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links for 2009-05-29

• The Graduates
  PG: Some advice for new college graduates from He Whose Name Is On The Door. He wraps his piece with" "My wife correctly points out that I never had to apply for a “real job” because I have worked at a family company. I understand that my advice must be taken, therefore, with a grain of salt. But I have hired hundreds of people in my 31 years in the business, many of whom I took straight from college (examples: Matt Harrington, now President of Edelman US and Russ Dubner, now manager of Edelman’s 500 person NY office). Hopefully this list is of some use to you new college graduates."
  (tags: richard+edelman career pr public+relations)
• California's Silent Big Spenders: Political class refuses to explain why the state requires hysterical spending growth
  "Instead of making the positive case for big government, or at least beginning to explain, let alone defend, what Sacramento does with all that money, California's political class has instead opted for a four-pronged strategy: deny, scare, attack, then call for higher taxes."
  (tags: politics opinion taxes government california)
• Sugar Stacks: How Much Sugar is in your Food? | Pilhas de açucar: Quanto açucar tem na sua comida?
  (tags: food)

links for 2009-05-28

• Imágenes del día via noquedanblogs.com | Day images via noquedanblogs.com
• Un día representado en logos | A day represented by logos
  LET: Eu quero fazer um desses. || I want to do one of those.
  (tags: blogs logo brands)
• The Patents of Steve Jobs
  PG: Harry McCracken has a point... How many CEOs are named in the patents their companies hold?
  (tags: design apple patents intellectual+property steve+jobs)

Memorial Day Baby tour

Camille (2months/2meses)

Diego (2years/2 anos)

Paul Jr. (8months/8meses)

No ultimo feriado de "Memorial Day" eu e o Phil fomos visitar amigos e a familia na California. Lá nos encontramos pela primeira vez Camille Grant, Diego Wambach and Paul Jr. Grazzini. Todos foram devidamente abraçados, beijados e apertados :-)

This past Memorial Day weekend Phil and I spent visiting friends and family in California. We were very happy to meet for the first time Camille Grant, Diego Wambach and Paul Jr. Grazzini. All were very loved and properly squeezed (that's the best part!).

links for 2009-05-27

• Scientific American On The Origins Of Bitchy
  "Let me attempt to preempt the obvious criticism that this is not, of course, to say that all teenage girls are catty—need I really point out the obvious that many are of course wonderful, thoughtful and mature people?"
  (tags: science research women)
• Online brand still eludes workers
  PG: I was quoted in the Calgary Herald about the topic of online behavior.
  (tags: stuff+for+moms+fridge+door public+relations pr edelman toronto canada)
• Take a Ride on a Penny Farthing, Featuring Eric "The Nub" Vaught
  PG: Some of you might recognize Eric in this video.
  (tags: videos television news bay+area bicycles alameda california)

links for 2009-05-26

• Empathy Versus Law by Walter Williams
  "Do we want referees to allow empathy to influence their decisions? Let's look at it using this year's Super Bowl as an example. The Pittsburgh Steelers have won six Super Bowl titles, seven AFC championships and hosted 10 conference games. No other AFC or NFC team can match this record. By contrast, the Arizona Cardinals' last championship victory was in 1947 when they were based in Chicago. In anyone's book, this is a gross disparity. Should the referees have the empathy to understand what it's like to be a perennial loser and what would you think of a referee whose decisions were guided by his empathy? Suppose a referee, in the name of compensatory justice, stringently applied pass interference or roughing the passer violations against the Steelers and less stringently against the Cardinals. Or, would you support a referee who refused to make offensive pass interference calls because he thought it was a silly rule?"
  (tags: supreme+court opinion)

links for 2009-05-25

• Russian Wall-E PC Housing
  "This project took 18 days from this Russian guy to accomplish. It all has began after he has watched that cartoon. An idea sparked thru his head 'I want to build such thing to hold my computer stuff in it.' A solid-metal Wall-E computer case, each detail carefully cut from the metal sheets processed and put in place."
  (tags: computers pc case)

links for 2009-05-22

• Loco Legislators: State and local officials are wasting your money—and their time—writing bad laws
  PG: Just so you know, I'm not *only* beating up on California lawmakers. I'm pretty equal-opportunity when it comes to legislators making up nutty laws.
  (tags: law worthless+nanny+state+organizations states government)
• Dear GOP: Please Choose Liberty
  "[George W. Bush] remarkably enough, managed to combine every anti-individual liberty idea from the right with every pro-big government policy from the left. From the right, Bush acquired: a super-hawkish foreign policy; contempt for civil liberties; and religiously informed positions on gay marriage, abortion and end-of-life issues. And from the left he got: high-spending ways, including the massive drug entitlement for seniors; expansive ideas about the federal government's role in education policy; and the chutzpah, just before leaving, to engineer a massive government bailout of banks and auto companies."
  (tags: opinion republican george+w+bush)
• California's Political/Journalistic Class = Fail
  "It's not that the initiative process hasn't produced all kinds of terrible policy in California; it has. But the sheer disproportionality of the blame-the-voter analysis reveals what close readers have long suspected is true: The Golden State's political class has long since given up agitating for government growth to be pared back even to the growth rate of inflation-plus-population. They treat massive public-sector pensions as a given, shudder with revulsion even at the mere scare-mention of a tiny percentage of state workers getting laid off, and pin the burden of proof not on the politicians who shovel up crappy new budget gimmicks, but rather on the voters who sensibly tell them to get stuffed."
  (tags: politics california taxes)

links for 2009-05-20

• Change You Can Copy | Pode copiar a mudança
  "Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Barack Obama at the White House to discuss Mideast peace talks, Iran's nuclear program and the U.S.-Israeli relationship. Since being elected, this was the first time the two had met, however judging from their previous websites, their campaign advisors had been eying each others work for quite sometime."
  (tags: design usa israel Obama netanyahu copy)
• Eco Veículo
  "The Eco Veículo is a joint project developed by a team of professors and students from the Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra and several other institutions." (Hat-tip: Angela Simoes)
  (tags: portugal science environmental cars innovation)
• How to Turn a Robot Evil, In Nine Easy Steps
  "Robots can be surgeons and artists, but they can also be murderous, world-ending death machines. And that's way cooler. Here are nine ways to turn your robot evil, according to science fiction." (Hat-tip: Becca Young)
  (tags: robots science+fiction lists)
• A century of most popular baby names
  PG: A fun visualization based on Social Security data.
  (tags: visualization babies names history)
• 10 Amazing Gadgets You Can't Get Here
  "Do tiny TVs, intelligent cell phones, and superpowerful netbooks and headphones make you drool? Get a tissue--you can't buy any of this terrific tech in the U.S. just yet."
  (tags: technology gadgets lists)
• Pandora Predicts First-Ever Profit
  PG: Leticia and I are very big fans of this service "Having followed Pandora’s progress for nearly a decade, I’ve seen the company do just about everything one can do with interactive radio — except for turn a profit. That will change in 2010, according to Pandora founder Tim Westergren."
  (tags: music pandora business)

links for 2009-05-19

• Robot warriors will get ethics guide
  "Ronald Arkin, a professor of computer science at Georgia Tech, is in the first stages of developing an 'ethical governor,' a package of software and hardware that tells robots when and what to fire."
  (tags: robots military ethics war)

links for 2009-05-18

• Twelve Oddly Specific Museums Preserving Our History
  PG: I would have to say my favorite is "The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices."
  (tags: museums history)
• Obama's French Toast: Just Say Non
  PG: I always look forward to Veronique de Rugy's column every month in Reason magazine.
  (tags: politics economics france Obama videos)
• In São Paulo, Brazilian Cuisine Is Back on the Table | Em São Paulo, culinária brasileira esta de volta na mesa.
  Hat tip: Jeremy Pepper
  (tags: brazil brasil NYTimes.com culinaria cuisine)
• Soak the Rich, Lose the Rich
  "Here's the problem for states that want to pry more money out of the wallets of rich people. It never works because people, investment capital and businesses are mobile: They can leave tax-unfriendly states and move to tax-friendly states... Updating some research from Richard Vedder of Ohio University, we found that from 1998 to 2007, more than 1,100 people every day including Sundays and holidays moved from the nine highest income-tax states such as California, New Jersey, New York and Ohio and relocated mostly to the nine tax-haven states with no income tax, including Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire and Texas. We also found that over these same years the no-income tax states created 89% more jobs and had 32% faster personal income growth than their high-tax counterparts."
  (tags: politics government taxes)