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Charlie Chaplin Google Doodle

The Google Doodle team stars in an homage to the silent film era’s greatest star’s 122nd birthday.

Full disclosure: none of the mustaches in the video are real.

More info here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/lights-camera-doodle.html

The Data Viz Challenge

Visualize your U.S. income taxes at: http://datavizchallenge.org

The Data Viz Challenge was created by Google and Eyebeam to challenge developers across the country to visualize how are our tax dollars are spent. We received dozens of unique, creative submissions that help make our taxes easier to understand and, hopefully, less boring. That’s the power of data visualization.

The data was provided by WhatWePayFor.com. The submission period ran from February 22 to March 27, 2011 and the winner was announced on Tax Day (April 18, 2011).

In the Service of Science: Hubble’s Universe Unfiltered

In May 2009, seven astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis visited the Hubble Space Telescope for a final servicing mission. The drama of a shuttle flight with ambitious and challenging spacewalks that refreshed, repaired, and renewed astronomy’s most beloved telescope captured the attention of the world.

“Hubble’s Universe” is a recurring broadcast from HubbleSite, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope. Astrophysicist Frank Summers takes viewers on an in-depth tour of the latest Hubble discoveries. Find more episodes at HubbleSite.org.

Servicing Hubble Step-By-Step
http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/team_hubble/sm4/servicing-hubble

Meet the Crew of Servicing Mission 4
http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/team_hubble/sm4/meet-the-crew

Meet the Hubble Servicing Team
http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/team_hubble/sm4/meet-the-people

From Servicing to Science
http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/team_hubble/from_servicing_to_science/

Team Hubble: Servicing Missions
http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/team_hubble/servicing_missions.php

Being a Google Autocompleter

We’re hiring autocompleters for Google Search! Are you passionate about helping people? Are you intuitive? Do you often feel like you know what your friends and family are thinking and can finish their thoughts before they can? Are you an incredibly fast Google searcher? Like, so fast that you can do 20 searches before your mom does 1?

Eye Spy a Planet: Hubble’s Universe Unfiltered

In 2008, Hubble released the first visible-light picture of a planet around another star. Planets around distant stars are extremely difficult to visualize — astronomers usually find them by observing the dimming of light as a planet passes in front of a star, or the wobble of the star as its tugged by the planet’s gravity.

“Hubble’s Universe” is a recurring broadcast from HubbleSite, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope. Astrophysicist Frank Summers takes viewers on an in-depth tour of the latest Hubble discoveries. Find more episodes at HubbleSite.org.

Hubble Directly Observes Planet Orbiting Fomalhaut
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/39/

Discovering Planets Beyond
http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/discovering_planets_beyond/