The conversation soon turned to the new president. “I didn’t vote for George Bush” the man confessed. “I didn’t either,” his wife added. Their names: John and Cindy McCain.

The 31 year old star of “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder” and “Definitely, Maybe” popped the question to Scarlett (23) on Monday, according to Johansson’s representative Marcel Pariseau, who was quoted as saying that “They’re both thrilled.”

Carmen Electra and her fiance, Rob Patterson, recently announced their engagement and we will be hearing about the wedding dates pretty soon.

This will be Carmen’s third marriage after she broke up with Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro and NBA star Dennis Rodman.

It’s interesting that having her love life become the subject of intensive media gossip would not keep her away from the dating scene.

I really hope it works for her this time. At least this time, she is marrying a guy who is not bi-sexual! Well, that would be a biased statement since even Carmen has been talked about her relationship with rocker Joan Jett, a self-confessed lesbian.

But she’s a lot more mature now and even Rob is marrying for the third time!

The freaky-looking KORN guitarist did manage to land Carmen by giving her black diamonds. It all seems to so simple for them. A sort of real life game involving fame and money, which doesn’t even last for an year!

I don’t think, I’ll be able to find someone giving odds on the length of this marriage for Carmen.

But then it’s all up to you, how you manage your personal life.

I wish her... luck?

Source: BauergriffinOnline

Santa Monica, CA based X Prize Foundation has announced their richest and the largest competition for developing clean technology and alternative fuels.

These are same people who gave away the much hyped-about $10m Ansari X Prize to SpaceShipOne for developing a space passenger vehicle in 2004.

The non-profit foundation will be giving up to $100m for breakthrough developments in the key areas of biofuels, clean aviation fuel, carbon capture, solar and other categories.

X Prize CEO Peter Diamandis says that through this prize they will aim to frame a target of a large monetary benefit in front of a pool of brilliant minds to speed up the innovation and research process required for rapid breakthroughs with the potential to directly benefit us all.

While I agree, a contest of such sorts will definitely be effective in opening new markets and revolutionizing industries, but saying that ‘the progress is too slow’ is inappropriate.

While clean technology is developing quickly, solutions are not coming in fast enough. Just recently, there have been developments of turning corn into biofuel and converting plant sugars into hydrogen. What we really need is the commercially-viable form of such technologies.

Also,the effort should be a combined one, not just by a foundation or independent individuals. The government should also encourage the policy of developing alternate fuels and not act rationally.

While U.S. senate applauded the X Prize foundation for their efforts, I recently found out that Congress has not yet renewed the Federal Solar Tax Credit that is set to expire this December.

Presidential hopefuls have been endorsing the idea of a gas tax relief and you are killing the solar power!

The initiative taken by the foundation is surely going to yield positive results as you can get a clue with the fact that 8% of the total venture capital funding in America is already flowing into clean technology.

In the end, I would like to emphasize one point.

While we are talking about funding new means of energy-production, why not we talk about saving it also? Conventional energy-conservation might as well solve the problem, besides spending millions of dollars on generating it’s alternatives.

Source: BusinessWeek

If you’re an IPL fanatic like me... you must be knowing the name of Lekha Washington, everyone’s favourite on-field host.

Well, Lekha is a qualified film-maker from NID, Ahmedabad.

She began her career as a theatre artist. In 2006 she become a VJ on SS Music, and hosted the popular shows PCO and later Connect.
Lekha is also a sculptor, having held her first solo exhibition at the age of 18. She played a leading role in the film ‘Framed‘ directed by independent director Chetan Shah. She is currently shooting for Jayamkondaan opposite Vinay Rai

Though it’s her first time as a commentator, I think she is doing as good a job as Mandira Bedi did during the last World Cup.

What say??

The original in 1996 with Cruise playing super agent Ethan Hunt had grossed $467million at the box office worldwide.