Weekend update: The weekly reference collection/research gleanings:

The list is quite short this week; not much new comes up on holiday weeks, and I've already posted much of it, here and on the Herald blog. Among things I posted there this week: Holiday Travel tips.

In the midst of the mad cow stories, a couple interesting things: UPI has been trying to get BSE test info from USDA for months, and Did the Canadian case come from the U.S.?

More useful links....

Reference :

Airline logos: 75 pages of them, from Aerosite.net.

Educator's Reference Desk great education source directory from creators of ERIC database.

Festival Network Online search for art and music festivals, shows, craft fairs, etc.

Libdex: an international library guide, find info about a library, including branch libraries; also has a directory of library blogs, a Publishers search and a directory of online newspaper lists.

A Sightseeer's Guide to Engineering 7 'sights' in Florida, none in S. Fla.
Florida:

UPDATE, S. Fla. Historical Soc. magazine now is putting some stories online. The link is to an index of all issues. Highlighted stories are available, like this one: Lost in the Everglades by The Herald's late Earl DeHart.
Tools:

The National Map Viewer: this is a new mapping service from USGS: I like this pretty well, you can zoom in down to street level but all maps show topography as well as other features and you can customize it in a lot of ways.
Journalism:

SinColumna.com a site for writers who don't have their own columns (in Spanish).
Business, Statistics, Governments, Politics, Public Records, People, News, no links this week.

Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

Satan's Laundromat, a photoblog from New York.

Letters from Iraq: a soldier blog from one who participated in Operation Red Dawn.

New Blog: John Perry Barlow.

Marilyn Thompson on her 20-year pursuit of Strom's daughter
Fun/Entertaining:

The Foolish Dictionary

G.W. Bush as Gollum, from bushrecall.org.