I love the DVD bouncing logo. I like videos where people get really excited about it hitting one of the corners, prompting cheers. There's a bunch from bus trips but here's a bigger one in a stadium [1]
It’s very good. Bar the first season and last … 3?
Different take entirely. For those unaware the UK version is so cynical and on occasion even dark (and i love it for that) and in contrast the US version is more light hearted and succeeds completely on those terms.
It's a very different show. The pilot is note-for-note the UK show, but they quickly realized that Steve Carell can't play Ricky Gervais; he's just not enough of an asshole. So they recalibrated. I think the US version in its heyday is the better of the two shows.
Greg Daniels was the showrunner for the first 4 seasons; he's Peak Simpsons, and also King Of The Hill.
I watched that office episode came out and I didn't realize this was a thing (watching the logo and cheering when it hits the corner) outside of The Office, so it seems like the aside was necessary.
If you haven’t already checked out other work by Zim creator Jhonen Vasquez, his comics Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, and Squee, are excellent and full of very similar weird humor.
That's strangely accurate. I didn't like that "edgy dark" humor for the most part (every Squee and Zim fan I ever knew was a total dickhead), but Zim in particular was kind of a weird and endearing look at humanity.
You put your finger on something that's bothered me for a while but was never able to articulate. I loved some episodes and some moments were pure gold, but much of the show was nonsensical and revolting. Dipped a toe into his other work and discovered that the latter was much more his style.
It's a bit like how I really enjoy Tarantino movies, except for the violence.
Interesting. I tried both Firefox and Chrome on Android, neither worked without the desktop mode enabled. In that case my guess is that the screen size or the resolution of our mobile devices plays a role.
I did notice more Google widgets not working on mobile, such as the current "ethereum merge" search, wich is supposed to show a countdown timer (which can not be fixed with the desktop mode btw).
By default, my 16:9 screen with tabs and address bar leave a nearly 16:8 (2:1) rectangle such that (with the 45° trajectory) the logo bounces to the bottom middle, then to a corner, then repeats that loop, mostly.
I quite enjoy the background pictures my chromecast serves up.
Even the Win10/11 login screen pictures are quite nice, most times.
Really, anything is better than the 20 second eternally looping attract reel of a dvd's main menu. Friends once fell asleep to one of the redneck comedy tour dvds and it reverted to the main menu once playback completed. It was the worst until I turned it off.
It's also a sign that your culture is able to deliver a fun feature, just for the sake of it. I've worked several places where things are so fragile nobody would dare make any change that wasn't strictly necessary. That's not a good sign.
Bearing risk in mind, there's probably a reason that it's acceptable to implement the DVD logo on the front-end client but poor taste to humorously update HTTP headers, for instance.
(That said, I tend to stay in the camp of "any path that can be hit, I'll eventually have to support.")
I think those little things are a part of Google DNA from the early days and actually have a huge impact on the brand perception.
I am pretty sure easter eggs were a significant part of what made Google a cool company 10-15 years ago to my young eyes. The answer to life, the hidden games in Android, the raptor game in Chrome. At the time, it was rare for public company to do those silly things.
It was NOT rare. Microsoft used to do a huge multitude of easter eggs. Most big companies stopped because there was fear that easter eggs would increase the attack surface for hacking. For one concrete example, the PHP easter egg was useful to tell which (usually vulnerable) version of PHP a site runs so that you can run exactly the script you need to attack it.
That seems like a ridiculous thing to say. That said, I actually came to the comments to wonder just how much total effort would have gone into this from proposal, through approval and sign-offs by multiple technical and non-technical teams, before finally getting through to production. Anyone have an educated guess? I’m really curious even though I don’t believe it should sway opinion on whether to do it or not. The value is spread across employee morale and however many millions of users have their day brightened a little.
That said, I actually came to the comments to wonder just how much total effort would have gone into this from proposal, through approval and sign-offs by multiple technical and non-technical teams, before finally getting through to production.
Who's to say it's not an internal training exercise? Someone(s) is learning to heard the kittens on a low-stakes project, someone else is learning to get the right sign-offs from the right teams/people, and the new test manager can spin her team up on this little project while they try the new workflow. And the intern gets to see their CSS tricks go into production to amuse millions.
Can confirm it would hit the corner if you waited long enough. I saw it happen twice, and a third time where it was like two or three pixels off from hitting right in the corner.
I'm fairly sure (based on observation/recollection) the logo was placed randomly with a random vector, and when it contacted the wall it's vector was reflected across the normal at that point (eg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reflection_angles.sv...). I'm not sure that every configuration would reach the corner, but many would.
It hits the corner, it's just really rare. If there are 500 possible pixel positions when it hits the edge, then it's only going to hit the corner exactly on 0.2% of bounces.
Useless App Idea #8237: Record a 10 second video of the DVD bouncing logo and get a future alert when its about to hit a corner. It can also notify your friends so they know what they are missing
If I leave it a while, I eventually get a notification pop-down saying "This page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop this page."
Is it Chrome only?
Whatever it is, it sounds like someone's implemented a very simple feature very badly - a bouncing logo is the type of thing people made in basic "DHTML" on the old web, not something that should be slowing down a browser in 2022...
No weird extensions and same in safe mode. I suspect it's hw accel issues of some kind.
Wouldn't've expected as it's just a PNG (they're dynamically generating a PNG data uri and inserting it into an IMG SRC), but I don't know how they're generating it (hidden canvas?) and the update frequency is high. Doesn't seem very optimised.
All it's doing is setting the logo to absolute and adjusting its position values each step. Outside of CSS redraws, it shouldn't be causing any slowdowns.
It's interesting how memes like this propagated without really ever propagating "on the Web" or really any centralized communication channel. See also: blow on the game cartridge if it doesn't work, in case there's dust on it.
My nostalgia kicked in and so I opened the link and began searching for videos of it hitting the corner perfectly.. And then it started. I love google for these hidden gems.
For anyone who wants to try digging through Google's mangled mess of JS embeds: I'm curious, does Google embed the logic for these easter eggs in the common JS that comes along with every SERP, or only on the page that has the easter-egg itself?
Exactly once, in order to make it look like one of the TVs on our display wall, that was very much connected to a computer, was in fact connected to an old DVD player.
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1. It makes it more evergreen.
2. The excited/super invested explanations are funny.
3. It leads into the joke that Jim doesn't believe that Pam ever saw it hit the corner.
Different take entirely. For those unaware the UK version is so cynical and on occasion even dark (and i love it for that) and in contrast the US version is more light hearted and succeeds completely on those terms.
Both are landmarks in tv comedy.
Greg Daniels was the showrunner for the first 4 seasons; he's Peak Simpsons, and also King Of The Hill.
It's a bit like how I really enjoy Tarantino movies, except for the violence.
I didn't know about this until they started doing it at Flyers games, and everyone cheered when it hit the corner.
I did notice more Google widgets not working on mobile, such as the current "ethereum merge" search, wich is supposed to show a countdown timer (which can not be fixed with the desktop mode btw).
By default, my 16:9 screen with tabs and address bar leave a nearly 16:8 (2:1) rectangle such that (with the 45° trajectory) the logo bounces to the bottom middle, then to a corner, then repeats that loop, mostly.
[0] https://github.com/theothernt/AerialViews
Even the Win10/11 login screen pictures are quite nice, most times.
Really, anything is better than the 20 second eternally looping attract reel of a dvd's main menu. Friends once fell asleep to one of the redneck comedy tour dvds and it reverted to the main menu once playback completed. It was the worst until I turned it off.
This amusing anecdote comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fsUAdlzwAs
Bearing risk in mind, there's probably a reason that it's acceptable to implement the DVD logo on the front-end client but poor taste to humorously update HTTP headers, for instance.
(That said, I tend to stay in the camp of "any path that can be hit, I'll eventually have to support.")
I am pretty sure easter eggs were a significant part of what made Google a cool company 10-15 years ago to my young eyes. The answer to life, the hidden games in Android, the raptor game in Chrome. At the time, it was rare for public company to do those silly things.
When that went, it was a sign google was different to the early days.
Who's to say it's not an internal training exercise? Someone(s) is learning to heard the kittens on a low-stakes project, someone else is learning to get the right sign-offs from the right teams/people, and the new test manager can spin her team up on this little project while they try the new workflow. And the intern gets to see their CSS tricks go into production to amuse millions.
Personally, I'm a fan of "recursion", as well as "emacs" or "vi"
None of that because it was hitting corners.
I'm fairly sure (based on observation/recollection) the logo was placed randomly with a random vector, and when it contacted the wall it's vector was reflected across the normal at that point (eg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reflection_angles.sv...). I'm not sure that every configuration would reach the corner, but many would.
If I leave it a while, I eventually get a notification pop-down saying "This page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop this page."
Is it Chrome only?
Whatever it is, it sounds like someone's implemented a very simple feature very badly - a bouncing logo is the type of thing people made in basic "DHTML" on the old web, not something that should be slowing down a browser in 2022...
Wouldn't've expected as it's just a PNG (they're dynamically generating a PNG data uri and inserting it into an IMG SRC), but I don't know how they're generating it (hidden canvas?) and the update frequency is high. Doesn't seem very optimised.
https://github.com/pryelluw/mac-dvd-screensaver
A Mac screen saver that does that but with a twist.
Here's another Google search link https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pernicious
In general Google product's JS is built around a lot of lazy loading bundles.
Bouncing DVD Logo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22882260 - April 2020 (270 comments)