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The boats by the Malecon
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FISH!! Swimming at the shore. One of these viciously attacked Nolan!
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Someday I want to take pictures like this.
Fascinating story in the NYT today about jurors using the net (Google, Wikipedia, Facebook and Twitter are all mentioned) to both search information about a case that they’re serving on and to blog to their friends about what’s happening.
Two separate issues I think, but both fascinating. Searching for information is of course quite concerning since it is likely that the reason they did not see it presented at trial is that the judge suppressed it, presumably for good reason. This seems quite black and white to me.
However, I’m not as concerned about people twittering about a trial or posting messages on facebook about it. It is not much different than verbally communicating to their friends about what is going on, but even better, because the record can be searched to see if there was anything improper said. I would caveat this by saying that none of these postings should be publicly available. Meaning, the juror profiles should be set to private because otherwise the parties could use these messages, even if cryptic, as “tea leaves” to see how jurors might decide. But privately twittering to your friends “Being a juror sucks” or even, as the NYT article quotes someone as saying that a “big announcement” was coming, does not seem as problematic to me. (I note that the NYT article did not say whether this was public or private, but it was likely to be public). This issue is a lot grayer, and perhaps because of the First Amendment interests should be examined after the fact, not as a per se rule.
Legal Theory Blog is collecting the law school entry-level hiring list for 2009. Interesting stuff. Harvard had the most graduates placed (17) with Yale following closely behind (12). Boston University, the school where I did my first year of law school, placed one graduate.
I seriously love it. I don’t know why I waited so long to see it (this weekend, 3.5 times so far) since I absolutely love anything Joss Whedon does, but man! I now have the songs stuck in my head! I bought the Amazon Unbox version for $4.99 and downloaded it to Tivo, but I kind of want to buy the songs too so I don’t have to watch it again just to skip to the songs. It’s seriously awesome. I enjoy musicals, but not just because there is some singing involved–they have to be good (faves: Whedon’s Once More With Feeling, Oklahoma, Rent), but I think Dr. Horrible will surprise even musical-”haters” with its coolness.
Plus, who doesn’t love N.P.H.? I know I’m loving him on How I Met Your Mother.
I finally succumbed.
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