New Look for GMail blog

I would really like at least _some_ part of the Internet to remain a collection of documents, and not a framework-based application.

I tried all the layouts and can't get my head around them.. except for the 'sidebar' view, they all feel like Flash websites from 2005

Some of these designs look very nice. Some others made my brain hurt as I couldn't figure out how the data was structured. They may not work for the gmail blog, but they may be perfect for certain "tumblresque" blogs.