The weekly update:
Didn't get to posting much this week, lots of stuff going on. And with the temperature reaching 90 in Miami almost every day this week, rather discouraging. Hope it'll even out -- and cool off -- next week. Meanwhile, more of the same:
War, war and more war:
More things to add to the growing war resource lists:
Centcom leaflet gallery: Iraq images of leaflets being dropped by US forces.
UN statements posted by Gary here in fulltext as available.
Investigating Al Qaeda: Timeline useful resource from BBC.
Baghdad weather: historical averages from Washington Post. Current weather from Weather Underground.
The Pentagon's New Map Analysis, also in Esquire, by Naval War College analyst Thomas Barnett.
Standoff with Iraq complete coverage from Yahoo! News.
And, mentioned earlier this week:
Beyond the Battle: Bringing global stories home site from American Press Institute has suggestions for local coverage of war, etc.
War on Iraq experts: at Duke; at Vanderbilt; at Harvard.
And one good resource on another topic still in the news:
National Academy of Sciences: Shuttle and Space Station reports, searchable fulltext of books.
MusicMoz a giant directory search of everything to do with music.
The Pantheon resource for Greek mythology.
Baseball Library
Black Facts Online "your Internet source for Black history information".
Online Etymology Dictionary recently listed; new address. Find world origins. AncientMexico.com
National Sexuality Resource Center
Timeline of North Korea crisis from BBC.
Census Facts for Women's History Month.
Search for schools, colleges and libraries from US Dept of Education. New search page.
Governments/Politics
Ben's guide to U.S. government for kids from GPO.
Journalism
New OJR column on war coverage.
News:
Daypop news bursts see the most-reported news.
Foreign Media Summary US State Dept site summarizes news reports/themes.
Harvard Weblog News Aggregator news headlines, from major news sources and blogs, in a Web-based newsreader/aggregator. Very cool.
LisFeeds Web-based news aggregator for library news from websites/blogs.
People:
The world's richest people: the latest Forbes list.
Statistics:
Census Facts for St. Patrick's Day.
World Oil Market and Oil Price Chronology, 1970-2001 from DoE.
OPEC: official website. Has daily market price and statistical data.
Federal Statistical Office of Germany in English.
Worldometers get world stats as they happen; covers population, environment, energy, etc.
Census 2000 information: school districts Census data on school district demographics.
Public Records:
Final reports of the Florida study committee on public records
Search St. Louis freedom suits local circuit court has put over 300 slavery lawsuits online. (Or, search suits related to the Lewis & Clark expedition).
Wisconsin Name Index searches databases of newspapers, deaths, lots more genealogical sources.
Puerto Rico records: Corporations (only shows name, number, no officers or other info), and a directory of professionals.
Tools:
Google Hacks: Tara Calashain has been programming Google searches to make them easier. Here's Google Yellow Pages search. (Search Miami Herald FL and get 3 pages of results!) More on the Buzz Tool Box page and in the new book, Google Hacks.
InXight: history of space flight utilizes a new program from Xerox Parc that visualizes data: this one shows history of space flight under NASA. Very cool.
...or try Recipe.com's version of an InXight database: find recipes by category.
Business:
Canadian Importers Database from Industry Canada.
Florida:
Final reports of the Florida study committee on public records
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
World of Ends: What the Internet is and how to stop mistaking it for something else.
Bang for the Bucks fascinating 8-part series in OC Register about a plot to steal money from an illegal Richard Nixon campaign fund.
Fort Florida St. Pete Times (Sydney Freedberg) story on how Florida police departments have built huge arsenals from federal surplus.
Sun Sentinel story on unreported crimes in Palm Beach schools.
Sources of income for Saddam and sons fascinating report from Coalition for International Justice.
Garrison Keillor song about the Station fire.
Florida State Library protest slide show.
Don't read German? Who cares, with the beautful photos of Berlin on this photo weblog.
Weblogs ranked by popularity, from Organica e.g.Dave Barry's blog comes in near the top, with 450 other websites linking to him.
Daypop word bursts will show you topics that webloggers are writing about. A good way to identify new trends...also here: news bursts!
Fun/Entertaining:
Amazing photo of Europe at dusk from satellite. But...read the explanation below. The photo has been tweaked.
Are you good or evil? Take this test and find out.
Search the White House website, and see what you get...
Homeland Security logo contest entries...choose your favorite...
Thumb fun guide to text messaging shortcuts from ATT.
Didn't get to posting much this week, lots of stuff going on. And with the temperature reaching 90 in Miami almost every day this week, rather discouraging. Hope it'll even out -- and cool off -- next week. Meanwhile, more of the same:
War, war and more war:
More things to add to the growing war resource lists:
And, mentioned earlier this week:
And one good resource on another topic still in the news:
And more useful links....
Reference
Governments/Politics
Journalism
News:
People:
Statistics:
Public Records:
Tools:
Business:
Florida:
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
Fun/Entertaining:
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