Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
MADreads reviews a pretty funny sounding book called Yes Man about a man that literally said yes to everything for a year. Here’s the review: Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! By Sarah – Alicia Ashman on Nonfiction Yes Man – Next time a telemarketer asks if you’d like to learn more about their fantastic …
A herd of 101 painted, costumed, and whimsically transformed cows have invaded the Capitol City. They are part of CowParade Wisconsin 2006 and they will be on display throughout Wisconsin all summer. This week they’re in Madison, mostly downtown and around campus. Check out the Cow Locator for the exact locations. Or if you can’t …
Heads up Mom and Dad. Wisconsin’s new Child Booster Seat Law takes affect today. See the fact sheet with diagram from the DOT. Written warnings will be issued instead of citations for first violations during a grace period from June 1 until December 31, 2006. On January 1, 2007, law enforcement officers will begin issuing …
My family and I are gearing up for an annual Madison tradition – Bratfest! Once again, this year’s fest will be held on Willow Island at the Alliant Energy Center. You just can’t beat $1 for Brat (meat or veggie) or Hot Dog.
So you just got a cool new cell phone, but what do you do with the old one? Trade it in for something you want with these services: – RIPMobile From their site: You tell us what old (and not-so-old) mobile phones you have sitting in a drawer or on a shelf around the house. …
“Learn all the time without even thinking about it. We are born to learn, but somewhere along the way many of us pick up the idea that we must be taught in order to learn. We think that if someone doesn’t stand up in front of us and talk to us with either a chalkboard …
If you could change the text of the Patriot Act, how would you do so? Well, now is your chance. “Wikocracy is an experiment to see how the law would develop if anybody could change it.” Upload the text of any law (or go with one that someone else uploaded) and start making changes. One …
Think tearing up those unwanted credit card applications is good enough? One man documents his adventures with The Torn-Up Credit Card Application. Find out what happened when he tore an application into small pieces, taped it back up, and mailed it in. Oh, and he changed the address and listed a cell phone number, too. …
The other day, my husband and our toddler were comparing feet. “I wearin’ socks,” she said. “Yes, you are wearing socks,” he responded. Barefoot, he asked her, “Is Papa wearing socks?” “No,” she said, “Papa wearin’… toes.”
From EurekAlert (American Association for the Advancement of Science): Child pornographers will soon have a harder time escaping prosecution thanks to a stunning new technology in development at Binghamton University, State University of New York, that can reliably link digital images to the camera with which they were taken, in much the same way that …