Happy Valentine’s Day

Wishing all a Happy Valentine’s Day on this the 14th of February. To celebrate, here are some pulpy stories from around the Net.

Although rapping mogul Jay-Z can design a mean can of Cherry Coke, his significant other known as Beyonce will be featured as the cover model of the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

In that same SI issue, Tyra Banks is making a return wearing the same outfit she wore as the cover model 10 years ago. After a decade, she’s now 21 pounds heavier so “extra fabric was added to make the bikini a little less itsy-bitsy.” More on this on Monday’s (Feb 19) edition of the Tyra Banks Show.

Going all out with this musically-themed swimsuit issue, SI is also selling a $20 music player preloaded with music “inspired by the issue’s lush and sexy photo spreads.” The dop! (like iPod spelled in reverse) is a closed system only containing the preloaded music without a way of adding or removing songs (hey, it’s only 20 bucks). Here’s a mockup of the dop! on Engadget.

Too bad the dop! isn’t open so that you could add other music like the theme song from the Anna Nicole Show or even the extended club mix version.

And lastly, thanks to blogger and UH bball fan Wayne’s World for providing pictures from Saturday’s game against LA Tech. If you look at the background in one of the pics, you’ll see a couple possibly getting their pre-Valentine’s groove on at the Stan Sheriff Center.http://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Update: Whoa! That dop! music player is not a mockup after all, that’s how it actually looks. There are three editions, Miami, Memphis, and Brazil from doptechonolgy.