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Over at Beyond Binary, Ina Fried’s got a fascinating profile of Omega Timing, the company that’s been managing event timing at the Olympics for over 70 years. Counting seconds now is somehow totally different than it was in 1936.Take the methods for timing skiers:

Less than a century ago, the timing of downhill skiing required someone [...]

Well, if you’re sent by Getty Images, the standard issue kit contains: two Nikon D3ses, 24-70mm lens, 400mm lens, 500/600mm lens, 1.4x teleconverter, batteries and memory cards. And you get to haul all that up a mountain!Basically, all of this stuff, plus two of those giant cameras up there. But on top of all the [...]

Here’s a glimpse of “6,000 PCs, 800 servers, 800 networking devices and 130 terabytes of data” driving the Vancouver Olympics. There are no medals in this category of competition. [CNET via DVICE]

Tonight’s the Men’s Olympics Snowboarding Halfpipe event. Have you heard of Shaun White’s personal superpipe in which he compressed the training equivalent of years into a day, mastering insane new tricks that I can’t even wrap my brain around?
The 550-foot long half pipe is located 7 miles from Silverton, which is built around Silverton mountain: [...]

I feel like using Muse - Uprising during the Olympics is a little bit of misuse of theme. While I like the song (and love Muse), I’m just don’t think it fits to dub over the finish for the Men’s 15k freestyle cross country.

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