Year: 2004

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 actually received by real people – and you determine whether they are legitimate or a fraud. Source: inter alia

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, some sources are labeled by type, such as “book,” “citation,” “pdf,” etc. Book results offer the option of a “Library …

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 to 10 p.m. weekdays, and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekends. Regular library hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. …

The November 2004 issue of The Wisconsin Lawyer has an excellent guide on when it is appropriate to cite to an unpublished opinion. In their article, Citing Unpublished Opinions in Wisconsin State and Federal Tribunals, authors Mia Sefarbi & Kira Zaporski have compiled a list of relevant court rules and standards and a chart on …

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 information, such as news feeds, weblogs and audio. Bloglines tracks the information you’re interested in, retrieves new stuff as it …

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, Adobe to update PDF tools Source: ResourceShelf

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 either Google or Yahoo and enter the search find in a library: Da Vinci Code Now, Yahoo has made it …

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: Timothy Jordan, charged with aggravated murder, asked a judge this week for a new trial on grounds that Allen’s office …

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 January 3, 2005. An alphabetical listing of all state officers is included. Source: Legislative Reference Bureau News Feed (If you …

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 come with embedded radio-tag chips — and Congress is considering mandating similar technology in driver’s licenses. The government argues that …