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Who is Paul Irish, and why is it interesting that Google hired him?
Some guy. Just switched jobs. I should start a blog so I can get front-page time on HN too.
"I should start a blog ..."

But you haven't, and you won't, and that's the difference.

Now if you just put that same energy from being a snarky jerk into something useful you could have contributed to the world today.
This is exactly why I stopped posting here. I've sent an email to YDN. I'm sure they don't want this kind of representation out on the open internet.
Oh don't get your panties all in a bunch. I take it as a personal statement not as a representative of YDN. I've sent a counter email to YDN that I wasn't really all that offended.
You're just jealous that Paul Irish reads my blog. :)
Paul is a jQuery core contributor and built a few particularly notable things like Modernizr which helps you test HTML5 features which are not yet fully supported in browsers.

He also does the yayquery podcast.

Paul Irish is a major contributor to a number of OS web projects and a leading evangelist for HTML5 and CSS3. Yeah, like you said, he's a nobody.
Also an evangelist on the jQuery Team and co-host of yayquery podcast.
"Evangelist" is the new "blogger".
That mouse-tracking canvas stuff in the background of his blog is pretty cool. I didn't notice it until it tracked my mouse pointer from the text to the tab bar.
Oh, so that's why that page was burning a hole through my CPU... I could do away with "features" like these, thank you very much.
Also good for pegging one CPU, in the quad-core Linux machine I'm using (Firefox 3.5). At least it skips around the cores.

I think I'll miss Flash in the near future (especially the part of not having a Flash plug-in). I'm afraid the 'blink' tag is back, and packing some heat ...

To all the haters, paul_irish has been consistently one of the most helpful people in #jquery on freenode, and I'm so happy for him. If he's the one who's going to be writing HTML5 documentation for Chrome, then that's EXCELLENT news for developers, because I know from personal experience that he has a very friendly and intelligent way of communicating.
I wish this young chap nothing but the best, but this is really not why I visit HN.