Who does Google think you are?

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What does Google “think” of you? Find out via Googlism, a fun tool that searches Google to arrive at a characterization of a person, place or thing.

Take me for instance. Googlism reports: “robert ambrogi is a prolific writer on internet legal issues who works in alternative dispute resolution in massachussetts.” (OK, so…

And now for something completely different

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For “live, up-to-the minute coverage of the existential absurdity of human life,” there may be no better source than The Harrison Report. It is not about law, per se, although lawyers and the law seem to find their way in, but it is written by someone familiar to the legal profession, Tom Harrison, the…

Blog tracks down cool stuff from the government

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Time was, the only way to get cool stuff from the federal government was to send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Pueblo, Colo. Now there is a better way: CoolGov, a blog whose raison d’être is finding cool stuff available from the feds. Here is how its authors describe it:

“The basic premise is

Lawyers and the Three Stooges

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Judge (regarding Curly): “What’s the matter with him?”
Moe: “He thinks he’s a chicken.”
Judge: “Why don’t you put him in an institution?”
Larry: “We can’t, we need the eggs.”

Sometimes the planets line up just right. Sunday night, worn out from a day of skiing,…

Free public record search engine

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A new search engine makes it easier to search for free public records information available through government and commercial Web sites. Called Pretrieve, it serves as a single interface for searching a range of public-records databases.

Using Pretrieve, you can search for public records that relate to an individual, a business, an address or…