Interesting speculation on the identity of "Eli" from Metal Gear Solid V.  http://art-eater.com/2013/06/metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-analysis/ …

In case your head wasn't spinning enough: WaPo with new info on the '04 hospital bed rebellion at DOJ over NSA spying  http://m.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-surveillance-architecture-includes-collection-of-revealing-internet-phone-metadata/2013/06/15/e9bf004a-d511-11e2-b05f-3ea3f0e7bb5a_story.html …

This is HUGE. | Chief Justice Roberts Calls For Rare Formal Review Of Allegedly Racist Judge  http://thkpr.gs/150a1wB  #p2 #TFY #twibdocket

Two good Cory Booker profiles: 1) NYT:  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/nyregion/promise-vs-reality-in-newark-as-mayor-eyes-higher-office.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& … 2) Buzzfeed:  http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/can-cory-booker-keep-it-together …

@blakehounshell NYT had one last December. Not the most flattering to Booker:  http://nyti.ms/11MLM2z 

A redline of WaPo's PRISM story vs. how it originally appeared:  https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=FEA7E5B2229991D8!32493&app=WordPdf&authkey=!AOhWmOe5B0ywvEA … via @edbott

Drone operator speaks. He "had participated in missions that contributed to the deaths of 1,626" people  http://nbcnews.to/19QmGHN 

Judge at the center of the NSA spying controversy attended expenses-paid libertarian terrorism seminar in 2008:  http://ow.ly/lP3VI 

“The paleo diet invites judgment, it’s conspicuous consumption par excellence.” -@j_arthur_bloom  http://theumlaut.com/2013/06/07/a-brief-disquisition-on-paleomisanthropy/ … Touché.

! WaPo Publishes Top Secret/NoForn Docs on PRISM NSA Internet data collection program  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/ …

Greenwald is basically Tetsuo at the end of Akira right now  https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/342766168068734976 …

This, via @eff, is interesting. The data NSA hoovers up isn't considered "collected" until it's been "processed."  https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/wordgames#collect …

SIRENS @lisamcintire THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, REPEAT CALLING @lisamcintire THIS IS AN EMERGENCY  http://www.vice.com/read/scientologists-make-terrible-stand-up-comedians?utm_source=vicefbus …

A scathing takedown of Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen's new book, unbelievably written in @nytimes by Julian Assange:  http://nyti.ms/1aSkf5g 

It's pretty funny reading the quotes by Reinhart & Rogoff in the glowing NYT review of their book (2010)  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/economy/04econ.html?src=me&ref=homepage&_r=0 …

Not an Onion video. Amazingly.  http://live.wsj.com/video/opinion-death-by-bicycle/C6D8BBCE-B405-4D3C-A381-4CA50BDD8D4D.html?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb_h#!C6D8BBCE-B405-4D3C-A381-4CA50BDD8D4D …

Wow. The NYT wrote up my Berkeley talk on Big data mythology.  http://nyti.ms/1466ks7 

Jay Leno Viewers Are Old, Male And Live In Middle America  http://www.buzzfeed.com/jordanzakarin/jay-leno-viewers-are-old-male-and-live-in-middle-america … Featuring an amazing map of the late-night audience.

LIES materialist-feminist journal reading list:  http://theclustermag.com/2013/05/required-reading/ … (via @perelebrun)

Another one-sided, but very interesting critique by @amconmag, something you'd not see much in left mags:  http://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-spiritual-crisis-of-the-bourgeois-bohemians/ …