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If your business is on Facebook, remember you don't own or control your page 2

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If your business is on Facebook, remember you don't own or control your page

Actually this applies to any social network.  No matter how large or small, your business should have a unique web presence with a domain you own. Social networks are great for expanding your reach and engagement, but they should not be your primary point of presence online because that network can arbitrarily shut you down any time they want. ?

Beware: Your Business Is At The Mercy Of Facebook! Social Fixer Page Deleted Without Explanation…
I’ve spent 4 years and countless hours building up a community around my software: my Page had 338050 Likes, my Support Group had 13360 members, and my Interest List had 1.47 Million followers. But all of that work was wiped out in an instant when Facebook decided to shut it down without notice.

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Did you know that the first known retail customer for the  #Mustang  was a young… 1

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Did you know that the first known retail customer for the  #Mustang  was a young Chicago schoolteacher?

Gail Wise walked into a Chicago +Ford Motor Company dealership on April 15, 1964 and later that day drove off with a brand new Mustang convertible? What's so special about that you might ask? Gail got her car two days before Mustang was supposed to be on sale and hers is the first known retail sale of a production Mustang. 

The best part is that nearly 50 years later, Gail and her husband still own that car. ?

First Ford Mustang owner still has the keys 49 years after trading a Chevy
The launch of an iconic sports car in today’s world often comes with a bidding war to be first in line; witness NASCAR team owner and car dealer Rick Hendrick paying $1 million last year for the rights to own the first 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray. But when the Ford Mustang was launched in 1964, […]

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The Road is one of the most unrelentingly depressing movies I've seen in a long…

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The Road is one of the most unrelentingly depressing movies I've seen in a long time

If you're looking for something that will prompt you to slit your wrists on a Saturday night, this movie is a great choice

The Road (2009)
Directed by John Hillcoat. With Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall. A post-apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to survive by any means…

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Ingenuity will always beat any effort to prevent copying content

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Ingenuity will always beat any effort to prevent copying content

Stripping Kindle DRM with Lego
Consider a book sitting on a shelf. You can lend it out to a friend, you don’t need a special device to read it, and if you are so inclined, you can photocopy it. This isn’t true with Kindle eBooks that place severe restrictions on what you can do with a book via DRM.

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We are screwed!

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Atmospheric carbon emissions may well be the least of our problems. We all of the insane overfishing and overfertilization of fields we do, jellyfish are rapidly taking over the oceans.?

They’re Taking Over! by Tim Flannery | The New York Review of Books
It’s become fashionable to keep jellyfish in aquariums. Behind glass they can be hypnotically beautiful and immensely relaxing to watch. Unless we are enjoying them in this way, we usually give little thought to the creatures until we are stung by one. Jellyfish stings are often not much more …

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The only way to put a stop to this sort of retailer exclusive nonsense is to not…

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The only way to put a stop to this sort of retailer exclusive nonsense is to not buy any of these disks

Paramount is taking the worst possible lesson from mobile providers by giving exclusive versions  of its movie disks to different outlets. ?

The real problem with Star Trek Into Darkness‘s bungled Blu-ray release — Tech News and Analysis
Summary: Settle in for a tale of retailer exclusives, international editions and the Bittorrenting that ensues when a Blu-ray release goes wrong.

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The era of the light-duty diesel pickup truck may finally be upon us

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Back in 2007 and 2008, every company that builds full-size pickups announced plans offer versions with diesel engines by the end of the decade. Then diesel fuel prices spiked, demand for trucks dropped and everyone of those plans was cancelled. 

Among those that intended to build diesel pickups was Toyota http://greenfuelsforecast.com/ArticleDetails.php?articleID=425

Now in the wake of Chrysler launching a diesel Ram and Nissan announcing a Cummins diesel for its next-gen Titan, Toyota is back on the compression ignition bandwagon. So far, GM's ready for production 4.5-liter Duramax V8 remains on the shelf http://green.autoblog.com/2010/06/11/general-motors-4-5l-light-duty-diesel-v8-was-on-track-for-25-mpg/ but it could be revived. GM has already indicated that it will offer a smaller diesel in upcoming US versions of the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon mid-size trucks. 

That leaves just Ford which has given no indication that it will offer a light duty pickup diesel. Ford will offer a 3.2-liter five cylinder diesel in the upcoming Transit full-size van and the 4.4-liter V8 it had planned to install in the F150 a few years ago did end up finding in a home in European market Range Rovers. For now, Ford remains committed to gas-fueled EcoBoost technology for the pickups. ?

Toyota Eyes Cummins Diesel Engine for Tundra | Edmunds.com
Toyota may offer a Cummins turbocharged diesel engine in its Tundra pickup truck line, Edmunds has learned.

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I drink a fair bit of coffee and I'll never buy a single serving coffee make…

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I drink a fair bit of coffee and I'll never buy a single serving coffee maker

On a couple of occasions I've considered buying one of those single serving coffee makers, but when I've used them in hotel rooms I've been unimpressed with the quality of the coffee.  Worse all of the materials for every cup go straight into a landfill. 

Instead, at home we have a Melita mill and brew that includes a built-in grinder.  We buy high-quality and locally roasted whole beans and get great coffee every time for a fraction of what those single use cups cost. We also don't have to use any filters, the grounds go straight into the compost and the filter basket gets rinsed out for the next pot.

More cost effective and less wasteful.?

Waste: The Dark Side of the New Coffee Craze | Feature | Oakland, Berkeley & Bay Area News & Arts Coverage
In June, Peet’s Coffee & Tea dispatched a truck emblazoned with the motto, “Proof in Every Single Cup,” to drive across the country. Every few days the mobile cafe pulls up to the sidewalk of a different city, and the baristas on board hawk free cups of the company’s new single-serve coffees.

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