A Bag of Marbles ⇾
There was a chunk of time in my childhood — maybe as long as two years — where every kid at school was completely focused on marbles. Having first persuaded our parents to buy us each a large bag of them, the school yard was daily transformed into a huge marble tournament.
“Funny, isn’t it? It’s a running joke that Google labels many of its services as beta (meaning in testing) and leaves that label in place for years. And here’s Buzz, a truly beta product that isn’t labeled that way.”