Slashdotter belg4mit writes “An astronomy professor at Johns Hopkins is pushing for the adoption of a new, static, calendar. The press release is written better than his site but a little short on details.
Interestingly he claims this should be easy to implement and points at the hoops coders must jump through for the Gregorian calendar.”

Slashdot | New Calendar Proposal

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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.