Elzie Crisler Segar - Popeye's Creator

Elzie Crisler Segar - Popeye's Creator

Google give another recognition to Elzie C. Segar or SEGAR for his birthday by featuring Popeye as their Google Logo. He was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of Popeye. Elzie Segar was borned on December 8, 1894 and died October 13,1938. He was raised in Illinoise, a small town in Missisippi.

Popeye 1st Episode



Being a son of a handy man, so his early worked was helping his father by house painting and paper hanging. With his musical skills, he provided musical accompaniment to films and vaudeville acts in the local theater. At the age of 18 he decided to become a cartoonist.

Managing editor William Curley thought Segar could succeed in New York, so he sent him to King Features Syndicate, where Segar worked for many years. He began by drawing Thimble Theatre for the New York Journal. The strip made its debut on December 19, 1919, featuring the characters Olive Oyl, Castor Oyl and Horace Hamgravy, whose name was quickly shortened in the strip to simply "Ham Gravy". They were the strip's leads for about a decade. In January 1929, when Castor Oyl needed a mariner to navigate his ship to Dice Island, Castor picked up an old salt down by the docks named Popeye. Popeye's first words in the strip, when asked if he was a sailor, were: " 'Ja think I'm a cowboy?". The Popeye character stole the show and became the permanent featured character. Some of the other notable characters Segar created include J. Wellington Wimpy and Eugene the Jeep. source wikipedia

Popeye was one of my favorite cartoons characters during my chidhood days. I miss his toot-toot sound, trembling muscles as he ate a can of spinach. Though he is never as famous as those early 90's. The moral value of this cartoon shows...

Words of Wisdom

"good is always triumph over evil".

Google Logo Discovery of Water on the Moon

Google Logo Discovery of Water on the Moon

Today's Google logo is to dedicate NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) great discovery of Water on the Moon. NASA said Friday it had discovered water on the moon, opening "a new chapter" that could allow for the development of a lunar space station.

The discovery was announced by project scientist Anthony Colaprete at a midday news conference.

"I'm here today to tell you that indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit; we found a significant amount" -- about a dozen, two-gallon bucketfuls, he said, holding up several white plastic containers.

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"Sesame Street" Translated into Arabic (Alam Simsim)

"Sesame Street" Translated into Arabic (Alam Simsim)

When I open my browser today these two feet shown in Arabic Google search page. It's Big-bird feet. Make some search and read on...

Since its debut in 1969 in the United States, the children's television show "Sesame Street" has spread around the world, reaching youngsters in 120 countries. Now the colorful, furry puppets known as the Muppets will educate and entertain in even more of the world's 22 Arabic-speaking countries. The show's Egyptian version is being dubbed into Simplified Classical Arabic.


Video is in Arabic



Alam Simsim (Arabic: عالم سمسم‎) is an Arabic language Egyptian-made adaptation of the format used in the children's television series Sesame Street. Alam Simsim is Arabic for "Sesame World".

The show, funded by the U.S. Government's U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID,) is a cooperative project between Egypt's Karma Production and the US's Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop). This effort is one of several such cooperative projects funded by USAID in countries such as Russia and South Africa.

Satellite broadcaster Future Television of Lebanon picked up the show in November 2005, expanding possible viewership to more than 200 million viewers in the Arab States.

The show is set in the imaginary Alam Simsim (Sesame World) neighborhood in Egypt. This area is Medieval-looking like Old Cairo except perhaps more rural and green. It consists of a small public square surrounded by a park; a store owned by 'Am Gherghis; the carpenter's shop owned by 'Am Hussein with apartments above occupied by 'Am Hussein's family, 'Ama Kheireya his wife, Mona his teenage daughter and Kareem his young son. A bookstore or library (the same word is used for both in Arabic so it is hard to tell which is intended) is run by a young woman named Nabila. [1] The humans are referred to as 'Am and 'Ama, which are "Uncle" and "Aunt" in Egyptian Arabic. These titles denote familiarity common in Egyptian neighborhoods.

Source Wikipedia

New Google Bar Code Logo

New Google Bar Code Logo

As I open my browser this morning, in Google Homepage, it appeared a bar code logo. I thought it was another spam page. Maybe you have the same experienced too. As I click to the barcode it landed me to Google search. New Google Bar Code Logo. October 6, 2009 Google celebrates it 57th anniversary of the first patent on the bar code.


Investors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949. The patent was then granted on October 7, 1952.

Google regularly changes its logo according to the the special events and holidays. You can see some contributions from the faithful Google Fans.


Source: Washington Post