I Wanted A Vacuum Cleaner and Google Gave Me Michael Jackson

by Art Fag City on May 7, 2008 · 7 comments Newswire

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Bloggy types will have already read about Google’s new artist themes, a nifty background image that renders links and virtually any other type in the igoogle masthead unreadable. Also, thank God there’s a Jeff Koons theme, because he’s really been low on publicity lately. To be honest, if I used igoogle, I would have liked the Vacuum Cleaner image they proposed as his thumbnail, but that’s not what you get. Click on this link and three different Koons themes are shown, one of which is automatically assigned to your masthead.  Given that refreshing doesn’t seem to rotate the Koons’ images, I’m not sure why we’re presented with a choice.  The functionality is so poor, I’m also generally unclear about why anyone would use this.

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{ 7 comments }

Cat May 8, 2008 at 5:44 pm

Wow, this posts drips with sarcasm like nothing I’ve seen on this site.

It’s also weird how broad the category of “artist” is. Oscar de la Renta and Michael Graves?

Cat May 8, 2008 at 5:44 pm

Wow, this posts drips with sarcasm like nothing I’ve seen on this site.

It’s also weird how broad the category of “artist” is. Oscar de la Renta and Michael Graves?

Cat May 8, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Wow, this posts drips with sarcasm like nothing I’ve seen on this site.

It’s also weird how broad the category of “artist” is. Oscar de la Renta and Michael Graves?

Gael May 11, 2008 at 3:58 pm

I’m not sure but images migh change according to the time of the day. At least the theme made by John Maeda does.

Gael May 11, 2008 at 3:58 pm

I’m not sure but images migh change according to the time of the day. At least the theme made by John Maeda does.

Gael May 11, 2008 at 10:58 am

I’m not sure but images migh change according to the time of the day. At least the theme made by John Maeda does.

PathFinder DF31Z Vacuum July 30, 2011 at 10:20 am

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