Saturday, November 16, 2002
Blogs? In Berkeley?
One in particular has made my weekend: bIPlog! What a treasure trove. [via a very witty Ms. Wentworth]
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Beachy
In case you were wondering: 85 degrees here today, and lovely.
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A Little Mad Music
Mad Kane offers up the Homeland Security Act as Billy Joel might present it -- complete with midi. Mad's wicked song parodies have been coming in rapid fire succession these days; check out her Music Humor page.
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Cause; Effect
TPB reminds me in his inimitable fashion why I haven't touched a dictaphone in twelve years. (The 4degreez Personality Test reminds me why I should keep an eye on such signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder.)
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Friday, November 15, 2002
I have been remiss
It occurred to me like a bolt from the blue this afternoon that I never actually have blogged about The Half Norwegian (on the mother's side) American Bar Association. How this august group has avoided mention here before is beyond me. Do enjoy the speeches and overall silliness, and consider full or associate membership. The eligibility requirements are nothing if not flexible -- even if they do slide my gender quills inexorably toward the fully upright and locked position ("lawyers' wives, judges' mistresses, or deposed prime ministers of obscure nations...").
(How does one who primarily is Sicilian on the mother's side even know of such an organization? A favorite colleague at the firm who is Italian -- on the father's side -- has the distinction of being a past president.)
[later] Egads, it's come to this: hat blogging!!posted by Denise at 5:20 PM
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Autolaryngology
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Thursday, November 14, 2002
Fontal Assault
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Better Get A Bucket
Kevin Marks (on Humans First) points to Microsoft's "Ms. m.o.X.i.e." contest! "Believe it or not, today's women are starting businesses at twice the rate of men." Believe it or not, there are some things I just wouldn't do for ten grand and a Mac. (No offense to the participants, of course. The ScubaDoRag(tm), for example, seems quite revolutionary, possibly even of interest to the more aquatic members of the Supreme Court.)
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Wednesday, November 13, 2002
More, There
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How would you like that wrapped?
Jeneane gave RB a new blog for his birthday, Humans First. If you're into watching Cluetrain unfold in real time -- or observing where it isn't -- this looks like a good place to pick up the signs.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Big Memories, Little Caps
One of Howard's readers points to a photo in Justice Ginsburg's chambers from the 1997 inaugural festivities. Hip, hip, hooray!
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With Just 40-odd Mailing Days Left...
Holiday cards, people!! Never fear. ("Classic Modern," yum.) Those are tough to pass up, but unfortunately don't seem to do much "good" except aesthetically...JustGive.org, though, has a nice collection of links to cards benefiting nonprofit organizations.
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Little Secret
You have got to love the SCOTUSBlog, and a law firm that embraces the concept of reporting on oral arguments. Here's John's run-down of today's proceedings in the "Victor's Little Secret" case [link is to last Friday's CNN coverage].
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Are You Agreed?
After an extended absence from the office I have just retrieved a voice mail from the Los Angeles Times requesting that I remove the link to the article "Firm says law stifles fair use on DVDs" until we can negotiate a licensing fee.More here, at Kevin Heller's. The article Kevin linked to in his News sidebar is about the 321 Studios case (mentioned earlier here; the company's news page now is more up to date, but doesn't reference the Times article). According to the Times' Terms of Service, "... If you operate a Web site and wish to link to Latimes.com, you may do so provided you agree to cease such link upon request from Latimes.com. No other use is permitted without prior written permission of Latimes.com. ..." (Emphasis added.) This is reiterated when one follows the iCopyright linkage at the bottom of an article on the Times' page. The article in question is reprinted, presumably with the Times' permission, at SunSpot.net, where I can't readily locate a linking policy of any sort. NPR ombudsman Jeffrey A. Dvorkin's thoughts on linking issues are memorialized here. Cory Doctorow's response on shortcomings of the revised NPR linking policy is here, and an article by Mike Janssen in Current further summarizing and rounding up links about the NPR episode is here. Among other things, Janssen notes that, "The Washington Post and the New York Times openly allow links to all of their pages, and the Los Angeles Times stipulates that webmasters can link to its pages as long as they agree not to if asked." Bret Fausett's piece discussing the potential enforceability of "click-read" agreements is here, and Kevin Heller's own thoughts as to why such agreements should not be enforceable are here. Hordes of inbound links to the Times. The Times reaching out and touching people on their voicemail. Hmm. I'd say this one's destined for a bench memo near you, soon.
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Monday, November 11, 2002
Pack The Black
When the U-Blog Tri-Delts abruptly abandoned "their practice of using the classic black drape to adorn their photos," many were perplexed. Others innocently claimed to have been "having a rough time of it lately" and "spending a lot of time" on their weblogs. (In response to which these folks just laughed.)
On November 12, do set your moderately safe search on "stun," and go wish a proper Happy Birthday to RB.
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Give Us Your Orders, Do
Mike Daisey's 21 Dog Years: Doing Time At Amazon.com offers plenty of wit and wisdom about modern workplaces in general, couched in the author's anecdotes about Earth's Biggest Bookstore Earth's Biggest Selection [insert slogan of the moment here]. The Audible version, read by Daisey and unabridged, takes full advantage of the author's comic timing. Among the many workaday challenges described is how an employee might wrest any portion of of his or her paycheck from the company, given the inexorable lure of same-day order delivery -- to one's desk.
Warning: Will likely prompt loud public guffaws if taken aurally.
Yet Another Warning: If you click the Amazon link to purchase Daisey's book, you may learn that customers who shopped for the item "also wear clean underwear" from the Gap as part of Amazon's new apparel store promotion. And thus do the postmodern shards splinter infinitely into the distance...
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Save Lawyers, Guns And Money
No need to send in the specialists, I'm back, wondering if Silent Blogging isn't the way to go (with guest vocals by Joan Baez?) given the plethora of visitors who've dropped by in my absence, and having a good laugh over this (A Discreet Bullhorn, The American Lawyer). In tribute, please meet Bag and Baggage's new, highly unofficial but much adored mascot.
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