Weekend update: The weekly reference collection/research gleanings:

Two weeks' worth of links, but list is fairly short, due to holidays.

The useful links....

Reference :

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has the Iraq WMD study.

100 most misspelled words in English from yourdictionary.com.

Godchecker: "Your guide to the gods".

Encyclopedia Titanica has a database of passengers.

Google Year End Zeitgeist: recaps searches of 2003.

War Times Journal directory of Web sites on war.

Best Places to Live, 2004, from Money magazine.

Climate of 2003 report from National Climatic Data Center.

Year in Review from Infoplease. (Month by month.)

Top searches in 2003 in Yahoo.

Mad Cow USA: 1997 book.

MODIS from NASA, has 'real-time' images from space.

Eyeballing Gitmo: lots of maps and photos of the base at Guantanamo. Part of Cryptome.org, which reports on lots of sentitive places/issues.
Florida:

Find a Florida State Park.

Florida Hospital Services Guide has a searchable database of hospitals and conditions.

Plays by Zora Neal Hurston at Library of Congress.
Tools:

Alexa.com. Hadn't looked at this in a long time, but it's a useful way to get information about a Web site's popularity, etc. Here's the report on herald.com. Note chart showing hits: big spike end of Sept (Marlins?) and a couple more in July and Aug.

Wayback Machine Toolbar. Find the link on this page and drag it to your browser toolbar to easily find old versions of a Web site from The Internet Archive.
Journalism:

J-Net's top sites for journalists, 2003

Norm Solomon's P.U.Litzer awards for 2003.

Newspaper Mottoes: fun list from Loyola New Orleans.
Business:

Airline Passenger Misconduct Reports. Lots of them. This is fascinating.
Statistics:

Kids Count Census data: has regional profiles, rankings, stats on children's welfare from 2000 Census.
Governments, Politics:

FactCheck.org: from the Annenberg Center, a site analysing political bull, run by Brooks Jackson. (via PRWatch.org)

Census Facts for Features: 2004 Election. Interesting statistics.
People:

Top 50 boys and girls' names in the UK, 2003.

FreeBMD: a volunteer project entering the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, searchable from 1837-1983 (but not complete).
News:

Opinion-Pages.org search: this site now offering searches of today's Op-Ed pages.

Washington Post Archive, 1877-1986: search PDF archive, get fulltext for $2.95 per story.
Public Records: no links this week.

Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

Best blogs of 2003.

Big list of blog search engines.

The Charmed Life of Neil Bush in the Washington Post.

The Revealer daily review of religion and journalism from NYU.

Vitamin Q: a random listing of trivia lists.
Fun/Entertaining:

The Know-How of Knotting. Useful interactive graphic from St. Pete Times.

Penguin Warehouse: I thought this was a joke but it appears real. Penguins as pets?

BollyWhat? learn all about 'Bollywood'.

Snow Day: a refreshing Flash game.