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• Juror Privacy Issues

  This angry dissent by Judge Posner in from denial of rehearing en banc in US v. Blagojevich discusses a number of very interesting issues relating to the release of juror names in a high-profile criminal trial.

  I'm left thinking that Posner is right that the Easterbrook opinion [...]

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• He Did It For Science

  

  In the finest traditions of science, Ed Felton experimented on himself to gauge the effects of “digital drugs.”

  Read the full shocking account at My Experiment with “Digital Drugs”

  Kids, don't try this at home unless you fully understand the risks.

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• How to Run a Meeeting

  The Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran an article on How to Run A Meeting. Unfortunately it is only available online to subscribers. The article, by Gary A. Olson who is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Idaho State University, includes much common-sense advice, a great deal [...]

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• Emails We Never Finished Reading Dept:

  This genuinely appeared in my inbox this evening:

  Professor Froomkin:

  Thanks for taking the time to read this email. My name is Jeff Stolarcyk and I'm contacting you to let you know about [redacted], a new online store that specializes in t-shirts designed for the modern conservative or Tea Party supporter. We're [...]

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• Bad & Good

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  Society acts as if All Force Is Reasonable Force Northern District of California Permits Defendants to Interrogate Title IX Plaintiff About Whether She Consented to Teacher’s Sexual Behavior When She Was 15 Senate GOP: for tax cuts for the rich, not for much else. They're for deficit reduction in [...]
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• I Write Like Me

  

  Kevin Drum reports that “the internet toy du jour is a site that supposedly analyzes your writing and tells you which famous writer you most resemble.”

  So I have to try it. First try, a random blog post, produced this horror:

  
  I write like
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• 15 is the New 50?

  According to this Really Cheerful Post, Why time appears to speed up with age, time really does seem to pass more quickly the older you are. Thus, from a subjective perspective, half your life is over at age ten.

  And by [...]

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• Ode to Zork

  I'm apparently the last person in the world to discover this, but nerdcore hip hopper MC Frontalot did an ode to Zork, It Is Pitch Dark
  

  What's Zork, you ask? Well, grasshopper, get Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III (There are common installation instructions). [...]

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• Why You Can't Believe the History Channel

  

  Highly Implausible Plots.

  Via Early Days of a Better Nation (Scottish science fiction giant Ken MacLeod)

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• Amazon.com is Offering Free Prime Memership to "College Students" -- Does That Include Law Students?

  Amazon.com has a new promotion out to offer free two-day shipping to college students who have a .edu address and can supply the name of their college and their major. (They're also going to market to you incessantly, but that's what filters are for.)

  According to the [...]

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