Today's Google logo is an interactive guitar for Les Paul's birthday

By Tom Porter
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Compose your own HTML5 ditty for the guitar legend

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Les Paul, NYC, 2008
Les Paul, NYC, 2008 (Image credit: Chad Batka/Corbis)

Les Paul

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Google's ever-changing logo is, for the next 24 hours at least, an interactive guitar in honour of the late, great Les Paul who was born 96 years ago today (9 June 1915).

You can strum it with your mouse or play specific notes with your keyboard. You can even record your own ditty by clicking the compose button below the second 'g'.

If you're curious (via Google's blog), "the doodle was made with a combination of JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas (used in modern browsers to draw the guitar strings), CSS, Flash (for sound) and tools like the Google Font API, goo.gl and App Engine."

NOTE: On Google's homepage you'll need to be in 'classic' view to see the full size interactive logo above the search box.

(Via: Engadget)

Tom Porter

Tom Porter worked on MusicRadar from its mid-2007 launch date to 2011, covering a range of music and music making topics, across features, gear news, reviews, interviews and more. A regular NAMM-goer back in the day, Tom now resides permanently in Los Angeles, where he's doing rather well at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB).