Flour Power

Since its early days, Google’s homepage has seen a lot of different logos. They are used in select days, to “celebrate different people, events or special dates”. And so, this year’s St. Patrick’s day will be celebrated with the logo that wins the ‘Doodle 4 Google’ competition.

The ‘Doodle 4 Google’ competition asks young people across Ireland to design their own doodle, and the winning doodle will be displayed on the Google homepage in the UK, US, Canada and, of course, Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day 2009.

More than 100 finalists were chosen by a panel of judges and now it’s time for the Irish public to vote on their favorites. In the end, the so-called ‘original Doodler‘ – Dennis Hwang – will select the winner.

These were my choices:

Voting ends at midnight on Monday, 16th February 2009.

And while you’re at it, check out this collection of Google logos used in the past.

Do we have bigger noses?

YourFonts is an online tool that turns your handwriting into a TrueType font for free. All you need is a printer and a scanner. And best of all, it’s free.

The process is very simple:

1. Download and print the provided PDF;
2. Fill in the blanks for each letter and number with your own handwriting;
3. Scan and upload the template back to YourFonts;
4. Preview the generated font;
5. Download;
6. Install.

The above example looks really cool. I’ll surely try this out soon and let you know about the result.

(via Lifehacker)

… this is what I see. Not bad, eh?

Calm down, it’s just paint