WTF Sestina
As noble a form of poetry as the sestina is, I gotta say this is a bit of a cop-out.
Add comment September 16th, 2005
Archive for September, 2005
Joe and Critical Mass
Taking pictures of Critical Mass makes Joe happy.
1 comment September 14th, 2005
The (arguably) Good Shepard
Shepard’s Citations is a vitally important but really annoying-to-use legal reference work used to ensure that the case you just looked up is still good law, and to see what other cases have cited it. The Hastings library has a cute guide if you’re really keen to learn more, but as a technologist, I found this treatment by O’Reilly author Bob DuCharme more interesting.
Add comment September 14th, 2005
The Most Entertaining Torts Case Ever
From Cordas v. Peerless Transp. Co., 27 N. Y. S. 2d 198 (1941):
This case presents the ordinary man–that problem child of the law–in a most bizarre setting. As a lowly chauffeur in defendant’s employ he became in a trice the protagonist in a breach-bating drama with a denouement almost tragic. It appears that a man, whose identity it would be indelicate to divluge was feloniously relieved of his portable goods by two nondescript highwaymen in an alley near 26th Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan; they induced him to relinquish his possessions by a strong argument ad hominem couched in the convincing cant of the criminal and pressed at the point of a most persuasive pistol.
The judge goes on, quoting no fewer than four of Shakespeare’s plays and generally being very, very witty. If I ever end up being a judge, I get the feeling I’ll write at least one of these . . .
Add comment September 12th, 2005
Fifty States, Fifty Slogans
I’m a Diesel Sweeties reader, and while it dependably delivers nerdily sly humor, Fifty States, Fifty Slogans is an entirely different level of awesome. “We also invented Post-Its!”
Add comment September 11th, 2005
