Sunday Morning Reading: Game Changers

Some Sunday morning reading to share. The Game Changer edition.

Is Apple frittering away its window of opportunity to gain market share in their computer biz by keeping everything in one orchard?  Randall Strouss writing in The NY Times thinks maybe yes. Vista's woes have certainly opened the door. Heck, my next desktop is going to be an iMac.

Is Google getting ready to launch a offline desktop client for GMail? The Hindustan Times says yes.

Alan Greenspan's new book says Bush and the boys were not good fiscal stewards (no news there) and that Iraq was all about oil not anything else (no news there either.) The game changing news coming out of this book is who the criticisms are from.

Did Israel blow up a Syrian nuclear cache with materials supplied by North Korea?

Polar ice melt from global warming has opened up the Northwest Passage for the first time ever.

The Patriots spying scandal (the football one) isn't going to go away and the sharp knives continue to stay unsheathed. Rex Hammock lays out the 10 Steps of Professional Sports Scandal. He includes a quote that gamblers were big losers in this. Too funny. But then, we'll never see the game the same way again.

Producing neglected plays. An art form in itself.

Prisoners in Pink. Sex offenders don't think it is fair that a South Carolina prison makes them were pink. Turns out it makes them too much of a target for abuse behind bars. No sympathy here.