Hezbollah’s range of attacks
Hezbollah continued to fire one rocket per minute for one hour in response to Israels attack on Lebonan. Based on the reach of those rockets, some people have extrapollated the reach of Hezbollah if they start attacking core Israel. These images are modified range version prepared form images taken from Google Earth.
So, it is obvious that even from current location in Lebonan they can attack upto half of the Promised land, but if they transfer to Jordan or Southren Syria, it can be a lot worse for Israel. More information about how this range was calculated.
Paid Evacuation for US Citizens
An American in Beirut, reported that the U.S. government’s offer to evacuate Americans to protect them from the Israeli blitz comes with a price tag: “They are finally getting everything together today, but they dropped a little surprise: they are going to be billing us for giving us emergency transport to Cyprus, and then basically dropping us off on our own to get commercial flights back to the US. Most other goverrnments evacuating people here are actually flying them back to their home country without cost.”
State Department has stressed “that the U.S. government does not provide no-cost transportation but does have the authority to provide repatriation loans to those in financial need. For the portion of your trip directly handled by the U.S. Government we will ask you to sign a promissory note and we will bill you at a later date.” Things must be financialy bad for U.S. or they are just fed up add this. More…
DS Lite chewed by dog
If you ever wondered how a nintendo DS would look like after a dog chewed it up (Oh! God no), then here it is:
PS3’s Eye Toy
PS2’s eye toy was a great success although not much games utilized its potential, bu tthose that did were both different and enjoyable than the rest of similarity crap. PS3 is also bound to have some new High tech eye toy coming up. There are many possibilities of camera dependant games, if the hardware supports the camera properly form the very beginning (which was not the case for PS2, but is for PS3).
Sony issued a patent for this new eye toy. The patents says, in a nutshell, that a camera will recognize the movements and positioning of objects and then translate this in-game. The new technology enables a single 2D camera to analyze objects in full 3D by using a patented mapping technique. Previously, two cameras were needed to map objects into full 3D. More..
The biggest game store
Google Paint
Google paint is very interesting online MS Paint (but is not affiliated with either Google or Microsoft). Sorry for internet explorer users, but Mozilla FireFox users can try this technology right now by Clicking here
US ‘could be going bankrupt’
The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country’s central bank.
The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries – including the UK – which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP. More…
Is it time for a new super power to emerge? Israel picking up the pace against Iran instead of US, coincident?
