Who wants to read serious, long-winded pieces about the legal profession in late August? No one. Certainly, not moi. So here’s the beach edition of the latest news:

Don’t try this on your vacation. Arianna Huffington thinks that we’re not taking vacations seriously enough, and that our addiction to staying-in-touch is the culprit. She writes in Harvard Business Review: “We need to recalibrate our relationship with technology.”