A Day The Web Got Better

Congratulations and happy blog birthday to Ernie the Attorney. And what does Ernie do on his blog's first birthday? He gives us gifts with, among other things, this great post sifting Cory Doctorow's notes for what one of the Ninth Circuit's tech-savviest jurists, Alex Kozinski, had to say at the Stanford Spectrum Policy Conference. (Doc made it there today too, and has many insights about the F.M. band.) Good man Ernie, good men all.

Taking No Prisoners

I'm so tickled by this! If you are a theater fan and have any reason to be in the Mendocino Coast area of Northern California between now and April 5, get your tickets now for Neil Simon's Prisoner of Second Avenue, a production of the Mendocino Theater Company starring, among other worthy cast members, my very own Dad. Only 21 performances left. Oh, and you'll want to stay at The Little River Inn (where Dad helps innkeep and mostly props up the bar), and pick up some light weekend reading while you're at it.

Renaissance Man

Like That

Futurist Alvin Toffler, on Big Thinkers: "Technology and culture are like this [interlaces fingers]. Technology and social change are like this [again]." (And from an interview with The MJM Entertainment Group, on one of his not so successful preditions: "I still have half a drawer full of paper underwear from those days.")

It's A Good Month To Blawg

Jerry Lawson: "The Netlawtools March update is devoted solely to legal blogging. Some highlights: Blawgistan News is the Site of the Month. The Net Q & A topic is How should a lawyer prepare for starting a blog? The latter piece includes a briefly annotated bibliography of books useful for new lawyer-bloggers."

This Just In From Pahrump

There are so many fascinating tidbits in this article (The ultimate sin tax: Nevada considers taxing hookers) I scarcely know where to start. How about that Sheri's Ranch (a legal Nevada brothel) is so flush it's building a $24 million PGA golf course? Or that it handled (straight from the AP without a trace of irony, that word) more than 10,000 customers last year? Or that the Nevada state Health Division believes 365,000 sex acts are performed each year in the state's brothels (that's 1,000 a day)? Or that yoga, golf and massage all are exempted from the state's contemplated new "entertainment and admissions" tax? (Why, 'cause they're therapeutic? Ok, that logic holds...)

This seems somehow all bound up (stop it) with the fact that Frederick's of Hollywood is looking more and more Victoria's Secret day by day (and, come to think of it, vice—without a trace of irony—versa).