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A furor is raging at GooTube. The goofballs in charge are threatening to shove a new channel design upon users. The design has been around for months, and very few have voluntarily switched to beta. Some tried beta and quickly moved back to the original design. Tens of thousands of irate users are bitterly demanding continued choice of design. Not elimination of beta, merely continued choice.
Is choice so much to ask? Given Google's obstinate refusal to consider any requests from users, it appears that it is.
Just to test beta's features, I opened a new GreedTube channel.
Why?
Apologists for beta – some of whom I suspect of being on the payroll – are claiming that we hate the design because we can't figure out how to use it. These people appear to rank alongside creationists in the logic department.
Beta is cumbersome for visitors to a channel page. It is, however, easy to modify the page's design and modules.
I still hate it. Tens of thousands hate it.
Why?
It is cluttered, cramped, and singularly unattractive, that's why.
Easier channel set-up features are all well and good, but how much time and trouble is it to set up design on the more complicated alpha channels? Very little. Once one has worked out how to do it, a new alpha channel requires only about five minutes to design, particularly if one is familiar with the html codes for colours.
The ideal solution? Adapt the easier editing features to the original lay-out and icon sizes. Seems a simple solution. I have absolutely no confidence that the goofballs at GooTube are capable of coming up with a simple solution that keeps users and advertisers happy.
So, it looks as though boycotts and departures to other video streaming sites are absolutely inevitable.
It might be wise to sell your shares in Google. If they continue to perform at these levels, the company is doomed.
Dickovery Institute
I have been irritated by the IDiotic agenda of the Dickovery Institute^ since I first learned of its lies.
Since the proponents of IDiocy conduct no scientific research, we can only conclude that it is fitting that so many of their number are lawyers, rather than scientists. Indeed, IDiocy's pet biochemist, the little-published* Michael Behe, is clearly an embarrassment to Lehigh University.
Judging by their output, it appears that DI's full-time scientific staff devote themselves solely to scouring the scientific literature for material so carelessly worded as to be useful for quote mining.
^ I continue to refuse to provide authority-conferring links to the websites of those with an agenda of which I strongly disapprove. It's fine to ridicule their egregious misinformation, but don't boost them further up search-engine rankings! I was horrified when a search for "evolution" placed creationist liars at the top.
* In peer-reviewed scientific journals, that is. Having sold books containing deceitful distortions to credulous sheep is scarcely an "achievement" that confers bragging rights. Publishers, after all, care only about profits and not about accuracy of content.
Judging by their output, it appears that DI's full-time scientific staff devote themselves solely to scouring the scientific literature for material so carelessly worded as to be useful for quote mining.
^ I continue to refuse to provide authority-conferring links to the websites of those with an agenda of which I strongly disapprove. It's fine to ridicule their egregious misinformation, but don't boost them further up search-engine rankings! I was horrified when a search for "evolution" placed creationist liars at the top.
* In peer-reviewed scientific journals, that is. Having sold books containing deceitful distortions to credulous sheep is scarcely an "achievement" that confers bragging rights. Publishers, after all, care only about profits and not about accuracy of content.
Surrealistic Lilliputian Realm
The Downfall of IDiocy: We wish!
These nefarious people, like all creationists, simply refuse to admit that they are beaten. I guess that, since truth matters nothing to creationists, they will not feel defeated until the donations from credulous pseudo-intellectual sheep dry up.
The ill-named Discovery Institute continues to pretend that it has legitimate points. It continues to resort to cheat-tactics – lies, perjury, illogic, and false DMCA claims. The latter are particularly ironic in view of DI's purloining a beautiful video that was made for, and belongs to, Harvard University. (The video contains only a musical background. Interpretion here.)
These nefarious people, like all creationists, simply refuse to admit that they are beaten. I guess that, since truth matters nothing to creationists, they will not feel defeated until the donations from credulous pseudo-intellectual sheep dry up.
The ill-named Discovery Institute continues to pretend that it has legitimate points. It continues to resort to cheat-tactics – lies, perjury, illogic, and false DMCA claims. The latter are particularly ironic in view of DI's purloining a beautiful video that was made for, and belongs to, Harvard University. (The video contains only a musical background. Interpretion here.)
"magnificent animation of the internal workings of a cell that was ripped off, first by William Dembski, and then by the makers of 'Expelled', as the [linked] eMail explains"Dembski made some weasel comments about this on his website, but he's mistaken if he thinks that his deceptive IDiocy will soon be forgotten. "Surrealistic Lilliputian Realm" indeed! That pretty much sums up the collective cognitive function of the Dickovery Institute. Or should that be Dissembly Institute?
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