Happy April Fool’s Day! The letter “a” of mail is replaced by a funny qq icon in the logo (official link) of April Fool’s Day.
Launched in 2002, QQ Mailbox provides users with stable, secure, fast and convenient e-mail services free of charge. QQ Mailbox is currently used by more 60 million subscribers. QQ mailbox, QQ and TM have become widespread communication tools for Chinese Internet users.
The Tomb-sweeping Day memorial logo of QQ (official link) mail has the following two typical elements: white flowers and drizzle. In addition, the chinese 清明（meaning Clear and Bright）is also displayed on the left of the logo.
Tomb-sweeping Day(also named Qingming Festival), is a traditional Chinese festival.
The Qingming Festival (traditional Chinese: 清明節; simplified Chinese: 清明节; pinyin: Qīngmíngjié, or Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong, Vietnamese language: Tết Thanh Minh), meaning Clear and Bright Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice (or the 15th day from the Spring Equinox), usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar (see Chinese calendar). Every leap year, Qing Ming is on April 4. Astronomically, it is also a solar term (See Qingming). In solar terms, the Qingming festival is on the 1st day of the 5th solar term, which is also named Qingming. Its name denotes a time for people to go outside and enjoy the greenery of springtime (踏青 Tàqīng, “treading on the greenery”), and also to tend to the graves of departed ones.
Qingming is a statutory public holiday in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. It has long been a public holiday in the latter three jurisdictions, but became a public holiday in mainland China in 2008 for the first time since 1949.
It is not ture, google is also a guy in the world. the logo (official link) is just a joke of April Fool’s Day.
Today is April Fool’s Day, It’s also Nikolai Gogol’s 200th Birthday.So google designed a logo (official link) to commemorate it. Google in the logo was deliberately designed and became the name of “gogol”. It is coincident and funny, just because today is April Fool’s Day.
Another interesting thing is that google.com is linked to igoogle homepage. In addition, today google also launch a series of “April Fool’s Day” projects, such as google pigeon of google.cn, グーグルが 川柳詠んでる なんでだろof google.co.jp and gball of google.com.au, etc.
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь, Nikolaj Vasil’evič Gogol’ ; Russian pronunciation: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈgogəlʲ]; Ukrainian: Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, Mykola Vasylovych Hohol) (31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809, – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian humorist, dramatist, and novelist. Although his early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identity, he is often called the “father of modern Russian realism he was one of the first writers to criticize his country’s way of life. The novels Taras Bul’ba (1835; 1842 [revised edition]) and Dead Souls (1842), the play The Inspector-General (1836, 1842), and the short stories Diary of a Madman, The Nose and The Overcoat (1842) are among his best known works. With their scrupulous and scathing realism, ethical criticism as well as philosophical depth, they remain some of the most important works of world literature.
April Fools’ Day or All Fools’ Day, although not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies, and neighbors, or sending them on fool’s errand, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. Traditionally, in some countries, the jokes only last until noon: like UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, someone who plays a trick after noon is called an “April Fool”. Elsewhere, such as in Ireland, France, and the USA, the jokes last all day.
Google Ventures seeks to discover and grow great companies – we believe in the power of entrepreneurs to do amazing things. We’re studying a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care. We invest anywhere from seed to mezzanine stage and embrace the challenge of helping young companies grow from the garage to global relevance.
Our team includes entrepreneurs, investors and innovators, along with some 20,000+ exceptional Googlers whose breadth of knowledge, experience and creativity constitute perhaps our own most valuable resource. You don’t have to be a potential Google acquisition for us to want to work with you; we’re out to build great companies, period.
click Earth One Hour-Yahoo flash logo to browse the whole animated logo
Besides Yahoo Xtra, Yahoo also lanuched a series of similar logos (as above) of Earth One Hour in many countries, such as en Español, Argentina, Mexico, Brasil, Colombia, Chile, Peru, venezuela.
Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney’s lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008.
Nyepi is a Balinese “Day of Silence” that falls on Bali’s Lunar New Year (March 26, 2009). It is a day of silence, fasting, and meditation. The day following Nyepi is also celebrated as New year Gudi Padva in Maharashtra and Ugadi in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in India.
In 1993 the United Nations General Assembly declared March 22 as World Day for Water (also known as World Water Day).
This day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Observance began in 1993 and has grown significantly ever since.
The UN PARTY its member nations to devote this day to implementing UN recommendations and promoting concrete activities within their countries. Each year, one of various UN agencies involved in water issues takes the lead in promoting and coordinating international activities for World Day for Water.
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