From Above the Law, Law
School Tuition Hikes in California.
Says Elie Mystal: “And UC Davis, what the hell are you thinking? Do
students get their own private sex slave with those tuition checks?” (Prior Lounge coverage of the UC budget
dispute and naked walkout here)
Via
Tyler Cowen: Chindogu, literally translated as "weird tool:"
Chindogu is the Japanese art of creating deliberately complex
devices that solve simple everyday problems. . . .
One example is the Dumbbell Phone:
People cite "lack of time" as the number one reason
they don't work out more. With the dumbbell phone, that's no longer an excuse.
Great for bulking up at your otherwise worthless telemarketing job, this phone
will have you shaped and sculpted in no time.
More bank trouble ahead? From the FT:
Banks around the world face increases in funding costs that
could cut profits and hit their customers as they look to re finance
$7,000bn-plus in short-term debt expiring in the next three years with
longer-dated bonds, according to research released on Tuesday.
. . .
The flood of expiring debt will hit the US and the UK hard –
with $2,000bn of debt coming due by 2012 – and could curb banks’ profits or
force them to charge individuals and companies more for their services.
Via CalculatedRisk, Cash for Caulkers?
David Leonhardt writes in the NY
Times:
White House officials are now looking at creating a new
version of cash for clunkers — this time for home weatherization.
English lessons by cell phone nearly swamp Bangladeshi
system. From Reuters:
Bangladeshis seeking to learn English and better their job
prospects abroad need not look further than their mobile phone, which will
feature brief lessons conducted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) .
. .
"This is the first service of this kind anywhere in the
world," Alan Freedman, the country director of BBC World Service Trust,
told a news conference.
According to the FT,
more than 300,000 people in Bangladesh have signed up, “threatening to swamp
the service even before its official launch on Friday.”
Which law school classes turned out to be helpful to you
later in life? From Glenn Reynolds
(responding to Erik
Gerding):
I should note that nuts-and-bolts law is good, but when I was
a law clerk (on the Sixth Circuit for Judge Merritt) there were three times
when the judge asked me about an obscure legal point and I was able to give a
correct black-letter answer off the top of my head, and those answers came from
courses in International Human Rights Law, Law Science and Technology, and . .
. Law And Sexuality.