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In the October issue of Wired, Steven Levy has delivered a formulaic feature on the making of Google's Chrome browser. It's just like those jargony trade-publication writeups you've read ad nauseam — but with the value-add of meeting recaps. One line makes the whole thing worth it, however, is engineer Pam Greene's retelling of a demo by colleague Darin Fisher to Sergey Brin : "Sergey was bouncing on one of those exercise balls, watching Darin give a demo, and petting the snake," according to Pam Greene, an engineer on the project. Oh, wait — it was a stuffed snake. No, that doesn't make it any better. (Illustration of Greene by Scott McCloud)