The Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch awards top prize in its “Wacky Warning Label Contest” to a robotic massage chair that warns “Do not use massage chair without clothing… and, Never force any body part into the backrest area while the rollers are moving.”.
The latest issue…
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…of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is available for your reading pleasure.
Yet MORE blawgs worth mentioning
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This first is not a new blog, exactly. Broc Romanek has moved his RealCorporateLawyer blog to a new site, TheCorporateCounsel.net Blog. He promises to include even more practical information on corporate law. (Via Blawg.org)
A blog I’m looking forward to reading is Sub Judice, where “two recently minted lawyers” plan to discuss…
“God’s Machine” vs. ad-free television
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I’m a new TiVo user (thanks in part to Ernie), and I think it’s terrific. Apparently, so does the chairman of the FCC, who just got a TiVo for Christmas and calls it “God’s Machine.”.
When the head of communications for the United States starts talking like that, the television industry gets nervous. So…
Another week, another new blawg report
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The law blogs just keep on coming! Here are a few worth mentioning:
I was devastated when the LLRX Newsstand stopped publishing back in December — it was a must-have website for the latest in news at the crossroads of law and technology. I have known for about a month that my new friend Sabrina…
Great resource on Internet taxation
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To follow up on yesterday’s report that Michigan is revisiting the issue of Internet sales taxes, here’s a terrific set of E-commerce taxation links maintained by San Jose State University Professor Annette Nellen (Via beSpacific)
Well, I’m glad that’s settled
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A Helena, Montana judge ruled last week that Miranda rights apply to all of a person’s multiple personalities, not just the one who was interrogated first. As Best of the Web opines, the South has already got a ready-made solution in second person plural: “Y’all have a right to remain silent….”
No more long URLS? I’ll believe it when I see it
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Posted in Web and Online Culture
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is working on ways to improve the URL, to give developers a cleaner way to design Web services.
Another reason why it’s called the “Web”
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Yesterday’s SearchDay reports on the TouchGraph Googlebrowser — it’s a neat tool that allows you to “see” what the Web looks like to a search engine. It also shows how sites are related to one another, a la Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You’ll have to download a Java plug-in to view the Googlebrowser.
How to spend your newly-saved dividend taxes
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Posted in Internet and Technology Law
USA Today reports that lawmakers in Michigan are considering a bill to collect taxes on Internet purchases. The government giveth, and the government taketh away.