From TechCrunch, “MySpace Careers Launches Sunday Night”. I still prefer Indeed.com.

Trader Mike gives insight into his day trading set-up with tools of the trade and how he works. This is a very detailed post on the hardware and software he uses. He’s been trading for a living for over 7 years and this was a great glimpse into the world of day trading.

Fat Pitch Finanicals has found that the Federal Reserve has 12 comic books to help Children learn about money. He found these 12 comic books at the New York Federal Reserve website. These look like great books to get children learning about money and the fact that it does not grow on trees.

Michael Mandel, who writes Economics Unbound for Business Week pensRetirement Glass: Half Full or Half Empty? As he points out, there is good and bad news regarding a new study on Retirement from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. He is right on with his intro to his post, “If I had a dollar for every scare story about Americans not saving enough for retirement, I could retire tomorrow.”

Nick Mulcahy provides an article at Seeking Alpha titled, “Can You Make Money From Jim Cramer’s Picks?”. It is a very academic article citing a study completed by Department of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern).

The overall implication is “Individual investors who watch Mad Money would be wise to wait before purchasing the small stocks Cramer recommends, as these stocks tend to fall to their original levels following the overnight price spike caused by his recommendation.”

Merlin Mann of 43 Folders and 5ives fame gives us his formula for the perfect shave (with over 70 comments from readers!). I might have to try using a brush! I’m a Mach 3, with whatever shaving cream man!

Well here’s some entertainment. Hey, the song is about money! Pretty decent band from what I heard. Enjoy!

From the Google Blog, “It’s Nice To Share”. Imagine sharing your budget with your significant other on the web in a central, secure location. Or track your personal daily expenses, and log in from anywhere to make additions. This is the concept behind the beta Google Spreadsheets. A limited test is being run via Google Labs. If interested, check it out!

Liz Pulliam Weston, provides some great tips in “50 Ways to Trim Your Budget”. Some of my favorites were:

• Eliminate premium channels from your cable or satellite TV service.
• Group your errands for better gas mileage.
• Give up a vice (smoking, drinking, soda, salty snack foods).

The most stupid way to trim your budget: Ask friends and relatives for hand-me-downs. Now that’s ridiculous!

From CBS Marketwatch,“S&P 500 logs worst May for 22 years”. The article states the cause of this is inflation and slowing economic concern, as well as uncertainty of Fed interest rates.

This shouldn’t worry the plain Jane/Joe investor. If you are dollar cost averaging into your 401(k) or other retirement accounts, all this means is that your investments are going to be purchased at a more inexpensive price right now.