Links for Friday March 7^th, 2008

• Q&A: Microsoft Helps Connect Apple iPhone Users to Microsoft’s Exchange Server: Interesting insight into how long Apple has been working on the ActiveSync support for Exchange on the iPhone.

• Double Bubble Trouble - New York Times: A look at how the current state of the U.S. economy parallels that of Japan in the 90's. It doesn't look good.

• Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Laptop reviews - CNET Reviews: A definitive example of what Apple sacrified in order to achieve their thinness goals for the MacBook Air.

• The health power of music - The Boston Globe: I have argued for a long time that music is a fundamental part of the human experience - but the ways in which we're finding that it can actually heal are quite astounding.

• James Fallows - More on Clinton, Obama, and the OODA loop: Never heard of this guy, but his analysis seems accurate - in her desperate bid to capture the nomination, Hillary might actually weaken the eventual nominee.

• Two ssh-isms I forgot today « Musings of an anonymous geek: The first tip is actually quite handy, and something that I never knew (I have been hacking my .ssh/known_hosts file manually all these years).