September 2007
Help the People of Burma — Post this Meme on Your...
Note: This is a new kind of online protest that uses blogs to spread a petition globally. To participate, just add your blog by following the instructions in this blog post.
This not an issue of partisan politics, this is an issue of basic human rights and democracy. Please help to prevent a human tragedy in […] (via Buffalo Wings and Toasted Ravioli)
Lan Cao on Gender-Based Barriers to Economic...
Our guest today is Lan Cao. Professor Cao, Boyd Fellow and Professor of Law at
the William & Mary School of Law, is a specialist in the areas of
international business and trade, international law, and law and development. In
addition to her many scholarly articles, she is author of a novel,
Monkey
Bridge (Viking Penguin, 1997), and co-author of
Everything
You Need to Know About Asian...
Feist: Mushaboom
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Seton Hall School of Law to Conduct Second Life...
Via Virtually Blind:
From the press release:
Newark, NJ – Seton Hall School of Law will be partnering with the developer of a Second Life platform on September 17 to provide a virtual environment for people to join in on its Constitution Day program on “Interrogation and Intelligence Gathering.”
The program, developed by Professor Mark Denbeaux, will be […] (via Buffalo Wings and Toasted...
The Coming Zombie War
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ABA Forms Committee on Virtual Worlds
Via Benjamin Duranske at Virtually Blind:
I am pleased to announce that the ABA’s Section of Science and Technology Law recently formed a new committee on Virtual Worlds and Multiuser Online Games. I have the honor of co-chairing this committee, along with Sean Kane, of Drakeford & Kane, and Cristina Burbach, of Fried Frank. […] (via Buffalo Wings and Toasted Ravioli)
Aunt B’s Two Americas
From one of my favorite blogs, Tiny Cat Pants:
I keep thinking of my two Americas, which may or may not align with Edwards’, though I doubt it, because, for all of Edwards’ faults, he’s sincere and not at all pained by being so. My two Americas are Walt Whitman’s America versus The America of Dudes […] (via Buffalo Wings and Toasted Ravioli)
RIP Alfred H. Peet
Just a couple of days ago it was the late Michael Jackson; now comes word of the passing of Alfred H. Peet, the father of good coffee in the United States:
When Peet, who was Dutch, came to the United States in 1955, “America had a reputation internationally as having coffee that tasted like dishwater,” Jim […] (via Buffalo Wings and Toasted Ravioli)
