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Show Rundown – Topics on today’s agenda include: Coors Light, Jack Del Rio calls out one of his stars in a humorous fashion, Girls Eyebrows, a little more Twitter talk, NBA Finals, Bruce and I will discuss the Denver Broncos Fan Fair, We will do a little bit of subjective trivia with a prize giveaway, and an in depth discussion about superhero powers, and of course, your calls!

But first, let’s check in with the news.

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The News:
1. From the Chicago Tribune:

MillerCoors has recalled a batch of Coors Light in the Southeastern United States after taste tests at the company's Georgia brewery found the beer to be subpar.MillerCoors, which will begin moving into its new Chicago headquarters this month, last week began pulling the beer from its distribution system and from retailers. "We sampled it and realized it wasn't up to standards," said Pete Marino, a spokesman for MillerCoors.

Wait, so they tasted a batch of Coors Light and found it to be subpar? They realize that they were drinking Coors Light, right??

2. New Zealand - A New Zealand man, spurned by the woman of his dreams, has come up with a novel way of disposing of the diamond engagement ring he bought her -- a treasure hunt.
Anyone keen to pick up the ring, valued at NZ$5,000 ($3,268), will need to be in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, on Saturday to join the hunt, the Dominion Post newspaper reported.
"I met this girl I thought was pretty cool, bought a ring, turns out she wasn't as keen," Anthony Gardiner, a 29-year-old call-center worker, told the Dominion Post.
Clues to the ring's whereabouts will start being posted on social networking site Twitter (http:/twitter.com/donoogle_com) at 8 a.m. local time on Saturday (2000 GMT on Friday).
Gardiner says he will keep posting clues, and if the ring is not found by the end of the day, "my clues will suddenly change into directions."
Having bought the ring in Hong Kong, he couldn't return it, and didn't want to sell it, so he hit upon the treasure hunt.
Hanging on to it in the hopes of finding a willing recipient is also not an option. "Obviously, it's been a pretty unlucky ring for me," Gardiner said, adding he hoped it would be found by somebody who has "found a cool chick and who wants to give them something they normally wouldn't be able to afford."
I kind of like this story, but can you imagine dropping over three grand on a ring, and then deciding to just give it away? That’s nuts, right?


Okay, this news story actually has it’s own theme music, so that’s pretty special. (Cue Ed’s Twitter song)

3. A tiny fraction of those who use the fast-growing social network phenomenon Twitter generate nearly all the content, a Harvard study shows.
That makes it hard for companies to use the micro-blogging site as an accurate gauge of public opinion, the Harvard Business School study showed.
The Harvard study examined public entries of a randomly selected group of 300,000 Twitter users. The researchers studied in May the content created in the lifetime of the users' Twitter accounts.
It found that 10 percent of Twitter users generated more than 90 percent of the content, said Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, who led the research. More than half of all Twitter users post messages on the site less than once every 74 days.
The median number of lifetime "tweets" per user is just one, according the research.
Companies are increasingly turning to Twitter to improve their understanding of how consumers view them, he said.
But some users are far more active and vocal than others, limiting information gleaned from messages on the site, said Piskorski, an assistant professor of strategy at Harvard Business School.
"If you're trying to get what a representative cross-section of the public is thinking, you're probably better off staying away from Twitter," he said in an interview.
Unlike other social networking sites like Facebook.com, men are almost twice as likely to follow other men on Twitter than they were to follow women, according to the study.
Women were also more likely to follow men than they were to follow other female users.
According to recent data compiled by Nielsen Online, which measures Internet traffic, Twitter's website had more than 7 million unique visitors in February, compared to 475,000 in February 2008.
A few things here,
1. It’s good to know that the geniuses at Harvard are spending their time studying Twitter, I feel good about that.
2. Both Men and Women are much more likely to follow men than women, what does that mean?
3. 10% of Twitter users create 90% of the content AND the median number of lifetime tweets is one? What is with all these lazy Twitterers? Get your tweet on?

Update my twitter stats:
Following 28 people
Followers 32 people
I still have more followers than people I’m following, but you really should start following me. Come on, I’d like to get up to 50, that’s my meager goal.
www.twitter.com/socnorb777

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Jack Del Rio calls out John Henderson. Stud D-Lineman. (Play audio clip)

Denver Broncos Fan Fair – What is your verdict Bruce?

NBA Finals – Game 2 about to start, hopefully it’s better than Game 1 – Stan Van Gundy – transformed from the master of panic to genius, potentially back to the master of Panic. Phil Jackson – If he gets his tenth, what is his place in history. Is he the best ever, or just the best ever at picking his spots?

What is the best superhero power? I say mind control. Flying, how fast can you fly, dealing with weather conditions could be problematic. Super Strength, meh. Invisibility, you may get run over by a car.

Disturbing video was sent to me by a friend, it’s of a kid in India standing on a train, he reaches up and touches a power line, and is zapped to death like a mosquito on a bug light.

Donald Sterling – ESPN the Magazine article. – He is a horrible human being – Owner of Clippers – Loves Koreans, not so much blacks and Hispanics. Slum Lord. Racist, Wants people to think he is a good guy.

9th Wedding Anniversary, I’m getting old. Scheduled the show at first for a week ahead of time, Said a guy played his college ball at Wikipedia, Feeling a step slow, like the athlete who’s brain still knows what his body needs to do, but his body is failing him. My brain still knows what it wants me to say, but my tongue and typing fingers are failing me.

Girls eyebrows – Normal is good, but penciled in, not so much. Shape is apparently difficult to get with a pencil. Saw a girl that looked like she had filled it in with a Sharpie. See girls that have huge arches like they are advertising for McDonalds on their foreheads.

NHL Finals – Tied at 2, have you watched any, how are you feeling about it?

Text messaging – The whole country is turning into morons. How hard is it to spell a whole word? We may be saving time by not typing out the Y and the O when we spell you, but the end result is that our methods of communication are devolving into a retarded stew of stupid.





Subjective Trivia:

What is the best show on television? – Spongebob Squarepants
What is the most delicious animal? Pig (Cow is a close second)
What is the best color of all time? Orange
Would you like to eat indoors or outdoors? Outdoors.


Shalom and Good evening to you all!