How likely are you to recognize a phishing scam when you see one? [What’s phishing?] Test your skills with MailFrontier’s Phishing IQ Test. You’ll be presented with ten email messages – all of which were …
Year: 2004
Google Scholar Searches Academic Content
Big news from Google – they have just launched a search service called Google Scholar which searches the Web “specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports” Where available, …
Wisconsin State Law Library After Hours Service
From The Wisconsin Lawyer – Legal News & Trends: The State Law Library’s After Hours Service, available by subscription to all Wisconsin-licensed lawyers, allows access to the library from 7 to 8 a.m. and 5 …
Article: Citing Unpublished Opinions in Wisconsin
The November 2004 issue of The Wisconsin Lawyer has an excellent guide on when it is appropriate to cite to an unpublished opinion. In their article, Citing Unpublished Opinions in Wisconsin State and Federal Tribunals, …
Bloglines Tips Sheet
About.com has put together a Web page full of tips for Bloglines users. If you haven’t already discovered it, Bloglines is “a FREE online service that helps you subscribe to and manage lots of web …
Collaboration Tools to Be Added to Adobe Acrobat Reader
Look for a new version of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to arrive before the new year. The new release will feature enhanced collaboration tools including a commenting feature. Read more in the CNet article, …
Yahoo Adds Library Searching to Toolbar
A few weeks ago, we mentioned that you can use Google and Yahoo to find out if a library in your area has a particular item. To do a search, remember that you go to …
Article: Jurors Checked for Criminal Past
It seems that the practice of running criminal background checks on potential jurors by Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutors has prompted a request for a new trial. According to the article, Jurors Checked for Criminal Past: …
Updated List of Wisconsin State Officers
From the LRB, comes a brief list of Wisconsin State Officers (Wisconsin Brief 04−18). The list contains constitutional officers, members of the U.S. Congress, supreme court justices, and members of the Wisconsin Legislature, as of …
U.S. Passports to be Embedded with Radio-Tag Chips
According to an article in BusinessWeek online: The U.S. is moving closer to requiring citizens to have an identity card that could be scanned from a distance. By the end of 2005, U.S. passports will …