Shared Items for the week of December 21, 2009*

• S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: WhatConsumesMe.com (December 21, 2009)
• S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: Obtained using a Freedom Of Information Act request (December 20, 2009)
• kottke.org: Why shoot a gun with a side grip? (December 17, 2009)
• kottke.org: The Known Universe (December 17, 2009)
• Boing Boing: Secular Christmas Carol (or, buy a goat, get an MP3!) (December 18, 2009)
• The Old New Thing: The economic inefficiency of gift-giving (December 18, 2009)
• Boing Boing: How would you win this game show? (December 18, 2009)
• Boing Boing: “A higher bandwidth than any internet connection that ever existed” (December 17, 2009)
• The Official Google Blog: Go thataway: Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local (December 18, 2009)
• S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: and this is just Awesome – Andrew also says, “…and Andrew.” (December 16, 2009)
• S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: This is an awesome man cave (December 16, 2009)
• Betanews: Satirical blog post may incite real AT&T protest on Friday – Andrew also says, “…or a poignant lesson for ATT&T that will result in them finally beefing up their network. (But we all know that will never happen)” (December 16, 2009)
• OnTakingPictures: Asset Management Essay 2 – One Year On (December 14, 2009)
• kottke.org: Imagining Earth with Saturn's rings (December 9, 2009)
• kottke.org: Ken Auletta's media maxims – Andrew also says, “Well, I like #6.” (December 16, 2009)
• Seth's Blog: Is it too late to catch up? (December 3, 2009)
• 1001 rules for my unborn son: REQUIRED LISTENING: Vince Guaraldi Trio, “Linus and… (December 16, 2009)
• OnTakingPictures: Even more Drabbles (December 16, 2009)
• xkcd.com: Abstraction (December 16, 2009)
• The Big Picture: 2009 in photos (part 2 of 3) (December 15, 2009)

* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.