Category Archives: Blogs

Recommended reading:

• Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal: The Coming Dollar Crisis?
• Edward Castronova, Terra Nova, From the Mouths of Babes
• Best of BoingBoing
• Jonathan Kozol, Harpers, Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid
• FEMA’s web site is a disaster area
• Weird Net Tricks: Call-By-Web

This looks useful: Google Blog Search (beta).

This Watley Review posting on Disgruntled Harry Potter Fan Releases “Corrected” Version of Book fooled me completely. It so perfectly captures a certain type of reality that when I first read it, I never even imagined it was a parody.

It is a parody, isn't it? (cf. Ann Bartow's concluding Note to the exceedingly gullible). I mean, this rapid-fan-translation story is supposed to be true….

Caroline Bradley, who guest blogged here not so long ago, is now guest-blogging at the Conglomerate. See Miscreant Directors Can Give Back to the Community.

And, oh yes, we celebrated our sixteenth wedding anniversary yesterday.

The tireless folks at PrawfsBlawg have produced a PrawfsBlawg: Law Professor Blogger Census (Beta Version 1.0). It's interesting to see who is doing what, but upon learning there are more than 100 of us already, all of a sudden my mind was playing a Tom Paxton song. (Link to an mp3 most welcome…)

• Lies, Uncertainty and Job Interviews. Cultures and lying. Cultures of lying.
• Juan Cole asks, Is Bigotry All Right in Politics?; many people will, alas, not agree with his suggestion that we make certain bigots into pariahs.
• Michael Geist Face To Face With The Great Firewall Of China. (I still claim to be the originator of that term, by the way.)
• Is this the world's most expensive airport cab ride?
• David Bernstein writes something I agree with: Constructive Response to British Boycott of Haifa and Bar-Ilan Universities. (We don't agree often.)
• Mark Kleiman, Jeb Bush and rapists' rights