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Crazy Britons Run

Two British adventurers accomplished what seems impossible. They ran seven marathons in seven days on six continents, finishing up in New York on Sunday. Sir Ranulph Fiennes and longtime expedition partner Mike Stroud crossed the New York City Marathon finish line in 5 hours, 25 minutes, 46 seconds, ending their weeklong journey. Read More : Britons run 7 marathons in 7 days

Posted by Michael Palmer on Monday, November 3, 2003

Concorde Gone

Out of service Concorde will never fly again.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Pete Best

Pete Best, born Randolph Peter Best in Madras, India on November 24, 1941, joined the Beatles, John, Paul, George, and Stu Sutcliffe, in late 1960. Read More : Pete Best Portfolio Now this is something I’ve never known about The Beatles. I guess you learn something new every day..

Posted by Michael Palmer on Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Weekend Links

Been busy this week, again. Here’s some more links for the weekend. Be ready to shell out at least $120,000 on this shower it has 19 heads each with their own pressure and temperature controls. I WANT ONE! Electronic Paper may be in the near future. The 52 Most Dangerous American Dignitaries – The Bush Regime Card Deck. You can download a PDF of the deck Online! A Plant was found growing in Austrailia, that had been thought to be exctinct for the past 2 million years.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Friday, September 26, 2003

Bond Car / Boat

Just like in the movies, someone is finally releasing one! and its only｣150,000! Time to start saving.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Wednesday, September 3, 2003

Daily Links - Interesting

SWAT Hand Signals – Pretty funny. So called good worm starts to turn : A good worm that goes around patching your windows XP and deleting itself. Crazy. Don’t know if it’s true or not. The Daily Times states that blonde jokes will be made illegal in Bosnia. currentenergy.lbl.gov is a cool place to view the current energy stats of the nation. Yo, GOD! is selling God Detectors. Spot the Devil – Attorney General John Ashcroft believes calico cats are a sign of the devil.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Tuesday, August 19, 2003

The Blackout

The Blackout is a blog someone has created to post all the pictures of NY while on blackout. Pretty crazy to see thousands of people walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. Guess I should add that all the pictures were sent in via SMS from cell phones. Over at The Gothamist, they have posted a lot of great pictures.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Friday, August 15, 2003

Michael blogs here about random stuff. He's a network engineer, Perl hacker, and photographer.

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