A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water. What happens: Trying to cook the perfect egg? Maybe you’re doing a writing sprint to get that blog post out the door. Either way, querying [timer] brings Google’s handy timer tool to the top of the SERPs.

Careful… it’s loud! We left the sound off our video in case you’re supposed to be working, but if you play online you’ll get the full experience.

splat ( third-person singular simple present splats, present participle splatting, simple past and past participle splatted) We are very proud of our white chocolate, and think that it is a valued member of the chocolate family, so much so we make sure that all our white chocolate is crafted with a minimum of 36% cacao butter. The result? An irresistible melt and delightfully mellow flavour. And because we focus on more cacao, less sugar, you can enjoy the delicate vanilla notes without excessive sweetness. By the time Google finally revealed it was a testing channel, the legend of Webdriver Torso had taken on a life of its own. Even the BBC reported on it. Today, activate this Google Easter Egg and you’ll see an animated series of the iconic colored shapes to the left of the search box (on desktop). What happens: The text showing the number of results will scroll from right to left like a real marquee. The calculator shows the result of “once in a blue moon = 1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz.” 19. Green Hill Zone

computing, asterisk ) : Usage may be limited based on the function of the symbol in a particular context. In the Ruby programming language, for example, the asterisk is called a splat when used to construct or separate an array, but not when used as a multiplication operator. It consists of three dots or periods preceding the last (or only) parameter in the function signature. The splat operator converts the values passed to the function into an array, which can then be used inside the function [… ]What happens: This one is cute. In programming, recursion is defined as“the process of defining a problem (or the solution to a problem) in terms of (a simpler version of) itself. For example, we can define the operation ‘find your way home’ as: If you are at home, stop moving.” What happens: A metronome appears, enabling you to keep a beat from 40 to 218 BPM at the top of the search results.