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Andy Greenberg, Toasters in Space: Pumpkin Inc. is ready to launch the personal satellite revolution. Forbes, Nov. 4, 2010 (title in the print).
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1122/technology-pumpkin-inc-andrew-kalman-toasters-in-space.html

Note:
(a) Rubik's Cube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik%27s_Cube
(invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik)
(b) CubeSat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
(CubeSats are typically launched and deployed from a mechanism called a Poly-PicoSatellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD))

For the P-POD, see the last illustration in

About AAU CubeSat. Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark, undated.
http://www.cubesat.auc.dk/mission1.html

(i) The URL for the University is
http://www.aau.dk
(ii) The "auc" in the URL auc.dk comes from "AAU Cubesat: Aalborg University Studentsatellite."

(c) San Luis Obispo, California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Luis_Obispo,_California
(Spanish for St. Louis, the Bishop; a city in California, located midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles)

* City of San Luis Obispo
http://www.ci.san-luis-obispo.ca.us/briefhistory.asp
("A Brief History[:] Who we are and how we got started. * * * One of California’s oldest communities, it began with the founding of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa in 1772 by Father Junípero Serra as the fifth mission in the California chain of 21 missions. The mission was named after Saint Louis, a 13th Century Bishop of Toulouse, France.")


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