October 31, 2003
Rumsfeld unsure of missing 'mojo'
Now THIS is important news
Lawyer Friend Makes Strong Case For Nachos
"Case closed. We'll order the nachos."
U.S. Eating Habits, and Europeans, Are Spreading Visibly
Mmm... 64 slices of American cheese
A Big Quarter
"it would be quite a trick to run the biggest budget deficit in the history of the planet, and still end a presidential term with fewer jobs than when you started"
October 30, 2003
Fox considered suing Fox over Simpsons
Instead "Fox has a new rule that we can't do those little fake news crawls"
October 29, 2003
Warning of Budget Gap, M.T.A. May Pare MetroCard Discounts
Plan to raise the fare, without actually raising the "fare." Confused yet?
Major Solar Storm Begins Onslaught of Earth
"This is the real thing."
Celluloid Skyline
New York and the movies
Boston shocked: Dunkin Donuts eliminates the cruller
"Respect the cruller; tame the doughnut."
October 28, 2003
Bush in 30 Seconds
Say "miserable failure" 30 times?
Why spend $32 million to promote the new $20 bill?
"You have no choice. Here, finally, is a product that truly sells itself."
Like a waiter serving you a hot, frothy, mouthwateringly delicious cappucino you've been craving all day -- then, peeing in it.
Xeni Jardin on Napster 2.0 and its DRM
Net's dark side dents broadband
The industry has this impression broadband allows computers to be like clever TV and that people want to sit there consuming content. But we have no evidence this is really true yet."
Setting the Record Straight
An Analysis of the Justice Department's PATRIOT Act Website
NYC Mobile Phone Deadspot Survey
My apartment is in the middle of one
October 27, 2003
Your Job Is Out There
Where?
HE'BREW The Chosen Beer
Shalom!
A truly terrifying Halloween costume idea
I know what I'm going as...
Spam: Filters and Further Protection
With snazzy charts
Nickel and Dime: Wall Street SweatsThe Small Stuff
Say goodbye to perks
New Luxury-Car Specifications: Styling. Performance. Aroma.
That new-car smell is no coincidence
A Tight Job Market Dampens Ivy League Hopes
And sends law school applications through the roof
October 26, 2003
October 25, 2003
MLB takes hardball stance on Web sites' use of its data
This post can not be rebroadcast, exhibited for public performance, or even described without the express written consent of Major League Baseball
D'oh! Take Two Cartoons, Add Monsters and Mayhem
The Simpsons and Futurama video games
This patent kicks butt
automatically
Walt Rocks: Rating the New Music Sites
Mossberg prefers iTunes to Napster and MusicMatch
October 24, 2003
October 23, 2003
Free and Legal
Coolfer shows the way to free and legal indie MP3s
The Awful Truth
Russell Baker on Krugman
En Banc
With one more contributor and they'd be able to field a baseball team to play the Volokh Conspirators
Search Inside the Book
Wow. Way cool and useful.
Notes on a Federal Culture
Why DC is inferior
October 22, 2003
Subject: Sushi Options
Gawker posts the memo. World is more interested in Sushi than
A Father-vs.-Umpire Fracas Will Test Youth Sports Law
Simple assault that occurs during a school- or town-sponsored athletic contest and is witnessed by youths under age 16 is now a felony in NJ
Lessons in the Fine Art of College Admissions
"The thing that controls their lives... all comes down to one phrase, `How will this look on my college application?'"
October 21, 2003
When blogs get really popular
Step 1: blog. Step 2: ?? Step 3: profit.
Dilbert Weasel Awards
Lawyers are only eclipsed in weaseliness by politicians
Tunnel to Nowhere, Except Maybe the Future
It's the Second Ave. Subway
To convey the Court's opinion to fans of rap...
Carolene Products, step aside
Restaurants On the Fringe, And Thriving
Illicit restauranteurs
The Value of a Lexis Point
How many points for the Harrier jet?
October 20, 2003
Zagat Listing Jolted by a Small Brooklyn Spot
William Grimes: On Second Thought: It's Still Quite Good, "but perfection at one culinary level does not compare with perfection at a higher level."
Iron Chef Fan Fiction
I am scared. Very scared.
A conservative's review of Al Franken's 'Lies and the Lying Liars'
"every decent, honest, hard-working, patriotic, true-blue conservative owes it to himself to read it"
October 18, 2003
Students, Nuns and Sailor-Mongers, Beware
Ashcroft pulls out the stops to prosecute protestors
October 17, 2003
A Curse of Their Own?
Why is the Post anti-NY?
75% of NJ High schools leave a child behind
Warnings to many of best and brightest show law's shortcomings
Today's kids play yesterday's video games
"Maybe if it had characters and stuff and different levels, it would be OK."
October 16, 2003
iTunes for Windows
Surprise, surprise
Keeping dissent invisible
"I thought the whole country was a free speech area"
October 15, 2003
What Can a Million Buy in Manhattan? Something Average
If I had a million dollars (If I had a million dollars)
For Techies, School Bells Mean 'Let the Games Begin'
Yeah, well we had graphing calculators
Chicago's Most Wanted
After that inning, I think the Cubs may really be cursed
October 14, 2003
Electronic Frontier Foundation Defends Alleged Filesharer
The found a test case
Supremes to hear Pledge of Allegiance Case
Grant cert. in Newdow
The decline and fall of the Enron empire
Enron e-mail
Fly Me to the Moon
Time for a new space race
When Spam Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Spam
TidBits looks at California's new spam law
Disorient Express
RSS feeds of the MTA subway service notices. Way cool.
Gary Coleman to be political analyst on comedy radio network
Watchu talking about?
Don't Look Down
"at a certain point we'll have a Wile E. Coyote moment"
MT-Blacklist
Goodbye comment spam
October 13, 2003
To Discourage Scrapping on the Field, Scrap the Designated Hitter Rule
Just one of many reasons for dropping the DH
October 12, 2003
De clunibus magnis amandis oratio
"Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter."
It's Time to Drop the Puck and Watch It Sink
Underwater hockey
October 10, 2003
October 9, 2003
Smart Playlists.com
Smart iTunes playlist tricks
Democratic Debate Drinking Game
Take a drink if Clark uses the phrase "be all you can be"
A New College Ranking System, Wanted or Not
The Atlantic Monthly ran out of ideas for articles
Mayor Goes 550 Feet Below to Note Start of Tunnel Construction
Water Tunnel #3 takes Manhattan
October 8, 2003
Copyright and authors
A brief history of copyright
MTA Kicks Off Subway Centennial Celebration
100 years of the subway
Charter: Hands Off Song Swappers
Another ISP challenges RIAA subpoenas
The bolder, bigger Apple
In the year 2525...
October 7, 2003
How to Fake Live Election Results with JavaScript
"This tutorial is dedicated to Diebold Election Systems."
The Better Borough: Brooklyn or Manhattan?
Queens feels neglected
The Blogging Iceberg
How many of those inactive blogs just moved to Movable Type or other non-hosted service?
Deflating The Blog Bubble
We have to keep perspective.
Car Owners' Hero Dresses for the Job
NYT meets Angle Grinder Man
October 6, 2003
Peter Luger
Mmm... steak
Man Wants to Question Parrot in Court
You can't make this stuff up
October 5, 2003
Blogging for Dollars
Matt makes money fast
Five years under the DMCA
EFF DMCA Reform Resources Report
Copyright Issues Present Ongoing Dilemma: To Link or Not To Link?
That is the question
unclean... so unclean...
The Lexis/West duopoly
Treasures of the Russian Evolution
Note to self: go to this
October 3, 2003
More vicious than Tricky Dick
John Dean thinks that Bush's people have out-Nixoned Nixon's people
And that's how the cookie crumbles
Mmmm...cookies...
October 2, 2003
Bitches Brew Hits Platinum
It only took 34 years!
A quick history of alpine skiing
A very quick and cursory history
Attorney's porn site work lifts eyebrows
NJ towns shocked that their attorney also does work for porn sites
Anti-Bush T-shirt approved
Judge rules school can't ban teen-ager from wearing it
Lick Me, I'm A Macintosh
What the hell is wrong with Apple that they still give a damn about design and packaging and "feel"?
Rapper C-Murder Found Guilty of Murder
Truth in naming
October 1, 2003
BBC Creative Archives: A Recheck
Let's see what remains after "a jumble of lawyers" look at the idea
Columbia Law Library Music Plagiarism Project
Very, very cool