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How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the take-a-lesson dept.

orangerobot writes "The latest issue of Fast Company has an article about how Google has managed to survive beyond its peers and develop a culture of openness and innovation. The article also mentions Google memes and spin-offs such as: Googlewhack, Googlebombing, Googleshare, Googlism and Google Smackdown."

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  1. Kara! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes please. I really would like to meet Kara and explore her office. I would also like to explore her pussy in her office.

  2. First Beaterz Comment! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Voted the official slashdot car by the majority of slashdot readers who are willing to say "screw you, ricers!" This is an american beauty.. a true luxurious ride.

  3. Re:That's because it works by Micheael+Moore · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Monday, March 17th, 2003

    George W. Bush
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
    Washington, DC
    Dear Governor Bush:

    So today is what you call "the moment of truth," the day that "France and the rest of world have to show their cards on the table." I'm glad to hear that this day has finally arrived. Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived 440 days of your lying and conniving, I wasn't sure if I could take much more. So I'm glad to hear that today is Truth Day, 'cause I got a few truths I would like to share with you:

    1. There is virtually NO ONE in America (talk radio nutters and Fox News aside) who is gung-ho to go to war. Trust me on this one. Walk out of the White House and on to any street in America and try to find five people who are PASSIONATE about wanting to kill Iraqis. YOU WON'T FIND THEM! Why? 'Cause NO Iraqis have ever come here and killed any of us! No Iraqi has even threatened to do that. You see, this is how we average Americans think: If a certain so-and-so is not perceived as a threat to our lives, then, believe it or not, we don't want to kill him! Funny how that works!
    2. The majority of Americans -- the ones who never elected you -- are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. We know what the real issues are that affect our daily lives -- and none of them begin with I or end in Q. Here's what threatens us: two and a half million jobs lost since you took office, the stock market having become a cruel joke, no one knowing if their retirement funds are going to be there, gas now costs two dollars a gallon -- the list goes on and on. Bombing Iraq will not make any of this go away. Only you need to go away for things to improve.
    3. As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world is against you, Mr. Bush. Count your fellow Americans among them.
    4. The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a SIN. The Pope! But even worse, the Dixie Chicks have now come out against you! How bad does it have to get before you realize that you are an army of one on this war? Of course, this is a war you personally won't have to fight. Just like when you went AWOL while the poor were shipped to Vietnam in your place.
    5. Of the 535 members of Congress, only ONE (Sen. Johnson of South Dakota) has an enlisted son or daughter in the armed forces! If you really want to stand up for America, please send your twin daughters over to Kuwait right now and let them don their chemical warfare suits. And let's see every member of Congress with a child of military age also sacrifice their kids for this war effort. What's that you say? You don't THINK so? Well, hey, guess what -- we don't think so either!
    6. Finally, we love France. Yes, they have pulled some royal screw-ups. Yes, some of them can be pretty damn annoying. But have you forgotten we wouldn't even have this country known as America if it weren't for the French? That it was their help in the Revolutionary War that won it for us? That it was France who gave us our Statue of Liberty, a Frenchman who built the Chevrolet, and a pair of French brothers who invented the movies? And now they are doing what only a good friend can do -- tell you the truth about yourself, straight, no b.s. Quit pissing on the French and thank them for getting it right for once. You know, you really should have traveled more (like once) before you took over. Your ignorance of the world has not only made you look stupid, it has painted you into a corner you can't get out of.

    Well, cheer up -- there IS good news. If you do go through with this war, more than likely it will be over soon because I'm guessing there aren't a lot of Iraqis willing to lay down their lives to protect Saddam Hussein. After you "win" the war, you will enjoy a huge bump in the popularity polls as everyone loves a winner -- and who doesn't like to see a good ass-whoopin' every now and then (especially when it 's some third world ass!). And just like with Afgh

  4. Re:Like my cock! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Looks like the Lockwood apologists have modded this one down. Doesn't matter. The word is out and no one will evar again trust Lockwood.

    Look at the list of people who have abandoned him:
    - Wife #1
    - Wife #2
    - Son #1
    - Son #2
    - The entire United States Army
    - Perdida
    - cyborg_monkey
    - Numerous hosting clients
    - The Illinois BBB
    - handybundler
    - l33t j03
    - Trollaxor
    - Momochrome
    - bc
    - osm
    - georgeha
    - Shoeboy

    The list grows and grows. It's like a who's who of the internet.

  5. Re:Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Of course. When there's war, there's nothing else worth talking about. Why anybody would care to hear about anything except this riviting war of Bush's is beyond me. It's unpatriotic, I tell you. We should stop talking about technology entirely and sit around the campfire telling sad stories of fallen soldiers. No, seriously, YOU get a life.

  6. 35 hours and counting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    No link between Al Qaeda and Iraq?

    Read this on "Ramzi Yousef" :

    http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=1100032 13

    ...

    Along these lines, Kuwait's file on Yousef is telling. Yousef entered the U.S. on an Iraqi passport in the name of Ramzi Yousef, but fled on a passport in the name of Mohammed's supposed nephew, Abdul Basit Karim. But Kuwait's file on Karim was tampered with. The file should contain copies of the front pages of his passport, including picture and signature. They are missing. Extraneous information was inserted--a notation that he and his family left Kuwait on Aug. 26, 1990, traveling from Kuwait to Iraq, entering Iran at Salamcheh on their way to Pakistani Baluchistan. But people do not provide authorities an itinerary when crossing a border. Moreover, there was no Kuwaiti government then. Iraq occupied Kuwait and would have had to put that information into the file.

    Karim attended college in Britain. His teachers there strongly doubted that their student was the terrorist mastermind. Most notably, Karim was short, at most 5-foot-8; Yousef is 6 feet tall. Nevertheless, Yousef's fingerprints are in Karim's file. Probably, the fingerprint card in Karim's file was switched, the original replaced by one with Yousef's prints on it. James Fox, who headed the FBI investigation into the 1993 WTC bombing, has been quoted as affirming that Iraqi involvement was the theory "accepted by most of the veteran investigators." Pakistani investigators were likewise convinced that Yousef had close links with the MKO, an anti-Iranian terrorist group run by Iraq, and conducted a bomb attack in Mashhad, Iran, in 1994.

  7. I can't believe it!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Third World War will begin in less than 48 hours and we are talking about Google!
    hell! GET SOME PRIORITIES!!

  8. Article summary reminds me of something by Raul654 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My dad has taught at a Catholic school for about 3 decades now. He's always jokingly said he should write a book on what he's seen over the years. He told me that the principal many years ago was this stoddgy old priest. One day he gave a sermon -- "Love is like a cancer - it grows and grows"

    --


    To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
    --E.C. Stanton
  9. What if Iraq HAS A-Bombs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (-1, Funny)

    1. Re:What if Iraq HAS A-Bombs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "We're going to lose this war. I figure we've been kicking people's asses for so long, it's time we got ours kicked." (Elias, Platoon)

  10. Re:Like my cock! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I guess it must be all of 2mm long by now!