Looks like Mike Arrington got into a whole pile of trouble whilst I was away after shafting his web designer. Lot of coverage here, here, here, here and here.
Personally I don’t particularly dislike the design, the layout itself isn’t too bad, although I’m not a huge fan of some of the whitespace, fonts and sizing, but the fundamentals are there of a reasonably good layout. What I absolutely can not stand on the site is the Green. The Green just doesn’t work. It’s not even a solid green. Yuk.