Wednesday's Daily Blog Watch

Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.

Check out these 12 potential tax refund buys.

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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK Quote) and Merck (MRK Quote) are heating up the cervical cancer vaccine wars.

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Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day include trades triggering this morning on Research in Motion (RIMM Quote) and BEA Systems (BEAS Quote).

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Analysts are thinking Costco (COST Quote) might be a real estate play.

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Wow, the British pound has made a 20-year comeback and is now at a high vs. the dollar. It's interesting to see where it is now relative to when George Soros destroyed it 15 years ago.

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Here are some stocks that rose on unusual volume yesterday, suggesting a possible breakout. Today's trades include a possible breakout from Global Sources (GSOL Quote), one of my favorite picks from my Internet newsletter days.

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As of yesterday, the S&P 500 is now up for the millennium.

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Freakonomics has a fascinating insight into why Google's (GOOG Quote) YouTube worked.

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Information Arbitrage is harsh in its post titled "MSFT, Xbox 360 and Japan: Failure-in-a-Box."

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I was a venture capitalist during a horrible period to be a VC, from March 2000 to July 2001. Paul Kedrosky's list of top 10 VC lies definitely rings true.

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Seth Godin was kind enough to share with us the worst CEO PowerPoint slide ever.

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I hate to say it, but with baby boomers aging, I expect that the stocks in the death care industry will start getting acquired.

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Here's a great case study by Startup Review of online dating company eCrush.

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TickerSense notes that we reached a new high in new highs.

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FlyOnTheWall.com checks out Jones Soda (JSDA Quote) ...

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... and it worked overtime to also give us the lowdown on Qualcomm (QCOM Quote).

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I thought I was going all-out when I spent $200 on my RIM Blackberry, but Stockerblog found a phone that costs $310,000.

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