Blaze at Guinness - Dublin City Centre Covered In Smoke

Today the light was very good so I decided to get the Dart from Connolly station to Howth  in order to take some photographs. However as I was about to board the train I noticed lots of smoke in the sky and...

Killer drones that can see through walls.

watch what you're doing in the bedroom, you might get blasted by the pilotless all-seeing drones of the moral fundamentalist police state. From a military standpoint this is a must have in a nation that abhors...

Men parachute into wrong American football stadium

" McClatchy Newspapers Saturday, August 30, 2008 Duke officials were a bit surprised when, at 6 p.m. EDT on Saturday, about an hour before the scheduled kickoff of their game against James Madison, two men...

Missing Millionaire may have shot dead his family then torched mansion

Though police were planning to enter a mansion destroyed by fire in Shropshire, UK today, the latest news is that the property is still unsafe to search. Police suspect that the dead bodies of mother and daughter Jill and Kirstie Foster may be inside. The operating theory now...

Atlantic City gets Ready for Air Show

I used to love air shows as a kid. They're loud, filled with lots of cool toys and PLANES! Seeing them rumble above the air, sometimes only feet from the ground, was exhilarating. Now, my enjoyment is slightly...

Sun & Dance in Manchester Piccadilly Gardens

The UrbanMoves International Dance Festival came to a hot conclusion. Dancers from around Europe descended on Manchester and surrounding areas on the weekend of 25th - 27th July 2008. A bi-yearly event which last...

A video game that kills real people

The use of unmanned aircrafts in modern combat has the future of warfare looking eerily close to a video game, as this recent column from Slate Magazine points out.There are already more than 1,000 unmanned...

Now, a 50 megapixel digicam

"The Swedish company Hasselblad's announcement of the launch of Hasselblad H3DII-50, featuring a new Kodak 50-megapixel sensor, has pushed the available resolution in digital cameras to a new high. Such high resolution goes beyond the needs of most consumers but...

Untested Pesticide to be aerially sprayed over California urban areas to batt...

"Santa Cruz & Monterey County residential areas are going to be aerial sprayed with abiochemical as often as every 30 days starting August ? , 2008! San Francisco, Oakland, Marin, Albany, andmore residential areas are going to be aerial sprayed with a biochemical as...

An edible rooftop garden in Portland

More interesting news coming out of the urban food movement."From atop the Rocket building, there’s no doubt you’re smack in the middle of a city. Swing around in a circle and you’ll see the sun going down...

Mid-Air Dolphin Collision Ends in Death

This is a truly strange accident: two dolphins collided in mid-air, during an aerial stunt at Orlando's SeaWorld, killing one of the dolphins.This is the first time such an incident has occurred at SeaWorld and...

Two missing in London coal depot blaze

Two people have been declared missing after a fire broke out in a London coal depot."Ten fire crews have been tackling the blaze at the depot in Tavistock Road, West Drayton.It broke out at about 0045 BST and several vehicles are alight, along with pallets, cylinders and...

Riding the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in Palm Springs, California

We disembarked at the Mountain Station at the elevation of 8,516ft/2597m. Clear and crisp air was the first thing we noticed. Snow was all around us. The temperature was in the fifties (F) but most pleasant even in a t-shirt.""

New movie damns Monsanto's deadly sins

It may be exhausting, but we have got to make the effort to "know our enemy" - and Monsanto is one of our fiercest enemies - and the most devastating in terms of long term effects on health! "International — A new movie has dealt yet another severe blow to the...

Solar plane flies into the night

"A lightweight solar-powered plane has smashed the official world record for the longest-duration unmanned flight. UK defence firm QinetiQ, which built the Zephyr unmanned aerial vehicle, said it flew for 54 hours during tests. The researchers believe it is the first time a...

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