[TazeTSchnitzel]

New Zealand is ahead of the US and UK. Google's Doodles are timed by local time and locality. So NZ gets them before the US does.

EDIT: Actually, it's quite interesting to look at Google's page about doodles. Most of the doodles will never be seen by you, since they are country-specific.

[excuse-me]

I see, although it does leave the question - if New Zealand is in the future why do they have Hobbits?

[pyre]

"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return

[excuse-me]

Yes I remember you saying that !