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Planning a road trip? Check out the Fuel Cost Calculator from AAA. Based on current regional fuel prices, it will calculate how much you’ll need to spend on gas for you trip. Enter the year/make/model for your vehicle. Source: Librarians Index to the Internet

Google News is offering some new options for customizing your news – Look for the box that says “Edit this customized page” Highlights include: Page customization– Select from 9 available languages and 22 local editions of Google News from around the globe Add custom sections– Create you own personal section for the Google News front …

Today’s Wisconsin State Journal has an article about the implications of blogging at the workplace. Some companies are starting to create policies for employees that blog about their jobs. From the article: A few companies actually do encourage personal, unofficial blogs and have policies defining do’s and don’ts for employees who post online. They recognize …

Looking for a map of median house values for Dane County? a family demographic profile for DeForest? or a table of major crops harvested in Wisconsin? These and many more customizable tables, profiles and maps are available free on WisStat from the UW Extension Applied Population Laboratory. WisStat is a very powerful database for compiling …

First it was ChoicePoint – this time LexisNexis is reporting theft of personal data. The E-Law Library Web Log has summarized the story: The New York Times reports that LexisNexis announced that thieves obtained the personal information – including social security numbers – of about 30,000 people from the Accurint database (part of Seisint) that …

Although it’s been up since November, I’ve just noticed that the UW Law School Student Bar Association has a blog. Nice. From SBA President, Nathan Lundby: The University of Wisconsin Law School Student Bar Association (SBA) is the representative organization for the law school’s student body. We represent students in dealing with the faculty and …

Looking for state tax forms or e-filing Web sites? The Federation of Tax Administrators has clickable maps of both tax forms by state and state-sponsored electronic filing sites by state.

As of March 1st, Westlaw now carries the full text of The New York Times since 1980 and abstracts since 1969. However, The Wall Street Journal coverage has switched from full text to abstracts only. This is due to a larger change: Dialog news materials (branded by Westlaw as “NewsRoom”) have replaced Factiva as the …

The Wisconsin Court System has recently published the Winter 2005 edition of The Third Branch. Highlights include the impact of the Governor’s budget bill on the courts, the relationship between media and the courts, pro se video series, jury trial statistics, and more.

The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections group has digitized an impressive collection of Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin. The collection consists of the annual and biennial reports of all important Wisconsin state agencies from 1852 through 1914. This is a great resource for anyone doing historical legal research. In addition to the annual …