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Before I forget. Perhaps I'll manage to find something more interesting this year.
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Year: 2008
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'I remember seeing a chart about a decade ago that illustrated how dominant Johnson’s record is, and I’ve recreated it here. This chart shows the twenty fastest 200m marks of all time. Each row represents a hundredth of a second.'
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Just as a matter of record
As of close of play today, Great Britain is third on the Olympic medal table. It’s like, it gives you a warm glow, innit.
» The advert for Olympic Cycles of Wolverhampton is from the Evanion Collection of Ephemera at the British Library.
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'Even some of our more intelligent commentators have convinced themselves that Sir Steve Redgrave is the greatest living Olympian for winning five successive golds in rowing, not seeming to realise that the sport is so elitist that it is virtually nonexistent across much of the planet.'
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via Daring Fireball: 'We present a framework for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using a few photographs of the same scene. For example, our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the video … quickly modify the video by editing only a few still images of the scene … remove unwanted objects and camera shake from the video.' Watch the whole demo video, it's amazing.
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More Olympiana
Watching someone put on a burst of pace at the end of a fast 10000m is one of the best sights in sport. Amazing stuff from Tirunesh Dibaba.
And so much more exciting to watch than the sprinters.
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'A penguin who is a Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army is set to be bestowed with a new military honour.'