also, i can imagine that the intent of the ts and cs was to prevent spammers from creating fake profos. if you get a groundswell of users who want the badge, and myspace threatens to kick them all out, i imagine mutiny. mutiny! mutiny.

Turns out an idea like this has already made its way up the ranks of the myspace executive squad, albeit by a dude who wears way too much hair gel and visits tanning beds too often (hi, jason!).

consider me pleased that this even caught your eye. duly note that there are more harebrained schemes to come. not that that should be any surprise. :)

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Is it back to the old drawing board or did you have a way around this?

Some software that allows me to keep one master calendar/task list on my palm but does not allow my palm to populate my various calendars from home/quicken/work with each other’s content.

Maybe this already exists. If so, they need to advertise with Googlads or soemthing.