• At Google, Paddington's Birthday Trumps Columbus Day

    Erick Schonfeld

    Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the executive producer of DEMO. He is also a partner at bMuse, a product incubator in New York City. Schonfeld is the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily... → Learn More

    Monday, October 13th, 2008

    Columbus Day gets no respect. Be honest, how many of you are actually celebrating it? That’s what I thought.

    Even Google doesn’t care (or maybe Columbus Day just isn’t PC enough). The logo on Google’s homepage today is celebrating Paddington Bear’s 50th birthday instead of a drawing of the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria.

    We’ve been getting some concerned e-mail asking us if we know what’s up:

    Isn’t Columbus Day more important than a bear?

    Does Google even like America?

    Yeah, Google. Do you even like America? Everyone knows that Paddington is a Commie-terrorist bear.

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