Your best bet is to get a geeky British or Canadian friend to install a proxy on their machine for you and your Yankee friends. Xroxy has a handy list of proxies which you can sort by country to find proxies in the UK or Canada - which must be anonymous, and preferrably running the SOCKS protocol. I recommend using Mozilla's Firefox browser with the FoxyProxy add-on installed. International proxies: It is possible to watch live streams from other countries, such as BBC Sports from the UK or CBC Sports from Canada, by configuring your browser to run through an anonymous proxy. Cons: Prices start at $129.99 and your selection of Olympics coverage is limited to what's available from your satellite or cable provider, which means missing early heats and niche events and having to put up with tape delays by the networks. There is SlingPlayer software available for a range of not just operating systems but handheld devices as well. Pros: You can get great quality, even HD, if your home Internet connection is fast. Then you can beam your home satellite or cable signal over the Internet to your laptop, desktop, or iPhone, and remotely switch between NBC and MSNBC.
Sling Media's Slingbox: For those with more money than time, the best solution might be a Slingbox. And of course, there's an official schedule from the organizers in China, with times listed for Beijing's time zone (16 hours ahead of San Francisco, 13 hours ahead of New York) - probably the best place to go for daily updates, as smog and weather may upset the schedule. Jason Kottke has found Google and iCal calendars, which will allow you a bit more flexibility in setting up alerts, and the New York Times has a schedule as well. However, once you've done the work, it'll send you notifications when events you've selected will be broadcast. Online schedules: NBC's Olympics listings takes a bit of work (you have to enter your ZIP code and select a television provider, even if you just want online listings). Rather than being the coming-out party for Silverlight Microsoft hopes for, it may instead be the year sports fans learn a few new online-video tricks. Thankfully, the anarchy of the Web offers plenty of options for having a crowd of curious coworkers surround your computer as you watch live handball, with varying degrees of expense and difficulty. But a bird's nest of geography and time-delay restrictions worthy of China's Communist Party government is in place. And you'll have to download Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in to watch in your browser. NBC and Microsoft are delaying the most popular events by three hours so that it won't interfere with more profitable TV broadcasts. The folks who are bringing you the Olympics online don't actually want you to watch their coverage.
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