Google Cells

Via Slashdot. BusinessWeek has a nice write up on how Google is poised to organize the globe. What the article makes clear is that a company whose mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" has a lot of work on its hands.

Describing the eclectic mix of Google services, the article describes the company as:

being built entirely of stem cells: able to grow and develop into whatever form it sees fit.

It's a good metaphor as stem cells inevitably lead down a slippery slope to cloning. Just take a look at all the Google spin- offs out there. (This one is not much of a hack, but touchingly hilarious.