Category Archives: fun

Brazen highway robbery in Nebraska

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

You see a sign advertising gas at $3.09 a gallon. You pull in and fill up. After filling up, you realize that you were charged $3.59 a gallon for the same grade of gas. Bait and switch? Sounds like it. … Continue reading →

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Google’s $4.55 bag of cookies

Posted on August 11, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Vending machine priced by grams of fat, Google, San Jose, California.jpg, originally uploaded by gruntzooki. I was visiting my friend Adam at Google yesterday and he pointed out a vending machine in Google’s Building 43. A vending machine on the … Continue reading →

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The Barry Bonds home run premium

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Update 2: Bonds hit 756 on Aug. 7 off the Washington Nationals’ Mike Bacsik to right-center field. The ball was caught by a 22 year old from Queens, New York named Matt Murphy. He just walked up and bought a … Continue reading →

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How would you visit 171 Starbucks in one day?

Posted on July 31, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

It’s a sure sign that I’ve been spending a lot of time interviewing that when I saw the story about the guy who bought something at all 171 Starbucks in Manhattan in one day I turned it into an interview … Continue reading →

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Crying babies and cell phones

Posted on July 23, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Among the top complaints among restaurant customers are screaming babies and cell phones. Now you can combine the two. My friend Jonathan mentioned that he wanted to capture the dulcet sounds of his five month old for posterity. I suggested … Continue reading →

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Yippie-ki-yay

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

I went to see Live Free or Die Hard tonight. In addition to the pure mindless fun of two hours of chase scenes and car explosions, there’s the fun of talking about all the things that are so ridiculous afterward: … Continue reading →

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GOOG = filthy rich?

Posted on June 15, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

I came across this sponsored link when searching on Google’s ticker symbol: Today’s featured item on Woot is this USB Missile Launcher. (Sorry, it’s sold out.) I bet there are more than a few of these in the Googleplex.

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Google Street View hits The Daily Show

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Lewis Black has a hilarious rant on privacy issues of Street View from the “worldwide leader in freaking people out”. The Freakonomics blog has an interview with Google Product Manager Stephen Chau on Street View. More on: google, maps, Street View

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