Cloud Store:  Google Apps Marketplace   (Tech Crunch)

Is Your Cell Phone Spying on You?   (Newsweek)

The Lithium Chase   (NYT)

Six Theories:  Why the Stock Market Has Rallied   (Washington’s Blog)

The Best Economic Blogs   (Michael Panzner)

Unions to Kick Off Major Anti-Bank, Pro-Jobs Campaign    (Fox)

The Witch Hunt Widens on Wall Street   (Market Watch)

Now, I Definitely Want a Job in Government   (Big Gov)

Holy Healthcare! Check Out What Nancy Pelosi Said Now…   (Mish)

Anyone Remember What’s In The Health Care Bill?   (NPR)

Candy Land:  Health Care Sweetheart Deals   (Wa Post)

FDIC Needs Cash, Lots of Cash   (Daily Capitalist)

Economists Trim 2011 U.S. Growth Forecast   (Reuters)

$97 Billion More to Extend Unemployment Benefits… Again   (Bloomberg)

Municipal Bond Meltdown   (Bloomberg)

Raising Academic Standards Cross Country   (Wa Post)

The Eurozone: Fright Club   (Guardian)

Fitch Warns Britain and Questions Greek Rescue as Sovereign Risks Grow   (Telegraph)

The Official New York City Condom

New York City has an official condom. This winning logo will grace the cover of 6 million condoms distributed in the city.   (NPR) 

The Cisco News…   (cnet)

China Car Sales Soar 55% In February   (RTT News) 

Your Bailout Update: $315 Billion in the Red   (Pro Publica)

It’s Broken!  We Need to Fix it!   (Huff Post)

Paul Farrell:  Collapse of the American Empire: Swift, Silent, Certain   (Market Watch)

Brazil Slaps 102 Trade Sanctions on U.S. Over Cotton Subsidies   (RTT News)

Where is Wall Street Hiding Hundred Plus Billion in Losses?   (Benzinga) 

Insurers Monopoly Set to Raise Prices   (Huff Post)

Europe Bars Wall Street Banks From Government Bond Sales   (Guardian)

A Dangerous Omen Looms For Bonds   (CNN Money) 

Can California Declare Bankruptcy?   (Slate)

New Normal Becomes Old Normal as Exports Propel U.S. Recovery   (Bloomberg) 

U.S. to Allow Export of Web Services to Iran and Cuba   (Mashable)

Web’s Buildout Boosting Server Chip Demand   (gigaom)

New Google Tool Visualizes Public Data in Animated Charts   (Mashable)

Ford Launched its First Made-For-India Compact Car   (CNBC) 

Chilean Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet West   (Science Daily)

The First iPad Commercial   (Fast Company)

2010 The Year of the Apps – Cool Infographic   (Fast Company)

Cyberwar DECLARED!   (Times Online)

China:  Strong Signal or Alarm Bell?   (Bloomberg)

Europe May Consider IMF-Style Institution   (Telegraph)

Scenarios: Euro Zone Faces Two-Class Future After Greece   (Reuters)

Energy in March and the Seasonality Factor   (Frank Holmes)   (Market Watch)

America’s Commodity Crisis 2010   (Phil’s Stock World)

Asian Race for Oil and Natural Gas   (Upstream)

The $21 Billion Hot Potato   (Martin Weiss)

FDIC Wants Pension Funds to Invest in Failed Banks…   (Business Week)

GOLDMAN SUCKS!   (YouTube)

Best Buy – Panasonic – 3 -D Televisions - LOW LOW Prices!   (Fast Company)

What You Need To Know About the National Broadband Plan   (NYT)

Cancer “Code” is Cracked   (Express)

National Geographic Aftermath:  World Without Oil   (Shallow Nation)

The Long Hot Summer   (Automatic Earth)

Is There Too Much Worry About Debt?   (Time)

Winter Sparkle  by  Megan Duncanson

NEW  STUFF

Laptops With 3-D Tech   (WSJ)

MIT Unveils New Digital Sandbox   (WSJ)

Digital Security Risks 2010   (Forbes)

Wild and Weird Weather   (Huge Hail)   (Rogue Waves)   (Video)   (Tsunami)

No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller   (Fortune)

Quantum Dots:  A Quantum Leap for Lighting   (Economist)

Dreaming the Possible Dream:  Bloom Box & Calera   (NYT)

LEAKED: More Juicy Microsoft Courier Details and Pics   (Mashable)

FUN  STUFF

HYSTERICAL! - Jersey Shore Cast on Leno – Battle of the Celebrity All-Stars   (NBC)

The Future of…  The Hot Dog?   (Popular Science)

The State of the Internet – Cool Videographic   (Jesse Thomas)

Top 10 Geekiest Decorations for Your Home or Office   (Mashable)

Fisher-Price E-reader for Kids   (Crunch Gear)

twiddish:  Diner Mobile App   (Into Mobile)

The Best Tech of Toy Fair 2010   (Popular Science)

Periodic Table:  New Element #112   (National Geographic)

OTHER  STUFF

State Polls Show Gathering Storm   (Politico)

Undersea Methane Is Leaking–Should We Panic?   (New Republic)

A Graph That Will Make You Say “WOW”   (Washington Post)

If Charles Dickens Were Covering Health Care…   (New Republic)

Very Sad…  The Clock is Ticking   (NYT)

Federal Workers Paid 20% More Than Private Sector For Same Job   (USA Today)

Trading Away Productivity   (NYT)

Broadband Plan Winners And Losers   (Forbes)

Zappo’s Puppet Show Ad Campaign   (NYT)  

Earmarks Forever   (WSJ)

There’s a New Red Scare – But is China Really So Scary?   (Wa Post)    

Handicapping the iPad   (Screenwerk)

The Internet Security Tax   (Atlantic)

The New Rules of War   (Foreign Policy)

The Incredible Shrinking Europe   (Time)

Budget Deficits:  Sharing the Pain   (Economist)

The 2009 Financial Report Of The U.S. Government   (Economic Collapse)  

Jon Stewart Funny Stuff   (Chatroulette)   (Moment of Zen – Wii Curling)

Interesting Times   (FX Solutions) 

A.I.G., Greece, and Who’s Next?   (NYT)

Sultans of Swap   (Financial Sense)

Lessons from the Greek Budget Debacle   (Cato)

Computing:  Cloudy With a Chance of Rain   (Economist)

Steve Ballmer’s “Five Dimensions of the Cloud“   (Tech Flash)

Uncle Sam’s Payrolls   (NYT)

Washington’s “High Road” to Robbery   (Real Clear Markets) 

Six Reasons to Downsize the Federal Government   (Cato)

Consumer Protection:  Complexity is the Handmaiden of Deception   (Edward Harrison)

Snow Job: Employment Numbers & The Blizzard Of 2010    (Mish)     (Planet Money)

Rick Santelli vs.Janet Tavakoli   (Mat Taibbi)

The Next Bubble:  Bond Funds?   (Daily Finance)

Greece For Sale:  Islands, Ouzo and Olive Trees   (Times Online) 

Greek Crisis:  What’s the Risk for the US?   (Wa Post)

Six Ways to Profit as Brazil’s Economy Takes Off  by Martin Hutchinson   (Money Morning)

Angry Icelanders Reject Icesave   (Reuters)

Google’s Acquisition Binge: Why It Bought Picnik   (Time)

Enron Fun with Fannie and Freddie   (Economic Populist)

Rail Traffic Hits 2010 High   (Pragmatic Capitalist)

IBM Invests in China’s Smart Power   (China Daily)

The Bloom Box’s Disruptive Potential   (HBR)

Medical Records:  The Next Tech Gold Mine?   (CNN Money)

CRE Ugly Charts   (Michael Panzner)

Oil Tanker Terror Attack Threat   (Reuters)

Frank Talk / Frank Holmes

New York Airport Jets Directed by Child!

Stiglitz:  Federal Reserve is CORRUPT!   (Huff Post)

Steve Meyers:  Market Decline Ahead?   (Jesse) 

A Sovereign Vulnerability Scorecard   (Alphaville)

Pound Woes: Why Britain’s Currency Is Falling   (Time)

Citigroup’s Auction-Rate Bonds Freeze Hawaii’s Cash and Teachers Pay   (Bloomberg)

Global Reserve Currency:  Chinese Yuan Vs. The U.S. Dollar   (Daily Markets)

Bernanke on a Bailout of the U.S. Treasury    (Market Oracle)

U.S. Taxpayers Screwed by TARP   (Economic Times)

Nation’s Unemployment Programs Running Out of Money   (ABC News)

Dodd’s Failed Reform   (Wall Street Pit)   (The Nation)

Biggest Cyber Crime Yet!   (Reuters)

India to Outpace Other Emerging Nations   (Economic Times)

FDA Warns 17 Food Companies on False Label Claims   (LA Times)   (FDA List)

FORD:  The Transit Connect Electric   (LA Times)

Apple vs. Google:  The Smartphone Smackdown   (Salon)

Basically, It’s Over  by Charles Munger   (Slate)

Selling Out America to Wall Street   (Economy in Crisis) 

Fraud and Big Bank Getaway   (PBS)

The “Bloom Box” is Coming…   (Fortune)

The Market Message?   (Reuters)   (Chart)

Bombs Away?   (Mike Larson)

Tea Party USA:  It’s Still the Economy Stupid!   (New Yorker) 

Judge Rakoff Smackdown on JP Morgan   (Yves Smith)

What Was Hot and Now is Not…   (Doug French)

Domino Theory   (Economist)

The Future of Reading   (Fortune)

What are They Afraid of?   (Economist)

The Municipal Bond Crisis Is About to Begin   (Seeking Alpha)

Here Comes the Next Bubble – Carbon Trading   (Telegraph)

The Talking Heads of Cable News Are Leading Double Lives as Paid Lobbyists for Corporations!   (AlterNet)

Congress:  A Study in Paralysis   (Economist)

Garet Garrett and the Coils of Octopean Government   (Gary Galles)

(From the Economicrot) 

Factbox: Fed’s Exit Strategy Toolkit   (Reuters)

The Abbreviated Matt Taibbi…   if you haven’t read it yet.   (Salon)

Why Washington Is Tied Up in Knots   (Time)

Another Big Disconnect!   (Michael Panzner)

Mission:  Nearly Impossible   (Reuters)

Jobs:  Not Out of the Woods Yet   (Economist)

Buffett’s ‘Dangerous Business’ Ensnares Municipal Bond Insurers   (Bloomberg)

Eight Financial Fault Lines Appear In The Euro Experiment!   (Market Oracle)

Pigeon Fever & Ponzi Schemes on Wall Street   (Credit Writedowns)

Swaps Sleuths:  The Fix for Too Tangled to Fail    (Bloomberg)

The Other Tax Revolt   (Newsweek)

On the Trail of “Government Sachs”   (Huff Post)

Members of Congress Have Violated Their Oath of Office   (Huff Post)

More Commercial Real Estate Stress Looms   (Wa Post)

The Lesson of Anthem Blue Cross   (NYT)

America’s 2020 Broadband Vision   (broadband.gov)