Gmail is the best thing ever. Remember when you had to pay for email? That sucked. Gmail changed that and most of you know that the dumb stuff you email back and forth really gives rise to no privacy issues even if Google turned out to be like the bad guys in The Matrix like you all thought it would. But fear not. Fear not and put on your pre-"Tonight's The Night" Rod Stewart lps because Google has reminded me of 1974: shag carpets, Mopar cars and that Houston Astros uniform.
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Ben (The Tiger) - November 19, 2008 11:46 pm
Mountains.
Or oceans.
Mind you, I had a go at that orange one for the sake of the old school...
Jay Currie - November 20, 2008 3:59 am
Minimal, greys and easy on the eyes...but you can change them according to mood.
David Janes - November 20, 2008 8:31 am
I'm with Jay - minimal greys for me too.
I'm reconsidering whether I want my entire life stored on Google though. Introducing Gmail was very clever, 50x the storage of Yahoo & MS, free, no ads, spam blocking. And it's almost a roach motel - the barrier to leaving once you're in is very very high.
Mike C - November 20, 2008 9:15 am
That Astros jersey is Classic. I think I had jammies like that Padres uniform.
What gives, I don't have a Themes tab on my gmail settings.
Is Vernor Vinge effecting your Google views David? 8-)
Renee - November 20, 2008 9:41 am
I have the one that is NASA-ish, a globe and a band of light follows the sun. So that I always know when it's dark out.
sean - November 20, 2008 10:29 am
I'm still a dinosaur of sorts using an offline mail reader (THunderbird) but I like to think I am a space age dinosaur because my MOZILLA powered THUNDERBIRD sucks all my email from all my yahoo and sympatiblow addresses into its powerful space aged system and allows me to read, edit, respond and attach on my desktop when not online. I log bak in (I am on dialup of course being in the sticks) and zip.. out goes all my mail, secure and happy.
I do like the gmail orange and black scheme thouth. Very halloweeny.
David Janes - November 20, 2008 10:47 am
Well, if you follow _Rainbows End_ theory, we're not going to have a choice whether we have our data exposed or not ;-) If I had gigabyte internet connections to home I'd think about managing everything myself, encypting the data and backing it up elsewhere. Hmm. Sounds like a lot of work tho.
I tried the Ninja theme for a few seconds - the "mark" stars become little shurikens. Very cute.
Alan - November 20, 2008 11:09 am
I have turned 180 on the privacy thing after I realized I really have nothing placed in the digital world that I control worthy of protecting. That being said, I am careful not to reference things worth data mining and I do obfuscate as much as possible to confuse those who would data mine.