Month: December 2011
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Garrett Weber-Gale enjoying himself at the Next Restaurant
Food connoisseur Garrett Weber-Gale has been out visiting the Next Restaurant Chicago, ‘explorers of world cuisine’. Looks like a fun ride, with something in a cardboard box, drawing on your plate, meal packed in a WWF thermos, sweet potatoes on fire and ice to be licked off a beater. And it was great, he tweets.
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Woman allergic to water unable to cry or swim
25-year-old Katie Dell suffers from a rare disease called aquagenic urticarial that makes her skin react with pain and rashes if drenched in water. She left her job as a dance trainer because sweat causes her rashes, she has to rush her baths, cannot cry and cannot do the dishes. Living in Britain, it has…
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The Tank Bangers – Our Blue
Divers in Egypt have created this remarkable music video (and track) reflecting on the wonders of the underwater world – and how we need to support those who for for its conservation. Warning, quite graphic segment in it, with a live shark having its fins cut off before being thrown into the sea again. Buy…
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Cseh watches his loss to Phelps at the 2008 Olympics for energy
When Laszlo Cseh finds himself tired from travel or training, he cues a video of the 200-meter-butterfly final at the 2008 Olympics. Read The New York Times. “Sometimes when I go to training in the morning and I get tired or I want to sleep more and I feel I need some boost, I watch…
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Dear Jón, you can have that tattoo now !
Very internal joke, so much that he doesn’t even know about it! Got this picture from Jón before the 2011 Duel in the Pool finals this evening, and my first thought was “Jón, don’t get that tattoo!”. Reflecting on the miserable performance of the Europeans, yesterday evening. He told me that it was jet lag…
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Pál 7:36.24 and champ of the Duel in the Pool 800 free
Pál Joensen won the men’s 800 freestyle at the 2011 Duel in the Pool a minute ago, in a new Faroese and Nordic record of 7:36.24. Convincing victory too, as USA’s Michael Klueh was No. 2 in 7:39.90, and Denmark’s Mads Glæsner No. 3 in 7:42.27. Pál’s former Faroese record was from back in the…
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What, you enter the Speedo Fastskin3 through the armhole ?!?
Love it when engineers mess with our conventions (as an engineer myself :-). And by the way … this need for the model to wear an in principle illegal modesty suit to make the video ‘safe for work’, is a real and practical problem in the locker rooms! If the suits are designed to take…
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LIVE stream from Salnikov Cup on russwimming.ru
Beat that USA, the Salnikov Cup has right now been streamed live and open to all here on russwimming.ru, featuring top swimmers like Alexander Dale Oen, Cameron van der Burgh, Paul Biedermann and Britta Steffen. And will be streamed again here tomorrow at 17:00 local time, that is 13:00 GMT/UTC. See result from today’s events…