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StarCraft II Rocks!

2008-07-24T03:40:00.000-07:00

StarCraft II is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game currently under development by Blizzard Entertainment as a sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft. First announced on May 19, 2007, in Seoul, South Korea,StarCraft II is being developed for concurrent release on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS X. The game has no certain release date although a multiplayer demonstration was playable at BlizzCon 2007. StarCraft II features approximately the same number of units as the original game.Some units from the original game are returning, some featuring new upgrades and abilities. For example, the Protoss zealot, a melee unit from the original game, now has the ability to "charge" - move rapidly when engaging in combat - while other units have been replaced, or re-imagined.Other unnamed units have been removed entirely, and units from each race are planned to be dropped.Other changes to unit design have been inspired by story events in StarCraft and its expansion, Brood War, replacing old units with new, or renamed, versions which sport different attributes and abilities. The video demonstration also revealed new abilities that encourage more complex interaction with the game environment. Among these are the inclusion of units that can traverse varying levels of terrain,or with the capability to teleport short distances for pursuit or escape.Some Protoss units can be deployed nearly instantly into combat areas using a specialized structure.

10 Mega-Pixel Camera phone

2008-07-24T03:17:00.000-07:00

Samsung introduced a 10 Megapixel camera phone at the CeBIT 2006 in Hannover, Germany. The new Samsung 10 Megapixel mobile phone boasts the highest picture resolution for a camera phone ever made and it even exceeds the resolution of mid-end digital cameras. Samsung was the first company to introduce a camera phone in the world.

Samsung SCH B600 specification
- Standard: CDMA 2000 1X EVDO ( 800 MHz)
- Camera: 10 Megapixel
- Display: 2.2 inch 240x320 262K Color TFT
- Video Recording & Messaging (MPEG4 / H.264)
- MP3/ AAC / AAC+
- Dual speaker
- Bluetooth / PictBridge / Voice recognition
- Document Viewer / TV-output / BT Printing
- Memory: MMCmicro external memory
Price? $984.99

Swim on the Devil's Pool

2008-07-16T15:35:00.000-07:00

Want a thrill? This place is absolutely what you are looking for. The breathtaking devil's swimming pool. The pool is located on the edge of Victoria Falls which is the largest sheet of falling water in the world, which lies on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, Aftrica. You can hang yourself inches from certain death quite comfortably in a rock pool right on the edge of the fall. Scary isn't it?

Victoria Falls: The largest sheet of falling water in the world

They say it's actually safe to get there. They even get their kids with them! I’m not sure you’d want to put your ten-year-old in that position!

A 360-foot plunge is definitely not a good joke! lol

Palm Jumeirah

2008-07-15T12:59:00.000-07:00

The Palm Jumeirah is an artificial island created using land reclamation by Nakheel, a company owned by the Dubai government. It is one of three islands called The Palm Islands which will increase Dubai’s shoreline by a total of 520 km. The Palm Jumeirah is the smallest and the original of three Palm Islands (Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali and Palm Deira) under development by Nakheel. It is located on the Jumeirah coastal area of the emirate of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The Worlds Tallest Building?

2008-07-13T01:31:00.000-07:00

Burj Dubai, which means "dubai tower", is a skyscraper now under construction in Dubai, UAE, and is the tallest structure on Earth. Construction began on September 21, 2004, and it is expected to be completed and ready for occupation in September 2009.

The total budget for the Burj Dubai project is about US$4.1 billion and for the entire new 'Downtown Dubai', US$20 billion. Mohamed Ali Alabbar, the CEO of Emaar Properties, speaking at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 8th World Congress, said that the price of office space at Burj Dubai had reached $4,000 per sq ft and that the Armani Residences, also in Burj Dubai, were selling for $3,500 per sq ft. As of 12 May 2008, Burj Dubai had reached a height of 636 m (2,087 ft), with 160 completed floors.

Burj Dubai's construction manager, Greg Sang, has said only that the final height would be greater than 700 m (2,297 ft), and that it would be the world's tallest free-standing structure when completed.

The tower is being constructed by a South Korean company, Samsung Engineering & Construction which also built the Petronas Twin Towers and the Taipei 101.

Burj Dubai has been designed to be the centerpiece of a large-scale, mixed-use development that will include 30,000 homes, nine hotels such as the Burj Dubai Lake Hotel & Serviced Apartments, 0.03 km² (0.01 sq mi) of parkland, at least 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, and the 0.12 km² (0.05 sq mi) man-made Burj Dubai Lake.