Armful of Love
Apologies for the beaming dad subtext of this post. It’s been hard to get a nice photo of both kids at once, and impossible to get a good one of all three of us. For now, this is the best…
States Trying to Stimulate Demand for Hunting
From the NYT: There appears to be a downward shift in the demand curve for hunting. In 1975, there were over 19M+ hunters; in 2006, only 12.5M. This decrease might reflect widespread changes in consumer preferences, but some states are…
My Passions
Yesterday, the provost organized a “meet-and-greet” lunch for about a dozen faculty members. Her idea was to create an informal space for faculty to discuss issues with her. As an icebreaker, she asked each attendee to introduce themselves and to…
Tushnet on IP Teaching Props
Rebecca Tushnet has posted Sight, Sound and Meaning: Teaching Intellectual Property with Audiovisual Materials, an article on the use of teaching props for intellectual property courses. Of course Rebecca also manages the Georgetown Intellectual Property Teaching Resources database, a fantastic…
Epinions Commercials on Youtube
I found a couple of the original Epinions commercials on Youtube. These were a classic example of dot com advertising and one of the early examples of user-generated content for advertising purposes. Jay and his iMac: Jeff trying to snowboard…
Family Album Online
Lisa has gone crazy with digital scrapbooking, producing a 60+ page tome documenting Jacob and Dina’s life over the past 12 months.
Happy Blogiversary
Today marks the three-year anniversary of my blogs. It has been an absolutely terrific ride, with about 1,200 posts and about 5.7M page views over the past three years. You can read some of the highlights and lowlights in my…
Will Meat-Guzzlers Go the Way of Gas-Guzzlers?
Regular readers of this blog know that I wish that the environmental benefits of vegetarianism were better understood. To that end, another NYT article explores the topic. This article recaps a lot of social science I’ve blogged before, but I…
Pizza Plaza, Oakland–a Vegan Pizza Joint
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve found vegetarian restaurants in some pretty obscure locations, such as the five-star restaurant in Murphys and the raw restaurant in a Las Vegas mini-mall miles from the Strip. This weekend, using my typical technique of…
LexBlog Interviews
Over at LexBlog, I had a two-part interview about blogging and the role of blogs in legal scholarship. See parts 1 and 2.