Topic: POLITIK - on August 12, 2008 at 12:33:00 PM CEST
He Likes Beach Butts And He Cannot Lie
President Bush loves beach volleyball.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 12, 2008 at 12:31:00 PM CEST
Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting
Well this is just perfect. At the exact moment Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax, someone snapped this photo of our good friend the BSOD nestled amongst the Nest's steel twigs. Perhaps an Opening Cermonies IT dude spit out his coffee on the machines in the server room when Li took to the sky?
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Topic: TV - on August 12, 2008 at 12:29:00 PM CEST
8 Opening Ceremonies Moments That Made Me Crap My Pants
During the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies, we witnessed the sheer power and brilliance of what it looks like when thousands of individuals come together for one purpose: to blow your f*cking mind. Throughout the event, I felt a mix of wonder, awe, surprise, joy, inadequacy, terror, and self-hatred - in other words, I was either whispering through tears “It’s just so…beautiful!” or I was sh*tting my pants.
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Topic: TV - on August 12, 2008 at 12:27:00 PM CEST
NBC responds to Olympic fakery accusations
The glow of NBC's Olympic ratings victory threatens to be sullied this morning by reports that the Beijing Olympic Committee and the network have been less-than-scrupulous in their presentation of the Summer Games.
Organizers are accused of mixing in fake CGI fireworks during Friday night's opening ceremony, while NBC is said to have added a bogus "Live" stamp to tape-delayed West Coast feed of competition coverage this weekend, and edited the "parade of nations" segment of the opening ceremony to delay the entrance of the U.S. Olympic Team.
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Topic: TV - on August 12, 2008 at 12:19:00 PM CEST
Olympic Fireworks Faked For TV
The global television audience of more than three billion people watched in amazement as a series of giant footprints outlined in fireworks proceeded through the night sky from Tiananmen Square to the Bird's Nest stadium - except they were watching a computer animation.
Even the giant television screens within the stadium itself broadcast the fake images.
Stunned viewers thought they were watching the string of fireworks filmed from above by a helicopter.
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Topic: SPORT - on August 12, 2008 at 12:18:00 PM CEST
Journalisten kritisieren Bespitzelung
Der Internationale Journalistenverband IFJ hat am Montag gegen die Bespitzelung von Journalisten bei den Olympischen Spielen durch Sicherheitskräfte Beschwerde bei den chinesischen Behörden eingelegt. Hintergrund ist, dass Sicherheitskräfte in Zivil in den vergangenen Tagen mehreren Reportern gefolgt waren. Nach Angaben der betroffenen Journalisten wurden sowohl sie selbst wie auch ihre Notizblöcke fotografiert. In einem weiteren Fall nahmen Sicherheitskräfte chinesischen Journalisten ihre Notizblöcke weg, nachdem sie US-Athleten zu dem tödlichen Messerangriff auf einen amerikanischen Touristen in Peking befragt hatten.
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Topic: SPORT - on August 12, 2008 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
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 standards — mostly highlight clips and no live video, delayed until after the events aired on TV, and required a valid credit card to verify residency in the United States.
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