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Private jets. Not illegal./Andy Rusch

• In prison on drug charges, Jesse Krimes spent three years making a thirty-nine-panel mural, made from transferring newspaper photographs onto bed sheets using hair gel. Each transfer took thirty minutes, and there are thousands of images in the mural. The results, pictured on the blog Prison Photography, are stunning.

• Meanwhile, ex-banker Lee Farkas, was interviewed in prison by the Wall Street Journal. Farkas is serving a thirty-year sentence for perpetrating a $2.9 billion fraud scheme that led to the collapse of a mortgage company and a bank. “Among my peer group, I was a pauper,” he says. As for the seaplane and private jet, “But it’s not a crime to have a plane.”

• Twitter can be scary, folks. The college kid who ran the hugely- but briefly-popular Twitter feed @SochiProblems during the Olympics says he felt “completely overwhelmed” by the response he got, and not in a good way. Says Mashable, “Coffee became his lifeblood, and his phone charger became virtually attached to his person since the device would not cease to buzz. His racing mind hardly let him sleep.” (That’s exactly why we don’t try very hard on Twitter; it’s self-preservation.)

• In other, unrelated news, here is a picture of Newt and Calista Gingrich in front of a Waffle House.