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by John Cole|  December 7, 201111:40 pm| 130 Comments

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Google just changed my email interface and I’m so mad that if I ran the world I would demand that google execs be force sodomized by Mark Zuckerberg.

The old interface worked, you douchebags.

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  1. 1.

    MikeJ

    December 7, 2011 at 11:42 pm

    Mutt forever!

  2. 2.

    eastriver

    December 7, 2011 at 11:43 pm

    Have a drink, JC. I mean, Have another drink.

    Oy.

  3. 3.

    RossInDetroit

    December 7, 2011 at 11:44 pm

    Google is changing everything. Their goal is to make you drop FB in favor of +. If you’re like me this is not working.

  4. 4.

    Steeplejack

    December 7, 2011 at 11:46 pm

    This is one reason I have acclimated myself to the somewhat clunky embrace of Outlook. It gets the e-mail from Google so I don’t have to.

  5. 5.

    eemom

    December 7, 2011 at 11:46 pm

    I would demand that google execs be force sodomized by Mark Zuckerberg.

    good heavens, Cole, do the words “too soon” mean NOTHING to you?

  6. 6.

    Arclite

    December 7, 2011 at 11:46 pm

    Shorter JC: Get of my damn lawn, you kids!

  7. 7.

    gnomedad

    December 7, 2011 at 11:47 pm

    Just remember: if you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

  8. 8.

    The Dangerman

    December 7, 2011 at 11:48 pm

    The new Gmail interface sucks; it’s a New Coke level of suck. Fortunately, you can select the old interface for a while longer under the Toolbar.

  9. 9.

    TooManyJens

    December 7, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    The new interface literally gives me a headache; there’s not enough contrast. Do you suppose they have anyone over the age of 35 doing usability testing over there?

    /oldfart

  10. 10.

    Redshift

    December 7, 2011 at 11:54 pm

    I don’t see what all the fuss is about. I tried the new interface, went to settings and change a few things to tighten it up, and I haven’t had any trouble with it. From the advance description (and the uproar), I didn’t think I’d like it, but it’s fine. Don’t see what all the fuss is about.

  11. 11.

    hhex65

    December 7, 2011 at 11:54 pm

    @gnomedad: a red stick labeled ‘TNT’ with a dialog balloon reading “Boom!” emerging from its mouth

  12. 12.

    General Stuck

    December 7, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    Google just changed my email interface

    Yea, they did that to me too, fucked upped shit for awhile, but finally got everything working again. Yahoo did the same thing and got my Flickr account all screwed up along with my email passwords. I keep logged on, but sometimes they ask to relogin, and it takes a swipe or two to get things right.

  13. 13.

    ajr22

    December 7, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    Rick Perry seems to be a few weeks away from making an ad like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpiw-ng5wkQ

    “Call me old fashioned, but I still believe there is one true god, and he lives in this lake, and his name is Zorgo…”

  14. 14.

    Lojasmo

    December 7, 2011 at 11:59 pm

    Huh. Works just like my imail interface. I approve. FYJC.

  15. 15.

    amk

    December 7, 2011 at 11:59 pm

    google is finding its level of incompetence. They hit it by screwing around their best product – google search with their google instant crap.

  16. 16.

    Little Boots

    December 8, 2011 at 12:00 am

    stil no doug? who am I supposed to pick on?

  17. 17.

    Walker

    December 8, 2011 at 12:00 am

    That is how I feel about the new X-Box dashboard today. Animated ads on the dashboard, and the center image cycles rapidly through four different options on an endless loop. Oh, and the avatar is demoted to a minor page so they have effectively killed the avatar merchandise market.

    You would think that after a decade of getting their ass handed to them by Apple, they would learn something about design. But oh no.

  18. 18.

    pete mack

    December 8, 2011 at 12:00 am

    Agree–big fat bar at the top is a waste of space.
    You can make it a little better by changing the settings to tightly spaced.

  19. 19.

    Nom de Plume

    December 8, 2011 at 12:04 am

    I got rid of my Droid a few months back because I was irritated with something Google had done that day (probably something to do with forcing you to get a gmail account if you want to do anything on the internet ever). I switched to an iPhone, and promptly discovered that Apple also wants to run every second of your life from conception to death. So what I’m saying is, there’s no escape.

    ETA: Oh, and another thing about Google…why is the Google website the most unnavigable website on the internet? Is that intentional?

  20. 20.

    Arclite

    December 8, 2011 at 12:04 am

    Hmm, I posted a comment on how to revert your account back to the old one, but it disappeared. I didn’t get a moderation message, so I’m not sure what happened.

    Step 1. Login to Gmail Account.

    Step 2. Click on the Gear Icon at the left hand side above the Mails box.

    Step 3. Click on ‘Revert to the old look temporarily‘.

  21. 21.

    MikeJ

    December 8, 2011 at 12:06 am

    I went to gmail to see what the fuss was about. I was using a theme anyway so it looks the same.

  22. 22.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    December 8, 2011 at 12:06 am

    I’m not seeing the change, oddly enough…weird.

    EDIT: Oh, wait, there’s a thing in the bottom right corner when I’m on gmail that says “Switch to the New Look”. Haven’t bothered touching it yet though, and from the sounds, I don’t want to.

  23. 23.

    Comrade Mary

    December 8, 2011 at 12:06 am

    More elegant in its monochromicity, but man, is it hard to differentiate between parts of the interface. It’s Squint City.

    I just wish all those whippersnapper designers who think that teeny text and muted colours in the same goddamn tonal range are better than you know, designing for usability and easy orientation, get middle-aged and stay middle-aged and find that no goddamn optician in town will sell them glasses or contacts. Fuckers.

  24. 24.

    Cassidy

    December 8, 2011 at 12:07 am

    I’ve been referred for selection by the Federal Air Marshals. That means the Field Office I did my interview(s) with liked me and recommended me. Now I’just wait for the home office to somehow score and rank all of us who were referred and offer me a job (maybe). I also scored a 97 on my Customs and Border Patrol exam. I’ll assume that’s out of 100 as it makes me feel better. Passing was a 70. So we’ll see. It’s been a good week. Thank you all for being there when I was down and out. I just wanted to share.

  25. 25.

    Spaghetti Lee

    December 8, 2011 at 12:09 am

    I’m cool with it. I barely use my gmail anyway.

  26. 26.

    Little Boots

    December 8, 2011 at 12:10 am

    so tired of the foolishness.

    everyone yell at John, will you?

  27. 27.

    Hill Dweller

    December 8, 2011 at 12:11 am

    @Cassidy: Congratulations

  28. 28.

    amk

    December 8, 2011 at 12:13 am

    @Cassidy: Congrats. 97% ? What did you do with the balance 3% ? Oh, you gave it away to rick fucking perry ?

  29. 29.

    General Stuck

    December 8, 2011 at 12:15 am

    @Cassidy:

    also scored a 97 on my Customs and Border Patrol exam.

    Good news for you. Border Patrol might be pretty good duty. Sometimes I take a jaunt down to the NM bootheel near the border, and I see them whizzing around on 4 wheel ATVs.

  30. 30.

    Little Boots

    December 8, 2011 at 12:17 am

    the hell happened to omnes?

  31. 31.

    Cassidy

    December 8, 2011 at 12:18 am

    @General Stuck: I could handle that.

    Supposedly, this test says I have the ability to learn Spanish. That’s news to me.

  32. 32.

    amk

    December 8, 2011 at 12:18 am

    Rethugs assure war with Iran as a way of standing with Israel.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70033.html

  33. 33.

    JGabriel

    December 8, 2011 at 12:20 am

    Little Boots:

    the hell happened to omnes?

    I posted a link in the last thread to about 50 minutes worth of professionally shot live footage of the Replacements from 1981. Could be he’s holed up watching that.

    .

  34. 34.

    Little Boots

    December 8, 2011 at 12:21 am

    @JGabriel: @JGabriel:

    you. are. awesome.

  35. 35.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    December 8, 2011 at 12:24 am

    Twice in the last 6 months,someone from IT has emailed me and cheerily said they’re “building my new laptop” and wanted to verify what software I wanted.

    And twice I’ve emailed back that I don’t want a new computer, I don’t want a laptop so I can work anydamnwhere,I’ve done that and it sucked, and I don’t want upgraded software, everything I have is working just fine and it meets all my needs, and there’s no charge number for the day of overhead it will take to get all the preferences set again, and anyway, my father was an electrical engineer and used the same K&E Log Log Vector slide rule for his whole career and who in the hell decided we had to get new tools every 18 months that do the same thing as the old tools but more bloated, and HEY!! get off my lawn, you damn kids!!

    So far I still have my same old computer.

  36. 36.

    The Other Chuck

    December 8, 2011 at 12:25 am

    The new gmail interface is just fine.

    What gives me the homicidal stabbies is the new XBox interface.

  37. 37.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    December 8, 2011 at 12:26 am

    @gnomedad:

    if you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

    Never heard that one before but wow, too true, too true.

  38. 38.

    srv

    December 8, 2011 at 12:26 am

    Obama inserts himself into Plan B and young women’s uteruses.

    I’m sure this will win young folks over.

  39. 39.

    Little Boots

    December 8, 2011 at 12:28 am

    what do you all think of Obama, lately?

  40. 40.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    December 8, 2011 at 12:30 am

    @Nom de Plume: Here’s an escape: a DumbPhone (R). My phone has two apps: it can both send and receive phone calls. No, wait! Four!! I can send and receive text messages, too.

  41. 41.

    some guy

    December 8, 2011 at 12:33 am

    a week after the Iranians brought down our most advanced stealth drone the NY Times deigns to notice it. ha! at least WaPo has been keeping up with the furious backpedaling by the so-called intelligence community.

  42. 42.

    amk

    December 8, 2011 at 12:34 am

    SS takes guns, handcuffs from KS birther nut.

  43. 43.

    JGabriel

    December 8, 2011 at 12:36 am

    @Little Boots:

    what do you all think of Obama, lately?

    Does it matter? Most of us are going to vote for Obama no matter what we think of him because the GOP is batshit insane and will destroy the country.

    That said, I still like Obama. I’m just not sure whether that’s even a relevant criteria for the next election.

    .

  44. 44.

    Jeff Spender

    December 8, 2011 at 12:39 am

    I’m actually kind of mad about the new Netflix interface on my XBOX 360. It’s…terrible. There’s too much going on because you can see the categories lined up behind the one that’s current.

    It gets hard to navigate. The previous version had a cool menu for selecting episodes. This one sucks.

    Why do they do things like this? They try to fix things that aren’t broke and end up breaking them. The new XBOX interface isn’t really all that intuitive. The design and layout makes no sense, and I can’t easily access from the Dashboard how many Points I have. It’s really quite annoying, you know.

    I’m done ranting now.

  45. 45.

    Little Boots

    December 8, 2011 at 12:39 am

    @JGabriel:

    it is

    but yeah, I hear you.

  46. 46.

    Suffern ACE

    December 8, 2011 at 12:42 am

    @some guy: I still think its not lost. It just can’t be found. Whole point of that stealth technology, not being easy to find. It probably parked itself at a Macy’s parking lot in Pasadena and is laughing its tail off at our attempts to find it. We should have put an olly olly oxen free button on it.

  47. 47.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 8, 2011 at 12:42 am

    @JGabriel: unlike a lot of internet liberals, many of whom would probably like to kick me out of the club, I have always been pretty happy to vote for the Dem nominee, never felt like I was voting for “the lesser of two evils”. I’ve liked them, not loved them, from Clinton to Obama.

    The House and the Senate, OTOH, I have had to hold my nose and roll my eyes while voting.

  48. 48.

    TaMara (BHF)

    December 8, 2011 at 12:43 am

    JC, I have no idea who Dag is, but damn I loved that link.

  49. 49.

    Walker

    December 8, 2011 at 12:47 am

    @Jeff Spender:

    The new XBOX interface isn’t really all that intuitive. The design and layout makes no sense, and I can’t easily access from the Dashboard how many Points I have.

    As pointed out in this review of the new dashboard, it makes perfect sense — if you are an advertiser. On each page you have two panels with usable features and three panels with ads. And the central, large panel is one of the ads, and it actually cycles through four ads inside of it.

    Google I understand. That is a “free” service and needs the ad revenue to survive. But I pay for Live and now I have to put up with this?

  50. 50.

    pete

    December 8, 2011 at 12:48 am

    @gnomedad: That’s good.

    What I hate about the Great Gazoogle is that their free apps are overpriced. Having owned computers since the days of CP/M and worked with them before that, it pisses me off that interface issues that were interesting thirty years ago (and mostly solved around then at Xerox PARC) keep coming back. Zombie fking software.

    Bring back the rotary dial! (No, I’m kidding on that one.)

  51. 51.

    JGabriel

    December 8, 2011 at 12:48 am

    Heh. Over at YouTube, the Perry campaign apparently forgot to turn off the ability to comment on their latest ad. The result: 2,458 likes, 102,802 dislikes.

    (Via Chris Bowers @ Great Orange Satan)

    .

  52. 52.

    some guy

    December 8, 2011 at 12:50 am

    @Suffern ACE:

    hee. the Iranians are gonna put it on TV was what I heard. a new reality show, “Survivor: Advanced Radar Arrays” but I am not sure how that will translate into Farsi. I’m thinking the Chinese and Russians will be competing to see who can upgrade Iran’s surface to air technology quickest for the opportunity to access the radar arrays and avionics of the drone.

    should make for great TV.

  53. 53.

    Jeremy

    December 8, 2011 at 12:52 am

    If you’re averse to change, John, then maybe this whole internet thing isn’t for you.

  54. 54.

    pete

    December 8, 2011 at 12:53 am

    @JGabriel: Thank you. I even watched the sucker first, so my Dislike was honest.

  55. 55.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    December 8, 2011 at 12:56 am

    @pete:

    Having owned computers since the days of CP/M

    Oh, man, you’re reminding me of my youth, and my Apple ][ incarnations, with their Z80 cards and Pascal cards, and stuff like that. Those days were fun.

  56. 56.

    Nutella

    December 8, 2011 at 12:58 am

    @JGabriel:

    Somebody I know reported it for inappropriate content on the basis of hate speech against sexual orientation.

  57. 57.

    eemom

    December 8, 2011 at 1:00 am

    I haz a sad this evening. No one is on my side. : (

  58. 58.

    ChrisNYC

    December 8, 2011 at 1:02 am

    Perry said on CNN that he was second in the “Hot Gas” poll. Fantastic!

  59. 59.

    John Cole

    December 8, 2011 at 1:03 am

    @Cassidy: GRATS!

  60. 60.

    John Cole

    December 8, 2011 at 1:04 am

    @TaMara (BHF): Check your email.

  61. 61.

    John Cole

    December 8, 2011 at 1:04 am

    @eemom Your side in what?

  62. 62.

    burnspbesq

    December 8, 2011 at 1:06 am

    Gmail interface? What’s that? My accounts are hooked into the mail app on my iPhone and iPad.

    Good news: the road rash I picked up over thanksgiving weekend is healing nicely.

    Bad news: it’s starting to itch.

  63. 63.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    December 8, 2011 at 1:08 am

    @John Cole: The war inside her head?

  64. 64.

    JGabriel

    December 8, 2011 at 1:12 am

    Sandusky arrested. NYT:

    Wearing a Penn State windbreaker, Sandusky, 67, was taken to the Centre County Correctional Facility in Bellefonte, Pa., after his arraignment, because he was unable to pay the $250,000 cash bail.

    You know, if I were put in charge at Penn State, I think one of the first things I’d do is buy Sandusky a new coat and cap, each without any Penn State logos.

    .

  65. 65.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    December 8, 2011 at 1:14 am

    @Little Boots: What do I think of Obama? OK, I’ll take the plunge.

    I think he’s the smartest, and better yet, most savvy President I can remember. He’s been dealt shitty hands and he’s been playing the best he can.

    To continue the card game metaphor, maybe instead of “waking up” he’s finally watched long enough to learn who’s bluffing and sandbagging and he’s starting to play the other players.

    As agonizing as it’s been to watch him play bipartisan with the Rs, I think it’s required a year of smackdowns for the public to wake up and see what the problem is in Warshnin. At least I hope so.

    I’ll be knocking on doors for him again.

    (Same comment still in moderation on another thread because I used the Wrong Word for “card game”.

  66. 66.

    Kola Noscopy

    December 8, 2011 at 1:16 am

    How do you know the executives would have to “forced?”

    Also, Mark Zuckerberg is kind of hot in a nerdy way, so I’m kind of liking the whole fantasy imagery your playing with here…

  67. 67.

    Yutsano

    December 8, 2011 at 1:17 am

    @burnspbesq: The potential for inappropriate commentary abounds. I believe I will refrain however.

    BTW: if you call me bitching about the exact format you want your account transcripts in, don’t expect me to cooperate.

  68. 68.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    December 8, 2011 at 1:18 am

    I saw my second student for my paid tutoring gig today. So far both of them have been a disasters. The first one was largely my fault, but tonight was all on the student. He’s taking his required stats class for his business major and posted that he needs help. So we hooked up. Yesterday he sent me the assignment that he was working on. It was mostly simple regression, but also a couple of proportion comparisons.

    I figured he’d need help figuring out which set of tools to use and also to be walked through the math. I didn’t realize that they don’t need to know the math, because they do all of it on a computer. This guy turned out to be a perfectly good example of why you need to learn to do your stats by hand first and only once you have that down do you move to using the software.

    So I sat down with him, and it turned out that he didn’t even have any idea how to construct his hypotheses. Looking at the problem, he couldn’t figure out what he was supposed to be testing. It’s now December 7th, which means that there is at most two more weeks in the term. If you can’t even figure out how to construct your hypotheses yet, you’re wasting your money paying me to tutor you. Get comfortable with the fact that you’re going to fail and try again next semester.

    When we got to the regression stuff, it also became apparent that he doesn’t have a clue as to what the residuals or the squared errors are. He knew how to input the data into Minitab, but didn’t have the slightest idea what it was doing with that data.

    Then he told me that he only had time for one hour of tutoring tonight. That pissed me off. Aside from the fact that, if he wants me to teach him the whole class he’s going to need to give me a lot more than an hour to do it, I had driven down to south Minneapolis during rush hour to get there and then it turned out that he lived in an apartment building, but had given me neither his apartment number nor the security code needed to call up to him. No, kids, not everyone has a cell phone, so just giving me your phone number doesn’t necessarily mean I can call you from the lobby of your building. They gave you a security code for a reason.

  69. 69.

    burnspbesq

    December 8, 2011 at 1:21 am

    @Yutsano:

    Unlike most practitioners, I can read a transcript.

  70. 70.

    Jenny

    December 8, 2011 at 1:21 am

    Priceless.

    Trump said on fixxed news that he’s hurt that President Obama has never called him for advice.

    Ay Yi Yi.

    It’s the down side of being good looking. This has happened over and over and over again; one person after another whining the president doesn’t invite him or her to the senior prom.

    I remember when Michael Steele first become chairman of the GOP and he went on CNN and complained that Obama wasn’t returning his calls.

    A couple of days ago, Olympia Snowe was complaining that the president doesn’t notice the dress she wore just for him reach out to her.

  71. 71.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    December 8, 2011 at 1:23 am

    Oh, also, posting that you need help on an assignment that is due tomorrow is a grade A signal that I want nothing to do with teaching you. I’m a tutor, not a nanny.

  72. 72.

    burnspbesq

    December 8, 2011 at 1:25 am

    <This is what temptation looks like.

    Santa, I promise that if you bring this I will make time for lessons.

  73. 73.

    catpal

    December 8, 2011 at 1:25 am

    @amk: that is a must read wingnut story.

    the Teanut was going to arrest Obama when he came to KS.
    Unbelievable.

  74. 74.

    Yutsano

    December 8, 2011 at 1:25 am

    @burnspbesq: I actually walked through a civil penalty transcript with a POA last night. That was a really nifty education for me, and I think it scared him because indeed it was assessed on both sides. Lawd that case was a mess.

    I have to tell you: the most fun I have in my job is telling a POA his client isn’t being totally honest with him. Nothing like saying, “Oh, do you know your client has an EIN?” and hearing the voice catch. I got one to swear tonight, and not at me.

  75. 75.

    Redshift

    December 8, 2011 at 1:29 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):

    I’m a tutor, not a nanny.

    Nor a paper mill, eh?

  76. 76.

    burnspbesq

    December 8, 2011 at 1:30 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):

    Yes the kid is an idiot. However, his money is legal tender.

  77. 77.

    Hill Dweller

    December 8, 2011 at 1:32 am

    @Jenny: This is what really gets me. The Republicans can engage in an unprecedented level of obstructionism without the media saying a word, but they can’t get enough of the nihilists acting like jilted lovers.

  78. 78.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    December 8, 2011 at 1:38 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):

    I’m a tutor, not a nanny.

    Damnit, Jim, I’m a Doctor, not a bricklayer!

  79. 79.

    Hill Dweller

    December 8, 2011 at 1:38 am

    Over at TPM, they’re saying the Romney/Rove are going to release the hounds(former Gov. John Sununu and former Sen. Jim Talent) on Gingrich tomorrow.

  80. 80.

    burnspbesq

    December 8, 2011 at 1:38 am

    @Yutsano:

    I had another one of those goofy conversations today. Client sends me a notice of intent to levy. Fortunately I managed to ask the question about other notices without getting snarky. Turns out they got notice and demand (for 6698 penalties) for two other years, but not for the year for which they got the NIL. And they may have a good case for a refund of the penalties after they pay them.

  81. 81.

    NR

    December 8, 2011 at 1:43 am

    @Little Boots: I actually like what I’m hearing out of Obama these days. Problem is, I don’t think it’s anything but election-season posturing. I think once he wins re-election (if he does) he’ll be back to his old corporatist self.

    I may still vote for him because of the Supreme Court, though.

  82. 82.

    Hill Dweller

    December 8, 2011 at 1:53 am

    @NR: A lot will depend on the makeup of Congress, but if he gets a second term, I think Obama will be far less cautious, and move more to the left.

  83. 83.

    piratedan

    December 8, 2011 at 1:56 am

    i’m into the melancholia tonight since I’m finally having a quiet night that is allowing me to grieve for my Mom…

    so to play Open Thread DJ for those of you that have lost loved ones and are may be going thru the death watches in the still hours of the night like myself….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZh6ZSRoYg&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bttP9Qgh-Z0&feature=related

  84. 84.

    eemom

    December 8, 2011 at 1:57 am

    @NR:

    I may still vote for him because of the Supreme Court, though.

    wow, aren’t we lucky. You might want to hold off on telling us what state you’re in, though — if it’s Florida we’ll feel compelled to order flowers and whores for you every day between now and next November, whereas if it’s Texas or New York we might be unable to resist the urge to invite you to stick your head back up your ass where it belongs, and keep it there.

  85. 85.

    Yutsano

    December 8, 2011 at 1:58 am

    @burnspbesq: I also realize I’m looking at a lot of information you guys aren’t. At least not until we get it to you. Which is why that dickhead had no idea how much he was shooting himself in the foot by getting all huffy with me. I honestly wasn’t in the mood yesterday. But all in all I LOVE talking to you guys. I can get down to business without a ton of the emotional baggage and get shit DONE.

  86. 86.

    amk

    December 8, 2011 at 2:05 am

    @eemom: Sometimes your rudeness is spot on.

  87. 87.

    NR

    December 8, 2011 at 2:08 am

    @eemom: Stay classy, Obama supporters.

  88. 88.

    eco2geek

    December 8, 2011 at 2:26 am

    JC, if you’re still reading this far down, I agree with you. I set my account back to use the old style, for as long as that will last. The new user interface looks like a bunch of big rectangular boxes and the monochromatic icons are ugly and unintuitive.

    Not that the old UI was exactly user friendly, but you got used to it. Which is why it’s hard to switch.

  89. 89.

    No one of importance

    December 8, 2011 at 2:57 am

    @Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:

    I got me one of them. It’s all I need.

  90. 90.

    No one of importance

    December 8, 2011 at 3:02 am

    @eemom:

    Well if you weren’t such a sack of bigoted shit, then maybe someone would want to play with you.

    But all the fat gay ones won’t, not ever.

  91. 91.

    Origuy

    December 8, 2011 at 3:15 am

    When Cassidy mentioned learning Spanish, I was reminded that people have been putting Foreign Service Institute language material online. This is public domain text and audio; varies in quality and vintage, but what do you want for free?

  92. 92.

    bemused senior

    December 8, 2011 at 3:31 am

    Try this theme if the new gmail interface drives you crazy and you use Firefox:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-redesigned/?src=collection&collection_id=eea00a23-e8ff-0523-a158-3e18806c9f20

  93. 93.

    Pseudonym

    December 8, 2011 at 4:31 am

    What I find funny is that my friends who still work at Google all hate the new interface too.

    https://support.google.com/mail/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=postpone

  94. 94.

    Pseudonym

    December 8, 2011 at 4:31 am

    What I find funny is that my friends who still work at Google all hate the new interface too.

    https://support.google.com/mail/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=postpone

  95. 95.

    Quiddity

    December 8, 2011 at 4:52 am

    @srv: Concerned Women for America like it, so all’s well.

  96. 96.

    Applejinx

    December 8, 2011 at 6:08 am

    I’m not hating it, but I don’t count as I don’t use Gmail for primary email.

  97. 97.

    harlana

    December 8, 2011 at 6:49 am

    i just disabled my minimal FB – i’m guessing it’s still “out there” somewhere – anybody know what actually happens when you disable your FB besides people not being able to look at it anymore – i want it gone totally – THANX!

  98. 98.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    December 8, 2011 at 7:42 am

    @burnspbesq: Coach K is SI’s Sportsman of the year (with Coach Summit).

  99. 99.

    Concerned Citizen

    December 8, 2011 at 7:50 am

    Then change it back you whiner.

    http://gizmodo.com/5865459/make-new-gmail-look-like-the-old-gmail-in-two-seconds

  100. 100.

    WereBear

    December 8, 2011 at 8:16 am

    @piratedan: Really sorry about your mom.

  101. 101.

    SFAW

    December 8, 2011 at 8:22 am

    Cole –

    Charter “upgraded” their e-mail interface some months ago. Couldn’t seem to get that one right, either, but what made it especially annoying was that the new URL is “enhanced.charter.net”. I’ll tell you if it’s enhanced, you dumbshits, and it ain’t.

    Damnit, Jim, I’m a Doctor, not a bricklayer!

    NO KILL I. TYVM.

  102. 102.

    PLH in NYC

    December 8, 2011 at 8:40 am

    It is part of the culture. Everything must be improved even if it is fine. It is the same silly thinking that requires economies to grow as opposed to staying in stasis. We don’t need all the crap that is made and sold. There is plenty of work keeping the infrastructure running.

  103. 103.

    burnspbesq

    December 8, 2011 at 8:47 am

    @Cheryl from Maryland:

    And, amazingly, the only person outside Chapel Hell who seems upset about it is some idiot at The Nation, of all places.

  104. 104.

    PurpleGirl

    December 8, 2011 at 8:55 am

    @Cassidy: That’s good news. Best Wishes.

  105. 105.

    PurpleGirl

    December 8, 2011 at 9:00 am

    @Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: It’s make work for the IT department. If they didn’t change things every six months, they wouldn’t be needed.

    ETA: My tower machine at home has parts that are 15 or so years old. What dies on me is usually hard drives, the ATI video card is from 1997 and still works fine for my needs, ditto the motherboard.

  106. 106.

    PLH in NYC

    December 8, 2011 at 9:02 am

    @JC Re: Your DAG tweet: I have no idea who they were but having listened to them for 1 minute, it seems to me that they were a RHCP clone and who cares about a clone?

  107. 107.

    PurpleGirl

    December 8, 2011 at 9:04 am

    @Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: LOL. Sounds like my Oyster (Virgin Mobile pre-paid account). Does all that I need it to do.

  108. 108.

    PurpleGirl

    December 8, 2011 at 9:12 am

    @Jeff Spender: Programmers gotta write new programs… otherwise they might lose their jobs.

  109. 109.

    daveNYC

    December 8, 2011 at 9:25 am

    The new Xbox interface sucks ass too, and that’s not free (assuming you want to do anything other than just play games). The new Netflix app on the 360 blows goats too.

  110. 110.

    eemom

    December 8, 2011 at 9:35 am

    @No one of importance:

    oh go fuck yourself, you tedious asshole.

    Don’t they have any blogs on your side of the planet? Or have they all banned your pathetic ass?

  111. 111.

    eemom

    December 8, 2011 at 9:41 am

    @No one of importance:

    Let me tell you something else, you self-pitying sack of shit — you WISH the definition of “bigotry” was calling Chris Christie a disgusting fat fuck.

    You know nothing about who I am, and what I have done in my life to combat ACTUAL bigotry against gay people.

  112. 112.

    KXB

    December 8, 2011 at 10:11 am

    Showing my age here, but I’ve used my Hotmail account as my main email account since 1999. I have a Gmail account too – but that is mostly because you can no longer have a separate YouTube account. The screen setup of Hotmail is more appealing (to me) than Gmail, which resembles a 1980’s screen. Hotmail’s Skydrive feature allows for easy storage of files and pictures, and is easy tied in with a calendar function.

  113. 113.

    lettucefactory

    December 8, 2011 at 10:18 am

    I’m super pissed about this Google change because my employer requires me to work on IE7. I have no other options, and no admin rights on my work machine.

    The new Google layout doesn’t support IE7.

    I can still use gmail in non-html-old-timey format, but I can’t use chat at the same time. I LIKE THEM BOTH AND WANT TO USE THEM BOTH, GAH!

    And every time I load up Reader, it gives me a big yellow box telling me to update to a modern browser. Every time. Which you know, fuck you, Google. My browsers at home are all shiny and new and modern. I would looooooooooove to upgrade to a modern browser here at work, too. But they won’t let me.

    The assumption seems to be if you’re the kind of asshole who uses IE7, we don’t want you. Which wouldn’t burn so much if I had any say in the matter!

  114. 114.

    Paul in KY

    December 8, 2011 at 10:42 am

    @burnspbesq: We’re not dancing with joy in KY about it.

  115. 115.

    piratedan

    December 8, 2011 at 10:43 am

    @WereBear: ty WereBear…. had some good tears last night….neccessary ones, so now ready to face the challenges of today.

  116. 116.

    dance around in your bones

    December 8, 2011 at 11:57 am

    @piratedan: Late to this thread (lately I am always late, hence my nym change from licensed to kill time) but if I had seen your comment last night I would have responded.

    Grief is unpredictable and will hit you out of the blue. Sometimes a good old cry is therapeutic and releases all those nice endorphins. I’m finding that out through experience, unfortunately.

    But…keep on keepin’ on, it’s just what we have to do.

  117. 117.

    Nutella

    December 8, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    @lettucefactory:

    I’ll bet you work for a software vendor.

    An interesting take on using free software here.

  118. 118.

    stormhit

    December 8, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    Despite the standard resistance to change, I think the new 360 interface is actually better in basically every way. Once you know where everything is it’s a lot easier to both get around and to actually see deals and promotions. Which I know people write off as just being ads…but I already know what content I own, I’d rather see what sales and events are going on than have a pointlessly large ‘launch game’ box or something.

    The Netflix app is a completely different story, however. It’s odd that they didn’t bother following the design cues of the dailymotion and syfy apps, which look more like the dashboard itself.(I’m not sure if those are widely available yet, they might just be in the preview.)

  119. 119.

    cckids

    December 8, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    @piratedan: I’m also late, but my sympathies are with you as well. I’m watching my dad battle leukemia for the 8th year & knowing that time is dwindling. . . so hard. Do what you need to, hold on to your memories.

  120. 120.

    Maude

    December 8, 2011 at 12:43 pm

    I switched from new Yahoo mail back to old. It was driving me crazy. Google search is awful.

  121. 121.

    HeartlandLiberal

    December 8, 2011 at 1:05 pm

    Apparently inadequate contrast is the thing, now.

    The new YouTube interface sucks for the same reasons. The faint gray small type is almost IMPOSSIBLE to read, and I am sitting here with two high end 24″ monitors.

  122. 122.

    Rihilism

    December 8, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    I would demand that google execs be force sodomized by Mark Zuckerberg.

    And, you don’t have to worry about any photos of your “demand” remaining private. Good times!…

  123. 123.

    Rihilism

    December 8, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    Boy, the comment editor on this blog sure is clunky. Cole, I think we’re in need of an update….

  124. 124.

    Lee

    December 8, 2011 at 2:22 pm

    Switch to the compact view. It sucks only slightly less.

  125. 125.

    WaterGirl

    December 8, 2011 at 4:09 pm

    @Cassidy: Yay! I missed the other posts this week, I guess I will have to try to find them to get the rest of the scoop.

  126. 126.

    Dr. Omed

    December 8, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    The tuna does not get a vote on the design of the can.

  127. 127.

    Dr. Omed

    December 8, 2011 at 5:39 pm

    It puts on the lotion, or it gets the hose.

  128. 128.

    Jebediah

    December 8, 2011 at 6:46 pm

    @Cassidy:
    Cool! Keeping my fingers crossed.

  129. 129.

    Jprice

    December 8, 2011 at 6:59 pm

    Dude, this won’t likely make it past moderation. All my recent posts talking about more focus for the front pagers get tanked and never see the light of day. But, let’s face it, Dude, from one ex-military to another, you are waaaaayyyy too angry and making homophobic comments. You wrote that you wished someone was “force sodomized” around midnight??? That’s a real LOL moment for your morning-coffee readers, I bet. And as a single, crypto-academic who loves gardening and cooking, you would think that, if you aren’t perceptive enough to see it, then some of your dinner-party friends would have got this into your head: shit’s not fricking funny! You sound like the guy we used to bully when I was in the service. Act like a man!

  130. 130.

    gaz

    December 8, 2011 at 10:24 pm

    use gmail’s pop3/smtp access (free, last I checked).

    Then you can pick a mail client, and stick to it, gmail’s web interface be damned. =)

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