Comic Con NY is wrapping up this weekend and it’s mostly a nerdfest shit show with the occasional girl dressed in cosplay, creeps who don’t know they’re being creepy creeping and the same people over and over again. Here’s 15 people you’ll see at Comic Con: More??

Derek Slater is my former colleague at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, now serving as a policy analyst at Google. He’s just published a barn-burning essay called “#noimnotgoingtolawschool: Or, Why I Love Legal Clinics as well as Lawyers and Law Professors That See Their Primary Job As Helping Students Reach Their Goals, Or, Disrupting Law Schools.” Slater indicts the legal education industry as a system that produces debt-ridden, half-trained half-lawyers who have to go on to firms in order to actually learn to practice law. He calls for a refactoring of the legal education system around legal clinics, which, he says, will prepare lawyers to actually help clients.

[ Video Link ] Ken Layne at Wonkette : Be patient through the first 90 seconds — haha, attention span of a gnat! — because a remarkable little drama unfolds with protesters inside the Citibank branch communicating with protesters outside, all very reserved, collecting names and birthdates of the people about to be arrested inside. And then, brutish cops seize a woman in a business suit who is saying, “I’m a customer, I’m a customer,” and showing her Citibank checkbook. Apparently she is here to close her account, and for that she is manhandled by a bunch of thug cops who should be careful where they go from now on

The T2 O concept looks great for nipping around town. Photo Antoine Fritsch While electric bikes may or not be better than their people-powered counterparts, the push-along scooter seems like a perfect candidate for some extra electric oomph. What’s more, the lesser stresses of a scooter’s simple design looks like a better fit for bamboo, too.

For those that need some protection from natural disasters, you might want to consider the Noah Disaster Shelter. I think the product is well-named, but it isn’t an ark capable of holding two of every animal on Earth. It can hold about four people