The Arctic, located at the top your globes, is a very cold place covered in snow and ice. For now. But not for long. There are plenty of business people already making plans to industrialize the hell out of this frozen wasteland.

Public relations rule No. 1: Turn that extreme negative into a mild positive. Rule No. 2: Quickly delete the story that Rule No. 1 produced.

A group of seven state IT workers in Albany, playing in their regular office lottery pool, hit the recent $319 million Mega Millions jackpot. And then there was the eighth guy. The one who usually played, but...just had a feeling about this one. According to the NY Post:

2009 was the year of the Great Magazine Die-Off: 596 magazines folded, according to Mediafinder. In 2010, the Die-Off ended: 193 magazines launched, and only 176 folded. A net positive! Enjoy this momentary lull in print's gruesome death cycle. [Folio]

The Way We Live Now: beating a hasty retreat. Back to the safety of the economic bunkers! Batten down the fiscal hatches! Hell, we'll take the slow pain of the recession over the fear of the unknown. Safety first!

Man, this whole Oil Spill thing is such a downer. If only someone could help us see the brilliant rainbow in the inky black slick. CNN to the rescue! Today they have found the 'good side' of the Oil Spill!

A new study says that out of all the countries in the world, the most environmentally great is Iceland, "which gets virtually all of its power from renewable sources" like burning the abundant corpses of its starved, poverty-stricken citizens. [NYT]

Oh, it's a terrible time to own a magazine. Advertising is falling and expected to plummet further. Everyone's laying people off, going online only or outright shutting down. But every editor worth his salt knows how to put a contrarian, positive spin on a dire situation. Time Inc. may be in the process of laying off…

The death of Radar is just one more reminder of the incessant economic crisis that is destroying jobs for hardworking members of the media (and, you know, everyone else). But there may be an upside! Way back on September 16, when The Panic of '08 was just getting started, Curbed founder and real estate blog…