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Latest Google Doodle rides the rapids
Google continues its flirtation with the Olympic Games in London today, with another playable Google Doodle. Today's Doodle threatens productivity everywhere by challenging searchers to clear a rocky, frog-infested canoe slalom course.In case you missed them, previous Olympic Doodles took to the court with basketball and conjured up a little Track & Field with a hurdles race. Unfortunately, you can't ... erm ... boost your odds with an NES Advantage this time around.
Hit the rapids with Google's latest Olympic doodle
It's time to pound the arrow keys again for Mountain View's latest Olympic doodle game, a whitewater slalom canoe challenge. The idea is to speed through the course with the left/right keys in the best time while using up/down to avoid rocks and the riverbank. Our intrepid web paddlers managed a time of 18 seconds so far, and you can post your own time in the comments below -- if you dare.
Tesla's Model X struts its stuff on video, gets serenaded by Elon Musk
We may have attended the Model X premiere, but despite us pleading for a ride-along, Tesla PR insisted only those who'd plunked cash for a pre-order that evening would get the chauffeur treatment. Thankfully there's YouTube user TheSpeedRead, who either threw down enough cash or was swift enough to evade security, slipping into a Model X and gratuitously posting it for all to see. In the video above you'll catch a glimpse of the interior, which features the same 17-inch touchscreen as in the Model S. In addition, a Tesla employee muses about the advantages of its dual motor AWD system and low center of gravity as he sashays the crossover through a slalom course outside Tesla's design HQ. Our friends at Autoblog Green also culled a video from SmartPlanet featuring the company's CEO, Elon Musk, reflecting on the advantages of the Model X's unique "Falcon Wing" rear doors and touting the advantages of not having a space-hogging combustion engine in its front -- enabling the front trunk, or Frunk, to serve as a crumple zone "two to three times longer" than in competing vehicles. Get the full sales pitch from the entrepreneur extraordinaire after the break.
Virtually Overlooked: Slalom
One of the less famous "black box" early NES games, which falls roughly in the Volleyball/Urban Champion level of fame rather than the Super Mario Bros. level, or even the Hogan's Alley/Donkey Kong Jr. Math level, is an unassuming little game about downhill skiing. Slalom was video game consoles', and America's, introduction to a company who had already risen to relative fame in Europe for their computer games: Rare. They would later become a fixture on Nintendo systems, providing many of the most memorable games for the NES (and also stuff like Beetlejuice) for various publishers before becoming a Really Big Name for their N64 games. It's a good thing they went on to become the Rare we all know, because even their reputation for googly eyes, collectathons, and endless delays beats being known as the company responsible for making thousands of gamers play a game about staring at some guy's butt.
