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Mac Freeware, RSS Reader Optimizer, Facebook Erasing

Posted on April 15, 2008
The iLibrarian blog posts are of use to non-librarians too:1. Seven Ways to Get the Most from your RSS Reader2. A summary of articles on Deleting Your Facebook Account3. 15 Best Freeware Apps for Mac UsersAnd lots more - at iLibrarian.

Oregon law: What is the Difference Between Assault IV and Assault I

Posted on April 14, 2008
The Washington County (Oregon) Sheriff?s Office Newsletter always has at least one, and usually more, interesting (and even funny!) story. This latest issue includes this article:What is the Difference Between Assault IV and Assault I: What do the numbers mean??People often hear that criminals are charged with Theft I or Theft III...

Home Inventory Guide

Posted on April 14, 2008
Your lawyer, your insurance company, your executor, and your family may love you for this Home Inventory Guide one day, though only one of the latter is likely to help you complete this guide:Via Neat New Tricks (which also links to this Picanswers site ? gotta love the web), comes this: Home Inventory GuideIt?s a California guide so don?t phone them for help, unless you live in California! Phone your own state?s ?people...

2008 Oregon Judicial Candidate Voting Guide

Posted on April 10, 2008
The 2008 OSB Judicial Candidate Voting Guide is out. These are helpful, for voting now and for reference information later.It?s not always easy to find biographical information about state and local judges. Here are a few places to start:*** OFFICIAL SOURCES ***Oregon Judicial Department (OJD): for information on Oregon Supreme Court and Court of Appeals judgesOregon Blue BookVoter Pamphlets (Oregon state and county elections offices)*** FROM THE LEGAL COMMUNITY ***County and other local resources including bar associations, e...

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Oregon Voter Registration Deadline: April 29th?

Posted on April 09, 2008
You wouldn?t think you?d have to study the Oregon Elections Division web pages to find the impending, looming, terrifyingly close voter registration deadline, but you do!Here?s what it says at the Election Division Homepage. Find it there? Nope. Click on Voter Registration...

Law Library Assistant Jobs in Washington and Clackamas Counties (Oregon)

Posted on April 08, 2008
The County Law Librarians of Clackamas County and Washington County are seeking to fill part-time Library Assistant job openings:*** Clackamas County Law Library has a position open for a permanent, part-time Law Library Assistant II. Visit the Clackamas County Dept of Employee Services and click on ?View Jobs?...

Motorcycles and the Law

Posted on April 08, 2008
With gas prices going up, and up, and up ? more of us than ever before will be on two feet or two wheels. ... This sad motorcycle accident story from the April 7th, Oregonian, ?Old enough to know he's not invincible,? prompted us to track down some motorcycle law links for you:Oregon DMV motorcycle and moped manualMotorcycle Safety FoundationSo, whether you are on foot, on bicycle, or on motorcycle, practice your Purposefully Cowardly skills...

Lawyers, Law Librarians, Women Judges and Portland, Oregon

Posted on April 08, 2008
Great minds think alike. The following organizations all have their annual meetings in Portland this year:League of Women Voters U.S. (LWVUS), June 13-17th, 2008American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) 2008, July 12-15th, 2008National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ), October 15-19th, 2008

Searching Criminal Records

Posted on April 08, 2008
PI Buzz has a new post on criminal records searching, with a link to this guide from Pacific Information Resources.My previous posts about searching criminal records are here and here and here.

[Contract Drafting] LAWYER MEETS BEAR [Stearns Merger Agreement]

Posted on April 08, 2008
Adams Drafting blog takes a bite of the Bear Stearns Merger Agreement (and don?t forget to read the Comments):??. This deal raises all sorts of policy issues, but we at AdamsDrafting say to heck with the big picture?let?s look at the drafting angle! I offer below some random impressions derived from ten minutes spent skimming through the agreement...

Instant Messaging (or maybe not) for Introverts

Posted on April 07, 2008
A quick stop by del.icio.us brought me to this essay, Instant Messaging for Introverts, by Joe Kissell, posted at Tidbits. (For those who don?t know about the perils of some software platforms: you may need to scroll down, way down, to get to the actual post ? this necessary scrolling is not just because introverts don?t really want you to read their essays :-)The essay includes links to articles and books on introverts, including the very funny, pithy, and soon to be classic, Caring for your Introvert, by Jonathan Rauch...

New Oregon disclosure law drives small-town resignations

Posted on April 07, 2008
Interesting story by Karen McCowan, in the April 7th, 2008, Register-Guard, New disclosure law drives small-town resignations:Excerpt:"Coffee kiosk owner Scott Brooke doesn?t see what his fiancee?s out-of-town relatives have to do with his service on the Harrisburg Planning Commission...

?Pterodactyl Implications? for Lawyers: When All Else Fails

Posted on April 04, 2008
Over the years, I?ve compiled a (very) short list of authorities a lawyer can cite to When All Else Fails. This list includes the following, pretty much in order of frequency of use (at least from attorneys I?ve spoken to :-):1) Marbury v Madison2) Hadley v Baxendale3) Statute of Westminster4) Something, anything almost, from Blackstone5) BractonAnd today, while tracking down another librarian lead (Government Database Restriction Access Information on Abortion ? also Wired story here), I found this:Pterodactyl Implications (from the experiment):?I recently read this news article about a man who ran his car into a pole, and when asked by the police what caused the accident his one word answer was ?pterodactyl?...

50% off Sale: State and Federal Surplus Store in Salem, April 5th

Posted on April 04, 2008
State and Federal Surplus PropertyOffice furniture will be 50 percent off the marked price. Visitors can also find desktop and laptop computers, bicycles, lawn and garden equipment, power equipment, pocket knives and multi-tools, vehicles, motorcycles and many other items...

Legal and Financial Foreclosure Information Online

Posted on April 04, 2008
A guide to many excellent online resources on foreclosures has been compiled by the Wisconsin State Law Library in their current newsletter:Look also at their State Law Library?s Legal Topics Page on Foreclosure (and look at their other Legal Topics too ? we love this chart! You don?t have to live in Wisconsin to find useful information in it...

Oregon Ethics: Guide for Public Officials

Posted on April 03, 2008
The Oregon Government Ethics Commission publication, Guide for Public Officials, is now available from their web site, from the Forms and Publications page.

April 5th is National Pet Tag Day: Discounts and Amnesty!

Posted on April 02, 2008
From Washington County Animal Services:National Pet Tag Day is Saturday, April 5. For the first time ever Animal Services will offer half-price dog licenses and waive dog license late fees. Pet microchips, rabies shots, and distemper shots for dogs or cats will cost only $10 each or three for $25...

The Truth About Cell Phones and the Do Not Call Registry

Posted on April 02, 2008
April 1st was probably not the best day to Tell the Truth, but here goes, via beSpacific and the FTC: The Truth About Cell Phones and the Do Not Call RegistryExcerpt: ?The Federal Trade Commission today reiterated that despite the claims made in e-mails circulating on the Internet, consumers should not be concerned that their cell phone numbers will be released to telemarketers in the near future, and that it is not necessary to register cell phone numbers on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry to be protected from most telemarketing calls to cell phones?? (Full press release)On a lighter note: Top 100 April Fool?s Day Hoaxes.

Thinking about Becoming a Lawyer (but not one of these two in Portland)?

Posted on April 02, 2008
For those of you contemplating a life in the law, go behind the seamy headlines of lawyers brawling (Court fight! Lawyers trade blows in hall (from the 4/2/08 Oregonian article by Aimee Green).There are different role models for future lawyers: Seventeen Types of Lawyers, via the April 1st blawg review (for the whole lineup, visit Blawg Review), via f/k/a...

The Full Bedsworth

Posted on April 01, 2008
A new Bedsworth (no April Fool, he :-), who once again feels the pain of the Legislator, among others:?I try really hard not to throw rocks at legislators. For one thing, they have a very tough job, a very boring job, a job most of us wouldn?t take unless they?d stopped hiring at the steel mill...

Civil Suit Filed in Burleson Case and Legislative Changes Sought

Posted on April 01, 2008
The Friday, 3/28/08, Oregonian story by Anne Saker, ?Oregon patient sues over sexual abuse.? According to this story, Oregon ?does not require medical professionals to report sexual abuse of sedated patients?:?A woman who was sexually abused while sedated for surgery shed her public anonymity Thursday to file a civil suit and to promise she would fight to require medical professionals to report sexual crimes against patients under anesthesia...

Oregon Family Law: No Legal Obligation to Support a Child in This Country?

Posted on April 01, 2008
Also in the Friday, 3/28/08, Oregonian , a story by Anna Griffin, Portland mayor's race: Money woes linger from Dozono's past, Mr. Dozono was quoted as saying a curious thing:??. Ohno [Dozono friend and business colleague] had a wife and child in Japan, but also fathered a son with an American woman, Lori Lanning...

Creativity and the Law: Jill Bolte Taylor and Clifford Stoll and TED

Posted on March 31, 2008
The past few days I?ve been bombarded with ?creativity? of the best kind.From a very interesting discussion, and a funny How We Won the Case story, with a local attorney about the use of creativity in the law (not as straightforward as it sounds) to these amazing video clips from the TED Conference (and the TED blog) - my brain is whirling happily...

Child Pornography and the Library

Posted on March 31, 2008
On the LibraryLaw blog: Child pornography is NOT free speech:Excerpt (and do read the comments):?Critical point for all libraries: Child pornography is NOT protected free speech. If you see someone looking at child porn in the library, call the police...

Fred Rodell Blog

Posted on March 31, 2008
HALT has started a Fred Rodell web site and blog.What can I say? Read it and smile.

Geek Women Speakers

Posted on March 27, 2008
Very, very cool: Geek Speak Women: ?We help you find technical women to speak at your events?Via Uber-Geek/Librarian Woman Nicole Engard at her What I learned today blog.

Consumer Reports Magazine, Free, Full Text, Online, From Your Desktop

Posted on March 27, 2008
(If you don?t have a WCCLS public library card, ask how to do this search at your own public library. For example, you can also find this magazine, and others, online through the Multnomah County Library)Most people don?t know that with only a public library card, they can read, online and free, the product reviews (and everything else) that appear in Consumer Reports magazine...

Oregon Judicial Profiles and Other Biographical Information

Posted on March 27, 2008
It?s not always easy to find biographical information about state and local judges. Here are a few places to start, but be prepared to dig deeply:1) OFFICIAL SOURCESOregon Judicial Department (OJD): for information on Oregon Supreme Court and Court of Appeals judgesOregon Blue BookVoter Pamphlets (Oregon state and county elections offices)2) FROM THE LEGAL COMMUNITYCounty and other local resources including bar associations, e...

Who Is Hosting That Domain Name?

Posted on March 25, 2008
Sometimes you just want to know who is hosting a particular domain name. Go to Who is Hosting This (and its FAQ) to find out.More domain detection tools at Domain Tools.(Via Virtual Chase!)

Privatization of Access to Taxpayer-Funded Government Documents Continues

Posted on March 25, 2008
You may not know that the Battle for Public Access to GAO Documents (and its sister Battle for Free, Public Access to CRS documents) has been waging for a very long time (decades, in fact).Here is a summary from WisBlog, ?Exclusive Rights to GAO Legislative Histories Sold to Thomson West?? (thanks, Bonnie!), with links to relevant documents and related stories (and here is the one from the Law Librarian Blog)...

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