First set of news is from Cors Marijs, thanks for keeping me inspired enough to keep posting these.
http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/paul-romers-many-hong-ko...
Turnkey Hong Kong's for underdeveloped countries
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
Better not publish your phd findings
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/opinion/18krugman.html?_r=1
Krugman on climate change policy
http://gizmodo.com/5258603/clock-clock-design-clocks-in-with-24-analog-c...
Swedish design: 24 analog clocks telling the time
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/Media/Videos/LG_Originals/Top_10_Lists/1...
100 best movie lines in 200 secs
Now my latest picks:
Business:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104711087&ft=1&f=10...
Open Mic Night: Entrepreneur Style
http://www.zmk.uni-freiburg.de/ss2000/texts/gesteland(e).htm
Cross-cultural business behavior
http://chrisberryonthe.net/2009/05/27/bogus-credentials-fast-food-and-th...
Bogus credentials/titles/pseudo professionals
http://www.examiner.com/x-3040-Minneapolis-Life-in-the-Cubicle-Examiner~...
MBA suffix
Science/Tech/Medicine:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528110629.htm
HIV Microbicide and a way to grow it in plants
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-06/ff_keymaster?currentP...
the ULTIMATE hacker
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13740181&sour...
Unlocking the cloud, how open source won the battle
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/blackline/
Black Line cut
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1902208,00.html
Microsoft Steps up to the Wii, full body controller
http://mattgemmell.com/2008/12/08/what-have-you-tried
What Have You Tried? How to solve your technical questions
http://www.favicon.cc/
Favicon maker
Politics:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/30/MNKG17TI7S.D...
Man shoots robber once, comes back and kills him, charged with murder