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One year after the hosting of the exceptional Beijing Olympic Games, the 11th National Games, billed as China’s mini-Olympics, opened amid a splendid ceremony here Friday evening.

Chinese President Hu Jintao officially opened the Games at the ceremony held in the newly built Olympic Sports Complex in this capital city of east China’s Shandong province.

With 55 of all 63 Chinese Beijing Olympic champions expected to compete, the quadrennial national meet is set to stage another sports gala for the country which…

Fred Crzybowski, a 20-year-old from Los Angeles, is known as “the Tony Hawk of the pogo world” for the extreme pogo-stick jumps he can perform.

Fred, who started using a pogo-stick at the age of eight, is the current record holder for the most consecutive backflips, which stands at nine. He has appeared in motion pictures like Mister Magorium’s Wonder Emporium and hopes he will get new gigs in television and movies.
This young pogo-stick master’s dream is to bring pogo-stick jumping…

Google will roll out a new online service for booksellers in the first half of 2010. Dubbed Google Editions, the service will allow readers to buy books from various e-book vendors and read them on a broad array of devices, from cell phones to e-readers.

Consumers will be able to purchase e-books directly from Google or from existing e-book stores such as Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. Books sold through Google Editions will be hosted by Google, so they will be searchable in…

Farmers protest by squirting cow milk

Protesters in Brussels have found a new way to show their displeasure: squirting milk straight from a cow at riot police. Farmers angered by collapsing milk prices demonstrated, pelting police with bottles and chickens and spraying officers with milk directly from a cow’s udders. Over 2,500 farmers from across the EU blockaded the area outside the European Union’s headquarters, burning tires and hay outside an emergency meeting of farm ministers. The jittery cow, frightened by…

Turkish born Mehmet Ozgur is an engineer by education and profession, Mehmet is also a masterly photographer. His work spans a substantial range of subject matter and technique, from the landscapes panorama to digital compositions and his amazing smoke works (seen here). Mehmet has mastered a technique where he can photograph tendrils of smoke and then combine them into recognizable shapes and figures through digital manipulation. All are executed with fine precision using differing photographic manipulation techniques to achieve the desired…

In a situation that may still be developing, major phishing exploits have hit webmail services over the past few days, including Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL Mail, and others. As usual with mass phishing attacks — which aim to trick people into surrendering personal details about their online identities — it’s unclear what group or groups are behind the initiatives.

The one thing that is certain is the attacks are big.

“This is on a scale that is incredibly rare,” said Mike Halsey,…

You don’t want to live next door to this guy.