The weekly update: Last for a week.
Taking a quick week vacation starting tomorrow, so probably no updates until after the 3d. (Unless I get access on the way).
Meanwhile, Just a few new things this week: starting with the war stuff (every week, more war stuff).

Ready.gov Homeland security for you.

Latest National Guard/Reserves callups dated Feb. 12.

IraqWar.info summarizes and links to news reports.

And more useful links....

Reference

About Herbs, Botanicals, and other products from Sloan-Kettering.

Space Shuttle Investigation Reference from NASA.
Governments/Politics

City of Seattle business license database wouldn't it be nice if more cities did this?

Explore Parliament a guide to Westminster...
Journalism

Behind the Journal-Times the Racine, Wisc. paper publishes this Weblog to explain coverage issues.

Readership Institute the Northwestern site has survey results, a resource library.
News:

You won't read this in print online-only newspaper columns and weblogs, from Steve Outing.

Aurora de Chile this newspaper was published in 1812 and 1813. This website is reproducing each issue day by day, as if it were a website of a current paper.

Latinclips.com a clipping service for Latin America news.

Pacific Northwest newspapers clippings collection scanned clips from Seattle, Portland, and Lewiston newspapers, among others, collected in the 1930s. Searchable.
People:

Records in the Illinois State Archives include lots of genealogy databases like veterans' records, marriage licenses, death and slavery/emancipation indexes, historical criminal records, homicide and coroners' records, lots more.

Annual survey of top philanthropists from Chronicle of Philanthropy. Includes a searchable database, if you're registered.
Florida:

, Public Records , Tools , Statistics: no links this week.

Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

How to love the U.S. from BBC.

Dollars from Heaven Pittsburgh Post-Gazette analysis of NASA research spending in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio areas.

We have met the enemy Phillyburbs mag compares Reagan's speeches to Bush administration's....

Ultimate swimsuit 40 years of Sports Illustrated issues...

Photos of people in Baghdad.

NASA and the spellbound press 1986 story from CJR.

Multilingual Polling article by Sergio Bendixen in Columbia Journalism review.

On obit writing by Ari Goldman of NYT. Better done by older reporters?

A Conversation with J. Albert Diaz Herald photographer is interviewed on Poynter website. Note the great slide show linked here, from the Lure of the Burbs series.
Fun/Entertaining:

Typing practice, disguised as a game...

Bea's Diary illustrated diary of a Toronto woman, nicely done....