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• EFF’s Handy E-Reader Privacy Chart

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  The Electronic Frontier Foundation, on whose Advisory Board I have the honor to serve, has released a very useful chart about how much your e-reader can spy on your reading habits — just in time for holiday shopping.

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• Plain Talk About Competitive Keyword Ads Lawsuits

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  One of the things that used to drive me crazy back when I did more Trademark law was the brain-dead assertions made robotically, with — it seemed — the best faith in the world, by lawyers for Big Trademark. They not only believed that they “owned” the words in their [...]

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• A Note From the Surveillance Society

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  This, spotted at a local fast foodery, is depressing:

  Since when is it the rule that if you don’t want to be on camera, you must be up to no good?

  And no, I do not find the concept of a “burrito-cam” comforting in any way shape or form.

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• Yet Another Florida Voting Disaster

  Voting started today for the design of Florida’s new default license plate. We’re supposed to have a choice of four not-very-lovely designs, all optimized to be red-light-camera and toll-camera friendly (oh, joy).

  Floridians are invited to vote for the design of our choice at a special site set up by [...]

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• Shorter Ross Douthat

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  The payroll tax has proved to be an effective way to redistribute a small amount of money from the rich to the poor and therefore we should seize every opportunity to undermine it; if this makes Social Security less solvent, all the better! (Summarizing “Our Enemy, the Payroll Tax”))

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• Stuff I Learned on Thanksgiving

  1. There really is a better way to carve a turkey.

  2. Pumpkin Cheesecake is surprisingly wonderful. (link corrected)

  3. Some people had a very bad Thanksgiving.

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• Turkeys and Thanks

  Boing Boing, Finnish police confiscate 9-y-o’s laptop after she downloads a song from the Pirate Bay Medical Daily, [] (via, slashdot) Mat Taibbi finds One Interesting Thing About Paula Broadwell’s Petraeus Biography (via Leiter) Man arrested for theft of “9 million files” said to comprise identity data [...]
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• Not One Shred of Evidence, But Don’t Let that Stop You

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  Most of the stuff I blog under the “Tinfoil” label has been right-wing craziness, so it gives me a bemused sort of satisfaction to be able to offer an entertaining left-wing edition, Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?

  Note that not one shred of evidence is actually offered for [...]

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• On Teaching From Badly Written Cases

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  [Occasionally I resurrect a draft blog post that somehow never made it to publication when I first wrote it. This is one of them.]

  C.E. Petit, he of Scrivner's Error, pens (?) a rant about the poor state of legal writing amidst law graduates:

  Yet another set of law [...]

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• Tax Risks in Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Jubilee

  I wrote previously of Occupy Wall Street’s plan to buy and forgive distressed consumer debt. A commentator on that post noted that it created a tax issue, and a colleague agreed it was a risk. A fuller treatment of the problem, and [...]

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