Fast Food at Litigmont High - the first course is over, now here come some more strange lawsuits.
9:00:57 PM
The Pride of Panama - In one of the biggest decisions of his life, Roberto Duran was awarded five championship belts today. The belts were taken in a staged robbery at Duran's house, and weren't discovered until an attempt to sell them to a sports memorabilia dealer went bad. [via Delaware Law Office].
I'm glad to see this. My grandmother lived about one block away from Duran (aka "Mano de Piedra") in Panama. Little known fact: at one point in time Panamanian boxers held championship belts in four of the weight classes. Growing up poor in a country like Panama can instill a strong fighting spirit. And, while most people remember Duran for the towel-waving incident, he should be remembered as a spirited fighter. And, of course, as a major party-hound.
7:24:42 PM
Gonzo Legal Scholarship - When I was in law school much amusement was had reading a law review article (I think it was a U.Penn L. Rev. article) called "The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule." Now, we have word that "Mark West of the University of Michigan Law School has a new paper out called 'Legal Determinants of World Cup Success.' In this groundbreaking study, West takes an economic model used by scholars to analyze the success of corporate law in various countries, and applies it to the prediction of soccer victories." [via Stuart Buck]
I'm not criticizing the importance of this kind of legal scholarship; I'm for it. It's much more worthy than a lot of the neo-jargonistic lingo-babble that is typeset by many of the major law reviews these days.
1:48:39 PM
Knowledge Managment in 25 words or more - I want Radio to take off big time (as does Rick and we were just on the phone talking about it), and here is one thought I had the other day that may or may not plug in to the KM discussion. I think that a University setting, as John Robb suggests today, would be ideal. I think the key component for success is the RCS Rankings page. People want to see that their information is valuable to the community. The Ranking page does that. Granted some people would rank high just on general quirkiness, but the Ranking system adds fuel to the fire for everyone who has at least a threshold interest in blogging. Jim McGee is right about people being motivated if they feel like they "own" the information. With Radio and RCS (avec les "rankings") you've got ownership and community recognition.
I guess what I'm saying is that I had never really thought of the Rankings page as a significant force to share information. But, thinking about it the other day, I realized that it is an important part. And I think in a large scale setting like a University it would be a great big part of the successful equation. If it is, then be sure to pitch it like that to the University guys.
12:36:41 PM
The OS Product or OS Components contain components that enable and facilitate the use of certain Internet-based services. You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check the version of the OS Product and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the OS Product that will be automatically downloaded to your computer.
The default behavior for Automatic Updates is to download the files automatically, but to notify the user before installing. You can change this to install automatically. This clause indemnifies Microsoft in the case that their software might have a fewbugs in it. [via The Peanut Gallery]
Yeah, I noticed that SP3 was out, but I've been waiting to see what problems it was supposed to fix. I guess now I know.
11:07:02 AM
Short Story by young lawyer TPB- "Friday was one of those strange days where, if I were Taoist, I would suspect that I had attained a harmonic state with the universe. Fortunately, I am not a Taoist. I am a gambler."...click for more
I love this guy's work. Most of us bloggers (especially the lawyers) are doing the staccato post. TPB is working in a different medium entirely, and yet his posts are still centered mostly on the law.
7:21:53 AM
