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...gauge Google's ability to weather the storms, TIME spent several days at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. It's a unique experience. Set up in 1998 in a Silicon Valley garage (O.K., that part's familiar), Google inflated with the Internet bubble and then, after everything around it collapsed, kept on inflating. Google's search engine--devised by Brin and Page when they were Ph.D. candidates at Stanford--was better than the rest and, without any marketing, spread by word of mouth from early adopters to, eventually, your grandmother. Search became Google; google became a verb...
Brin and Page's creation is a company that is quirky and practically shouts it out. The lava lamps and electric scooters that replaced the original Segways at the "Googleplex" headquarters in Mountain View have become iconic. There is also a sand-volleyball court, a pair of heated lap pools and, for some reason, a ball pit with dozens of brightly colored plastic balls, like the one you throw the kids into at Ikea. The dress code? "You have to wear something," says Schmidt. And even he can't explain the (phoneless) London-style phone booth that stands...
...could say the category's voters (316 animation professionals) were in synch with this year's overall Oscar mood: ignore the mainstream hits, and reward quality work in the little films. (Hi there, Brokeback Mountain! Bye-bye, Narnia!) But the resentment of cartoon veterans toward the CGI style that put them out of business could play a part. "A lot of animators are older, and computers have a stigma," says Tim Miller, creative director of Blur Studio, which copped a nomination last year for its short Gopher Broke. "I hate seeing political motivation influencing what's chosen." Perhaps the main...
...critical acclaim received by the movie Brokeback Mountain is well deserved [Jan. 30]. It takes a courageous filmmaker to tackle the subject of a love affair between two men. Like many, I was awed by the depth of the movie and its characters. I certainly have no problem with gay men who establish lasting relationships. But I am concerned about those who carry on homosexual affairs while married to women who have no knowledge of their husbands' extramarital activities. While many people are moved by the pain and forbidden love of the male characters in the movie, I can think...
Your story amply addressed straight people's insecurities about Brokeback Mountain, but you ought to have mentioned that the movie never would have been made without decades of equal-rights activism by gay men and lesbians. JOHN OLSKI Sturgeon...