Airliner’s Taxiway book

The first book ever about the world of commercial airlines specially designed for the Arab region. www.taxiway.org

Somalia is ‘most ignored tragedy’ – BBC NEWS

The world should be shocked at the systematic destruction of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and its residents, says lobby group Human Rights Watch. The organisation told the BBC the city had become a zone of free-fire between government and insurgent forces. It said if such a situation was happening anywhere else in the world, like Georgia [...]

The world’s ‘strangest clock’ is unveiled – BBC NEWS

A £1m clock called the “time eater” has been unveiled at Cambridge University by Professor Stephen Hawking. The author of A Brief History of Time was guest of honour when the unique clock, which has no hands or numbers, was revealed at Corpus Christi College. BBC NEWS | Technology | Hawking unveils ‘strangest clock’.

Turning to the Taleban in Pakistan – BBC News

US raids on Taleban and al-Qaeda targets in Pakistani territory have caused outrage in Pakistan. And that has added to the loathing that some people there have long felt for the way that the US conducts itself on the world stage, as Owen Bennett-Jones discovers. “I would rather live in the dark ages under the [...]

LiveWorld Launches LiveBar

LiveWorld Launches LiveBar™, Enabling Brands To Seamlessly Overlay Social Networking on Any Web Page in Minutes Social Networking and Community Solutions — LiveWorld. The new product from LiveWorld seems promising. I didn’t see it in action yet but the idea is worth noticing.

US marks September 11 attacks – Al Jazeera English

With my deep condolences to those who died at the scene of 9/11, I think that civilians who die everyday in Iraq and Afghanistan not with the hands of terrorists but by the hands of those who suffered terror, those are worth being mentioned. Unless they are an affordable price on the war on terror. [...]

DEMO: Let Your Friends Tell You What to Do – PC Magazine

This morning’s Demo Fall 08 opened up with a session showing new social networking sites. Each site used social networking to solve another problem, from CRM to shopping to spotting bias in the news. DEMO: Let Your Friends Tell You What to Do – News and Analysis by PC Magazine. People are finding more solutions [...]

Success for ‘Big Bang’ experiment – BBC NEWS

Three decades after it was conceived, the world’s most powerful physics experiment has sent the first beam around its 27km-long tunnel. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Success for ‘Big Bang’ experiment. Let’s wait and see what could be the conclusions out of the biggest experiment ever. Here’s a link to updates about the experiment and [...]

The web’s future is a ‘village’ – BBC News

Researchers at Hewlett Packard have found that, in truth, we really only bother about a handful of friends and generally visit a small number of websites. BBC NEWS | Technology | The web’s future is a ‘village’. A very interesting research about the social status of the web and how people interact with it. Many [...]

Reinventing the wheel to help disabled – BBC

Duncan, aged 26, from London, has already designed a collapsible wheel for use on a bike, and believes he is just a year away from adding this design to a wheelchair. He says the ‘Crossbreed folding wheel’, which saw him in the final of the Saatchi and Saatchi world-changing ideas competition, will revolutionise the life [...]