Google Preparing To Launch G-Town

theodp writes "The Mercury News reports that Google's aggressive online growth increasingly has a counterpart in bricks and mortar, with the company's Mountain View HQ mushrooming in the past four years to occupy more than 4 million square feet. And that's just for starters. On Silicon Valley's NASA Ames base, Google is preparing to build a new corporate campus with fitness and day care facilities and — in a first in the valley — employee housing, adding 1.2 million sqare feet to Google's real estate holdings. 'I don't want to say it's the new company town,' said commercial real estate VP Gregory M. Davies of Google's role, 'but it's not far from it.' Presumably, no anti-suicide nets will be needed for this one."

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Completely Off Topic Question

[coaxial]

Why are you using a url shortener in a non-twitter-like environment? You could have just copied the URL, just like any other URL instead of passing it through Google, so they'd get click tracking.

Re:Where World's Collide

[TheRaven64]

A tar baby is a baby made of tar, from the stories of Uncle Remus. In the story, Br'er Fox created one and persuaded Br'er Rabbit to fight it. The result was that Br'er Rabbit becomes hopelessly stuck to the tar baby and is caught. He escapes by using reverse psychology to persuade Br'er Fox to throw him in the brier patch.

It's been an idiom for a sticky situation for most of a century. The fact that some hypersensitive people choose to take offence at it is no reason to stop using it.