Meet “Ida,” the small “missing link” found in Germany that’s created a big media splash and will likely continue to make waves among those who study human origins.

The fossil, he says, bridges the evolutionary split between higher primates such as monkeys, apes, and humans and their more distant relatives such as lemurs.

“This is the first link to all humans,” Hurum, of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway, said in a statement. Ida represents “the closest thing we can get to a direct ancestor.”…. You can read more about the missing link – New Fossil which Links Humans, Lemurs here…!!

And with this new media splash, Google does a Doodle to show the world about this missing link..

Doodle 4 Google is a competition where we invite K-12 students to reinvent Google’s homepage logo.

By Christin Engelberth.

This day the theme was: “What I wish for the world.” And ‘Christin Engelberth’ won the contest and became the National Winner – 2009…

In iGoogle Watch we post the latest and updated information about Google Doodles. Subscribe to the RSS feed to get instant updates about the new logos \ doodles by Google.

It is about the holiday in the United States. For the holiday in Newfoundland and Labrador, see Memorial Day (Newfoundland and Labrador).

Yellow Ribbon on Google index page means Memorial Day on May 25, 2009 and the The Yellow Ribbon Program Google put a yellow ribbon on the homepage of its US site. The Yellow Ribbon Program on United States Department of Veterans Affairs Government page posted GI Bill Website (Yellow Ribbon Program).

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 25 in 2009). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the civil war), it was expanded after World War I to include American casualties of any war or military action.

What is the Yellow Ribbon Program?

The Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program (Yellow Ribbon Program) is a provision of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008. This program allows institutions of higher learning (degree granting institutions) in the United States to voluntarily enter into an agreement with VA to fund tuition expenses that exceed the highest public in-state undergraduate tuition rate. The institution can contribute up to 50% of those expenses and VA will match the same amount as the institution. [Source]

After a few weeks ago beta of Chrome 2.0 appear several times and this has been updated to a stable version now and a new version is released. This carries the version number is 2.0.172.28. Basically 2 is what we are looking at since Google does not give much weight to the version but the number of the version.

Here is an overview about the major changes between 1.0 and Google Chrome 2.0:

– Fullscreen: If you have a presentation or a large video looks in Chrome, the taskbar, which Tableiste the address bar and bookmarks bar disturb. F11 or alternative on the wrench Vollbild can hide this.

– “New Tab” page improved: One of the most frequently requested features from users, it was that one of the websites “New Tab” page can be removed.

– Auto Fill: Auto Fill helps with filling out forms. Instead of repeatedly entered his name, these are suggested as you type.

– Increased Speed:  With the new version of WebKit and an update to our JavaScript engine, V8, interactive web pages will run even faster

– Increased Stability: Over 300 bugs were fixed that used to crash chrome and is now resolved. And final thanks to WebKit and V8 engine improved, new speed.
If you’re already using Google Chrome, you’ll be automatically updated to this new version soon. If you’re new or if you’re itching to try this right away, you can get the latest version at google.com/chrome.

Chen Jingrun (May 22, 1933–March 19, 1996) was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory. Chen is ranked as one of the leading mathematicians in the twentieth century and one of China’s most influential mathematicians in history.

Google announces the future of Google Logos would be uniform for all Google products. Google Code, Google Labs and Google Moderator already changed the logo, in a few weeks Google Docs, Google Maps, Google News and a few others will surely follow this new style of logos.

Here are some localized logos for Google Maps, Google News and Google Docs.

Google comes up with a consistent design pattern for its logos! In the new design of Google logos, all the logos would have blue lowercase Product Name, which actually looks pretty cool :)

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) (pronounced [k??sæt]) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.

Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.

A New Gmail Labs helps preview your inbox before Gmail opens to see what mail you’ve got. The experiment is called Inbox Preview.

A static view of the inbox provides an overview of the content. The Gmail Labs uses the loading of Gmail more useful. If, for example, only a very slow connection, you must long for his then perhaps empty inbox wait.

The preview shows new messages in bold. If no new mail in his inbox, it just closes the tab or window and it will not load Gmail. In Settings –> Labs of your gmail account you can activate the experiment.