USA basketball is underway and here’s what you want to know.

It appears that Coach K didn’t know much about Joe Johnson before this week but now he thinks that Joe is exactly the kind of player they need - he can play and defend four positions, shoot, pass, dribble, rebound, he’s low maintience, and he cares more about winning than dressing up his image. It looks like JJ will definitely be one of the 15 chosen for games before Worlds and will probably be one of the 12 to be selected for the World Championships.

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Video 1

One of the funniest newscasts I have ever seen. Mobile residents believe that there is a leprechaun living amongst them, in some tree in the middle of town. There’s an amateur sketch that rocks my socks off. It’s an ebaums video, so I imagine a few of you have already seen it, but for those who haven’t — Enjoy!

Video 2

This is the worldwide premiere video of a new myspace-grown band out of Brazil called Cansei de Ser Sexy (Tired of Being Sexy). The music probably won’t go over well with some of you, but to me, it’s fun and poppy. Best of all, they’re sarcastic as hell. I love this in a band. The wikipedia article starts out “Formed in September of 2003, the band started as a joke and nobody but the drummer could play their instruments properly….” Now they’re getting big-time and are starting their first US tour. Very, very hipster — I’d see them in Lawrence if anybody were going. The exotic-as-hell Brazilian/Japanese lead singer is muito calido.

Apparently our President hasn’t left his potty mouth in the lockerroom. And by “lockerroom”, I mean Texas Rangers owner’s box.

sh*t

Whilst perusing the website of one roaster, I happened upon this gadget.

ZJohnso, can you ’splain to me how this is worth 23.75 more hours waiting than the traditional brewing then icing?

Other than the dilution, of course.

Evidentally, looking and playing like MJ is not actually a good thing. This Portland man, who not only looks like Jordan but claims people say he plays like Jordan, is suing Michael himself and Nike founder Phil Knight for 15 years of “defamation and permanent injury, emotional pain and suffering.” Oh, and the amount? A mere $832 million. Kookiness knows no bounds.

We all know that Mohsen has Academic Notes out the wazoo. The man was practically born with an academic note generator in hand. But now I have my own academic notes too…. Here they are! They’re delicious and too cool to be true!

I can finally finish my three-part series on academic notes. My third and final article has been published in the Stanford Technology Law Review. The article is available for free online here. It nominally deals with copyright law and online file-sharing. But it’s really an article about the cognitive nueroscience of moral decision-making and how science may explain the disparity between the law (spefically copyright law) and people’s actual behavior (specifically online file-sharing).

Coincidentally, along with my article, the STLR published another article that may interest Joel. It’s an empiriclal study on whether courts have interpreted the obviousness requirement in patent law too broadly, so that its never really a bar to acquiring a patent. (For example, check out this recently granted patent for a swing.) According to the article, the answer is “yes”.

The Fox News morning team, the Fox ‘n’ Friends, are the slimiest of the Fox News lot. Despite the years of Fox News watcing having dulled my sensitivity to Fox’s horribly contrived objectivity daily drivel, the Fox ‘n’ Friends are too much even for me to take– at least that early in the morning. Luckily, I can catch most of their highlights before bed online. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s good to know that society has advanced to the point where a white man can playfully point at a black man and it’s “all good.”

After so many years of not going to Philadelphia and New York City, I felt that the time had come to go to these places of urbanity and of sheer concrete suppression. It all started when…..
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