AAPL market cap currently passing XOM to be most valuable company about $3B.

Awesome TED talk by Kevin Slavin about how algorithms are reshaping markets—and in the process, our physical world. http://t.co/euxa9Nt

Bizarre: S&P downgrades US debt, and investors flee stocks for bonds. They do realize that bonds are debt too, right? http://reut.rs/n1iAWb

@JeffreyBreen I recommend starting a new trend by using the initials 77. Then claim your middle name is 8 and that you’ve lost weight.

@JeffreyBreen Congratulations! Now you just have to change your name so that you also have double-letter initials to go with HH + RR.

How Blackberry Messenger, not Twitter, fuelled the fire under London’s riots (via @mikebutcher) http://j.mp/oYIbeP http://techme.me/BtkA

Excellent speech by James Galbraith on how economists ignore the negative effects of fraud and how that hurts us all. http://bit.ly/pU4Gai

Airplanes can land themselves, so why not cars? Google’s self-driving car crashed because a person was driving it. http://read.bi/nrO9c8

I love today’s Onion headline: Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition. http://onion.com/ob97yp

I love today’s Onion headline: Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition.