Bay Blogger alum The Legal Reader's got quite a claim to fame now -- he helped capture Darren Mack, that guy in Reno who stabbed his wife, shot the family court judge that ruled against him, and then fled to Mexico. Dang, the Blotter does nothing. So an innocuous post of the Reader's from 2004, about George Bush's bad federal judicial nominees, somehow turned into one of the top places for people to post comments......

The local blogosphere seems to have shaken off their collective hangover, so lots to discuss today. Om Malik pours cold water on the Google PC rumor, points toward Google Video and says "getting warmer." An ever bigger rumor is that Microsoft might swallow Yahoo whole. Meanwhile, Evil Signtist Courtney lauds Google for shouting out Louis Braille on his birthday. And Nivi asks that you "Donate to Wikipedia if You Love Your Mom." Alternately, donate......

This is kind of a correction, kind of an apology, and kind of hilarious. Yesterday, while hunting up links for our Bay Area Blog Pulse, we were cruising Bloglines. The funny thing about RSS -- even if you've deleted something from your blog, once it's posted, it goes out over the wire. And apparently, if you're a MovableType user, once you've deleted something from your blog, the permalink doesn't necessarily die, either. So we......

Left in SF is the first on the scene with the liveblog from today's citywide wifi hearings — look for a full recap here at SFist tomorrow. Anil Dash takes a long look at a recent WSJ article about Project Guttenberg, praising the tone of the piece and making some comparisons to the Google Books project. Leland "Video Game Violence" Yee gives mad props to DiFi and OG Lantos for expanding the GGNRA in......

Oy vey, we just got word from John over at the Legal Reader that there's yet another bomb scare in The City, this time at City Hall. Add it up with the bomb scares in the BART stations, and that makes, what, four in two weeks? Maybe somebody was late to a meeting and called it in, or just wanted to go home early. And if you tinfoil hat-wearers think it's more than a......

Well, the fine folks over in the Presidio who run the Internet Archive are being sued, along with Philadelphia firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey. It seems that the firm used the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine" to turn up old webpages from the Healthcare Advocates website (which is kind of like a web design wayback machine) while preparing a trademark infringement defense for their client Health Advocates. Well, Healthcare Advocates says that the Internet......

Three estranged lesbian couples presented their cases to the California Supreme Court in San Francisco yesterday, seeking legal clarification [via The Legal Reader] on their rights as parents. Two women are seeking custody and one woman is seeking child support from their former partners. Justice Ming W. Chin brought up how legal statutes which refer to 'mother and father' might need to be rewritten, and Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who is one of George......

When we saw the headline "Sex-Slave Win Leads to Malpractice Suit" on The Legal Reader (who reads Law.com so that we don't have to), we just had to take a closer look at the article by Justin Sheck. Why would clients who had won a multi-million dollar settlement go after their attorneys for malpractice? Would heroic lawyers fighting for the aggrieved family of a daughter who died at the hands of a man who......

So as it rains so hard, we stare out the window and we wonder, with a little sigh in the heart -- what is our plucky broken-hearted former first lady Kimberly Guilfoyle doing these days? Is she happy? Is she sad? Is she bundled up in a parka in the cold, cold city of New York? Well! Ask and ye shall receive. Making like a Gawker again, we turn to the Post's Page Six -- which reports that the soon-to-be-former Mrs. Newsom was making some heavy-duty eye contact and lingering into the night with a certain special someone! At a Court TV party for Catherine Crier's book about Scott Peterson, no less! So who could it be? Mayor Bloomberg? Mark Geragos? Robert Blake? Gothamist's adorable publisher Jake? No! You guessed wrong! It's MICHAEL BOLTON!!! ....maybe it's the hair? (Hey Kimberly: if he says he loves you -- he lied.) ...

...and this time, at least, that's what we want to hear. John at the Legal Reader points to a piece quoting Terry Gross, partner in San Francisco-based Gross & Belsky LLP, who contends that Apple's case against ThinkSecret blogger and Harvard student Nick Ciarelli is completely without merit. Apple counters that "Apple's DNA is innovation, and the protection of our trade secrets is crucial to our success." They accuse Ciarelli of 'inducing' someone to violate......

In the "No s**t, motherf**ker" department, John over at the Legal Reader recently posted an excerpt to an AP story which points out that under California's weapons registration law, the chances you'll get a felony rap is in linear proportion to the amount of milk you need to add to coffee to resemble your skin tone. Black coffee? Felony. Cafe-au-lait? Felony. Just milk? Misdemeanor. The study of the law was initiated by state Attorney General......

Today's extra special someone got drunk with coworkers at five and forgot to post on time edition of our Bay Blogger feature, we call The Legal Reader to order. Local blogger and lawyer John takes on cases of interest in the news. With daily posts and sage commentary, John provides a valuable service the Court TV crowd while they're trapped at the office. Posts are usually excerpts from newspaper articles, wire services and legal rulings, generally about the personalities in the courtroom and precedent setting cases. It's a great digest for the news junky or legal gossip. He's particularly harsh on misbehaving judges and corrupt lawyers, and keeps a spotlight on local issues like Fajitagate. Plus he's been posting daily since all the way back in 2002, before most people had even heard the word 'blog,' making his archives a great resource for searching on older news stories, too....

if you have $5000 to blow, John Kerry is having a fundraising lunch in the City....