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Dj Mag 2008 Top 100 DJs

World Top 100 Djs per Dj Mag Poll, Armin To Hit #1.

01. Armin van Buuren

02. Tiësto

03. Paul van Dyk

04. Above & Beyond

05. David Guetta

06. Ferry Corsten

07. Sasha

08. Markus Schulz

09. John Digweed

10. Infected Mushroom

Baalbeck - Discover Lebanon Series

Baalbeck is a town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, altitude 1,170 m, situated east of the Litani River.

Baalbeck is famous for its exquisitely detailed and monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman period, known as Heliopolis it was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire. The town is located about 85 km north east of Beirut, and about 75 km north of Damascus. It has population of approximately 72.000 habitants.

The history of Baalbeck dates back around 5000 years. Excavations near the Jupiter temple have revealed the existence of ancient human habitation dating to the Early Bronze Age (2900-2300 BC). The Phoenicians settled in Baalbeck as early as 2000 BC and built their first temple dedicated to the God Baal, the Sun God, from which the city got its name.

Prominent Lebanese 4 - Nicolas G. Hayek (born February 19, 1928 in Beirut, Leban

Nicolas Hayek is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Swatch Group. He was born to a Lebanese mother and Lebanese father, both from well-regarded Greek-Orthodox Lebanese families with deep roots in Lebanon's Northern Governorate of El-Koura.

Hayek originally headed a business consulting firm who was called on by a group of Swiss bankers to oversee a liquidation of Swiss watch manufacturing firms ASUAG and SSIH, who were encountering hard competition from Japanese watch manufacturers. Hayek believed that the Swiss watch manufacturing industry could remain competitive with a restructuring and a focus on different business areas. After having engineered and implemented the reorganization of the ASUAG and SSIH watch companies for more than four years, finally bringing about their merger, Hayek, with a group of Swiss investors, took over a majority shareholding in the new group in 1985. He became Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer in 1986.

Prominent Lebanese 3 - William K. Sawaya (born in 1948)

is an Italian who was born and raised in cosmopolitan post-World War II Beirut, Lebanon. He graduated in Architecture in 1973 from the National Academy of Fine Arts of Beirut.

Particularly interested to the definition of internal spaces (his first successes were obtained with the projects of some residences in Lebanon), he than extends his professional activity to France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Russia, the USA and the Arabic Golf. In Paris and Milan he studied and experienced the field of Product Design which he considers an important part of a coherent project in living culture.

Prominent Lebanese 2 - Elie Saab (born July 4, 1964)

Sometimes simply known as ES is a Lebanese fashion designer who has long been a leading name in haute couture throughout the Middle East. Saab was born in Beirut, in 1981 he moved to Paris to study Fashion but he was impatient and moved back to Lebanon in 1982 at the age of 18. He started his career by opening an atelier in Beirut. His style which is a mixture of Oriental and Western culture attracted many of the princesses in the surroundings.

Prominent Lebanese 1 - Carlos Slim Helu (born January 28, 1940)

is a Mexican businessman largely focused on the telecommunications industry. He is considered as the second richest man in the world with a net worth of around U.S. $60 billion through his holdings.

Carlos Slim has a substantial influence over the telecommunications industry in Mexico and much of Latin America as well. He controls Teléfonos de Mexico (Telmex), Telcel and America Movil companies. Though he maintains an active involvement in his companies, his three sons Carlos Slim Domit, Marco Antonio Slim Domit and Patrick Slim Domit head them.

Helu's father Julian Slim, a Maronite , moved to Mexico City from Lebanon at the age of 14. Julian established a dry goods store called La Estrella del Oriente (Star of the Orient) in 1911 and purchased real estate in downtown Mexico City. He and his wife had six children, of whom Carlos was the youngest boy.

Microsoft Zune to share the music

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s effort to compete against Apple's iPod juggernaut will focus on the idea that people want to be able to easily share music with friends and others.

The software maker said Thursday that its portable Zune media player, scheduled to be available around the holiday season, will include wireless technology to let people share some of their favorite songs, playlists or pictures with other Zune users who are close by.

Those users can listen to the songs three times over three days before deciding whether to purchase it themselves.

"The idea is to legitimize peer-to-peer sharing in a healthy way that works for everybody," said J Allard, a Microsoft vice president in charge of the Zune product line.

Microsoft said the song-sharing capability will be available for most songs available through its forthcoming Zune Marketplace service, although some music publishers won't allow it.

Steve Irwin's death clogs Web sites

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) -- In death as in life, iconic TV naturalist Steve Irwin captivated millions worldwide and clogged the Internet as fans from Guam to Glasgow reacted with disbelief to news "The Crocodile Hunter" was dead.

Some Web sites groaned to a halt within hours of the first reports Monday that Irwin had been killed by a stingray's barb through his chest in a freak diving accident off Australia's northeast coast.

Web measurement company Hitwise said Irwin's death was the biggest news event read by Australians on the Internet since two Australian miners were trapped by a mine collapse in southern Tasmania state in late April.

"We noticed that the Web site www.crocodilehunter.com increased in popularity quite substantially. It became the number one entertainment personality Web site in Australia yesterday and in the United States it also became the third most popular," Hitwise Asia-Pacific marketing director James Borg told Reuters.

Google's unknown artist has huge following

Dennis Hwang may be the most famous unknown artist in the world -- his work doesn't hang in galleries or museums, but it's been viewed hundreds of millions of times.

The 28-year-old webmaster designs the whimsical logos that decorate Google.com's otherwise Spartan Web site on special occasions.

"It's always a fun kind of challenge to incorporate the logo into the design. Over the years, just because I kind of push myself to use different types of design if I can," Hwang said. (Have a look at Hwangs's Google logos)

He has been manipulating the six letters in the Google name into shamrocks, fireworks, hearts and goblins since shortly after he got an internship there in 2000. Company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin found out that he was an art major in college.

Price of virtual living: Patience, privacy

The virtual worlds depicted in the movies "The Matrix" and "Minority Report" can often seem far too real in today's world of computers, e-mail, instant messaging, MP3 players, cell phones, laptops, Wi-Fi and RFID.

Many of us can't get through a day without scanning, dialing or logging into a digital world so deeply embedded that living without 1s and 0s seems almost unthinkable -- and maybe impossible.

"We now live in an era where the technology is becoming mandatory instead of a choice. ...We have found ourselves tethered to our technology in a way that has really changed our lifestyle," said Larry Rosen, co-author of the book "TechnoStress: Coping with Technology @Work @Home @Play."