Custom Google doodle. It’s my birthday!
Today’s Google doodle is a homage to the master illustrator Edward Gorey, who was born on February 22nd, 1925.
Google doodle celebrating the 197th anniversary of Ada Lovelace’s birth.
The English mathematician and writer is considered the world’s first computer programmer thanks to her notes on the analythical engine which include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine.
Google doodle celebrating the 145th anniversary of the birth of Luigi Pirandello, one of the greatest Italian novelists and dramatists.
“ Ma perché si dev’essere così? Mascherati! Mascherati! Mascherati! Me lo dica lei! Perché, appena insieme, l’uno di fronte all’altro, diventiamo tutti tanti pagliacci? Scusi, no, anch’io, anch’io; mi ci metto anch’io; tutti! Mascherati! Questo un’aria così; quello un’aria cosà… E dentro siamo diversi! Abbiamo il cuore, dentro, come… come un bambino rincantucciato, offeso, che piange e si vergogna!” (from “Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore”)
Google doodle celebrating Keith Haring’s 54th anniversary of birth.
Google doodle celebrating the 126th anniversary of Mies van der Rohe’s birth.
One of the best Google doodles ever: 100th anniversary of Charles Addams’ birth.
Ok: today’s Google Doodle is dedicated to Albert Szent-Györgyi, the Hungarian physiologist who won a Nobel prize and is credited with discovering vitamin C (hence the oranges). But I’m a 90s girl at heart and those oranges immediately made me think of Gwen Stefani (and No Doubt) circa 1995.
