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Live Streams of Beijing Olympics

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

NBC has all live feeds available so you don’t have to deal with tape delays. I can’t believe how they can tell you something is “live” when it ended 3 hours ago! That is what is happening on their channels. For instance, Woman’s All Arounds were done by 11PM pacific, but NBC didn’t finish their [...]

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Olympic heaven

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I’m completely addicted right now. First, Comcast has HD Olympics live on USA channel and KOMO-TV which are channels 660 and 105. With a DVR, it is nearly perfect, but with NBCOlympics.com, you can watch four different events live. I’m going to be up all night!

The best are the live feeds and the mode [...]

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Cool sites

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Have yet another backlog of sites. The Time list is pretty good:

GasBuddy has real time prices from the community. Save a few bucks!

TripKick since TripAdvisor isn’t good enough. It tells you which floor to stay on

AfriGadget are simple things that can work in the developing world

PopSugar shows I’m a bad person. I love [...]

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Mybus.com

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Hat tip to Abel for this one, as I ride the bus more, here is a great way to see where the buses are in real time:
Mybus is the top level page. Plug in a route number, get a list of all major stops for the route, then select your stop. I’ve bookmarked the following [...]

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