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Cory Doctorow / 7:34 am Sun, Apr 14, 2019

Pepsi plans to use cubesats to display ads in the night sky

Pepsi has announced plans to contract with the Russian space startup Startrocket to project massive "artificial constellations" spelling out ads for a "nonalcoholic energy beverage" in the night sky; Startrocket is planning to launch a cluster of cubesats with reflective mylar sails in 2021. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 8:01 am Sun, Dec 18, 2016

Chimeric, horrific, cuddly stuffed animals

Pam and Robyn in San Francisco run an Etsy store called Frankestuffies, selling "monsters for lovies or lovies for monsters, lovingly re-assembled by hand from cleaned, recycled and, um, dismembered stuffed animals": Octo-Gorillas, Platy-Mice, Beaver-Crabs, Baboon-Tigers -- and more! Read the rest