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The Freakonomics Guys + Google = Lots of happy, happy geeks

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By Rachel

The Freakonomics Steves – of bestselling book, NYT mag column, and adorable toes – visited Google and guest-blogged about it on the Google Blog, which incidentally is an interesting combination of words which can theoretically serve as adjective-noun, noun-noun, or verb-verb. Fun with grammar! The Steves (aka Dubner and Levitt) seemed to have fun, enjoying the Googly hospitality and even Googlier toilets. Some interesting tidbits to be gleaned from their post:

  • Freakonomics might be turned into a board game
  • If you invite the Steves to something a few weeks away, invariably they will commit to attending
  • They might not, however, be on time
  • The Steves can tell a fancy yurt from an average run-of-the-mill yurt
  • The Googlers can tell a fancy talk from an average run-of-the-mill talk, and came out in droves (doubling the Yahoo! turnout)
  • Google headquarters sounds very, very creepy: rows and rows and...
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