The weekly update:
Free research resources: Some of us are lucky enough to be in cities where the local library system offers wonderful reference tools via the Web. As a holder of a Miami-Dade Public Library card, I can search lots of incredibly useful databases by just entering my card number on this page. Among them: ReferenceUSA, the database of businesses and residential addresses and phones. I pay a lot to have access to this at work: it's great to know I could get it for free just by signing up for a library card. Also available: fulltext stories from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, via Proquest. Here are descriptions of some other new free databases in the library's system.
Check your local library: you, too, may have access to wonderful things you didn't know about.

And more useful links....

Reference

Perpetual Calendar from Infoplease.

Collective terms for animals from AskOxford.com. One of those questions that always comes up: what do you call a group of cats? How about a 'clutter' or 'cluster', 'clowder' or a 'glaring'. (That's what it says. The last one sounds most descriptive to me.)

USuniversities.com find a college or university by degree program or geography.

Martin Luther King day links from Poynter's Dave Shedden.

Jewish Calendar Tools generate calendars, convert dates, lots more.

African American Women's history a guide from About.com.

Black History Hotlist

National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.

Census Facts for African American History Month

American Peace Website lists all the military actions the U.S. has been involved in, by year. Very few years with no links.....

New York Public Library Image Gate the library is putting images online; entire file will be online by next year.

The Nutrition Source: Knowledge for Healthy Eating from Harvard School of Public Health. Very good detailed nutritional info and news.

Acronym Finder
Governments/Politics

Pork Barreling Sen. John McCain has been collecting lists of 'pork' appropriations since FY98.
Tools

Top 10 Web design mistakes of 2002 sure hope some Web designers read this......
News

Broadband TV Central find television broadcasts worldwide on the Web.
Journalism

Journalistic ethics codes this British journalism foundation has links to newspaper and other ethics codes posted to the Web worldwide. Includes Orlando Sentinel, only Florida newspaper.

New York Times ethics code 53-pg. book in PDF.

Picturing business in America National Portrait Gallery exhibit of Wall St. Journal headcuts.
Business:

Key developments in U.S. public companies: enter ticker symbol and get chronology of recent events. From MSN Money.

FTC: Cross-border fraud: information for consumers and businesses, and press releases/fact sheets.
Florida:

Florida Area Codes handy map from PSC.

Address/Tax Rate Lookup from Fla. Dept. of Revenue, find total tax rate including communications services taxes, applicable to an address.

Miami International Press Club: Links a page full of mostly local news and other links.
Public Records:

NY State Board of Elections Financial Disclosure Database campaign contributions by contributor or committee.
People, Statistics: no links this week.


Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

All Consuming lists books mentioned in Weblogs.

BeSpacific a weblog on technology and law from LRXX's Sabrina Pacifici.

Blawg.org a portal for law-related weblogs (blogs, get it?)

Florida Blog a Weblog by Daytona journalist Mark Lane, with commentary on Florida politics, links to Florida editorial pages and other Florida weblogs.

Voter News Service: What went wrong? interesting article on system failure. On same website (Baseline, on project management): How Florida's voting machine failed (again) from October.

NY Daily News says Rael may have taken his name from a Pete Townshend song; and Mariel Hemingway thinks her uncle "Gloria" may have regretted the sex change....

Herald/WLRN partnership? in New Times.

New Times story on old spooks in Miami
Fun/Entertaining:

AnimatedAtlas.com this 10-minute Flash animation shows growth of the U.S. from original 13 colonies til now. With sound, like sitting through a fast history lecture....