Posted on 09/22/2008 7:57:10 AM PDT by reaganaut1
At first it didn't really bother me, but it became increasingly hard to ignore. On certain relatively slow news days, the bulk of the e-mails I would receive from readers of the National Review's Web site would be about Google, the popular Internet search engine. Specifically, these letters would complain about Google's failure to recognize certain holidays.
Google — if you don't live on the Internet as I do, and thus haven't noticed — tends to change its logo to celebrate special occasions. Google was very into the Olympics in Beijing (and has bent to China's will there, but that's another story). Google was ecstatic when the first day of summer arrived this year. It honored Leap Day on Feb. 29 with a slaphappy portrait of a jumping frog, and duly marked the 50th anniversary of the LEGO brick on Jan. 28. It even celebrated artist Diego Velazquez's birthday in June, and regularly marks geeky anniversaries like the invention of the laser on May 16. So, some ask, why not fly a flag on Memorial Day?
What Google does with its pixels, of course, is not the biggest concern in the world by any stretch, even during a sluggish news cycle. But I increasingly started noting some of the days on which the corporate behemoth opted not to change its logo. Couldn't we at least get a bunny on Easter Sunday? If the likes of Macy's can recognize that holiday without seeming sectarian, why can't Google? I wasn't looking for a resurrected Jesus or even a cross.
This bothered me again this year on Sept. 11. On that particular Thursday, Google's logo went unaltered.
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Google is owned by left wing dorks under the delusion they will be cool if they favor certain ideologies. They are and will forever be dorks.
billionaire dorks, but yes, dorks...
The same entity that purges 500,000 images of 0bama’s birth certificate doesn’t mark 9/11?
Color me shocked.
I use Live Search these days...
google tried that once, it came back with “did not match any documents”
It is a Meta search engine and when you enter a query it formats that question and sends it to Google; Ask Jeeves, Yahoo and about 150 other seach engines and then consolodates all the answers and gives them to you.
Remember Yahoo does not have all the answers- nor does Google - nor does Ask Jeeves - nor etc., etc.
Dogpile always seems to have appropriate "screens" on days like the 4th of July or Veterans day.
Most computer industry people were the geeks we used to beat up and push into lockers in high school every day.
They’re just getting even.
Remember this classic? Describes ‘em to a “T”
“Pencil Neck Geek”
by Classy Freddie Blassie
Back when I was a kid, life was going swell.
Till something happened, blew every thing to hell.
That night my daddy stumbled in, all pale and weak,
Said “A woman up the block just gave birth to a geek.”
Mom said, “Sell it to the circus, what the heck.”
Dad said, “Nope, this one’s a pencil neck.
And if there’s one thing lower than a side show freak,
It’s a grit eatin’, scum suckin’, pencil neck geek.”
You see if you take a pencil that won’t hold lead,
Looks like a pipe cleaner atached to a head,
Add a buggy whip body with a brain that leaks,
You got yourself a grit eatin’, pencil neck geek.
(chorus)
Pencil neck geek, grit eatin’ freak,
scum suckin’, pea head with a lousy physique.
He’s a one man, no gut, loosing streak.
Nothin’ but a pencil neck geek.
Soon the geeks were poppin’ up all over town.
You couldn’t hardly sneeze without knockin’ one down.
After a nice juicy steak, if you need a toothpick,
Just reach for a geek, they’ll do the trick.
One day we cut one up for fish bait.
Learned our lesson just a little bit late.
Soon as the geek hit the drink, the water turned red.
Next day, sure enough, all the fish were dead.
chorus
Most any night you know where I can be found.
Yeah, stomping some geek’s head into the ground.
So keep the faith ‘cause in Blassie you can trust,
I won’t give up ‘til the last geek bites the dust.
chorus
They say, “these geeks come a dime a dozen.”
I’m lookin’ for the guy who’s supplin’ the dimes.
Its gonna be real hard times for all of these
grit eatin’,
scum suckin’,
boot lickin’,
drop kickin’,
gut grindin’,
nail bitin’,
glue sniffin’,
scab pickin’,
butt scratchin’,
egg hatchin’,
sleezy,
smelly,
pepper bellied,
dirty, lousy, rotten, stinkin’, freaks.
Nothing but a pencil neck geek.
I know these geeks, I live in Mountain View. My mother lives next to a Google higher up, most arrogant person you’d ever want to meet. They all are making money hand over fist and have absolutely no social skills are are full of hubris.
Google is given tax payer funded hangar space for its corporate jet on a Bay Area military base because they claim to use it for “scientific research”. This is the same jet that ferried Mayor Gavin Newsom’s wedding guests up to Montana.
I think you should be embarrassed to post such a hateful poem. What would you think of a similar poem bashing Downs babies?
Oh please. First its a song from @ 1964, (one of Dr. Demento’s classics, right up there with “They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-ha!”), and secondly....
Shouldn’t we leave the “Oh I’m so offended” political correctness to the thin-skinned liberals.
Google — who is that?
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