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Close your eyes and picture the thickest person you could ever imagine. Go on. Stupid lips, stupid nose, a stupid vacant look in their eyes, a stupid hat, stupid clothes. The dumbest person in the whole of dumb land. Hold that picture for a moment. Now point your browser to Reptoids.com. Take a look around. If the site all makes sense to you then flick back to your mental image of Mr or Ms Thicko. That’s you. Admit it. You’d have to be pretty darn stupid to believe what you just read. Come on now. Go slap your self in the face, grab a coffee, snap out of it. A Reptile Community - living under LA - they have to be joking right?

The folks at the Reptoid Research Center believe that there exists a whole race of super intelligent reptile based lifeforms living in hiding under LA and across the globe. These reptiles are mistakenly believed to be aliens by the less intelligent (and clearly more gullible) human race.

So what do reptoids look like? Well after a decade or more of research here is the description released by the Reptoid Research Center..

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The folks at PEHub are reporting that ManiaTV Network Inc., a Denver-based Internet television network, has raised $5.5 million in Series C funding, according to a regulatory filing. DAG Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers Benchmark Capital, Centennial Ventures and Intel Capital. ManiaTV has now raised around $23 million in total VC funding since late 2004.

The ManiaTV Network delivers pop culture entertainment to more than 10 million youth and young adult viewers every month. Having launched in September 2004, ManiaTV offers a variety of leading edge programming focused primarily on the categories of Music, Comedy, and Hollywood. All shows on our network are hosted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with hosts ranging from Hollywood celebrities like Tom Green, Dave Navarro, and Jamie Kennedy, to our very own in-house celebrities like Christy, Megan, and Jonny Schoolbus.

ManiaTV’s business model is built on a foundation of show sponsorships, offering blue chip advertisers and leading consumer brands a variety of unique, high value advertising opportunities for reaching and connecting with the youth and young adult markets.

www.maniatv.com

Here is an interesting business idea - certainly worth keeping an eye on.

If you order items online you will be familiar with the ‘Your Order Has Shipped’ emails that you get which invariably contain a tracking number. you must then copy the number and then paste it into the tracking system of the particular shipper in order to find out where your package is. [Read more]

Selling stuff online at a moment is a pain in the backside - you have to deal with building your online shop, getting the products, packaging them, shipping them, dealing with payment options, technical support… But does it really have to be?

Well, thank to a service that was recently launched in the US, all these problems are now a thing of the past. Zlio isn’t just the world’s most innovative e-commerce service ever launched - it’s also pure genius! It allows you to create your own internet store, even if you have nothing to sell! All you need to do is [Read more]

If ever there was a business idea just begging to be cloned it is this one. Wasteels, a Belgian travel agency, allows amateur travel enthusiasts to create their own tour packages and then pays the creator a commission for every package sold. Through their Club Tours division, Wasteels takes care of the details including marketing, ticketing, legal and insurance. The scheme is aimed at people involved in specialized interest groups - maybe golfers, amateur photographers, archeologists, artists - or how about bloggers visiting CES? or gadget enthusiasts trawling Hong Kong for the very latest?

So if you have a passion for travel and are involved in a particular social group or club, why not contact them and get something organised. Or why not contact your local travel agency and make a proposition to them.