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World’s first Angry Birds cable car ride
Don't break down here! 10 terrifying Aussie roads
How in-flight entertainment is becoming better than what you have at home

World’s first Angry Birds cable car ride

Posted: 23 May 2012 07:01 PM PDT

If you can't make it to Finland to check out the world's first officially licensed Angry Birds theme park in June, Singapore is offering the next best thing: "Angry Birds Adventure atop Mount Faber."

From June to December, fans of the frighteningly addictive game can hop into one of the Singapore Cable Car's 30 Angry Birds cabins at Mount Faber, where they can also check out interactive game stations, take part in creative workshops and eat quirky Angry Birds meals. Some cabins sport a stuffed Angry Birds toy, while all guests receive a complimentary Angry Birds face mask and a "mocktail" in a collectable cup. For the month of June only, three specially designed, fully wrapped Angry Birds cable car cabins will depict the Angry Birds chasing after an evil green pig. For more on the event check out the Angry Birds Adventure Facebook page. Making new friends

You'd be angry too if someone made you sit in a cable car with sweaty tourists for seven months. While many of us purged our Angry Birds addiction back in 2010, the game continues to garner new fans.

A recent report by Forbes says the Angry Birds series hit 1 billion downloads globally in May. Gameinformer.com reports that Angry Birds Space -- the latest version of the game -- has been downloaded more than 50 million times.

Just this week, the Facebook version of Angry Birds dropped its beta tag and has been re-branded "Angry Birds Friends." The new version includes added social features to increase competition among players.

There's also good news for anyone who wants their own cash slice of the pig slaughtering action.

Don't break down here! 10 terrifying Aussie roads

Posted: 23 May 2012 12:55 PM PDT

by Joanne Lane

From their bone-shattering corrugations to sordid backdrops for horror movies or backpacker murders, the isolated swathes of Australia's roads aren't the best places to run into car trouble.

Home to little more than shifting sands, perspiration, flies, broken vehicle axles or the remnants of tires, many are in the kinds of locations where you might not see another vehicle in days.

They're also places where both explorers and random travelers have met their doom.

Belanglo State Forest roads and tracks

Dangerous Australian roads The isolated tracks in the Belanglo Forest were perfect hiding places for serial killer Ivan Milat.

Where: New South Wales

How in-flight entertainment is becoming better than what you have at home

Posted: 23 May 2012 09:01 AM PDT

by Hiufu Wong

It was only 30 years ago that watching an in-flight movie meant peering over the heads of numerous rows of people to see a flickering screen at the front of the cabin. If you got a movie at all.

Now individual screens are commonplace. Fliers can choose which movies to watch, when and how. They can play games, even linking up with other passengers on the same flight. They can listen to music.

1992 First personal seatback IFE The first personal seatback IFE screen on Emirates in 1992.