September 2009

Users <> CNN @ $1.99

by 53X11 on September 30, 2009

CNN is rolling out a new Iphone app for $1.99. That is a fair price, but if their competition Fox, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, etc do not charge for their apps then I am not sure that they will get as many downloads as they expect – even at $1.99. It may be a new revenue [...]

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The Body Bomb

by 53X11 on September 30, 2009

It seems that terrorist have found a new means of bombing. This means involves the bomb being inside the bomber and it may completely defeat normal security means employed throughout the world. It’s first use failed to kill the Saudi prince that it was intended to take out, but the fact that the bomb passed [...]

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Frau Schickelgruber

by 53X11 on September 30, 2009

It seems that the piece of skull long believed to have from Adolf Hitlers skull may actually be from a woman. BBC story heree. The Russians are debating the claim though, based on access records to the piece of skull in question. Telegraph story here.

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All The Single Ladies – Football Style

by 53X11 on September 29, 2009

WOW – That is all I can say…WOW I still will not watch Glee though…just not my kind of show…but this is F U N N Y !

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Mahmoud the Piecemaker

by 53X11 on September 29, 2009

[H/T to Sigmund, Carl and Alfred for this one]

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Defensive Medicine

by 53X11 on September 29, 2009

[H/T to Overlawyered.com for this one] The Happy Hospitalist has a nice post (and graphic) up explaining why defensive medicine is practiced, the cost of it and the results of this practice.

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Devotion pays off – in all things

by 53X11 on September 29, 2009

First of all, I don’t play guitar. So, don’t start emailing / commenting about which guitar is better, etc. Moving on, Reuters has a very interesting story up about the story of Paul Reed Smith guitars. The piece discusses how PRS guitars are expanding in a bad economy, how their cost does not act as [...]

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Tesla and Fisker Funding Debate

by 53X11 on September 29, 2009

It seems that some of the taxpayer money the US government decided to give out to help car companies went to higher end eco car start up companies (Tesla and Fisker respectively) when other similar bid requests were denied. Some government watch dog groups are wandering if Fisker’s relationship with Al Gore may have helped [...]

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Swing Low

by 53X11 on September 28, 2009

Milton Stanley of Transforming Sermons has a nice post up linking too a few posts (post here and here) by Peter Mead about low points in ministry. Peter and Milton (via comment on Peter’s post) make the points that the real key is working through low times in ministry / with God is to come [...]

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Old and New

by 53X11 on September 27, 2009

Well after over 8 years of running the team-swap a website and 5 years of being the primary blogger at swapblog I have decided it was time for something new.  So I have taken down both the website and the blog and decided to start a new blog – Frankly Speaking.    This change has [...]

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