One of my very favorite things about Google is how they take their time to honor various artists and intellectuals with a few additions to the Google logo every now and then.

Yesterday, the 20th of April, was the birthday of the Spanish painter Joan Miro. Google, being their usual self, replaced their usual logo with a logo influenced by the famous Miro style as a tribute to this artist.

Yesterday morning, the family of Joan Miró was upset to discover this and The Artists Rights Society, a group that represents the Miro family and more than 40,000 visual artists and their estates, asked Google to remove the image early, saying that there are underlying copyrights to the works of Miró.

What do I think? Booooooooooo!

During his lifetime, Miró had expressed contempt for conventional painting methods and his desire to abandon them (in his words “murder” and “assassinate” and or “rape” them) in favour of more contemporary means of expression, and perhaps it’s just me, but I would think that he would have appreciated this little contemporary move from Google’s side memoralizing his fame and artistic genius.

Oh, well. You can check out the Google logo gallery here.

While hackers spent their nights and days hacking away those MacTels, it seems the folks at Apple labs have been cooking up a secret software project that enables Intel Macs to boot Windows XP and possibly Vista in the near future. The software is currently in beta is available as a free download from Apple’s website; and will be a part of the next version of Mac OS X Leopard.

While bootcamp is an unsupported software, it will make it easier for Windows users to make a switch to Apple machines; on the other hand, it’s great to know that Apple is one company that listens to its customers. I guess this renders my previous post on running Windows XP on Mactels useless… unless you like doing things the hard way

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