Advertising's final frontier: deep space

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These days nothing is sacred when it comes to ad placement. From urinals to foreheads, it seems like almost everything has been done. Now one company is going where most haven’t gone before, at least not until now. Deep Space Communications has beamed the first commercial transmission of a Web site into space. The site is Craigslist.com, the popular community site that has personal and classified listings for most cities in the U.S. "It’s very fitting that the first [commercial] transmission into space is by a community Web site like craigslist because it represents a

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