Eden talks about the project with some sample music on his blog, and the app is now available in the App Store.

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Stars like Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Christian Slater offer studios and networks alike recognizable names to include in expensive advertising campaigns and the potential to lure audiences to sample the project as it debuts.

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The sample size of this project was very small, but the researchers did reach a logical conclusion: they theorize that it takes the brain longer to process the ugly, more-difficult-to-read fonts.

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The Stanford Project on Emerging Companies, which since 1994 has been analysing several hundred local high-tech companies, divided its sample into four groups on the basis of how the firms treated their employees.

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In May through July, the Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project did a big national poll of 10, 000 likely voters, and only 5% of the properly weighted sample said they weren't sure who they wanted to vote for.

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