to the Mercury News (see Merc story), Google said that it would honor the request but that it did not believe its logo was a copyright violation.

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