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Poster art based off of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, made by a fantastic creative team, were auctioned off on February 18th to benefit the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. See all of the posters over at Upper Playground.
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’s new logo. I may not be behind a Leno Tonight Show, but I know a damn nice typeface when I see one. Read more at idsgn.
Happy President’s Day.
Geoffrey Chaucer, in a poem written to honor the first anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia. This piece of literature is the first recorded association of Valentine’s Day, according to Wikipedia.
Any Colour You Like | Pink Floyd
There’s nothing better than listening to Pink Floyd on a Saturday night. Well, maybe having a social life, or some friends. But I wouldn’t know about that.
Hank Green, with the help of Potter know-it-all Melissa Anelli, made a Google search story, closely resembling the Google Super Bowl ad, based on the Harry Potter series.
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Oh, wow. ReadWriteWeb’s article on Facebook’s login with AOL has caused a mass uproar, with people who search “facebook login” on Google thinking RWW was actually Facebook, and complaining in comments about the “redesign”:
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. You can however click here and become a Fan of ReadWriteWeb on Facebook, to receive our updates and learn more about the Internet. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the first result. We recommend that you then save Facebook as a bookmark in your browser.
Sigh. Be sure to read the comments, considering 90% of them consist of “redesign” complaints.
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Let’s face it, Google is turning into Facebook: a company that will make anything popular, disregarding what their users want. Google does video. And photos. And email. And music. And blogging. And health records. And browsers. And operating systems. And social networking. And, now, broadband.
Google shouldn’t give a damn about being a social network, or any third party device for that matter. What they should care about is being the best damn search engine around. It was what the site started as, why it got discovered, and why people come back to it. It’s the best damn search engine around, and, quite frankly, all this other bullshit they’re making to “stay in the game” is useless.
Sure, a lot of it is useful; I couldn’t live without Gmail, Google Maps or YouTube, and both are major forces in the digital world. But Super Bowl ads? “Reinventing email”? Thanks, but pass. I could care less about Buzz. It’s no different than any other Twitter clone out there. Which is why it being a product of Google bothers me: If Google, the most popular search engine, and the most visited website in the world, is going to release a product, it should be revolutionary, interesting, or game-changing in some way, not just pointless.
So, when Google Buzz fails, don’t be surprised. And when you sit around, wondering what ever happened to the little search engine that could, don’t be surprised, either. You have to know when too much is too much, and, right now, it looks like Google doesn’t.
