Pardon me for duplicating in an earlier message other messages about
Google's tribute to Mark Twain today.  This article about that in the LA
times has an interesting summary of his life plus photos and insults I
hadn't seen.
The Google doodle just figures in the headline.
Arianne Laidlaw

  Mark Twain: Google Doodle honors troublemaker, master of insult
<http://shar.es/oea4K>
 Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

Mark Twain, who had arguably one of the sharpest tongues in literary
history, is celebrated with a wide-angle Google Doodle on Wednesday showing
Tom Sawyer and a young companion he's duped into whitewashing a picket
fence.   <http://shar.es/oea4K>