A few months ago I signed up for the Accurint service, and it is terrific — I can access background information on opposing parties, or my own clients. When I registered for the service, I was told that Accurint reserved the right to audit my records to make sure that I was using the service
HotBot makes a comeback
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Posted in Search Engines
HotBot, a search engine that doesn’t get much play on this website, relaunched this week, this time with the power searcher in mind. It’s essentially a front-end for FAST Search, Google, Inktomi, and Teoma, and it allows you to quickly compare search results between those four engines. You also have access to the Advanced…
Blawg of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Knowledge Aforethought is a weblog on knowledge management which spends time “thinking about how legal knowledge workers collect, and then connect, the dots.”
Those wily Nigerians are at it again
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Security
Now that more people are aware that those e-mails from former high-ranking officials of the Nigerian government were hoaxes, the scammers have turned their attention to another scheme: fraudulent purchases of big-ticket items, like automobiles. The “buyer” sends a check to the unsuspecting seller, who then wires “transportation fees” to the seller — only…
When your wish list absolutely, positively has to get to the North Pole overnight
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Posted in Fun Stuff
Ever wonder where a FedEx package addressed to the North Pole winds up? Check out Fun with FedEx and find out.
Let the 2002 recaps begin…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Miscellaneous
The New York Times Magazine offers its Ideas of 2002, with some pretty interesting articles. Learn about stench warfare, enhanced clothing, remote-controlled rats, and more.
A new issue…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Mighell Marker
of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is available for your reading pleasure.
For those of you who enjoy statutory construction
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Now there’s a blawg just for you — the Statutory Construction Zone. This weblog aims to provide “current, succinct, statutory-construction case summaries that will be helpful to practitioners; to demonstrate that there is a lot more to statutory construction than “plain meaning” vs. “intent”; and to disseminate trivia about the pre-1789 English common law.”
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Update your Internet Explorer — we really, REALLY mean it
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Microsoft has upgraded its risk rating on a current flaw affecting Internet Explorer from “important” to “critical.” Those you who have IE 5.01, 5.5, or 6.0, head on over to Windows Update right now — it will take only a few minutes.
Another Internet jurisdiction case — this one gets it right (?)
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Posted in Internet and Technology Law
Close on the heels of an Australian decision that an American defendant is subject to jurisdiction in an Australian court for allegedly defamatory content posted on the Internet, the Fourth Circuit has ruled that a Virginia prison warden cannot sue a Connecticut newspaper in Virginia for allegedly libelous content published on the Web. LawMeme has…