Archive for July, 2009

Don’t Buy Black’s Law Dictionary! It’s in the Public Domain! Free!

Friday, July 31st, 2009

My 1L year of law school left me with a dozen books that I have yet to open since, in some cases, the first couple weeks of class. Black’s Law Dictionary is one of them. Granted every so often, but not often enough.

Pretty much a staple in terms of pocket reference. The book has been [...]

Starting Lawschool with Leopard? App and setup suggestions for 1Ls

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

I was a little inspired by Merlin Mann’s run through of his desktop and thought I might do one of my own. Perhaps in a series of steps. So here is a brief intro to my desktop and the apps I use just on the surface. A way of passive information flow, granted the setup [...]

A Few Examples of Not-so-bad Fan Fiction

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Fan fiction, I find, almost always sucks. I can appreciate the inspiration a film or book may give a person to go out and write a series of stories where Neo travels to Hoth to slay Voldemort for kidnapping Lara Croft, but ultimately fails because she’s stolen away onto the Black Pearl and on to [...]

A Black Day for The Pirate Bay…They sell out

Monday, July 6th, 2009

“This Monday the relatively unknown Global Gaming Factory (GGF) announced that it will acquire The Pirate Bay for $7.8 million. Provided that the shareholders agree and that GGF manages to raise the necessary funding to complete the sale, The Pirate Bay will be in new hands. Undoubtedly, this announcement resulted in a tidal wave of [...]

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