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Vanity Fair has a great story up about Marc Drier. Most people have forgotten about Drier, due to Bernie Madoff, but Drier stole hundreds for millions from hedgefunds and ran a ponsi scheme that finally brought him done. Some claim he did it for the trill or because he needed the money to maintain his [...]
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ABC News has a story up about 10 foods that have a high risk to give us food poisoning. The CDC routinely points to beef as the riskiest food, but the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) list 10 different foods which create health risks. CSPI list the following foods – #1 Leafy [...]
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Oobject has a poll going about the 13th most disgusting flavors of Pepsi ever. Personally I liked Clear Pepsi (ALOT) and Pepsi Summer Blend. I even tried the Holiday Spice Pepsi once and it was not terrible. Bottom line, give this poll a look but I personally disagree with some the flavors they included in [...]
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The fact there are some coming out in Hollywood to say that Roman Polanski should not be extradited or have to face the sentence of rape that he plead to some 30 years ago should be a stinging indictment to the average American (regardless of political stripe / view) just how far out of step [...]
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If you care, you already know that Microsoft’s next OS – Windows 7 – is being released in late October (October 22nd specifically). Below is a video made by Microsoft as a “guide” to hosting your launch party. REALLY WHY WOULD ANYONE HAVE A WINDOWS 7 LAUNCH PARTY!! This is Windows 7, i.e. Vista fixed [...]
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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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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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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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