Year: 2004

New York man eats 13 roaches to win iPod

Posted by | Oct 11, 2004 | |

As part of the promotion for the IMAX film “A Rainforest Adventure: Bugs! in 3D,” a New York man picked up an Apple iPod for winning a cockroach eating competition. 22-year-old Manhattanite Shai Pariente was “the fastest among three finalists at eating a baker’s dozen of oven-baked cockroaches–and he did it with his hands tied behind his back and without ketchup. ‘They were good,’ he said, cradling the box with the [iPod] inside. ‘Crunchy and salty. I would eat them again.'”

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MacSurfShop back in business

Posted by | Oct 8, 2004 | |

The MacSurfShop today announced that it is reopening. “Back in February, MacSurfShop.com (then known as MacShirt.com) decided to close it’s doors. Since that time we have received literally hundreds of requests to open back up and continue to sell our wildly popular pro-Mac t-shirts. We listened to our loyal customers and developed a solution to provide great Mac-centric Tee’s at an affordable price.” MacSurfShop said that it will release a few new designs every month, which customers can pre-order.

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