Someone should make a Bingo card for startup office videos. Slate's tour of Xobni in downtown San Francisco would cover most of the squares:

• Dog
• Disco ball
• Pirate flag
• Exercise spheres
• Free eat-in lunch
• Costco snacks and drinks
• Ikea desks and Aeron chairs
• Founder who says "cool" nine times in three minutes
• Conspicuous daytime drinking

This clip is the first in a series, called Cubez, that attempts to make programmers' offices seem as hip and interesting as rappers' mansions. I hope they find a more outlandish workplace for the next episode. For now here's the news: Our cushy, free-snack workplaces may be boring and nearly identical to us, but they're still the envy of people who work at banks.

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