[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- The Cleverest Way to Find a Job Using Google Also Works on Facebook [Job Search]
- Yesterday we highlighted how one clever copywriter got his name in front of the top creative directors in his industry. If the idea strikes you as worthwhile, turns out you can accomplish pretty much the same thing on Facebook.
[Of course, if everyone tries to use this method, it'll stop working... -L]
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett (Women's History @ About.com)
- In the British campaign for woman suffrage, Millicent Garrett Fawcett was known for her "constitutional" approach: a more peaceful, rational strategy, in contrast to the more militant and confrontational strategy of the Pankhursts.
- Boycotting Arizona: A Conversation with Brent Wilkes, National Executive Director of LULAC (Firedoglake)
- You can see a wide list of groups participating in the boycott here. The AFL-CIO today even called on Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano to cut all training and ties with Arizona law enforcement in the wake of the new law, or else they will be “complicit” in the racial profiling that will result.
Faced with this public relations problem with maybe hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, the state has vowed to combat it with a PR offensive of their own…
[Dear Arizona: You would not be having this PR problem if you did not have such a blatant racism problem. -L]
In addition to the straight boycott of Arizona goods and services pushed by Unite Arizona, Wilkes’ organization is calling for a kind of second-level boycott. On the site, Unite Arizona asks supporters to “boycott any corporation that continues to support the campaigns of the Arizona lawmakers responsible for this bill,” or even groups that support it. Wilkes told me he just got off the phone with Verizon, who was making sure they weren’t advertising in any radio shows with hosts who whipped up support for SB 1070.
- Exclusive: How Steven Chu Used Gamma Rays to Save the Planet – Science and Tech – The Atlantic
- It sounds like something right out of Marvel Comics: Government scientists suggest firing high-energy gamma rays — GAMMA RAYS! — to diagnose a leaking oil well a mile below the surface of the ocean. But that's what happened in the Gulf, when Energy Secretary Steven Chu and his team advised BP to use the gamma ray imaging technology to finally see the extent of the damage to the underwater blowout preventer, the safety device that was supposed to seal the oil well.
[Interview with Chu. -L]
- This is how Apple rolls | Tablets | Macworld
- There’s never been one iteration of the click-wheel iPod platform that has completely blown away the previous one, and even the original model was derided by many critics as unimpressive. The iPod shows, too, how Apple’s iterative development process doesn’t just add, it adapts. Remember those third-generation iPods from 2003, with four separate buttons above the click wheel? Turns out that wasn’t a good idea. They were gone a year later. Remember the iPod Mini? It had no new features, and wasn’t even much cheaper— but it was way smaller.
The iPhone is following the same pattern. In 2007 it debuted with no third-party apps, no 3G networking, and a maximum storage capacity of 8GB. One year later, Apple had doubled storage, added 3G and GPS, and opened the App Store. The year after that, Apple swapped in a faster processor, added a compass and an improved camera, and doubled storage again. The pattern repeats. We may never see an iPhone that utterly blows away the prior year’s, but we’ll soon have one that utterly blows away the original iPhone.
That brings us to the iPad. Initial reaction to it has been polarized, as is so often the case with Apple products. Some say it’s a big iPod touch. Others say it’s the beginning of a revolution in personal computing. As a pundit, I’m supposed to explain how the truth lies somewhere between these two extremes. But I can’t. The iPad really is The Big One: Apple’s reconception of personal computing.
- Schwarzenegger unveils austere budget plan (L.A. Times)
- The governor's proposal would eliminate the state's welfare-to-work program and most child care for the poor. 'California has no low-hanging fruit left,' he says.
[ME ANGRY. ME SMASH THINGS. -L]
- Domestic Violence and the San Diego Courts (Shakesville)
- [Trigger warning for discussion of domestic violence.]
Via Sign On San Diego, the online presence of San Diego's daily paper, comes this story about a Superior Court judge, DeAnn Salcido, who has taken the extraordinary step of seeking a court order specifically instructing her supervising judge, Peter Deddeh, and her fellow justices, to impose all conditions of probation on domestic violence offenders which are required by California state law.
Because, according to Judge Salcido, they are not doing so.
There is a lot of important information in this story….
[Insightful analysis redacted. -L]
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