Piano in the woods

Seen on CNN:

Mystery piano in woods perplexes police
Woman finds piano in woods near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, while walking a trail

By Josh Levs
CNN

(CNN) -- Was it a theft? A prank? A roundabout effort to bring some holiday cheer to the police? Authorities in Harwich, Massachusetts, are probing the mysterious appearance of a piano, in good working condition, in the middle of the woods.

Discovered by a woman who was walking a trail, the Baldwin Acrosonic piano, model number 987, is intact -- and, apparently, in tune. (cont.)

DFW SLA Meeting: Dec. 4th

Dallas/Ft. Worth Area SLA Meeting

Date: Thursday, Dec. 4th
Time: 4:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.

Place: Frisco Public Library, Vivian Stark McCallum Room
http://www.friscolibrary.com/

Speakers
Erik Johnson
http://www.linkedin.com/in/erikjwithak

Topic: Social Networking Tools
Learn how social networking tools are used in different work environments. Erik has worked on blogs and wikis for the Dallas Morning News and Tom has developed tools for the legal profession.

Price: No charge
Appetizers will be available.

Please RSVP to Barbara Fullerton at bfullerton@10kwizard.com by end of Tuesday, Dec. 2nd.

ALM Starts New International Legal News Website

Today, ALM announced a new International Legal Website for international legal news:
http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp

Links to legal blogs from across the globe, latest news from the Asian markets, legal information worldwide

All updated daily with free e-mail alerts. Sign up at http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=inta&w=int

One stop Federal Register shopping

http://www.federalregister.gov/ - one stop Federal Register shopping.

Their catalog (http://www.federalregister.gov/Catalog.aspx) is pretty neat too, gives a description of each publication, link to the online version, and a picture of the print version or electronic version icon.

AALL Spectrum Blog

Did you know that AALL Spectrum has a blog? Get the latest inbetween issues news at http://aallspectrum.wordpress.com/.

Legislative Archive System

Email sent from Melanie Harshman regarding the new Legislative Archive System.

The Legislative Reference Library is pleased to announce the Legislative Archive System containing scanned bill files from the 57th Legislature (1961) - 77th Legislature (2001) is now available the public.

From the LRL homepage, www.lrl.state.tx.us, click on "Legislative Archive System" on the left. It works best with Internet Explorer.

You can also perform Advanced Searches, which allows searching bill captions across all sessions, and searching authors, subjects and actions across certain sessions. A detailed list of what options are available for each session is here: http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/research/billsearch/LASstatus.cfm

We also have a new "Bill Search" option on our website. This allows you to search by bill or chapter number, then link directly to the Legislative Archive System bill file, as well as other documents such as interim reports that may have followed implementation of the legislation.

We would be most appreciate of any problems, feedback or suggestions you may have using the system.

Best regards,
Melanie

Melanie Harshman
Administrative Librarian
Legislative Reference Library

Financial Crisis Resources Update

I posted an earlier entry that had some websites for finding information about the financial crisis.

Yesterday I saw that Mark Cuban has a new blog called Bailout Sleuth. Included in the blog is an RSS feed.

http://bailoutsleuth.com/

Chairs that follow you

This is

Christine Peterson blogged about these chairs that follow you around in her Library Technology in Texas blog. See for yourself.
http://libtechtexas.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/chairs-following-you-in-the-library/

New Website: President-Elect

There's a new website called change.gov. It's information from the Office of the President-Elect.
http://change.gov

The site contains latest news releases, bios, upcoming events, agenda, etc. I found an RSS feed for the newsroom using my Reader.

Rule 502 Update

Just a reminder that Rule 502 of the Federal Rule of Evidence is effective Dec. 1, 2008.

The rule is intended to reduce the costs of document review.

Voting in Dallas County

Tuesday's the Big Day!

To keep a watch on the Dallas County voting results visit:

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/TX/Dallas/9051/11681/en/summary.html

View results, precincts reports, voter turnout numbers, etc.

Tracking Vote Reports on Twitter

Twitter Vote Report is an all-volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators who have teamed up to help track voting problems on Election Day.
Using Twitter Vote Report, voters will be able to share their experiences and resources with one another (e.g. “#wait:120? meaning that the wait time is 120 minutes). These messages will then be aggregated and mapped so that we can “see” voting problems around the country in real-time.

From Today's CyberJournalist
For more info: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/twitter-vote-report/