Aug
23rd
Sat
23rd
Rhymes with Girl, Eh?
Aug
11th
Mon
11th
Martha Stewart is a Genius. A Comedy Genius.
Whatever, Martha! will debut Sept. 16 at 9 p.m. (EST)/6 p.m. (PST)
on the Fine Living Network
Aug
10th
Sun
10th
Olympics Gold Medalist manicure!!!! Hahahahaahahaha!!!!
In case you were wondering why the fencer's helmet was blinking
In modern competitive fencing ‘electric’ weapons are used. These have a push-button on the point of the blade, which allows hits to be registered by the electronic scoring apparatus. In order to register, the button must be depressed with a force of at least 4.90 newtons (500 grams-force) for at least 15 milliseconds with 3 significant figures of accuracy. Fencers wear conductive (lamé) jackets covering their target area, which allow the scoring apparatus to differentiate between on- and off-target hits.
The central unit of the scoring system is commonly known as “the box.” In the simplest version both fencers’ weapons are connected to the box via long retractable cables. The box normally carries a set of lights to signal when a touch has been made. (Larger peripheral lights are also often used.) In foil and sabre, because of the need to distinguish on-target hits from off-target ones, special conductive clothing and wires must be worn. This includes a lamé (a jacket with metal threads woven in), a body cord to connect the weapon to the system, a reel of retractable cable that connects to the scoring box and, in the case of sabre, a conducting mask and cuff (manchette) as the head and arms are valid target areas.
Electronic scoring is used in all major national and international, and most local, competitions. At Olympic level, it was first introduced to épée in 1936, to foil in 1956, and to sabre in 1988.
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Also, they’re Yelling to let the crowd and the judges know that they’re claiming the touch, and also to pump themselves up for the match. Even though they have electronic scoring, there is extensive use of video replays to verify points and settle challenges.
The US Women’s Fencing team Swept the podium!!!
Way to Go Anjelica Ward! Razor Finish for the bronze!
I heart the the olympics. So much trivia and blinking stuff!!!
Photo Credit: DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images
The Olympics opening ceremony from Beijing was pretty amazing. I totally DVRed it if you want to watch the highlights. Because I’m a dork.
- The ceremony was directed by Zhang Yimo. Totally Cinematic. The coordination of the performers was impeccable.
- Can we talk about the LED screenage? AMAZING, Right?! The Digital Signage Revolution is NOW people!!!
- The stadium sized flexible LED Scroll Screen medium impressive than the content on the screens. it must be insane to do motion graphics for a screen that size, but it could have been more awesome (it was still pretty great though)
- The black LED suits that i posted earlier this week were replaced last minute by some electric banana colored suits. HOW CAN I GET ONE OF THE ORIGIONAL BLACK ONES?!?!
- Go Jasikavicious i!!!
- Gabon has a president for life entering his 41 year of rule, and has offered any medalist “a dream house and untold riches.” There has never been a medalist from Gabon.
- So many shots of an athletes holding digital cameras! I would LOVE to see an infographic with make & model info of all the cameras athletes were carrying. I am sure that no one captured this data.
- President Bush is a tool.
- the stamp-pad foot print thing that all the athletes are walking across? AWESOME.
- El Salvador chose it’s flag bearer by Text message vote. Awesome!
- Yo what up Slovenia! Nice outfits! Cameroon, also looking fly! It must be so awesome to hang out in the Olympic village…
- lots of good commercials. I liked this Nike Ad
- Does anyone know a place that I could pay to have myself rigged up on some of those flying-in-the-air stage ropes?
- The torch cauldron- AWESOME.
- The Fireworks display at the end? UNBELEVABLE! I can’t believe NBC went to commercial. :(
- From Mashable: 18 Smaller countries to Root for. My Money is on Niger in Taekwondo!
Aug
8th
Fri
8th
Just saw this XKCD comic; reminded me of a quote Mike Arauz Twittered recently: “we regret the things we don’t do. not the things we do.”A reminder. You should do it. Whatever it is.
Aug
6th
Wed
6th
The Diddest Nailz Ever!!!
Aug
5th
Tue
5th
OMG You guys! It’s Michael from the wire!!!
He’s TOTALLY Fine, and after he left Baltimore he moved to Beverly Hills, and he hangs out in a SWIMMING POOL made out of his zip code!!!
P.S. Bug is fine too!