These sound like a fascinating set of third-year projects. I’d be ragingly jealous if I didn’t have at least some opportunity to participate in AltLaw (which has a ton of overlap with one of the projects proposed there); as it is I’m only mildly jealous :)
[Tangentially: AltLaw now has a news blog so you can [...]
Good: I spent the morning in line for Shakespeare in the Park. Great to enjoy a little bit of what the city has to offer.
I somehow seem to end up in lines a lot.
Impromptu Shakespearean puppet show by awesome line monitor/vendor dude.
Bad(?): my light enjoyment reading while waiting in line was “The Antitrust Enterprise: Principle [...]
Is this the n900, or Yet Another Nokia Product Line?
[Relatedly: the more I play with other people's iphones, the more every n800 dialog which is optimized for a stylus instead of fingers irritates me. Ditto for their easy, all-in-one data access and my flaky/unreliable data access. The n800 is so close to being a great [...]
Tim Wu, a prof here at Columbia (he’s famous! he’s on youtube!)12, has announced the existence of AltLaw. The core idea is that instead of ranting endlessly about lexis and westlaw3, someone could actually do something about it, taking advantage of the public domain status of most court decisions to collect a database of cases, [...]
Lots of folks have asked me questions about the on-campus interviews I’m currently doing. There are really only a few things normal human beings need to know about this process:
Older, non-lawyer to me in elevator: ‘What? You’re not wearing black? Didn’t you get the memo?’ Honestly. I’ll never again be able to be wild and [...]
My sister Deblois’s new album ‘velveteen’ is out; just finished listening to it a second time and I like it quite a bit, though I think on the whole I might prefer Leviathan (her first album). We’ll see- it has plenty of time to grow on me :) I think cdbaby’s description of the first [...]
Obviously interviews have kept me unable to think about the open services stuff over the past several days, but I’m still keeping an eye on my feed reader as time allows. Came across “Brad’s thoughts on the social graph” today- some interesting discussion on the identity/network problem, and how to solve it. This doesn’t seem [...]
Jason Haislmaier has an amusing anecdote about source code escrow providers. Yet another business free software is robbing blind.
Am going through paper from the summer (trying to clean things out before the year starts) and found a small brochure from Stoney Lamar, who served me beer in Saluda, NC, at the highly recommended Purple Onion. Stoney seemed like a nice guy, and the handful of pieces he had pictures of looked really appealing [...]
I’m enjoying being back in my own bed and back on my own couch. If only I hadn’t brought a brutal head cold with me back from North Carolina.
Next up: 31 interviews in 5 days, with or without the head cold.
