The new Saigon, Vietnam

Saigon is becoming a modern city.It seems to have a great future.  This is a huge change from a generationago when it was very poor and stillsuffering from 30 years of war. "HO CHI MINH CITY, or Saigon, as...

Texans endure sleepless night as Ike roars ashore

"A massive Hurricane Ike menaced the darkened Texas coast early Saturday, ensuring a sleepless night for thousands who huddled and waited to find out if a gamble to face the storm head-on could cost them their lives.Before the eye even crossed land, the first bands were...

Waiting for the next shoe to drop! « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

"Business is lousy in the City and on Wall Street these days, and yet stock prices tell a different story: one of relentless optimism about the outlook for profits. Yet at sea a flat calm is usually comes before a storm. In Dubai we even had an earthquake yesterday and the...

Nine Inch Nails Tracks Downloads of 'The Slip' via Google Earth

This is the first time I've seen this done.  Pretty cool.  Fan geo-location."Over 1.4 million unique users have downloaded the free Nine Inch Nails album The Slip, according to the band, since they...

Tel Aviv (Israel) skyscrapers

Besides the "classical" Bauhaus architecture in Tel Aviv you may find lots of good, nice and very interesting modern architecture. The Modern Art Museum, numerous hotels (mainly along the beach) and a lot of...

Downtown Miami To See Mega-Skyscrapers Soon

You think those new towers rising in downtown Miami are tall? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. Residents here should get ready for the Great Leap Upward -- a new class of super-tall skyscrapers that would make those big new high-rises seem like relative pygmies.

Western town boldly goes into virtual world

"By Fiach Kelly Friday January 11 2008 The world's first fully three dimensional town will not feature spectacular skyscrapers or the neon wonders of a metropolis at night -- instead, it will showcase the modest octagon in Westport. The Co Mayo town is to be launched as the...

Western town boldly goes into virtual world

"By Fiach Kelly Friday January 11 2008 The world's first fully three dimensional town will not feature spectacular skyscrapers or the neon wonders of a metropolis at night -- instead, it will showcase the modest octagon in Westport. The Co Mayo town is to be launched as the...

BigT's Roundup - Evening Edition (9-8-07)

Often it is better to get the opinion of someone who is closest to a situation than it is to get the uninformed opinions of people thousands of miles away. In that vain here is an excellent point made by...

Megabuildings in Rosario

Argentina is experiencing a real estate boom, and Rosario, a city of 1 million located on the western banks of the Paraná River, is changing — from a self-made large, industrious, predominantly working-class...

Dear CAIR: Please Boycott Airlines Serving Hawaii--In May! (satire)

"No longer content with just ramming airplanes into skyscrapers, devotees of the "Religion of Peace" have raised the terror bar another couple of notches. Now these neurotic stowaways from the 7th century have flexed their financial muscle by threatening to boycott Northwest...

Tritium has a Half-Life of 12.28 Years [9/11]

Beta Emission 12.32 Years.  Not detectable with a Geiger Counter.

Tritium measurements in the WTC area higher than elsewhere in New York [9/11]

The quantity of tritium in the luminous dials & exit signs of the two aircraft is too low to explain the high measurements in the WTC area.  (Paragraph 12 and 17).

Plague Puppy [9/11]

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