I don’t know what it is with me and tall buildings. But this one especially amazes me. There is no name yet for this city-in-a-skyscraper. But what we do know is that it is going to be approximately 8184 Ft tall (2447 Meters!!) and it will be built in Dubai - Jumeirah City. This city-in-a-skyscraper will consume 37,000 megawatts per hour per year, with a 15MWH peak usage, but as the plans show, it has been designed to generate most of it using wind, thermal, and solar power. It has the environment in mind.

Dubai’s current architectural marvel the 3,280 feet-high 200-floor Nakheel Tower (still under construction) is nothing compared to this! The building is so tall that its main elevator is in fact a vertical 125mph bullet train. Personally I do think it looks breathtaking. Everything cool is being built in Dubai at the moment. I need to save up so I can go there for a holiday~

Named the “Nakheel Tower” or the Al Burj, this enormous megastructure will stand approximately 4,593 ft. Thats 1.4 kilometres high!! It is to be built on the Dubai Skyline and will have 100 floors, making it the the tallest man made structure ever built. Wouldn’t it be cool to live on the top floor!

When constructed (date has yet to be released), the tower would be planted at the Dubai Waterfront and will be a combination of offices and apartments.. This sky scraper will rival the Burj Dubai which currently stands at 707m (2,320 ft) and its still under construction. This is a proprosed picture of what the Al Burj may look like:

If it is built, I think it would be a true marvel of human engineering and will show us that we can literally build anything if we put our minds together and do it!

Many of us want a response from our users on various aspects of our site. And I found this great plugin while searching for a customizable contact form that fits in with my design. I personally think Cform is the most customizable plugin I have ever used. It lets you customize every single option and an advantage would be the use of Ajax in this plugin. It allows your readers to submit the form without refreshing the whole page.

cform is a highly customizable, flexible and powerful form builder plugin, covering a variety of use cases and features, from attachments to multi form management, you can even have multiple forms on the same page!

Localization

• Chinese, Simplified * Author: Winnie Law (Liu Dongyan)
• Danish * Author: Mads Christian Jensen
• Dutch * Author: Anja
• French * Author: La maison de l’informatiqu
• German * Author: Sven Wappler
• Hungarian * Author: Ungvári Béla
• Italian * Author: Gianni
• Japanese * Author: Hiroaki Miyashita
• Polish * Authors: Kasia Nocek & WEST28
• Russian * Author: Sofia Panchenko
• Spanish * Author: Samuel Aguilera
• Turkish * Author: Resat Diker

It offers convenient deployment of multiple contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page. The form submission utilizes AJAX, falls back, however, to a standard method in case AJAX/Javascript is not supported or disabled. Plugin Homepage | Author Homepage | Plugin Download

Another cool FireFox addon:

The simplest yet most good looking FireFox Add-on. It gives a strong colourful appeal. It colours every tab in a different colour and makes them easy to distinguish while making the overall appearance look better. Each tab colour is generated at random and you can also add your own pics as a background for each tab. I’m using this right now and I think it goes well with firefox and my current computer theme =P

Some of the complied resources i found online on blogs. They provide real-time video footage of the Beijing Olympic Games 2008. Some of these resources highlight events while some of them allow you to watch the Beijing Olympics 2008 live Online for Free.

1. Subscribe to official Beijing Olympics 2008 Video Feeds.
2. Watch video clips on the official YouTube channel for Beijing Olympics 2008.
3. Get live Olympics 2008 coverage at CCTV.
4. Watch live streams at Yahoo 7 and read news and reviews at Yahoo 7 Blog.
5. Stream live from BBC Sports or CBC.

The are some blogs that are covering the events and news related to Beijing Olympics 2008:

1. NY Times Olympics Blog
2. LA Times Olympics Blog
3. ABC Olympics Blog
4. Beijing Olympics Fan
5. Beijing Olympics Blog
6. Olympic Games Blog
7. China Olympics Blog

Update: Here are some Desktop apps for users to keep themselves updated with all Beijing Olympics 2008 news and updates.

There is a new opensource project underway called Gmail Redesigned started by Globex Designs. The project aims to fully redesign the look and feel of the popular Google Gmail service.

The default Gmail design is too simple, and it is disappointing that Gmail does not provide any skins or themes for its users currently. However using Gmail Redesigned you will be able to fully redesign the whole look of Gmail to stylish black theme.

You require is Firefox and the Stylish Firefox add-on to do this.

Make sure Stylish is properly installed on Firefox and follow the steps below.

1. Open the following style sheet in a browser.
   http://www.globexdesigns.com/gmail/gmail.css
2. Find the Stylish icon in Firefox on the far bottom-right side of the status bar.
3. Right click it and select Add File to Stylish.
4. In the description, write Gmail Black and leave all boxes checked.
5. Click Save

You are done! This will give Gmail the ultimate Stylish Black look. For a preview see the screenshots below:

If you would like to revert back to default Gmail skin, simply Right Click on Stylish icon and click Manage Styles, then delete the Gmail Black stylesheet.

Have you got some great gmail themes to share or talk about, please feel free to leave a comment.

Enjoy!

Who would expect of a light which has lots of legs and shaped as a bug would cost most than a grand. A decor for your room. Check it out. Not just a grand but flamin $2600 to build one for you.

Body made of a two-part fiberglass mold- white lacquer finish. Light covers made of Corian. Legs 5/8” hollow steel tubes each curve is unique to its location- white powder coat finish.
Dimensions H 19? x W 15? x L 31?.

Check it out here!

This neat little gravity defiying globe that you can get from ThinkGeek.com will make your visitors scratch their heads. 

Floating Globe (Video)