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MISCELLANEOUS LINKS
http://epic.org/ Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://fairuse.stanford.edu Copyright and Fair Use - This site features an incomparable collection of copyright law materials and links with a focus on primary source materials, sponsored by Stanford University Libraries.
http://freegovinfo.info/node/174 Government Podcasts
gethuman database Speak to a human
http://blawgsearch.justia.com/ A great site for finding the legal blog you need - over 1000 legal blogs are categorized!
http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/Invisible/Inv_Web.html
The Invisible Web Revealed - A guide to the "invisible Web"&8211;information stored on databases that shut out traditional search engines.
http://shopper.cnet.com CNET Shopper - For all the gadgets you wish you had.
http://sites.mobile.yahoo.com/wifi On the road and need to connect to the office quickly? Find the nearest WiFi hotspot in a snap.
http://3lepiphany.typepad.com/3l_epiphany/2006/03/a_taxonomy_of_l.html
A Taxonomy of Legal Blogs
http://vls.law.vill.edu/library/express Villanova Legal Express - The express lane to Internet legal research.
http://web.archive.org The Internet Wayback Machine - Set the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody, to the early days of the Web. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine lets you search more than 30 billion Web pages archived since 1996.
www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/magazine.php You don't need to wait to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. Beat them to the punch and make your own magazine cover.
blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/ An entire blog devoted to using Adobe Acrobat in a legal environment. Rick Borestein's blog is becoming THE go to place for questions law firms have about their digital documents
cheddarvision.tv Ever had one of those days when your brain is toast, you just want to veg out to something completely mindless? We have the perfect site for you, one where you can seat peacefully in front of your monitor and - yes - watch live as a brick of cheddar cheese ages. Just do it.
concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/ The best collection of live concerts from the 60s and 70s anywhere. A sure-fire relief from that boring legal opinion you're working on. And don't bogie that joint.
digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm The New York Public Library Digital Gallery. 520,000 images. Can't make the physical trek to the library to view the collection. Check it out here. NYPL provides free and open access to its Digital Gallery and images may be freely downloaded for personal, research and study purposes only. Wonderful for those last minute grade school history projects.
home.swiftdsl.com.au/~vortexau/OfficeNicknames.htm Office Nickname Generator. See what they call you when you are not around!
lifehacker.com/ Tips and tricks to make the geek in all of us happy. For example, create an entry in your cell phone contacts named ICE (in case of emergency), for those well, you know, emergencies.
members.tripod.com/~Barefoot_Lass/index-2.html Excellent site on stain removal. Every kind of imaginable stain, and how to get it out. If the guys give us grief for this site, we're going to throw a glass of red wine on their white shirts.
myshingle.com A blog by and for solo and small practitioners by ABA Solosezer Carolyn Elefant.
office.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Office makes all lawyers crazy. Find help, how-tos, tips and tricks at this very useful site.
podbop.org Type in your city and get a list of upcoming live music events in your area complete with sample MP3s of the performer's music.
thomas.loc.gov/ This is an oldie but goodie and it just keeps getting better. I've always used this site to watch Congress and the progress of legislation, but the site now carries links to the Constitution, access to Committee reports, treaties, the U.S. Code, government legal resources, and even webcasts from the Library of Congress.
thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/11/most-dangerous-roads-in-world.html
underneaththeirrobes.blogs.com/ News, gossip, and colorful commentary about the federal judiciary.
www.abanet.org/soloseznet/threads/index.html Popular threads on Solosez. Even if you don't have time to get up with a listserv, you might want to drop and look at this site from time to time - you might find an entire thread on just the subject that interests you.
www.abiworld.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home American Bankruptcy Institute
www.apmstudio.com Convert VHS tapes to DVD for $9.95 each!
www.appellate.typepad.com/ A blog devoted to appellate law and advocacy
www.becker-posner-blog.com/ A blog by Gary Becker, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago; and Richard Posner, Judge, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
www.bespacific.com beSpacific Sabrina I. Pacifici, founder of LLRX.com, provides daily news reports covering law, legal information management and technology.
www.cert.org/homeusers/HomeComputerSecurity CERT Home Computer Security - Guide to keeping your home computer secure.
www.confluence.org/ There are 64,442 intersections of latitude meeting longitude - and the project here is to get a photo of each one.Some beautiful pictures here!
www.dodgeball.com/ Do you have someone that you keep trying to hook up with but keep having trouble coordinating a time and place? Register with dodgeball, and get text messages regarding current location on your phone when you are physically close by.
www.dumb.com a vast collection of dumb things - signs, laws, quotes, videos, criminals, songs, etc. You could spend hours on this site!
www.eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending digital privacy freedom in a digital world.
www.findlaw.com FindLaw - Launched in 1994, acquired by West in 2001, FindLaw remains the best starting point for finding legal information on the Web.
www.firstgov.com FirstGov - Official gateway to U.S. government information on the Internet, connecting to more than 51 million pages on more than 20,000 federal, state, territorial and tribal sites
www.fjc.gov Federal Judicial Center - The education and research agency for the federal courts.
www.fjc.gov/history/courthouses.nsf A terrific site of historic courthouses from around the country. Many of the photos are from the National Archives. A great place to browse.
www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=460 Some of the great audio moments from history in MP3 format. Remember Spiro Agnew on hippies and yippies? You're right, some things are best forgotten.
www.gpoaccess.gov GPO Access - The premier source for finding federal government materials online.
www.grc.com Gibson Research Corporation - Learn about your computer's vulnerability to hackers.
www.howjsay.com/ Don't know how to pronounce something? Help is at hand. Imagine yourself coming from a foreign land and trying to tell your lawyer what you think of him. But how do you pronounce "nincompoop?"
www.humanclock.com/?s=1 Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care? Fun and innovative ways to pass a 6 minute increment.
www.idiomsite.comWhy do we say what we say? When you tell someone not to look a gift horse in the mouth, do you know where that saying originated? All your answers here.
www.infospace.com/info/revphone.htm InfoSpace Reverse Phone Lookup - When you've got the number, but not the name.
www.internetmarketingattorney.com/nifty.htm
A great collection of ideas to improve your firm's website
www.istockphoto.com/index.php Jazz up your digital presentations. Upgrade from ClipArt to high quality photos. Over 1 million royalty free stock photos to choose from at very reasonable rates. Alternatively, if you are a budding photographer, submit your best photos here for purchase.
www.jellyfish.com/sotd Welcome to Smack Deals. Where every day at noon Central time you can actually play an online game show where you try to guess the percentage rebate that someone will pay for an item. Winning guess is declared a Guru and gets to spin a wheel for prizes. The Internet's First Live Shopping Game Show.
www.joesgoals.com/ Do your goals just slip away from you day by day? Hold yourself accountable! Have as many goals as you want - and chastise yourself for cheating (ah, those waistline bulging restaurant meals - bad, bad bad!)
www.karmafarm.com/formletter.html The apology note generator! Yep, sometimes it is tough to just say "I'm Sorry". Here you will find a creative, easy to use apology form letter.
www.killerfonts.com/order-President.html Write like a dead president - really!
www.lastDownload a free plug-in for iTunes at this site, and it will take note of every song that you play at least halfway through. Then it compares your tastes with those of like-minded listeners and makes recommendations that you can hear on the site.
www.lavasoftusa.com Lavasoft's Ad-aware - Find malicious spyware and adware on your system
www.law.com/jsp/law/sfb/index.jsp It's hard for a small firm lawyer to keep up with everything. Here is a content rich site to help you stay current with developments in technology, marketing and law firm management. They even have an RSS feed for you.
www.law.cornellLegal Information Institute - Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute pioneered legal publishing on the Internet and has continued to innovate ever since.
www.lawmemo.com/SCT/ Covering all U.S. Supreme Court cases, this new feature compiles information and commentary into a resource that houses virtually everything you might want to know about a case. The front page lists all cases on the court's docket. Each case is linked to its own omnibus page. The page includes a plain-English summary of the case, the questions presented and links to blog commentary, the lower-court opinions, the oral argument transcript, all briefs, the decision when issued, counsel for each party and outside resources.
www.legalethics.com LegalEthics.com - Since 1995, this site has been devoted to helping lawyers explore the unique ethical issues raised by the Internet.
www.lexisone.com LexisOne From Lexis-Nexis, this resource, which was designed for solo and small-firm lawyers, provides access to free case law, free legal forms and more.
www.llrx.com LLRX - Since 1996, this Webzine for legal professionals has published leading-edge articles on legal research, technology, and management.
www.lojackforlaptops.com In a world where laptops are stolen nearly as often as handbags, this site will sell you a piece of software that will allow your laptop to "phone home" if it is pilfered.
www.mailitsafe.com Finally, an easy way to send encrypted email, integrating seamlessly with Outlook
www.my50.com/ Have you ever promised yourself you would learn to play an instrument, test drive a Ferrari, or simply tidy the garage? Well don't put them off any longer. With My50 you can make a list of things to do before you die - your life ambitions, goals and targets.
www.nhc.noaa.gov/ National Hurricane Center Katrina - enough said?
www.nobodys-perfect.com/vtpm/index.html
Inspired by Jerry Seinfeld's statement that there should be a toilet paper museum - now there is! Answers that ever burning question - should the tp roll over or under?
www.nolo.com Nolo Self-Help - The home of do-it-yourself law, but good stuff for lawyers too.
www.oag.com/NorthAmerica/AirlineAndAirport/whoflyswhere.asp
- OK, so some of us have an allegiance to just one airline, and some of us just want to get there the fastest way possible. This site shows you who flies direct to where, and includes airlines not on the big travel sites like Southwest, JetBlue and AirTran.
www.oyez.org Oyez Project - This multimedia database of U.S. Supreme Court materials allows you to listen to complete recordings of actual oral arguments and take a virtual tour of the Supreme Court building.
www.planetpdf.com/ For the 'up to the minute' news on all things PDF. But don't miss out on their bulletin board forum at forum.planetpdf.com/webboard/wbpx.dll/~planetpdfforum
with a special section dedicated to questions regarding the legal industry. Some of the biggest names in the business monitor this forum and answer questions
www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm A great site for kids - a good and SAFE gateway to research on the Internet.
www.refdesk.com Refdesk.com - You've got questions? Refdesk has answers.
www.searchsystems.net Search Systems Public Record Databases - Links to more than 17,000 free public-record databases.
www.seatguru.com/ This is my husband's favorite resource for traveling. Everything you want to know about the airplane seat that your butt will be in, including where the power ports and bathrooms are. All your airlines and all their planes are here, including the in-flight amenities. Sweet site.
www.scotusblog.com/wp/ SCOTUSblog - Supreme Court of the United States blog
www.72hours.org/index.html San Francisco has done a bang up job of compiling a simple guide to common disasters and the questions they give rise to. Is your family prepared for floods, terrorist attacks, or long term power outages? An excellent starting point.
www.shockwave.com/contentPlay/shockwave.jsp?id=airportsecurity Online games
www.snopes.com Snopes.com Urban legends reference pages.
www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx Developed at Queens College of the City University of New York, the site's objective is "to help visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S. through the use of interactive maps and data reports." The site features a series of interactive census maps using U.S. census data back to 1940. These maps provide visual displays of census data for the entire country or any location within it for dozens of categories and subcategories. Use it, for example, to see how racial groups are concentrated within the U.S., to compare income levels, or to find where particular industries are concentrated. You can also create slideshows showing movement of data across locations or time periods.
www.startstop.com All things digital dictation. Including a great guide for the legal profession about how digital dictation can successfully be implemented in a law firm.
www.technolawyer.com Another oldie but goodie that keeps getting better. A low volume email subscription newsletter filling you in on all things Techno-Lawyer!
www.theplumber.com/whereisthetoilet.html In every language, the question "Where is the toilet" is translated. A must visit site for world travelers.
One stop shopping for those in need of all state and federal regulations. Pick the topic of your choice and it will search across all relevant regulations!
www.tinyurl.com TinyURL - This site converts long URLs into tiny ones that won't break in e-mails or fill up a document.
www.upennmuseum.com/cuneiform.cgi
Everyone, at least once before they die, should see their name as a Babylonian would have written it. Put it your name and initials and see what your name looks like in cuneiform. If you enter all your family and friends too, you have too much time on your hands
www.versuslaw.com VersusLaw - The first comprehensive case law research service on the Web when it launched in 1995, it remains a good deal today.
www.vnh.org Virtual Naval Hospital Good medical links.
www.viralvideochart.com/ The viral video chart will show you the 20 hottest videos on a given day. When I looked, there was a video showing the difference between how men and women shower. There's a difference? Did I miss a biology class?
www.virtualchase.com The Virtual Chase - From Genie Tyburski, a law librarian at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, this is a practical guide to legal research on the Internet.
www.vmyths.com- Debunker of virus myths, Internet hoaxes and urban legends.
www.warningsigngenerator.com/ Been dying to generate your own warning signs? Everything you need is here.
www.washlaw.edu WashLaw WEB - From Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas, one of the earliest legal indexes on the Internet and still among the most exhaustive.
www.wheresgeorge.com Tracks dollar bills. A great site to visit with kids or grandkids - shows them how BIG the world is, and how fast money travels.
www.woot.com It's now a noun, a verb and an online store/community where they sell one off the wall item a day and everybody comments on the item. No biggie you say, but the product descriptions are a riot and well worth the read. If you hit a wootoff, you could be hooked.
www.worldometers.info Watch live, the annual statistics for such things as world population, government spending, energy consumption, mortality rates, etc. Fascinating stuff.
www.worldtimeserver.com Get time zones, converters, etc. As we all become increasingly more global citizens, take note of whether your business contacts or personal friends are even awake before you try to call them. You can also use their handy scheduler to try to find an global time that works for everyone to attend a meeting.
www.youmail.com/ Record the perfect cell phone greeting for everyone who regularly calls you, based on the caller ID."Hi Frank. I told you we were through and not to call me. You're a worm Frank. A cheat and a jerk. I'm sending you to voicemail now Frank."
www.youparklikeanasshole.com/ It's annoyed us all. See some outlandish photos, and download some infraction notices so you can express your humble opinion to the guy who doesn't know how to park.
