Roundup - The Information Superhighway

Line O’ the Day:

“Fat Drew needed ham.” – Big Daddy Drew, Fun With Composting Old Rubbers! [Deadspin]

Best of the Best:

• All the Best Victims [Michael Shnayerson on Vanity Fair]
• Tracing Oil Reserves to Their Tiny Origins [New York Times]
• Understanding Context: The Housing Boom & Bust [The Big Picture]
• Why Mad Men’s women eat well and don’t work out, by January Jones, star of the award-winning TV drama [Mail Online]
• Money management a difficult lesson for NFL’s rookie class [USA Today]
• U.S. Tells WikiLeaks to Return Afghan War Logs [New York Times]
• Suit charges Upper St. Clair officials made rape victim ‘bait’ [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
• Jonas, 32, sewed up his own leg after ER wait [The Local]
• Minor League Promotion Will Put You Off Eating For A While [Deadspin]
• Before birther row, Lt. Col. Lakin racked up medals as flight surgeon [CNN Justice]
• When Intentional Walks Go Horribly, Horribly Wrong (Video) [Deadspin]
• Myths about the “love hormone” oxytocin that could ruin your love life [Heather Corrinna via io9]
• Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down [Seattle Weekly]
• Draft Dodgers [Greg Beato on Reason]
• What Beer Deregulation Can Teach Us [Matt Welch on Reason]
• Regulate [Wikipedia]
• Special Report: China bets future on inland cities [Reuters]
• Youngest Guantanamo inmate, Canadian Omar Khadr, tried [BBC News]
• Stir It Up: Race and Newlywed Marriages [Oliver Wang on The Atlantic]
• Robert Gibbs attacks the fringe losers of the left [Glenn Greenwald on Salon]
• Subsidies Rise to 22 Percent Of Rich Country Farm Incomes [Reason]
• Six Reasons to Kill Farm Subsidies and Trade Barriers [Daniel Griswold, Stephen Slivinski, and Christopher Preble on Reason]
• Hawks for Peace [W. James Antle III on The American Conservative]
• How Jim McMahon Terrorized New Orleans During Super Bowl XX [Michael Weinreb via Deadspin]
• NHTSA: No evidence of Toyota electronics problems [The Detroit News]
• Did the Treasury Secretary lie to us? [Kurt Brouwer via Market Watch]
• China scholars warn of growing national arrogance [BBC News]

The Remains:

• Stripper Finds Degree Profitable for Goldman Wasn’t Worth It [Bloomberg]
• Google Android to Outnumber IPhone Worldwide by 2012 (Update2) [Bloomberg]
• Bailouts for Journalists? [Jim Powell on Cato Institute]
• Gambling Bank’s Money Turns Out to Be Illegal [Jonathan Weil on Bloomberg]
• The Next Twilight In 3 Book Proposals [Arkhard via Uproxx]
• The Left and Right Lose It Over the Auto Bailouts [John Tamny on RealClearMarkets]
• Presidential Dictatorship: Not Thinking Things Through [Pro Libertate]
• Why Nerds are Unpopular [Paul Graham]
• Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets [Wired]
• Number of the Week: Default Repercussions [Wall Street Journal]
• State-Owned Bidders Fuel China’s Land Boom [New York Times]
• Pancreatic Cancer Likes Fructose: Time to Panic? [Reason]
• Federal Cop Shoots Dog at a Dog Park. No Charges. [The Agitator]
• Mother of All Mothers [The Atlantic]
• ‘Weeping statue’ draws crowd in Calif. [KRQE]
• Yankees Little League Coach Was Chock Full Of Steroids For Brawl [Deadspin]
• NFL Player Returns From Games Addiction [Kotaku]
• Last Night’s Winner: The Case For Robot Umpires [Barry Petchesky on Deadspin]
• Porno For Pyros In The Minors [Deadspin]
• Private Stache: Brett Favre And The Breakfast Of Champions [Sports Illustrated via Deadspin]
• Donovan McNabb Has A Small Child In His Locker [Deadspin]
• A fish species that evolved to cope with colder waters…in just three years [Proceedings of the Royal Society B via io9]
• We may have been looking at the wrong DNA for the secrets of longevity [American Naturalist via io9]
• How balloons can take down satellites [Esther Inglis-Arkell on io9]
• Electrons viewed in real time for the first time ever [UC Berkeley via io9]
• String theory and black holes show a possible path to practical superconductors [Science via io9]
• In Defense Of Female Objectification [Big Daddy Drew on Deadspin]
• Financial Virus Permeates the System [Minyanville]
• Will Quantitative Easing Spur Inflation? Job Creation? Credit Expansion? Do Anything?[Mish's Global Economic Analysis]
• 2 Top Economists Differ Sharply on Risk of Deflation [New York Times]
• A Thorough Analysis Of Han Solo’s Ability To Score Space Poon [Big Daddy Drew on Deadspin]
• Peter King Says Everyone Should Sprain Their Ankles [Big Daddy Drew on KSK]
• KSK 2010 NFL Prekkake: NFC West [Christmas Ape on KSK]
• When Peter King And Mort Get Together, Loftiness Abounds [Big Daddy Drew on KSK]
• Video: Woman Reports Prowler, Gets Repeatedly Tased By Cops [Prison Planet]
• The 25 Hottest Actresses and Singers with Really Short Hair [Bro Bible]
• Jets Could Win The Superbowl, Says Jets Coach [Sports Radio Interviews via Deadspin]
• The Sun shoots plasma into space at 2.2 million miles per hour [io9]
• Top 11 Hotties from the Mad Men Era [The Netwerk]
• 9 Of The Worst Sports Stadiums in America [Total Pro Sports]
• 9 Beloved Characters Made Horrifying by Japan [Cracked]
• 25 Most Badass Movie Sunglasses [The Complex]
• 14 Famous Man Rooms [The Art of Manliness]
• America’s Most Notorious Pimps and Madams [Business Pundit]
• The Girls of Agent Provocateur [Coed Magazine]
• The Mad-Hot Women of Mad Men Season 4 [Coed Magazine]
• Shadows and Foreshadowing at Nagasaki [Pro Libertate]
• Mexico Ex-President Fox Calls for Drug Legalization [Bloomberg]
• The Economics of Love: How to Profit from the Coming Collapse of the Mating Market [PortChester Patch]
• Snapshots of the Frontier [Fortune]
• BNY Asks “If Retail Investors Are Leaving US Stocks In Mutual Funds And ETFs, Then Who Is Buying Stocks?” [ZeroHedge]
• THE MOTHER OF ALL BUBBLES [The Burning Platform]
• Execution Date Nears for Ohio Man, Despite Evidence of Innocence [Innocence Project]
• Rand Paul Distances Himself From Libertarianism [Matt Welch on Reason]
• South Korean Police Raid Google Office [Gizmodo]
• Soccer Club Bans Photographers, Newspaper Uses Cartoonist Instead [Peta Pixel]
• Joe Cole Is Better Than Lionel Messi, Insists Steven Gerrard [The Spoiler via Deadspin]
• After Photography Ban, Soccer Game Covered By Cartoonist [Deadspin]
• “Romo’s Bitch” Call Sign Irks Naval Aviator [Deadspin]
• 20 Hottest Girls of the 1960s [Heavy]
• U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It [Laurence Kotlikoff via Bloomberg]
• State seizes truckload of Seneca cigarettes [Buffalo News]
• Economy Will Likely Recover With Inflation, Not Deflation, to Follow [Jeffrey Saut via Minyanville]
• The New Teamwork: American Judges and Prosecutors [William Anderson via LRC]
• For-Profit Colleges Draw Most Veterans on New GI Bill [Bloomberg]
• Corporate Taxes as Percentage of GDP [The Big Picture]
• Saving Women and Preventing Genocide: The Real Reasons We’re in Afghanistan Now [Bretigne Shaffer via LRC]
• Will the US Really Pull Out of Iraq? [Eric Margolis via LRC]
• Can Malaysia’s Islamic gold dinar thwart capitalism? [The Guardian]
• For Beach Residents, a Summer Nearly a Century Long Winds Down [City Room on The New York Times]

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