The Maltese Women on Mars have told me I must not tell anyone of their existence or they’ll XXurtjat me all over again, so mum’s the word…
[Sydney Greenstreet ON]Would you like to buy an exit visa?[Sydney Greenstreet OFF]
FWIW, this has happened to be before too. Only it wasn’t the Google homepage, it was during some sessions in Google Webmaster Tools or AdWords (or both, I forget). I was “stuck” in Korean. Better yet, I was logged in so my account profile decided I always wanted to be in Korean and set me up as such, even on a different machine.
Anyhoo, I did some searching on Google message boards and I guess this happens to other people from time to time, and the best way to “reset” it is to specifically add ?hl=en to the URL (or just hl=en if there’s already a ? in the URL) to force Google into being English.
It also hasn’t happened to me since…this was maybe a year ago.