Why oh why do they hate us?

A US warplane mistakenly dropped a 500-pound bomb yesterday on a house in a village near the northern city of Mosul, killing several Iraqis, according to witnesses and the US military. When this story originally broke, US military of course…

Imagine that

Fallujah Residents Angry Over Destruction When Ahmed Hussein Nasser returned to Fallujah weeks after a devastating U.S.-led campaign to retake the city from insurgents, he could barely recognize the city where he had spent all 66 years of his life.

Hiking through the a’a

10,000 ft. Mt. Haleakala on Maui erupts every 200 years or so, and when it does, a type of lava called a’a flows down the mountain to the sea. This photo of me was taken in the large a’a flow…

GM betting on hydrogen cars

The future of the global automotive industry will be driven by hydrogen, not gasoline — at least as senior management at General Motors sees it. While hybrids, which combine gasoline engines with electric motors, were the buzz last year at…

Treo 650 or Siemens SX 66

I’m about the upgrade my cell phone and trade my Nok 3650 camera phone in for a nextgen phone. Everyone says the Treo 650 is the hot phone, however the Siemens SX 66 looks good too, maybe better than the Treo…

Tsunami puts pirates out of business

Pirates operating in the Straits of Malacca are believed to have been wiped out by the tsunami disaster as there had been no attacks on ships since Dec 26. The International Maritime Bureau reported that the busy shipping route had…