How to get more of your online activity to show up on Facebook

RECOMMENDED BOOK: Facebook: The Missing Manual
If you’re a frequent Facebook user who would like a more “automatic” way to share stuff with your friends, here are some tips that will enable more of your online activity to find its way into your Facebook profile / feed.
After you’ve set these items up, you should see a [...]

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Scientists Not So Sure The Large Hadron Collider Won’t Destroy World

Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world’s largest particle collider, and determined that they won’t simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted.
Rather, Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna in Italy and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University [...]

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Helping Your Aging Parent(s) Downsize and Sell Off “Stuff”

RECOMMENDED BOOK: The Boomer Burden: Dealing with Your Parents’ Lifetime Accumulation of Stuff
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Here are some useful links if you’re one of the many people with aging parents who will soon move into a smaller house or an assisted living facility.
ESTATE SALES
How to Plan a Successful Estate Sale:
http://www.ehow.com/how_137449_successful-estate-sale.html
Hiring a Professional Estate Sale Service:
http://couponing.about.com/od/smorgasbord/a/estate_sale.htm
How to Hold an [...]

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Please help displaced employees of the Trackside Tavern and Fifth Earl Market

From the Decatur Business Association:
We wanted to make you aware of some news that deeply affects two of our DBA members, The Trackside Tavern and The 5th Earl Market.  The Tavern unfortunately experienced a devastating fire, leaving a number of people without jobs. The 5th Earl Market (adjacent to Trackside Tavern) also suffered extensive damage [...]

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Random notes from today’s lunch conversation

I had lunch today at Flip burger boutique with Marla and Ward. The items below show stuff we talked about during lunch and to which I promised to send them links.
Mother Ship by Led Zeppelin
The collection of 24 remastered songs by Led Zeppelin called Mothership is a must-have for any Zeppelin fan, whether you [...]

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What to expect from a “government jobs” program

What can you expect your vaunted Federal government to do with all those billions of borrowed dollars it plans to spend in the name of creating jobs via government work programs?
Perhaps we should look back at the last time the government undertook an operation of this magnitude, during the Great Depression.
Thanks to this great [...]

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The Coca-Cola Company presents the film "Always Tomorrow" (1941)

In 1941, The Coca-Cola Company produced a film to give its bottlers, investors, and employees confidence in the future during hard times…
The film appears on YouTube in eight parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vybc6YC4P1w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnMcc2OWP1A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dbmutacDWg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgw975Wm2lA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcDysKrtwXo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxdAVYZcNwA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MkJAmtkYDg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJoQTHo0ZpE

The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has a little bit of information about this film.

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Freedom, taxes, and government tyranny – notes for 01/07/2009

TAXES: The government is coming to tax your 401(k) contributions, starting in Massachusetts: http://is.gd/eJ0n
THE SIXTH AMENDMENT: Barack Obama’s appointee for Attorney General wants to punish people who hire attorneys to defend themselves: http://is.gd/eIYZ
TAX INCREASE: Activists in California trying to stop $9.3 billion in tax increases passed by Democratic legislature: http://is.gd/eIX9
TAXING THE POOR: Georgia considering $350M [...]

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Unlimited online backup for about $4.00 a month

[Note: I am not affiliated with Carbonite, and I do not receive any compensation for writing this blog entry or for your signing up for their service.]
Are you one of the millions of computer users who lives in fear of a dreaded system crash that will wipe out years of digital photos, music files, [...]

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Freedom, taxes, and the economy – notes for 2009/01/03

Here’s an idea – instead of raising taxes on your city’s residents, how about attracting more taxpayers to your city? http://is.gd/euiD
Small victory for freedom: Michigan residents may once again hang Tweety Bird ornaments from their rear-view mirrors: http://is.gd/euhZ
Freedom21 – advancing the principles of freedom in the 21st century: http://freedom21.org/ 
Reverse stimulus package: While "lending" tax dollars [...]

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