We left off the "b" because it looked aesthetically unpleasing. Also, we dislike incremental version numbers that dip beyond the tens place. Ironically, the actual version number is 4.1 but we reversed it because we don't particularly care for the number four either. I hope this clears things up.

The game industry is doomed.

Ahh, the Trans Am.... Zdim gets all misty-eyed. You lucky dog.

News you might have missed
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ECTS award winners annouced
http://www.ects.com/pressmore.html?type=1&articleID=91

ECTS home
http://www.ects.com/

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Legendary jazz vibraphonist Lionel Hampton dies at 94
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesat/20020831.wesat.09.ram
(NPR Audio)

'Vibes' master Lionel Hampton dead
'When I was a kid, I always wanted to put on a show'
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/31/obit.hampton.ap/index.html
(CNN)

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Today's Solar Flare
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 01, @01:26PM
from the different-than-mind-flare dept.
"An anonymous reader writes "X1-class solar flare today (13:30 Universal
Time). Still the SOHO spacecraft offers some of the all-time greatest
snapshots anywhere on the web. The flare's residual activity would be shown
white and at around 9 o'clock position here. There are 3 major categories,
each 10 times stronger than the next: X-class flares are big; they are major
events that can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting
radiation storms. M-class flares are medium-sized; they generally cause
brief radio blackouts that affect Earth's polar regions. C-class flares are
small with few noticeable consequences here on Earth. If it were headed
towards Earth, arrival is usually 48-72 hrs later (this is not coming this
way). Future Mars astronauts should take a lead umbrella because one
radiation day on Mars is like living at 70,000 feet on Earth." Nature is
pretty."

Image
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/images/Sun_and_earth.jpg

"The flare's residual activity would be shown white and at around 9 o'clock
position here."
http://solar.spacew.com/sunnow/

"radiation day"
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article144.html

(Slashdot)

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The Hubble Deep Field
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020901.html
"Galaxies like colorful pieces of candy fill the Hubble Deep Field - one of
humanity's most distant optical views of the Universe."

(APOD)

Will Inquistion include Christian/Roman Catholic elements? Which inquisition are we talking about? Will there be references to Pope Gregory IX or Pope Sixtus IV? Will the "bad guys" be Christian officials? Will Christian churches be used within mission settings? Will we see the Christian cross in this game?

Now who will I gripe to? Be well and happy, Frans!