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Facebook and Austin? Rick Perry Approved...

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(AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

The state of Texas is offering Facebook Inc. $1.4 million from a business development fund to locate a new 200-employee sales and operations office in Austin. This comes on the heels of a recent announcement by Facebook, which has seen membership grow to more than 400 million worldwide, that a new data center will be opened in Oregon, employing 35 workers.The deal, announced Thursday by Gov. Rick Perry's office, asks the city of Austin to chip in $200,000 in development incentives to lure the Social Media giant.  Good idea?

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Tragedy in Austin

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As a resident of Texas, the actions of the man who crashed his plane into an Austin IRS building today are disturbing to say the least. Further details will emerge, but what is presented here, by way of Mashable, is the man's reasoning, in his own words, as to why he has committed this horrible act. (Note: I post this only to provide relevant news, and not in any way to condone the actions of a madman, or to give him an outlet with which to spread his message)


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