Linked List: May 17, 2009

Profit Per Head 

I think this is an interesting metric. Google and Microsoft top the list, but Nintendo wasn’t included and would have won handily if it had been.

Rummy 

Fascinating well-sourced piece for GQ by Robert Draper on Donald Rumsfeld’s disastrous stint as George W. Bush’s secretary of defense. (Via Frank Rich.)

‘Hackers Can Sidejack Cookies’ 

First dogcow in The New Yorker?

(Via Christopher Frizzelle.)