Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
The 14-foot-high, 3,000-pound monument traveled from New York to the Shanksville fire station Saturday as part of a 300-mile motorcycle escort from New York.
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 14/04/2008
UK bomb disposal experts detonated a huge, 1,500 pound WWII German mine at Bridgwater Bay, Somerset yesterday. The explosion was awesomely awesome, as can be seen here. Remember, Hong Kong Disneyland is built on lots of unexploded WWII ordinance, left to marinate in salt water and slowly become inert. Let's hope that process is ticking along nicely. Tick tick tick. (via Gizmodo)...
Blue Crab Boulevard (Free subscription) | 14/04/2008
A 1,500 pound World War Two German mine was destroyed on Stert Island in Bridgwater Bay, Somerset on Saturday morning. The leftover ordnance was discovered by a local fisherman. A huge 1,500lb Second World War German mine washed up on a beach was detonated by bomb disposal experts yesterday. Authorities [...]
