Linkage

• 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.