Track outbound clicks with Google Analytics and jQuery

Sometimes, you may want to know what outbound links a user is clicking on — say, if you’re linking to an affiliate’s site and want to be able to count the clicks you’re sending. Google Analytics offers this bit of code to accomplish this:
 
<a href="http://www.example.com"
onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview(’/outgoing/example.com’);">
 
and says:
Google Analytics provides an easy way to track clicks […]