Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law. Show all posts

Link roundup

1. Nighttime photos of Tokyo Disney Sea's submarine harbor.

2. A judge is allowing to proceed a lawsuit alleging that Coca-Cola has falsely claimed that Vitaminwater has healthy benefits and is anything more than sugar water.

3. Video of a fighter pilot ejecting from his plane moments before it crashed.

*Buy Tokyo Disney Sea collectibles at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Tucker Stone summarizes the latest issue of The Economist (I'd missed these summaries).

2. Lawyers typically make either $160K a year or more like $50K a year. (Quite a gamble considering the cost of tuition.)

3. A man broke into a closed bar, reopened it using beers he'd bought at the store, and ran it for a few days, even granting media interviews.

*Buy home brewing kits at Amazon.

The Gods Must Be Litigious



Cover to The Gods Must Be Litigious by Exhibit A Press, which will be available at Comicon for $9. Via.

*Buy Medusa toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. This month's i09 book club book is China MiƩville's "The City & The City." I highly recommend it - - a hardboiled detective novel with just a hint of the supernatural. $10 at Amazon.

2. Yahoo has an online prequel webcomic for Inception. Via.

3. Detailed listing of your rights in dealing with debt collectors.

Link roundup

1. Outstanding short story by Carol Emschwiller. I don't want to spoil anything by saying more. Via.

2. The job market for lawyers is so bad that a superior court in Northern California announced it was seeking attorneys willing to volunteer their time as a legal research attorney with a minimum 6 month commitment to the court, and its phone hasn't stopped ringing with interested applicants.

3. $7 and up t-shirts at Design by Humans.

Link roundup

1. Judge orders defendant to wear diaper and mosquito net on his face after he spit on jury. Via.

2. Neil Gaiman cross-examined as to which comic book characters are "scantily clad."

3. Details on Tenacious Toy's exclusive version of Argonaut Resin's Tuttz figure.

*Buy Stories: All-New Tales chosen by Neil Gaiman at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Fark on the Russian spies:
US officials say they were tipped off to the Russian "sleeper" agents after learning that hot women had been spotted at parties appearing actually interested in talking to scientists and engineers about their jobs.
2. Building code violations for the B-52's Love Shack.

3. Katherine Mangu-Ward: "In every state, people are free to feed others in their filthy, unregulated homes, it's only when money changes hands that home cooks transform into a public health hazard."

4. David Malitz:
Courtney, let me tell you something. In just the past year and a half, I've been to about 400 shows. I've seen some really terrible ones. And this was really the most terrible. No question. But the vast majority of those 400 shows, I went there, I saw it, and almost immediately forgot I was there. I'll never forget this night with Courtney Love, no matter how much I may want to.
Via.

*Buy Top Secret: Spy Equipment and the Cold War at Amazon.

Snow Peak Titanium Double Walled Cup (link roundup)



Snow Peak Titanium Double Walled Cup available at Amazon. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Google:
If you receive Microsoft® Word files as attachments in Gmail, you can now view them with a single click — no need to download, save, and open files with a desktop application when you just want read them. The Google Docs viewer that allows you to view .pdf, .ppt, and .tiff files in your browser now supports .doc and .docx formats too.

Just click the "View" link at the bottom of a Gmail message and the viewer will take it from there. If you decide you want to edit the file, clicking "Edit online" will open it in Google Docs, or you can download it to your desktop from there.
2. There's such an excess of attorneys now that Marin County in California wants District Attorneys to work for free, and the University of Michigan, a top ten law school, is encouraging graduates to work for a legal outsourcing company in India.

3. "California welfare recipients withdrew $1.8 million at casino ATMs over eight months." Via.

*Previously: The customers that really matter to casinos.

*Buy poker chips at eBay.

The Duplicative Forest (link roundup)



The Duplicative Forest - - you can read about it here and here. But wouldn't you rather just know that it's a real place in Oregon and let your imagination do the rest?

And a few more links:

1. A suggestion that Turkey provoked the fight with Israel as an excuse to accelerate their goal of obtaining nuclear weapons.

2. Apparently the Attorney Generals of 48 states, including California, have argued in the US Supreme Court that non-media speakers (whatever that means) get less first amendment protection.

3. Ghostbusters proton pack backpack.

4. The feds have asked James Cameron for his suggestions on solving the oil spill.

*Previously: Forest Head.

*Buy Ghostbusters toys at eBay.

I Can Be a Lawyer (link roundup)



Don't miss the interior pages from I Can Be A Lawyer (which is available at Amazon.)

And a few more links:

1. Custom NES with a glow-in-the-dark Tron-esque paintjob.

2. Hellboy, Abe Sapein, and Liz My Little Pony illustration.

3. Medusa by M.S. Corley.

4. New specimens by Alex C.F. for sale.

*Previously: Tron Guy Lego Cubedude.

*Buy Tron toys at eBay.

CCTV Webcam Stickers (link roundup)



CCTV webcam stickers remind that someone could be spying on you right now. Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. Detailed directions for turning a soda bottle label into an inconspicuous cheat sheet.

2. Apparently Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll posted links on Twitter supposedly suggesting who he wanted to draft - - the links were really ads for Bing.

3. Video of The Gorillaz performing on The Colbert Show (the real people, not avatars).

4. Commercial for a personal injury attorney, starring a talking squirrel.

*Previously: Geometry cheat sheet.

*Buy sticker books at Amazon.

How to make a Tribble (link roundup)



"A guide for how to make your own non-copyright-infringing version of a tribble."

And a few more links:

1. Apparently it makes good economic sense for Foxconn employees to commit suicide - - the company pays ten years worth of salary to their families.

2. Guild Wars:
Today we terminated more than 3,700 accounts for botting and match manipulation. In cases where guilds were found to be involved in these activities, the guilds were also disbanded. More than a dozen such guilds were disbanded and many others are under continued investigation. Today’s actions are significant not simply because of their immediate impact but also because they represent a new era in enforcement for us.
Via.

3. "By some estimates, about 40 percent of the cases in the Central African court system are witchcraft prosecutions." But is our system really that much more sophisticated?

*Previously: School decides to abandon its witch logo in light of its history of hanging witches.

*Buy Tribbles at eBay.

Cheerful rock (link roundup)



One of several rocks with faces posted here.

And a few more links:

1. Small, but swell illustration by Eliza Gauger.

2. Fairy with a blue knife.

3. Leafcutter Designs has super easy $10 plus shipping mother's day gifts.

4. Read this if you plan on coasting through college and going to law school.

*Previously: Augmented reality t-shirt plays rock, paper, scissors.

*Learn how to be a plumber with these books at Amazon.

Nissan Leaf (link roundup)



Costing potentially less than $25,000, the electric Nissan Leaf just might be my next car (since I'm several years away from needing to buy another car). Via.

And a few more links:

1. Darth Revan by Dustin Weaver.

2. How to make "sushi" out of Peeps and Rice Krispie Treats.

3. Loyola Law School in Los Angeles is retroactively giving students higher grades to help them compete on the job market.

*Previously: Electric love.

*Buy Darth Revan toys at eBay.

Red New York Map (link roundup)





One color map of New York by Triboro on sale here. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Photo shows a time traveler? Analysis here.

2. Miranda warning for people considering going to law school (bottom of the post).

3. Superman on a horse.

*Previously: Mayan Interdimensional Star Map.

*Buy maps at Amazon.

Coloring book for lawyers (link roundup)



One of several pages from the Coloring Book for Lawyers. Via. (I posted this years ago, but since I didn't remember, it's worth another look.)

And a few more links:

1. Thanks to Steve Ring, I learned that the story of the Watson and the Shark painting I posted yesterday is fascinating.

2. That perfect NCAA bracket that's getting so much airplay could easily be fraudulent.

3. Paul Pope gives a glimpse of the first 100 pages of his new comic Battling Boy. (He's previously posted a few pages.)

*Previously: Vintage Burger King coloring book.

*Buy coloring books at Amazon.

Beastmaster (link roundup)



I don't even know what to say about this shot. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Pretty tough to respect the United States Supreme Court when you read that one of the justices can't even keep his thoughts straight.

2. A Navi discovers the joys of usb ports.

3. Edgar Allan Poe paper toy.

*Previously: Edgar Allan Poe puppet.

*Buy Edgar Allan Poe toys at eBay.

Vintage comic book adaptation of Alien (link roundup)




Go here for a full scan of Archie Goodwin's and Walt Simonson's adaptation of Alien that appeared in Heavy Metal. Via.

And a few more links:

1. The above link is kind of a drag to read due to all the clicking. This site shows off a great way for reading lots of pages online. Via.

2. Brent shares 10 funny/interesting facts (including that he's a descendant of gypsies).

3. Lawyer who advertised himself as "The Thug's Lawyer" is now facing criminal charges.

*Previously: Aliens parody by SNL and James Cameron.

*Buy Alien toys at Entertainment Earth.

Art by Matthew Lyons (link roundup)




Matthew Lyons' site is full of illustrations begging to be turned into movies (or at least posters). Via.

And a few more links:

1. A woman was sentenced to stand in front of an Orlando police station, holding a sign apologizing for battering a police officer. Via.

2. Bizarre, vivid story about Ron Artest.

3. This is hardly the first time NBC's Jeff Zucker has stuck it to Conan O'Brien:
He continued his writing career as an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he covered sports for The Harvard Crimson. He later became president of the publication. It was at Harvard that Zucker first met Conan O'Brien, now an NBC late-night host, who worked for humor magazine the Harvard Lampoon. As a prank, O'Brien's staff stole all the Crimson issues one day before they could be delivered. Zucker called the cops. "My first meeting with Jeff Zucker was in handcuffs, with a Cambridge police officer reading me my rights," says O'Brien.
Via these sites.

*Previously: Retro-futuristic limousine.

*Buy NBA bobbleheads at eBay.

Red Riding Hood and the wolf (link roundup)



Postapocalyptic Red Riding Hood and the wolf photo gallery by Ahef. The images make good desktop wallpapers. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Brian Moylan provides a funny, handy guide to characters on the latest edition of The Real World (DC).

2. A devastating portrayal of real life work as a lawyer.

3. The strange tale of the secret massive golf complex being built in China.

*Previously: Motive: Secret Baby.

*Buy Little Red Riding Hood toys at eBay.