With all due respect to Michael Phelps and the like, it seems like you can pretty much just trip and fall into the Water Cube pool and break a world record.  Anyone else getting the feeling that perhaps it's not quite 50m after all?  Maybe the real 50m pool sang the song, but it's the 49.9m pool that gets the face-time on television.

To celebrate, the much ballyhooed iPod of Long.  These are proper songs, no remixes or extended versions allowed.  6 songs, 65 minutes, 10 seconds.

Jesus of Suburbia by Green day, 9:08 (from the dreaded "song suite" genre; might be the only example in history that actually works)

Old Whore's Diet by Rufus Wainwright, 9:09  (in concert he sang it in striped leggings and a thong)

Tam Lyn Retold by Benjamin Zephaniah and Eliza Carthy, 9:22 (an ancient folk song retold with beats and Zephaniah's poetry, really quite something)

Rock Me Gently by Erasure, 10:02  (Erasure echoing Pink Floyd with Diamanda Galas being strangled in the background)

Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, 13:41  (Was there ever really a Frankie Goes to Hollywood or were they just a dream we were all having?)

O'Malley's Bar by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, 14.28 (from the infamous murder ballads album; if you manage to reach the end, any faith you have in humanity will have been drowned in a bag with a brick).

Off to go wash my hands in China and set a new world record.