August 17, 2008 – 3:27 pm
From ESPN. (Phelps photos, slide)
Mission accomplished: Phelps earns eighth gold in medley relay.
Phenomenal Phelps wins 7th gold by 0.01 seconds to tie Spitz.
Phelps’ Miracle Finish Frame-by-Frame Underwater Photos. (Sports Illustrated)
Lezak runs down French to win 400 freestyle relay gold for U.S.
‘No way’ turns into ‘no quit’ for Jason Lezak!
Really, I thought Cavic have won the [...]
August 8, 2008 – 10:59 pm
From then82blog.
SymbianGear.com is giving out free applications during this week. For each day, one specific application can be downloaded for free. (This info is a bit late, but still have 3 more free apps from today, they are EUROPAinfo 1.0, Advanced Brain Trainer and Handy Alarm.)
TheN82blog has links to many good and free applications.
August 3, 2008 – 11:52 am
Total Solar Eclipse Images From Around The World. (Huffington Post)
Thousands of people gathered across Arctic regions, Siberia and China to see a total eclipse of the sun, despite Chinese warnings that it could augur bad luck.
People have been recording solar eclipses for perhaps 4,000 years, and they typically inspire a combination of dread, fascination and [...]
A distinguished scholar of Buddhism, Lewis Lancaster founded the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative to use the latest computer technology to map the spread of various strands of Buddhism from the distant past to the present.
In his lecture, Lewis explains the spread of Buddhism throughout the world due to the portability of Buddhism. Buddhism spreads [...]
This afternoon, I took a walk with my recently bought Nokia N82. I had already installed Nokia Sports Tracker and was eager to test it.
I created a new walking workout with autolap set to route based. Once the application starts tracking, it will record the path, location, time and number of steps I took. The [...]
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From IHT by Michael Slackman.
First, Abdel Malek Outas’s teachers taught him to write math equations in Arabic, and embrace Islam and the Arab world. Then they told him to write in Latin letters that are no longer branded unpatriotic, and open his mind to the West.
Malek is 19, and he is confused.
“When we were in [...]
From ESPN.
Tiger’s swing coach believes ‘08 Open win was Tiger’s greatest ever.
A Torrey Story: Woods’ win was greatest U.S. Open ever.
Tiger puts away Mediate on 91st hole to win U.S. Open.
Out of competition for two months because of knee surgery, Woods won the toughest test in golf.
For the second straight day, Woods came to [...]