Category Archives: Links

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“It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.”

In 1996, Wired interviewed Steve Jobs. I gave that interview another look last night, and was startled (not for the first time) at how much he got right, and how much of the interview telegraphed things to come from Apple. “It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind” is on my other blog, Skin of a [...]

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iPhone Apps for Law Students

A couple that might be useful: BARBRI Mobile Bar Review – free Barron’s Law Dictionary – $14.99

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Quicksilver for Legal Research

If you use Quicksilver to automate your Mac, check out Jesse Kirchner’s list of Quicksilver bookmarks for searching Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw, USPTO, and more. Quicksilver is a very powerful application launcher (and then some).

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Good Reads

I’m not a big fan of lists of links, but 100 Blog Posts You Should Read Before Going to Law School is a pretty well-constructed list of links to blog posts that have to do with law school preparation, financing law school, and so on. Yes, the folks at OnlineCourses.org enticed me to post a [...]

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Digital Textbooks: Ready for Prime Time?

In a Mashable piece, Josh Catone argues that digital textbooks don’t provide enough cost savings, are crippled by a lack of standardized format, and suffer from the same problem we’ve all seen with “rented” music tracks: Who actually “owns” the books? Digital textbooks could in theory knock printed versions into the dustbin of history, but [...]

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