Love him or hate him, Michael Jackson was a pop culture icon. Surrounded in mystery, money, and misunderstanding the pop singer who died mysteriously on June 25th of this year, is now being honored by the folks at Google to commemorate the singers birthday. Google users are already being greeted with the following Google logo to commemorate what would have been the singer’s 51st birthday on August 29th.

Sadly both the singers birthday and the logo come just one day after the coroner released the findings on Michael Jackson’s death, which has been ruled a homicide.

Google has unveiled it’s  Halloween logo for 2008!  I’m guessing it started an hour or so ago to coincide with East coast time since I didn’t notice it earlier this evening.  The creepy logo which features an array of carving tools for a pumpkin and a glowing jack-o-lantern has alt text which reads, “Happy Halloween! Doodle designed by Wes Craven”.  I think this is probably the most impressive Google holiday logo that I have seen in some time.  As a bonus the image links to the SERP for halloween 2008.  My excitement for this logo may stem from the fact that it mixes my love of Google and my love for Halloween, but regardless it’s still an impressive logo.  Happy Halloween everyone!