Now you people have done it! I’ve changed my homepage for the first time in 8 years. I’d never heard of iGoogle until now-it’s actually useful!
Are there any neato addons you folks want to recommend (besides the Fox Laundry fox)? I have so far:
-calendar
-Yahoo news
-CBC news
-weather
-moon phases
-to do list
-the Onion
-simple calculator
Thanks, guys! I changed my home page for the first time in years, too. Mr. Fox charmed the heck out of me. I love him.
Annie, I added the brain teasers, and mario, and PacMan.
Jeez Louise. I am totally hooked. I love igoogle.
I found Space Invaders and Mario. It’s the 80’s all over again!
I used to have (go figure) the Bus Stop as my theme. When it rains here, it rains there and the dog on the bench (I think) become a duck. When it snows here, it snows there, and they dress appropriately.
Last week, I was bored and switched to the Tea House. I save screen grabs and send them to people- Fox doing laundry, Fox eating lunch, Fox rowing the boat. My wife thinks I’m daffy because of it 0 well, she did before, but…
Then I told her about this thread and her eyes are in a perpetual roll right now.
Since I’ve had the Tea House on, there’s been no “weather” here - does the weather change in Tea House land when it does here, like the Bus Stop did?
I believe Bus Stop is the only one that matches the theme to the local weather reports.
Flickr Photo of the Minute - refreshes literally every minute.
Daily Feeds from “How Stuff Works” and the Smoking Gun.
And, of course the Chuck Norris Fact Generator:
"What’s known as the UFC, or Ultimate Fighting Championship, doesn’t use its full name, which happens to be “Ultimate Fighting Championship, Non-Chuck-Norris-Division”
Bejeweled. As long as you’ve got some time to waste.
Aw, Mr. Fox is feeding the geese.
Mr. Fox doesn’t seem to be doing anything special for the 4th.
No love for the frog and the ladybug theme?
That was my first theme when I started using iGoogle.
Did you know Straight Dope is one of the things you can add to your home page links?
I do now!
Weird thing just happened, and it was very cool, but for the life of me, I can’t make it happen again. When I open Firefox, my iGoogle is the first tab open. At the top of the page just now, the picture was of JUST the orange grove. No pond, no fox, nothing but orange trees. But it only lasted about 3 seconds, then back to normal - Fox doing laundry.
I usually get nothing but the grove for a few seconds when I first open the page, then I get the fox and the rest.
I love the tea house too!
I have Wikihow to of the day, quotes of the day, word of the day, Colorjunction (which is addictive) and BBC news of the day.
The fox is fishing and a firefly is showing its bum.
I switch between the frog and lady bug and the tea house. I think they are really cute and brighten up things.
What the heck is “iGoogle”? And what’s wrong with a nice white page with a search box in the middle of it? Don’t tell me they’re frickin’ around with Google? 
iGoogle is a personalized home page. It’s got the Google search box, but also has a very flexible interface where you can add your Gmail inbox, access to your other Google stuff like Docs & Spreadsheets if you care about that sort of thing, RSS feeds, Flash and Java games, and probably quite a few other things I’m not aware of.
The basic Google front page has not been tampered with that I know of.
The helicopter game. It’s very simple and not so addictive oyu never get anything done, but fun nonetheless
It’s gone 3am here, and Mr Fox is snugged in his sleeping bag… like I should be.
I think you have to have a gmail account in order for this option to be available.