Tips for managing your online life. This is above average for the genre. tr.im/rlle /via MakeuseOf

Cool idea: Pay to digitize an out-of-print book, get "royalty" on future sales. tr.im/rl95 /via Springwise

NYT slide show "The second gilded age" documents high-end developments across the USA. [Great!] Photos by Edgar Martins. tr.im/rhYl

Upon reflection, I've decided Brook Shields should bear my future children. With her looks and my brains... Wait a second. I'm NOT available

Michael Lewis article in Vanity Fair about what ~really~ happened at AIG. FASCINATING. tr.im/rgE8 [long but worth it] /via HuffPo

5 year returns in the VC industry, (48 pct in 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble) were just 6 percent throug.. htxt.it/l/bZndmQ

Investment in VC funds shrank to $4.3 billion in the first quarter, from $7.1 billion in the same quarter a year ago. NYT tr.im/rgw2

Marc Andreesson is living proof you don't need to be good looking to become VERY rich. [but high IQ & creativity help] tr.im/rbwR

Odds of a having viral hit on YouTube? Not so good. tr.im/rbtX //Chris Wilson [Slate] via pkedrosky

global semiconductor sales $16.15B in May, down 20.2 pct from May 2008. World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization tr.im/rbqP