Unbelievable Video Footage of 747 Landings - Week of YouTube: Day 3

My grandfather was an airplane enthusiast, and passed along some of his passion to me. Maybe both of today's YouTube links will instill as much awe in you as they did for me.

1. An amazing Boeing 747 landing at Princess Juliana International Airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, captured from Maho Beach. The airport is famous for its short landing strip at only 2,180 meters.

2. A Boeing 747 landing at Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong, which was decommissioned in 1998.

Bonus: Video of a 747 jet thrust shredding a car on Metacafe.

Today’s Link source: The always awesome Metafilter. Photo from Sunset Beach Bar

Terrorism News/ Google Maps mashup

GlobalIncidentMap.com

Where are the terrorists?
GlobalIncidentMap.com is a mashup of news from the global war on terror with Google Maps. The news they aggregate and track includes: bombings and explosives; chemical and biological attacks; arson; suspicious events; hoaxes; assasinations, terrorism arrests; airport, railway and nautical security news; and serious events in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each news story contains a link to the original story, as well as the location of the news story on Google Maps.

While I'm not normally someone who tracks these security threats, it's shocking how many of these "terrorism events" occur every day, all over the world, by terrorists, insurgents, militants, saboteurs, vandals and the rest. Some of these stories are big news, such as the recent attack at the Glasgow airport, and some are minor that you would never otherwise hear about, such as a bomb found in a mailbox near the Canada-US border in Washington state. It's great to be able to dig deeper into a news story and have a greater understanding of the geography involved.

Today's Link source: BC Hydro PowerPioneers