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Antitrust But Antiverify

Posted on March 03, 2008
David Fischer, Hanno Kaiser, and Manfred Gabriel host this week's Blawg Review #149 at their Antitrust Review blog. The trio ably round-up the best legal blogging of the past week and shine a bit of spotlight on their own antitrust niche of the blawgosphere...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (156)

Posted on February 29, 2008
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of CNN (from Thursday, February 28; link good at time of posting):Two masked and machete-wielding men who barged into a club in Sydney, Australia, couldn't have picked a worse night for their robbery -- a monthly meeting of bikers...

He's a Rules Guy

Posted on February 28, 2008
One of my favorite legal bloggers, Sun General Counsel Mike Dillon, suggests a number of ways that practicing in-house is different than in a firm. All are worth considering and, for those of us in-house already, internalizing; amongst the many highlights are these points:"You are a business person...

At least he didn't do anything unsavory to Matt Damon

Posted on February 26, 2008
Brett Trout continues Iowa's streak of Blawg Review greatness with this week's Blawg Review #148 at his BlawgIT blog (now master of its own domain!). It's a "stop and smell the roses" kind of vibe this week -- Trout notes that "lawyers do not spend as much time aimlessly meandering the web" and thus "most lawyers are woefully detached from the Zeitgeist embodied in the lowly Internet meme...

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TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (155)

Posted on February 22, 2008
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of WDSU (via The Consumerist) (from Tuesday, February 19; links good at time of posting):A 37-year-old Mesa man who tried to buy a watch with two counterfeit $100 bills containing a watermark of Abraham Lincoln was arrested on forgery charges, police said...

Over time, we all get a little thicker around the middle

Posted on February 21, 2008
For many of us, a Milky Way here and there contributes to midsection growth; it's not often, though, that the Milky Way itself finds its girth doubled in size. Via Slashdot, the University of Sydney reports:Astrophysicist Professor Bryan Gaensler led a team that has found that our galaxy - a flattened spiral about 100,000 light years across - is 12,000 light years thick, not the 6,000 light years that had been previously thought...

I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle

Posted on February 21, 2008
Though I was several days late to the starting mark, I'll take this opportunity to recommend Rush Nigut's Blawg Review #147, hosted this week at his Rush on Business blog. Nigut's theme is the [Des Moines, Iowa] Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI), an annual seven-day ride across his home state of Iowa...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (154)

Posted on February 15, 2008
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Reuters (from Thursday, February 12; link good at time of posting):Police in central England are hunting for a badly scorched would-be copper power cable thief after finding a hacksaw embedded in an 11,000 volt power cable Saturday night...

Happy Valentine's Day!

Posted on February 14, 2008
My favorite scene in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is Marilyn Monroe's big musical number, "Expensive and inherently useless courtship gifts presented as tokens of one's ability to acquire and accumulate resources and the willingness to invest said resources in a woman and her children are said girl's best friend"; Dr...

A long last, a candidate I'm pleased to support.

Posted on February 12, 2008
Via QuizLaw.

Two Posts Does Not A Regular Feature Make

Posted on February 11, 2008
Last week, I swore I wouldn't make Lost a regular topic of discussion around here, but that post generated some great e-mails and, frankly, the show's finally worth discussing again, so I'll take advantage with a second post. Here are a few points concerning "Declared Dead":If Miles is meant to be a true medium, I'm not super-enthusastic about it...

Sliced Bread Has Nothing on Blawg Review #146

Posted on February 11, 2008
Patent guru Stephen Nipper hosts Blawg Review #146 at The Invent Blog. As Nipper notes, today is National Inventor's Day, designated on this day as it's noted inventor Thomas Edison's birthday. Personally, my favorite inventor is either Tesla or whomever invented pizza, but I digress...

The Most Important Contract of All

Posted on February 08, 2008
My acquaintances and regular readers know how much I love contracts and contract law. Notwithstanding my career choice, my first love in the world of contracts was a study of the Social Contract, thanks to lectures during my undergraduate days given by Professor Terrence Cook...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (153)

Posted on February 08, 2008
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Valleywag (from Wednesday, February 6; link good at time of posting):Voce, a wireless service for hipsters with scraggly beards and ducktails who could nonetheless afford to buy Prada handsets and spend $118/mo...

Never Say Never

Posted on February 07, 2008
A couple of days ago, I posted some wild theories about Lost. Yesterday, I consolidated my geekiness as much as I thought was humanly possible by eating my lunch -- alone, of course, as befits the truly geeky -- whilst simultaneously listening to a Doctor Who podcast and reading a Star Wars novel...

Lost is Found

Posted on February 05, 2008
I've no intention of starting a weekly Lost feature here -- there are any number of excellent recap, analysis, and theory blogs, podcasts, and fora already out there -- but I thought that I'd post a few points (in no particular order) from my discussions with a few people in the days since the start of the long-awaited fourth season...

Veni Vidi Blawgi

Posted on February 05, 2008
Having spent last week enjoying a well-undeserved vacation and the past couple of days getting back up to speed with work and personal matters, I'm just now finishing the past couple of Blawg Reviews, Kevin Thompson's hobbit-centric Blawg Review #144 at his Cyberlaw Central blog and Dan Hull's Super Bowl-themed Blawg Review #145 at the What About Clients? blog...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (152)

Posted on January 25, 2008
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of news.com.au via WorldwideStandard.com (from Thursday, January 24; links good at time of posting):A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say...

Judge this Blawg Review by the character of its content.

Posted on January 24, 2008
Gideon hosts the Martin Luther King Day edition of Blawg Review, Blawg Review #143 for those of you scoring at home, at the Public Defender Stuff blog. With a criminal defense focus touching on many of the themes associated with Dr. King, this is an excellent edition of the carnival of legal blogging...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (151)

Posted on January 18, 2008
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of The Smoking Gun (from Tuesday, January 15; link good at time of posting):Disgraced and disbarred, Mike Nifong is now bankrupt. The former North Carolina prosecutor, whose career imploded with his botched handling of the Duke University rape case, today filed for bankruptcy, listing liabilities in excess of $180 million...

Free Trade = Peace (Or Does It?)

Posted on January 16, 2008
Marjorie Florestal at the IntLawGrrls blog describes that her desire, as a young Haitian immigrant, was to become "the international Thurgood Marshall". Working at a large law firm, she discovered her "first love" -- International Trade Law -- but now doubts about the power of trade have entered her mind:Free trade brought prosperity, abundance, peace and security to all nations?at least in principle...

Honesty is the best policy.

Posted on January 16, 2008
From The Register:Computer giant Dell stunned a Reg reader seeking a processor upgrade when it told him he might want to consider a "Mac".The El Reg reader had emailed the firm's hardware technical support team asking whether it was possible to upgrade his one year old Dimension 9150's processor to a Core2 CPU without having to also replace other components...

Our Compliments to Blawg Review's Editor 'n' Chef

Posted on January 15, 2008
Blawg Review, the carnival of legal blogging co-founded by the anonymous editor of Blawg Review, highlights the best legal blogging each week. Issue after issue, hosts from across the legal blogosphere (and occasionally beyond it) are selected by the anonymous editor of Blawg Review to present the carnival in their own voices, sharing their personal and professional experiences and interests with the ever-growing Blawg Review audience...

Grazie!

Posted on January 15, 2008
My Paradiso-themed Blawg Review #137 has been recognized as Blawg Review of the Year for 2007. Thank you to all those who voted during the nominations period; it's tremendously gratifying to know that my efforts were appreciated by my fellow Blawg Review hosts and particularly by several whose own work this year was, in my opinion, more deserving of this honor...

Wii are not amused.

Posted on January 15, 2008
Engadget reported yesterday that the innovative Nintendo Wii motion-sensitive controller might not be quite as innovative as previously believed:Patrick Goschy, an ex-Midway employee, has a YouTube video of himself demonstrating something astoundingly similar to a Wiimote / Nunchuck...

What's in a Name?

Posted on January 15, 2008
Susan Cartier Liebel hosts Blawg Review #142 this week at the Build A Solo Practice, LLC blog. Personally, I would not have wanted to follow Charon QC's marvelously literary review posted last week, but Liebel not only took up the challenge but carried it through with aplomb...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (150)... The Sequel!

Posted on January 11, 2008
This week's bonus joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of The Register (from Thursday, January 10; link good at time of posting):A Polish bloke got a bit of a shock when he decided to nip out to a brothel - his missus was among the establishment's employees...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (150)

Posted on January 11, 2008
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the BBC (from Monday, January 7; link good at time of posting):TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column.The Top Gear host revealed his account numbers after rubbishing the furore over the loss of 25 million people's personal details on two computer discs...

It's getting better all the time.

Posted on January 10, 2008
Many news sources reported that yesterday India's Tata Motors unveiled the world's least expensive car, the bare bones Tata Nano, costing $2,500.00.While that price alone generated a lot of headlines, Hit & Run puts that number in perspective by comparing the Nano's price with the costs of the Ford Model T, the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Yugo, adjusting prices both directions to account for inflation...

Strike Two for GPL v.3

Posted on January 10, 2008
Two of the more prominent open source projects around, Google's Android initiative and the ongoing development of the Linux operating system, have officially spurned the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) third-version General Public License(GPL). As mentioned here earlier, Google chose the Apache Software Foundation license over GPL v...

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