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Month: August 2011

P-Tree Urinals at Roskilde Festival 2011

The P-Trees were a great success at the Roskilde Festival 2011 in Denmark, with more than 100,000 visitors and many of them using the P-TREE more than once. For Roskilde Aandeboom produced 50 P-Trees in the typical Roskilde Orange color. The P-Trees were placed on 2 different spots near the main stage.

By using the P-Tree the festivals problem with public peeing was significant reduced. The P-Tree can be hooked up to a central sewage system or connected to a tank with a pump.


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Samsung Cites 1968 Film in Apple Patent Spat

Who cares about Apple’s stupid lawsuit against Samsung? Stanley Kubrick needs to sue Apple for stealing his idea! We need an injunction immediately!!!

Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a still image taken from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” In a clip from that film lasting about one minute, two astronauts are eating and at the same time using personal tablet computers. As with the design claimed by the D’889 Patent, the tablet disclosed in the clip has an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat back surface (which is evident because the tablets are lying flat on the table’s surface), and a thin form factor.


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Web Surfing Helps at Work, Study Says

Next time your boss complains about you reading MoPo at work, you just show him this!

The researchers conducted two studies. In the first, they assigned 96 undergraduate management students into one of three groups—a control group, a “rest-break” group and a Web-surfing group. All subjects spent 20 minutes highlighting as many letter e’s as they could find in a sample text. For the next 10 minutes, the control group was assigned another simple task; members of the rest-break group could do whatever they pleased, except surf the Internet; and the third group could browse the Web. Afterward, all of the subjects spent another 10 minutes highlighting more letters.

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