Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Um, has anyone else noticed that Google's gone Saussurean?
This has been happening for weeks now, but it remains irreconcilable with anything decent or holy, and I fear just by talking about it I will be struck down. Anyways, go to any site that uses Google's spell-checker (gmail, blogger, etc.). Spell a world correctly, then right-click on the word. No matter what word you choose, you will see the following suggestions:
Signifies
Signifier
Signifier s
WTFWTFWTFOMFG!? I'm not sure what's the scarier possibility: that this "bug" (easter egg?) has been happening to every Google user and no one has noticed it, or that it's only happening to me (on multiple computers, no less). I repeat: WTFWTFWTFOMFG.
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Creeping through Fark and Gawker, I happened upon All the Sad Young Gossip Girls, attributed to one Jonathan Liu. "Could it possibly be?" I asked myself, then took note of the erudite wordplay, the keen eye for layout, even a paortion of justified text that reminded me of a particular short story, "Justified," which if you are who I think you are you know had perfectly justified margins without word-processing assistance. ARE you who I think you are? Please drop me a line at my gmail. If not, sorry for the bother. Nice pair of blogs you got here.
God is trying to tell you something.
But what's the significance?!
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