B-But Tetris was created in Russia!

Probably by Stalin!

or when Google doesn’t change their homepage on a day that’s important to conservatives, like Ronald Reagan’s birthday or Super Saturdays down at the local Putt-Putt.

For Reagan’s birthday, how about using the old ACT-UP logo?  Or how about the image of Reagan with Kaposi’s the Benetton’s Colours magazine published in the 1980s?  We can come up with some great designs for that miserable old fuck.

What kind of fun, silly Google logo design could commemorate D-Day without trivializing the massive loss of life on that day?  How many soldiers spent D-Day thinking, “I hope that 65 years from now, someone will make a tasteless logo mashup tribute to me, incorporating landing craft, tank traps and mortars into their otherwise zany corporate logo”?

They do realize that Google decides to do this on the basis of “that logo looks pretty cool,” right?  Redstate can’t actually think that Google has a committee which decides the Objective Importance of everything, then translates that into logo form, can they?

And…. it is a little known fact that every soldier who took part in D-Day was a Republican.  That Communist FDR didn’t want to invade but Ike the Republican arranged it all in secret.  And… we really did it all without those scumy Europeans; the limeys and frogs were just there for the photo-op.

When you complain about the Google logo, you have officially established that you will complain about anything, just to complain.

I’m sure there’s a clinical name for that, and if there isn’t we should just make one up.

Oh man, may favorite part of this is the RedState link.  The second comment is a dude just saying “the logos aren’t supposed to be tributes.  You don’t know what you’re talking about.” And then a moderator banned him.

The easiest and most constant way to piss off someone at RedState is to try and make them not angry about something.

It’s also funny because Google is a living example of American Capitalism, at least as traditionally practiced before the Wall Street thieves made it all about stealing other people’s money instead of making it.

The bottom line is still the bottom line.  Given how purposely plain the default Google home page is (different, of course, with iGoogle), little things like goofing on the Google logo add a tiny bit of interest to something that is otherwise admirably dedicated to pure utility.

Bravo Google, and “Get the hell out of your mother’s basement!” to the Reichwing idiots…

The Atlanta Braves do hate Christians. Their record of consistent division wins and playoff losses throughout the 90s and of dismal, second-rate teams in the 00s creates more effective suffering than imagining the wounds of Christ.

It’s also funny because Google is a living example of American Capitalism, at least as traditionally practiced before the Wall Street thieves made it all about stealing other people’s money instead of making it.

But their mission statement is “don’t be evil” which is, of course, anti-capitalist and liberal muckraking.

Also, it’s just chock full of employees who are educated.  AND it’s located in California.  Could you GET more antithetical to the republican way of life?

True story : While I was working for the Evil Empire in Redmond (as part of my university program I did an internship of 8 months there), I actually met the guy who created Tetris.

Let them get outraged. It seems to make them slightly happier. Apart from that, no effect.

I like how the Newsbuster post basically insinuated that Google has never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever in the history of Google ever honored any American holiday or milestone. Ever. Especially not any True American Patriot Holidays.

Ever.

Because, you know, Google Hates America and is probably the search engine of the terrorists and shit. I wonder how they reacted when Google honored the Persian New Year?

Well for the American exceptionalist trolls out there, you can take comfort these posts attacking Google are in true American political style: quivering, self-righteous anger.

Scary!  That Bing page wanted me to install Silverlight so I could see previous photos from their homepage.

Silverlight blew up one of my old computers.  Didnt’ install correctly, and I could never get it completely uninstalled.

NOT. GOING. THERE. AGAIN.

angelfire? fuck that shit! true americans make geocities homepages!

true americans make geocities homepages!

Not anymore.

Silverlight blew up one of my old computers.  Didnt’ install correctly, and I could never get it completely uninstalled.

Microsoft: because the other, better programs you already have installed on your computer just aren’t good enough.

I don’t care what anyone says, I’m going to miss my Geocities pages when they go away. That’s part of how I taught myself HTML…  :(

Lost in all of this: google is international, not national.

It’s like when the local yoyoheads and their legion of myopic and xenophobic old people in these parts start whining about how the state doesn’t recognize their sovereignty or give them enough cash or protect their vacuous little local holidays.

WATB, the lot of them.

I hadn’t thought of Tetris for a while and thanks to Avedon’s list of Tetris sites I’ve been wasting time today.

Auguste:

You’re telling me. I have to get familiar with wget in a real big hurry—I’ve got a decade worth of stuff up there.

true americans make geocities homepages!

No, true Americans don’t trust the tubez—that’s right up there with book-larnin’.

Everyone commemorated D-Day. It’s not as if one Web page not doing so would mean it was lost in the mists of history.

Now, if every Web site and every TV station were doing Tetris celebrations, I’d feel it was important for someone to note D-Day.

True story : While I was working for the Evil Empire in Redmond (as part of my university program I did an internship of 8 months there), I actually met the guy who created Tetris.

I heard an urban legend about someone who had sex with him.  Apparently, the moment they interlocked, their groins disappeared…

Brian Faughnan: Warner Todd Huston has thoughts on this over at Newsbusters as well.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I heard an urban legend about someone who had sex with him.  Apparently, the moment they interlocked, their groins disappeared…

No, no, no.  You’re confusing that with a conservative’s fear of what will happen to him if he gives in to the temptation and has sex with that dude in the cubicle down the hall.

What kind of fun, silly Google logo design could commemorate D-Day without trivializing the massive loss of life on that day?

This is what I was thinking.  What kind of logo could they use for D-Day?  The only thing I can think of is a flag or a battle scene.  A flag is too general and a battle scene is too depressing.  I think D-Day is sort of too serious to represent with a logo.  It’s hard to explain, but maybe people don’t want a constant reminder of D-Day every time they want to search for something.  Just because something is very important doesn’t mean that every single second of our lives needs to revolve around it just to remember.  The Tetris logo is kind of meant to cheer people up.

What kind of logo? The other letters “raising” the l like the flag at Iwo Jima. Which has next to nothing to do with D-Day, but it’s iconic of the Allied victory, so whatever.