Sport Is The School Of Rules
Class dismissed.
Cheetah Robot Runs Faster Than Usain Bolt
That’s all very well and good, of course, because it’s a robot, fer crissakes, and robots are baseline cool, but any real scientician worth his salt would be working on a robot based on a different Olympic athlete:
(With a big hello to my Frisian friends)
When I’m 90, I Plan On Going After The World Record In Keeping People Off My Lawn, Whether It’s Over Me Or Not. This Guy’s Pole Vaulting
90 year-old pole vaulter Dr. William Bell of Arkansas is the world record holder for pole vaulting in his age group. His son won an Olympic medal in the pole vault in 1984.
(Thanks to Charles Schneider for sending that along)
Dude, Your Elbows Are On Sideways And Your Alphabet Is On Backwards
“My secoud video about turnimans in Sambir(11.09.2011)
by SoN 3 days 4 hours agoI capture this video on my Casio Exilim EX-H15.
Place of events is my native town Sambir (Ukraine).”
Ah, yes — a “turnimans.” The world needs more of such turnimans, and less of the other kinds.
Synchronized swimming is an Olympic sport. So are canoeing, jumping on a trampoline, dressage, and badminton. The IOC also recognizes bridge, billiards, bocce, chess, competitive ballroom dancing, and reading a map and compass as activities that meet the definition of sports that could be included in future Olympics.
All the real sports are played informally in the playground and on the street now. If it’s organized, it’s a toddler beauty pageant of some sort, and can be safely ignored.
(thanks to Gerard at American Digest for sending that along. His alphabet is always on frontways)