Lightning strikes twice

They say, lightning never strikes twice at the same place. The Bird's nest in Beijing begs to differ as a second bolt struck tonight.

A little while ago I made a not so good critique of the opening ceremony. The ceremony might have lacked energy but the Games sure didn't. The tumbling of records by Phelps and Bolt have truly made this edition the most spectacular ever.

Add in a dash of patriotism in Bindra's Gold and Sushil's Bronze and you have a recipe of pure joy to the Indian Sports fan.

Wishing lots of luck to the India boxers. Picture abhi baaki hai.

Mashup feeds

I subscribe a lot of feeds on google reader and sometimes the number of feeds feels overwhelming. Thus, in my attempt to organise my feeds I have come up with a couple of mashup feeds. Feel free to use them. I might come up with some more categorized feeds in the future so bookmark this post to find the edits.

Harsha's comic feed (Abstruce Goose, Dilbert, Cyanide and Happiness, PHD comics, POPsickleSTRIP, The Perry Bible Fellowship, We The Robots, xkcd) :
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=oMdvrZRm3RGjwSX9_w6H4A&_render=rss

Harsha's Quiz feed (Daly Haal, QFI , Keep Guessing, Quintessential Theory and more..):
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=Zk0kmKRm3RGBu9VFQBJ3AQ&_render=rss

Use any rss reader to subscribe and let me know some good blogs/feeds that I might have missed.

ps : the string "feed" occurs 11 times in this post

GoogleWhack

It has just come to my attention that I am a Googlewhack. :-) :-) and several more smilies.
The search string is "hex$adeca$phobia chl$orofluor$ocar$bon" (without the quotes, of course.. duh.. and more duhs).
This is Flying spaghetti Monster fantabulous.

ps : For those who don't know what a googlewhack is..
A Googlewhack is a Google search query consisting of two words, that returns a single result.

pps: Ignore the $'s in the string

Up on cloud number 9,999

Pic taken from a recent trip to Ooty. The most beautiful sight I have seen in a long time.
Find more here.

SuperSafin

Wow!! Safin is on a roll at Wimbledon right now and I am very very pleased. I wanted to write a lengthy article on him but decided against doing that due to the fear of jinxing his progress.

However, I had to post this amazing pic. For anybody out there who thinks Safin is not commited to Tennis anymore, see this.