Archive for July, 2006

Link to BoingBoing post and to StarTribune article.
Apparently left with nothing else to do, Minneapolis police arrested the “Zombie 7,” a group clearly spawned by the Internet, who were dancing to portable stereos. Along with their ghoulish costumes, some were apparently wearing backpacks that had wires sticking out of them.
These wires apparently didn’t fool the [...]

Link to post.
It looks like Bill “Mr. Big Volume” Heard in Tennessee is gleefully ripping off consumers. In this case, the consumer traded in a Mercedes plus cash for a new Chevy pickup, but got a call the next day. The dealership demanded another $10,000, and now blames the consumer for ripping off the dealer! [...]

I just found this great PDF of what constitues consent versus what constitutes refusal when residents of a shared apartment give different answers. This can also become a big issue when police officers do their best to frame questions ambiguously (”You don’t mind if I search your car, do you?”), but that specific situation is [...]

Being frustrated by the lack of information out there for solo and small-firm practitioners on legal software, I decided to start up my own forum for discussing related issues. Since most solo and small-firm attorneys manage or oversee their own technology (unlike big firms with in-house IT sections), we can use each other’s knowledge to [...]