[CharlesS]

http://www.google.com/googlegulp/

Check out the FAQ section. Hilarious.

[badidea]

So who does not have a Google Gulp bottle cap yet?

I accept AMEX, Mastercard, VISA and Paypal...

[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by badidea:
So who does not have a Google Gulp bottle cap yet?

I accept AMEX, Mastercard, VISA and Paypal...

better get that going fast, eventually you wont even be able to give them away

-Owl

[tikki]

It's good to know that at least some big companies still have a sense of humor all of their own.

[E's Lil Theorem]

From the FAQ:

11. When will you take Google Gulp out of beta?


Man, if you pressure us, you just drive us away. We'll commit when we're ready, okay? Besides, what's so great about taking things out of beta? It ruins all the romance, the challenge, the possibilities, the right to explore. Carpe diem, ya know? Maybe we're jaded, but we've seen all these other companies leap headlong into 1.0, thinking their product is exactly what they've been dreaming of all their lives, that everything is perfect and hunky-dory – and the next thing you know some vanilla copycat release from Redmond is kicking their butt, the Board is holding emergency meetings and the CEO is on CNBC blathering sweatily about "a new direction" and "getting back to basics." No thanks, man. We like our freedom.

[malvolio]

I find this definitely reassuring:

Google Gulp and Your Privacy
From time to time, in order to improve Google Gulp's usefulness for our users, Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your usage of this product from a wireless transmitter embedded in the base of your Google Gulp bottle to the GulpPlex™, a heavily guarded, massively parallel server farm whose location is known only to Eric Schmidt, who carries its GPS coordinates on a 64-bit-encrypted smart card locked in a stainless-steel briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist. No personally identifiable information of any kind related to your consumption of Google Gulp or any other current or future Google Foods product will ever be given, sold, bartered, auctioned off, tossed into a late-night poker pot, or otherwise transferred in any way to any untrustworthy third party, ever, we swear. See our Privacy Policy.

[CharlesS]

I laughed at this:

2. Wait – you're saying Auto-Drink™ changes my brain chemistry?


Um, yeah – but for the better.


3. Isn't that kind of dangerous?


Well, none of the lab rats who've been pounding this stuff for the past eight months have keeled over yet, which we find fairly reassuring. At any rate, you should be aware that by popping the seal on the twist-off Gulp cap, you send a wireless signal to Google's servers indicating your irrevocable acceptance of the Google Gulp Terms and Conditions, which do include the possibility, however remote, of hideous genetic mutation resulting from your consumption of this product. We're pretty sure you won't die, though.


4. What if I don't want to use Auto-Drink™?


No problem – simply turn off Auto-Drink™ on your Google Gulp preferences page.


5. Well, shouldn't Auto-Drink™ be default-off?


You mean we should cripple a perfectly useful feature just because of a little bad PR?


6. Yes.


Okay.