Celebrating With Visual Fluff
I’ve pretty much considered the banners here irrelevant fluff. Random captures of things that I thought looked cool or captured my mood. They are certainly not part of some over-arching plan to instill my social biases and predilections into the site, thereby brainwashing readers like you. They’re just something to keep the page looking fresh. But they are mine, and no one tells me what can or can’t be used here.
So imagine me spewing my morning coffee out through my nose as I read that some wingnuts are upset with Google’s special holiday logos. Their graphics don’t connote the correct social messages. There’s even a protest site – Google ranking: 5/10.
“I have no problem with Google commemorating obscure holidays or some of the trivial anniversaries that they note,” the site’s owner, who declined to give his name [and will go unlinked here], said via e-mail, “just so long as they also make special logos for the more significant holidays.”
Of course he means the holidays significant to him, because significance is always relative. The article doesn’t say whether any of the critics own Google stock, which might give them some interest in how the company is run. They seem to be treating Google as a public accomodation, which despite its ubiquitousnous, it is not (at least yet).
I certainly don’t agree with everything Google does, but if you don’t like someone’s site, the solution is to not visit their site. Use a search engine that delivers your results with philosophically correct design elements. Don’t be all silly and try to redesign their logo so it aligns with your priorities, or be prepared to cheer for corporate democracy when a billion chinese customers demand and get a special logo for Chairman Mao’s birthday.
I wonder if that guy realizes just how much he sounds like the politically correct people on the left end of the spectrum?
After going through his site this morning, I think he’d go catatonic from the internal conflicts if you even pointed that out to him.
Yeah, isn’t his site a treat?
Visually boring (maybe he should sponsor a contest for his own logo rather than kvetching about Google’s various banners) but he certainly seems to enjoy attending and posting about events he feels to be against his beliefs. Kinda like Porno Pete and James Hartline, come to think of it.