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Read your daily horoscope with this Google Sidebar Widget.

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Play Tetris in your sidebar or on your desktop with this Google Sidebar Widget.

About Tetris

Tetris is a falling-blocks puzzle video game, released on a vast spectrum of platforms. Alexey Pajitnov originally designed and programmed the game in June 1985, while working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. Pajitnov has cited pentominoes as a source of inspiration for the game. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix “tetra-”, as all of the pieces contain four segments, and tennis, Pajitnov’s favorite sport.

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Displays the latest xkcd comic on your Google Sidebar Widget.

About xkcd

xkcd is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe, a Christopher Newport University graduate who worked as a contractor for NASA. It calls itself “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” The subjects of the comics themselves vary. Some are statements on life and love, and some are mathematical or scientific in-jokes. Some strips feature simple humor or pop-culture references. Although known for its crudely drawn cast of oddball stick figures, the comic occasionally features landscapes, intricate mathematical patterns such as fractals, or imitations of the style of other cartoonists (as during “parody week”). Occasionally, realism is featured.

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Browse this week's Marvel comics with this Google Sidebar Widget.

About Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing, Inc., a division of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Marvel counts among its characters such well-known properties as Spider-Man, the X-Men and their member Wolverine, the Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Daredevil, Ghost Rider and many others. Most of Marvel’s fictional characters are depicted as inhabiting a single shared world; this continuity is known as the Marvel Universe. The comic book arm of the company was founded in 1939 as Timely Publications and was generally known as Atlas Comics in the 1950s. Marvel’s modern incarnation dates from the early 1960s, with the launching of Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and others. Marvel has since become one of the largest American comics companies, along with DC Comics.

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This sidebar widget show who died on this date in history.