Illinois Courts go electronic

The Illinois Supreme and Appellate Courts will no longer publish their opinions in bound volumes, ending a 180-year-old practice. Instead, they will be published electronically on the Court website. Not to criticize progress, but I can walk over to the law library and those cases from 1831 are right there on the shelf, waiting to be read. (And those old cases are still good law - I once cited a case that Lincoln had argued). Will the lawyers of 2191 have as easy access to http://www.state.il.us/court as we have to the dusty old law books?

http://www.state.il.us/court/Media/PressRel/2011/053111.pdf

Apropos today's opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway, a classic John McPhee essay. hxxp://ping.fm/grO12

You think your dog does some good tricks? How about jumping out of a helicopter? hxxp://ping.fm/McKG0

County clerk suddenly finds enough uncounted votes to swing the election to her former boss and avoid a state-funded recount? Wisconsin = Cook County North. hxxp://ping.fm/3JtVV

Used the touch screen voting machine: 7 clicks to vote for the 1 race on the ballot that would have been 1 pen stroke on the paper ballot

Trying a CBA webcast for some continuing ed hours, hoping Fri aft will be a quiet time @ the office to get through it.

Denny's Baconalia Is A Festival Of Bacon, Includes Ice Cream Sundae - The Consumerist hxxp://ping.fm/leT53