These are 3 out of the 24 stunning images captured of the 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony.  The repeatition is immense.

View the rest of the 24 images @ Boston.com

A really nice look at how Architecture plays a very important role in the Olympic Games.  This series of games will be held in the Herzog and de Meuron designed "Bird Nest," its gorgeous and breaking way from conventional thought of structure and form.

View the SlideShow of "Beijing's Bird Nest" via New York Times

As typical as the Times has been over the years this story does not surprise me the least.  They constantly reveal national security secrets and cause headaches for our intelligence community.  After all the media coverage lately about interrogation tactics used by the CIA in the War on Terror, you would think that the media would have some sort of respect for the few who have remained clean during these interrogations.  I won't even say his name, but the Times revealed the name of a retired CIA interrogator who through peaceful means gathered infromation from one of the worst terrorists in our generation KSM (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed).  Over extended periods of time this agent was able to extract tons of useful information from this guy who, among his accomplishments, took part in planning September 11th, the beheading of Daniel Pearl, and countless bombings accross the arab world over the past 30 years.

The Times makes me sick.  Now this commendable agent has to live in fear the rest of his life hoping that Al Qaeda does not find him. 

I thought this picture was appropriate, got it from MichelleMalkin.com.

 

NYTIMES article

HotAir

Check this out: pictures in various cities such as Sao Paolo, Brazil (above), Caracas, Venezuela, and Dharavi, Mumbai showing the incredible divide between the rich and poor. This picture above amazes me mostly becuase of terraced balconies with swimming pools and the size of the tennis courts versus the size of one favela.

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On Morgan Spurlock's 30days he sends a layoff computer programmer to India, to reclaim his outsourced job.  It was a really nice episode showing the other side of outsourcing.

Watch the Full Episode via Tim Ferriss's Blog

 

This is a 13 room night club in Singapore with was inspired by a clinic, right down to the restaurant furniture being wheel chairs. The floor plans are shapes of prescription drugs. found via Random Good Stuff

The Clinic

Broke UK citizens have gone to drastic means to repaying their debts.  They have now team up online to sell their body parts to needy people with large bank accounts.

Some are making small fortunes by leaving their bodies permanently damaged.

A waiter revealed: “I’m ready to sell my kidney, a section of liver and maybe after three months do the cornea in my eye.  one guy has already agreed to this offer for £100,000.

Sun Online  

Gerald Ford the 38th president has passed away, he was 93. Know as the only president to not be elected as either a vice president or president he was preceded by Nixon.

 

More Information on Gerald Ford check wikipedia.