Olympics fever!

Technology is amazing, isn't it? The simple fact that we can see events occurring halfway across the world in crystal clear detail would have been just unheard of early in the last century. Now it's all instantaneous, wall-to-wall coverage, and intricate back stories about the Olympians' lives to make you really care about the outcomes.

Oh, and apparently NBC has the power to extend the length of each calendar day during the Olympics:

NBC Universal's unprecendented coverage of the Torino Games features the most coverage -- including the most live coverage -- across the most platforms of any Winter Olympics in history. The 418 total hours of programming -- an increase over the 375.5 hours of coverage from Salt Lake, the previous record for a Winter Games -- will average 24.6 hours of coverage per day.

Isn't that great? You can view an average of 24.6 hours of Olympics during each 24 hour day. Incredible.

And yet, it's not on right now.