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Happy Birthday, Roald Dahl

A raise of the coffee mug this morning in honor of the birthday of Roald Dahl.

Dahl, who passed away in 1990, had an impressive screen writing resume that included both a James Bond film (you only live twice) and Disney feature (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), but was best known for his macabre short stories and quirky children's books.

Dahl tops children’s author poll

Roald Dahl has been named the most popular children’s author, with Harry Potter creator JK Rowling taking fourth place.

The survey, which quizzed young adults aged between 16 and 34, named CS Lewis - author of The Chronicles of Narnia - second, before Peter Pan scribe JM Barrie third.

Roald Dahl literary estate director Amanda Conquy said: “It’s always great to hear how enduringly popular Roald Dahl’s stories are.

“They truly seem to be passed on from one generation to the next with the utmost enthusiasm and affection.”

Google’s Roald Dahl Logo Illustrates Universal Search

Today is author Roald Dahl’s birthday (he was born on September 13, 1916), and Google put up a special celebration logo on their homepage. Wikipedia, quick to update its articles, already references the logo and mentions it showcases items and characters from Roald’s books, including Matilda and James and the Giant Peach. Today in the UK, it’s also the second annual Roald Dahl Day with some events taking place across the country, celebrating the author’s life and his works like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

More noteworthy than the logo itself this time is the search result page it leads to. As usual, Google links the celebration to a search query – today, that’s roald dahl – which also has the potential to illustrate the usefulness (or lack of, depending) of a specific result, and what parts it’s made up of. In this case, the result page is a good illustration of Google’s universal search approach. “Universal Search” was officially announced in May this year but was an iterative continuation of Google’s past approaches of bringing all kinds of search results onto a single homepage. This way, you don’t need to remember different special search engines, but you can just enter all your search queries into one box (hence the approach was also called “onebox” by Google).