Google hopes to someday track people and their belongings with RFID microchips, top Google engineer Douglas Merrill reportedly told David Jones from the U.K.'s Daily Mail. (Merrill might use such an innovation to track his dress shirts, had he more than one.) Google has overweening ambitions, it's true. But given the source, we're not inclined to take this one particularly seriously.

Jones's article starts with a sensationalist portrait of Google's kindergarten-like campus — "a sinister and secretive commune" — and ends accusing Google of trying "to be the Internet, rather than be a part of it." So don't take the Daily Mail's Google coverage too seriously. Go there instead for the same reason we do: up-to-the-minute news on Cindy Crawford's stretch marks.

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