My Shared Items: Week of October 13th, 2009

These are links from my Google Reader Shared Items to interesting webpages I discovered during the week of October 13th, 2009:

• The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Why is the Borg so messed up? Three guesses, and the first two don't count – A great summary of Microsoft's failures
• Microsoft’s Future, Beyond Windows 7 and the PC – NYTimes.com
• The Associated Press: Risky business: States tax the rich at their peril
• Off the Charts – By Some Reliable Measures, the Global Recession Is Over – NYTimes.com – All I can think is how terrible our media is, and how right the conservative economists were.
• Why Fox News Is Un-American | Newsweek.com – yes yes yes
• This American Life – Stories about the sanctity of marriage
• YouTube – CNN's Rick Sanchez Exposes FOX News Coaching Tea Party Crowd
• Video: Queer and Loathing in D.C. | The Daily Show
• YouTube – David Cameron Vs. Gordon Brown – If they have something like CSPAN, I'd watch it 24/7
• 8Swi9.png – Appropriate summary of the balloon debacle.
• Rape Case Highlights Arbitration Debate : NPR
• What the Jamie Leigh Jones Case Teaches Us—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)
• YouTube – Did You Know?
• sorenson.jpg (image) – Palin/Obama/Terminator cartoon
• Seeing Red In Pink Products: One Woman's Fight Against Breast Cancer Consumerism – Newsweek.com
• 30 Dumb Inventions – Photo Gallery, 30 Pictures – LIFE
• Book of Odds – The Odds of Everyday Life – The odds a female will be diagnosed with breast cancer are 1 in 8.14. Yikes.
• The Raw Feed: The Internet. Who says you can't take it with you? – I can't believe I want one, but I do.
• YouTube – Economist "Did you know?" – Viva la revolucion!
• Lawrence Kadish: Taking the National Debt Seriously – WSJ.com – I could do without the threats to the "fabric of our society," whatever that is, but we need action on this issue NOW.

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