Did you see Google homepage on Thursday? The redesigned logo was interactive and transformed into a playable Les Paul guitar in honor of his birthday.
Les Paul, the inventor of the solid-body electric guitar, a guitar which brought the sound to rock’ n’ roll, would have been 96 on June 9th.
You could strum the guitar with your mouse, even record a tune of your choice or create your own song if you are a talented musician, and listen to it later on.
You just had to hit the record button before starting playing for 30 seconds, no need of long explanation! Once it was done, a link was popping up to allow you the sharing of the recorded song with friends.
Google declared that ‘If you’re curious, 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.’
It can be very distracting if you are there to do some research with Google, you can end up wasting a little time but having a little fun.
I try, but I am not a musician at all, I just found very cool that the strings would actually lightening up in colors matching the usual Google logo
I will just give you some links posted by people who gave it a tried and saved it, you may recognize the tunes or not:
http://www.google.com/webhp?tune=YAxYCLmXPATYuZUhxBjDMWYsYUwTB2AgVci5YArEzDEGIkY5ipnSOkcA
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tune=IAZ5ihBgHIacMxYixhWJOSA6wwyhFg**