yay!

After years of silence and "no comment"s, Valve have announcedthat they will be showing Half-Life 2 at E3, and rumours abound that it will be released later this year.

Now, what about Team Fortress 2?

X-prize

At last, a non-vapourware contender for the X-prize. Not only is it already built, but parts of the system are undergoing flight testing, and it was built by someone who knows what he's doing (Burt Rutan's aircraft already hold a world record or two).

And it's a PLANE. An honest-to-ghod two-stage-to-sub-orbital, air-launched, SPACEPLANE, dammit. Like many Rutan designs, it looks like nothing else on Earth.

We are truly living in the future.