- FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States (America's Finest News Source) Read Eric Frank Russell's novel Wasp, and you will understand.
- “It’s Not a Bubble,” Retail Investors Are Told As The Smart Money Bails Out (Naked Capitalism) My rule of thumb is that a bubble is due to burst whenever the rest of us start moving in.
- Cookies that give you away: The surveillance implications of web tracking (Freedom to Tinker) Kinda dry, but worth the read.
- Defending Kickbacks (The Baseline Scenario) A good description about how current rules, which do not require a broker to act in the best interest of the customer, is immoral and corrupt.
- A SILICON VALLEY DISASTER: A 21-Year-Old Stanford Kid Got $30 Million, Then Everything Blew Up (Business Insider) This reminds me of Razorfish, and when its CEO could not tell 60 Minutes II what the hell they actually did.
- Guardian and Washington Post awarded Pulitzer for Snowden revalations (The Pulitzer Prizes) I kind of missed this over Passover. Well deserved by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poirtras, and Bart Gellman. I thought that the Pulitzer jury would wimp out, but they didn't.
- Torture doesn't just hurt guys in turbans (Washington Post) A linguist who aided in interrogations discusses the damage that our torture program did to him. Read this
Best April Fools joke ever:
H/t Neo at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.
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