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1936 Stainless Steel Ford
removed them from service. These cars were built for Allegheny as promotional and marketing projects. The top salesmen each year were given the honor of being able to drive them for one year. The v-8 engine (max 85 hp) ran like a sewing machine and was surprisingly smooth and quiet. The car was insured (we were told) for the trip to Louisville via covered trailer for 1.5 million dollars.
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A Picture called Death
Photographer Marlon Reid speaks about A Picture called Death – his photograph depicting the aftermath of a shooting in Kingston, Jamaica in March 2008.
Stay on top of SXSW and also win an iPad
Here are two more ways to stay on top of SXSW:
- Curated collection of SXSW sites.
- Automated collection searching for the SXSW hashtag.
In addition, there's always http://.alltop.com.
And don't forget to send in your "over the top" photos so that you can win an iPad, HP PhotoSmart printer, Kodak Zi8 camera, Eye-Fi 4 GB card, and Cirque du Soleil tickets. Details here.
See us at SXSW: Twitter Indispensable Tools Seminar (TITS).
How legends in our own minds use Twitter
Paddy Donnelly posed a series of questions about how some social-media types use Twitter. The list includes Pete Cashmore, Tim O'Reilly, Darren Rowse, Chris Brogan, and Smashing Magazine. The questions include:
- How to you Twitter?
- Will we be tweeting in five years?
- How can you trust a big name brand on Twitter?
- What are your thoughts on the power of the retweet?
Paddy does think that people want to ask Shaquille O'Neal for dribbling advice. Those Irish sure stick together.
Full story at JohnHaydon.
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15 awesome automotive art designs
Want to stand out in a traffic jam? Try customizing your car with a wicked new paint job. Web Urbanist has compiled a great list of fifteen cool automotive art designs. See a few below:
See all fifteen at Web Urbanist.
More on autos.
How to visit San Francisco on the cheap--with a toddler
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The Frugal Traveler is at it again, this time in San Francisco with the extra joys and challenges of traveling with his 13-month-old daughter. The NY Times travel writer Matt Gross proves that, with some careful choices, spending a little father-daughter time in the city on the bay is affordable, aundruable, and enjoyable—if still ambitious.
Read all of Matt's frugal tips for traveling in SF with kids at the NYTimes.com.
More on travel.
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Na porta do Circo Voador, na noite de celebração. #forfunNoCirco www.forfun.art.br/aovivo
Et tu? Shamed Microsoft workers hide their (i)Phones
Maybe it was when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer pretended to stomp on an employee's iPhone in front of thousands at the all-company meeting in a sports stadium. Or perhaps it was when the company announced it would only reimburse cellphone services fees for those using phones with Window Phones software. Or could it have been when Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division, destroyed his personal iPhone in a blender? Whatever tipped the employees off, the WSJ reports that among the nearly 10,000 Microsoft workers using iPhone last year (that's 10% of the company's global workforce), some may have taken the hint and gone to some pains to conceal their—shhh—iPhones. According to the WSJ article, some go as far as to masquerade their phones using cases that make them look like other devices. Others simply steal them from the executives' sight. Now if only there were an app for this.
Read the full story at WSJ.com.
More on iPhones and Microsoft.
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Why Facebook keeps redesigning
If you wonder why Facebook keeps revamping its design, Scott Scheper has a few fascinating theories. In particular, he teases out" In particular, he teases out 1) Why Facebook is driving up search and 2) Distraction as Facebook's core business model. He argues, for instance, that Facebook is trying to improve its search efforts to: "(i) to combat Twitter, and (ii) to gain more insight into their users in order to advertise them (they'll log which search terms you look for), (iii) display text ads on the results page."
Find this compelling? Read the full story at The Rescue Time Blog.
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How the Roger Smith Hotel became the social media hotel
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With Hyatts and Hiltons and other big names, the NYC hotel industry is tough to enter. Yet The Roger Smith Hotel in Midtown Manhattan has been able to put itself on the map by using social media. While listening and engagement are oft celebrated best practices in online networking, the hotel seemed to take this to a whole new level. A recent Techipedia article describes how they actually make concerted efforts to invite social media influencers to their place, fix rooms with spaces for workshops or parties, and even allow booking through DM with Twitter discount rates. Part of it goes back to simple relationship building, says Brian Simpson, the hotel's Director of Social Hospitality. "I really found the genuine ability to connect with people valuable," he tells Techipiedia, "and we have continued to use this as just one of many pieces of the funnel hopefully driving people to be more involved with us outside of just booking a room."
Read the full story at Techipedia.
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How to build a company you can sell
When a business is primarily centered around its owner, it cannot be easily sold. Why? Because many customers will specifically request to deal with that individual only. So, if selling your company is what you want to do, you'll need to follow these helpful steps, as outlined by John Warrillow. See a few below:
- Create a positive cash flow cycle.
- Hire a sales team.
- Reduce your dependence on anything but your scalable product/service.
Full story at Open Forum.
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10 tips for unleashing innovation
Thomas Edison once said, "There's a way to do it better—find it." Innovation can really be boiled down to that principle. In order to unleash your ability to innovate, check out these ten tips for doing just that. See a snippet below:
- Learn to see.
- Leverage the limitations.
- Master creative tension.
See all ten handy tips and tricks at Open Forum.
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8 precariously placed cliff towns
Some neighbourhoods are neatly tucked away in squeaky-clean suburbs and others bravely sit atop giant cliffs. Check out this thrilling list of the top eight cliff towns on the planet. See three below:
Santorini, Greece
Bonifacio, France
Cuenca, Spain
See all eight at Nile Guide.
Planning a trip?
Police hunt wool graffiti bandit
Police in West Cape May are on the hunt for what could possibly be the least-threatning guerilla vandal in the history of graffiti. From tree branches to lamp posts - 'The Midnight Knitter' has been covering most of New Jersey in brightly covered wool. Technically, the crafty needle-wheeler is breaking the law, however, Mayor Pam Kaithern and local residents admit they're delighted by the woolly rainbow colours.
Full story at Metro.
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On a sunny Sunday at Kawaguchi Park
Olha o que rolou de diferente no show de hoje...
Logo após o show hoje... Infelizmente não rolou transmissão. Sabe como é né, tecnologia é binaria e forfun é polisensitivico, só isso.
Cacarim pós show...
A new generation of surfers: The Aerialists
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This new NYTimes video discusses the latest trend in competitive surfing: air tricks. Until recently, most surfers have focused on consistency and length of time on the wave, but this new generation of competitors test their limits by performing tricks closer to skateboarding. By pushing themselves above the lip of the wave, these surfers create complex twists and tricks in the air—and change the game of surfing, too.
Read the full story at a related article on the NYTimes.com.
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Spent the afternoon practicing Yoga, sipping tea, and running in Nara mountainside.
Ran up to the Yoga dojo that belongs to my friend Khalsa Sada Anand. Above is the tea room where we relax and chat with Khalsa and others before going to the dojo next door. In this picture above you see the Nara valley (and my house in there somewhere) out the window. Khalsa is building a deck outside which will offer fantastic views from April when the weather is warmer. I guess the elevation is about 500 meters here. Gorgeous.
In the dojo just before starting a nearly 2-hour session.
With Khalsa-sensei after the session was finished (I dig the sign in the back.)
Ran down the mountain to home as it was getting dark. Such peaceful scenes along the way.
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