We have added the Torino Olympics Medal Count (powered by Yahoo) to the sidebar of RyeBlog.
If you don’t want to see the medal count - just don’t expand the menu. (This will allow you to avoid “spoiling it” if you are planning on watching the games and you realize that your favorite country didn’t get any new medals that day so therefore you know that athlete X will not win…)
Another less cool way of viewing the medal count involves Google. Simply searching for “medal count” on Google http://www.google.com/search?q=Medal+count (or anything roughly related to olympic medals will also work) and the current medal count will show up in a little box above the search results.
Update:
You probably want to rely on my medal count - Google doesn’t know how to count, apparently:
February 14th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Looks like google counts fine.
2+2+1 = 5
3+2+0 = 5
1+3+4 = 8
Where is the problem? Are you also adding in their rank? Looks like you don’t know how to read
February 14th, 2006 at 11:36 am
The real problem isn’t the adding - it’s the counting (knowing which number comes before which other number.)
Google thinks this:
5 >= 5 >= 8
They have the highest medal count on the bottom of their list - but only show the “top 3″ in their list - but if they are counting from the bottom-up they would want to show either the whole list or maybe the bottom three.
In short, the problem is that they sorted the list wrong. Google has since fixed this problem - but it took them a few hours to even notice it.
February 14th, 2006 at 11:53 am
Oh…So it is me that’s blind *wipes glasses*
You are very right. I tried to think of how they could justify putting the wrong one first.
February 14th, 2006 at 11:59 am
It’s okay. I should have pointed out better that it wasn’t the adding up the total that was wrong…