via Boing Boing comes news of a Firefox plugin converts dollars to barrels of oil.
Click one of those links for the broccoli action picture.
(Although, now that I think of it, if it updated in real time and worked for any currency, it might actually be useful….)
Who knew that Alienware was in Miami? A fact I only just discovered from AOL News – Alienware Racks Up Video Gamers, Big Bucks.
Of course if you think about it, it makes perfect sense.
Now I just have to figure out how to get them to give me a machine to, um, review for a few years. Which is probably less likely now that they have been acquired by Dell…
I am off to Minneapolis to give a ‘works in progress’ talk to the law faculty. Usually, when I go places I try to bring something nearly finished even if it’s touted as a ‘half-baked’ talks series. This time, maybe for the first time, I’m bring a true work in progress, which does make me slightly nervous.
It’s an article I wrote a strong first draft of some time ago (quite a long time ago in Internet years), and then set aside because I thought something was missing. I’ve started updating it now, with an eye to finally getting it out the door. But I still think it’s missing something.
Maybe talking it over with a room full of smart folks will help me find that missing ingredient. Or maybe I’ll just look silly.
It’s a very short visit — I get back to Miami around midnight Thursday — but I gather I will need my coat.
I wonder if stuff like this helps explain why applications to UM Law remain strong?
Pseudonymous 1-L UM blogger Klio writes about her spring break:
Spring Break for the University of Miami Law Student is a bit non-traditional. Because we spend our law school days sparsely clothed in a tropical paradise, most of us head back home to a Abercrombie & Fitch wool sweater hell. Some of us seek refuge from the 1L stress with an inquisitive exploration abroad to places like London, Paris, and Latin America. Others just stay put, tumbling out of bed at noon to crash face down on the sandy, white beaches.
Personally, I spent the week binge writing.
My colleague Ricardo J. Bascuas is quoted by Adam Liptak in tomorrow’s NYT story New Scrutiny for Law on Detaining Witnesses . Rick is an expert in this area, and the article is a good introduction to the abuses of the material witness statute.
Yes, I agree with the good folks at Talking Points Memo. But given the subject, I suppose I can’t say more than that, even though I’m speaking entirely for myself here.
Oh yeah, I agree with Brad too. And Atrios. And Media Matters. Must be a conspiracy or something.
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