Report: Google’s Les Paul Doodle Cost Businesses $268.4 Million. :: A report by Extreme Tech estimated that last week’s Google “doodle,” featuring a playable stringed logo in honor of the late Les Paul, cost businesses £166 million ($268.4 million) in lost productivity. The doodle was released on what would have been the guitar great’s 96 th birthday, June 9. It proved so popular that the search engine site left the doodle up on its landing page for a second day
This Day in Music: June 23rd. :: Brought to you by ThisDayinMusic.com Born on this day: 1929, June Carter Cash, country singer 1937, Niki Sullivan, guitarist, singer, The Crickets 1940, Stuart Sutcliffe, original bassist of The Beatles 1965, Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs, guitar, Oasis 1984, Duffy, Welsh singer-songwriter 1957, Lonnie Donegan was at 31 on the U.K.
La film locations. :: Nearby LA Film Locations With so many movie studios in the Los Angeles area, LA film locations are always in demand. Film locations are especially desirable when they are located in the studio zone so that the cast and crew does not have far to travel, and LA has a variety of landscapes to suit the needs of practically any film or commercial
Damage, Inc.: Metallica Doing Corporate Gig. :: Metallica are preparing to play a corporate event in San Francisco. Asked to play what he thought would be a small company party by his next-door neighbor, Kirk Hammett agreed without realizing that his neighbor was from Salesforce.com , who employ some 30,000 people
