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03 November 2011

Go to Google -> Type: "Do a barrel roll"

post by: octothorpe at: 13:29 | 17 comments

Or, just select what octothorpe's already typed for you, right click, and search Google that way. ;)

(Who has two thumbs and is way lazy? Eh...)

posted by Eideteker 03 November | 13:37

Also works: "Z or R twice" -- and type it without quotes.

Hah. Those Google geeks, and their love of (semi) old video games.

posted by filthy light thief 03 November | 13:38

aaah this caused some whimsy in even my miserable old heart

posted by Firas 03 November | 13:55

... Okay, that cracked me up!

posted by Elsa 03 November | 14:01

I'm on Firefox and it didn't work for me.

posted by amro 03 November | 14:02

Me neither :(

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 November | 14:02

Worked for me in Chrome and Firefox (on Ubuntu). Did you type it without the quotes?

posted by octothorpe 03 November | 14:06

hmmmm, it's taking ages to load. 3 Mins and counting.

posted by MonkeyButter 03 November | 14:07

"Tilt" works as advertised, too.

/firefox on win xp pro

posted by workerant 03 November | 14:11

Spoilers?

It didn't work for me in IE or Firefox. In Chrome it did make the page spin around.

I'm a bit pissed off with Google over the Google Reader redesign, and breaking much of YouTube since I won't tie in my accounts. This didn't really appease me much.

posted by TheophileEscargot 03 November | 14:12

It worked for me in Firefox 6.0.2* but only without the quotes (which took me an embarrassing number of minutes to figure out).

*I know, I know. I'll update this afternoon.

posted by Elsa 03 November | 14:15

Ha. Fun.

posted by mykescipark 03 November | 14:15

hee. For barrel roll and tilt both.

posted by gaspode 03 November | 15:08

I'm giggling like a loon. Had to show it to the mister as well.

Worked fine on FF7, Win7, no quote marks.

posted by deborah 03 November | 15:16

Sometimes it's the simple things. Thanks.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 03 November | 16:13

I keep doing them and going "hee!". I'm so easily amused ...

posted by bluesapphires 03 November | 19:59

The barrel roll, it does nothing...

ffox 3.6.x Tilt worked. kinda cute.

posted by theora55 03 November | 21:10

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