The day bin Laden died

It's not often that the White House holds a news conference late on a Sunday night. Especially an unscheduled one. So when it was announced, around 9:45 p.m. ET on May 1, that President Obama would be addressing the nation within the hour, you knew it had to be important. Had there been a major development in Libya? Things had been heating up since NATO started intervening against Moammar Gadhafi's forces. Were U.S. troops going into another part of the Arab world? Had there been another terrorist attack? Or was it the news that many Americans had been waiting on for nearly a decade: that Osama bin Laden, leader of al Qaeda,...

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Top 10 Magazines in The World

NO it’s not the bulky comic book, neither it’s the children’s bedtime catalogue; it’s an honest, knowledgeable, acid free twenty page magazine. We all read it almost every day, its colorful and filled with rich business men, celebrities and models etc. pasted on glossy pages thin as silk to keep us entertained. So why are they so popular? May be because they help decorate a superstore or lure senior citizens into the market or whatever. Read on and find out why are they so popular. 10. Newsweek As the name suggests this weekly, high quality slick American paper stack contains articles, discussions and opinions of scored, all time...

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Don’t Play These Games!

A low-status game may be known to be terrible or perhaps it’s cutesy or it lets you disappear into another world. Whatever it is, this low-status game is enough to make your friends, your coworkers and your fellow gamers want to hit the reset button on knowing you. If anyone sees you dominating Madden, they’ll not only get you, they’ll respect you. Hell, they may even fear  of your skills. However, what if someone sees you playing one of those games that cause people to cringe, shudder and question our game choice? These are low-status games. This is my list of low-status games that you shouldn’t let others know you play. Or, just hide yourself...

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690: Dual-Kepler GPUs

After teasing us for most of last week, NVIDIA has finally launched its GeForce GTX 690, a graphics card powered by two GPUs based on the “Kepler” architecture. The new card was announced at an odd hour in the USA, but that’s because Jen-Hsun Huang (NVIDIA’s CEO) presented it in Shanghai, China. Now, you finally get to see the card in all its glory, and NVIDIA is rather proud of the reference design, which uses thixomolded magnesium alloy (instead of plastic) for the fan housing because this material provides better heat dissipation. Like previous designs, the heat sink uses vapor chambers, which is not too much to help cool the “beast”. In...

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Top 5 Greatest Strategy Games

5. Bridge 19th century developed from earlier games. This is the king of trick taking card games. Teams work together to try and make books after bidding on how many they expect to take and the suit to be considered trump. Not as popular as it once was, there are still a number of fans and newspaper columns devoted to the strategy of the game appear in many newspapers on a regular basis. 4. Civilization The opposite of the conquer the world type games this is about developing societies through trade and cooperation with other players. You need to help your fellow players in order to advance your own societies and the game...

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Top 5 Deadliest Forces of the World

5. Kopassus Formed in 1952, the Indonesian Army’s feared special forces group quickly established a bad name for themselves by spearheading government military campaigns. Famous ops: In 1981, an Islamic extremist group hijacked Garuda Flight 206. After the aircraft landed, Kopassus commando executed a fast-paced operation, killing three hijackers and freeing 50 passengers. 4. Sayeret Matkal The elite special forces of the Israeli defence force are experts in small arms, martial arts and gathering intelligence from deep behind enemy lines. These days they’re kept busy with counter-terrorism gigs and hostage rescue. Famous...

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Airbus A380

The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, a subsidiary of EADS. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and due to its size, many airports have had to expand their facilities to properly accommodate it. Designed to challenge Boeing's monopoly in the large-aircraft market, the A380 made its maiden flight on 27 April 2005 and entered initial commercial service in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines. The aircraft was known as the Airbus A3XX during much of its development, before receiving the A380 designation. The A380's upper deck extends along the entire...

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