There exist law school scam blogs focused on the topic of how a law degree is not worth the money. Important variables include a low percentage of graduates getting jobs in the industry, expensive tuition, and oppressive loans. A friend of ours (who was a lawyer, now in medicine) related that law salaries follow a bimodal distribution with peaks around $40k and $100k, the former of which commonly leaves students with a debt-to-income ratio of three.

This is especially problematic for students because bankruptcy doesn't clear student loan debt.

Matt Drance has started blogging.

if you've never heard of him, one of his many roles was as our evangelist when I worked in Dev Tech. last year he went indie, and his blog has a cute domain name to reflect his new life. I'll be reading it.

This old post sums up why I stopped using Linux for anything other than work or servers.

This is some kind of perspective: Ze Frank's The Show was four years ago. Think about it: four years. Wait, what? You don't know what The Show is? Holy crap sit down and clear your schedule.

The Show was a Monday through Friday internet show hosted by this guy named Ze Frank. Over the year it ran a lot of things happened. Sports Racers—The Show's viewers—turned the earth into a sandwich. The Fabulosos beat Ze in a game of chess and Jonathan Coulton ended up having to sing as a result. And then there was that time everyone put clothes on their vacuum cleaners. That was cool.

Ze told us all about champagne fairies, how to procrastinate, and the real truth about waves.

Confused? Don't worry. Just watch it. The Show is political, absurd, insightful, and intimate. It's at times ridiculous, at times deeply poignant, and when it ended things were Different.

Joe, being the bang-up Sports Racer that he is, is publishing a time shifted feed of The Show. The Show started on March 17^th 2006 on a Friday, so Joe decided to delay the time-warp by two days. That way bits like Ride The Fire Eagle: Danger Day still occur on Fridays. Seriously, just grab your feed reader and subscribe.

It feels good to have The Show back. Paul Knight

the episode about Scrabble is one of my favourites.

I participated in the Human Baton, a winter break experiment by Running fool and featured on The Show by Ze. I drove him from Los Angeles to San Diego to Phoenix, dropping him off (and staying the night with) Affablehipster + roommate. we had a fantastic time.

look at this url:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/03/toyotas-gas-peddle-fix-not-working-according-to-some-owners/

do these people have editors‽

wait, Matt Burns is an editor—would no one with a grasp of the English language take the job?

Paul walks through a puzzle in Machinarium.

I love logic puzzles, but it's an extra treat when they're also beautiful. Paul is not only an excellent engineer, he's also a very good designer.

Flash evangelist Lee Brimelow made his little poster showing what a bunch of Flash-using web sites look like without Flash without actually looking to see how they render on MobileSafari. Ends up a bunch of them, including the porno site, already have iPhone-optimized versions with no blue boxes, and video that plays just fine as straight-up H.264. iPhone visitors to these sites have no idea they’re missing anything because, well, they’re not missing anything. For a few other of the sites Brimelow cited, like Disney and Spongebob Squarepants, there are dedicated native iPhone apps.

Kendall Helmstetter Gelner put together this version of Brimelow’s chart using actual screenshots from MobileSafari, the App Store, and native iPhone apps. The only two blue boxes left: FarmVille and Hulu.John Gruber

pretty damning that Brimelow could only find two good examples for his Apple roast, including the porn card he chose. I'm on the fence on the Flash debate, but I keep finding it harder and harder to justify.

every time I visit a page by Panic, I am impressed by its design.

this blog post about blue moons is not only an informative yarn, it's also beautiful. the paperclips, the blueprint paper, the snippets — even the comment bubbles and comment form. sublime.

Dad: Remember the seven ways to get to first base?
Me: Of course. You put on Dire Straits and get in the back seat...
Merlin Mann

I was really looking forward to Finer Things in Mac, but lately the information that's shown up there has either been something I'd get from Mac OS X hints or underinformed tidbits (that readers wind up correcting, though many remain errant). occasionally, you find a gem.

despite my high hopes, it failed to beat my signal to noise requirements. maybe my parents will find it useful.