Holiday reading dept.: did you know that Overlawyered has a “General Links” page with a whole second blogroll, as well as links to some older features of the site that are no longer being built up, our Amazon Honor System page where you can donate to us, and much more? Check it out.
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Site disruption
Yesterday we got an Instalanche (thank you, Glenn!) the traffic from which unfortunately had the effect of crashing our server. The site was down for much of the day, as was email service to overlawyered.com and walterolson.com (if you sent us mail and we didn’t respond, please resend). While the front page was restored within a few hours, most of the rest of the site remained down until this morning. Thanks for your patience.
P.S. Welcome readers from the second Instalanche, which we’re happy to say our servers have succeeded in accommodating. Our new slogan, courtesy of Glenn: Overlawyered, the site “you should probably be visiting regularly anyway”.
Latest newsletter
Our free periodic newsletter went out to subscribers last night, summarizing highlights of recent postings in terse yet wry style. To read the latest installment — or to join or leave the list, change your address, etc. — visit this page (requires Google registration).
Link to Overlawyered
Just a reminder: if you like what you read on Overlawyered, please think of taking a moment to install a link to it on your website, or mention it in your email newsletter, or just tell a friend about it. That’s how we get new readers. Thanks!
“Nominate a favorite post” thread
Recently we introduced a sidebar on the front page with a sampling of a few of the site’s “Greatest Hits” — stories and posts that made a big hit with readers, have been much linked to, or are otherwise especially memorable. (More information about the list here). If you’re a longterm reader or even if you’re not, feel free to use the comments section to nominate your own favorites that you think belong on the list. To look up older posts, use the search function for posts since mid-2003 or before that, or try a Google search.
OpinionJournal.com “Federation of Sites” — we’re part of it
The excellent free website associated with the Wall Street Journal editorial page, OpinionJournal.com, today launched something it calls its “Federation of Sites“. It’s a collection of websites published by policy institutes, magazines, and so forth, along with five weblogs, of which we’re honored to be one. (The other four: Instapundit, Volokh Conspiracy, Virginia Postrel’s Dynamist, and Eduwonk). Needless to say, our views should not be attributed to them or vice versa, although they may occasionally select postings from this site to reprint there. Check it out here.
Latest newsletter
Our free periodic newsletter went out to subscribers last night, summarizing highlights of recent postings in terse yet wry style. To read the latest installment — or to join or leave the list, change your address, etc. — visit this page (requires Google registration).
“First smokes, now Cokes”
Are those BlogAds?
Yes, as a matter of fact, we’ve joined the crowd and started running the darn things. Do click on the ads to visit and, where appropriate, support our advertisers. And if you’ve a mind to advertise your own publication, cause, organization, product or website, check out our very reasonable introductory ad rates.
Readers come through with logos
Once again we have reason to be grateful to our readers, since about a dozen of you responded generously to our request last week for an Overlawyered logo measuring 130 pixels wide by 150 pixels high, for use by a large media organization which is thinking of sending visitors our way. There were lots of nicely executed ideas, and any best-of selection inevitably depends in part on personal taste, but we’re going to reprint four of our favorites alongside this and forthcoming posts. Webmasters alert: if you’re linking to Overlawyered either as a sidebar permalink or on a one-off basis, these logos would make a nifty graphic link, don’t you think? 
The first logo of the four, then, was submitted by freelance graphic artist Lise Holliker Dykes of Crofton, Md.