By dk.au on August 24, 2008
Super slow-mo is overrated. Check out Vincent Laforet’s overhead shots from the 10m platform. If you’re hoping to reproduce something like that on your next trip to the pool, Laforet has a photoessay on his gear here. Then check out [...]
Posted in Photography, Sport | Tagged beijing 2008, Olympics, photoblog, Photography |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 13, 2008
I noticed yesterday that Griffith Uni has provided a plasma screen in the library window for students and staff to watch the Olympics, but when I questioned both my Griffith students and later on my ACU students, most said they [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Industrial Relations, Life, Media, Sport, The Web | Tagged Australian swimmers, beijing olympics, management, olympic gold, Olympics, olympics coverage, Sociology, sociology of work, Stephanie Rice, the intertubes, workplace productivity |
By Robert Merkel on August 4, 2008
And it’s going to be “gold, gold to Australia, gold” quite a lot at the Beijing Games, if the predictions of US sports magazine (and annual cheesecake purveyor) Sports Illustrated hold up. They’re predicting 22 gold medals for Australia, five [...]
Posted in China, Sport | Tagged beijing 2008, beijing olympics, Culture, oi oi oi, Olympics, sports&spectating |
By tigtog on August 1, 2008
Like Andrew Bartlett, I agree entirely with Andrew Bolt regarding the shameful weaseling by the International Olympic Committee regarding the whole idea of granting the 2008 games to the authoritarian dictatorship of China in the first place. crossposted UPDATE: It [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, China, Ethics, Media, Sociology, Sport, The Web | Tagged andrew bartlett, andrew bolt, authoritarian, China, conroy, Culture, dictatorship, false positives, games, international olympic committee, internet filtering, intolerance, ioc, ISP filtering, Nationalism, Olympics, Sociology, sports&spectating |
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