The popular French news site LeMonde.fr published a phenomenal collection of news and multimedia related to World War I at the start of this month in remembrance of the 90th anniversary of the Great War. The édition spéciale, which corresponds to a print publication in France, compiles stories, photographs, audio and video associated with the [...]

Though most Americans learn about the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in standard history classes, very few actually seem to realize the significance of this event. Many dark moments in history are preserved and remembered by photographs of destruction and despair, but very few images of the atomic bomb’s sheer power exist. As stated in [...]

I can still hear those default system sounds, haunting my every memory. Back in the age of floppy disks and parallel ports, a lightweight operating system took the world by storm. This software, the first graphical user interface used by countless geeks in their youth, was known as Windows 3.1(1). It was 100% compatible with [...]

The Big Picture, by far the best blog for photojournalism geeks, posted some photographs of the recent flooding in the country of Yemen. In case you don’t know, the Republic of Yemen (الجمهورية اليمنية) is an Arab country located on the south-west corner of the Arabian Peninsula. The floods started on October 23rd, and were [...]

If you own a Nokia S60 based cell phone with built-in WiFi (such as the N95, E71, etc), you may be able to get free worldwide calling to/from any US number just by connecting to a wireless hotspot. This service works by combining the phone number forwarding and management service GrandCentral with the SIP internet [...]

One month ago, guardian.co.uk posted a story about the human labor behind the massive construction in the UAE’s favorite larger-than-life province. Dubai is known as the home to many recently broken world records involving architecture. It also happens to host the most construction cranes in the world. Sandy deserts surrounding the main city have “forced” [...]

Sometimes I come across photos on Flickr that I just can’t help but write about. These photographs, posted by Flickr user rorymac, were taken by traveler/photographer Daniel Smaller whilst traversing the Asia Overland Hippie Trail in 1977. The Hippie Trail, popular in the late Sixties and Seventies, was an overland route from Europe to Kathmandu [...]

Not sure if you heard, but Barack Obama won the presidential election. The logo that Biz Stone posted to the Twitter Blog pretty much sums up the excitement of the interwebs. Aside from a noticeable lag in the Twitter backbone, the site stayed up throughout the turmoil. And as Stone states, @barackobama, will be the [...]