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Nirvana has the #1 song?

Ok, these guys are on crack! Check out the Top 10 song list of the past 25 years! NEW YORK, June 10 Here they are now, entertaining us or at least entertaining VH1, which named Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit the greatest song of the past quarter-century. The Seattle band’s groundbreaking grunge anthem is No. 1 on VH1’s list of the 100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years. Read More : Nirvana song tops VH1 list

Posted by Michael Palmer on Wednesday, June 11, 2003

The Quest For The Oily Grail

Parody of Monty Python with Bush and Blair. Very Funny.Watch The Movie : The Quest For The Oily Grail Also check out their site for more flash movies : Too Stupid To Be President

Posted by Michael Palmer on Monday, June 9, 2003

The Pit Heads

The faces and objects pictured below are carved from the seeds of fruit such as peach, plum, apricot, olive, sweet cherry, wild cherry and even the seed from the dogwood tree. I hope that you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed carving them! Read More : Pit gallery

Posted by Michael Palmer on Monday, June 9, 2003

1983 Misc Gadgets

Funny to see the technology of 1983. Check it out. Read More : Gizmodo : Gizmodo 1983

Posted by Michael Palmer on Monday, June 9, 2003

High Tech Chicken Catcher

ELLIJAY, Ga. — One enduring frustration of the poultry industry is that chickens can’t be made to cross the road. Or even the chicken coop. It’s a snap to coax barnyard animals like pigs and cattle to go where you want them — but “you can’t herd chickens,” says Paul S. Berry of the British Silsoe Research Institute, an agricultural-research center that has studied the problem for decades. For that reason, poultry farmers have long relied on human catchers.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Friday, June 6, 2003

Don't Use Teflon

“The Environmental Working Group said in a study released on Thursday that cookware coated with Teflon-like coatings could reach 700 degrees Fahrenheit in 3-5 minutes, releasing 15 toxic gases and chemicals, including two carcinogens.”Yahoo! News – U.S. Urged to Put Warning Labels on Teflon Pans

Posted by Michael Palmer on Friday, May 16, 2003

Protest Reflection

Wow.. I really didnt realise how much of the world was protesting, this really puts it into perspective. 2003-03-15 War Protests Around the World

Posted by Michael Palmer on Friday, May 16, 2003

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