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Disk Shenigans, Old School

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:34:14 -0500

The manual for Mental Blocks (see previous message) claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler RamblingsI seem to remember having a lot of fun back in the day fiddling with the capacity of hard drives, first on the C64 and [...]

Seems the Class of 2012 Is Pretty Wired, What about Law School, 2015?

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:59:15 -0500

Sometimes you can identify trends in technology simply by looking around. And if it seems like every freshman on your campus owns a laptop and has a Facebook account, you might not be hallucinating—at least not at Amherst College, where 432 out of 438 freshmen had joined the “Amherst College Class of 2012” Facebook group [...]

Wikipedia: You Can’t Take That To Court

Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:21:04 -0500

References to information at Wikipedia have shown up in various inappropriate places, from homework assignments to college term papers. But there’s one place that it seems everyone can agree that it doesn’t belong: the US court system. The US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, ruling in an immigration case, has agreed with the [...]

Wex for the Medical World

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:20:42 -0500

With the backing of some top medical schools, a foundation is calling on physicians and scientists to help them build a huge online encyclopedia of medicine, called Medpedia. Today the Medpedia Foundation raised the curtain slightly on their Web site, giving prospective collaborators a peek.Wired Campus: Medical Version of Wikipedia, With Universities’ Help, Gets Ready [...]

Money for eLangdell? or DrupalEd?

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:26:57 -0500

13. Online learning. US schools are often bad. A lot of parents realize it, and would be interested in ways for their kids to learn more. Till recently, schools, like newspapers, had geographical monopolies. But the web changes that. How can you teach kids now that you can reach them through the web? The possible [...]

Fred Wilson Imagines Drupal Organic Groups

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:17:00 -0500

And that sounds right to me in the groups market. Charlie says the least common denominator in the groups market are these three functions: 1. A customizable site to call their own, even if it just has information as to what the group does and how to sign up. 2. A [...]

Banning Laptops in the Law Lecture Hall, Some More…

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:38:12 -0500

Charles R. Nesson, a professor at Harvard Law School, says the key for professors is to know when laptops are good for class and when they’re not.“Technologies are not good for everything,” says Mr. Nesson, who is also a founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. “Sometimes they destroy some good things along [...]

Commercial Support for MySQL in Amazon EC2

Tue, 27 May 2008 12:32:15 -0500

MySQL :: MySQL Enterprise for Amazon EC2Amazon EC2 is a web service that allows organizations to right size their computing capacity on demand using Amazon’s proven computing environment. Using MySQL Enterprise for Amazon EC2, developers can cost-effectively deliver web-scale database applications in the “cloud”, fully backed by the database experts at MySQL. Amazon EC2 and [...]

MSF Scraps Live Search Book and Academic

Fri, 23 May 2008 13:51:00 -0500

Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes.This also means that we are winding down our digitization [...]

Tell the Bluebook What You Think

Wed, 7 May 2008 07:50:05 -0500

The editors of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation are about to embark on making revisions for the forthcoming Nineteenth Edition. Please take a few minutes to fill out their survey. Surveys must be received by June 30, 2008 in order to be considered for the Nineteenth Edition. Comments and suggestions are also welcome [...]

More on Banning Laptops in the Law School Lecture Hall

Wed, 7 May 2008 07:47:02 -0500

As for laptop use, shouldn’t this be a matter decided by law profs and their students on a class by class basis, even perhaps on a day by day basis? If so, law profs might want to read Kevin Yamamoto’s (South Texas College of Law) article, Banning Laptops in the Classroom: Is it Worth the [...]

Adobe Brings More to the Linux Table

Wed, 2 Apr 2008 05:10:30 -0500

Adobe AIRs out Linux, Joins Foundation Adobe Systems is making two strongly pro-Linux moves by releasing an alpha version of the Adobe Integrated Runtime for Linux and announcing its membership in the Linux Foundation. Adobe officials announced March 31 that the pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR for Linux is available on Adobe [...]

Lots of Free Case Law, Now I Have Work To Do:)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:48:50 -0600

As announced at public.resource.org, CC and public.resource.org have announced the first release of material to support our free law project. After raising a large chunk of change from great and generous sorts like David Boies, John Gilmore, the Omidyar Network and the Elbaz Foundation, we’ve purchased a database of a substantial part of all federal [...]

Georgetown Law Appoints Assistant Dean for Financial Aid

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:37:45 -0600

Georgetown University Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff has appointed Charles Pruett as assistant dean for financial aid. He succeeds Ruth Lammert-Reeves, who retired last year after twenty-eight years at Georgetown Law.Georgetown Law - Charles Pruett Appointed Assistant Dean for Financial Aid (Communications)Blogged with FlockTags: lawschool, dean

Finalists for Dean of University of Washington School of Law Announced

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:32:42 -0600

The finalists currently scheduled for campus visits are:Steven L. Willborn, dean and Richard C. and Catherine Stuart Schmoker professor of law, University of Nebraska. Campus interviews January 24 and 25. Public presentation 4 to 5 p.m., Friday, Jan. 25.Gregory Hicks, interim dean of the School of Law, University of Washington. Campus interviews January 30 and [...]