Researchers at Purdue University build a scientifically accurate 3D simulation of the World Trade Center tower when the airplane hit it.

Among their conclusions:

Here is a series of emails sent to us by a prospective victim. Her name is withheld for privacy reasons.You can see that the method in this case is charging courier fees upfront. In other cases, it is account opening fees, government fees, bribes, ...etc., but it is all the same: upfront money for a prize that does not exist.

Here is another scam email. The lottery is supposed to be in Belgium, but the address is in the Czech Republic.

It seems that some Arabic words are being used subconsciously for open source software projects.

Here are some recent examples.

I have wrote about Professor Robert Pape in a past article. He has been doing more speaking lately. The latest is speaking to a Muslim banquet and a Jewish audience in Cleveland. Details in this article on Cleveland Jewish News.

Avraham Burg, is an Israeli politician who was the former speaker of the Knesset from 1999 to 2003. He was also the chairman for the Jewish Agency for Israel, and the World Zionist Organization. In 2003, he wrote an article for The Yediot Aharonot (translated for the Guardian) titled: The End of Zionism. In that article he says that "...

The CBC asked the public to nominate and vote for the "Seven Wonders of Canada". Many worthy entries were nominated.The final list judged by the panel can be seen in the gallery of the Seven Wonders of Canada. Check the full list of nominees, with votes.

Tariq Ramadan writes an article in the Guardian titled Blair can no longer deny a link exists between terrorism and foreign policy. Tariq Ramadan, in his usual analytical and articulate manner raises very good points. Below, I highlighted the parts that are important:

From the meaningless numbers are fun ... Druplicon likes to congratulate user mightymod@ubuntu.schmidtke-hb.de for posting the 150,000th node on Drupal.org! Five days ago, user ineffable from Canada got to be user 150,000. Congratulations to both of you, your Drupal addiction kit is in the mail...

Last week we had smog warning days in Southern Ontario with temperatures of 29C. Tonight, we are seeing the risk of frost with the temperature being just a few degrees above freezing.And all this in the span of a week, and in June too!