The director of admissions at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall accidently sent an e-mail to thousands of applicants implying that they had been accepted to the prestigious law school, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
…“[T]he mistake happened as he was training a new staff member on the office’s e-mail system. The e-mail was an
Two Georgia criminal defense lawyers, Rob Leonard and John Barrett, recently launched Georgia Criminal Law Blog, described as “Georgia’s premier web log for people accused of crimes and the lawyers defending them.” They are off to a good start, providing substantive discussion of cases and legislation — and a podcast to boot.…
Even the government is podcasting these days, and Free Government Information has compiled a list of federal and state government podcasts. The sleeper of the lot: Inside NYPD, the New York Police Department daily podcast.…
All the Justice Department asks is to monitor your online searches, but Google is resisting. If you want to be a patriot and help the federal government snoop on its citizens, then switch your search engine to Patriot Search. Its policy to is to make certain the government is informed should you search…
What’s new on the UK legal web? reports on two new blogs: Family Lore, from a family law solicitor practicing in England and Wales, and The Landlord Law Blog, offering thoughts on residential landlord and tenant law.…
Via The Volokh Conspiracy comes news of two new lawprof group blogs: Empirical Legal Studies and International Economic Law and Policy Blog.…
In his “On Language” column this week, William Safire takes on Blargon, the lingo of blogging. [Via Depraved Librarian.]…
Remember when your mother used to warn you, “Don’t put that money in your mouth — you don’t know where it’s been!” Well, now you do, thanks to Where’s George?, a site where you can track the travels of paper money. Prefer to track Canadian currency? Use Where’s Willy?.…
If images of gastrointestinal endoscopy or neuroimaging start your heart racing, you are probably a personal-injury lawyer. Medical images are important, both to help you understand the plaintiff’s injuries and as demonstrative evidence to use in the courtroom. Medical Image Databases on the Internet is a useful compilation not of images, but…
Firefox devotees know that sometimes, you just gotta run Internet Explorer. Now, there is a Firefox extension that lets you run IE in a Firefox tab.…
I’ve written before about Googlism, a fun tool that searches Google to arrive at a characterization of a person, place or thing. Now there is something similar for the blogosphere, Opinmind. Type a name or topic in its search box, and it returns two side-by-side lists of pro and con comments from…
In 2002, entrepreneur Bill Sagan bought the complete archives of legendary rock promoter Bill Graham. The archives included Graham’s never-released tapes of thousands of live performances by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Cream, Jefferson Airplane, Van Morrison, Santana, Otis Redding, Steppenwolf, Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Bob…
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