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Mike Rowe + QVC + 2 AM + 1992 = Totally Awesome

blasdelf — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:41:55 -0800

Mike Rowe worked as a late-night QVC presenter in the early nineties. Yes, the Mike Rowe of various Discovery shows, including Dirty Jobs. He ad-libs poetically about the crap for sale, bursting into song, and placating crazed callers.

MikeRoweSoft Settles with Microsoft

fenriq — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:57:59 -0800

MikeRoweSoft Settles with Microsoft for an XBox
Mike Rowe had a website named after himself that was alot like the mega-corp.
MS wanted to give him $10 to change the domain, he wanted $10k. They settled on a trip to Redmond, some traffic redirection and an XBox.

Followup to this thread.

MikeRoweSoft

Resonance — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:33:44 -0800

Microsoft to crush MikeRoweSoft - a high school student's part-time web design site. Throw away the key, boys.