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Not Your Mother’s Knitting: 5 Weird and Wonderful Knitting Projects

January 6, 2021 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

Having come across Knitted Knockers, the incredibly awesome charity organization that does this: …creating amazing knitted prosthetic breasts for breast cancer survivors, one of your intrepid editors may have gone down a rabbit hole of weird knitted projects. While none of our findings were as charitable as the Knitted Knockers organization, they certainly gave us…

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Filed Under: Endings, Featured Tagged With: crochet, knit, knitting, weird

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So You Want To Be A Superhero

December 17, 2020 by Bitter Staff 2 Comments

And soon, you’ll be able to fulfill that superhero dream. Because, science. That’s right, scientists are currently attempting to make all our dreams come true with this stretchable conducting cable. The fiber itself is made from sheets of carbon nanotubes wrapping around a rubber core. Oh, that sounds boring? Well, do flexibile exoskeletons and morphing aircraft sound…

Filed Under: Featured, SciTech Tagged With: Like A Fish, Martin Jetpack, science, stretchable conducting cable, superhero, technology

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Review: Why ‘Pax Technica’ Is A Good Book with a Bad Argument

December 16, 2020 by Bitter Staff 1 Comment

Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up Philip N. Howard Yale University Press The Internet of Things may set us free, or lock us up, but Pax Technica won’t give much insight into how either eventuality will occur, mostly because it seems like the author isn’t particularly…

Filed Under: Critic, Featured Tagged With: book review, Internet of Things, Pax Technica

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4 Reasons for Law Students to be Thankful This Thanksgiving

November 26, 2019 by Bitter Staff 3 Comments

Drinking, free food, and evil uncles. What more could you ask for over Thanksgiving?

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Featured Lawyer, Lawyer Tagged With: Featured, law students, thankful, thanksgiving

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The Five People You Meet at the Bar Exam

July 25, 2019 by Bitter Staff 29 Comments

A checklist of the six types of people you’re guaranteed to meet in the bar exam room

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Lawyer Tagged With: bar exam, Bitter by Numbers

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Barbie Can’t Be a Computer Engineer. Because She is a Girl.

July 1, 2019 by Bitter Staff 3 Comments

When I was a teenager, I broke up with Barbie. Not in a I stopped playing with Barbies kind of way, more in a burning this scourge from the face of the Earth kind of way. I don’t know what the final impetus was – that I realized Barbie’s itty-bitty ankles would snap like tiny…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: barbie, computing, gender, it, mattel, stem, tech

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Story Time: Live Blogging “Feeling The Bern In My Butt” By Chuck Tingle

June 16, 2019 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

We’re back to bring you MORE Chuck Tingle today, with a selection that we’re been utterly remiss for not having liveblogged for the masses sooner: “Feeling the Bern in My Butt” by Chuck Tingle. Yesterday we liveblogged Tingle’s Hugo-award nominated “Space Raptor Butt Invasion.” So without further ado, join us as we feel the Bern, Chuck Tingle style!

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: Chuck Tingle, feel the bern

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Top Law-Related Floppy Disks in the Past Year

June 10, 2019 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

In the spirit of keeping the floppy disk trade active and growing, here are three top law-related floppy disks we came across in the past year

Filed Under: Big Legal Brain, Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Big Legal Brain, technology

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5 MOAR Ridiculous Law Firm Commercials

May 13, 2019 by Bitter Staff 2 Comments

Inspired by the flaming sledgehammer of legal advertising, Casino Law, we thought it was time for another installment of ridiculous law firm commercials. 1.  Trolman, Glaser & Lichtman have actually already won this category in the past with their “Machete” commercial. But, their other commercial is a close second: 2. Florida-based Nation Law Firm decided they…

Filed Under: Best of Bitter Lawyer, Lawyer Tagged With: Adam Reposa, advertising, commercials, law commercials, Morgan & Morgan, Trolman Glaser & Lichtman, Winton & Hiestand

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Interpretive Dance and PhD Theses: Opposites Attract

March 12, 2019 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

Each year the American Association for the Advancement of Science runs the most absurdly awesome competition ever created: Dance Your PhD. Yep, you read that right. Doctoral candidates in the sciences work tirelessly for years on cutting edge projects that will add something original to their field and then they think…huh, I wonder what this…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: dance your phd, doctoral candidates, interpretive dance, science

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