- Edmunds.com: “Confessions of a Car Salesman” Updated for 2009. The original series was a classic on the shady business practices of car dealerships. Turns out the same basic practices are still being applied. * Bloomberg: Ballmer Says Tax Would Move Microsoft Jobs Offshore. Microsoft exec threatens to move more jobs offshore if the government closes some unrelated tax loopholes that the company takes advantage of. * Dan Froomkin: Celebrity Journalism at the White House. A strong critique of NBC’s silly news special this week on the Obama White House. * slacktivist: Killing in the name of. An important blog post on the history of the anti-abortion movement. * Carrer Blog: 1 line CSS Grid Framework. Everything good and bad about CSS in a single line. * Daring Fireball: Why Palm’s WebOS ‘Media Sync’ iTunes Integration Can’t Be Legit. Don’t miss the followup on the legality of the Palm Pre impersonating an iPod. * Hivelogic: Deploying ExpressionEngine from GitHub with Capistrano. This approach should work for any PHP app. * Andrew Leonard: GM: Into bankruptcy, out of the Dow. Companies that file for bankruptcy are automatically delisted. * Joe Gregorio: Wave Protocol Thoughts. On the plumbing. * Trader Joe’s Wine Compendium. A blog that reviews only wines sold at Trader Joe’s. * The Atlantic: Do CEOs Matter? What do chief executives add? One thing’s for sure, a bad CEO can certainly be a disaster for a company.