Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will be allowed to compete for a spot on the South African Olympic team after a sport regulatory body ruled today that his carbon-fiber prosthetic limbs do not give him an advantage over other runners.

Coincidentally, I had a conversation about Oscar recently. I'm very interested to see how he performs.
Now I have an easy way to put a personal note into the page, or more commonly, a personal thought regarding a posted link.

I hope you like the new change to the top image. I like how they look and you see more than one image initially; which I like.

Some of the ballsiest and outright insane cheats throughout sporting history.

A brilliant graffiti-animation

. . . which must have taken ages

A man from NYC is suing JetBlue for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.

Mother's Day draws a crowd in the home of an Arkansas woman -- she is pregnant with her 18th child.

The best comment I read about this was:
"It's a vagina, not a clown car".

Nicole Lilliman, 27, was fired yesterday from her Tim Hortons job for giving one of the 16-cent blobs of fried dough to a tot.

This Week in Photography (TWiP) is a great photography podcast that I've been listening to for a while. Once a week they have an hour audio podcast and once in a while they'll post a video podcast with a tutorial or, my favorite, a look at one of the host's gear.

Amazing Choreographed Fight Scene

Wesley Snipes was sentenced to a maximum of three years in federal prison on Thursday for three misdemeanor convictions of failure to file his income taxes.