Archive for February, 2008

Google My Maps in Alphabetical Order: Reorder Your Personal Listings Flexibly

The Google Maps discussion group is a great resource for those who need help with customizing Google Maps, troubleshooting or sharing problems, wish-lists with business listings.
One of my problems was how to put the different items on my self-made Budapest Tourist Map in alphabetical order (I did not expect not to be able to reorder […]

Google Video Ads: From Content Sites to Search Results, TV And More

Very much in the air, long awaited, Google has finally started to live experiment with Google Video ads embedded in search results in the not so new blended or universal search lists. Mind you, nobody has seen them, not even the author of the New York Times article, or the really search savvy guys on […]

Online Video Dating - Long Distance Valentines Under Magnifying Glass

Yes, there’s this term ‘tele-intimacy.’ And the equation goes like this:
Stephanie + Stephanie’s love + Stephanie’s professors at the UC Berkeley Center for New Media + other Bay Area-residents [sitting in the Berkeley lab] tele-cuddling with a long-distance partner + undetermined number of video smooches + free Valentine chocolates = a Berkeley experiment in […]

Medical DIY from Dr Carla Pugh

Somehow I like these kinds of articles, as much as I like home-made versions showing true creativity.
(worth reading the rest of this NYT article)
The human breast comes in wondrous varieties. Good luck learning that in medical school. There, students practicing on training dummies mostly encounter the same set of perky 36Bs. Many students become doctors […]