But literal Easter eggs? Today, Google rolls out the high art.

The latest Doodle hatched from the tech titan’s artistic team consists of six gemstone-encrusted eggs, to mark the 166th anniversary of the birth of famed Russian jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé.

— Robert Moog, pioneering inventor of self-named synthesizers

GOOGLE’S DONE IT AGAIN, devising one beautiful and tuneful time-suck.

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ED. NOTE: In the wake of President Obama’s recent endorsement of same-sex marriage, some readers have asked whether mainstream comics will ”evolve” in their depictions of gay couples (to invoke Obama's word). Today, three comics figures vitally engaged in this topic offer their insights.

Namely, now that “Marvel’s The Avengers” has just become one of the four biggest global-grossers of all time (*not adjusting for inflation) -- as it approaches $1.2-billion — parent company Disney could “afford” to engage in an act of promotional goodwill and grand corporate panache.

Pakistan shut down Twitter for about eight hours Sunday, The Post’s Richard Leiby reports from Islamabad, before Prime Minister Raza Gilani intervened to end the ban and restore access. The shutdown, which was called “a high-level decision,” was prompted by Twitter’s refusal to remove content considered objectionable to Muslims, officials in Pakistan said.

“The Avengers” grossed $55.1-million to win its third straight weekend domestically, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Marvel film pulled in more than the weekend’s three biggest newcomers combined: “Battleship” ($25.4-million), “The Dictator” ($17.4-million) and “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” ($10.5-million). Final numbers are expected Monday.

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AFTER MORE THAN 100,000 submissions and a million votes, it is a Wisconsin second-grader who gets to share his pirate dreams with the world.

Google hosted a contest for kids, asking them to draw a Doodle — incorporating the company’s logo — that expressed their reply to the question: “If I could travel in time, I’d visit ... ”

“The media dropped the story too quickly,” Trudeau tells Comic Riffs.