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This Olympics Village model made by an expert card-stacker makes the Lego Olympics look just naff in comparison. I mean, that model’s just a lot of plastic parts snapped together: This guy had to avoid shaky hands, sneezing and stepping incautiously for a whole 20 days while he put the card model together, detailing even [...]

Way back in April was when we first showed you details on Lenovo’s Ideapad U8 mobile internet device, and Lenovo’s just launched it at the Beijing Olympics. The palmtop phone/PC has an Intel Atom Z500 ticking away inside at 800MHz, GPS, dual cameras, and with 1GB of RAM and a sizable 6GB SSD. Connectivity-wise, it’s [...]

It may be that Michael Phelps’ finish in the 100 fly — when he somehow reached the wall one-hundredth of a second ahead of Milorad Cavic (an interesting story in his own right) — remains the most fascinating story of the Games every day through the Closing Ceremonies on Aug. 24.
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> The trading of Olympic pins has officially commenced. It looked for a while as if the tradition would end in China. Then, this weekend, for reasons I do not quite understand, the Chinese public developed an interest. Out in the street, next to the main press center, hundreds were gathered…<img src="http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/blogs/sfgate/baytobeijing/index_rss1/~4/367392887" height="1" [...]

Where the hell is Mark Spitz? If he’s dead, my apologies to his family. If he’s alive, he’s a wonker.
He should have been here in Beijing Sunday morning, poolside, to pass his rusty, sooty old torch to the new king of the pool, Michael Phelps. I saw Spitz at the U.S. [...]