The Vancouver 2010 Winter Games are shaping up to be a breakthrough moment for community coverage of the Olympics! But to chronicle our world, we need you … to see, capture and share your photos. Please join us at the Yahoo! Sports Studio in Yaletown on Monday evening, February 22, from 5-8 pm for a Flickr meet and greet! Details and RSVP are here. Please be sure to RSVP as we cannot guarantee your entrance without it.

Photos by jonwick04, kk+, Russ Beinder and s.yume in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Photo Group.

More splashy pictures can be found in the Cookie Splash group or try an image search for Coffee Splash.

Photos from *Cencula*, donchris!™, Farbwerk_21 and Kevin Farris.

Photos from jackm2211, Banjo Brown, mando alvarez and changoblanco.

Photos from Warriorwriter, andertho, stephanie.keating, Nukin Futs, favourite waste of time, and friendofthenite.

Flickroom is an application that brings Flickr to your desktop, allowing you to browse and search photographs of yours, your contacts, and the Flickrverse. Your photos never looked better against a black background! Once you authenticate Flickroom to your account, you can not only manage your own content but you can also leave comments on great photos or make them your favorites.

But one of the neatest things about Flickroom is that you can chat, live, with other Flickr members while you’re viewing fantastic content!

There’s more, too. This application allows you to upload photos to your photostream. You can tag and set permissions on your photos as well as add them to sets and to groups.

Tweet tweet! You can also push your content out to your Twitter account, with the magic of Flickr 2 Twitter, or post to Facebook.

This application runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux with a host of other features including upcoming events, language support, the world map, access to group photos and discussions and real-time notifications. There’s a companion website, too, for when you’re on the go. Give it a whirl – see you in the chatroom!

Application by _Flickroom_, found in the App Garden.

Photos from Spot!, shinichiro*, lat454205 / Lisa, Laurie York, Benoit Dery, and Capital I.

Around the world today people are marking Shrove Tuesday in various ways – in Sweden, the day (“fettisdagen” – Fat Tuesday) is marked by eating a traditional pastry, called semla or fastlagsbulle, a sweet bun stuffed with almond paste and whipped cream.

It certainly looks like a pretty neat tradition to me. Feast your eyes on more delicious semla photos.

Photos from hepp, ~U~ Frugan, !smile!, tdhedengren.

In warm temperatures, the Carnaval do Brasil began yesterday evening, and the first photos of the celebration are already available on Flickr. Enjoy!

Photos by a roving eye, Antonio Schubert, Jim Skea, Erica Modesto, _ ♪ Claudio no Carnaval Rio de Janeiro Carnival, epicture and SeLuSaVa.

Celebrate the Chinese New Year and the Year of the Tiger on Valentine’s Day in The Commons, the world’s public photography archives to which you can contribute information and knowledge. All images in The Commons use a ‘No Known Copyright Restrictions’ rights statement.

Photos from Galt Museum & Archives, Nationaal Archief, George Eastman House, State Library of New South Wales, New York Public Library, Field Museum & Library and the Library of Congress .

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy Valentine’s Day!

Holidays collide today with Chinese Lunar New Year occurring on February 14th, the day traditionally set aside for lovers that involves copious amounts of hearts, flowers, and chocolate. Either way, the Flickrverse will be awash with red (ahem, Red Rule!). View more new year and valentine photos.

Photos from shanespencer, Kimberly Chorney, Rames Studios, Marie’s Shots, Sabee Kazmi, and Ula ….