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For Google Malaysia, the Google logo has been changed to Sesame Street style due to the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street.

Here’s the preview of it.

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Sesame Street: A fine 40th begins with First Lady

How can this be? On a day of such great celebration, the 40th anniversary of “Sesame Street,” Big Bird wants to leave the urban nest that has been home for four decades and migrate to the rain forest? The rain forest!

Elmo is so rattled he can barely speak as Big Bird comes to say goodbye. “But Sesame Street is where Big Bird lives,” Elmo squeaks to the group of old friends, including Gordon, Maria and Snuffleupagus, who have gathered to see the yellow feathered one off.

The rest of the world might be focused on first lady Michelle Obama coming to The Street today to show Elmo and some of the children how to plant their own vegetable gardens. And symbolically, her appearance to help launch this special season is huge. As I said on WYPR last week, “Sesame Street,” with its groundbreaking message of multiculturalism, did more to pave their way for the election of the first person of color as president than any other series in the history of the medium.

But screening the season premiere, I wasn’t thinking such cosmic thoughts about the sociology of the show. Nor was I remembering the way it instantly took kids’ TV out of the all-white, pastoral landscape of bunny rabbits and adults in baggy pants, to a jagged, urban, concrete and diverse landscape where children with a real preschool need for help in learning numbers and letters saw themselves for the first time on TV.

Instead, as I watched, I was reminded of how good “Sesame Street” made me feel – and how much fun it was to watch. And, oh yeah, I couldn’t help but notice how incredibly smart this series is without ever showing off.

The opening segment with Big Bird is brilliant. The word of the day is “habitat,” and… Read More…

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