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Posted on February 15, 2007
McDonald's videogame. Farm the cows, kill the cows, sell the cows in buns. Bookmark to:

Gimme Gimme Gimme A Foyalty Card!

Posted on February 14, 2007
Foyles has announced its first ever loyalty card. I'm a sucker for being tracked big brother styleand I love to save a few pennies, so naturally I am very excited about this. Every 15 equals 1 stamp, 10 stamps equals 15. I don't even know if that is a good deal or not I just [...

Ipswich

Posted on February 14, 2007
The publisher Sphere has acquired the rights to a book on the Ipswich murders, it already has a title 'Hunting Evil: inside the Ipswich serial murders' and will be written by Paul Harrison, a sky news correspondent(!) and David Wilson 'the number one expert on serial killing'(!!)...

Double Effect

Posted on February 14, 2007
Monday saw the launch of a groundbreaking 'right to die' case at the high court. The Guardian reports: 'Kelly Taylor, who has been given less than a year to live, says the refusal to increase her morphine dose to sedate her into unconsciousness condemns her to live in pain and breaches the ban on 'inhuman [...

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Valentines

Posted on February 14, 2007
Be the ultimate cheapo boyfriend/girlfriend and send your dearest a personalised virtual candy heart. Aw, shucks! Bookmark to:

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Posted on February 13, 2007
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is ten years old. Since 1997 it has completed 8,500 cases and referred 343. Graham Zellick, chairman of the CCRC, being interviewed in the Times Law Supplement comments on the changes the CCRC has seen during its 10 year existence, its achievments and the challenges it now faces...

Sock Puppets Beware!

Posted on February 12, 2007
Sock puppets (or businesses posting glowing reviews about themselves)could face criminal prosecution under a new European directive (2005/29/EC)to be implemented December 31st. Part of a 'European-wide overhaul of consumer protection laws' the directive will ban them from 'falsely representing oneself as a consumer'...

An Independent Guernsey

Posted on February 10, 2007
The Telegraph reports on leading lawyer Roger Perrot's call for Guernsey to sever its ties with the United Kingdom. Originally reported by the Guernsey Press, Perrot, who is a senior partner of Ozannes, argues the need for a written constitution to protect against 'excessive influence' from Westminster and the EU...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on February 10, 2007
Squillions of them this week: Yahoo! Pipes is a feed aggreagator and manipulator, letting you remix feeds to make them more relevant. You do all this by employing pipes, of course. A better explanation is available via Read/WriteWeb. MediaMaxis causing a bit of a stir with its offer of 25 GB of free online storage! Nakido offers file [...

Bookseller Redesign

Posted on February 09, 2007
The Bookseller web site has undergone a major redesign. The new site is a lot more user friendly and includes an 'innovative tagging facility' (apparently). The search function does seem to be much better, although I think it was pretty dire before. RSS feed is available and subscriber content is clearly marked which is rather [...

Media Bank

Posted on February 09, 2007
I have been informedby the BBC's Media Bank Team,that I maypublish some of their content on my web site if I so choose. This is because a while back I did a post on a really dodgy show called The Verdict. So checking their incomings they have foundme and thought I might be interested in [...

Reports

Posted on February 09, 2007
The Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information (APPSI) has recently published its third report. Set up in 2003 and now reporting to the DCA, the panel has the difficult job of advising 'ministers and officials on the opportunities for the information industry that flow from the greater use of public sector information'...

Law Commision Forum

Posted on February 09, 2007
The Law Commission has added a forum to its web site, intended to provide the public with an opportunity to discuss areas of the law in need of reform. The press releaseexplains: 'Any proposal that is put forward will be considered. In making decisions the Commission will look at the extent to which the law [...

CILIP in London?

Posted on February 09, 2007
Last November the London branch of CILIP surveyed its 4000 members, 302 or 7.5% responded. The results have now been analysed and reported and they can be read in full on the CILIP in London web site. One interesting revelation is that many of the respondents were unsure of what CILIP in London was...

British Library e-petition

Posted on February 09, 2007
Plans to cut up to 7% of the British Librarys budget, potentially forcing it to charge researchers and reduce its opening hours, has rightly caused outrage. A petition to 'keep the British Library FREE OF CHARGEto users!' is now online via the 10 Downing Street web site...

A Million Penguins

Posted on February 07, 2007
Alas, not literally a million penguins which would be pretty spectacular, rather a 'collaborative, wiki-based writing exercise'. Penguin, working in collaboration with De Montfort University, are seeking to address the following questions: 'Can a collective create a believable fictional voice? How does a plot find any sort of coherent trajectory when different people have a [...

New Look Times

Posted on February 06, 2007
The new look funky Times, which I think may have been launched yesterday, lets you post articles to del.icio.us - neat. Not so neat - lime green. They are being quite considerate/savvy about the redesign by providing a latest updates page with news on bugs, fixes and feedback...

Web 2.0 & The Machine is Use/ing Us

Posted on February 04, 2007
By Michael Wesch (Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University)

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on February 04, 2007
Added to my del.icio.us bookmarks this week: Share2me - share your web favourites with your friends using this browser plug-in, currently only available for Firefox. Good Reads - keep track of what you've read, get book recommendations, similar to LibraryThing et al...

Cornell Legal Research Engine

Posted on February 04, 2007
Cornell University Law Library has built a Google custom search engine for legal research guides. Don't yawn! This is really very good. It claims to provide 'easy access to authoritative legal research guides on every subject' andsources include LLRX, Globalex, NYU, LOC and Washlaw, among many others...

R.I.P.

Posted on January 30, 2007
Hello Vista, goodbye Clippy!

Infomania

Posted on January 28, 2007
No, it's not Peter Andres new single, it's a serious problem (apparently). 'Living as we do in a sea of e-mail, Blackberries, cel phones, Twitter, instant messages, forums, RSS feeds, newsgroups, conference calls, WebEx's and video conferences, web workers may be more familiar with infomania than just about anyone'...

Flash Bunnies

Posted on January 28, 2007
Flash Bunnies from Icklebug Must have Flash Bunnies! Get them at Icklebug

Status of Legal Resources on the Web

Posted on January 26, 2007
Richard J. Matthews is law librarian in the United States and the current Visiting Fellow in law librarianshipat the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). Matthews has undertaken research into the official or unofficial status of legal resources on the web...

Legal Hub

Posted on January 26, 2007
The latest offering from Sweet and Maxwellis a free online resource called the Legal Hub, providing access to the Bar Directory and the Expert Witness Directory (in full!), as well as articles and conference programs. Users are urged to sign up in order to enjoy the full benefits of the Hub, but registration is free...

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on January 25, 2007
Some of the things I've added to my del.icio.us bookmarks this week: bubbl.us is a mindmapping tool where users can create bubbles and link them together. It is ultra simple to use and pretty nice to look at too. If you like startpages then there are a couple of new ones you might want to check out: [...

Google Librarian Central is Listening

Posted on January 25, 2007
In a recent post Google Librarian Central announced that they have enabled comments: 'One thing that stood out to many of you was the absence of comments. Historically weve not featured them on any of the Google blogs simply because wewant to be responsive to comments and questions, and typically all of our blog efforts [...

Terminology

Posted on January 23, 2007
In this week's Times Law Supplement Richard Susskind calls for you to pick your side on the technology issue, will you embrace the new web 2.0 technologies or reject them? Are you a nerd or a luddite? But what do you make of Susskind's terminology? Are you nerds? I thought we were all geeks...

Where's Wally?

Posted on January 23, 2007
The media group Entertainment Rights (ER) have just purchased Where's Wally? for 2.5m and they have big plans for him. A Wally search engine could be in the pipeline, with ER's chief executive, Mike Heap, speculating: 'In the future I think you will be saying I'm going to 'Wally' it'...

5 Things

Posted on January 23, 2007
I have been tagged by Pupilblog withthe memetag: 'five things you don't know about me'.I supposeits a bit like a chain letter, but with less threats attached. So here goes ... 1. I have 32 handbags in my wardrobe (but don't tell my boyfriend) 2.One of my most prized possessions is a signed (and personalised!) photograph of [...

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