CNET News.com has prepared the Technology Voter Guide 2006, ranking every member of Congress on how they’ve voted on technology-related issues. Read the analysis by Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache, then head over to the map to find out how senators and representatives from your state scored.…

Can’t make these things up: After a Key West escape artist disappeared in the middle of his act, police and Coast Guard launched an all-out search. When they found him hiding in a guesthouse, they arrested him.

[Via The Harrison Report.]…

This is an experiment that I hope will allow me to tap into the collective wisdom of my readers. My RSS reader is flooded with law blogs. Every day, I discover more great law blogs. They provide me great information as well as plenty of fodder for the three blogs I write: Lawsites,

On Dec. 1, electronic-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will take effect and change forever how civil cases are litigated. In this week’s legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast, we discuss the new rules and their impact on lawyers and litigants. Joining my co-host J.Craig Williams and me to provide their…

The Boston-based law firm Bingham McCutchen today announced the creation of Bingham Sports Consulting, an offshoot created to provide management, business and legal consulting to professional sports teams. Joining the consulting practice as a principal is John L. Harrington, former CEO of the Boston Red Sox and New England Sports Network. Other…

An online calendar launched in beta this week is unique in that it works offline as well. Called Scrybe, it operates in your browser even when you are offline and synchronizes when you reconnect. This makes it immediately more practical than Web 2.0 calendar applications such as Google Calendar. Other interesting features include…

Here is a clever idea: Tailor your cellphone voicemail greeting to the caller, based on caller ID. You can do it with YouMail. The service has other nice features as well, including enabling you to check voice messages via the Web and forward them by e-mail. A “ditchmail” feature hangs up on unwanted callers.…

A program designed to prepare future journalists to cover legal affairs has launched a Web site and companion blog. The Carnegie Legal Reporting Program @ Newhouse is a program launched this year with a grant from the Carnegie Journalism Initiative. The program is based at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public…

From Associated Press, via The Boston Globe:

“The lawyer who divulged President Bush’s drunken-driving arrest days before the 2000 election was arrested at gunpoint yesterday after he was seen on a highway construction site carrying a toy gun while dressed in an Osama bin Laden costume.”

Maine Today has this:

“Thomas J.

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With election day looming, a key resource for legal professionals is Election Law @ Moritz, a comprehensive resource covering the laws governing federal, state and local elections. Created by Moritz College of Law, the site reports new legal developments in the field and tracks election law litigation. A weekly teleconference provides…

Vox Bibliothecae is a blog covering news and research related to social justice. It is written collaboratively by five librarians at the Zimmerman Law Library of the University of Dayton School of Law.

Why devote their blog to social justice? They explain:

“The University of Dayton is a Catholic University founded