Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal

The Crisis of Credit Visualized is the best explanation of financial crisis of 2007-2009 you’ll find IMHO.

Maximum respect to the author, John Levoff, who crafted this video as a part of his thesis work.

You can see which countries are affected by the financial crisis and to what extent in this SVG image (NOTE: you can zoom the map). SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics and it is supported out-of-the-box in all web browsers except for IE.

Thanks to Miloš for sending the link.

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This is how Michael Phelps edged Milorad Čavić in 100m butterfly in Beijing 2008 Olympics finals.

Even though Čavić was leading the heat for almost the entire race, with a world record split time at the middle of the race, at the very end Phelps instinctively chose to make a half-stroke.

Amazing!

It appears, however, that Čavić doing the exact opposite thing, gliding and gliding for too long, did touch the wall first but didn’t touch it hard enough.

You be the judge. Anyway, a great moment for Serbian swimming (first Serbian medal) and even greater for the history of swimming and Olympic sport as Phelps equaled Mark Spitz’s record with 7 Olympics golds. With a 4*100 medley relay race tomorrow, he’s almost sure to break the Mark Spitz’s best ever record of 7 golds and to equal 7 world records.

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DO NOT MISS out on the opening of the Beijing Olympics 2008 - it’s going to be ri-di-ci-lous!

Here’s the fireworks rehearsal for the opening ceremony. Notice that olympic circles show up several times at one point.

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