Jonathan Coulton Tour Dates (And A Cover)

I've been listening to lots of Jonathan Coulton lately, love his stuff. He has shows coming up in New York and on the West Coast. Tyler digs him too.

Jonathan, by the way, has the ultimate last word on CES: "Now my feet hurt, my TV seems too small, and the stripper I fell in love with won’t call me back."

Three Out Of Five Senses, Covered

Listening to:

• Seth Schoen at USC (damn good)


• Dave Sifry on Blography (part 1, part 2) (double damn good)

Reading:

• Marty Schwimmer's annotation of 'How Apple could Fight Cisco'


• there's a blawg day of mourning in the offing


• I've known artist Andy Rosequist since we were both in diapers, and now he's doing Monday Slug, "a transglobal collaboration of starving artistes."


• Frank Paynter has found God (I knew we had misplaced her somewhere)

Giggling:

• Tyler has inherited all my native grace and dexterity (i.e., precious little) on the dance floor.

Today's New Blawg

Wow! A full seven years in the making and seven volumes in length, Bill Patry's Patry on Copyright treatise is now available. (At $1,498.00 for the whole shebang, at least West gives you free shipping! I'll have to start saving my pennies.) There can be no doubt it's a treasure trove; you can get Bill's full rundown here:

I have also tried to place copyright issues in the personal, social, and political contexts in which they arose: there are anecdotes aplenty and enough references to other scholars and disciplines to give a generation of law students ideas for law review notes. I have also drawn on my eight years experience in the legislative branch of government into how problems are identified, debated and ultimately resolved or not at the policy level. . . .

Perhaps best of all is the news the work will update twice annually (this may be difficult to grasp in the context of a blog post, but a twice yearly update to a legal treatise is way up there on the frequency scale), and that it has its own blog, the Patry Treatise Blog:

The purpose of this blog is to begin to break down the one-way nature of legal treatises. I am interested in dialogue, and in improving my own understanding. Usually, one person gets the ball rolling, and that's how I regard the treatise: it was a way for me to organize and discipline my thoughts. . . .

I want it. (It's less sleek than an iPhone, but no doubt just as useful.)

Today's New Blawg

I can't quite remember if Court TV's Jami Floyd (more, from Wikipedia) was a classmate of mine or my husband's at Boalt (I believe the latter, so that would make her class of '89), but congratulations go out on the launch of her new blog, Best Defense. It's the companion to her daily show of the same name on the Court TV network. Says Jami:

Best Defense seeks to place the presumption of innocence front and center, in a humble but much-needed effort to recalibrate the coverage of crime, justice and the courts in America. I perceive a critical need to restore balance, considered judgment and sensitivity to crime and trial coverage in the news media, in general and the broadcast media, in particular.

A noble goal to say the least, and another blogging Boaltie, w00t! (Note to Court TV: give Jami's show its own link/page, why dontcha?)