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Google has recently announced a new contest/program called 10^100 were they are looking to invest millions of dollars in ideas that have the potential to change the world..for the better. Basically if you have a great idea but no way to implement it you can enter it into the contest. People will vote on which ideas they like the best and the final winners will be determined by a panel of Google employees.
There are a number of different categories ideas can fall under.

Community: How can we help connect people, build communities and protect unique cultures?
Opportunity: How can we help people better provide for themselves and their families?
Energy: How can we help move the world toward safe, clean, inexpensive energy?
Environment: How can we help promote a cleaner and more sustainable global ecosystem?
Health: How can we help individuals lead longer, healthier lives?
Education: How can we help more people get more access to better education?
Shelter: How can we help ensure that everyone has a safe place to live?
Everything else: Sometimes the best ideas don’t fit into any category at all.

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There is loads of space junk right here on planet earth! Oobject has put together a great list of various Space Junk that has been abandoned and forgotten since the dawn of the space age. The lists look at abandoned space junk from both NASA and the Russian Space Agency. There is everything from a Russian shuttle that was never completed to a NASA rocket launch trailer full of equipment left out in a dessert. Gizmodo also went through the list and provided their take on all the space junk.

Star City is Russia’s own Cape Canaveral, all of Russia’s cosmonauts where trained in this once secretive facility. These days the center is more open and can even be visited as a tourist (for aprox $500), or if you have deeper pockets you can follow in the foot steps of the worlds first space tourists who trained for their flights to the ISS at Star City.

Richard Garriott a video game designer is the next space tourist to fork over the $30 million dollar ticket price to take a ride on a Russian rocket and spend a week and a half on the ISS. Before he can leave Garriott must spend eight months training at Star City. Wired has written a great article about him along with some fantastic photos of the facility.

South Korean newspaper the Chosun Ilbo has reported that a Pyongyang business man has attempted to bring a McDonalds to the reclusive communist country. Although a McDonalds in North Korea would be a significant symbol of change McDonalds has declined the offer. McDonalds sights “the poor infrastructure and distribution network and probable lack of demand”, as their key reasons for not declining the offer.
Although I can understand McDonald’s reservations about doing business in North Korea the press coverage and publicity may be enough to outweigh the cost of opening up a small McDonalds in Korea even if only for a limited time. Perhaps a McDonalds Express in Pyongyang?

With Apple currently the darling of media outlets everywhere every patent they file, alteration to their website they make, or press conference they hold is held up to endless scrutiny. Most of the articles are highly speculative and have little to back them, but in a recent article from Fortune Magazine one small company has managed to drum up a great deal of publicity for themselves and their services by releasing a juicy piece of information regarding the rumored 3G iPhone

Import Genius tracks shipping documentation and has discovered Apple has recently received 40,000 units of something named an “electric computer”, a marking that is different from previous products. Import Genius reveals the ‘electronic computers’ where sent to the company that handles the Apple’s product distribution in the United States.

Whether or not this means the United States is on the cusp of a 3G iPhone release is up for speculation, but Import Genius has definitely demonstrated they are as smart with marketing as they are with importing intelligence.

The Godiva G Collection designed by world renowned paster chef Norman Love is one of the most elegantly designed chocolate collections available. Each chocolate truffle was uniquely designed with every attention to detail and taste. The result is a beautifully packaged and delicious presentation of Godiva’s finest work.
Luxury like this comes at a price of course, with a fifteen piece set costing $45, with the larger thirty and forty eight piece sets costing $80 and $125 dollars respectively. Definitely not a bargain, but respectively priced for such an elegant collection from Godiva. Although they are no loner available, when the G Collection was launched the chocolates were held in a beautiful wooden box which has since been changed to a less elegant but more affordable traditional chocolate box.

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