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    Image of Clarence Rosario Clarence Rosario
    03/26/09

    In reply to New Google Design Features AIG
    I think this is more a comment on ManU than it is on Google. But it's kinda busy over at Deadspin.
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    Image of MuslimRabbi MuslimRabbi
    03/26/09

    In reply to New Google Design Features AIG
    I didn't know there were still Video For Windows balls. Then again, that is the most advanced tech I would let Mayer be in charge of.


    And why the hell do people need to be briefed about freakin' iGoogle themes? Was it a slow quarter? Just put the damn JPEGs on your official blog or something, we can take it from there.

    Do you also brief the press when you put up new wallpaper in the 'plex? Hmmm, I imagine you do.

    Oh, I'm sorry, it's themes for CAUSES. For a second there, I thought I walked into a PETA convention.

    I mean, if it weren't for the awareness raising pixel panda I would have forever withheld my donation to the WWF, thinking my money would go to the Bret Hart relief fund.


    Too many energy drinks again. I really should stop.

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    Image of macbeach macbeach
    03/26/09

    @MuslimRabbi: No, keep going, I'm with ya.


    I like Google, but why don't they just let people pick their own colors and graphics?


    It's almost as if they limit user's ability to control the look of their "desktop" just so they can make such a big deal of all the "wonderful" artsy things they do on your behalf. Not only is this stuff not rocket science, it's not even computer science. It's the same sort of artificially limited stuff we get from MS and Apple just so they can add a dead simple feature in the next release.


    Most of the Google provided themes are downright annoying in actual use. The best ones come from users and have gradually bubbled up to the top. But for gods sake just let me set colors the way I want them (I don't particularity care for jpegs in my backgrounds).

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    Image of random_play random_play
    03/26/09

    In reply to New Google Design Features AIG
    "Hideous"?? She's nothing more than a vague blur. Thanks to your constant hounding, this poor woman has been forced to wear a scramble suit for her public appearances.


    The AIG logo? That's just a reminder Google is too big to fail.

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    Image of Maurice Walshe Maurice Walshe
    03/26/09

    In reply to New Google Design Features AIG
    Players Uniform "lol" did you get the writers of [manchesterbuccaneers.spaces.live.com] to write that story.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    03/26/09

    @Maurice Walshe:

    That site is hilarious. I think there's a UK morning show that did a similar spoof... they would show match highlights but announce them like they were on ESPN with cheesy American accents.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    03/26/09

    In reply to New Google Design Features AIG
    hah look at them emo hipsters, sitting indian style on the floor...

    when the meeting was over did they ride their razr scooters back to their bean bag chairs and lava lamps?
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    Image of ellagood ellagood
    03/26/09

    In reply to New Google Design Features AIG
    yet i'm sure the attendees at said press event are just oozing coolness.
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    Image of Shadowlayer Shadowlayer
    02/19/09

    In reply to Tumblr CEO Acts His Age on Censorship Dilemma
    I could make FB profitable, I could even find a way to make twitter profitable...


    But tumblr? that's like trying to fly a locomotive.

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    Image of DevilsAvocado DevilsAvocado
    02/19/09

    In reply to Tumblr CEO Acts His Age on Censorship Dilemma
    CEO at 22? Ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.


    And we wonder why school yard tactics begin to find their way into company policy.


    Ha!


    Is there a point at which Western society will begin to question its unseemly veneration of youth?


    Unlikely. Carry on.

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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    02/19/09

    In reply to Tumblr CEO Acts His Age on Censorship Dilemma
    "Tumblr's new "block" feature allows them to blithely ignore people who read and comment on things they publish on the Internet". In other words, it allows the Julia Allisons of the world to live in denial. Karp is an enabler!
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    02/19/09

    @SeaBassTian: I was gonna say that she didn't need a "block" feature to ignore honest criticism. But yeah technology! (I guess.)
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    02/19/09

    In reply to Tumblr CEO Acts His Age on Censorship Dilemma
    A blocking feature? It's almost science fiction! But hey, Jules Verne, isn't this the same thing as the return key, or even averting one's gaze before one is overcome by a fit of the vapors?
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    Image of KarenUhOh KarenUhOh
    02/18/09

    In reply to Tumblr CEO Acts His Age on Censorship Dilemma
    I'm new in town. Who's June Allyson?
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    KarenUhOh was starred KarenUhOh was unstarred
    Image of gladys_kravitz gladys_kravitz
    02/19/09

    @KarenUhOh: Are you back for real? You were always my Gawker girl crush. You and College Call Girl. And where is she by the way?
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    02/19/09

    @KarenUhOh: What gladys_kravitz said.
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    skahammer was starred skahammer was unstarred
    Image of skahammer skahammer
    02/19/09

    @KarenUhOh: Um, if "girl crush" can be defined kind of loosely, anyway.
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    Image of KarenUhOh KarenUhOh
    02/19/09

    @skahammer: How loose would you like it?
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    KarenUhOh was starred KarenUhOh was unstarred
    Image of gladys_kravitz gladys_kravitz
    02/19/09

    @KarenUhOh: Yes, you are back. This is good news.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    02/19/09

    @KarenUhOh: Maybe "flexibly" was more what I was after.
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    Image of Clarence Rosario Clarence Rosario
    02/19/09

    @KarenUhOh: Who's KarenUhOh?
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    Clarence Rosario was starred Clarence Rosario was unstarred
    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    02/18/09

    In reply to Tumblr CEO Acts His Age on Censorship Dilemma
    "Tumblr's new "block" feature allows them to blithely ignore people who read and comment on things they publish on the Internet."


    I fail to understand why this is a bad thing? aren't they more likely to find themselves into amusing situations if they are less aware people are watching?

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    Image of Owen Thomas Owen Thomas
    02/19/09

    @Monsigor Xtravagante D'ouchestache: Always looking for the upside!
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    Owen Thomas was starred Owen Thomas was unstarred
    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    02/18/09

    In reply to Tumblr CEO Acts His Age on Censorship Dilemma
    Some enterprising young cosmetician sucked fat out of David's brain and injected it into his lips.
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    Image of Mackintosh-Toffee Mackintosh-Toffee
    02/18/09

    In reply to Tumblr CEO Acts His Age on Censorship Dilemma
    Sooooo funny!


    I'm just gonna come on out and say how much i loathe the Tumblr interface. Good writers have lost me as a reader because Tumblr is an aesthetic nightmare and is just overly cliquey and hard to follow. I still love me some Balk.


    Oh! But there was 1 tumblr i never got bored of! Baugher!


    Suck it Jackles! You braying donkey shit turd in a kilt.

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    Image of MissCast MissCast
    02/18/09

    In reply to Tumblr CEO Acts His Age on Censorship Dilemma
    "...the Julia Allisons of the world."


    They're replicating? Thanks for the warning - heading for the root cellar now.

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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    02/18/09

    @MissCast:


    Oh, I dunno. The idea has some potential:


    He was a Julia fan it's clear!

    He searched a found a Julia hair!

    He spent ten long years and built a cloning machine!

    And now he's accomplished his wonderful dream...

    to make a house of Julias!

    It's a house of Julias!

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