May 31, 2003
The Unh! Project
A collection of guttural moans from comics
City Losing Millions In Blitz of Ticketing
Independent Study Finds Costs Handily Exceed Revenues
Salam's story
Just who is Salam Pax
FBI overreacts to high school student blog post
"A student is mistakenly targeted as an investigation blurs the line between local and federal law enforcement "
Judge dismisses suit against Google | CNET News.com
The judge dismissed the case on the grounds that Google's formula for calculating the popularity of a Web page, or "PageRank," constitutes opinions protected by the First Amendment.
The Island Chronicles
From Los Angeles to the South Pacific
'Reading Rainbow' fights for survival - May. 29, 2003
Take a look, it's in a book
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
Pillaging the cartoon universe
St. Petersburg Is Given Some Major Primping for Its Birthday Bash
"this is nothing less than a fabulous slumber party for the world's most powerful men (and three women)"
The Lesson of Smalls, a Little Club With a Big Heart
Ben Ratliff bids adieu to Smalls
Constitutionally, a Risky Business
Fun and profit writing constitutions
May 30, 2003
Genuine Soviet Sputnik satellite
Buy It Now for US $29,500.00
3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference
"Write better emails. Make more moneys."
Russian tounge twisters
A daschund in a taxi asked the driver: "how much for this trip?"
Media More Diverse? Not Really
500 channels and 5 owners
American Mullet
a documentary film
tortfeasor
T-shirts only law students find funny
DVR Myths and Facts
Fact: drop the prices to <$300 total and I'll buy one
House of cards
Property is probably the biggest business in the world
AntennaWeb
Determine the proper outdoor antenna to use if you don't have cable or satellite
Automating iPhoto 2 with AppleScript
How to script iPhoto and Photoshop together
Search Privacy: An Issue?, Part 2
Privacy policies at Yahoo and Google compared
Divorce, Online Style
"Divorce lawyers view online services the same way doctors view self-help health books"
Search Privacy: An Issue?, Part 1
Google's privacy policy, sponsored by Google
May 29, 2003
Apple force-feeds customers shit, calls it sunshine
Cory's not happy with Apple
A maddening ride for tourist who fell asleep on subway
The cops explained they were giving him a ticket because he had taken up two seats
Peripheral City
Rediscovering the Gowanus Canal
More Screwing New York
Yoink
Electronic Order in the Court
Some Courts adopt computer technology, others have yet to
May 28, 2003
867-5309
Call Jenny in Providence, get Brown freshmen
The Rise and Fall of Modernism
in Portland, OR
They Know the ABC's. Also DEFGJLMNQRSVWZ.
Subway whiz kids
In Hoagieland, They Accept No Substitutes
Mmm...cheesesteaks and scrapple
May 26, 2003
Geeky Legal Beagles Nail Spammers
NYAG internet bureau does good work
Airports Taxi Into the Web Age
Airports get useful web sites
In 13 States, a Push to Limit Lawyers' Fees
New Jersey and New York are among the states
May 24, 2003
Mount Everest. 360 degree panorama
Standing on top of the world
Showbiz Pizza Rock-A-Fire Explosion tribute site
that's right. A tribute page to a pizza place's animatronic band
Tourist Season Alert
The Bureau to Eradicate Slow-Moving People is warning all New Yorkers that Tourist Season will hit New York hard in the next few weeks
New Jersey Is Running Out of Open Land It Can Build on
Big box stores and mcmansions in the most densly populated state are using up land
May 22, 2003
Button Maker
Watch the web get overrun by these buttons
Anticipating a post-Web, post-PC world | CNET News.com
To understand where the technology industry is going, don't focus on the future--look to yesterday.
Mayor pulled over for drunk driving
Wife arrives drunk to pick him up
In a Battle of the Bands, Musicians Are Judges
Garageband.com
Doctor Who - Shada
Flash from the BBC
Good to the Last Drop
Dimensions and Cultural Implications of Coffee Service in Libraries
1st Annual Big Apple Barbecue Block Party
May 31-June 1 on 27th St.
New Cellphone Services Help Find Friends and Places to Go
How useful are location-based services?
Always confirm that you have actually reached the Legal Aid office before discussing your legal problems
hey, it was under a thousand dollars
DARPA and LifeLog
Does the government want to know EVERYTHING about you?
May 21, 2003
Total Information Awareness Becomes Total Terrorism Awareness
Poindexter tries to be less Big Brother-ey
New Laws, New Questions About Pornography Online
PROTECT Act includes a section titled "Truth in Domain Names" and a new ban on so-called "virtual" child pornography.
Segways in Paris
"The prevailing mood was curiosity and wonder"
Eating for Six? That Pasta Has
What exactly is a portion?
Sounds from the First Satellites
This is Sputnik 1 to ground control
RSS feeds for Supreme Court decisions
Courtesy of Cornell's Legal Information Institute
Employee sues over text message firing
"Its (sic) official"
How to Curb Big-Time Schools? Hit Them With Big-Time Taxes
NCAA member schools have become so fixated on cold hard cash that they've forgotten to even feign an interest in sports-as-education
May 20, 2003
Dividend Voodoo
Warren Buffett: Tax the rich
May 18, 2003
How US Schools Rate in Cyber Liberties
Tufts is 3rd worst. (Columbia is the worst, MIT the best).
A New York State of Blog
NYT shoutout to Gawker and the "New York School" of bloggers
Dating a Blogger, Reading All About It
Why not to blog everything, especially on an eponymous website
May 14, 2003
Lists of Bests
Best of best of lists list
Five perspectives on spectrum allocation
"Cingular is saying, dammit, that's our ox, where do you get off goring it?"
Fare increase reached in violation of lawful procedure and not rationally based
Judge York's decision in NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign v. MTA
Judge Orders MTA To Roll Back Transit Fare Hike
"Clearly the court saw that the MTA was misleading the riding public."
Total Lunar Eclipse Coming May 15-16
Tomorrow night
Second Ave. Subway Plan Praised, Critiqued
You can satisfy some of the people all the time or all of the people some of the time...
Chickenhawk Cards
"Even though there are 54 cards, after reviewing them we think you'll agree it feels as if we're not really playing with a full deck!"
New Study Finds 60 Million Uninsured During a Year
At any one time, 25% of US adults lack health insurance
May 13, 2003
The New Color of Money
Andy Jackson set to get more bling-bling
Top 10 Things I Hate About Star Trek
"Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and 'Ensign Gomez' beam down to a planet. Which one isn't coming back?"
Second Avenue Subway Line? That's Just Part of It
World New York talks with one of "The Boys"
The GOP attack machine
The effect is to create an atmosphere in which dissent — and dissenters — are publicly humiliated, their careers and livelihoods threatened
Dr. Dean's healthcare plan
Coverage for everyone up to age 25! Wait-- the election's not until next year? Some good this does me.
How Does a Piano Get to Carnegie Hall?
Practice, practice, practice
Attorneys can keep illegal fees
if they had a good faith reason to believe they were legal
The Times' clueless jab at new media
Don't forget about George Lucas, the Wachowski brothers and the digitization of movies
Spymac.com :: Music
iTunes sharing
Zeta-Jonesing
Gawker gets props from William Safire
Verizon to Offer Wireless Web Link Via Pay Phones
WiFi at pay phones
Bush Budget Has Billions for Nuclear Weapons Building
Disarm North Korea by getting into a new nuclear arms race
No, New York, You Don't Pay Highest Taxes
It just feels like we do
The Smoking Gun TV
Coming to Court TV in August with Mo Rocca
'Hi, I'm Your Waiter, and This Is Reality'
Restaurant meets reality tv. Sounds fun.
Second Avenue Subway
Coming soon to a second avenue near you
May 10, 2003
Judicial fashion trends
Counsel, please stop laughing
In re Pharmatrak, privacy litigation
"This case raises important questions about the scope of privacy protection afforded internet users under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986"
Special Music Event
Watch The Steve introduce the new iTunes
News Is Crapppy
Mmm Bureaucracy!
James Beard Winners
Oscars for chefs
An Interesting Day
Where Bush went on 9/11
Songs disappearing from iTunes Music service?
Where'd they put the Radiohead?
What does a Borough president do?
I'm still not sure
Brooklyn to Celebrate Its Bridge on May 24
120 years of the Brooklyn Bridge
Law Firm Got Big M.T.A. Fees in Troubled Job
Let's blame lawyers for the fare hike
Englewood Theater Moves Closer to Reopening
Closer to good news about John Harms
May 09, 2003
Best of New York 2003
from New York magazine
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times
Monkeys fail to reproduce the work of Shakespeare
May 07, 2003
Manhattan User's Guide: Cornelia Street
Cornelia Street is always a good answer, at least when the question is 'where should we eat tonight?
May 06, 2003
U.S. says Canada cares too much about liberties
It's not like we have any protected rights here in the US... er... well, we may not for too much longer.
Concert CD's Sold on the Spot by a Radio Giant
I wonder what this means for tapers...
Chains gobble up city's dining dollars
Heck, there's a second Olive Garden here in NYC. What's the world coming to?
New Jersey high school student asks judge to name her sole valedictorian
Ahhh... more ridiculous litigation
Verisign investigation
courtesy of NYS Attorney General
zerosexlife.com
No, it's not my website
Blogumentary
"No wonder she was so good at saying 'Don't cwall da police.'"
20 Questions for Howard Bashman
Celebrate 1 year of How Appealing
Russian Retro: Party Car Reborn
V-12 BMW-based Volga
Moscow Metro Unveils New Station, Park Pobedi
Deepest subway station in the world. 16 years under construction.
Kasyanov Takes Pirates to Task
"[Intellectual property] is one of those spheres where chaos rules and total lawlessness takes place"
May 03, 2003
Classic keyboards redux
The greatest keyboard ever. Now, where can I find a USB version?
May 02, 2003
'Bling Bling' Added To Oxford English Dictionary
"I just wish that I'd trademarked it, so I'd never have to work again."
Prof. Volokh on how to promote a blog
Step 5. Add 26th consiprator.
Notion of a 51st State Comes Around Again
"Every day Albany gives us another reason to just go our way"
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas sue Clear Channel
"Your conduct certainly constitutes further evidence of actual malice"
A Tussle Over Who Pays For Credit-Card Theft
No one wants to pay
Students Fork It Over to RIAA
Students settle