[2006-04-27] San Francisco Earthquake Google Maps Mashup Wow, talk about your tasteless Google Maps Mashups: [2006-04-24] Google Talk Themes Ever since the new avatar/themed version of Google Talk came out, people have been creating themes for it, many of them pretty cool. Lets try to run them down. [2006-04-23] SNL’s Google Song Most of what Saturday Night Live does lately just doesn't work (by which I mean "It isn't funny"), and this song, "Goo Goo Googling Him" is a perfect example. [2006-04-23] Google Puzzle Philipp linked to a Google sliding tile puzzle (that he may or may not have created himself). [2006-04-21] Geosense Mashup Game - Test Your Geography Skills I recently came accross this very cool game called Geosense. It's a clever, fun game that uses a map [of course] and tests your knowledge by seeing if you can locate cities in the World within 10 seconds. [2006-04-21] Google On Carpal Tunnel Syndrome... The Google blog has one of their informational posts from Doc Razavi about repititive stress injuries (RSI), better known in the office space by one type, carpal tunnel syndrome. [2006-04-20] Google Earth Updates to International Data Coverage Word on the street has it that Google has added loads of new data to the offerings available for viewing via Google Earth. [2006-04-19] Arc2Earth Eval Now Available Over at Arc2earth.com the developers of the popular translation tool have now provided a fully functional 7 day free evaluation version. [2006-04-19] Microsoft April Fools Videos Microsoft has added to its April Fools site (the one with code you can use to pull pranks, like randomly opening CD trays) some videos of MS employees having fun at the Microsoft campus. [2006-04-18] Solution To Google Da Vinci Code Quest #1 The Student Rant blog has the solution to the SuDoKu-like first puzzle in the Google / Da Vinci Code Quest game that Miel posted about. [2006-04-17] Google Challenges users with puzzles and geography Columbia Pictures and Google have created what they call a Puzzle Paradise for Game and Movie Fans Around the World. [2006-04-14] Favorite Feed Vote and Update I received an email the other day from a site called Search Engine Feeds claiming to be running a Favorite Search Engine Feeds vote for the next month or so. [2006-04-13] Joga Open To Most It appears that Google and Nike's soccer community, Joga, has been opened up to basically everyone with a Google account (although it may require an Orkut login, not sure). [2006-04-10] AOL, Google Slammed In Dodgeball Tournament The First Annual World Wide Web Invitational Dodgeball Tournament was held over the weekened at Chelsea Piers, and MSN trounced competitors from Google and AOL, as well as The Happy Corp, Flavorpill.net and Root.net. [2006-04-10] ABC Goes to Time-Shifting The big announcement today was ... ABC is unveiling the new ABC.com to showcase the new theatre that will allow viewers to see certain ABC shows immediately the next day. That, in a way, is cool. [2006-04-06] Yahoo Site Explorer Firefox Extension Thomas here and I just wanted to let you all know that I've released a Firefox extension called yExplore to quickly access the Yahoo Site Explorer. [2006-04-06] Straight Up Site of Interest for RSS Feed Creation It's time once again for another installment of everyone's favorite, our Straight Up Site of Interest. [2006-04-03] Google Talk Smilies Roundup If you're running the latest "leaked" version of Google Talk, the one with chat avatars, then Customize Talk has a full list of the new features, including all the smilies/emoticons in this version. [2006-04-03] Clooney at War With Gawker/Google Maps Mashup Okay, even Gawker admits this could be phony, but it has to get written up: The New York Post's Page Six says George Clooney is trying to destroy Gawker Stalker by spamming the system. [2006-04-01] Google April Fools Matt Cutts leaves Google for Yahoo - Matt Cutts Blog