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Ecology Counts : Biodiversity Declining at an Alarming Rate : The Earth's 6th Great Mass Extinction is Under Way

Posted on February 28, 2008
Biodiversity and Ecology remain important Earth topics.If we are to believe The Daily Galaxy report concerning the observations found at the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Organization, biodiversity on our planet is being rapidly reduced by man-made extinction, and if we don't find a solultion soon, it may be time for all of us to start packing our bags as The Earth's 6th Great Mass Extinction is Now Under Way:"Biocide is occurring at an alarming rate...

Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (e) The Law Blogroll - E

Posted on February 28, 2008
We have gone through our links on the LawPundit law blogroll to update URLs and to provide selected recent information about those linked websites or blogs. This posting covers Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (e) The Law Blogroll - E:e-comm is a German language blog out of Austria by Dr...

Ohio on Barack : Gail Collins goes Zanesville on Hillary

Posted on February 28, 2008
Here is a nice New York Times op-ed from Ohio with a great finish by Gail Collins:"You don?t often see a candidate on a trajectory like Obama?s, and at some point it will inevitably head down again. But until it does, even the original Bill Clinton would have a hard time beating him...

Bloomberg Not Running For President But Getting Into the Fray

Posted on February 28, 2008
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has a nice op-ed at the New York Times which he aptly titles, I'm Not Running for President, but ...It looks like a philosophical endorsement of Obama to us.

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Follow Xiang Yu : Rational Decisionmaking : Close a Few Doors : Improve Your Life

Posted on February 28, 2008
Here is a remarkable article of direct relevance to nearly every human life.... Curious?Do you know the story of Xiang Yu?John Tierney in the New York Times Science Findings : The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors tells us something about the legendary Chinese general:"The next time you?re juggling options ? which friend to see, which house to buy, which career to pursue ? try asking yourself this question: What would Xiang Yu do?Xiang Yu was a Chinese general in the third century B...

You Can Get It If You Really Want : UK Conservatives Learn From Obama

Posted on February 28, 2008
If you have any doubt that the Obama campaign is having an enormous effect worldwide, check out this OurKingdom posting and this video of conservatives.com in the UK.

"Black" Obama as a World Phenomenon

Posted on February 28, 2008
To same degree that Obama's race is most certainly playing less-and-less a role in the American Presidential election as time goes by, his primary campaign successes have lit a fire around the world among the "blacks" of the world.We have just been reading a February 27, 2008 New York Times article by K...

Russia and Putin : A New Russian President Will be Elected March 2, 2008

Posted on February 28, 2008
Did you know that Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose 2nd 4-year term expires May 7, 2008, will be leaving office after his two 4-year terms, as required by the Russian Constitution - and that a new President of Russia will be elected on March 2, 2008, almost certainly to be Dmitry Medvedev, Putin's chosen successor and friend and a man who has otherwise never held a political office?Did you know that Putin has been a phenomenally successful President - for Russia:"Under the Putin administration the Russian economy saw increases in GDP (2000 - 10%, 2001 - 5...

Barack Obama Presidential Campaign Hits Goal of 1 Million Donors

Posted on February 27, 2008
Whether you are for, against or neutral to Barack Obama, his campaign to raise money and to reach out for citizens' votes is an unprecedented success, marked by the kind of modernity and organizational skills that are surely suited for the office of President of the United States...

Online PC Surveillance by the Government is Restricted by the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany in a Landmark Precedential Case

Posted on February 27, 2008
Fresh off the presses and with still little commentary elsewhere online.....In a decision hailed by some as the most important court ruling in Germany in the last 20 years, and with clear ramifications in international law in terms of the creation of a "new right", the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht in Karlsruhe, Germany) ruled today, Wednesday, 27 February 2008, that widescale surveillance of personal computers for anti-terror purposes violated the constitutional right to privacy and was prohibited by law, except in exceptional circumstances...

New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Conductor Lorin Maazel on a Historic Visit to Pyongyang Korea (DPR)

Posted on February 26, 2008
It is a shame that my deceased friend, Professor Kim Youn-Soo, a great Korean patriot during an academic lifetime devoted to the reunification of Korea, is not alive to witness this event, as the New York Philharmonic orchestra with Conductor Lorin Maazel is today in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)...

Happiness is a 22-inch Widescreen Display on your Desk : The Philips High-Tech Low-Cost 220EW8 Is Our Best Buy in Years

Posted on February 24, 2008
Here is a screenshot of LawPundit on our new 22-inch PC widescreen monitor (if you have a smaller monitor you can not see the entire header art graphic because it is simply too wide for your display screen):Over the last year or so we were of the opinion that our eyes were getting worse from too much computing and Internet work, but in fact, it appears that the cheap 17-inch no-name monitor we acquired a few years back may have been a contributory culprit to avoidable eyestrain...

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp : Patents for Human Motion? The Proprietary Pinch : Apple Filing Multitouch Patent and Trademark Applications

Posted on February 24, 2008
Patents for Human Motion !! ??The idea of controlling an object by waving a magic wand or snapping one's fingers has been around for ages. As a judge - we think we would call that a priori prior art from the Stone Ages and veritably enshrined since antiquity in the best tales about wizards, sorcerers and magicians...

New LawPundit Header and Several Column Changes

Posted on February 24, 2008
Update 3: OK. We have now corrected things for newer postings so that 15-inch screens also now see our pages correctly in Firefox and IE, but for that we have had to reduce the size of graphics presented on LawPundit to a maximum width of about 400 pixels...

Lifescape : Modern Women's Magazine on Its Way Up : "Eco, Fair Trade, Cruelty-Free, Organic, Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle"

Posted on February 22, 2008
Law is ultimately connected to everything else, in this case...Publishing, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Health, Wealth, and Wellness....Lifescape. Here's one for the ladies out there, or, dear gentlemen readers, for the lady in your life. I am not quite sure what age group this mag attracts, but women seem to like it...

Obama : Build the Country Up rather than Knock Each Other Down

Posted on February 22, 2008
In our opinion, Hillary Clinton and John McCain have recently taken to the false "boomerang-likely" election strategy of attacking Barack Obama (see also Obama Campaign) as the frontrunner, rather than sticking to their arguments and platforms as to why their own election would be better for the nation...

Dress Right? Precedent Blog & Precedent Magazine (new rules of law and style) : Feature Blawg of the Week at ABA Journal

Posted on February 21, 2008
Now, THAT's Precedent (it may be Canada, but it applies everywhere):Mark Twain wrote: "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." At least half of that statement is true.When we think of law and blawging, we think of lawyers, courts, laws, cases and documents, and probably not enough about the image "indicentals" that can make or break a case, a lawyer or even a career...

Total Lunar Eclipse February 20/21, 2008

Posted on February 20, 2008
Depending on where you live, there will be a total lunar eclipse onFebruary 20 with full visibility in Central America, South America and most of North America, except for only a partial eclipse visible in the western third of the USA and Canada.This corresponds to February 21 and full visibility in Europe, parts of Africa, with partial visibility in Africa and Central Asia...

Archaeology Travel Photos at Flickr : Over 700 Group Members and More Than 8000 Photographs : Stonehenge as an Example

Posted on February 20, 2008
The Archaeology Travel Photos group that we started at Flickr some years ago has taken on a life of its own.As of today the group counts 710 members and 8052 photographs, many of them quite spectacular.Archaeology Travel Photos at Flickr is intended for:"Travel photos of objects of interest to archaeology: especially megalithic sites, megaliths, dolmens, cairns, prehistoric rock art, cave paintings, aerial photos of archaeological sites...

RSS Feed Problem - Subscriptions to LawPundit

Posted on February 20, 2008
We are having a problem with the RSS feed.Update: OK. It took us about half a day, but we have solved the RSS feed problem.We apologize to our ca. 200 known subscribers (ca. 75 at the RSS feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/jlHj and about 125 at the RSS feed http://feeds...

US Presidential Election Primaries Followed Worldwide : Millions Affected : Obama Preferred in Continental Europe : Clinton Holds the Edge in Britain

Posted on February 19, 2008
The US Presidential election is decided by the votes of Americans only, but there is an international component in the election climate which may (or may not) influence voting in some quarters.At the EU Observer, Lucia Kubosova in her February 18, 2008 article French and Germans like Obama, but Britons prefer Clinton writes:"Most citizens from Germany, France, Italy and Spain would prefer Democrat Barrack Obama to become the next US president, but Britons would vote for Hillary Clinton, according to a poll of some 5000 individuals from the biggest EU states...

Save Your Eyesight and Avoid Stress Typing with a Logitech Cordless Desktop® S 510 Keyboard and Mouse

Posted on February 19, 2008
Eyestrain and/or Stress Typing?Our own now 61-year old eyes definitely suffer from too much computer time and that is one reason that we have recently changed the LawPundit format to increase the size of our website link text from 7.5 pt to 10.0 pt type, thus reducing the necessity of squinting for ourselves and for our readers...

Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (d) The Law Blogroll - D

Posted on February 17, 2008
We have gone through our links on the LawPundit law blogroll to update URLs and to provide selected recent information about those linked websites or blogs. This posting covers Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (d) The Law Blogroll - D:Daily Dose of IP is presented by patent attorney Mark Reichel of Ice Miller LLP...

Delaware Corporate Law via BlackBerry® smartphone - FREE - via eDelaware?

Posted on February 17, 2008
This is an interesting development in law in general,- and particularly -in accessing Delaware corporate law via the BlackBerry smartphone.We quote the text from the Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP website, "the oldest Delaware law firm and the 8th oldest continuing law firm in the United States of America...

New TTS (Text To Speech) Technology : Linguatec Voice Reader for the Home and Voice Reader Studio for Office and Professional Use : A Software Review

Posted on February 16, 2008
The first two paragraphs of the posting below - for purposes of demonstration - are available here as a high quality Voice Reader mp3 audio file (about 600 KB). Our voice settings in that mp3 are: 90 for speech speed, 85 for tone pitch, 50 for volume and 160 kBit/s for quality...

Cool Research Tools and New Open-Access Law Libraries

Posted on February 15, 2008
Hat tip to Instapundit, linking to TaxProf Blog writing on, of all things, open-access law libraries, with his own hat tip to David Lat and Above the Law on Some Cool New Research Tools ('A'nd they're free, too!), like Public Library of Law, PreCYdent, and eDelaware.

Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (c) The Law Blogroll - C

Posted on February 14, 2008
We have gone through our links on the LawPundit law blogroll to update URLs and to provide selected recent information about those linked websites or blogs. This posting covers Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (c) The Law Blogroll - C:Canadian Trademark Blog...

Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (b) The Law Blogroll - B

Posted on February 14, 2008
We have gone through our links on the LawPundit law blogroll to update URLs and to provide selected recent information about those linked websites or blogs. This posting covers Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (b) The Law Blogroll - B:Bag and Baggage by Denise M...

Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (a) The Law Blogroll - A

Posted on February 14, 2008
We have gone through our links on the LawPundit law blogroll to update URLs and to provide selected recent information about those linked websites or blogs. This posting covers Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (a) The Law Blogroll - A:ABA Journal Blawg Directory...

Presidential Leadership Ability Shows Up in the Primaries ... or Not : How about Leadership in Fundraising for One's Own Campaign?

Posted on February 14, 2008
The New York Times Caucus Blog carries a posting by Katharine Q. Seelye that Bill Clinton's successful Presidential campaign manager of 1992, David Wilhelm, has endorsed Barack Obama rather than Hillary Clinton. That alone is news, but what really hits the spot is WHAT he said:"He said in a conference call today that Mr...

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