Dolce & Gabbana's artist theme for iGoogle

Ok, you have to check out the new artist theme pages for iGoogle.  Some of them are pretty damn cool.  You can change the look of your google page with several of your favorite artists and mentors like Beastie Boys, Coldplay,  Philippe Starck, Todd Oldham, Tezuka Osamu, Lance Armstrong, Dolce & Gabbana, and Jeff Koons.  Speaking of Jeff Koons, you should definitely check out his new exhibit Jeff Koon's on the Roof (Weather permitting) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 29th - October 26th.  I will be going this week so keep your eyes out for his article soon. 


Jeff Koon's artist theme for iGoogle

I personally chose Tezuka Osamu for nostalgic purposes.  Tezuka Osamu was basically the Walt Disney of Japan and is sometimes credited as the "Father of Anime."  Instead of Mighty Mouse, Japan had it own character of equal popularity called Tetsuwan Atomu or better known to us in the U.S as Astro Boy.  He was before my time but he was big during my fathers era so he would get me Astro Boy stuff all the time. 


Tezuka Osamu's arist theme for iGoogle / Tesuwan Atomu aka: Astro Boy

iGoogle was formally known as Google Personalized Homepage.  I think everyone agrees that the name change was for the better.  Google Personalized Homepage been out since 05 but relaunched its self as iGoogle in 07 and has been gaining popularity ever since then.  Basically you just get to customize your Google search page.  For those of you that have not checked it out and converted, should definitely look into it.  It sure does beat a big blank white page!  A super cool thing about the new artist pages, is that it changes accordingly to the time it is in your location.  All you have to do is put in your zip and you get your local time, date and weather as well.  You can set up your page however you like.  It even has YouTube section on there.   Then again... YouTube is everywhere!