A video of Apolo Ohno in training sheds some light on how speed skating is done. It still seems fairly impossible to actually do.
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6 Man-Made Natural Disasters Just Waiting to Happen. Like New Orleans and Port-au-Prince, the world is full of keep-your-fingers-crossed engineering.
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Why Your Food is Getting Sweeter. Even pizza gets a cheap shot in the arm with more sugar.
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Prince rehearsing in his basement in June of 1984. Watch now; I wouldn't be surprised if these videos became unavailable by the end of the day. (via Metafilter)
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The J! Archive is a fan-created site that contains Jeopardy! questions and answers from 26 seasons plus charts and statistics about each game. I wish I had that much free time. (via J-Walk Blog)
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T-Shirt War is a stop motion video featuring a battle fought by t-shirts. That doesn't sound exciting, but believe me, these are talented t-shirts.
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7 Incredibly Specific Dating Sites. You could call it matchmaking for very picky people.