[Bongle]

As I posted to correct someone in the negative thread: apparently the confetti balloons weren't there this year, obscuring vision in the upper levels. That's good.

I liked the speeches this year. IIRC, last year there was a congressman and a senator who gave pretty rah-rah pro-america speeches to the international crowd that was kind of wierd and felt like a USA political rally (and given that it was a midterm election year, that's probably how the politicians saw it too). The DARPA man (forget his name) and the YouTube founder (Chad Hurley) were really good this year. Sergei's speech last year was kind of bizarre (robot carrying the golden ball).