3 month ago
nelson : Big Picture: Olympics - Another photo collection, this one a bit more mainstream
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3 month ago
nelson : Olympic photos - Odd selection, a bit heavy on the lulz but good images
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3 month ago
nelson : Sex and the Olympic city - Athlete hotties get it on at the Olympics
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3 month ago
nelson : Olympic ages caches - Someone goes delving in Baidu's cache of Chinese government websites, confirms the gymnasts are 14
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4 month ago
nelson : Olympics photography - Great notes from a guy working the Olympics
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4 month ago
nelson : Phelps v. Cavic - Outstanding underwater photos of the incredibly close race last night
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4 month ago
nelson : Cavic's blog - Great, honest writeup of what it felt like to come in 2nd by 0.01 seconds.
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4 month ago
nelson : Happy Olympics boys - Are there any out gay teams in the Olympics?
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4 month ago
deusx : Olympic girl seen but not heard - CNN.com - "Games organizers confirm that Lin Miaoke, who performed "Ode to the Motherland" as China's flag was paraded Friday into Beijing's National Stadium, was not singing at all. ... Lin was lip-syncing to the sound of another girl, 7-y
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4 month ago
nelson : Olympic song fake - 7 year old girl chosen to be pretty, lip syncs other 7 year old girl's singing
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nelson : Empty Olympics seats - It does seem odd how few people are actually watching the sport
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Pirating the Olympics, Then and Now - Back in 2004, I wrote about how high-quality videos from the Olympics in Athens were being digitized and posted online, in defiance of the networks and the IOC's rules. At the time, NBC's online coverage was pioneering, but still restrictive by today's
nelson : Pirating the Olympics - Andy does another nice investigation into TV downloads
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4 month ago
philgyford : Summary of China Rights Developments | Human Rights Watch - Just in case you're enjoying the Olympics so much you've forgotten all this stuff.
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4 month ago
nelson : BSOD at Olympics - One of the projection computers crashed at the opening ceremony
Andy Baio : Blue Screen of Death during the Olympic torch-lighting - appeared for a split second in the broadcast, but attendees took photos [via]
mmb : Olympic Fail: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird’s Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting - Olympic Fail: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird’s Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting via Waxy.org: Links Miniblog [via]
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4 month ago
nelson : Olympic fireworks fake - The video of the fireworks over the stadium was a digital fake. Very Orwellian, creepy.
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4 month ago
nelson : Olympics / Silverlight bundling - Markoff calls out Microsoft's strategic move in making Olympics video use their new technology
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4 month ago
nelson : Fix Youtube Olympics - Some broad US blocking of Olympics video on Youtube; here's how to circumvent it
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4 month ago
nelson : Hulu search: "Olympics" - Awesome! NBC's video site has all sorts of video for the Olympics; mostly history lessons about the 1980 boycott of Moscow
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4 month ago
nelson : Olympics opening pics - Looks beautiful, particularly the drummers. Also SPOILER ALERT: the US is 18 hours in the past.
gleuschk : 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony - The Big Picture - Boston.com - I ended up missing most of the artistic program (but catching the parade of nations -- snore). These are great.
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Voices of the Olympic Games - Athletes allowed to blog. I'm waiting for something political to happen
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