Archive for the ‘WorldEvents’ Category

Presidential speeches tag cloud

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

This is a very interesting use of a tag cloud to show themes of speeches made by US Presidents over time: http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/

Fascinating to see some of the themes that have come and gone. Even more so is the one that seemed to stay pretty much constant: war.

Intel site hit by Hezbollah rocket attacks

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

A couple of pictures of an Intel building in Haifa, Israel, that was hit by Hezbollah rocket attacks on 8/11/06. It was a Friday so few people were around, and the alarm was sounded well in advance. No one was hurt. The rocket actually landed ~150m from the building, and the damage was done by shrapnel.

This is the site where I was hoping to be working at this very time — I had been planning a five-month rotation to the site for the second half of this year, along with my family, but it was cancelled back in June (after we got the passports and visas all done).