This week was hotter than usual – unseasonably warm in Chicago, unexpectedly warm iPads, and a few days of hot potato in the markets, most of which took a mid-week beating before bouncing back today. Now that Greece’s 2^nd bailout is behind us, Italy and Spain are the new Eurozone fear-generators du jour, while gas prices take center stage in the domestic economic conversation. Here’s what we’re reading headed into the weekend:

• Corzine allegedly ordered transfer of customer funds to JP Morgan (Bloomberg)
• Joe Weisenthal on the best economics website around: FRED (Business Insider)
• The CME on Managing Risk (Youtube)
• Facebook steps up to defend users from prying bosses, colleges (TNW)
• Bridgewater bigwig Ray Dalio explains his take on deleveraging (Market Folly)

And just for fun:

• The shapeshifting Mimic Octopus (The Big Picture)
• Why Darth Vader would make a great project manager (Geekwire)