The California Supreme Court will soon hear an appeal of a lower court decision that a disgruntled former employee’s constant e-mails to his former co-workers constitutes actionable trespass. Check out this brief summary from LawMeme.
Who has time to do this?
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Posted in Fun Stuff
The Human Clock is pretty cool — just select your time zone and get a photo of a random person holding a piece of paper with the current time. A minute passes, and you get a picture of a different person. Apparently, people all over the world are submitting photos for this project. Again —…
Opinion on Posting of Model Codes
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Posted in Legal Research Sites
In the October 20 issue of the Newsletter, I mentioned a site that dealt with model codes, including building, electrical, fire, and other codes — I also mentioned that a lot of these codes are not online, due to publishing restrictions.
Well, it seems somebody wasn’t happy with that particular publishing monopoly, and decided to
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Do you bank online?
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Posted in Web and Online Culture
A new survey shows that over 37 million bank online, an increase of 164% since 2000. You can read the full survey here.
Who Owns the Alphabet?
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Posted in Search Engines
This interesting page features a listing of the websites that rank #1 when you go to Google and type in a particular letter of the alphabet. For example, type in “I” and you’ll get Disney Online, while “Q” brings up Q4Music, an online music magazine. Interesting.
Better than sitting on his lap
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Posted in Fun Stuff
I’m talking about Santa Claus, of course. Now that the holiday season has begun in earnest, attention turns to new ways to get that wish list to the man with the bag. Wired reports on services that allow children to e-mail Santa — some of these sites receive up to 500,000 e-mails a day. I…
Have your flight status delivered to you
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Posted in Useful Web Sites
Considering yesterday is traditionally the busiest travel day of the year, this is probably a day too late, but check out the New York Times’ review of flight status notification systems. Just go to the airline website, find your flight, and you can get a voice or text messsage sent to you just prior…
Finally!
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Posted in Mighell Marker
This week’s issue of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is available for your reading pleasure — just click ‘n read.
Sometimes these Spam fighters work TOO well
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I mentioned back on November 5 that the Federal Trade Commission receives about 70,000 spam messages sent in by Internet users. This article from Wired notes that the FTC itself is bouncing many e-mails for coming from blacklisted Internet service providers. Fred Langa noted earlier this month in Information Week that while spam filters statistically
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The collective consciousness of the world?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
It must be pretty cool to work as a receptionist at Google. In the lobby, there’s a display called Live Query that provides constantly updated samples — in 86 languages, mind you — of what people around the world are typing into Google’s search engine.