Here is a sneak peek at some links from my weekly Weekend Reading column at TheStreet.com:

• Inside T. Boone Pickens' Brain (Forbes.com)
• Some are worried about a crude oil price collapse (New York Post)
• Microsoft seeks support against Google-Yahoo deal (Reuters)
• First in multi-part WashPost series on the housing bubble (WashPost)
• Fascinating look at the costs in some of the world's riskiest oil exporation projects (Global & Mail)
• Cheap sensor networks, global freedom and mega data sets (Forbes)
• A brief history of the 1987 market crash (FRB)
• Water as the next oil (BusinessWeek)