As ancient web tradition dictates I will give a Google GMail account invite (yay!) to the first two readers that post a (non-spam) comment in this log.

slashdotter fenris_23 writes “The AP is reporting that President Bush has reiterated his opposition to the Kyoto Treaty despite President Putin’s acceptance of the treaty and recent scientific evidence directly linking greenhouse emissions to arctic warming. ‘President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job, let alone the nearly 5 million jobs Kyoto would have cost,’ said James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.”

Slashdot | U.S. Continues Opposition to Kyoto Environmental Treaty

In protest of the U.S Presidential election outcome, I will not update this site in a couple of days…

I am amazed that the americans have elected such a man as president, again!!

I wish us all the best, these next four years will surely bring more trouble to our planet.

By the end of the decade, Virgin Galactic – the most exciting development in the story of modern space history – is planning to make it possible for almost anyone to visit the final frontier at an affordable price.

Following Paul G. Allen’s visionary investment in developing SpaceShipOne, the world’s first privately funded spaceship, Virgin has, subject to all necessary government approvals, signed an agreement with Mojave Aerospace Ventures to license their intellectual property, enabling Virgin Galactic to develop a sub-orbital spaceship designed for space tourism.

www.virgingalactic.com

The annual Loebner Prize competition was just held Sept 19, 2004 in New York City.
“The Loebner Prize is the first formal instantiation of a Turing Test. The test is named after Alan Turing the brilliant British mathematician…”

Loebner Prize Home Page