http://juju.org/articles/2004/08/13/google-ipo-playboy-and-drag-queens-oh-my en-us 40 Sufficiently Advanced Technology <p>So, today is the day. Google starts their <a href="https://www.ipo.google.com/press-release-20040812-1.html">IPO auction</a> today. (Friday the 13th, omen?)</p> <p>There's a <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/12/2355227&amp;tid=217&amp;tid=98&amp;tid=1">controversy brewing</a> about the issue of Playboy that comes out today as well. It features an <a href="http://www.playboy.com/magazine/interview.html">interview with the creators of Google</a>. Apparently the SEC might be mad because it could break the "quiet period" companies have to go through before their IPO. Googles and Boobies, but I'm sure geeks just read it for the articles.</p> <p>And if that's not enough, <a href="http://google.blogspace.com/archives/001199">someone</a> has dug up pictures of <a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#sergey">Sergey Brin</a> (Google's Technology Co-Founder) on the <a href="http://www.archive.org/web/web.php">Wayback Machine</a> archive of his <a href="http://www-db.stanford.edu/~sergey/">website at Stanford</a> showing him <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021030152640/www-db.stanford.edu/~sergey/photos/drag96.jpg">wearing a dress</a>! And one of him <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19980418182607/www-db.stanford.edu/~sergey/photos/PebbleBeach.jpg">in a speedo</a>. What does he care? In a few weeks he'll be a billionaire.</p> <p>Thank's <a href="http://www.dvorak.org/blog/index.php?p=217">Dvorak</a>!</p> <p><b>PS:</b> Did you know Google registered the domain name <a href="http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=googleporn.com">googleporn.com</a>? Now there's a killer app!</p> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:53:38 -0400 urn:uuid:76d5a0d11825e53924df3aa9c1960254 Tony Buser http://juju.org/articles/2004/08/13/google-ipo-playboy-and-drag-queens-oh-my Misc Funny Internet http://juju.org/articles/trackback/308