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Submission + - George Lucas C&Ds "Lightsaber Laser" (cnn.com)

Submitted by dward90 on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @09:18AM

dward90 writes: George Lucas thinks that bulky, handheld lasers shouldn't be produced because they are his intellectual property.

From CNN: "George Lucas wants to force a laser company to stop making a new, high-powered product he says looks too much like the famous lightsaber from his classic sci-fi series.

Lucasfilm Ltd. has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Hong Kong-based Wicked Lasers, threatening legal action if it doesn't change its Pro Arctic Laser series or stop selling it altogether"

Submission + - Guggenheim Thinks YouTube is Art (pcworld.com)

Submitted by dward90 on Monday June 14, 2010 @01:08PM

dward90 writes: The Guggenheim museum in New York has begun a program to submit YouTube videos to be declared High Art.

From PCW: "Are your YouTube videos so good they deserve to be in a museum? Thanks to a partnership between Google and the Guggenheim Museum in New York your you stand, at least, a remote chance. The search giant and one of the most famed museums in the world for modern and contemporary art are collaborating on a new project called YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video. The project will showcase up to 20 video works submitted to YouTube at the Guggenheim in New York on October 21, and online at YouTube.com/Play"

Submission + - Open Source Utilities for Facebook Privacy (cnet.com)

Submitted by dward90 on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @11:15AM

dward90 writes: Cnet has an article about 2 online projects that will scan and edit Facebook privacy settings for maximum protection: ReclaimPrivacy (reclaimprivacy.org) and SaveFace (untangle.com). The article says:

"Several new applications have launched this week that are designed to easily reset a Facebook member's privacy settings, following new changes from the company that make a sizable chunk of profile content public by default when it was once kept under lock and key."

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