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.
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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.
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