• New Post: Weekly Twitter Cache http://goo.gl/fb/cBDjO #
• RT @dsilverman: In 70s, KTRU's sale would've had Rice students marching on admin bldg. Now, it's online petitions & fake Twitter accounts. #
• had a great dinner with former moot court partner and director of advocacy for law school tonight; still adjusting to life as an alum #
• Texas Bar voluntarily turns over 63,000 member-lawyer e-mail addresses under threat of lawsuit, cites cost of litigation http://ow.ly/2sK8V #
• Some deferred associates discover appetite for public interest work, decide

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I’ve been thinking a bit about unintended legacies – lasting impacts utterly unforeseen by their contributors. A scene in the 1951 film Distant Drums featured a soldier wading through a swamp in the Everglades. As he’s bitten by an alligator, he (or to be precise, an actor in a soundbooth) lets out a scream. The scene is embedded below:

It might have languished in Warner Bros. sound effects library had it not been adopted by sound designer Ben Burtt and rechristened ‘Wilhelm’ after the soldier who coughs it up after getting shot in the leg by an arrow in…

• New Post: Weekly Twitter Cache http://goo.gl/fb/0npro #
• Ray LaMontagne's new album streamed in its entirety – God Willin' And The Creek Don't Rise – worth the wait; http://ow.ly/2pgVk #
• New Post: I’m a Mac now, but I suck at it; a study in applied failure http://goo.gl/fb/x34eo #
• Life Hacker: how to be a guest in the 21st century http://ow.ly/2pm1P #excellentadvice #
• RT @TexParteBlog: Texas offer rates at Jackson Walker, Thompson & Knight, Hunton & Williams, and Weil, Gotshal.

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Like so many good ideas, once seen, it is instantly inevitable and I can only curse myself for not thinking of it first. Available across the pond from Nation Design.

UPDATE: The like stamp inspired me to add a “like” button to this blog. Why? Because we can. Knock yourselves out.

• New Post: Weekly Twitter Cache http://goo.gl/fb/aSl2u #
• Assessing the threat to networks of targeted corporate espionage, http://ow.ly/2mekX #
• Wonderful photographs from Sarolta Ban, full of texture and surreal imagery, http://ow.ly/2mtpI #
• Should retired SCOTUS justices come off the bench when current justices must recuse themselves? http://ow.ly/2n0G5 #unintendedconsequences #
• New Post: On the Bar Exam http://goo.gl/fb/ApKAD #
• David Boies discussing Prop 8 litigation in videotaped presentation, http://ow.ly/2nGSZ #
• happy long-time @syncplicity

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• New Post: Music I Like: Del Barber http://goo.gl/fb/0m22B #
• RT @richard_russeth 7 Costly Mistakes Outside Counsel Make: An Ode To #nordstrom http://tinyurl.com/39oda69 #law #legal in reply to richard_russeth #
• This is grammatical – “The bartender served the bourbon fell down the stairs” – took me 15 min to figure out how; http://bit.ly/cNHHlP #

• New Post: Weekly Twitter Cache http://goo.gl/fb/CLDLM #
• Apple notified me of problem with the CC I used to order ipad camera connector – it expired in the FOUR WEEKS since I placed it #applefail #
• Home Page, Impressive-BYU quick to recognize/capitalize on popularity of student-produced parody of old spice commercial http://ow.ly/2d56T #
• US state department embraces twitter, social media as a means to diplomacy, http://nyti.ms/bryvsl #
• True value creation in legal services – laser pointer co sells cease and desist letter from

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• New Post: Weekly Twitter Cache http://goo.gl/fb/ZaZQo #
• http://www.google.com/gwt/x?wsc=yq&wsi=16194d95c490b92a&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.californiabeat.org/tag/veardict&ei=uaaaezz647TNG5LIXUwwWp0rDtDA #
• Scott Adams sums up the iPad's appeal in the Amazingness of Instant http://ow.ly/2aRKJ #
• Privacy meets bankruptcy law – who wins? trustee moves to sell customer list of defunct gay teen website, http://ow.ly/2aUGl #

• New Post: Weekly Twitter Cache http://goo.gl/fb/yl1kw #
• How to hack Barbri onto the iPad/iphone, http://ow.ly/26mEm #
• TX, PA, NY – this is what i love about twitter, making connections that would never happen otherwise @yalechk @PhilipMiles in reply to yalechk #
• A great pick – @campbellcoogs covers hiring of Tood Whitting as the new University of Houston baseball coach, http://tinyurl.com/2dom2pk #
• Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown has an extended argument with a teenager about copyright, surprisingly entertaining,

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• New Post: Weekly Twitter Cache http://goo.gl/fb/UBvSa #
• Laptop says 'no operating system found' days after software registration deadline to take the texas bar; may have to practice my penmanship #
• #ff #law @ArbitrationBuzz @dodrummond @profsteed @richard_russeth @LawyerCoach @olsonlief @doncruse #
• Reality television grapples with the ethics of portraying death, http://ow.ly/23pne #
• Computer-human interaction has apparently come a long way – http://ow.ly/23pGf – from the dos prompt driven Dr. Sbaitso http://ow.ly/23pDQ #
• Kodak

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• New Post: Weekly Twitter Cache http://goo.gl/fb/eafyA #
• Atul Gawande addresses Stanford Med. grads on dealing with scientific complexity and explosion of knowledge, http://bit.ly/az0mRc #
• Construction of free, open e-filing portal on the horizon in Harris County? http://bit.ly/b5OD7f /via @TexParteBlog #
• Starting to realize just how much the lack of flash is crippling my iPad experience #
• RT @TexasTribune: TX Supreme Court ruling: Child prostitutes are victims, not perps http://trib.it/byC2Ig // still – 3 votes against this

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• Great article on past and future of UH athletics by @campbellcoogs – http://bit.ly/9ZZc6w #
• New Post: Weekly Twitter Cache http://goo.gl/fb/8H1Zl #
• RT @Harvard_Law: Third edition of the Journal of Legal Analysis http://bit.ly/cGvDZK // great article on Google Book Settlement #
• RT @TexasTribune: Munisteri ousts Adams as Texas GOP chair http://trib.it/as0xEr #
• What do you really wish law students understood about the legal job search? http://post.ly/jVy6 /via @UHLCCareerDean #
• RT @

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For the client who likes to overshare on the go, the good People of Resource got a chance to show off their Pocket Nondisclosure Agreement Notepad at Atlanta’s Yall & Us design fair.

Pocket Nondisclosure Agreement Notepad via Coolhunting

• New Post: Weekly Twitter Cache http://goo.gl/fb/LxcjU #
• Houston Judge issues gag order in arson trial at request of prosecutors, http://ow.ly/1UIeB #
• Fascinating report by @EFF on browser 'fingerprints'-identifying individual browsers from version and configuration data http://ow.ly/1UJ3f #
• Fantastic musicians Over the Rhine fan-fund their next album in their 'make a record' initiative http://ow.ly/1UJ5y #
• 1995 Akin Gump memo to Wal-Mart leaks to NYT, warns of significant exposure to sex discrimination suit, http://ow.ly/1UJoJ #
• Investigation of residential

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