Grant Robinson : Guess-the-google launcher. A silly game in which they show you a bunch of Google images and ask you to guess the search word that produced them. A third of the time the word appears in the pictures, so this should be easy, right?
I only got 268 points. Rats.
Via Dan's Not Exactly Must-See TV, this perfect quote from Michael Tackett in the Chicago Tribune:
President Bush on Thursday used a format he does not like to discuss issues he cannot resolve in hopes that he can sell the American people on policies most say they don't want.
Security bosses seek to dissolve encryption bans: An international security consortium is set to lobby governments around the world to withdraw restrictions on encryption standards.
The Jericho Forum, whose membership includes many chief security officers from FTSE 100 companies, will push for the removal of encryption restrictions within the next three-to-five years.
The odd thing about this is that it comes at a time in which governments are making noises about wanting more wiretaps and more control (see e.g. the move to make VOIP and thus in effect every Internet communication easily tapped). And in the background are complaints about encryption.
On the other hand, one gets the impression that government cracking technology available to civilian law enforcement has taken some leaps forward lately, which can only make you wonder what the NSA is holding back.
Birds May Be Behind Exploding German Toads.
Please note that this is filed under “Science” not humor, because it's apparently true.
This looks useful!
The Volokh Conspiracy – PDF Copies of the United States Reports: Most lawyers and law students know that that the U.S. Supreme Court website posts slip opinions of recent cases. What you might not know is that as the Court publications unit finalizes its slip opinions and eventually compiles them into bound volumes of the United States Reports, it also makes the entire contents of individual volumes of the United States Reports available as individual .pdf files. The service begins with Volume 502 (October 1991), and currently goes as far as Volume 538 (through May 27, 2003). This means that you can download entire volumes of the U.S. Reports and save them to your hard drive for subsequent searching and use offline — with the correct pagination, italics, appendices, charts, and graphs — all for free. Really cool, at least if you're into that kind of thing.
Clientcopia : Coping with stupid clients is funny in a tragic sort of way.
Law is a service business. So to all the law students reading this blog, I say, Take Notes! Because you too will someday have a Client from Hell.
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