Tuesday, February 28, 2006

silly verizon dsl qualification search results

Due to recent Comcast cable modem issues, I went to Verizon's website today to check if DSL is available in my area yet. It's not, so Comcast continues to be the only broadband provider available to me.. But I thought this behavior on Verizon's site (when I searched for DSL qualification by street address) was kinda funny:

verizon dsl qualification search results

Gee, which one of the 1 (one) addresses that matched my query should I select?

Friday, February 10, 2006

Mmmmm. Glow-in-the-dark bacon.

BBC NEWS - Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs



Now if they can just do the same with chickens, the dream we've all had (c'mon, admit it!) of one day eating green eggs and ham in the dark may soon become a reality!

Monday, February 06, 2006

Super Bowl Commercials link featured on Google homepage

Oops.. Right after posting about the Super Bowl Commercials on Google Video, I happened to go to www.google.com for some other reason.

Guess what I found there.. A link to the Super Bowl Commercials on Google Video featured prominently:


I missed this when searching earlier, because I almost always use either Google Toolbar or Google Desktop to do my searches.

Super Bowl Commercials

I missed the first half of the Super Bowl last night... Didn't even TIVO it! So I was slightly bummed that I may have missed the biggest advertising event of the year . For the past few years, though, I've always been able to find them online, to see the ones I either missed or wanted to see again for whatever reason.

It seems this year, Google Video has them all in one convenient place. Thanks to Deane at Gadgetopia for pointing that out to me, before I even got around to searching for them!

Okay, I couldn't resist.. I had to see if a google search for "super bowl commercials" would bring up that as the first link. Nope! Neither did "superbowl commercials". Top results were from ifilm.com, superbowl-ads.com, yahoo.com, and aol.com. No sign of Google Video in Google search results. I even tried adding a couple different "site:" modifiers. Weird! I guess maybe it's because Google Video is still "beta", and has a separate search page.