“It turns out that being on a revolving imperfect sphere floating in space, being reshaped by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and being dragged around by gravitational forces makes your rotation somewhat irregular. Who knew?”

Thus, we created leap seconds— necessary to keep computers and Google data centers running smoothly as well. 

Check out www.google.com - It’s a playable guitar. Today’s doodle is in tribute to Les Paul, born on June 9, 1915 - guitarist, innovator, inventor. You can even record a riff and play it back; the modern day harpsichord obituary.