Virgin boss Richard Branson’s iPad magazine Project has hit the App Store today with an “electrified” Tron cover (promising videos and an audio interview inside), plus heaps more. It’s a free download, with issue one costing $4. [iTunes]
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Whatever Rupert Murdoch’s got planned for The Daily can wait; fellow billionaire Richard Branson has beaten him to the punch with The Project. The iPad-only magazine launches tomorrow, promising some sweet Tron-pegged Jeff Bridges action.
Freewheeling, swashbucking business tycoon Richard Branson, never to be outdone by the stodgy, old media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, has announced plans for his own tailor-made iPad Magazine, following in the footsteps of Murdochs plans to launch an iPad-exclusive newspaper.
In the richest of rich person problems, airline and Formula One team owner Richard Branson just lost a bet to airline and Formula One team owner Tony Fernandes. The stakes? He’s got to be a flight attendant on an Air Asia flight from Kuala Lumpur to London.
Last week, I invoked the wrath of trance fans everywhere by suggesting Above & Beyond – rumoured to be the first musical act in space – should be kept up there. Turns out Richard Branson chose Spandau Ballet instead.
Here’s an idea—why don’t we round up every trance act and send them all into space? So we never have to hear that incessant doof doof noise any more. Let’s hope Richard Branson agrees.
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It becomes less and less a future fever dream every day: Spaceport America in Las Cruces, NM, Virgin Galactic’s future home, has gotten FAA approval to begin construction.
Virgin Galactic’s White Knight aircraft is pretty exciting. And here’s a video that BoingBoingTV made of the aircraft’s launch event, that has some interesting words on the craft and space travel from Sir Richard Branson, Scaled Composite’s Burt Rutan and genuine spaceman and moonwalker, Buzz Aldrin himself. The best line? One that very few people in the world could say: “I wanted to go into space when I saw the moon landing. I’ve never had that opportunity, so I’ve had to build my own spacecraft!”—that’s Branson. [BBTV]
