Ford to phase out CD players in its cars

With the new Focus, Ford has scrapped the once-popular multi-disc CD changers, while a USB connection and Bluetooth are standard equipment in the UK – both of which cater to the increasing popularity of iPods and other digital music players.

Sheryl Connelly, global trends and futuring manager, Ford Motor Company, said: “In-car entertainment technology is moving digital more rapidly than almost any other element of the vehicle experience.

“The in-car CD player – much like pay telephones – is destined to fade away in the face of exciting new technology.”

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I Grew Up With TGIF

It’s not really a song about ABC’s TGIF lineup, but it’s really a pop culture referece songs for all things late 80’s and 90’s.

There’s one really ‘suggestive’ photo that you real conservative folks will want to close your eyes for from the 2:20 – 2:23, but other wise I found the song and video pretty fun and entertaining.

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Burning ‘Nasty’ Bits of Bible Not Sin, Welsh Priest Says

A vicar in Wales has outraged his church authorities by refusing to make an apology a week after he burned pages from the King James Version Bible which he said portrayed God as “cruel and vile.”

“The passages I cut out [and later burned] referred to the wrath of God, a God who killed millions of people in a vengeful, spiteful way,” the Rev. Geraint ap Iorwerth, the vicar of St. Peter ad Vincula Church in the town of Machynlleth, told Walesonline Saturday.

The charred remains were “a memorial to the millions whose lives have been destroyed as a result of the cruelty of this kind of God and his followers,” the 60-year-old priest was quoted as saying.

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