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5 Sports That Should Be In The Winter Olympics

The Winter Olympics, out of all the Olympics, is definitely my favourite Olympics.

I’ve been thinking (with the help of some friends) about some sports that should be added to the Winter Olympics. This year, Ski Cross was added to the games, which is basically 4 skiers going down a course and bumping into each other. Now it’s my turn, so here are 5 sports that should (not) be in the next Winter Olympics.

1. Bobsleigh Biathalon

I’m sure you all know what the bobsleigh is, and for those who don’t know, the biathlon involves skiing, and then shooting. This event would involve bobsleigh, with targets at points in the track for the people in the back of the bobsleigh to shoot (those guys don’t do much at the moment anyway). Think of it as drive by bobsleigh.

2. Double Skeleton

Sports down a bobsleigh track have gotten steadily more dangerous. Bobsleigh, luge, double luge, skeleton (face first luge), so naturally, double skeleton is next. Two guys, on their stomachs, going 130km/h on ice. Now that’s a sport!

3. Pentaluge

So if double luge wasn’t hardcore enough, why not stack ‘em 5 high? That could be fun(ny).

4. Snowboard Cross (Where tricks get you bonus time)

4 years ago, Lindsey Jacobellis went down in the Gold Medal snowboard cross event, trying to do a trick in the air. Now if she was used to doing tricks in races, maybe she wouldn’t have gone down. But surely tricks would make the sport more fun?

5. Car Skating

On Top Gear recently, they raced a car against a speed skater on an ice rink. Wouldn’t it be great to see two cars race each other on ice? Maybe even a whole grid of 20 cars. That would be pretty fun…

Well that’s it for me, what about you? Do you have any sports that should be added to the best Olympics?

Some fun: Noah and Cubits

Reverendfun.com sometimes has some great cartoons. Here’s one of the more funny ones

Noah and Cubits

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Some fun: Twitpocalypse

Twitter bird 4Recently, we experienced the Twitpocalypse!

Be very afraid…

Well not really, the only negative outcome of the Twitpocalypse was that some people couldn’t send Tweets through Twitteriffic for about a day.

The Twitpocalypse happened due to the fact that Twitter reached 2,147,483,647 Tweets, which meant that the unique identification number associated with Twitter started going into negative numbers which freaked out some third part applications such as Twitterific. All is better now though.

What does this mean? Well, Twitter is reaching a point where so much is happening on it! The Iranian elections have famously been broadcast using Twitter, and well, a lot of people are getting onto Twitter. Maybe you should to.

(This also  means that some people care too much about Twitter to call this the “Twitpocalypse“)

Maybe you would like to read other things that I have written about Twitter if you have read this far…

And if you would like to, you can follow me @calumhenderson

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Twouble with Twitter

So this is a pretty funny video, and I think it (sarcastically) does a pretty good job of explaining what Twitter is all about. Hope you can laugh and learn…

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Some Fun: Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up

Free stuff #2

Free stuff is awesome, so here is another list of free things that I have found around the web. Hope you enjoy this list as much as the first one. (All of these links are completely legal)

No MoneyVideos

PDF books

Album

Fonts

Programs for Mac’s

Hope you enjoy some of them (If you did, check out the first list of free stuff), and if you have any suggestions to add to the next one, let me know. (Please continue reading to see additions from the last set of comments)

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Some fun: Got my Mac on with iPhone 3GS

In keeping with the theme of this week, here’s a funny little song by Julian Smith. He’s the guy that did “25 things I hate about Facebook“.

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