links for 2009-01-20

Last fall, the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire, England saw the roll out of The Tornado, the first steam-powered train to be built in the UK in nearly half a century

During one of such "demonstration" the John McCain's plane was shot down to the ground by this man on video. According to his words it was the 13th missile that hit the target finally, twelve missed. He says it was a great luck that a group of Russian soldiers has arrived to the crash site, and ordered Vietnamese not to harm the shot down pilot but just to take him out of the river, because, he explained, usually locals hammered down with their stone hoes any American pilot they managed to find, so actually they saved him life.

People who sleep less than seven hours a night appear to be almost three times as likely to catch a cold as those who sleep eight hours or more, a new study has found.

This isn't a comprehensive look at everything photo-related at the expo, by any means, but they caught my eye while walking the show floor.