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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

The L-Curve

Interesting site on distribution of wealth. Imagine the population of the United States stretched across a football field in order of income, from poorest to richest. Now imagine a stack of $100 bills representing each person’s income. (A 1-inch stack of $100 bills is $25,000.) The red line represents the heights of those stacks compared to a football field. I call this graph the “L-Curve.” Read More : The L-Curve

Posted by Michael Palmer on Wednesday, July 30, 2003

The Telephone Voice Lady

July 28, 2003 — Jane Barbe, whose voice was familiar to millions of telephone users across the country who ever dialed a wrong number or had to “Please listen to the following options” in a voice-mail system, died July 18 in Roswell, Ga., of complications from cancer. She was 74. Read More : New York Post Online Edition: news

Posted by Michael Palmer on Tuesday, July 29, 2003

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