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.

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Sleep Inertia May Be More Debilitating Than Sleep Deprivation

From an article on MedPage Today:

"While a sleep-deprived medical resident's cognitive impairment may be similar to that of an uncoordinated drunk, the impairment of a resident who is shaken awake from a nap may be even worse, researchers here said."

Hmm, so what does this mean for us parents who have to wake up in the middle of the night to deal with a baby? Maybe this explains why I sometimes do silly things when Nikki wakes up (like turning off my alarm clocks when she was crying this morning.. oops!).