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Topic of the Day (Friday, 29 August 2008): olympics

..., and they are bleakly ethereal, like the movie Blade Runner relit by the people who did the closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. More here....
...g the route. (More photos here.)Many countries are offering money and incentives to their athletes for winning medals at the Olympics. The Dominican Republic is no exception. Felix Diaz is reportedly getting RD$5,000,000 pesos ($150,000 U.S.), an apar...
My first post about China is up on Tonic (my alterno-blog). I have never written a travelogue before, so I hope it isn't way boring. I have an entry that is all about mocking fellow airline passengers. I wrote it with a PEN! and PAPER! That is com...
We try hard to create awesome company-wide contests and events. For example, our June contest, the JobDig Summer Olympics, chronicled here as the Best Sales Contest Ever, was such an event…well-planned, executed, and a ton of fun. It was enor...
We try hard to create awesome company-wide contests and events. For example, our June contest, the JobDig Summer Olympics, chronicled here as the Best Sales Contest Ever, was such an event…well-planned, executed, and a ton of fun. It was enor...
We try hard to create awesome company-wide contests and events. For example, our June contest, the JobDig Summer Olympics, chronicled here as the Best Sales Contest Ever, was such an event…well-planned, executed, and a ton of fun. It was enor...
I love attending church on Sunday.       The topics today in the meetings seemed to float around the word faith, something which I have found myself thinking about a great deal this past week.     The Olympics are officially over.    Lynn and...
...and the handover to London for 2012, I can't help but agree with Billy Connolly.I'm kind of undecided in what I think of the handover performance from London. It would have been nicer if they'd used a traditional routemaster bus, but I'...
Image by rich115 via Flickr So thats it for another four years. Boris has got the flag, the flame is out in Beijing and television schedules will return to normality. The 204 competing nations will go home - 81 with at least one medal. Was it all worth i...
NBC totally blew the Olympics. A world-wide event. One of the last global touchstone events left and NBC treated it as some sort of private party. There was no reason not to stream every event live online. CBS had already shown everyone how to handle big...
Watch the record breakers of this Beijing Olympics 2008. Michael Phelps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emzsB1b2cWw Usain Bolt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeJ-6TlgQFg Tags: usain, bolt,, michael, phelps,, olympics, china,, beijing, 2008,, games, me...
Many of you would have noticed Google’s new set of logos for the ongoing Beijing Olympics 2008. These logos are created by Dennis Hwang, a young talented graphic artist.23rd August 08 - Baseball22nd August 08 - Martial Arts 21st August 08 - High Jump20t...
Man, I know I have written about this particular moment once before, but I’ll be darned if I can’t find it.  I was searching for it today because I was watching the Olympics today, daydreaming, and suddenly I was reliving the moment.  It is,...
What a wonderful sight for Indian sport. Finally a presence at the Bejing Olympics that we can be proud of1. Virdhawal Khade - swimming2. Saina Nehwal - slowly progressing along - defeated the 4th seed today3. Bajranglal Takhar - 5th place in the Men'...
Will The Philippine Team strike gold this time in the Beijing Olympics? Hopefully, luck will smile on us this time, considering that the last time the country won a medal was in 1996, in Atlanta, when Manuel Velasco won the silver in boxing during a very ...
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