Atom Feed from Searchles Thu Aug 21 06:01:49 -0400 2008 en-us Olympics: What Winning Looks Like (pics) lesleee_999 Olympics: What Winning Looks Like (pics) The Ups and Downs of Competition lesleee_999 The recent World Yo-Yo Contest drew 196 competitors from 20 countries to compete using yesterdays forgotten up-and-down string toy. Adidas 2008 Beijing Olympics ADs [PICs] lesleee_999 Inspirational Creative Adidas Impossible Is Nothing AD campaign for 2008 Beijing Olympics. Scientists Create Universal Blood From Stem Cells g8rrrry Scientists have used embryonic stem cells to generate type O-negative blood, a rare blood type prized by doctors for its versatility. Olympic BMX Motocross obstacle course (GRAPHIC) lesleee_999 Four U.S. riders - three men, one woman - will compete in the BMX Motocross cycling events in Beijing. Riders reach speeds of 40 mph and heights of 12 to 15 feet above the big ramps. Runs last about 35 dirty seconds. This new catfood tastes like crap. phoebus__221 This new catfood tastes like crap. Deeper Beijing Pool Responsible For Tumbling Swimming Record g8rrrry Spectators at Beijings Olympic swimming pool have witnessed some outlandish goings-on over the last couple of weeks: 25 world records have fallen, compared with eight at the Athens Olympics four years ago. Seven of them were broken by one swimmer, Michael Phelps of the US. Golden Girls! A Big Day For U.S. Women lesleee_999 Shawn Johnson won the balance-beam gold Tuesday night in the final event of womens gymnastics at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Nastia Liukin took silver.This was a coronation.For American gymnastics royalty has a new power pair.Two good friends, one from Parker, Texas, near Dallas, the other from West Des Moines. The Truth About Coffee, Good For You? Bad For You? paul1e999 ...research is leaning on the side of it being good for you. It lowers the risk of Parkinsons disease and Type 2 diabetes. It mediates depression. But the benefits are dose-related. Coffee does increase your blood pressure, but only for a few minutes. LEAKED: First Shots of iPhone Nike+ Interface Makin Weve known that Nike+ has long been in development for the iPhone. Now were finally getting a peek at the first shots of the interface. From what we can skim, Nike+ users will get all of the nifty performance graphs right on the phone (before this stuff was available on the web only). But the biggest improvement may be Goggle Maps support Dells Eee-killer to ship with Ubuntu preinstalled Gambo Yoda Cat phoebus__221 You never know what kind of cat you might meet at a bar... DIY Lamborghini paul1e999 Unfortunately there isnt any information on the maker of this car, but the pictures are cool. If you cant afford a Lambo, make it youself! Checkout the rest of the photo set . . . Google Investing Over $10 Million in Geothermal Energy g8rrrry Geothermal energy has finally hit the big time. Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, announced today that it is investing $10.25 million in an energy technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). The funding will also go towards geothermal resource mapping, information tools, and a geothermal energy policy agenda. Britain Threatens to Take Fattest Children Away from Parents paul1e999 Dangerously overweight children will have to be taken from their parents and put into care because of Britains worsening obesity epidemic, council leaders have warned. One million children will be clinically obese within four years on current trends, storing up future problems from heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure and diabetes. U.S. at risk of cyberattacks, experts say Gambo UAE cities at odds over lifestyle, ties to Iran Maxx (AP) — At first, the differences between the United Arab Emirates two leading cities were merely cultural. Abu Dhabi built world-class museums as fast as Dubai put up extravagant shopping malls — one with a ski slope inside.But the healthy competition that has helped transform them into two of the Middle East's most vibrant and bustling cities has soured as the tiny emirates grow increasingly divided over their relations with two other rivals — Iran and the United States. Iran monitoring Persian Gulf movements Maxx The Iranian Navy is fully monitoring recent movements in the Persian Gulf, navy commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari has said. "All coastal movements in the region are being carefully monitored," Rear Adm. Sayyari said Sunday. Rear Adm. Sayyari also warned on Thursday that Iran's naval forces are fully equipped to defend the country's sea borders 'with all their might'. His remarks come amid reports suggesting that an armada of US and European naval vessels had been stationed in the Persian Gulf in an unprecedented build-up. Georgia: Terror fears over whereabouts of region's nuclear material Maxx Georgia's conflict with Russia has raised fresh concerns over the whereabouts of the region's nuclear material that could be used by terrorists to make a "dirty bomb". When the breakaway region of Abkhazia split from Georgia in 1993, the world's only known case of enriched uranium going missing was reported after up to 2kg of the potentially devastating material was stolen from a laboratory.There are now fears that the organised criminal gangs that are rife in the region could exploit the confusion of the current conflict to loot other stocks.Security services are worried that terrorist organisations such as al-Qa'eda could purchase weapons grade uranium and mix it with a detonator as basic as fertiliser to make a deadly device. While an estimated 15kg of uranium is needed to make a nuclear bomb just a small amount is needed for an unconventional device.