My Shared Items: Week of October 20th, 2009

These are links from my Google Reader Shared Items to interesting webpages I discovered during the week of October 20th, 2009:

• In the US, Hope for Victims of Genital Mutilation | Newsweek.com – Be forewarned, this is extremely graphic and sickening. But it is also hopeful. We must face these demons if we are to fight them.
• Senate Passes Blame By Vote Of 91-8 | The Onion
• Big in Japan: Burger King Sells Windows 7 Whopper – FOXNews.com – They just don't stop the terrible marketing, do they?
• Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man | Video on TED.com – Fantastic and funny.
• Art of UnNaming: UnNaming Wisdom – Now those are rules for an unborn son!
• One shot of gene therapy and children with congenital blindness can now see
• The Associated Press: 1st polygamist sect criminal trial set to begin
• YouTube – BRAZILIAN MUSIC INSTITUTE 2009 – TICO TICO – I'm pretty sure at one point the man's left hand is playing with the woman's right hand. Amazing.
• YouTube – Obama Gets Tough Question From Fourth Grader – Good answer.
• The Middle Way Forward: The Entitlement Narrative – Oh election season, how I miss you.
• BBC NEWS | Rich Germans demand higher taxes
• Wallstats | MintLife Blog – I heart wallstats!
• Net neutrality: John McCain says no, Glenn Beck sees a Marxist plot — DailyFinance – Let's remember that McCain has admitted to not knowing how to use a computer. And let's remember Beck  - actually, please, let's forget about Beck.
• Maryland Reins In Hospital Costs by Setting Rates – WSJ.com
• Swiss Model for Health Care Is Gaining Admirers – NYTimes.com
• D3d2K.jpg – Calvin on Wall Street.
• Breakdancing Cat Flip Accident
• Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China – This is hell.
• Life Imitates 'Arrested Development' | The New Republic
• Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American
• After 5 Years In U.S., Terrorist Cell Too Complacent To Carry Out Attack | The Onion
• This American Life – Hands down the most entertaining, interesting thing I've read/heard on the Healthcare issue.
• For Some Seeking Rebirth, Sweat Lodge Was End – NYTimes.com
• 1001 rules for my unborn son – 396. Never get your haircut on the day of the big dance. – This took me 25 years to learn.
• Selling Sickness: How Drug Ads Changed Health Care : NPR
• How The Modern Patient Drives Up Health Costs : NPR
• Ezra Klein – Health Reform for Beginners: The Suprisingly Important, Occasionally Controversial, Dartmouth Atlas Studies
• The Telltale Wombs Of Lewiston, Maine : NPR
• The Raw Feed: Best Halloween costume yet: It's Balloon Boy!
• Left vs Right (World) | Information Is Beautiful
• BBC NEWS | Apology for singing shop worker
• Naked Man Arrested – wtvr – Hard times for the Dude.
• Disapproving Michelle Obama To Be Printed On All Fast Food Containers | The Onion
• iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies | CNET – Be afraid. Be very afraid.
• Rift between Obama and Chamber of Commerce widening – washingtonpost.com
• YouTube – The Awesome Levitating Train – Science rules!
• NASA names cosmic treadmill after Colbert – CNN.com – Don't know how I missed this one.
• Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
• An Interview with Scott Buckwald, Prop Master for the Hit TV Show Mad Men | Collectors Weekly – I WANT THIS JOB!

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