Wondering what today’s Google Doodle is for?   Well it celebrates the birthday of American Sculptor and artist Alexander Calder.

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The animation is of one of Alexander’s pieces – a mobile in the traditional colours of the Google logo.

It took me a while to figure out what the logo was for as initially, hovering over the image, or clicking on it didn’t give a clue – unlike previous Doodles.    Strangely, the Doodle seemed to work better in IE which immediately animated the logo, and then revealed a clickable link explaining what the logo was for:

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