couldnt find any thread for those googlers who enjoy the google doodles

todays one is interesting - commemorating guitar pioneer les paul. you can strum away on it and create your own tune.

http://www.google.ie/

the only strange thing with the doodles is that they seem to commemorate weird anniversaries - peoples 96th birthday etc
anyway - i enjoy the doodles - do you ??

Yeah it's great the way you can interact with it as well and make loads of sounds and annoy everyone around you! Think im going to take up playing the guitar now!

Yeah I like them to, a nice piece of art work to greet you when you do your first search of a doodle day.

They are like little curiosities.

Google's Dead Birthdays is what you're looking for.

http://www.gaire.com/e/f/view.asp?parent=1518706&nav=1

well kinda - but all the doodles are not necessarily about dead persons !!!!! direction please - do you move this stuff to old thread. or else maybe the old thread could just be renamed google doodles, and move the new stuff here into it. what do ya think ??

Cool Google doodle for the first day of summer

Obviously Google share the view that summer begins on the summer solstice

Yes obviously MidSummers day is the first day of Summer.

http://geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/summersolstice. etc ...

I'm just saying something has obviously changed over time since we were taught in school that Summer starts on 1st May and Midsummers Day/Night is 21st June.

At what point did that change?

I was always thought it begins on June 21. It seems to be only in UK and Ireland that May 1st is considered the beginning of Summer

Does that mean we can have nice weather now?

No. This is still Ireland.

Has anyone else seen the rainbow at the side of the search bar on the google homepage this month when you search words like gay, lesbian, transgender... kinda nice.

Wonder if there will be a proper google doodle for stonewall anniversary day?

Hadn't seen it. Pretty cool! I don't think they ever did anything like this before

Google Doodle Commemorates Lucille Ball's 100th Birthday

Happy birthday, Lucy. Today would have been the 100th birthday of legendary comedian Lucille Ball and Google is celebrating by featuring an interactive Doodle on its homepage in the style of the classic sitcom I Love Lucy.

Visitors to Google.com are met with the boxy, vintage television set and a short video that features the word "Google" scrawled over a black-and-white heart that mimics the opening of Lucy. Following that, a play button pops up, inviting visitors to use the television's dial to choose from several iconic clips from the show, which ran on CBS from 1951 to 1957.

Many viewers will remember the scene from the chocolate factory, where Lucy can't keep up with the conveyor belt and has to resort to stuffing candies in her mouth, hat, clothes -- anywhere she can fit them -- before her supervisor checks in. But the Google Doodle features other clips (powered by YouTube), including Lucy's misadventures stomping grapes to make wine and her attempts to convince friend and neighbor Ethel that she can carry a tune.

What makes these clips so infectious even 60 years later is the hysterical laughter that accompanies them from start to finish. That isn't a track you're hearing; Lucy was filmed in front of a live studio audience and every guffaw was captured on tape.

Ball died in 1989 at the age of 77.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/google-dood etc ...