Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Today's news round up...

The first Blu-ray drives have been shown at the CES show in Las Venturas Vegas.



Photos from Cassini are in, check 'em out here




The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, was unveiled today in a elaborate ceremony in France, attended by European leaders including Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder.

A £100m redevelopment scheme has started at Heathrow airport to accommodate the new aircraft. A pier at Terminal 3 will be demolished to make more space for the massive wingspan of the plane. The first test flight of the A380 will take place in April although Airbus is keeping the exact date under wraps. The work at Heathrow needs to be completed by the end of 2005, in time for the first A380 to start operating at Heathrow in spring 2006.

Stupid American Troops

The ancient city of Babylon has suffered extensive archaeological damage during the US-led occupation of Iraq, warns a report issued by the British Museum on Saturday.

The report states that prehistoric brickwork has been crushed beneath military vehicles, precious stonework used to fill sandbags and important historical sites damaged by newly dug trenches.

3 comments:

mmChronic said...

Yay for time travelling postage - that draft shizzle is a twunt! ;)

And NewLinks has officially given up on Guardian inclusion with the new Technorati Spizz category - if we ever show up there anyway.

mmChronic said...

From the Babylon story:
"This is tantamount to establishing a military camp ... around Stonehenge in Britain" says John Curtis.

What like this? Salisbury plains is a huge MOD area. Not immediately around Stonehenge but less than an artillery round away. Probably.

bungers said...

Grrr.. firefox keeps crashing ALL THE TIME.

I figure it's got something to do with acrobat, as it seems to be whenever I try to view a pdf.

Going back to IE. Bah. Mutter. Grumble.