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Weekend Links

By Kim Krawiec

Before buying that Prada knockoff . . . Dan Ariely (Predictably Irrational), who I do not think normally wears that Hugh Heffner jacket/robe around campus

(HT: Freakonomics)

The audio of Obama calling Kanye West a ?jackass.?

Cutting Carbon Through Condoms ? the ?Fewer Emitters? study (Salon.com via Reproductive Rights Prof Blog)

Via Freakonomics, cardboard sign creativity, including ?blogless, please help,? ?ninjas killed family, need money for kung-fu lessons,? and ?will take verbal abuse for change.?

Spit Markets.

Al Roth on law firm recruitment, rescinded offers, and accepting multiple offers (prior Lounge coverage on this topic here)

Top Five Ways Students Use Technology to Cheat.

FT on StockTwits (always an odd sounding name to me), which resurrects ?in cyberspace the teeming trading pits of yesteryear.?

Brian Leiter on ranking Canadian law schools.

John Ip at CoOp on the UK/Commonwealth journal submission process ? ah to be free (or forced) to write short articles with minimal footnotes. 

The S.E.C. proposes banning flash trading, and puts forward new rules for credit ratings agencies. (NY Times, FT) (Hope to have more on these, plus an update on bank failures and developments, later this week).

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on September 20, 2009 (boomark / email).