Is the email at the left in classic home an Arabic version?

good work!

You are right, I used both Hebraic and Arabic, which push e.g. the iGoogle link to the left...

Really interesting (and very pretty)! Could you give us the list of countries?

It's Google.com, Google.de (English, as that's my browser setting), China, France, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Thailand, Arabic (on Google.com), and Israel.
For the second overlay, it's web search, images, video, news, maps, blogs search, books search, calendar search, Picasa search result, products search result, all for the keyword "test".
10 screenshots each, overlaid with 28/29% opacity, with a subtraction filter.

I'm glad you explained the images. I thought I had a hangover again.