The Internet is for Awesome

In particular, my brother (who's in South Africa in the Peace Corps) just ran the Comrades marathon, which is 89km (56miles) long, and a huge international event (for crazy long-distance runners, at least...there were 23,000 of them competing).

And, via the power of the internet (and the cool RFID shoe tags the runners have to wear) I can go to the Comrades website, type in his name, and watch video clips of him approaching many of the checkpoints and the finish line.  How cool is that?