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Weekend Links

By Kim Krawiec

What not to say on your blog (especially if you?re a public defender): that your client lied to the court, and that certain judges are clueless or a-holes, among other things.  ABA Journal. 

James Boyle, A Copyright Black Hole Swallows Our Culture.  (FT)

From The Guardian, a review of the book Death Can Be Cured, based on 100 entries from the journal, Medical Hypotheses, including ?Losing weight by defecating at night? and ?Why do gentlemen prefer blondes??  According to the Guardian:

Medical Hypotheses publishes clever guesses about medical mysteries. Most of the world's several thousand other medical journals do, too. But Medical Hypotheses is unusual in that (1) it admits doing it and (2) it publishes nothing else. No "now we know the real story" medical case reports. No "thus it is proved" experimental results. Just hypotheses.  

New(ish) to the blawgosphere: Becky and Hollee ? Inside the Journey To a Balanced Life. Becky and Hollee write the work/life balance column for the ABA Journal, and they?re co-authoring Good Enough is the New Perfect: Why Modern Moms Are Aiming Lower ? Yet Reaching New Heights, a nonfiction book about how the working moms of their generation are redefining success and taking control.   

From Izabella Kaminska (FT Alphaville):

Did the BBC mean for their dramatisation of the last days of Lehman Brothers to be utterly, cringeworthingly hilarious?

If they didn?t, they certainly did a good job making it look like they did.

Dan Ernst at Legal History Blog on Securities Regulation in the New Deal.

Solum on Sen.

Felix Salmon: ?At the height of the worst recession in living memory, it seems, donations to Harvard went up.?  See charts on total endowment (right) and total contributions (below), from the Harvard Management Company report (click to enlarge).  A copy of the report is here.  See prior Lounge coverage of the Harvard endowment here.

The perils of (really) frequent flying. (Wired Science).

From Paul Caron, Federal Court Orders Thomas M. Cooley Law School to Give Tenure Hearing to Fired Law Prof.

Classic animation, via Crooked Timber, including this Bank of America ad:

According to CT, John Hubley (of ?Mr. Magoo? and other animation fame) did the ad shortly after he was blacklisted for refusing to testify to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, forcing him to leave UPA and take work making commercials.  More from John Holbo at CT.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on September 13, 2009 (boomark / email).