Here are links I found interesting on March 23, 2011:

• Exodus International’s ‘Gay Cure’ App Failed to Turn Me Straight – Apple rights a wrong. But why did it allow the wrong in the first place?
• Nuclear Accidents and All, Coal Is By Far the Deadliest Energy Source – Facts are facts. Let's make decisions based on facts, not emotions.
• 11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks – These ARE fun. I'd like about half of them. Can you guess which ones?
• Why Groupon is bad for your business (and mine) – "Groupon, the so-called social buying site (even though there is very little social going on outside of the manipulation of basic human behaviors like their reaction to a situation where there is sense of scarcity) and the fastest growing company in history, is bad for your business." Read why on EmergenceMarketing.com.
• Groupon Reviews: Worst Marketing For Your Local Business – "Just because millions of merchants have fallen under the spell of Groupon, a PR juggernaut, and their like, it doesn’t mean you should. It’s a killer alright, a profit-killer." Read a real case study on RetailDoc.com.
• Opposed to vaccination? Let’s make that sting – "The 2008 San Diego measles outbreak was triggered by a pocket of parents who believed the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella) was worse than the diseases it prevents." Stupidity doesn't just breed fear. It also breeds disease and KILLS people. Great story about vaccinations in the Star Tribune.
• Gingrich Criticized Obama For Not Intervening In Libya, But Now Criticizes Him For Intervening In Libya – As the 2012 election season (which, for some reason, apparently lasts almost a full 2 years) begins to warm up, we see so much evidence of hypocrisy among wanna-be maybe candidates. Newt takes the cake.
• Groupon’s big discounts: how its coupon business could eventually cripple the merchants that rely on it – The author of this piece almost gets it. "The logic is simple: Merchants are encouraged to use the deals to attract new customers, who in theory will return at full price. But, in what seems to be an increasing number of cases, customers come for the deals and then leave for deals offered by other merchants through Groupon. So the number of "new" customers attracted by cheap prices increases, and the number of loyal customers decreases as shoppers prefer to become "new" again for whomever offers the best deal." Read more on Slate.
• Digital Subscription Prices Visualized (aka The New York Times Is Delusional) – And this is one of the reasons I think the NYTimes pay wall model will fail. It's just too damn expensive for digital content.