Oregon Legal Research BlogThis 100 Top Web 2.0 Apps may be a more useful list than this one, though the latter has its uses (don’t we all).
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From Librarian to Blogger To Successful Pro Se Litigant
Legal News Line, 4/23/2008, story: Blogger turns attorney, defeats trial lawyer’s subpoena, by John O’Brien:
“When blogger and admitted information-hoarder Kathleen Seidel received a subpoena asking for nearly every piece of data associated with her website, she had two choices — get mad or get an attorney.
Trial lawyer Clifford Shoemaker of Virginia requested in March, among other things, “documents pertaining to the setup, financing, running, research and maintaining” of her site, which frequently links to articles and features blogs pertaining to Shoemaker’s main litigation area.
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Baseball and the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments
On my evening commute, while reading “Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire” by Rafe Esquith, another part of my brain was trying to piece together a germ of an idea I have for this year’s Constitution Day…. I then read this in Rafe Esquith’s book:
“To me, baseball is the perfect game. It’s the only game in which the defense holds the ball. It’s the fairest of all sports: One team cannot use the clock to prevent the other team from catching up, and even when you are winning, you have to give your opponent a chance to even the score. With its lineup and batting order, baseball is more democratic than other sports: Each player gets a turn, and a team can’t keep feeding the ball to its best players. It is a game that has moments of stillness and sudden flashes of speed. To a causal observer, not much appears to be happening during a game. But a knowledgeable fan understands the game’s intricate nuances, from the positioning of the defense to the batter’s count.” (“Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire” by Rafe Esquith, Viking Penguin, 2007, page 126. See also the Hobart Shakespeareans.)
If that’s not the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments rolled into a description of a beautiful and (mostly) honorable game, I don’t know what is. Maybe we should have a Constitution Team play baseball on Constitution Day ….hmmmm.
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Oregon e-waste Law: Recycling Electronics
From the 4/11/08, Oregonian story by Joe Fitzgibbon, “New Oregon law hits ctrl-alt-del on e-waste,” (And local recyclers are listed further down this very long post!)
“Let’s say you’ve got your eye on a high-powered computer system. Or you’re making plans to spend that federal tax rebate on a new digital television.
The products look exciting, but you don’t want your used set or computer monitor to wind up in a landfill.
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Instant Messaging (or maybe not) for Introverts
A quick stop by del.icio.us brought me to this essay, Instant Messaging for Introverts, by Joe Kissell, posted at Tidbits. (For those who don’t know about the perils of some software platforms: you may need to scroll down, way down, to get to the actual post – this necessary scrolling is not just because introverts don’t really want you to read their essays 🙂
The essay includes links to articles and books on introverts, including the very funny, pithy, and soon to be classic, Caring for your Introvert, by Jonathan Rauch.
Librarians grok introverts.
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50% off Sale: State and Federal Surplus Store in Salem, April 5th
State and Federal Surplus Property
Office furniture will be 50 percent off the marked price. Visitors can also find desktop and laptop computers, bicycles, lawn and garden equipment, power equipment, pocket knives and multi-tools, vehicles, motorcycles and many other items. Cash, credit and debit cards accepted. Sorry, no checks. Loading assistance provided and you may also pay for and retrieve items you won on eBay. Please come and join us!
Go green with recycled equipment, save money, help fund state programs, and get some cool stuff all at once!
The store is located at the Surplus Property Distribution Center,
1655 Industrial Drive NE, in Salem. MAP
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Creativity and the Law: Jill Bolte Taylor and Clifford Stoll and TED
The past few days I’ve been bombarded with “creativity” of the best kind.
From a very interesting discussion, and a funny How We Won the Case story, with a local attorney about the use of creativity in the law (not as straightforward as it sounds) to these amazing video clips from the TED Conference (and the TED blog) – my brain is whirling happily. These two 18 minute clips were funny, scary, inspiring, and mind boggling, but you can be sure they all are:
How the Mind Works: Stroke of Insight: “Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.”
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Geek Women Speakers
Very, very cool: Geek Speak Women: “We help you find technical women to speak at your events”
Via Uber-Geek/Librarian Woman Nicole Engard at her What I learned today blog.
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Consumer Reports Magazine, Free, Full Text, Online, From Your Desktop
(If you don’t have a WCCLS public library card, ask how to do this search at your own public library. For example, you can also find this magazine, and others, online through the Multnomah County Library)
Most people don’t know that with only a public library card, they can read, online and free, the product reviews (and everything else) that appear in Consumer Reports magazine. But you can!
Here’s how you do this at Washington County (WCCLS) public libraries (your own public library will have its own search strategy):
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Who Is Hosting That Domain Name?
Sometimes you just want to know who is hosting a particular domain name. Go to Who is Hosting This (and its FAQ) to find out.
More domain detection tools at Domain Tools.
(Via Virtual Chase!)