Tom Mighell has his usual handy-dandy tips – wonderful things I might miss since my own Internet-world is pretty small (legal research, mostly). Without Inter-alia, and a few others, I might not think the Web was so World Wide:
For example, see these, which I found from the Inter-Alia Weekly Alerts:
Say goodbye to Februrary and don’t forget that your clocks change back to Daylight Savings Time in less than 2 weeks:
Daylight Saving Time: When Do Clocks Spring Forward? March 14, 2010
These sound like itsy-bitsy-TEDs, at about 1,500 times the horsepower. How can you resist?
Here is the March 3, 2010, Ignite! Announcement and here is the link to previous Portland Ignite! events.
(Thanks to Ernie the Attorney for the Ignite! Reminder.)
Online Dating: On the Internet, no one knows you’re a crumbum:
The Oregon Attorney General posted this a few days before Valentine’s Day:
“He Loves Me; He’s Trying To Steal My Money; He Loves Me . . .,” February 11, 2010
Salon has an excellent interview with Marilyn Johnson, author of:
“This Book Is Overdue!”: Hot for librarian: The author of a new book talks about the secret lives of America’s favorite — and endangered — disciplinarians,” Salon, Sunday, Feb 21, 2010.
Excerpt: “Behold the stereotypical librarian, with her cat’s-eye glasses, bun and pantyhose ….
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A new generation of young, hip and occasionally tattooed librarians is driving them out. They call themselves guybrarians, cybrarians and “information specialists,” and they blog at sites like The Free Range Librarian and The Lipstick Librarian. They can be found in droves on Second Life, but also outside the Republican National Convention, dodging tear gas canisters and tweeting the location of the police….” (link to full article)
You read that right. It’s almost, but not quite, DSM-V time.
The editors of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (expected publication in 2013) are soliciting input from people who have information of value to those who use the DSM — the current edition DSM-IV-R.
We might be having mild weather out here in the Northwest (sorry mid-Atlantic – yikes!), but we still want more – more daylight!
Daylight saving time begins: March 14th, 2010, at 2 a.m. (in most of the U.S.)
NIST: In 2010, DST is from 2:00 a.m. (local time) on March 14th until 2:00 a.m. (local time) on November 7th….” (link)
I heard a riveting interview with the author of “Autobiography of an execution,” by David R. Dow, and was moved to put the book on hold at my local public library.
In case you want to hear or read about the book, here are some links:
If you think sitting on a hard judicial bench is tough, try this hockey gig: “My Retirement,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth (link to full Criminal Waste of Space article)
Justice Bedsworth’s Criminal Waste of Space column (over at the OC Bar Association)
Please pass this information along to people you know who may need tax preparation assistance and who do not have Internet access.
Many public libraries work with AARP and other organizations to make tax preparation services available to their residents.
1) Tax assistance resources in Washington County (Oregon) at public libraries and beyond.
Oregon Legal Research Blog