August 31, 2005
THE STANKOWSKI REPORT #14: Lawyers, Please Leave Your Moral Outrage at the Door
Below the aspiring plaintiffs' lawyers are those who wish to practice criminal law. Why? Because criminal law is obviously easy.
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09:06 AM
H2O Playlist
H2O playlists are more than just a cool, sleek technology -- they represent a new way of thinking about education online.
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08:18 AM
August 30, 2005
United for Peace: Operation Ceasefire Concert
Thievery Corporation, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Le Tigre, Bouncing Souls, Steve Earle, The Coup, The Bellrays, Head-Roc, Jello Biafra, Wayne Kramer of the MC5 and many others....
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10:13 AM
How to tell a cop “NO”
Rather than submitting, he asked questions, forcing the officer to acknowledge his limited authority. [
via]
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10:11 AM
August 29, 2005
August 27, 2005
August 26, 2005
Commercial music in podcasts: the end of free expression?
Since when does the guy who provides the music to the radio station get to dictate what you're allowed to talk about?
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05:43 PM
Senate Seeker:
Run for Office - Can you win?
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02:47 PM
Audacity: WTF Am I Doing Here?
... this program is full of people that I thought I'd meet in law school. Bright, passionate, committed people.
Sounds dreamy. But, um, Georgia?
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01:26 PM
AndrewRaff.com: Serenity Now
I managed to catch an advance screening of
Serenity, which is a sequel to the series Firefly...
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11:03 AM
Active Liberty : Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution
Justice Breyer argues that the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems.
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11:00 AM
Asian Provocateur: WTF Mate?
This is a quirky explanation of the end of the world. It's got nukes, a lot of cussing, and a kangaroo.
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11:00 AM
August 23, 2005
flagrantdisregard.com Flickr Toys
A collection of utilities and toys for the Flickr community.
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08:13 PM
Mt. Rainier Photo Gallery
An ascent of Rainier in text, pics, and audio. Very cool!
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10:52 AM
Scoplaw: EIW Rolls On
“Your touting that you’ve helped to break the union at (insert evil corporation here) causes me to salivate with excitement at the prospect of working for your firm.”
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10:47 AM
Indy.TV
Indy is a music discovery program that learns what you like, and plays more of it. And it's free.
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10:46 AM
August 22, 2005
The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan
“We'd like to know if he still finds humor in the fabrications that justified the war that killed my son,”
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11:26 PM
Amazon Shorts
Amazon Shorts are never-before-seen short works from a wide variety of well-known authors, available only on Amazon.com.
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11:21 PM
50 Mac Gems
50 programs that you may have missed or that are worth another look.
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11:20 PM
Families compete in new 'Amazing Race'
The eighth season of CBS' late-blooming reality hit, due with a two-hour opener on Sept. 27 (9 p.m. ET/PT)
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11:18 PM
The Art of the Mix
Art of the Mix is home to a community of people all devoted to the fine art of making mixes.
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11:17 PM
August 20, 2005
August 19, 2005
Flexible:
If
she gets stuck, click and drag her anywhere.
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08:25 PM
August 17, 2005
Newsweek the Sycophant:
Oh yes, the President is sorry all right.
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07:40 AM
Baby Terrorists:
Infants have been stopped from boarding planes at airports throughout the U.S. because their names are the same as or similar to those of possible terrorists on the government's “no-fly list.”
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07:09 AM
Mac Hacks Allow OS X on PCs
The impact of the OSx86 hack on Apple's hardware brand could be severe.
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07:05 AM
Fedex Furniture
furniture put together by empty FedEx Boxes, and held together by fedex packaging supplies.
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06:54 AM
August 16, 2005
Blogger for Word
a free add-in for Microsoft Word that lets you save a Word document as a post to your Blogger blog with just a few clicks, and without even opening up a browser.
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11:52 AM
DCist: Brickfest Results in Awesome Photos
we missed Lego renditions of everything from Homer Simpson to the Indianapolis Speedway, from the U.S. Capitol to scenes from “Star Wars.”
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11:47 AM
MacNN | Mad rush for $50 iBook firesale
“One woman with a one-year-old child pushed in, but her stroller was crushed in the rush.”
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11:26 AM
August 15, 2005
CBC locks out 5,300 employees after talks fail
Workers have been without a contract for more than a year and the main issue is outsourcing.
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11:20 PM
Bush on Sheehan: “I've got a life to live”
I think the people want the president to be in a position to make good, crisp decisions and to stay healthy.
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10:53 AM
Hybrid Attack
“The Attack” is the work of the West Philadelphia High School Electric Vehicle Team - a group of 6 high school, YES, high school kids.
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10:39 AM
Riot control's a riot when water cannons topple police
Pshhhht — what’s a little suffocation in the face of riot control?
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10:32 AM
August 13, 2005
Training trial lawyers: Corante > Between Lawyers >
... with less cases going to trial, and given the expansion of complex litigation and complex discovery, the odds of young lawyers getting courtroom experience is moving toward a vanishing point.
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09:00 PM
August 12, 2005
Leaked, cracked OS X dev kit image running
... one can fairly plainly see a powered down laptop boot into OS X. And it boots, fast, friends.
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01:52 PM
a nonist public service pamphlet
we’re speaking, of course, about blog depression.
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10:45 AM
Big Brother Nixes Happy Hour
... a recent ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) allows employers to ban off-duty fraternizing among co-workers, severely weakening the rights of free association and speech, and violating basic standards of privacy for America's workers.
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09:09 AM
Brave Finnish crowds exhibit the highest degrees of SISU in extreme weather
... the national resolve, stubbornness, guts, determination, and in a sporting context, the absolute will to win without compromise ...
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09:07 AM
August 11, 2005
Sui Generis: N.B.
“If you hate your job, you don't quit. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American Way.”
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01:30 PM
Air Force officer charged for anti-Bush graffiti
Police set up a bait car with a pro-Bush bumper sticker, parked it at the airport with a surveillance camera, and waited. On July 1, the camera recorded a man spray-painting over the bumper sticker with an expletive.
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12:45 PM
iPod Subway Maps
Washington D.C.
Cool, but how does it work in b/w?
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09:44 AM
Political Wire:
“[Cheney] would be 67 if he ran and was elected. Reagan was 69. Republicans always like the old warhorse….both parties like to nominate vice presidents... Cheney would do it, and I think it's highly likely, so stay tuned.”
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09:32 AM
August 09, 2005
Fourth Amendment Messenger Bag
> Fourth Amendment Notice | CafePress
Remind people that our rights matter, and that our Constitution matters. {
via}
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06:33 AM
Screaming Bean
I want to do everything, all at once, but I can't figure out what to do first.
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06:32 AM
Scripting News
I've been saying this over and over, forever -- create tools for the people with the ideas and then get out of their way. That's what OPML is about.
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06:30 AM
August 08, 2005
Help Us Get on The Amazing Race
Bloggers on a reality game show would be cool (and I first I believe).
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07:28 AM
Ipod My Baby
High quality 100% cotton Hanes onesies in three colors: white, pink and blue.
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07:16 AM
Veteran newsreader Jennings dies
“He just died much too young.”
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06:28 AM
Muscle round-up
GTO, Mustang and Charger bring back the Big-3's war of horsepower.
Stupid Americans!
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06:26 AM
Soldier's mom digs in near Bush ranch
“I want to ask the president, why did he kill my son?”
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06:09 AM
August 04, 2005
Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select Their Least Favorite People On The Right
Well looky there—at least I have a few things in common w/bloggers on the right.
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07:50 AM
One blog created 'every second'
Thirteen percent of all blogs that Technorati tracks are updated weekly or more, said the report, and 55% of all new bloggers are still posting three months after they started.
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07:43 AM
August 03, 2005
Shawn in DC
Boy...I bet that is frustrating...I mean, wow, not having a vote (cough, DC, cough) on important issues (cough, taxation without representation, cough) must be some sort of (cough, we don't have a frigging vote in Congress here at all, cough) human rights violation.
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07:31 AM
“This wasn't planned, you know”
The degree to which we despise Nate is directly proportional to the degree to which we hate our own selfish, lazy, endlessly rationalizing selves.
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07:31 AM
False tales of turkey on a tray
“There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.” {
via}
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07:03 AM
August 01, 2005
Man goes on rampage in tax office
After arguing his case Thursday, Miladinovic returned, doused tax chief Gojko Stefanovic and the office files with petrol, shot at computers and yelled "I was ripped off." {
via}
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12:54 PM
Tom Morris
Three grams! $35 billion federal tax dollars and shooting this completely harmless guy for three grams of pot.
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12:47 PM
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