This is nothing compared to what you have to be prepared for if you want to go from Stanford to Stockholm -- Google recommends to "swim across the Atlantic Ocean" (only 3,462 miles).
Most of these technical glitches were fixed by the Google Maps team soon after they were reported by bloggers.
At the end of the video, you can see how a 2-year-old handles a 3-year-old heckler who calls her "a baby." "I'm not a baby, I'm a human."
By the way, if you type the phrase "I am human" in Google, the cold mathematical algorithm offers the suggestion: "i am human and i need to be loved" (see the screenshot below). Isn't this something?
"The Office" spoof (15 minutes), acted out by actual dental students from Loma Linda University for a class talent show. They own.
This is part II:
This is the sequel to the original "The Clinic" video. These videos were produced for a dental school talent show. For more videos, visit www.funnytooth.com.
After the general Web 2.0 song became a YouTube sensation, now we have songs about specific web services like Digg.com (see the second video below). What is next -- a song about Dissect Medicine or Grand Rounds?
Web 2.0: Here Comes Another Bubble
Digg Song
Kina Grannis created the “Digg Song” and became an almost instant viral success, so much so that a record company has been in touch with her. Link via Dr Shock MD PhD. Song chorus:
"Gotta digg, gotta digg, gotta digg Gotta make this story big!"
I have not heard about the "Diagnosis Wenckebach" singers being offered a record deal yet. Strange...
A spoof of Justin Timberlake's song done by the University of Alberta 2010 medicine class.Wenckebach is a cardiac arrhythmia -- type 1 second degree AV block, also known as Mobitz I, as they clearly explain in the clip.
This video seems to be quite a hit I was unaware of until our hospital medicine fellow told us today.
EKG of Second Degree Type 1 AV Block, Mobitz I, Wenckebach.
Second degree AV block is characterized by a failure of one or more atrial impulses to reach the ventricles. Type I second degree AV block, or Wenckebach, requires prolongation of the PR interval prior to the blocked impulse with subsequent shortening of the PR interval with the next conducted impulse. On the ECG, the R-R interval progressively shortens up to the point of the blocked ventricular impulse. This occurs because the largest increment in the PR interval occurs between the first and second cycle. The site of block in Type I second degree AV block is the AV node. This conduction disturbance most often is physiologic and seen with high vagal tone and during sleep. Pacing is rarely indicated. Image source: AskDrWiki, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
The type of AV block described above was named after Karel Frederik Wenckebach, a Dutch-born Austrian internist, (1864- 1940). In 1899 he provided a description of irregular pulses due to partial blockage of AV conduction which created a progressive lengthening of conduction time. This condition was referred to as a "second degree AV block" (Mobitz Type I), and later named the Wenckebach phenomenon. Source: Wikipedia.
Dr. Wenckebach wrote in the Lancet: "I owe my reputation to the fact that I use digitalis in doses the text books say are dangerous and in cases that the text book say are unsuitable." Source: WhoNamedIt.com.
Web 2.0: Here Comes Another Bubble, version 1.1. Song by Matt Hempey based on Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire. Link via Google Blogoscoped.
Will something similar happen to the medical Web 2.0? Will doctors, nurses and patients tire of writing and reading blogs? Will physicians forget the last time they logged in Sermo and the other social networks? Will medical students delete the NEJM and JAMA podcasts and listen to music only? Only time will tell.
From Gadling travel blog: The American Idol finalist Kellie Pickler "appeared on US television game show "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader" and was asked what country Budapest was the capital of. She had never even heard of Hungary, and she thought Europe was a country."
Here is one of the responses to the video on YouTube: "I'm from Budapest, Hungary, yet I don't feel offended by the lady's ignorance. Why on earth should she have known? What I think she should have known, however, is the fact that Europe is a continent rather than a country. A continent that has had separate countries for at least 2,000 years, including 1,100-year-old Hungary. A country where people are not normally hungry."
Ms. Pickler donated the money she won from the competition to charity.
By the way, I was lucky to visit Hungary in the 1980s and I agree with the general opinion that Budapest is of one the most beautiful capital cities in the world. It is actually 2 cities -- Buda and Pest divided by the Danube river.
May be Berci Mesko of ScienceRoll, who is Hungarian, will have something more to add.
Douweosinga.com (whatever the name means) offers an easy way to create a map of the states and countries you have visited -- see an example here.
According to some ratings, HealthBolt is the most popular health-related blog and this may be well-deserved if they keep discovering videos like the one below:
An elderly lady loses her dentures while sky-diving
It is somewhat striking to see a list of several PubMed articles with roughly 600 co-authors under each of them. ScienceRoll suspected that the first author (Aubert B.) must have a lot of friends and asked for an explanation. Here it is.
The last name in the author list is "BABAR Collaboration." A Google search shows that "BABAR is a High Energy Physics experiment located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, near Stanford University, in California. The goal of the experiment is to study the violation of charge and parity (CP) symmetry in the decays of B mesons." According to Wikipedia, a meson is a strongly interacting boson, that is, it is a hadron with integral spin. I hope this makes it clearer :)
The BABAR Collaboration consists of approximately 600 physicists and engineers from 75 institutions in 10 countries. This can probably explain the 600 co-authors.
Chocolate Rain has been viewed 2,580,00 times on YouTube as of today. Tay has a new song called Internet Dream that many bloggers may identify themselves with:
"So every day I'm gonna go to bed at like eleven. And all of a sudden its 4AM . . . And I was just watching Youtube and reading Wikipedia for five hours."
This funny Norwegian video shows how a Medieval helpdesk solved usability problems with the cutting edge technology at the time... the book. The official version of the video uploaded by the Norwegian Broadcasting company (NRK) can also be found on YouTube.
For all of us who have used modern-day IT helpdesks or have helped others with technical problems -- it is comforting to see how few things have changed over the ages... If you still have the courage to try something new, check out the top 10 tips on using Web 2.0 in Medicine collected by ScienceRoll.
YouTube labs test site, called TestTube, has a new feature: AudioSwap lets you replace the audio in your video with audio provided by YouTube. According to YouTube: "We've made arrangements with artists and record labels so that you can add their songs to your YouTube videos. You get a cool soundtrack, the artists get attribution on your video, and everyone wins! We'll be adding more artists and songs as the feature develops, so check back for your favorite bands and singers."
It works pretty well as you can see in my video of the huge rhino at San Diego Zoo accompanied by the tune of:
"You must have been a beautiful baby You must have been a wonderful child 'Cause baby look at you now."
Indian Rhino at San Diego Zoo
Google aims at hosting most user-created content on YouTube rather than Google Video and we will likely see more features added to YouTube in the future. Is seems like Google Video will work mostly as search engine rather than a host site. Of course, in the case of a rapidly growing company like Google, this arrangement could change at any time.
A bug in Google Maps directed a driver to make more than 200 U-turns in order to get from Pennsylvania to New Jersey (click the image on the right). Google quickly fixed the error and now the same search points to the correct driving directions.
200 U-turns?! That driver's head is still spinning...
In both real and online world, a reality check is always a good idea.
"So, now I take my seb keratoses off while they are still small with my fingernails, usually the one on the third finger of my right hand. Am I kidding you? No."
