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Submission + - Write your valentine on the side of a spacecraft

Submitted by GingerSnaps on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @02:26PM

GingerSnaps writes: Looking for something more fun and less predictable than roses and chocolates this Valentine's Day? At http://www.yournameintospace.org/ you can show that special someone just how much you care by writing your love in the stars — or on the side of a satellite to be precise. This unusual approach to courting comes courtesy of (who else?) students at MIT and Georgia Tech, as part of a larger initiative to pay for their research spacecraft, the Mars Gravity Biosatellite. For a small, tax-deductible donation anyone can post a picture or message of choice on the spacecraft. All donations help the students pay for the development and construction of their Earth-orbiting satellite, which will be launched in 2010. The data gathered will be critical to preparing for human missions to Mars and beyond. More info on the mission can be found at http://www.marsgravity.org/

Submission + - Apple Fights for Your Right to Playlists

Submitted by

theodp

on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @01:37PM

theodp writes: "This week's Official USPTO Gazette brings news that Apple has requested a reexamination of a patent granted to Premier International Investments LLC for a List Building System, which covers making, editing and displaying music and video playlists. Elsewhere in the same Gazette, the USPTO notes that it's ordered a reexamination of an Amazon patent for a Method and system for electronic commerce using multiple roles (i.e., providing multiple electronic shopping carts for each user) after determining that substantial new questions of patentability ('SNQ') had been raised."

Submission + - Can you recommend a team-oriented online game?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @01:36PM

An anonymous reader writes: My parents are moving out of town, and my sister and I are looking for an online game to play alongside our mom. (All three of us have played Puzzle Pirates, but my sister has become bored with the puzzles and won't touch it anymore.) Neither my mom nor I enjoy the standard MMORPG fare of kill-level-buy-gear-rinse-repeat. What we're looking for is some sort of cooperative online gaming experience which doesn't hinge on how fast you can click the mouse button or how many hours you've been killing things in dungeons. Does such a thing exist?

Submission + - Man charged in real-time Internet abuse case

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02, 2006 @02:36PM

An anonymous reader writes: Canada is a country that truly values privacy, but not at the cost of the innocent: "An undercover police officer in Toronto's child exploitation unit...was shaken to the core Sunday when a suspected pedophile he was chatting with on-line allegedly began sexually assaulting a preschooler and sending images of the attack over the internet to him in real time." The bad guy was found and arrested within hours.

Comment Marketing Plan.... (Score 1) 560

by Unloaded on Friday April 28, 2006 @10:08AM (#15220517) Attached to: Both Sides of Wii

Mike Myers, playing the sarcastic angry Scottish charachter Stuart Mackenzie from "So I Married an Axe Murderer".

"The queen. The vatican. The Getty's. The Rothschilds. AND Colonel Sanders before he went heads up! Oh, I hated the Colonel with his wee BEADY eyes! and that smug look on his face, 'Oh! You're gonna buy my chicken, OHHH. Aye Laddie - and look at the Wii Nintendo with it's Wii game disc. And look at the kid playin it - That kid's head's like Sputnik. Spherical but quite pointy in parts. Oh, that was a harsh one, wasn't it? He'll be cryin himself to sleep tonite on his huge pilla'."

"Now go and kiss your mother before I kick your teeth in!"

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