LLRX dot com also has this info-packed article: Deep Web Research 2009, by Marcus P. Zillman, December 28, 2008.
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Deep Web Research 2009
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RefDesk dot Com: A Good Place to Explore
If you haven’t explored RefDesk dot com recently, take a tour, from their site map or their FAQ, from their Ref Site of the Day, or however else you want to wander.
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Avatar abuse: Bedsworth Ponders the Divorce-Criminal-Sentencing Law Nexus
Justice Bedsworth welcomes you to January 2009, with a legal puzzle of almost, hmm, biblical proportion.
Excerpt: “… Ms. Doe(4) closed the book on Chopin and Haydn one day and fired up the computer for a round of monster-battling, only to receive the disconcerting news that her virtual spouse had divorced her avatar. Divorced! Without warning!
No lipstick on the collar, no long unexplained business trips, no emotional withdrawal, no couples counseling, nothing! The sonofagun just said, “I divorce you,”(5) and moved on. Without explanation. Just left her there to fight the monsters alone.
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Setting Up Business as a Debt Collector in Oregon
We occasionally get questions from people who want to set up business as debt collectors. It’s a tough business and I recommend an apprenticeship first, but who am I to stop the dreamers who want to set up shop, in the food business, in retail, in debt collection, in private investigation, or any other small business endeavor.
Librarians like dreamers and some of our small business dreamers manage to make their dreams come true.
We also like dreamers who do their legal research. There are a lot of small business research resources all over the Internet, including the ones you’ll find at your public library and others like this Small Business Legal Clinic (and I blogged about it here).
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Confused About the Google Book Publishing Settlement?
LLRX dot com has a December 2008 article that may help you disentangle the settlement agreement: A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries and the Google Library Settlement
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The Mensa Constitution
Did you know that Mensa has a Constitution (linked to from their Other Resources page)?
I wonder if Densa does.
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Oregon and Public Records: OMB Watch and OpenUpOregon
Have you seen this Moving toward a 21st Century Right to Know Agenda from OMB Watch (Recommendations to President-elect Obama and Congress)?
See also the professor who Commented on my post, Oregon Public Records Law Disclosure and Email: about how the DOJ website can be less than helpful, though I am optimistic that 2009 will bring improvements. The Commenter’s link is to this Oregon public records search tool: OpenUpOregon.
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Legal Help for Pro Se Litigants from the Oregon State Bar
The Oregon State Bar (OSB) Information and Referral Service can refer you to an attorney who will handle your case OR they can refer you to a coach. The OSB is exploring more unbundled (aka limited scope) legal assistance options. In the meantime, you can phone them and ask for an attorney to help you with:
* Small Claims Coaching
* Pro Se Coaching
* Document Review
(I previously posted about unbundling, limited scope legal assistance, and lawyers fees here.)
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Opt Out of Receiving Paper Phone Books (in Oregon)
Information and phone numbers from the DEQ News Release:
Resolve to Opt out of Phone Books in 2009
Excerpt from news release:
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Oregon Constitution: Wikisource, Wikiproject Oregon, and More
1) The Oregon Constitution has been wikified, but not just here (or the Ballotpedia version or this Indopedia version) but also by the good people at WikiProject Oregon who are wikifiing the Oregon Constitution, creating a Wikisource edition.
2) How to Find the Most Current Additions to the Oregon Constitution:
a) Given our rather interesting (you can’t make me use those other adjectives that spring to mind) system of amending the Oregon Constitution, I thought a few remarks on finding the most current version of the Oregon Constitution might be in order:
b) The version at the Oregon Legislature’s website does not now (as of this date) include changes to the Constitution made in Special Sessions. For example, as of today, the Oregon Legislature’s Constitution is dated 2007. However … there were changes in the 2008 Special Session.