THE WEEKLY UPDATE:
As I predicted a couple weeks ago, we are in project hell at work so posting and updating has been slow. Expect thin posts at least for next week (we have a primary election on top of everything else). Still some very nice finds this week:

Interesting stories/Weblogs:

Who Killed Tupac Shakur? This story from LA Times, but this version at Atlanta J-C lets you read without having to register.

Engine Trouble story in Guardian about troubles with Google...good reason to keep other search engines in your repetoire.

New background checks for school employees in England causing school opening delays.

Growing up in Jail Newsday investigative series on juveniles in prison.

Bill's Content a new weblog from Bill Dennis, Peoria journalist.

Terrorism/Sept 11 Resources:

CBC: September 11 nice memorial site from Canadian Broadcasting Company.

The Sonic Memorial: database of NPR's excellent coverage of post-9/11 aftermath, and additional sound memories of the building itself from construction to destruction, contributed by listeners. A Wired story about this site and other memorial sites.

Terrorism enforcement analysis from TRAC.

Sept 11 resources from Cyberjournalist

For a compilation of all the latest links sites on terrorism plus the links from last year, check the Terrorism page.

For Fun:

City Creator like a giant lego online.

And the useful links:

Reference

Zimmerman's Research Guide "an online encyclopedia for legal researchers". Get definitions, links.
News

Guardian World News Guide link to news from all over the world, using map or links.
Florida

The Everglades Landscape Model: "regional scale ecological model designed to predict the landscape response to different water management scenarios in south Florida, USA." From South Fla. Water Management Districts.
Journalism

Cyberjournalist's Great Work Gallery links to great online packages. Mentioned this week: the Sun Sentinel's 10 Years after Andrew package....
Statistics

Agricultural production database downloadable stats from DoA, including US and other key countries. Also available in browseable pre-defined tables of popular stats, like tobacco production, imports/exports, etc.

Census Facts for Features: Hispanic Heritage Month lots of current stats on hispanics, language, immigration, from Census.

International Crime Statistics from Interpol, latest releases include 2000 data for many countries.
Tools

DocMorph free service from the Natl Library of Medicine lets you turn any file into a PDF using the Web page. Or download MyMorph: now you can convert multiple pages into a single PDF, and more.

Profusion new web search and directory from Intelliseek. The search searches using "1000 search sources".

Craig Ball's sample of informal discovery links a nice directory of useful search tools like people finders, public records databases and much more.

Access Front Ends nice tutorial from Baltimore's Mike Himowitz.
Governments/Politics

U.S. Government Manual 2002-2003 latest edition of this invaluable book.
Business

Trade with Cuba stats, reports, and FAQs from the Foreign Agricultural Service. Coming up: FIRST U.S. FOOD & AGRIBUSINESS EXHIBITION
IN HAVANA, CUBA, 26-30 SEPTEMBER 2002.
People, Public Records : No links this week.