This birthday party is available for every person in the world to view on the official Google homepage in the form of a Googledoodle, one of the little embellishments to the Google logo that the creative team draws up on a regular basis to illustrate the otherwise sparse website.
We are deeply disturbed by recent media reports that Google may have engaged in sketchy practices with its Doodle 4 Google contest by collecting the social security numbers of children who participated in the contest.
In the fall, supporters of the Girl Scouts of the USA took to Twitter and Facebook to urge others to email Google to ask for a doodle of founder Juliette Gordon Low to appear on what would have been her 150th birthday on Oct. 31.