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- Dog scent lineup evidence on trial in Fort Bend County, http://ow.ly/1FPjI #
- Beetlecam – remote control, mounted DSLR – takes some remarkable wildlife shots, even after lioness mauling, http://ow.ly/1FXsJ #
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- Minnesota man charged under state statute for assisting suicides over the internet http://ow.ly/1CA4T #
- Harris County eyes limited public defender office with state grant, http://ow.ly/1CAaw #
- whoever controls the codec, controls the screen, H.264 gets a challenger, http://ow.ly/1CXik #
- Seal screams like a man – hilarious, http://ow.ly/1D9wq #
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Wow, some serious procrastination going on up at Wash U. Law. I may have started a novel or two during finals time but delving into artsy french noir cinema, that’s another level. Via Nancy Rapoport
The Eighth Amendment of our Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Aside from the jurisprudential gloss the phrase has acquired over time, it’s an odd one. Sure, let’s prohibit needlessly cruel punishments but only if they’re unusual? Why carve out constitutional protection for time-honored methods of torture but prevent innovations in cruelty? Rob Cottingham provides an excellent example:
If you’ve sat through enough of these,…
Dilbert author Scott Adams posted some great cartoons on his blog following the lost prototype fiasco at the world’s most secretive tech company.
According to Adams these cartoons will never make the newspapers, not because they’re any less funny than the ones that will, but because the newspaper pipeline is simply too slow and cumbersome to accommodate comics based on today’s lighting-fast news cycle.
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- Jury acquitted singer Billy Joe Shaver of aggravated assault in shooting outside of a bar, http://ow.ly/1xcel #
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Lessig’s powerpoint is truly a marvel; his take on the consequences of Citizens United is both accessible and insightful.
07 April 2010: The Hugo Black Lecture at Wesleyan. This talk addresses Citizens United and the relevant speech interests that should justify campaign finance regulation. But given the Court’s judgment, these justifications must await constitutional revision.
Ogilvy turns bar tabs into drunk-driving ads
Working with bars, the agency came up with a machine that spit out wildly inflated bar tabs, ambushing patrons with charges of up to $73,000 for the booze they just sucked down. Upon closer examination, the bills actually featured an itemized list of medical costs associated with a drunk-driving accident.
Public issue advertising at its best: cheap, effective, and memorable.
I suppose on some unfathomable level this is supposed to be selling me something. I have no idea what that is (an invisible Nissan that looks like a chair?) but I like it. The blinker-orange is what really makes this one for me.
Phillips TV teamed with five directors from the Ridley Scott Association (you know, that Ridley Scott) to tout their new Philips Cinema 21:9 LCD TV with five incredible short films in the Phillips Cinema Parallel Lines Project.
The premise is elegant and the execution breathtaking. Take one set of dialog:
What is that?
It’s a Unicorn.
Never seen one up close
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- RT @TexParteBlog: UT law school group
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- UH meets with former UTEP/A&M/Kentucky basketball coach Billy Gillespie http://ow.ly/1rBZQ #
- Gillispie, Floyd top list for men’s basketball coach at UH, http://ow.ly/1rC0P #
- Cal. Ct. allows suit for hate crimes
A case that came through the University of Houston Law Center’s Immigration Clinic, Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, will be argued tomorrow in the U.S. Supreme Court. I’m told that several of the clinic students who worked on the case were able to make it up to the Court to watch a culmination of their efforts. The work in the clinics was headed up by Geoff Hoffman, a…
I’ve hated the keyboard I’ve had in my office for years and I never did anything about it. Although I’ve fretted over processor speed and memory, laid out for a bigger display and the extra terrabyte, I’ve never gave much serious thought to the two parts of my computer I interact with constantly – the keyboard and mouse. While the display market seems…
