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A Little Legal Humor
From Power of Attorneys: Civil law - Wikipedia Quirky American derivation of Roman law wherein lawyers and judges routinely manipulate a written collection of laws that apply to everyone but the lawyers and judges themselves, who are exempt from observance of said laws; practiced by uncivil lawyers in an uncivil environment and administered by uncivil […]
July 2007 / 1 min.
13 Things I Learned in My First Year of Law School
- This list is not exclusive. 12. Everyone talks about the “real world,” but no one can quite articulate what that means. 11. Everyone agrees that one exam at the end of a semester is pedagogically unsound, and bears little resemblance to the above-mentioned “real world,” but no one does anything about it. 10. If […]
July 2007 / 1 min.
Zotero Gets More Legal
Zotero, the Firefox extension for managing research and citations, has expanded support for legal materials: We are excited to announce a set of seven new translators of particular interest to those who study law. Zotero users can now automatically capture Supreme Court decisions, patents, and laws and regulations. We would like to thank Bill McKinney […]
June 2007 / 1 min.
Freedom of Speech in the United States
An excellent library of court decisions related to free speech in the United States, compiled as part of a book, Freedom Of Speech In The United States, by Dale A. Herbeck and Thomas L. Tedford. Covers historical development in England, including the Magna Carta and John Stuart Mill, then moves onto modern controversies such as […]
June 2007 / 1 min.
OpenDNS
I have been using OpenDNS for quite a while now to increase the reliability and speed of Internet access. (“DNS” is the system used to translate human-friendly names into computer-friendly numeric addresses.) It’s reliable and invisible. I’m only noticing it again now because I’ve found the Internet service provider I’m relying on at the moment […]
June 2007 / 1 min.
Search Warrants Required for Email (Maybe)
Freedom to Tinker notes: The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday, in Warshak v. U.S., that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their email, so that the government needs a search warrant or similar process to access it. The Court’s decision was swayed by amicus briefs submitted by EFF and a group […]
June 2007 / 1 min.
CIA and the Freedom of Information Act
The CIA has established this site to provide the public with an overview of access to CIA information, including electronic access to previously released documents. Because of CIA’s need to comply with the national security laws of the United States, some documents or parts of documents cannot be released to the public. In particular, the […]
June 2007 / 1 min.
14 Ways to Speed Up Your Site
From Steve Souders, author of High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers, comes the following useful 14 “Rules for High Performance Web Sites”: Rule 1 - Make Fewer HTTP Requests Rule 2 - Use a Content Delivery Network Rule 3 - Add an Expires Header Rule 4 - Gzip Components Rule 5 - […]
June 2007 / 1 min.
Free Web Stats Evaluation
I am evaluating a variety of free statistics providers at the moment. If in propria persona seems to be loading slowly, or you notice lots of calls to external sites (especially external tracking scripts), now you’ll know why. As of right now, these are the stats providers I am looking at: Site Meter StatCounter Google […]
June 2007 / 1 min.
On Intellectual Property
Image via Wikipedia Lawrence Lessig writes: Physical property and the intangible property we call copyright are different. Jefferson pointed to one difference. But the really crucial difference that I’ve been trying to get people to see is that physical property systems have a host of techniques to assure that the property system is efficient. Copyright […]
June 2007 / 3 min.