Internet Legal Research Weekly -- November 28, 2007

Welcome to Issue #284 of the Internet Legal Research Weekly, a newsletter that delivers relevant and timely legal research information, and other fun stuff, to your inbox every Sunday. If you like what you read, please forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested, and encourage him or her to do the same! To subscribe, all you have to do is visit Inter Alia and fill out the subscription form -- it's free!

Blawgs of the Week
Here are a few of the great law-related weblogs I covered on the blog this past week:

The lawyers from the mostly-Midwest firm of Blackwell Sanders are blogging away at the Fair Use Blog, described as the "crossroads between first amendment rights and intellectual property rights." It's authored by Blackwell Sanders lawyers Gary Pierson, Geoff Gerber, Michael Kahn, and Pete Salsich, III.

It has been awhile since I have featured one of the great blogs from the Law Professor Blogs Network. This one is the Sexual Orientation and the Law Blog, and it's authored by Sara Benson (University of Illinois) and William Turner (Emory University). They're discussing the legal issues that involve sexuality and gender identity.

Education Law is brought to you by the Philadelphia-based Fox Rothschild firm. They're discussing statutory and regulatory changes and observations about the educational profession and the impact that society has on educational institutions.

The Leichter Law Firm in Austin, Texas represents physicians and other health care professionals in administrative and other licensing matters. Their Texas Medical Licensing Law Blog provides information on these matters, for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and others.

Here's an easy tip, but a good one for Outlook users. When Outlook opens, you can control the first screen you see, if you want to look at your Calendar, Email, Tasks, or other items. Let's say you want Outlook to always start in the Calendar view. Click Tools, then Options. Select the Other tab, and then click the Advanced Options button. At the top it says Startup in this folder: -- click Browse and choose Calendar, then click OK and then OK again. The next time you start Outlook, the Calendar will be the first thing you'll see.

Do you have a question about searching the Internet or your computer in general? Drop me an e-mail at tom(at)inter-alia(dot)net – I’ll post your question (don’t worry, I won’t use your real name) and try to get an answer for you!

Revised Statutes and Consolidated Regulations of British Columbia
First up are the British Columbia statutes and regulations. Unfortunately, this site is not up to date -- the statutes are current as of February 2006, and the regulations only go up to December 2005 (apparently, if you want the most up-to-date statutes, you'll have to use a fee-based service). The statutes are listed alphabetically, or you can browse by year, to determine changes in the law. Other than that, this is a pretty basic statute site.

Civil Rights Code
As I've discussed before, the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School provides access to the entire U.S. Code. This page contains the Civil Rights Code, contained in Chapter 21 of Title 42. You can search within the code, or browse by section. Each section provides links to notes, updates, parallel authorities, as well as a copy of the statute in a PDF file.

American Gastroenterological Association
Readers of this newsletter will know how much I love association websites -- although most of the resources for members, there are always a few gems for the researcher. The AGA is no exception -- you'll find some great resources here on gastroenterology. The side menu provides links to Research, Clinical Practice, Practice Management, and Publications resources, among other things. There's also a Patient Center with information on common complaints of the digestive tract, with a link to help you "Find a GI" doctor.

Presidential Recordings Program
From the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, the PRP has made available roughly 5,000 hours of formerly-secret presidential recordings made between 1940 and 1973 -- from Roosevelt through Nixon. For each president there's a description of the types of recordings that are available, as well as the actual recordings themselves. You'll have to download a "codec" to decode the files to MP3 format -- they come in the FLAC format, which not all audio players are automatically configured to accept.

50 State Summary of Osteoporosis Laws
Who knew that 36 states state had osteoporosis laws? I didn't. The National Conference of State has a page with links to those various state laws. Most of them deal with funding for medical research, testing and diagnosis, and insurance coverage for osteoporosis.

In Pictures provides computer tutorials on Microsoft Office products, web layout tools, graphics programs, and more -- all in pictures.

Are you a caffeine addict? Check out Death by Caffeine to see just how many servings of your favorite power drink it would take to knock you off.

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