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1947's Desk Of The Future

Hamilton Nolan — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:12:10 EDT

Ah, the good old days of 1947: a simpler time, when titans sat astride the corporate world, and those titans had desks appropriate to men with superhuman prestige—desks that were acknowledgments of the widespread on-the-job alcoholism that was the style at the time. Modern Mechanix digs up a Popular Science story from '47 about an executive dream desk with everything a man could possibly desire: a 'work' side with a six-tube radio, Teletalk Intercommunication Master Unit, and electronic dictaphone; and a 'play' side with a wet bar and fridge. Oddly, the personal safe is also on the 'play' side, but the cigarette lighter is on the work side. A different culture. The cost of this masterwork? "Well into the four figures." Larger image of the story, after the jump.

[via Modern Mechanix]

Google throws an open house in Santa Monica

ndouglas — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:59:23 EDT

Dust off the Gevil tees and trek to the Southern Plex. A Yahoo mail user (employee? maybe) says:

Google's Santa Monica office is having an Open House monday night! Make sure you wear your best free tech company t-shirt, and sandals with white socks. Oh, did I say that out loud?
P.S. Open bar!

An open bar on Monday night? Man, why does L.A. get all the cool Googlers?

To-Do: Drink with flacks, heckle Meebo

ndouglas — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:20:05 EDT

The Mozilla Foundation shows the best Firefox Flicks at San Fran's Kabuki Theater at 2 PM. The best grassroots ads for the indie Firefox browser will be shown — and the best of the best get prizes, including a massive three-screen monitor. [Spread Firefox]
Thursty Thursday, "the leading weekly Thursday-after-work-happy-hour-gathering-for-professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area," starts at Gordon Biersch (Embarcadero and Harrison) after work (Googlers: this does not mean 2 AM) tonight. Bring your liver.
Niall Kennedy hosts another SF Tech Sessions demo night. Meebo (use your IM accounts on the web), Userplane (chat and video chat), and Linden Lab (explore the fancy 3D world of Second Life) demo their products at Microsoft's SF office. No bar and fish tray this time, but Niall promises pizza and "soda and other fizzies." Or brown-bag it from Thursty Thursdays. [SF Tech Sessions]

Waggable: And the Polaroid wall is a Flickr screen.

ndouglas — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:34:25 EDT

Overheard by a thirsty reader:

Valleygal 1: I'm going to start a nightclub called "foo bar." It'll say "hello, world" over the door.
Valleygal 2: When you order your drink, it'll get mixed from Bangalore.
Valleygal 3: But before you get to enjoy it, Yahoo buys it.