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• What happened to the Denver Broncos this year?  Injuries, injuries, injuries :: “Oh, it’s the hardest season I’ve had since I’ve been coaching, there’s no question about that,” Shanahan said Wednesday as the Broncos began preparing for their season finale against Minnesota.  What makes this harder than eight years ago, when the two-time defending Super Bowl champs went 6-10 in Shanahan’s only other losing season during his 13-year tenure?  “Because we’re a better football team this year than we were in ’99,” Shanahan said.
• Is waterboarding torture?  One man decided to try it himself :: I have never been more panicked in my whole life. Once your lungs are empty and collapsed and they start to draw fluid it is simply all over. You know you are dead and it’s too late. Involuntary and total panic. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it. It would be like telling you not to blink while I stuck a hot needle in your eye. At the time my lungs emptied and I began to draw water, I would have sold my children to escape. There was no choice, or chance, and willpower was not involved. I never felt anything like it, and this was self-inflicted with a watering can, where I was in total control and never in any danger. And I understood. ::  I know the current American administration disagrees but I would say it is in violation of the Geneva conventions.
• AKMA did talk about this years ago but Dave Winer brings up the issue of what happens to our digital world when we pass away.
• Fed up with the airlines?  Employees are as well. :: Airline employees are fed up, too — with pay cuts, increased workloads and management’s miserly ways, which leave workers to explain to often-enraged passengers why flying has become such a miserable experience.  A rich record of the employee discontent emerges from regular question-and-answer sessions held at US Airways, which is both the worst-performing big airline in the country and a company that encourages its 36,000 workers to direct tough questions at its chief executive, W. Douglas Parker.  “Doug, I watched you on CNBC today,” said one e-mail message from a worker, sent on Oct. 25. “And I hate to tell you but the interiors of our plans [sic] smell bad and they are filthy. As an employee I am embarrassed to admit working for US Airways. When are you going to quit talking and do something about it?”
• As India modernizes, the profession of the “letter writer” slowly fades
• The best science and idea books of 2007
• Buildings made from business cards
• Emerging Church.info is down.  Anyone know what is up with the site?
• My experiences with Vista were similar to Adam’s.   I need a new computer but am not sure if I want to get a Mac but let’s be honest, Vista is a big step backwards from XP
• Willowcreek disagrees with me about Christmas pageants :: “In today’s world, the church must compete with movies and even restaurants for audiences. Everybody wants to be entertained,” said Susan DeLay, who handles public relations for Willow Creek. “People who might not go to church might come to see a Christmas pageant, and if we can share Christ through this, then yeah!”
• The Story of Stuff :: via
• The State of the Church in England (from 2000 – 2007) :: Wow, Anglican church attendance down 20%, Methodists are down 25%, Baptists are down 7% while Pentecostal attendance is up 23%.  Church attendance is down to 2.x – 3.x % in a variety of places in England.

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