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Vermont’s Rutland Herald/ Times-Argus published a story today about “Floydian Slip.”

You can read the article online for a limited time, before it moves behind a paywall.

We reported a couple of months ago that the Casa Madrona hotel in Sausalito, Calif., has opened to the public the suite where a young Pink Floyd stayed during its first tour of the United States.

We recently received this photo of the suite, which starts at $509 a night.

The Casa Madrona hotel in Sausalito, Calif., has opened to the public the suite where a young Pink Floyd stayed during its first tour of the United States.

Dubbing the second floor suite the Piper Room, the 64-room San Francisco-area hotel is catering to Floyd fans by adorning the suite with photos of the group and a copy of Nick Mason’s coffee table book “Inside Out,” and by playing a Floyd songlist when guests enter the suite.

The band was photographed during its 1967 stay by William Baron on the hotel’s fire escape.

No word on how much the Piper Room costs, but deluxe rooms in the hotel start at $509 a night, with at least one suite going for $10,000 a night.

Small world, apparently. Leif Clark dropped us a note to tell us he spotted a “Floydian Slip” sticker affixed to an old T72 tank left behind in Kuwait by Iraqi forces during the first Gulf War.

The sticker’s displayed on the back of the tank’s searchlight.

See our sticker someplace unusual? Snap a picture, email it to us and we’ll share it with the rest of you crazy diamonds on our blog, Facebook and Twitter.

Want your own stash of “Floydian Slip” stickers? They’re free! Get your stickers here.

“Floydian Slip” has partnered with Envision Networks® of Cleveland, Ohio, to handle network ad sales for our weekly radio show.

Envision will handle network ad sales for our growing network of terrestrial affiliate stations in the United States and Canada.

We’re retaining all other duties, including production, distribution, marketing and affiliate relations, as well as ad sales for non-terrestrial and foreign affiliates.

“Floydian Slip” is heard on more than 50 stations in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, England, Malta and New Zealand.

In December the show entered the nation’s third largest market, Chicago, when WFXF 103.9 FM in Crystal Lake, IL signed on. The Baltimore market came on-board shortly after, with WRNR 103.1 FM, Annapolis, MD.

Envision Radio Networks Inc. is the largest independently-owned affiliate relations company in the U.S. It provides content and services to more than 1,500 radio stations and reaches millions of listeners each week.

Read the press release announcing the new partnership.

“Floydian Slip” is featured in the latest issue of Home Business magazine.

The March/April issue of the magazine devotes a half-page to the show, which we produce from a home studio outside Burlington, Vt.

“Advances in computer technology and home broadband are really what’ve allowed me to do this,” the article quotes us. “Not long ago shows like mine were marketed through the mail and distributed on CD. There’s a cost to that. Marketing primarily through email and distributing via the Web are virtually free.”

Home Business magazine is geared toward home-based entrepreneurs and business owners; people who work from home; and telecommuters.

Participants in Rolling Stone magazine’s survey of the 10 best double-albums of all time have placed Pink Floyd‘s “The Wall” (1979) at #2.

“The Wall is a crazily ambitious 30-song collection that has aged remarkably well,” Andy Greene writes.

“The Wall” was beaten by The Beatles “white” album. The Rolling Stones‘ “Exile on Main Street” was #3.

See the entire list at Rolling Stone.

The folks over at Ear Candy Mag have posted a very cool collection of “Alternate Universe Album Covers.”

Created by graphic designer Jon Hunt, former co-creator of Beach Boys fan site Smile Shop, they imagine what albums that never were might have looked like, right down to the cellophane wrap and stickers.

Two samples of special interest to Floyd fans are below: Hunt’s re-imagining of “The Wall,” if it had been done by Storm Thorgerson; and art for the abandoned “Household Objects” project.

See more of his work covering The Who, The Rolling Stones, Beach Boys and others.

Listeners of CBC Radio One’s “On the Coast” program have selected Pink Floyd as the best band of all time.

The group took nearly 47 percent of the more than 9,000 votes cast during the month-long online poll.

The Beatles came in second, with 36 percent. The rest of the top five: The Rolling Stones, 8 percent; Led Zeppelin, 7 percent; and The Mothers of Invention, 2 percent.

“On the Coast” is produced in Vancouver, B.C. Hosted by Stephen Quinn (pictured with producer Lisa Christiansen), it’s heard from 3-6 p.m. weekdays.