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I received a downright insane number of entries for this week’s Photoshop Contest. Apparently, you folks really had an itching to bastardize the precious Olympic Games. Nearly every event got its due, and we have some pretty amazing images. Hit the jump for your top three winners and then marvel at the humungous Gallery of [...]

By Jim Maceda, NBC News Correspondent
How remote is the former Soviet republic of Georgia to most Americans?
Here’s one measure: I recently received an e-mail from a viewer wondering if this Georgia was where our Georgians (as in our Carolinans or our Virginians) originally came from.
Silly, perhaps, but the comment raises a serious concern. It’s [...]

It’s no small secret that Lego holds a spot near and dear to many an editor here at Gizmodo, and if you somehow managed to combine those little blocks with Star Wars and the 2008 Summer Olympics (concluding today), well, you’d have our attention faster than it takes to pull the legs off a minifig. [...]

Track and Field athletes will probably roll their eyes at me for this one, but still I have to say I was amazed to see this little four-wheeled RC car scurrying across the field last night during the men’s 5,000 meter race carrying javelins, and dammit, I wanted to write about it. After a little [...]

It is still possible to order a meal of cooked dog in China, I am told, but a true aficionado will only eat man’s best friend in the winter.
"Dog meat and Chinese rice wine go together," said a Beijing resident named Benjamin Han. "The two of [...]