These are links from my Google Reader Shared Items to interesting webpages I discovered during the week of January 24th, 2010:

• Video: Speech Therapy – Post-Racial | The Daily Show | Comedy Central – "Chris Matthews is one scotch away from Ron Burgundy." (Stop watching after that, Wyatt Cenac is terrible.)
• Obama’s State of the Union Address | FactCheck.org – As political speeches go, pretty good.
• EventVue – realtime conversation for events – This site/company is the brainchild of my friends Rob and Josh. They're hoping to be your one stop for discussing events online, in real-time, even as they occur. Looks exciting!
• Video: Moment of Zen – They Started It | The Daily Show | Comedy Central – Every time I think Fox & Friends can't say anything more stupid, they prove me wrong.
• Healthcare Economist · Obama v. Nixon –
• Podcast: An Economist Gets Stoned – Planet Money Blog : NPR – Economist finds legalizing drugs would not make them a lot cheaper or generate hundreds of billions in tax revenue. Well well well…
• J. D. Salinger, Enigmatic Author, Dies at 91 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com –
• Republican draft healthcare bill – The Hill – Ever wonder what the GOP healthcare bill looks like? Well here it is. Spoiler: it sucks.
• iPad – Looks like the Onion got it right… again.
• What Cost The Democrats Massachusetts? | The Onion – America's Finest News Source –
• Official Google Reader Blog: Follow changes to any website – Genius I tell you, genius!
• Boy, 7, raises $240,000 for Haiti appeal – CNN.com –
• Facebook and Twitter? Why not just put a gun to your head? – Network World –
• Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet | The Onion – America's Finest News Source –
• Commas – Who doesn't love punctuation jokes?
• Digital Domain – On Tax Returns, Why Enter What the I.R.S. Already Knows? – NYTimes.com – Intuit lobbies the gov't to make it harder to file your taxes. Of course.
• Podcast: The Price Of Bias – Planet Money Blog : NPR – An independent press is a relatively new idea in America, and it's thanks to the industrial revolution.
• Podcast: Taxing Health Care – Planet Money Blog : NPR – Fascinating argument for the Cadillac Tax.
• Op-Ed Contributor – My So-Called Wife – NYTimes.com – I just don't know what to think of this.
• Obama to propose freeze on government spending – washingtonpost.com – A Democratic president holds office for one year and then freezes discretionary spending for the rest of his term? If this goes through, count me impressed.
• Man Who Enjoys Thing Informed He Is Wrong | The Onion – America's Finest News Source – He must have loved Twilight.
• Top 10 Incredible Self Surgeries – Listverse –
• The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : An anxious world awaits – Funny but true. Jobs and Gates will never cease to amaze me.
• In Obama's decision-making, a wide range of influences – washingtonpost.com – Obama reads the New Yorker, the Economist, Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone. He's also the first president with internet access at his desk.
• Video: Special Comment – Keith Olbermann's Name-Calling | The Daily Show | Comedy Central – Nice to Stewart playing it fair – hilariously.

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Filed under: Uncategorized on January 30th, 2010