The Wall Street Journal (subscription-required) has an hilarious story this morning about Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page squabbling over the size of their beds on a Boeing 767 they were having turned into a “party airplane.”  Seems Sergey wanted a “California king” and Larry didn’t–a dispute that had to be arbitrated by CEO Eric Schmidt (a guy who, if I’m remembering correctly was one of the earliest and most fervent Internet skeptics).  Schmidt decreed  that Sergey and Larry could choose whatever beds they wanted for their individual rooms and it was time to move on.  The designer hired to renovate the plane says there were also some other “strange” requests, i.e., hammocks hung from the ceiling of the plane.  A Boeing 767 is three times as heavy as the normal corporate jet and about ten times as expensive to fly.  Not surprisingly, the whole boondoggle is now tied up in lawsuits. 

Also at my other blog:  Practical Widgets