News and items of interest from last week:
- Google wins over-long book scanning lawsuit filed by Authors’ Guild with a finding of fair use (Boing Boing)
- Woman abandons alligator at O’Hare. What? (ABA Journal)
- Google patents a neck “tattoo” that amplifies your voice when you’re trying to have a phone conversation in a loud setting. What? (The Atlantic)
- In a quickly escalating dispute among neighbors, a man decides to fire blanks from a cannon at his neighbors’ property. What? (myfoxny.com)
- A victim of identity theft wins $105k after police lock her up for crime committed by identity thief, completely ignore woman’s warnings that this was the case (ABA Journal)
