...that this makes them look like a pack of pandering moonbats, reduces their credibility and makes a portion of the population far less likely to use their services, accept their proposals or support them when politicians get around to regulating their goofy butts?

They lost me with the Veteran's Day thing...

Wow. So much sacrifice from these guys. That's much better than giving up all, or even one, of their many private jets.

Well maybe we can get their attention by going to their competition!  These idiots are only doing this because theythink there's money in it.  Just show them that the money goes to those who use their brains and not their emotions when it comes to science!

There's just something hilarious about liberals boasting that their lights are out.

Sure Lefty -- we knew that already. You don't have to make a special event to prove it.

But thanks Google for another pointless sacrifice in a cruel cruel world. And thanks for all the fish too.

Tonights code is "RU A LIGHTS OUT LIBERAL?

Can you imagine having to work at the Godawful Google? I bet you don't mention you're a conservative or a Republican in that bastion of conformity.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

So Google is going black for one hour, earth hour. How do we know? Well, as google probably hopes, hundreds of millions of computers will be fired up, sucking up otherwise unused energy to visit their homepage.

So let me get this straight. Google advertises their good faith jesture, requiring untold amounts of energy to do so, saying they are "going black" on their homepage. But for anybody who cares, they will have to use untold amounts of energy to witness what Google is doing to save the earth. Can you say paradox?

I think the whole thing is a scam.

Google users in the United States will notice today that we "turned the lights out" on the Google.com homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour.

Exactly. It is a gesture. No one's pretending that Google is accomplishing anything significant by doing this. They are, indeed, a corporation like any other. But how does participation in an innocuous and well-meaning gesture (turning lights out for a day - oh, the bias!) reveal one's political leanings per se? When Google puts four-leaf clovers in their homepage for St. Patrick's Day, does it mean they're propagandizing for Catholicism? What about their Halloween motif; does it mean they're promoting Druidism?

Your (typical) overreaction to this harmless gesture is nothing short of curmudgeonly. Imagine if a search engine did some small graphical thing to honor US soldiers last week for the 5-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion. Wouldn;t it be absurd of me to say that that site is dmeonstrating its imperialist, pro-war leanings?

As far as I'm concerned, environmentalist concerns are only politicized as leftist because conservatives have constured them as such.

Who can revolt if man has become a simple conglomerate of organs, a person barely free enough to use a remote control to choose his channel? -J. Kristeva