While Google works very well most of the time, I've found myself using Jason Calacanis' Mahalo.com more and more for certain types of searches lately.  In case you're not familiar with Mahalo, it's a human-powered search engine, meaning that the results are compiled by real humans instead of an algorithm.  While this limits the number of search terms they can cover, I've found that they have good real-time coverage of every popular news story as well as other general interest topics, and it's really nice to get the information you're after right away (no ads, no keywords buried in a mountain of text).  Between Google, Wikipedia and Mahalo, it rarely takes me longer than 90 seconds to find any information I need.

While "human-powered search" is the official tag line, it also feels similar to a few other websites, like Wikipedia or Digg (but without the geek-dominated extreme left wing bias).  They also just launched Mahalo Answers, which is quite a bit like Yahoo Answers.  I wont judge it yet, as it's only a few days old, but the concept seems to blend quite well with some of Mahalos other strengths (recipes and other DIY tips come to mind).  If you've never used Mahalo, try it out.

Here are a few interesting articles that I've collected over the past week, or few weeks in this case (I haven't had a Weekend Edition in a while).  If you've written about or covered something interesting and entertaining over the past several days that you think should be included in the next "Weekend Edition" post, feel free to contact me using the form on the Contact page of this website.

MoneyNing covers 8 bad things you probably teach your kids about money.

Luxist.com, a luxury blog I'm really starting to like, shows off a particularly nice Estate of the Day.

Karen Hanover lists 10 traits of real estate billionaires.

And, finally, I'd be remiss if I didn't include that O.J. Simpson is finally going to jail!