• Still need a Google Press Day invitation.

This guest report comes from a Google tourist — not the boring kind surfing Google Earth, but the lucky folks who drop in on the Plex. A reader comes back from Mountain View glowing with the Glory of the Presence. No photos, sadly — "And dang it my cell phone was dead (i'm surprised it wasn't detected and then dynamically charged)."

Everything's slick at Google's HQ — even the bathrooms are "specially outfitted." This camphone shot from a reader shows the controls for Google's washlets. I'm told that only women can fully appreciate the danger of playing with these buttons.

Someone with a friend in Google HR says:

Search Engine Journal editor Loren Baker pointed me to his photos from Google Tokyo. Above, the requisite shot of the snack room. Below, a close-up of that pinnacle of Japanese sales innovation, the vending machine:

I hope what's behind this sign: