Ode To Capitalism

Tim Harford: Failure: It’s Everywhere.

Are Brown Bottles Better For Beer?

The Trump Rule: Before every Miss USA pageant, contestants must parade in front of co-owner Trump so he could separate those he finds sexually appealing from those he does not.

Old Men Chasing Young Women: A Good Thing.

The Real Differences Between Coke And Pepsi People.

Bollywood vs. Bin Laden: Why Radical Islam Fears Pop Culture (video).

The Wine Of Yachts And Beaches.

Politics Gone Wrong.

The Only Wars In An Ideal World.

Fiction Meets Facts: Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says. Based On This NY Times Article.

Economist Daily Chart: OECD Taxation And Earnings. 

Starbucks Is The New Rendezvous Spot For Insider Trading, Drug Deals And Spies.

Stunning Lago Di Olginate, Italy.

Forbes’ Mother’s Day Wealth Report: The World’s Richest Moms.

Slideshow: The Next Wave of Tech IPOs.

The Rise Of The Instant Commodity Billionaires.

US Political Summary: The West Wing Week (video).

U.K.’s Nick Clegg Refuses to Step Down After Humiliating Losses In Local Elections And Voters’ Rejection Of Plan To Reform The Electoral System.

Opposition Gains In Singapore’s Election.

Companies Disappearing From U.S. exchanges: The Number Of Publicly Traded Companies Has Declined By 42% Since Peak In ’97.

Coca-Cola Celebrates 125.

Steve Jobs: The Difference Between A Vice President And A Janitor.

An Airliner Take Off & Long Exposure Landings (images).

When Applying For A Dutch Resident Visa, You Have To Watch A Film Featuring Nudity & Men Kissing (?)

Chicago By Night (image).

Some Claim This Is The Real Reason Why Osama Was Buried At Sea (video).

What Kids Think About Osama Bin Laden’s Death (video).

Latest Lonely Island Production: Jack Sparrow (feat. Michael Bolton) (video).

Updated World Gas Prices: From 10 Cents to 10 Dollars a Gallon.

James Altucher’s 100 rules for being an entrepreneur.

Earnings Watch: Updates, advisories and surprises.

Management Guide: Twelve ways leaders fail new managers.

Latest IMF estimates: Age of America nears end.

Donald Trump’s shockingly simple energy policy.

Cellphone Economics: Free Markets Spread Wealth.

Oh, the details! Just love the graphic animation here.

Conan O’Brien – hilarious guest moments.

Brutus, the pet grizzly bear.

I probably need a translator here: the Scottish dialect.

A Must-Read (see): James Altucher interviews Henry Blodget, former Wall St. analyst and now editor of the Business Insider, about Eliot Spitzer’s attack, the abyss, and light at the end of the tunnel.

U.S futures pops as a blow-out quarterly performance from Intel and a strong showing from IBM emboldened investors ahead of Apple’s results.

Apple Profit Nearly Doubles After iPhone’s Verizon Debut.

Bulls rally near 3-year high as home-sales data and tech aid Street.

Your iPhone and iPad are keeping track of everywhere you go, and you can see it.

Brussels demands that UK taxpayers pay £682m extra to the EU to meet proposed £5.5bn increase in spending.

Ten hilarious charts about sex.

The true cost of the Royal Family.

A professor and a former criminal defense attorney tells you why you should avoid talking to the police.

Runs in the family: Tiger’s niece Cheyenne Woods.

Excellent slope engineers and impressing camera work in this biking video.

Nutty TED talk by Clifford Stoll (infamous for this article from 1995).

Ramps? Nah.

What a guy.

Standard & Poor’s cut its outlook on the U.S. to negative.

VW Unveils Sportier Beetle Design Aimed at Winning Male Buyers.

Paul Kedrosky: Who Works Hardest Around the World?

The most unequal nations in The Developed World.

Blog Comments.

The full version of The Lion King on YouTube.

Inside The Meat Industry: Meat Cutter shows his processing floor.

Ultimate Pirate Ship Bedroom.

WSJ Number of the Week: the U.S. Spends 141% More on Health Care per person, than the average OECD nation.

List of world leaders on Twitter here.

World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards Draw Top Chefs to London.

Here are the biggest entitlement spenders in OECD.

UK’s most expensive flat sold for £135.4 million.

ReasonTV: Sandy Springs, Georgia: The City that Outsourced Everything.

The T-Mobile Royal Wedding.

Kid Calls 911 For Help With Math.

Lego heaven: LEGO GBC 20 modules.

Michael Collings – Britain’s Got Talent 2011 Audition.

Great Depression Cooking: 93 year old, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Depression as she prepares meals from the era.

A Fish With a See-Through Head and Rotating Eyes.

On the to do list.

Chinese Power Rangers.

Cadaver art on Craiglist.

Is the UK sending a warning sign?

The Most Impoverished Countries In The Developed World.

New Social Media Research: Facebook users are more extroverted and narcissistic than Internet users not plugged into the social network.

Stephen Colbert Comes Out Against the War on Easter and Lessons on Playing to Women’s Insecurities.

Throw-able fire extinguisher.

Impossible? Guy kicks ball and wins £250,000. 

Macabre baby cake.

Hilarious urban planning in Bangkok, Thailand.