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Intrepid explorer and cousin of film stars Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, 59-year old Ranulph Fiennes is planning to run 7 marathons in 7 days, even though he’s recently suffered a heart attack.
This is almost crazier than that loon who went over Niagara Falls.
Elliott Smith has apparently taken his own life. I’d recently been wondering what he’d been up to, not knowing whether to expect a new album or news like this. Obviously, I’d have liked him to keep making his haunting, beautiful, but undeniably sad music.
Microsoft’s response to yesterday’s unveiling of iTunes for Windows, along with access to the iTunes Music Store:
Lame. Microsoft is lecturing music fans about choice? When their crappy Windows Media Player won’t even let people rip MP3s? When their software is so full of DRM nonsense that has more to do with keeping lawyers happy than consumers? When the “other services” referred to have been pitiful failures so far even with the huge market open to them? Puh-lease.
Intrepid reporter dude Josh Benton is spending six weeks in Zambia as part of the Pew Fellowship in International Journalism program. He’s taking a break from posting at his usual place, crabwalk.com, and has set up a special blog, Zambia Stories, to document his trip. Josh is quite a globetrotter, having done a series of stories on tiny Pitcairn Island a few years back. Last year, he even visited Toronto.
Do you use Movable Type? Are you tired of deleting comment spam? Now, the bald and brilliant Jay Allen is doing something about it. Try MT-Blacklist. It’s very easy to install, and it helps deal with a very annoying problem.
Could it be, a post on Consolation Champs that is both a little bit techie and a little bit useful? Wow, if this keeps up, we’ll be back to the glory days of 2001 in no time…