And Mr. Foster relies on some overused tropes; Norah (Julie Dingman), the daughter of a symphony violinist, is a finicky eater who can't order in a restaurant without a host of special requests.
Both are intended to appeal to consumers in their 20's through 40's: Chris Klug, the Olympic snowboarder, an athlete like Joltin' Joe, and Carson Daly, the host of "Total Request Live" on MTV and "Last Call" on NBC.
The company has been quietly operating for a few months, with the goal of providing services within 48 hours of requests from hosts.
A host of foreign governments have requested their own grandiose, often propaganda-themed projects.
In the 2001 movie "Josie and the Pussycats," Carson Daly, the host of MTV's "Total Request Live," plays himself as an agent of the sinister supervillains at money-mad Mega Records.
Mr. Taylor is scheduled to appear on "Last Call With Carson Daly," the late-night interview show on NBC featuring the host of MTV's "Total Request Live," on Wednesday.
Viewers may know him best as the host of MTV's "Total Request Live" and NBC's "The Voice," but Carson Daly put on yet another hosting hat on Monday when he filled in for Matt Lauer on the "Today" show.
Furthermore, as The Hill newspaper reported, more than 70 Members failed to comply with Chairman Obey's new disclosure guidelines, and many who did comply were guilty of "using vague language to describe their earmark requests, burying their request links deep within their webpages and/or sprinkling each of their requests among a host of legislative issue pages".
Shared hosting of dynamic content also presents new challenges: capacity planning is complicated, as different types of requests might require varying amounts of a given resource.
