Nonfiction

( Procrastination: juvenile justice, science talk, Judaism, autism and animals, rural firefighting, Mormons )

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Salon's reviewer likes the same line in Kermit Roosevelt's In the Shadow of the Law that I did: pro bono death penalty cases for summer associates are "something the kids could get really excited about ... like a class project or a hamster brought in to delight kindergartners ... like hamsters, the prisoners usually ended up dead." It's a fun book -- I wouldn't necessarily call it a thriller, but it's witty and intriguing and very, very sharply observed, and Kim's savage caricature of the Supreme Court clerk hits a bit close to home -- which is to his credit, since he's a former Souter clerk.

Google Video

Did anybody else know that Google is planning to host video from anyone who wants to send it in? Not a lot of help to vidders, but still a pretty cool expansion. They're accepting submissions now, but you can't yet browse. I'm researching what Google's up to these days as part of my latest project, on libraries and universities in the new copyright regime, and I'm tremendously impressed by all Google's aspirations. Maybe I should worry more; Google wants to be Microsoft, and absolute power is dangerous, and all that. But -- free video hosting!

Also, I plan to return to the (ir)regularly scheduled posting shortly -- I guess the past 24 hours have just been nervous ones, for no good reason.