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These used to be on the front page, but now they’re here. If you can believe it, I’ve written 586 posts on this site.

2020

Don McGahn's Optional Subpoena

Asymmetrical

2019

What Happens When You Program Your Job

Workers of the World, Install!

Two Short Summaries of the Contemporary Republican Party's Strategy

Gutting Working Families

Outsourcing Common Sense

The Time I Met Captain America

A Small History of Medium

Why So Many Americans Feel Cheated By Their Student Loans

Roger Stone Indicted

Featured Conspiracy Theories

Who Hurt You?

2018

Google’s Congressional Hearing

The Quest For the Best

America’s Dumbest Work Videos

Shave Wars

Is Uber Going Under?

Yellow Jackets and Pizza Parlors

Breaking The News

What The Heck Did Paul Manafort Do?

Character and Fitness

Subway Speed Limits

Bleak Reflections

Quote Unquota

Trump Fires Sessions

The Trump Family's Taxes

Kavanaugh's Confirmation Hearing

Traister: Good and Mad

Manafort Flips

Greenwald on Conspiracy Theories

When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life

Mobilizing the Feels

Late Stage Capitalism and Queer Eye

Present Tense Interference

What is Bob Mueller Doing?

Bouie on the War for a White Electorate

When Algorithms Surprise Us

Don’t Feed the Trolls

Mueller's July 2018 Indictment

Can Andy Byford Save the Subways?

The Limits of Normcore Politics

What's On Paul Manafort's iPod?

Red Hens and Black Lists

NY Attorney General Sues Trump, Foundation

Measuring Bail

Warrantless Searches of iPhones

Own Golazo

On the Stanford Prison Experiment

Followup on a San Bernardino iPhone

Shell Game

Introduction to Surveillance Capitalism

Very Little Gravitas Indeed

The Trial of Noor Salman

Adopted Across the Ocean

Something That Has Broken in Every Single Possible Way

The Stories Behind China’s Best NBA Nicknames

Welcome to Blog Ipsa Loquitur

Emails and Echo Chambers

How to Trace a Gun

Spotting Fake News

Mueller and Trump, The College Years

Lady Doritos, Spherical Cows, and Democracy

Dog, Watch Thyself

No Business Like News Business

This Is Your Brain On Drugs

The Bucket with No Bottom

The Rise of the Machine Callers

2017

Law School’s Out For Summer

Algorithms Everywhere

Staring Into the Abyss

Bad Loans, Uber for

Populist Fallacies, Obamacare and

Cybersecurity, One Weird Trick for

Market-Based Solutions

Adventures in Money Laundering

The Other Lisa S. Davis

The Bard of Suck

Tech Bros Gone Wild

Slimy as a Service

Executive Power Run Amok

How I Update Jekyll From My iPhone: Part 2

How I Update Jekyll From My iPhone: Part 1

How To Read News Like A Search Warrant Application

How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul

How Statistics Lost Their Power

The President's Phone is Spying on Him

An Oral History of Double Dare

Simpler Times

The Hearts of Populists

On Working-Class Colleges

Black and Yellow

2016

Obama and the Black Autobiographical Tradition

Facebooked

Nobody Here But Us Bots

On Empathy Vaccuums

The Intellectual Collapse of the Center

The Gamergate Model of Press Relations

The Little Engine That Might

Any Idiot Can Do It

To Err is Human, Unfortunately

One Who Sows Discord

Kimono Wednesdays, the Trouble with

Shoot, We're Hostages

Free Speech and Leslie Jones

A Parable, a Pete, and a Prop

Thinking Out Loud

A Honeypot for Assholes

The Inmates Running the Asylum

The Loneliest Database

Adventures in Incentives for Homes and Cars

Moral Crumple Zones

Same As It Ever Was

Gentrification and Affirmative Action

Just How Many Dogs do American Cops Kill?

How American Politics Went Insane

No Such Thing

How to Get Away with Manslaughter

Political Debt

Don't Get Cocky, Star Fox

The Economics of Controlled Substances

Philosophy of Robot Death Squads

Burn After Reading

Yankee Doodle NANDy

Return on Investment

Test Case, Please Ignore

Advanced Transit Imagineering

Applesauce

Do Not Pass Go

Dialectical Gems

Netflix VPN Followup

Zone Shifting as Fair Use

The Rise of the Machines

Hate Search

Feline Maximization

2015

Fourteen Zeros

Consider the Source

Probably Predatory

Bird Law 101

The Tailpipe Blues

It’s a No-Brainer

How Esquire Engineered the Modern Bachelor

Your Ad (Isn't) Here

Believe It or Not

Obama and His Geeks

Pronger Economics

Oh, Honeypot

Confronting the Past

Super PACs, Man

The Online Privacy Lie Is Unraveling

American Infrastructure, the Inferiority of

Solomon’s Algorithm

Another Swiftian Proposal

Office of Privacy Mishaps

Google Gets Design

Spirals, Economics of

How The Other Half Streams

The Mal Gaze

Show Me The Data

Open The iPhone, Siri

Imaginary Price Tags

Frisky Business

Low-Stakes Crime

Malpractice Imperfect

Do The Math

Comedian, Date Thyself

Margin Of Error

Feats of Engineering, Ranked

Don't Believe Your Ears

Shared Irresponsibility

Algorithm and Blues

A Cloud Company

Hit and Run and Run

Using That Word

Design Theater

Forty-Nine Bullets

Dig Hard With a Vengeance

Not a Good Look, Texas

Who’s The Boss

One Taillight

You Got Sentenced

Somebody’s Watching Me

Little Evidence of Charm

There’s a Camera on Your Face

Four Million License Plates

Dammit, He Gets Results

The Case for Free Range Parenting

Apple, The Sausage Fest at

Why Spotify Pays So Little

It’s a Net Win

Compare and Contrast

Copyrights Gone Wild

The Fault in our Brains

Nintype: Absurd Comma Awesome

The Honest Thief

Internet Hate Machine

Neoprimitivism

Programming Pun Goes Here();

Metaphors as a Service

Social Justice Costs

Horrible Loophole

To Forgive is Divine

Barkley Shut Up

It Sounds Crazy

Adventures in Constitutional Law

The Boring Zombies

Persons of Interest

I Tube, We All Tube

Fourth Grade Nazguls

Snow Stopper

Wire, Cut Thyself

264 Hours

Legacy As a Service

The Good Kind of Petty

Don't Be Evil

Disrupted Driving

Caveat Vendor

Crypto's Weakest Link

Ye Olde Mine-hattan

Swedish Car Mafia

Ad Absurdum

Slippery Slopes

Ignorance of the Law

Your Ad Here

Technical Difficulties

2014

Keep Digging

Ubervalued

Crab Cribs and Shrimp Sales

Superlawyers

Use a New Font

Superhero Silliness

Jurisprudence, Interesting Quirks of

Pyrrhic Victory

That Clears Things Up

Lunch is a Battleground

Clinging to the Past

Yellow Bellied Varmints

Ungoogleable

Crowdsourced Surveillance

That's Just Wrong

Procurement Hell

More Acceptable

Ask a Silly Question

Gotham's Seed-y Underbelly

Shock and Aw Come On

Carrier, No!

Life Does Not Imitate

Summer Re-runs

Corporate Officers

Violent Savages

The Internet is Appalling

Private vs. Public

Forging Ahead

Open Data and Elk Theory

He Is So Asking For It

Dollars on the Penny

Babytown Frolics

Endocrine Disruptors

Facebook’s Fotoshop Fracas

National Deathbrick League

Sum-mer Time Blues

Royalty Screwed

#barghazi

No Nukes is Good News

The Opposite of Planned

Breaking News: Me

The Summer Blockbuster

Who Needs Helicarriers

I'm Thinking of a Number

Paladin Bolshevism

Business Tragedy of the Commons

Bad (Watch) Dogs

Easy Tips for Octopress

Roll Your Own

Doom, Gloom, and Booms

Presidential Willpower and Magic Rings

Those Darn Illogical Markets

A Tall Tale

Correlation is not Causation or Correlation Either

Assorted Links

Will Sell Palm Scan, Bitcoins for Cash

On Failing the Smell Test

An Embarrassing Kickstarter Meltdown

The Future Looks Dull From Here

2013

Worst. Slideshow. Ever.

Best or Worst Thieves Ever

Jurors Say The Darndest Things II

Bar Exam Woes? Beach, Please

Medi-what Now?

Tip Of My Tongue

On Nerdy Lawyers

Defendants Gone Wild

Federal Agents Seize Mt. Gox's Bank Account

Good Luck With That

Quote Unquote

Do As I Say Not As I Leech

Sponsored Posts

BWAAAAM BWAAAAAAM BWAAAAAM

Still Waiting

Ceci n'est Pas Une Passenger

Top 15 Phrases Used During Commission of Fraud

The Incredible Shrinking America

Guns, Pens, and S-words, Mightiness of:

It's Like Saw But With Kids

Not The Onion

2012

An ER Doctor on Being Human

Presenting Our Hero, Presenting

¿el iPhone o el iFone?

One Tablet Per Child

Ceci N'est Pas une Apologie

Old News in re: Zappos Shoes

Microsoft's Phone Has a Patent Troll

Make a Science Check

Awkward

Banned From Costco

A Faulty Camera in Our Minds

Grimmelmann on Insane Copyright

Bitcoin Pyramid Scheme Collapses

A Narrow Set of Behaviors

Jury Finds For Apple in Samsung Suit

Going Out With a Bang

No Seriously That Happened

The Other Kind of Flame War

Vice President Biden on Suicide

Headline of the Day

War and Ctrl+P

This Blog Keeps Tigers Away

The Other Coke

The Rent-a-Cow Shuffle

Today in Inflammatory Headlines

Save Us, DigiTeddy Roosevelt!

The Coolest Upload Ever

Who Dat Dot Biz

Anyone Got an Invite?

Twelve Strange and Amazing Patents

Crossing A Line

Not The Right Kind of Open Data

Right versus Pragmatic

The Distant Future. The Year 2000.

Facebook! Huh! What is it Good For?

What's He Even Know About Football?

Wil Wheaton Says

Just a Stunt

Everyone's a Critic

Toothbrush Decay

New Media and Toiletries

Jolly Good

28 Days Laterer

2011

DMCA Plus

AT&T-Mobile: A Failure

Abnormal Use on Christmas

The Amazondroid Kindle Fire

I Just Want The Commercials

Pirate Sentenced to Year in Prison

Motherboard's Open Letter

Just a Friendly Game

New Media

Cause and Cure

More on Crystal Cox

Hulu's Face Match

Have Blog, Will Trouble

Rosenberg on Carrier IQ

This Is Admissible :(

Now That's Just Odd

Feature Imperfect

XXX Domains Are Here!

Google Books: A Settlement

Continental Empiricism

The Grooveshark Saga, Part 2

The New Market

Mike Loukides on SOPA

Just a Flesh Wound

Stupid Print Tricks

How To Inconvenience Plaintiffs

Still Missing The Point

Sharky Legal Ground

Anti Trust Me, Guys

The Funny Kind of Layoffs

Complete With Monocle Holder

Dihydrous Monoxide

If a CC Falls in the Woods

Missing the Point

The Great Kindle Caper

In The Spirit of Coding

Meet Redacre and BL:Code

The Important Things

Trolluppance? Trollkarma?

Network Theory and Owls

Mobile Flash, We Hardly Knew Ye

Also I Want a Pony

Now When You Say "Killing"...

No New Record is Good News

The New Old Red Menace

False Markings: A Dead Cash Cow

Fed Uses Google Alerts; Society Crumbles

Protestors Kept at Bay

Sponsored Tweet Crisis on Infinite Keywords

It's a Thought

Nerd Slap Fight of the Day

Breaking But Irrelevant

Click Here to Agree

Oh Snap

The Reasonable Storm

Headline of the Day

Awl's Fair in Loving Swartz

Mobile Kombat

Skype Fail of the Day

The Indictment of Aaron Swartz

Don't Ask Socrates

Introducing Google Cotillion

My Favorite Headline of the Day

What Freedom of Speech Means

Not Cool Guys

Bueller, Bueller

And Many Exams Were Written

Now With 100% Less Ships

The Opposite of Lawyer'd

I See What You Did There

Lights! Camera! Transaction!

What Does It All Mean

So Loanly

I Blame the CIA Mind Control Rays

Missed it by That Much

Download All of the Internets

Resume Sent

A Tangled Web

Overzealous

I Know I Say This Every So Often

More on Apple v. Samsung

Irony Always Wins

My New Favorite Patent

Tax Receipts Are Here

Not Going Anywhere for a While?

How Are They So Bad At This?

Did LimeWire Really Kill The Music Industry?

That Just Seems Gratuitous

Sleepless With the Fishes

This is My Surprised Face

Perspective

The (12)7 Year Itch

Incorporate My Uterus

Hulu You Do So Well

Cloudy with a chance of lawsuit

Double or Nothing

Prime Numbers

How Not To File A Lawsuit

Not Still a Boy, Not Yet a Mandroid

Stealth Power Transform: Ultimate Battle!!

March Sadness

Google Book Search Settlement Rejected

AT&T Buys T-Mobile

I made a token effort to come up with a title

The Trivia Kingpin Chronicles

Problem Solved

Oh Come On

Google Books: now with 100% more Blog!

Of Newt and Men

Monkeys on Ecstasy

Tiny Tots Taught Terribly, Toppling Top-Tier Trajectories

No Duh(ck)

Thanks, Professor B!

What’s New About Copyright?

Headline of the Week

Stay Classy

Serious Business

Does Not Compute

Marco Arment on The Daily

I got you babe

The Big Fourget Me Not

Breaking News: There Are Laws In Italy

The $2,000 Wedding

Aptly Titled

It's Hard To Come Up With a Pun for Knox

There's a Bandwidth Joke Here

Home: A Loan

Mountains Out Of Molehills

How to Hack Your Baby for Fun and Profit

Local Man Cries Self To Sleep, Film at 11

Dangerous In Any IV

This Post Will Expire in the 22nd Century

2010

Charles Krauthammer - Swindle of the year

Well Put

Close Call

Staring at the Wall to Wall

What Wall Street Does

Yes, Virginia

Nerd Lawyer Finds Soulmate

Net Things I Hate About You

Are You Smarter than a 120-year old 8th grader?

An Update

4G in the Woods

Precedent and President

Let the Wiki Win

Let them eat vouchers

Late Night Links

On IP and Furry Dinosaurs

More on Cell Phones

Punch Me Panda

Stupid Headline Tricks

Dear Uncle Sam

Girl Talk Is Pretty Good

The Horror

Facebook Bug Disables Ladies' Accounts

Now When You Say ‘Dangerous’…

Too Soon?

Comparing Democratic and Republican tax plans

Tradition! Tradition!

Trolling for Justice

If You Can Read This, I'm Not Using Outlook

Like Minnesota, But With Wiki Articles

Win.

Dominic 'Likes' This

Suit Happens

Smart People on the Google-Verizon Deal

"Neutrality"

The Magic Words

Congratulations.

In which our hero is tagged

The Bar Exam: a Look Ahead

Snape Enjoined Dumbledore

Bar Review Just Got Surreal

Souter? I Barely Know Her!

My Big Fat Empire Strikes Back

Small Consolation

My Favorite Mnemonic (Yet)

I just took the MPRE

Snow Day Redux

HAHAHAHAHA

New for 2010: Self-Mocking Lawyers

Only Wikipedia

Actually, it's a Bargain

The Office (Problem)

It's Pronounced "Twenty Ten"

2009

(Almost) Dead?

(File) Sharing is Not Caring

The Anonymous Lawyer on Layoffs

All's Well that Orwells

Elementally, Dear Watson

Who's the Man? Wu's the Man.

Old Lawyers Don't Die...

Class Elections

One Way or Another

Exampocalypse 4: This Time It's Personal

Statement of Interest

Look on the Bright Side

Cell Phone Mistrials

Snow Day

Mental States

A Magical Wonderland

Corporate Anatomy

Death and Whackings

Overheard in a Law School Elevator

Back Off, Duff.

Morbid Algebra

Anatomy of a Law School Exam

2008

Exampocalypse!

Federal Felony-o-matic!

Terms of Service

The Old Saying

Legal Jujitsu

Google Suggests

Only In America (or Turkey)

Competition

The Constitution

Law & Order: Switcheroo

Get in Line, Buddy

We're All Gonna Die!

Purchasing Power

My Professor Says Hearsay Is Pretty Simple

Planes, Porn, and Policy

Long Distance Relationships

It's Not Schadenfreude

Much Is Due About Royalties

Jury Duty: APIOA, Part Three

Jury Duty: APiOA, Part Two

Jury Duty: A Play in One Act

Law School Culture #1

Web Two Point Bro

Class Acts

Summering

Happiness is a Warm Gun

Pro Tip #2

The Number One Threat: Bear (Stearns)

Pro Tip

Cyber Bullies

Countdown to Exampocalypse