Links for March 18th through March 24th

• Health Law Requires Chains to Post Calorie Counts
  "Buried deep in the health care legislation that President Obama signed on Tuesday is a new requirement that will affect any American who walks into a McDonald’s, Starbucks or Burger King. Every big restaurant chain in the nation will now be required to put calorie information on their menus and drive-through signs." That's actually pretty cool.
• Mickos new CEO at cloud manager Eucalyptus
• TribBlog: Health Care Passes, Texans Sound Off
  The term "backroom deal" seems redundant.
• Obama to `Spread the Wealth Around' as Health-Care Bill Imposes New Taxes
  The tax angle, or, "forced trickle down economics."
• Overhaul Gives Drugmakers, Insurers Millions of Customers, Stricter Rules
  “The hospital industry is a winner,” said Sullivan in a phone interview March 19. “The drug industry is probably a bit better off. The device industry could be a bit worse off. The biotech industry is relatively unscathed. And for managed care I think it’s a function of what happens with the individual mandate and how easy or hard it is to keep healthy people in the insurance pool.”
• IMF's Lipsky Says Advanced Economies Are Facing `Acute' Debt Challenges
  "The bulk of the needed debt reduction should be focused on reforms of pension and health entitlements, containment of other primary spending and increased tax revenues and improving both tax policy and tax administration measures, Lipsky said."
• TribBlog: Liz Carpenter Leaves Us
• The Most Powerful Voices in Open Source
• Infinite Possibilities: A first glimpse into David Foster Wallace’s library
  Using your books as tools, not untouchable tomes.
• US general: 'Gay Dutch soldiers caused Srebrenica massacre'
  Whao.
• Palm Running Out of Time — Again [Digital Daily]
  Man, talk about a brand flame-out in the making. Seems like some private equity dudes or Google could make good use of Palm. Maybe even Microsoft, though getting into the hardware business would be a jump. Dark horse: Cisco or HP.
• Banks Win Federal Court Bar of TheFlyonthewall.com Stock Analysis Reports
  Wall Street analysts get some copyright justice.
• SAP Bosses Say It's Now Pedal to the Metal
  Check the Agile angle as well: leas developers with more frequent releases.
• IBM, insurer develop 'eHarmony for the call center'
  The manager heard saying, "am I being replaced by analytics?"

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