Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Feeping Creaturism: Google Toolbar Button Gallery

Google Now has a toolbar button that brings up a web page to add tool bar buttons to your Google toolbar

Meanwhile the popular "BlogThis" button is harder to get to.

This is very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very bad.

Rather than explain why, I'll tell a story.

Once there was this great little company. It was fast and agile and run by smart hard-working people who were scrappy and put one over on the dominant computer company of its day. But those things were not enough. Then one day, it really got its act together and pulled out all of the stops to create a product that everyone agreed that, while not perfect, was waaaaaaay better than the last major release and was pretty good overall. It was relatively lightweight and clean but had smart features that were useful.

This was a golden moment. In future years, its product line headed off in a profitable but very controversial (and this author says very wrong) direction and a bad omen was that the next major release included a showcase feature that was mostly Intellectual Property infringement.

The company is as you have probably guessed but here is the surprise: the very wrong direction is GUI.

Take a deep breath and savor folks. Just as "Friends" jumped the shark when Rachel didn't get married to the dentist, I feel that this new google toolbar means that that the DOS 5.0 era is over and the DOS 6.0 fiasco phase will soon begin.

Oh Google...

Dim the lights folks, I am going to sing a sad song

Oh Google...
Well you came and had a clean GUI
Now there's junk in the way
Oh Google...

Change in tempo, let's lower the disco ball and light this place up awwww yeah...
My blogger I, can't get enough of this blog entry (oh my my my)
My blogger I, can't get enough of this...

clang clang clang goes the trolley
ding ding ding goes the bell...

big finish now, ethel mermaid style
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LOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!






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