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Jerry Goldman at Northwestern University has created a project to make mp3 recordings of historic and noteworthy oral arguments before the Supreme Court available for free online. The project and site are called Oyez (pronounced o-yay).
from Wired

Sick of the media’s puffery of Hillary Clinton
and her new book in an obvious effort to help her presidential chances?
Now, NewsMax.com has the perfect antidote to the liberal media’s Hillary
love fest: [...]

Cute but overdone anti-Bush “Dubya Resume” including such dubious accomplishments as:
I am the first president in decades to execute a
federal prisoner.
I am the first president in US history to enter office
with a criminal record.
In the first year in office I set the all-time record
for most days on vacation by any president in US
history.
from Jeff [...]

Touring exhibit tests the limits of copyright
laws that block artists from using corporate images
Artists by nature challenge conventions and make us think about what we
are seeing or hearing. Now an [...]

My ignorance of what is euphemistically known as the fair sex is exceeded only by the abject failure of all of the stratagems I have developed over the years to remedy that ignorance. So let me take advantage of the relative anonymity of this forum to broach a few questions to any hypothetical female readers [...]

Obviously not because of my previous posting on the topic pointing out the incredible linguistic chauvinism of America, the Mass Legislature yesterday backtracked on their blanket condemnation of bi-lingual programs. Specificallly, they voted to continue, and in some cases expand, support for so-called ‘two-way’ programs in which English-speaking kids and other-language-kids learn each [...]

The Billboard Liberation Front struck again last night in San Francisco.
They hit a particularly homoerotic Banana Republic ad. Subtle, eh?

“I quickly remembered the homework assignments I had given a few of my boys the night before. I made my way down to another tent to see if they had been diligent in fulfilling my assignment. As expected they each had taken the time to provide me with the list of where they wanted to [...]

As everyone who follows the Blogs knows by now, fab Presidential contender
Vermont Governor Howard Dean is guest-blogging this week for the inestimable
Lawrence Lessig.
This is the first time ever that a Presidential Candidate has held forth
[...]

The party of President Fox was hit by voter dissatisfaction over the state of the economy and the seeming inability of the president to make meaningful headway with his reforms. Despite the issue of Congressional deadlock over reforms, we are still positive about Mexico’s medium-term prospectsfor investors….
Analysis of investor implications from KWR Advisor

GULLIN, China. — Soon to appear in the Guiness Book of World Records,
this 30-story giant yellow condom was unfurled over a luxury hotel in
the southern Chinese city of Guilin to mark [...]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Workers at a motel found a dead man under a mattress Sunday while cleaning a room where a guest had spent three nights, complaining repeatedly about a foul odor, police said.
The guest first complained about the smell when he checked in Thursday at the Capri Motel, just east of downtown [...]