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by rhizome 5629 days ago
The front page design makes me think that they're going for some whitespace, but that you really can't click on the page without clicking on something. A blurring between ads and content that makes it more likely to accidentally click an ad, and that every click on a page should result in a pageload of some sort, even if the user was intending to click a blank area.

It's like 'horror vacui'[1] applied to web development.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_vacui