Things seem to be stirring up around previously-linked Doug Bowman’s departure from Google, and there seems to be a bit of a designer exodus from the Google fanboy-wagon. Joe Clark:

Google, I correctly contend, is overrun with unsocialized Aspergerian math guys who think anything to do with visual design (or, for that matter, accommodating cripples) just does not compute…

Two bull-headed communities — the Googleplex and the standards-minded design community, both with laserlike focus in their own ways — seem to be coming to a bit of a head here.