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links for 2009-07-30

• What If: The New New York Times
  "I keep wondering what would happen if the top 10% of the writers at the NYTimes just…walked out. I know it’s crazy, but let’s just explore this a bit for the heck of it."
  (tags: nytimes print journalism media newspapers)
• Best Headline In History
  PG: Words just fail me...
  (tags: journalism media newspapers humor ooops)
• Four Years After Kelo Ruling, Now-Barren Area Still Needs 'Springboard'
  "Four years ago, on June 23, 2005, a 6-3 Supreme Court majority ruled in Kelo v. New London that the New London, Connecticut government could condemn houses in that city's Fort Trumbull area in the name of redevelopment. A bit over a year later, the city settled with the area's final two holdouts, the Cristofaro family and Susette Kelo. Since then the city has without success tried to engage a developer to build a hotel on part of the now-leveled area, and to put apartments or condos on the rest. Yes, you read that right; they're building residences where residences used to be."
  (tags: kelo eminent+domain worthless+nanny+state+organizations)

links for 2009-07-29

• Evolução das logos, Pepsi vs Coca Cola || Evolution of logos, Pepsi vs Coca Cola.
  (tags: design logo pepsi coca+cola)
• One of Us
  A story of an Iraq war veteran who goes to journalism school. "It signaled to me that the cultural rift between the institution I had left and the one I was joining was more hardwired than I had realized, and I increasingly found myself defending the military against stereotypes."
  (tags: journalism military education)

links for 2009-07-28

• William Shatner Reads Sarah Palin Farewell Speech
  PG: There are a lot of things that just sound cooler coming from Shatner.
  (tags: politics humor videos william+shatner conan)

links for 2009-07-27

• Monday fun! from IKEA hacker || Diversão de segunda-feira do IKEA hacker.
• LGDTXTR.COM
  PG: This translates SMS teenspeak into plain ol' English, and vice versa.
  (tags: mobile humor reference)
• MythBusters' Adam Savage on His Show's Origins, Its Effects on Kids (Oh, No!), and Whether We're a Nation of Sheep or Skeptics
  "At the Las Vegas-based Amazing Meeting, Reason magazine's Matt Welch recently sat down with Adam Savage, co-host of the enormously popular and captivating Discovery Channel series MythBusters."
  (tags: videos mythbusters interviews)
• Trailer: "Tron Legacy"
  PG: Awesome that Disney is doing a sequel.
  (tags: tron movies trailers videos)
• Princesas en decadencia | Falling princess
  LET: Otimas imagens. || Great images.
  (tags: princess humor art arte)

links for 2009-07-25

• Tyler Durden’s 8 Rules of Innovation
  "We all want to do remarkable things, and lead remarkable lives. No one wants to spend the day engaged in mundane productivity in pursuit of a meaningless consumer existence. Certainly not you, right? So why do we find it so hard to break out of our rut and do truly innovative things? Because it’s hard. Because it often requires us to significantly alter our perspectives and step outside our comfort zones."
  (tags: movies lists business marketing inspiration advice philosophy)
• Time For A Third Party? Problems With America's Two-Party System
  "That truth is that both parties suck. It's that simple. If neither party ought to have control of our government for longer than eight years, because any longer than that will be enough time for them to do some serious damage, then it is clear that both parties are awful and shouldn't have control of our government for any length of time. We have two broken parties that propose and enact the wrong answers and the wrong solutions, and we're stuck playing them against each other so that neither one will be in office long enough to completely wreck everything. But in the meantime, we are suffering attrition- the slow wearing-down of our freedoms. Picture death by a thousand slow cuts. This is not a strategy to win over the long term. It's a strategy to suck less in the short term. It's not a plan that will solve America's problems. It's a plan to fail."
  (tags: politics opinion libertarian)
• Why I Pay with Two-Dollar Bills
  "I recently decided that I am going to pay for as many things as is practicable using only two-dollar bills. I will now attempt to explain my purely symbolic gesture and the reactions I have received so far."
  (tags: money economics opinion)

links for 2009-07-24

• Yngwie Malmsteen - Concerto Suite - Finale
  PG: Masterful...
  (tags: yngwie+malmsteen music videos)

links for 2009-07-22

• There's No Such Thing as Free Health Care
  "We saw this in Canada, where we did find one area of medicine that offers easy access to cutting-edge technology—CT scan, endoscopy, thoracoscopy, laparoscopy, etc. It was open 24/7. Patients didn't have to wait. But you have to bark or meow to get that kind of treatment. Animal care is the one area of medicine that hasn't been taken over by the government. Dogs can get a CT scan in one day. For people, the waiting list is a month."
  (tags: healthcare canada)

links for 2009-07-21

• Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version | vanityfair.com
  "If you watched Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, you know one thing: her high-priced speechwriters moved back to the Beltway long ago."
  (tags: politics editing humor writing funny language publishing media sarahpalin palin copywriting)
• iPhone prototype goes missing; Chinese worker investigated, commits suicide
  "Last Thursday, 25 year-old Sun Danyong committed suicide after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype he was responsible for went missing. It’s a story, from what tech-industry friends in China tell me, of how Apple’s secretive ways send extreme pressure all the way down the company’s international supply chain."
  (tags: china iphone)
• Liberal Suicide March
  "And so here we are again. Every new majority overinterprets its mandate. We’ve been here before. We’ll be here again."
  (tags: nytimes politics opinion)
• Billions Served: Norman Borlaug
  I enjoyed this article during vacation in Kennedy Meadows. "Who has saved more human lives than anyone else in history? Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970? Who still teaches at Texas A&M at the age of 86? The answer is Norman Borlaug."
  (tags: norman+borlaug agriculture interviews)
• Norman Borlaug Video Interview
  "Normal Borlaug is an agricultural scientist and the father of the Green Revolution, directly responsible for saving over a billion lives from starvation in the third world through the spread and advance of genetically modified crops and technology. He's spent his life saving people and improving the world."
  (tags: norman+borlaug agriculture interviews)

links for 2009-07-18

• 40 Years Since Chappaquiddick...
  PG: You're not likely to read about this anniversary in too many places.
  (tags: ted+kennedy politics anniversaries)

links for 2009-07-13

• Dry Erase paint! || Tinta "de quadro branco" para parede!
  (tags: design dry+erase paint tinta)