Ball Of Wax

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Matter of life, death - St. Petersburg Times

"I am scheduled to begin dying on Feb. 1, 2010."

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-16602-the-king-of-them-all.html

King Records: The King of Them All.

From 1943-1971 King Records forever changed American music. Owner Syd Nathan gave the world Bluegrass, R&B, Rock & Roll, Doo Wop, Country, Soul and Funk. With stars from James Brown to the Stanley Brothers, and its innovative, integrated business model, Cincinnati’s King Records revolutionized the music industry.

Monday, December 07, 2009

What’s the Big Idea? � Where’s Eric Cantor?

What’s the Big Idea? � Where’s Eric Cantor?:

"Cantor had literally no answer to what ideas the Republicans would offer. His “idea,” after some stammering and stalling, was to “create an environment” for job creation. That’s it."

Check out the video.

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Apple Has Acquired Lala - washingtonpost.com

This could be bad news for Lala users. It's unlikely that the innovative deals negotiated by Lala will survive through the acquisition. For over a year, Lala users have been purchasing the rights to stream their music an unlimited number of times for ten cents per song. If the deals with the music labels go up in smoke, Lala may lose the right to stream those songs. In other words, all the money users have been spending on web songs may go down the drain. If the deals are nullified, hopefully Apple will renegotiate them to at least cover existing purchases until it releases its own streaming music service. We've reached out to Lala but have yet to hear back.

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Jim Rogers Blog: Investing In Africa`s Farmland

This blog deserves something better than the Penny Stock ads Google serves up. I'm guessing Rogers has no interest and not much respect for the pink sheets.

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Global Warming: Refuting The Skeptics

14............."It's freaking cold!" Since the mid 1970s, global temperatures have been warming at around 0.2°C per decade. However, weather imposes it's own dramatic ups and downs over the long term trend. So we expect to see record cold temperatures even during global warming. Nevertheless over the last decade, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows. This tendency towards hotter days is expected to increase as global warming continues into the 21st Century.

Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says

Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says: "14 'It's freaking cold!' Since the mid 1970s, global temperatures have been warming at around 0.2�C per decade. However, weather imposes it's own dramatic ups and downs over the long term trend. So we expect to see record cold temperatures even during global warming. Nevertheless over the last decade, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows. This tendency towards hotter days is expected to increase as global warming continues into the 21st Century."

"This Big Push Now" - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Obama "The strategy that I'm pursuing is designed to say let's see if we can change the conditions on the ground in a time certain period. There are risks associated with that, but in the absence of that push, we are in a situation that doesn't change, and there are big costs associated to troop presence, to casualties, to a slowly deteriorating situation over a course of years that are at least comparable and probably worse than us going ahead and making this big push now."

Friday, November 27, 2009

The Emptiness Of Karl Rove - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Emptiness Of Karl Rove - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:

"What Rove requires is what Palin requires: total amnesia of what they just said or did. There is nothing deeper to either of them than the cynical attempt to spin the next five minutes to their own advantage and at the cost of the country in general. One knows better; the other knows nothing. Together, they represent a useful spectrum of the degeneracy on the Republican right."