While competition is the name of the game for the 10,000 athletes competing in the Summer Olympics, the same can’t be said for the viewing audience. In fact, the Olympics show what happens when viewers don’t have enough options at their disposal.

The 8-Bit Games! from Flikli on Vimeo.

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Intermission: 8-Bit Olympics

The talented artists at Flikli produced this montage of all the events in the summer Olympic games, animated in the style of an 8-bit video game.

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Eight Twitter Accounts to Follow During the London Olympics

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Lauren Collins recommends eight key Brits to follow on Twitter whose dispatches “regularly serve to create a sense of the city as much as they reflect it”: http://nyr.kr/QlhIMd