It's the 30th anniversary of the arcade classic Pac-Man, one of my all-time favorite computer games.

Apparently, Google agrees, so they celebrate it with a playable (that's right) Google logo: Today, Google is most certainly distracting more people from work than Facebook.

This is awesome. Make sure to try it out before the end of the day!

(If you missed it, I am confident it'll show up in the Google's doodle gallery soon.)

Update: Tobias and JP point out the Google's Pacman logo now has a permanent residence on the web. Great!

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Today's Google logo is a quite creative commemoration of Samuel Morse's birthday:

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Yesterday was the national holiday of Germany: The 3rd of October is the German Unity Day, commemorating the anniversary of the German reunification in 1990.

Google Germany made a special logo for it and put it on google.de, which I think looks pretty cool:

My humble self obviously had to go to work anyway, as foreign holidays tend not to be observed over here ;) but we coincidentally ended the day with dinner at a fancy fish restaurant, which counts as celebrating, doesn't it?

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