The Weekly Update:
Catching up on two weeks' worth of links, lots of stuff this week.

The useful links....

Reference

Internet Sacred Texts Archive

British Library images online: amazing stuff.

E-Library of North Korea background materials.

Cell phone danger to aviation: report from UK's Civil Aviation Authority.

Baghdad history from al-Ahram Cairo weekly.

Census Facts for Features: Mothers' Day

Teen Lingo dictionary from a Baptist youth ministry.

InvasiveSpecies.gov

BlueRidgeParkway.org my favorite road ever.

World SARS infection timeline and deaths map

Reefbase Global information on coral reefs.
Journalism

ABC circulation figures, largest US papers in Wall St. Journal. NYT down, NYPost 'way up.

War dispatches from Ernie Pyle reprinted at U. Ill. j-school.

ReadMe newsletter and Weblog from journalism and communications department at NYU.
Tools:

Unlocking URLs article by Greg Notess on using Web addresses.

UPI photo search: archives.

Wireless Libraries: find a library where you can get free WiFi Internet access. Unfortunately, only one in Florida, in St. Augustine.

Melissa Data free demographic lookups I've linked to this before, but worth a reminder: find things like ZIP codes in an area code, place name, street address and phone number lookups (find out where they are and demographic info), income tax statistics, lots more.
News:

New databases in Nexis: Newspapers: Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum (OH) from 9/02; La Opinion (Los Angeles) 4/00; Marion Star (OH) 9/02; Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) 12/86; Poughkeepsie Journal (NY) 10/02; General Anzeiger (Bonn), from 1/00; Business journals in Colorado Springs, Portland OR, Rochester NY, Milwaukee, Norfolk, Minneapolis, Idaho, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Long Island, New Orleans, Pueblo CO, St. Charles MO, Vancouver WA; UK Newsquest regional press (newspapers from the counties) 1/03. Public Records: Jury verdicts in AL, AR, MI, TN, NY.

Television archives Gary Price collects links to available archives: NPR, etc.
Governments/Politics:

Political Notepad has reports from the presidential campaigns written by campaign staffers.

Patterns of Global Terrorism, 2002 latest report from State Dept.

Congressional Committee reports released by 107th Congress: includes McCarthy hearings in 5 separate volumes. If you open in PDF you can search.

We knew there'd be scandals compilation of stories about the Bush administration.
Statistics:

Sortable US Justice statistics now from BJS, some databases not in PDF format: Uniform Crime Reports, homicide trends, and management and administration stats.

World Economic Outlook database from IMF, latest stats on GDP, inflation, debt, by country. Updated April 2003.
Business:

CEO Compensation Report: 2003 from Forbes, with back reports back to 1997 for comparison.
Public Records:

Miami-Dade Traffic Violation searches public search gets basic info. (If you sign up for premium searches you can: view detailed case history and hearing schedules, search by attorney number, issue date, bondsman number, bond number, and vehicle tag number, and store custom searches.)
People:

How to identify military fakes good tipsheet on finding/using military records. More links for tips on Al's Morning Meeting.

Norwegian digital archives: a good genealogy resource.
Florida: see Miami-Dade traffic violation search under Public Records.

Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

Sen. Byrd does it again; his speech on Bush's use of military as props.

Geraldo speaks up: get his take on "the embedment controversy".

Baseball Blogs see what people are saying on their Weblogs.

Metapop a collaborative Weblog covering blogging and popular culture.

Off the Record a Weblog "of all the world's press clubs".

Dead Parrot Society interesting new group Weblog.

Web Diary a blog at the Sidney Morning Herald.

HIPAAblog for info on law's effect on medical privacy.
Fun/Entertaining:

Another amusing (and timely) 404 error page. And another one.