A panda takes the place of the iconic yellow man in Google Street View

I was expecting something a little less subtle from Google, but I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I noticed a black and white character noting my location in Google Street View.

Visitors are greeted with a cute black and white icon of a panda instead of their normal yellow man.

NBC has the Olympics this year (as they always do) and without any doubt, they have failed to produce a useable TV schedule.  In response, someone has done the work for them, and created a Google Calendar version of the schedule.

http://www.google.com/calendar/htmlembed?src=olympics_%257e_01039895__10003%23tv%40group.v.calendar.google.com

I didn’t see an iCal version anywhere of the Olympic schedule, but if I find one, I’ll be sure to update this post.

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