U.S. Second in Gold Medals in 2008 Beijing Olympics

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Now that the 2008 Beijing Olympics are officially over, the U.S. won more combined medals than any other country in the world. We also have won the most silver and Bronze medals in these games.

That’s right, no one in the WORLD is better at being second place. We are even the best at being second place when it comes winning gold medals. Take that.

The San Pedro Sound Machine

Last Saturday, David J of Novi Split and his new crew, The San Pedro Sound Machine - A Yacht Rock Cover Bank, had their debut performance at a Yacht Rock Party in San Pedro, CA. Here are some highlights of the evening.

Keep it smooth…

Spain’s National Basketball Teams

They are going to Beijing for the 2008 Olympics. They decided this would be appropriate as their official team photos…

Are you f**king kidding me?

Mixed Tapes are Cool Again

Remember those mix tapes your buddies use to make you? Ok, maybe if you are under 25 years old you probably haven’t even seen a cassette in real life. But take my word for it, it was cool at one point in time.

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Muxtape is bringing back some retro-chic to the online music sharing community. It allows you to make a MP3 online ‘muxtape’ up to 12 songs at 10 MBytes each. The design and execution is dead simple but some how very appealing. It looks like someone made it in their bedroom when they were grounded by their parents. Its design is also clearly Apple inspired with its iphone-esque interface but i suspect it does not work on an iphone since the music is played via a Flash media player embedded on the site.

Take a look for yourself and I’ll be waiting to hear your very own muxtape.

Google AppEngine Preview Launched

Yesterday Google launched a limited-release preview of their Web Services stack call Google AppEngine. Below are videos from their first ‘Campfire’ demostration of the product. Sounded like it was a cold night in Mountain View…