Earlier this week we posted a doodle honoring Bob
Moog, inventor of the Moog Synthesizer. This
instrument started a revolution in electronic music, as musicians in many different genres
used the Moog Synthesizer and its descendants to create and enhance their music. This doodle
was the first one to use the Web Audio API to
create sounds, along with a bunch of other web and Google technologies. But mostly, this
doodle was wonderful because it was a lot of fun to play with.
Bonaire Banded Box Jelly (Tamoya ohboya). Yeah, it stings. Photo credit: Ned
DeLoach
Finally, for some big-time science fun this weekend, use your favorite search engine to find
photos of last week’s annular
eclipse. Or, if you don’t want to do your own search, you can start with these.
The Official
Google Blog post about the Moog doodle includes this wonderful bit of writing: "Bob
Moog is something of a patron saint of the nerdy arts..." We respect that here on the
Fridaygram, because nerds r us, and that's why we publish posts with items that aren’t always
related to developer topics.
