Simple Pleasures

Few design-minded Web searchers can resist Google's occasional day-long tweaks of its logo to commemorate everything from Thanksgiving and the Olympics to the 25th Anniversary of Tetris and Malaysian Independence Day (August 31, in case you missed it), but that's not the only place to find whimsical "Google Doodles." Marissa Meyer, the company's vice president of search product and user experience, recently Twittered about some new "ASCII art fun": the multi-colored Google logo made up of dashes and slashes. Have a look by Googling "ascii art" and then looking to the left of the search box.