These are links from my Google Reader Shared Items to interesting webpages I discovered during the week of December 15th, 2009:

• Baku to the Future: Women's Cultural Exchange –
• No U-Turns – New York Times – Hmmm…
• Op-Ed Columnist – The Hardest Call – NYTimes.com – Brooks (have I mentioned I like him?) just wrote everything I think and feel about the Healthcare bill, with more facts and insight than I'll ever have. This will be in an upcoming blog post.
• snopes.com: State I.Q. Voting Patterns – I can't believe I bought this for so long. I love Snopes.
• VDARE.com: Average IQ by State: Honest Numbers at Last –
• Top 5 Most Popular Presidents: Kennedy, Ike, Bush 41, Clinton, Johnson – US News and World Report –
• Rape Victim Grills Vitter On Franken Amendment Vote | TPM LiveWire – Could this be why they voted against it? Enforceability?
• Marginal Revolution: Scamming Credit Card Companies – Awesome! Hat-tip to Bottlenecked!
• America says it wants a third party. Why not the Modern Whigs? – By Andrew Dubbins – Slate Magazine – The Modern Whigs – also a good band name ; )
• 15 Greatest Mindless Movie Explosions –
• The Raw Feed: Xbox game teaches you how to talk to girls. – Talk about knowing your customers.
• Will Google's Nexus One phone be subsidized by advertising? | ITworld –
• This American Life – Mind Games – This American Life lays the smackdown on Charlie Todd. Meaner than it had to be but still fascinating.
• The Raw Feed: Gadget turns anything into a speaker. – I should have thought of this!
• The Morgan Freeman Chain of Command [pic] –
• The Major Works of Counterintuitive Thought From the Past Decade- The 00's Issue– New York Magazine – Awesome. Hat-tip to Bottlenecked.
• the art of being brave: the end of the semester. – Have I mentioned my sister Anna is awesome?
• SWEET: Merge All of Your Duplicate Gmail Contacts With One Click – Finally!
• New Hubble Image [pic] –
• Baku to the Future: Calling American Women!! – Erin, Cheryl, Alyssa, and any other lovely American ladies out there in internet land – heed the call!
• xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe – Philosophy majors really get under my skin sometimes.
• BBC News – Phone box has new life as library – the original Redbox
• Cell phones don't create stress – study | ITworld –

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Filed under: Uncategorized on December 22nd, 2009