Archive for May, 2006

Cover girl

Model Veronica Varekova is upset about Maxim magzine using her photo on their cover. Maxim licensed the photo from Corbis Outline for use in their magazine but did not have Ms. Varekova’s permission to use it on the cover. Veronica has consistently turned down covers of men’s magazines, and is upset Maxim put her on [...]

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Podcaster goes pro

My favorite podcasterBrian from Coverville has decided to take his act pro. He is now creating podcasts for the Denver Post. I encourage you to go give him a listen. UPDATE: The Post didn’t get the links up for the rest of the week, so Brian posted them on the Coverville site.

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Selling Out

There’s an interesting article over on the Whitespace blog about the changes to TechCrunch and his inclusion of way too many advertisements. The post is quite critical of the new design, and accuses TechCrunch of being greedy. This is an interesting topic, I’ve seen articles with a similar tone several times this week, probably due [...]

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Beer and Popcorn

Nextnc has an article about the decline of movie attendance in the US. One of the tactics theatre are using to pull people back in is to serve alcoholic beverages. Now here is an idea who’s time has come. Having beer in a movie theatre should send attendence through the roof. Think about it, now, [...]

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Coming soon to your home town – the Internet

Seems like local businesses are finally waking up to the realities of the Internet and if local media doesn’t wake up too they are going to be left in the dust. This is something I’ve personally expected for the last year, ever since I setup my Greeley Search directory. Local businesses have been losing market [...]

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Lost Rhapsody

On last night’s edition of Coverville, Brian played a Weird Al rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. As great as Weird Al’s cover is, his synchronization with scenes from Lost is unbelievably funny.

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When is it litter?

I’m pretty sure if I went and dumped trash on somebody’s front step I would get in trouble. The owner of the house would probably call the police and I’d get a ticket for littering. There are signs on the highway warning about fines for dumping. So why is it that people can just come [...]

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Attracting four year olds

Does your child like the dog more than he likes you? Tired of being ignored by your toddlers? I have the answer for you. Hasbro announced it is releasing a Play-Doh perfume for the product’s 50th anniversary. I’d get a bottle of this for my sister, but seems like a waste of $20, plus her [...]

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Two large pepperoni please

I recieved and email newsletter today with a Fun Factoids section and it included a fact that I found particularly interesting. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday. Now, this is amazing. I haven’t had pizza since Friday, and then I was about 17.8 acres short. Guess I’m not an average American…

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