Archive for August, 2008
Something I didn’t know: Why divers shower right after dive!?
I’ve always wondered why divers shower right after their dive, and thought it was because they want to keep warm or rinse of the cholorine. After reading Yahoo’s news, I found out that my first guess was half accurate.
Yes, they do rinse to warm up! But why? well, the reason is to keep their muscles [...]
NBC covers Olympics never like before
I was impressed to see how NBC is covering the Olympics 2008 from TV to the Internet. Well, since I am Internet guy, let’s ignore its TV coverage and concentrate on it’s Internet part.
NBC is running an unprecedented 3,600 hours of Olympics coverage on the Internet, which most of it is “live” online — letting [...]
Google vs. Baidu: Google now offers free music search in China
This is getting interesting. Google announced recently that is has launched a free music search service in China which gives users the ability to download actual songs for “free”.
Basically, this service would let users search hundreds of thousands of songs if not all chinese songs ever made by singer or song title on Google’s site. [...]