Ever heard of Yahoo.com? It's a plucky young Internet company that's hot on the Cordarounds trend. Now you can outfit Instant Messaging avatars in the latest Cordarounds fashions (as well as dinosaur feet and menacing robotic hands.) With this ambitious Internet partnership, they hope to Rock the Rounds all the way to the top of the Internet food chain. Well, we invite Yahoo to dream big and invite Cordarounds customers to visit their Website en masse.

Caution: Please don't hit their site at the same time, as you may overwhelm their servers.

Click here to enter the Cordarounds Avatar World.

Eat your heart out Steve Fossett! Cordarounds customer, Patrick Chapman, is now the toast of the endurance world. On Monday, the San Franciscan eclipsed the world record for consecutive days wearing corduroy pants, a title long held by “Filthy” Phil Arbuckle, a seal wrestler from San Francisco’s Barbary Coast era. Mr. Chapman, a mergers and acquisitions whiz at a well-known San Francisco Internet Company, has worn his 5-pocket blue Cordarounds every day since January 11.  Chapman is pleased to report that they’ve excelled at work, at play, and even on Valentine’s Day, when, miraculously, his wife failed to divorce him. His goal: the mythical 60.