Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

PLAYBOY . . . It's the Playboy digital archive: 650 issues on a 250-GB drive. Says Playboy--

Why would you let more than 650 of your favorite Playmates celebrate the holidays in a damp garage, stashed under your bed or crowded together in the basement, when you can bring them all together beneath the mistletoe this year?

Put it on my Christmas list!

WAKE UP! . . . Lifehacker explains why morning people are more productive.

WALLACE STEVENS . . . There's a weeklong tribute to Wallace Stevens at Big Other. Example post: "Wallace Stevens Online Resources," by John Madera. 

WORDS . . . "The Best Language Tools for Geeks," from Lifehacker.

DRUNK. . . "What Alcohol Actually Does to Your Brain and Body," at Lifehacker.

Don't say I didn't warn you!

PROCRASTINATION: THE ESSAY . . . "What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?" by James Surowiecki in the New Yorker.

Put it on your list of stuff to read later.

THE WEEKLY LAW SCHOOL ROUNDUP . . . You'll find Weekly Law School Roundup #245 at Thanks, But No Thanks, plus this news--

Evan Schaeffer and I are looking for a witty, charming, responsible and altogether fantastic person to start hosting the bi-weekly lawschool roundup. Is that you? Are you sure? Fame, accolades, and absolutely no monetary rewards will surely follow.

If you are interested in taking over for Thanks, But No Thanks, you can contact either of us via email.

THE MARK TWAIN AUTOBIOGRAPHY . . . "[T]his is going to be as real and complete an evocation of Samuel Clemens as we are going to get," writes Roger Boylan at The Boston Review.

MIND-FORG'D MANACLES . . . An exegisis of William Blake's "London," by Mark Edmundson in The Chronicle Review. Says Edmunson, "Grandly, shockingly, the poem reveals us to ourselves."