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Huge Day at the SCOTUS
The opinions from the High Court are coming fast and furious, with some good, some bad, and probably some ugly. I can't keep up, but if I'd could, I'd start with this overview of the decisions in the Hamdi and Padilla cases. Then I'd probably be pretty interested in these Miranda cases, too. Then I'd read about there being no presidential monopoly on war powers.
Nevermind. What I'm saying is, if I had time I'd just read everything on SCOTUSBlog. And there's more to come tomorrow.
It's kind of mind-boggling to realize how much American law can change in a few days thanks to a flurry of Supreme Court decisions. And these people are appointed for life. A little scary sometimes...
Posted 09:53 PM | law general
Book Research?
NaNoWriMo 2004 is still four months away, but it's not too early to start thinking about what you're going to write. The rules say you can't write anything before midnight, November 1, but that doesn't mean you can't think about it. Last year I spewed out some 28,000 words and none of them were very good except possibly some bits about a character I was calling a "professional finder." The idea, roughly, was that in the future, some people might make a profession out of finding things from the past, then selling those things to collectors. Of course, people do this already, but think "Nth" degree. This week's City Paper features a new non-fiction work about "finders" who seem to find to live or live to find. It's called Mongo: Adventures In Trash, by Ted Botha. It could be good research for a "professional finder" character, or it might just be a good read. (Thanks to L for pointing this out.)
Introducing: Ambivalent Images
Welcome, everyone, to ambivalent images. This is a little project I started back in March, because, well, once the EJF Auction was over and all I had to do was catch up on my reading, outline, and study for finals, I really had way too much time on my hands.
As I explain here, the idea was to take a picture every day and post a picture everyday. So far, I've been able to keep up with the posting, but actually taking a picture every day is the hard part. What you'll see is that I almost never post a picture the same day I take it. Generally, the time lag is a week or two (or more). So it's not exactly what I intended at the beginning, but it's been great fun, nonetheless. Perhaps with practice I'll get better at the daily photo and be able to cut the time between taking and posting. We'll see. The bonus to the delay between taking and posting the photos is that every time I post a photo I'm reminded of what I was doing a week or two ago. I'm pretty forgetful, so it's been an interesting perspective-adjuster.
Anyway, beginning today, a portion of the daily photo will appear here on ai as a new feature in the right column. Click the photo excerpt to go to the full version, which includes explanation and commentary from your humble blogger, as well as comment links so you can tell me if you ever see or read anything that grabs you. Enjoy.
Tech note: ambivalent images is just a simple MT blog. The MTOtherBlog plugin allows the daily image to appear here. If you'd like to start your own "photoblog" based on MT, you might want to take a look at the MTPhotoGallery plugin and the MTEmbedImage plugin. I may play with these at a later date.
Posted 06:44 AM | Comments (3) | meta-blogging
