[EDIT: Looks Google has disable the Google Guitar links so my compositions below no longer work.  Bummer.]

The Google logo today is very cool.  It is in honor of the guitarist Les Paul who is well known for the Gibson guitar model which bares his name, the Gibson Les Paul.

The great thing about the Google logo is that you can actually PLAY the guitar.  Even more, you can record yourself and send your friends links to your compositions!  It will be interesting to see what people come up with.

So far, I have discovered that the Google guitar is in the key of G.  The strings are laid out such that it is easy to play whole chords.  I was able to determine the notes of a major scale.

The Google guitar's scale starts on the longest and top most string in the middle set.  This is a G note.

You can play the guitar with your mouse, but it is kinda difficult.  To use your keyboard, use the following Google Guitar codes...

Keyboard Letter = Musical Note
A = G
S = A
D = B
F = C
G = D
H = E
J = F#
K = G
L = A
; = B

So you get a full octave plus notes 2 and 3 (A and B) on the high register.  Just enough to play the National Anthem!

Here is my composition showing how to play a scale on the Google guitar.

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got some time to play.  Here's some tunes...

Mary Had a Little Lamb - http://goo.gl/doodle/FzZK

National Anthem - http://goo.gl/doodle/Ix77

My G-Comp 1 - http://goo.gl/doodle/9xi9

My G-Comp 2 - http://goo.gl/doodle/N0itG

Coldplay Trouble - http://goo.gl/doodle/3NT7E

Blues Riff - http://goo.gl/doodle/dvhqL

My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean - http://goo.gl/doodle/hjNtv

Lately, I have heard more about Cloud Servers than real clouds.  You know, the big fluffy white things floating up in the sky.

I was in fifth grade when I met my first love at the beach.  It was fun and innocent.  One memory I have from that is sitting on the beach looking up at the sky and imagining the clouds to take on forms of real things.

Clouds, Sunsets, and Sunrises are regularly available sources of inspiration, yet we so often fail to appreciate them.  Cloud 365 creator, Kelly Delay, decided to let the sky inspire him 365 days a year, and he was kind of enough to share it with the world.

Check out the beautiful cloud photography at his site Cloud 365 Project. Then, get outside and let the beauty of God's creation inspire you.

Kelly dedicates his project to 6 areas: Art, Learning, Determination, Process, Pattern, and Observation.  What could I do to apply these things in my life on a daily basis?