The Blaster Worm has begun to peter out, but variants are popping up all over the place. There’s a new, good worm that is designed to “infect” a computer and repair any damage done by the Blaster worm. Trouble is, it’s still a worm — it sticks around in your computer, draining your processing power,
BOTD
The headline for this posting is inspired by our first law-related weblog of the day:
- Acronym Soup is written by JDR, and is perfect for anyone who deals “with the SEC, NASD, NYSE, CFTC, NFA, CBOT, CME, BOTCC, OCC, CHX, PCX, AMEX, PHLX, EUREX or CBOE (or any combination thereof).” (Via Denise)
- Dave Stratton,
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More about aggregators
If you’re an information junkie who hasn’t jumped on the news aggregator bandwagon yet, here’s an article describing RSS feeds, what an aggregator does, and different types of newsreaders.
AltaVista’s got the bar
Following in the footsteps of nearly every other search engine out there, AltaVista has launched a search toolbar that lets you query its web, news and multimedia search capabilities while visiting any page on the web. Check out a description of its features over at SearchDay.
The latest issue of…
…the Internet Legal Research Weekly is up, featuring:
Blawgs of the Day
Picking up where we left off yesterday — one left! Kelly D. Talcott, a registered patent attorney at Pennie & Edmonds, brings you recent events in intellectual property and technology law at Infringing Actions. (via Denise)
Coming soon (we hope): Inventio, featuring news, updates and thoughts on patent law and the
Blawgs of the Day
And on they roll:
- z., a legal reference librarian, publishes Legal References, “a blog covering law, librarianship, research, and technology.” My kinda blog
- The Westminster Law Library at the University of Denver has begun a blawg listing — keep it up!
Toss your calculator
Well, maybe not. But Google makes it easier to calculate online with its new built-in calculator function. You can do simple math problems, physical constants, convert cooking measurements, and lots of mathematical stuff I can’t even pretend to understand. Give it a whirl.
Look up lots of stuff
Gary Price is still guest writing over at SearchDay, and today he has a review of the Lookup Directory. I did a short review of this site back on January 5, and while I’m not a big fan of direct marketing (MelissaData targets the direct marketing industry), these tools are undeniably useful.
A Gem from the Invisible Web
Gary Price is guest writing for Chris Sherman, and today he’s talking about the great resources available at the Congressional Research Service.
