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A protest against Google buses in San Francisco. Photo by Chris Martin

Mother Jones calls yesterday’s Google bus protest “the most San Francisco thing ever,” and has some excellent pictures to back it up.

• From Prison Policy Initiative, a fascinating pie chart that breaks down where American’s approximately 2.4 million prisoners are incarcerated, and what types of crimes they’re in for. (Via @Prison_health.)

• Here’s Justin Peters’s take on Sunday’s lengthy Boston Globe story about how MIT handled the death of Aaron Swartz. Peters is currently writing a book about Swartz, who was a contributing editor of The Baffler.

• Today’s best sight gag: this is what it would look like if the Daily Mail’s headlines were replaced with user comments. Examples: “Terrible legs,” “NOBODY CARES.”