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.

Feeling unsure of yourself? Try the Automatic Flatterer.…

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

Massachusetts’ highest court has approved a pilot project starting Nov. 1 under which lawyers may provide limited assistance to pro se clients without obligating themselves to take on the clients’ full representation. The project, recommended by the Supreme Judicial Court’s Steering Committee on Self-Represented Litigants, will run for 18 months in the Probate and Family…

Bloggers’ questions about election laws that may restrict their reporting on election day are being compiled for a forthcoming bloggers’ election day legal guide. I have details at my Media Law blog.…

Zillow.com, the real-estate valuations site I wrote about last April (An essential site for real estate lawyers), is the target of a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission. According to Ars Technica, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition alleges that Zillow is “intentionally misleading customers and real estate professionals to…

As I noted earlier this week at Legal Blog Watch, the tally of Vioxx-related lawsuits filed against Merck is now at 23,800 and rising. Yet Merck maintains it will continue its litigation strategy of examining each case on its own merits. Is Merck’s strategy viable for the long haul? What do a recent jury…

You’ve heard of fantasy football leagues. You’ve heard of fantasy baseball leagues. You may even have heard of the Fantasy Supreme Court league. Now add to the fantasy roster Fantasy Congress: Where People Play Politics.

Create a team of 16 members of Congress. To keep it interesting, you are required to have…