2008 Olympics gadget for Windows Sidebar

a great gadget. and to a poster above : my firefox 3 crashes when i try to view this site. just a plain crash. that's all. i have the 2b2 version of silverlight installed. still nothing :/ so as far it goes for me, the site is awful :)

Wow, that's prety slick!

@ weedmonk, I haven't checked out the BBC's olympic coverage itself (I'm not even remotely interested in the Olympics) but their i-player generally delivers some very high quality content, and in the uk, at least, you can even download a higher quality verision if you want as well. I do believe their download function still only works on XP and Vista however, due to their requiring the DRM technologies that were so berated for their inclusion in Vista.

It still early Mike.

This is interesting: http://www.wattoogle.com/ >>Every time you load Google with their white background your (CRT) monitor is using roughly 74 watts of power, but every time you load up Wattoogle your monitor is using about 59 watts of power for a savings of 15 watts! As quoted in this blog: (http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawat...) " Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let's assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background [on a CRT monitor! mjo] will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the monitors in the world are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that's $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes." Why would we not do our part when it's as easy as switching home pages? <<

I can confirm that it is an urban legend. I used to be an electrical engineer.

I don't follow the olympics, but I am aware that America's "human Dolphin" is absolutely kicking arse. surely using him on your team is cheating? It's like using a machine gun or a guided misile at target shooting!

@tayme: TVtonic on the Media Center ended up not being as cool as I'd hoped, unfortunately. They seemed to get a lot right, but it just hogged my computer once I started using it. I added gymnastics and swimming to "my channels" for quick access, and it proceeded to start trying to fill my HDD with every video posted of those events, while using so much bandwidth my extender became almost unusable. I did find that you can throttle and schedule the downloads, but I was hoping for more of a stream model, rather than a download model. If only nbcolympics.com worked on the Wii's internet channel ;) Also, I know I'm picky, but I don't like programs that don't offer you the ability to get rid of the tray icon when you (theoretically) only need to access it once in a great while. Hopefully they can come up with a truly user-friendly solution next time! Like silverlight's version right on the MC...