Perspective is everything.   Here is a great quote about that: “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

So, are you a glass half-empty or half-full type of person?

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

Lighter Links:

• Obama’s
  Cyber Attack. The White House’s Looming Power Grab to Regulate the Internet.
  (WSJ)
• Stanford’s
  Most Popular Major Is Now Computer Science. (Mashable)
• Turns
  Out Where You Live Really Does Shape Who You Are. (TheAtlantic)
• Pop
  Music Getting Sadder, More Complex. Does that signal a Bear Market is
  coming? (Newser)
• Emerging
  Threats. What do you get when robotics & nanotechnology meet 3D
  printing? A world full of home-made insect sized drones. (Media)

Trading Links:

• Unemployment
  falls in nearly 90 Percent of US cities. (AP)
• Is
  the Stock Market Predicting an Obama Win? (Businessweek)
• The
  10 Craziest Things You Don’t Know About the Stock Market. (Fool)
• In
  Defense of the High-Frequency Hackers. (TechCrunch)
• Dan
  Ariely’s 6 Rules to Fight Bad Decision-Making Under Stress. Behavioral
  economist and ‘Predictably Irrational’ author examines why sometimes it’s so
  hard to do the right thing (AdvisorOne)