Here’s a Google map of the foreclosure mess in Miami .
Each red dot is a property either in foreclosure or in pre-foreclosure proceedings.
More info on how it was put together at Healdsburg Housing Bubble Info
(spotted via Calculated Risk, Google Maps Shows Foreclosure Status)
Hours of schadenfreude potential. Or counting your blessings.
[Only] Four ICANN Board members dissent in vote on NCSG charter. Milton Mueller tries to find a silver lining in this cloud — four dissents! out of fourteen votes! — but it's pretty small.
By choosing to gut public participation — for that is the result that the ICANN staff has lead the Board into — ICANN makes a high-stakes bet about its future.
Will the Obama administration see this as proof that ICANN lacks the maturity to be trusted with increased independence? (One hopes.) Or will ICANN be able to sail under the radar and walk away with the Root while the staff keeps the ability to pay itself millions per year.
We'll see.
Our new Dean was interviewed by Miami Today. Dean Patricia White: Seeing New Horizons for UM's Law School.
She's a pro, so there are no real surprises there (but who knew she had five children including one doing a Ph.D on international internet economics in France?).
Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator – Make your own! Invalidating legitimate presidencies since 2009!
(Please note that actually posting one of these things with otherwise accurate information invites ID theft….)
I've been saying for a long time that we ought to require all law students to learn some basic statistics. Now comes Kevin Drum, with his pulse on the body politic, in Revenge of the Nerds:
Multivariate correlations and data cluster analysis are the new black.
It's a truism that students go to law school because they are afraid of numbers. But there's no escape.
Marcello, who knows his away around this stuff, put me on to this $800 notebook, Acer Aspire Timeline AS3810T-6775 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 13.3” 4GB Memory DDR3 1066 80GB SSD HDD Intel GMA 4500MHD.
Half the price of the Samsung. 0.7 lbs heavier, but still only 3.5 lbs. A little slower — PC Mark Vantage of 2678, compared to the Samsung's 3158 and X301's 3157. But the Acer's battery life is even better than the Samsung's.
Three caveats (nothing's ever perfect):
While the temperatures ranged from cool to warm toward the beginning of this test, they rose from warm to hot by its end. The keyboard, touchpad, and bottom of the notebook were all 88 degrees to start (the bottom of the notebook got as cool as 82 degrees). Any temperature below 90 degrees is fine. But as time went on, the temperature in these three places rose to between 92 and 93 degrees (the bottom of the notebook even got as hot as 100 degrees). Despite these temperatures, though, both the keyboard and bottom felt more warm than hot.
Hands down, our least favorite feature is the 3810T’s stiff single mouse button. We would have preferred two separate buttons.
Even so, it looks like a steal.
Update: One other small disadvantage of the Acer: Max screen resolution 1366 × 768 of compared to the Samsung's 1280 × 800 and the X301's awesome 1440×900. (On the whole, for document work, the vertical is the key statistic.)
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