The big beauty of a bird will be on display for Monday and Tuesday at the Farnborough Air Show and then will pack up and head back to its homebase.

People checking out this Big Bird should look at things like the dimmable window shades, the giant overhead bins and other things included inside to make travel a little more comfortable.

The 787, which is made of composite and other light weight materials, gets about 20 percent better fuel economy and is one of the most anticipated planes to enter the air fleet. It can carry more people and stuff than anything in the sky right now.

What we want next to ride in it.

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Ouch!

The last day of the Pamplona, Spain, Bull Run ended up to be the most injury filled day out of the event.

For the past week and a half, drunken men — and it seems to be almost exclusively men — have lined up along a cobble stone street and waited for 12 bulls to come running down it. A few were gored, a few were trampled, but no one died during the runs. They probably should have, but they didn’t.

Today, the final day of the San Fermin festival, which includes the Running of the Bulls made famous by Ernest Hemingway’s “The Bull Stops Here.”

New reports say that nine people were injured today, though only one was gored.

Fortunately, no one was killed this year, which was happened last year during the bull run.

This is simply insane — and something we definitely want to put our list of places to go to. We’re not entirely sure why, but it is just something that you’ve got to see and we want to see it.

Photos credit: About.com Spain Travel

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Goring is not fun, according to people who have had it happened to them.

But that was the only major injury today in the San Fermin festival made famous for Americans by Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. Yesterday, three people were injured bringing the total up to a whole bunch, according to media reports.

The last day of the Bull Run is tomorrow.

Photo credit: Associated Press. See more pics here.

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According to media reports, five more people where hurt but no one had a horn stuck their chest, thigh or neck, which occurred during the first three days of drunken people running a 850 meter road with 12 bulls behind them.

There are nine days of bull running in Pamplona, Spain, during the San Fermin festival, that starts on July 6 every year.

Photo credit: Spanish-fiestas.com

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One man was gored in the thigh and six more were seriously injured during the third of nine days of the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, according to media reports. It was the highest injury total for a single day so far.

That brings the injury total so far this year to 16 points for the bulls, 0 for the humans, who have not hurt one bull during the run — of course after the run six bulls are killed during the bull fights.

For those who have never been to Pamplona during the bull run, which we haven’t, though we know people who have, it’s an amazing event. The No. 1 tip offered to newbies is never watch the bull run if you’re planning on running in it. That means: Arrive in the afternoon, take a nap, get up at 1 a.m., drink until you can’t walk, stumble around town, drink some more, kind of pass out, have a stranger wake you up around 6 a.m., go and buy one one of those white outfits with a red bandana, text your friends at home that you’re about to die. Run about 14 feet on the cobble stone street and then scratch your way  under one of the barriers as you hear the bulls approach.

You should be drunk enough to not notice you were not actually on the 850 meter route that the bulls run, but rather, a nearby street. No one will tell you different and you can go back to your hotel room soaked in sweat that smells like fear and urine.

Photo credit: Sky News

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An Irishman and a Spainard walk onto the a street. A bull gores them.

After the second bull run of 2010 in Pamplona, Spain, the bulls now have a running total of eight people injured enough to visit the hospital. Thursday, two men were gored and four more injured, according to the Associated Press.

All told, thousands of people line the streets in Pamplona to either run as fast as they can as a dozen bulls race toward them, or gawk as drunken men (for some reason there never seem to be too many women involved in the bull run, though we don’t doubt there are some mixed in the masses).

Doctors told the Associated Press that one of the men gored was hit in the throat with a bull’s horn and was seriously injured. The man was gored in the chest. Both sound pretty serious to us.

But don’t worry, the injuries aren’t over yet. Last year, a man was killed — something that has happened 15 times since 1911. There are seven more bull runs this year at the San Fermin fiesta.

Check out this map of the Bull Run in Pamplona. Where would you plan your bullish dash?

1. Corralillos
2. Cuesta de Santa Domingo
3. Plaza del Ayuntamiento
4. Curva de Mercaderes hacia Estafeta
5. Calle Estafeta 6. Curva de Telefónica
7. Callejón
8. Plaza de Toros
9. Plaza del Castillo

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Who are we kidding? Somebody is going to get hurt in Pamplona, Spain — they always do this time of the year. For the next nine days, casualties are going to start mounting. This morning at 8 a.m., two people were injured in the first day of the running of the bulls, according to the Associated Press, which was copying the information from a Spanish website. But throughout bars in the tiny Spanish city, hundreds more are regaling tales of their historic run and showing off the cuts and scrapes they endured.

Tomorrow will be the same.

The annual 850 meter course through town pits giant bulls against drunk runners in a challenge of stupidity and bravery. Last year was the first time in 15 years that a person was killed during the running of the bulls.

A typical day starts the night before as party goers “prepare” for the morning rush hour hour by finding as much courage as possible in the form of liquid. They then stay up until the 8 a.m. running of the bulls by standing at different places along the route. The bulls are then set loose and made to run down the street, trampling nicely dressed runners who cannot get out of the way just fall down because they are too drunk.

However, most bulls, whose hoofs are not very good on cobble stone, often fall as well. Those bulls that survive the run will be killed later that day during a bull fight, so the run is really their last chance to score a few points before hitting the ring.

If you want to learn more about bull fighting and you’ve never read Hemingway, you can also click here to read about it, (it’s from the About Spain people).

Not scared yet? Check out this video from 2007.

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That’s why we’re mentioning the opening this week of the Hilton The Hauge. First of all, Den Haag, that coastal Dutch City is an absolute fantastic place to visit. There’s all the reefer you can smoke like Amsterdam, but there’s just a different vibe to this city. It’s more Holland than The Netherlands and it’s one of the few cities       that has the word “The” before it. (No one has ever visited Haag.)

In Amsterdam, people think Red Light District and parties. The Hauge is all about war criminals and Queen Beatrix.

As for this particular Hilton,

it’s built on the bones of the 1950 Royal Dutch Telecom Headquarters. It’s 195 bedrooms lay just a

few steps away from the art galleries, shops and cafes that fill The Hauge.

Ever hear of the Girl with the Pearl Earring? No, not the movie starring Scarlett Johansson, we’re talking about the Dutch painting. It served as the inspiration for the slightly silly sounding Grand Cafe Pearl — which is in this Hilton. The painting is about 15 minutes away. Vemeer, the Dutch master who painted it, is dead.

The real girl with pearls

Scarlett Johansson

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Crown Princess Victoria plans to tie the knot today with Clark Kent Look-a-Like Daniel Westling in the first royal wedding since some prince in Denmark married some French girl in 2008.

But no one is likely to see the wedding outside of Sweden, according to the Associated Press, which is boycotting it. In fact, just about every major news organization says it’s skipping the wedding because media restrictions placed on the wedding. Apparently, Sweden has provided exclusive rights to the Swedish national television. All others have to abide by those rules, which in media parlance, pisses them off. (Though it doesn’t anger the AP when Hollywood royalty excludes it from publishing photos until a certain time, so pardon our lack of first amendment right violations in this case. The press does have a right to be a hypocrite and we have a right to think they’re douches.)

All of that over shadows the fact that CP Victoria, 32, will wed her former personal trainer and, now, no one will get to see because the media has become Bridezilla.

In another twist to the date, Victoria’s parents, the king and queen, were married on exactly the same date — June 19 — 37 years ago.

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On January 1, 2011 — smoking is banned. Kind of… But don’t worry, any self respecting hipster will still be able to grab a PBR (in Spain it’s called Sangria) and light up a fag and never notice the ban, kind of like the no smoking in German airports, except where there are ashtrays.

Spain has joined the smoking crackdown in Europe and has completely banned smoking  in very very small rooms, unless you’re alone or no one else cares. But, if the door is cracked, or the a window is open, well, go on, you can light one up.

Actually, the new rule states the following according to TypicallySpanish.com.

The latest changes and the new target date were announced at a press conference by the Health Minister, Trinidad Jiménez. Smoking is to be banned in all closed public areas, but will be allowed on terraces and in sports stadiums and bullrings…

It will also be permitted in hotel rooms, and in specially designated areas in prisons and mental institutions, but will not be allowed at social events such as weddings, communions or baptisms, as these are considered as being closed public spaces.

The new legislation will also allow tobacco in smoking clubs as they can be considered as being a private place where workers and waiters have the option of choice.

A move to ban smoking in parks with children and outside of hospitals was quickly quashed, parents gotta light up, and so do doctors, duh.

Yeah, this is a ban we can live with.

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