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Those of you who missed the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics should go Google a video of it now. Seriously, you should. They're astounding.

Brian Williams described the ceremonies as having "massive scale and minute precision." It made me think of Stonehenge, or the pyramids, to which that description also applies. You wonder how human beings could accomplish such a thing.

The answer: there are lots of them and they're just plain crazy enough to do it.