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Anyone who works with the Federal courts will be familiar with PACER, the federal judiciary’s electronic public records system. The great thing about PACER is that any current (I’m not sure how many years are encompassed) court case is in the system, allowing the public to access any document filed in any federal court [...]

I’ve got three:

Rage Against the Machine: RIAA Litigation Update
The recording industry has ramped up its litigation campaign against peer-to-peer file sharing suspects, with cases now numbering in the high thousands. This session explores recent developments in the various cases nationwide and how someone caught in this driftnet litigation might defend themselves.

Among Thieves: Preventing Online Copyright [...]

In the great file-sharing war, it looks like the tide may be turning. Deborah Foster, the defendant in a peer-to-peer file-sharing case out of Oklahoma, not only got the records companies to dismiss their case against her, she got a court award of $68,000 for attorney’s fees - the cost of defending her lawsuit.
The [...]

A few months ago, Google announced that its Calendar app would be accessible by PDA-based web browsers. It worked like a dream. And for someone like me, a lawyer on the go, it was a great tool.
Suddenly, sometime last week or so, it just stopped working. Instead of the nice neat rows [...]

Via Daringfireball, comes news of Rafe’s Law:
An Internet service cannot be considered truly successful until it has attracted spammers.
In other words, you’re not truly successful until you’ve been rendered virtually useless. Probably true.

For the time being I’m only stealing links from Jeff.
He helpfully points out some recent work showing that most so-called “valid XHTML” really is no such thing.
These sources have more on why:

Surfin’ Safari
Anne Van Kesteren
Mark Pilgrim
Ian Hickson

One big reason: there’s no good way to serve XHTML to all browsers with a valid [...]

I didn’t take part in the CSS Reboot but I was inspired by it.
A couple of weeks of fumbling, and I’m still at nothing. So I’ve decided to start over with a new theme as a base - complete with trendy chunky footer - and then give it a new skin.
I’m probably [...]

Dear Google,
Sitting here in front of my laptop with browser windows open all over the place and hot-key access to all your features, I am completely and utterly smitten. No other search engine does for me what you do, from the quality of your results to the modifiers that let me customize my search [...]

I just got e-mail pitching various medications from a dude named “Interstellar D. Sawdust.” Isn’t that what became of Alderaan?

Michael S. Cox is a spammer.
You can tag it too: Michael S. Cox
UPDATE: But wait, there’s more! Now Cox is threatening to sue Dori and Tom despite the fact that, to all appearances, he’s got no case.

The other day I suggested to Dineen that she have a professional web site apart from whatever her firm puts up. Smacking my forehead, I realized that I should do that as well.
So I did.
After the site was largely finished, I did a quick check on MSIE 5 on Dineen’s PC. [...]

Recall my post the other day about “ink by the barrel“?
That post was more prescient than my football picks. Tiff’s story got picked up by the Consumerist, Instapundit, and Doc Searls.
She’s gotten more eyeballs in three days than I’ve gotten total since I started blogging more than six years ago. And 90% of [...]

There’s an old saying, Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. I don’t know the original author, but it sounds like Mark Twain to me.
Now imagine that the ink-buyers in question are a pack of howling-mad bloggers. Their ink is free, you see. They can just keep [...]

The front page has a new look and a whole bunch more functionality. It used to be a menu and nothing more; now the menu is moved to the side to allow for all kinds of content. The page now features:

The latest headlines from this weblog
A short description of the page
My recent posts [...]

I’m in what seems to be a tiny minority when I say that I use Kinja as my primary newsfeed reader. I’ve preferred it to other methods for a few reasons.
First, I like that it’s web-based. I read weblogs and news sources from at least three different systems: my laptop, my [...]

When I code up a new web page, I frequently rely on the world’s largest repository of CSS reference materials - tha Intarweb. This evening I was Googling for techniques on using CSS to pin a footer at the bottom of a web page, I stumbled across the following article at, of all godforsaken [...]

Last month, photographer Thomas Hawk thought he got a great deal on a camera through an online store. Turned out, the Brooklyn-based company was running a bait-and-switch scam. According to commenters, Hawk’s experience with Brooklyn-based bait and switch scams was not unique.
One enterprising soul decided to check out some of the online [...]

Compare and contrast:

The proposed typography (see also here) for an emphatic and profane way of saying “HUH?” (also known as the universal interrogative particle)
The logo of my wife’s former employer.

Discuss: Is this a branding fiasco in the making or potential subversive marketing serendpity?

Dineen found that an Amazon.com search for “christmas stocking” includes some results which might surprise Mrs. Claus.