The 400 Richest Americans

No millionaires left in the Forbes 400 I’m afraid, these days you have to be a billionaire to make the de facto rich list. I remain befuddled as to why anyone in their right mind would want or need to accrue that amount of money. It’s disgusting.

Branson pledges £1.6bn for research

Branson makes $3bn climate pledge

Sir Richard Branson is to invest $3bn (£1.6bn) to fight global warming.

The Virgin boss said he would commit all profits from his travel firms, such as airline Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains, over the next 10 years.

“We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels,” Sir Richard said.

The funds will be invested in schemes to develop new renewable energy technologies, through an investment unit called Virgin Fuels.

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This’ll come in handy: Give Me Back My Google

Will Starbury change the world?

Depends on your definition I guess, but small steps can change the world as long as long as they set trends that people will follow, and that would seem to be the case with Stephen Marbury‘s Starbury line of “kicks and threads”, with a two-item per person limit now being enforced on the range. At $15 for kicks and $10 for threads, you’d think it’s just price and the name that’s creating demand, but the gear looks pretty good to me; in fact I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on the varsity jacket.

Marbury’s point is that it doesn’t cost $100 or $200 to manufacture these – of course most of the money goes into the pockets of marketing muppets and execs – but this cynical old mind of mine can’t help thinking that this gear is probably made by the same poorly paid and abused people in the Far East.

Perhaps having this gear manufactured in a socially-responsible factory at a higher price would have been a better approach, but then I guess I don’t know whether they were or not. And more importantly, if they were a higher price, would the point be as forceful? It’s an interesting idea, and he deserves applause either way.

Via Popbitch.

Retro-Enacabulator

This has been doing the rounds for years, but it’s always made me laugh like a loon because of how well it’s done. One of the first virals perhaps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1kxfG57-_4

Read more about the video on Wikipedia.

Five Great Comedians Who’ve Lost It

From Cracked, the magazine “you only stole if the store didn’t have Mad magazine”:

Steve Martin, Mike Myers, Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams: who they were then, who they are now, when they changed and possible salvation. Brilliant perspective, brilliantly put.

Bizarre to see something like Cracked running on Nuke btw. Yet oddly cool. Was is Cracked or Mad had the fold-in things on the back cover?