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When you live on an island, spending time on the beach beomes part of the fabric of life (otherwise why live on an island). Whidbey has so many beaches to explore. I've been here several years and barely scratched the surface. I guess once I discover places I really enjoy, I tend to go back to them by default (creature of habit syndrome). It also doesn't hurt that I have a beach yards from my back door here on Sandy Point.

Seems just about anything can be constructed with LEGOs these days. You name it- a printer, an engine, an ATM, guns... even a house!

What a ballplayer does prior to puberty is no indicator of his future potential. Whether he plays 30

The sudden deceleration, shifting in the knee, popping sound and screaming from the intense pain

General Tips for Exercising in the Heat -Schedule workouts for the cooler times of the day. -Allow overweight, out of shape or unacclimated kids time to acclimate to the heat. -Schedule timed water and rest breaks every 30 minutes during activities. During these breaks, don't just encourage, but require kids to drink. This also gives the coach or trainer a chance to monitor the athletes. -Have shade, ice, and a kiddie pool available for emergency treatment and rapid cooling, if needed. -Have...

Dr. Joy Maxey gives advice for hydration in sports.

Pediatrician Dr. Joy Maxey talks about staph infections in sports.

Dr David Marshall talks about the symptoms, treatments and prevention of common injuries of young gymnasts.

Dr. David Marshall of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta about severity, treatment and prevention when dealing with concussions in contact sports.

Dr. David Marshall, Medical Director of Sports Medicine at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta discuss the warning signs, prevention, and treatment of Osgood Schlatter Disease.

Weezer's frontman Rivers Cuomo is one devout soccer fan, so as a homage to the World Cup, the band composed this seriously passionate fight song:

Nobody anywhere calls the sport "soccer". But here we are, the only ones in South Africa that do not call it some variation on foot and ball. And of course, if you've pondered this before, you are probably equally befuddled that the game we call football is not even played with one's foot in the first place. American football ought to be called handball...

So Kottke found some old whisky at his wife's grandparents' place. I'm loving the bottle and the font. It's probably not good to drink anymore, though...

This won't come out until 2011. More combos, more violence. What else could you ask for?

Upon first glance, one may think Mark Suppes is just another thirty-something-year-old dude living in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. However, the Gucci web designer by day has a significant (to say the least) project-in-progress by night. The amateur scientist bicycles to a non-descript building in Brooklyn to chip away at his homemade nuclear fusion reactor.

Kurt Harris, MD, writes about paleolithic nutrition at his highly recommended blog, www.paleonu.com.

The following is a link to a post board of one sentence stories told by regular folks. Enjoy.

This Mindstorms NXT-based 'droid may be able to walk upright like a human being — but can he do the robot?

Photographer Zoren Gold and graphic artist Minori Murakami collaborated to create these eerie digital collages of chameleon-like models. From the looks of it, the two artists combined multiple digital photographs, using Photoshop masks and blend modes. Nicely done. The third image down is particularly spooky (in a great way).

So you've hidden an app or person and you want to undo it?