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Oh Yeah, It's Over for Law Review:
So, the time has come to announce Blawg Review, the next big thing in blogging for lawyers, law professors, judges who blog, and law students who'd rather make a name for themselves than make law review.

Business 2.0 :: What's Next for Apple?
But there are ways to draw a bead on what's brewing in Jobs's fantasy factory. And we're here to tell you, it goes way beyond what he has discussed at Macworld.

Return of the Mac:
All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs.

patchmonkey » All I Wanna Do:
As some may say, I have a lover and her name is law school. Sadly, she’s violent and beats me.

Grok Around the Clock:
It's not a good sign [for the RIAA] when Breyer and Scalia join forces. Worse, David Souter piles on. “Go back to the iPod,” he tells Verrilli. “I know perfectly well I could go buy a CD and put it in my iPod. But if I also know I could get the music without buying it, why wouldn't I?” This all comes out naturally, as though Souter was listening to his iTunes on the way to work this morning.

Camping Out for the Grokster Case:
Forget Star Wars premieres. A seat at the MGM Studios v. Grokster Supreme Court hearing Tuesday morning was the hottest ticket in town.

DeLay's Own Tragic Crossroads:
There were also these similarities: Both stricken patients were severely brain-damaged. Both were incapable of surviving without medical assistance. Both were said to have expressed a desire to be spared from being kept alive by artificial means. And neither of them had a living will.

Business Sees Gain In GOP Takeover:
Fortune 500 companies that invested millions of dollars in electing Republicans are emerging as the earliest beneficiaries of a government controlled by President Bush and the largest GOP House and Senate majority in a half century.

How Appealing on Terri Schiavo:
What was the price tag for the Schiavo law, and how might that money been used instead actually to save or improve the lives of others in need?

Stuffola: High School and the Blogosphere:
Here's my extremely serious, fair and accurate comparison of the two. [link via Scripting News]

Lessig at CCCC:
Lawrence Lessig was one of the featured speakers at CCCC – and his talk, as you might imagine, was great, great, great.

About This Particular Outliner:
A series of articles about outliners available for the Mac, any of which might make good notetaking tools for students.

Fiona Apple Is Cookin' on the Net:
“You can't buy what they won't sell you,”

The Next Big Thing in Online Type:
Beginning in 2006, Microsoft says it will ship with its operating system and other software products six brand new typefaces created especially for extended on-screen reading.

You Are Here:
An awesome music video made from still photos; also: Great song by Sam Bisbee.

For the Love of Blog Cheese:
... there's a lot of Blog Cheese out there. An extensive list of supposed blogging cliches. Basically, according to this list, if you blog, it's cliche, full stop.

Wired News: Diesel Hybrids on the Fast Track
Earlier this year, GM unveiled the Opel Astra Diesel Hybrid, a sedan concept vehicle the company claims would increase fuel economy by 25 percent over a comparable diesel car, or approximately 59 miles per gallon.

Yahoo buys Flickr:
The precious DNA we've got -- that of the Ludicrew -- is on side and revving up for building Flickr. Having the team building out the team's vision for Flickr has been stressed as our number one priority, and keeping us around -- in spite of our wiseassery, tomfoolery and tendency to hoot spontaneously -- is crucial for preserving the Flickrness that is Flickr.  They're not going to replace any of us with suits, nor induce us to wear them. [link via Scripting News]

Study Shows U.S. Election Coverage Harder on Bush:
U.S. media coverage of last year's election was three times more likely to be negative toward President Bush (news - web sites) than Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites), according to a study released Monday. [link via Tomfoolery]

Groups Save Wild Mustangs From Slaughter:
The 200 animals from Nevada that Wild Horses Wyoming bought from the Bureau of Land Management are roaming free on thousands of acres near Laramie, Wyo.

Lawrence Lessig: Never Again:
I will not agree to publish in any academic journal that does not permit me the freedoms of at least a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.

Forbes.com: Why So Many New Billionaires?
In just the last two years, we have added an astonishing 215 new names to the ranks of the world's billionaires.

Whiskey Bar: Scenes From the Cultural Revolution:
Comparing the anti-intellectual rhetoric of “the Right” in the US today to the anti-intellectual tactics of Maoist China.

Someone has filed a trademark for “Podcast”:
That is so lame. [link via Scripting News]

MSNBC - Photos for the Masses:
Just as blogs turned armchair writers into a journalists, the newest generation of photo-sharing sites—companies like Fotolog, Flickr, HeyPix and Smugmug—allow shutterbugs to publish their photos before mass audiences and find others who share the same pictorial predilections.

DCist: Washington In Legos:
We are shocked nobody tipped us off to the remarkably detailed Lego version of the National Mall and downtown D.C.

GalleyCat: Harry Potter “Uncovered”:
Scholastic and Bloomsbury have revealed their covers for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling's sixth Harry Potter book. I'd like the Scholastic version, please. [link via Nft(L)U]

Urban Challenge Washington DC:
Two-person teams find twelve hidden checkpoints. [link via DCist]

Making Peace With the War in Iraq:
With a network of more than 3 million “online activists,” the MoveOn leadership has decided against opposing the American occupation of Iraq. [link via buzzwords]

Google X:
“Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you.”

Apple may introduce mythical 2-button mouse:
With an oldie, but a goodie, AppleInsider dishes the dirt on Apple's “jaw-dropping” new two-button mouse.

Legal Employment Market & How Schools Stack Up:
. . . all I am saying is, given the information available, it appears as if School X does a better job of placing its graduates at elite employers than School Y. [link via JD2B]

Scalia Showing His Softer Side:
“Though I'm a law-and-order type, I cannot do all of the mean, conservative things I'd like to do to the society,” he said.

GW Wins First Atlantic 10 Title

Fox shilling Bush's Social Security Problem Tour:
Bush: “Part of my job is to make sure people understand the nature of the problem. See, if Congress doesn't think there's a problem, nothing is going to happen. But when Congress realizes people all over the country say, 'We've got a problem,' then I pity the politician who stands in the way of the solution.”

The gospel of the rich and powerful:
Watching the behavior of Republican politicians during the past several days, we are learning the true meaning of “compassionate conservatism.” . . . In short, they are stealing bread from the mouths of the poor and stuffing cake into the maws of the wealthy.

Overt Propaganda Under Bush:
[I]n three separate opinions in the past year, the [G.A.O.] . . . has held that government-made news segments may constitute improper “covert propaganda” even if their origin is made clear to the television stations. . . . [Last] Friday, the Justice Department and the Office of Management and Budget circulated a memorandum instructing all executive branch agencies to ignore the G.A.O. findings.

Judge Scalia Goes 18th Century on Your Butt:
A Tom the Dancing Bug Comic...

Eight Things You Can Do Now To Improve On-Screen Readability

Military “production team” fabricating news?
A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated.

Ten Reasons Why Blogging Is Good For Your Career

PowerPC Linux: Bootable Firewire Drives:
Finally! A bootable FireWire drive with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed! Very interesting. Perhaps it's time to try Linux on the Mac....

Online music sales to increase if price decreases?
Music companies need to get used to the idea of selling more music to more people more often, but for less money, according to one recording executive.

super OS X menubar items
Great little apps to make your mac more useful; many of them free.

Your Data Possibly Compromised:
Using misappropriated passwords and identifications from legitimate customers, intruders got access to personal information on as many as 32,000 U.S. citizens in a database owned by Lexis Nexis, the company's corporate parent said Wednesday.

Photobloggies:
The Photobloggies is an annual award ceremony celebrating photoblogging around the world.

An Effective Solution for Spam?
The 3-D CAPTCHA test!

Radio Blog Club:
Radio.blog is the first stand-alone player to let you
stream sound on your website.

Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails:
Each of those countries has been identified by the State Department as habitually using torture in its prisons.

Who's on First?
The classic radio skit updated for the contemporary video store.

Yahoo! Netrospective:
10 years, 100 moments of the Web

Wired News: Justice Says No to Microsoft:
The Justice Department, which challenged Microsoft in courtrooms for nearly a decade over antitrust violations, will pay more than $2 million each year to buy [the latest version of WordPerfect Office software] from Corel, a leading Microsoft rival. I'm all for saying no to MS, but WordPerfect is no better so long as there's no Mac compatability.

Google Pollutes Links Stream:
What happens when the Christian Coalition buys Google? Scary! [via Scripting News]

New Header Graphic:
Brin is the executive in charge of not being evil at Google. Seriously, that's his responsibility. So he's The Man, right now. Cool use of a photo for a blog header. The issue is obviously pretty important, too.

Law Firms Mull the 'Gen Y' Equation
“Generation Y” associates are getting a bad rap for what some say is a flabby work ethic and an off-putting sense of entitlement.

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Blogger fear' in Apple leak case
“What's at stake here is whether online and independent journalists will be granted the same rights as ones from traditional media,”

English Accents and Dialects:
Listen to England's changing voice. Extracts from the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank document how we spoke and lived in the 20th century.

Tell on Apple:
Our ultimate goal is to change Apple Computer for the better. We are currently in litigation with Apple and our causes of action are detailed in the complaints.