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Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Law Blog

Posted on April 02, 2009
Blog pick: the CAM law blog covers regulation & litigation of issues such as dietary supplements, holistic treatments, spas, acupuncture, yoga, massage, meditation, insurance coverage and health licenses.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Law Blog

Posted on April 02, 2009
Blog pick: the CAM law blog covers regulation & litigation of issues such as dietary supplements, holistic treatments, spas, acupuncture, yoga, massage, meditation, insurance coverage and health licenses.

Will Conficker-Created Botnet Wreak Havoc on April 1?

Posted on April 01, 2009
Malware that has infected more than 12 million computers around the world since October is poised to strike today. It is designed to lash together the infected computers into a hugely powerful supercomputer. The aims of its unknown author(s) are...

Qualcomm Announces New Device-Free Wireless in Your Hand

Posted on April 01, 2009
Check out this revolutionary new technology at HandSolo Not only do you get connectivity everywhere, but you get a myriad of useful features, including "high five" call transfer and "your voice" volume control. Watch the video!

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Fooling around with forms...

Posted on April 01, 2009
Every time a pro se asks to see our extensive "forms collection" (ha!), I offer a silent 'thank you' to law librarian Margaret Berkland for her continual maintainance of the Court Rules, Forms and Dockets database available via LLRX.com. The...

Will Conficker-Created Botnet Wreak Havoc on April 1?

Posted on April 01, 2009
Malware that has infected more than 12 million computers around the world since October is poised to strike today. It is designed to lash together the infected computers into a hugely powerful supercomputer. The aims of its unknown author(s) are...

Qualcomm Announces New Device-Free Wireless in Your Hand

Posted on April 01, 2009
Check out this revolutionary new technology at HandSolo Not only do you get connectivity everywhere, but you get a myriad of useful features, including "high five" call transfer and "your voice" volume control. Watch the video!

Fooling around with forms...

Posted on April 01, 2009
Every time a pro se asks to see our extensive "forms collection" (ha!), I offer a silent 'thank you' to law librarian Margaret Berkland for her continual maintainance of the Court Rules, Forms and Dockets database available via LLRX.com. The...

An Intellectual Property Primer, Set to Music

Posted on March 27, 2009

Presidential Libraries: NARA Seeks Public Input

Posted on March 27, 2009
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is currently seeking input regarding the development of alternative models for Presidential Libraries. The public is invited to submit comments and suggestions regarding cost effective ways to modify the present system for archiving...

Blogging with the O-Man, Remembering FDR

Posted on March 26, 2009
Hey, hip kids! Wanna discourse in real time with the President? Well, now you can! President Obama's first Online Town Hall meeting took place today. Read the transcript of the trial run of Open For Questions and savor the historical...

Learn Computational Mechanics of Materials in Your Spare Time

Posted on March 26, 2009
Emerging technologies librarian extraordinaire Meg Kribble, formerly of this address, has been Tweeting about MIT Open Courseware. The initiative at MIT to put all of their graduate and undergraduate course materials online has been in place since 2002...

What Not To Do In The Courtroom: The Broward County Edition

Posted on March 26, 2009
Although the defendant was not wearing short-shorts, another clearcut case of "What Not To Do In The Courtroom" unfurled on March 24th when a domestic violence defendant physically attacked his victim in front of Broward County Judge Ian Richards. Elected...

Libraries and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Posted on March 25, 2009
Visit the State Library and Archives of Florida?s Economic Recovery Wiki for additional information about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). See how libraries are involved and contribute information on what your library and community are doing...

Forget the stock market -- Invest in Libraries!

Posted on March 23, 2009
Don't believe me? Then ask State Librarian of Florida Judith A. Ring who sent out the following stats in regards to the significant role that Florida libraries play in supporting the economy through services such as résumé building, online job...

WorldCat - Cataloging Library Catalogs

Posted on March 23, 2009
WorldCat provides access to library catalogs nationally and internationally that are part of the OCLC system. It is a good place to locate materials and find local library holdings.

New Federal FOIA Guidelines Bring Back Presumption of Openness

Posted on March 23, 2009
Today's props go to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for issuing an official memo detailing FOIA guidelines that support the transparency in government initiatives set forth by President Obama. Said memo effectively rescinds the guidelines issued on Oct...

US Department of Lost and Found

Posted on March 20, 2009
U.S. Department of Lost and Found: Umbrellas and Sweaters

Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 and the AIG Bonuses

Posted on March 20, 2009
Stung by public outrage at the bonuses awarded AIG executives, Congress has passed a confiscatory, 90% tax on bonuses of those earning more than $250,000 a year at firms that have accepted at least $5 billion in bailout funds. At...

Spokeo: search engine for social networks

Posted on March 18, 2009
Spokeo is a new tool for searching people and their activities within social networks, from Facebook to Twitter. Web 2.0 is not private.

Obama's March Madness Picks

Posted on March 18, 2009
See: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/18/March-Madness-At-the-White-House/

Changes to West's Key Number System

Posted on March 17, 2009
From the West Librarian Relations Update, 3/17/09: Changes to the Topic & Key Number System On March 1, West released significant changes to the Key Number System. Attorney editors have completed the reclassification of over 300,000 headnotes. The improvements include...

Notario Fraud: ABA

Posted on March 16, 2009
The ABA established a 'notario fraud' page to report abuse in immigration legal services. Unlike the US, in many countries Notaries are lawyers and a very few use this to misrepresent to immigrants that they can provide legal services. ABA

An "It's Almost Friday" Friday Funny

Posted on March 12, 2009
For anyone who's ever tried to re-design a website bigger than five pages - especially with a committee.

Budding Lawyers May Need to Show More Than Smarts

Posted on March 12, 2009
A study funded by the Law School Admissions Council, which administers the LSAT, aims at developing a new test which would test for something called "effectiveness." The idea is to be able to predict, not just how well would-be attorneys...

Department of Novel Ideas

Posted on March 10, 2009
I bet a lot of people are slapping their foreheads and wondering why they didn't think of this first. The Sunlight Foundation, the organization whose mission it is to use the Internet to make government more transparent to the people,...

Courtoons: How Bar examiners think Law is Practiced

Posted on March 10, 2009
Courtoons

Obama Directs Agencies to Consult AG Before Relying on Bush's Signing Statements

Posted on March 09, 2009
The New York Times has a story on Presidential signing statements. Signing statements are the controversial statements accompanying a Presidential signature of a law passed by Congress, which state that a portion of that law is unconstitutional and the President...

Senate and House YouTube Channels

Posted on March 09, 2009
The US Senate and House of Representatives have YouTube Channels. Video of House Representatives or Senators is organized by State and Last Name. See for example the personal YouTube Channels of the Senators from Florida, Mel Martinez & Bill Nelson...

An Early Version of the Kindle!

Posted on March 06, 2009

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