Weekend update: Other things I found this week:

More links on the big topics of the week: I have already posted a lot of Haiti links here, and have added more to the reference links, and a lot of reaction on same-sex marriage and The Passion on the Herald blog, but here are even more interesting things on these topics I ran across during the week:

Haiti:

Bob Graham on Haiti: Wash. Post oped piece.

Directory of organizations working in/for Haiti: long list with contacts, phone numbers, Web sites, from Haiti Reborn.

Haiti's rebel leaders: profiles in Haitireborn.org.

Haiti's Lawyer: Ira Kurzban, in this profile from Democracy Now.

The Progress Report has Haiti news links, analysis.

MADRE (campaign for women)'s backgrounder on Haiti with criticism of anti-Duvalier (that's Aristide!) leaders.

Narco News on Haiti: discusses various scenarios for Haiti's problems, including the drugs issue.

Same Sex Marriage:

State-by-State same-sex marriage laws from Stateline.

Bush's war on gay marriage: the first of several joint Rolling Stone/Salon investigative stories. Also on Salon site, but need to subscribe or read ads.

Alliance for Marriage has text of proposed federal marriage amendment. Thoughts on the amendment as written from Jack Baklin, Constitutional Law prof. at Yale.

Lots of background info on same-sex marriages on Canadian site, ReligiousTolerance.org.

And, on the Mel Gibson Passion movie:

Crucifixion in Antiquity: a historical study.

Why is it called The Passion? Historical explainer in Slate.

More useful links....

Reference :

The Phrase Finder has origins, definitions of over 2000 English phrases. Searchable.

National Institute for Sports Reform

Leap Year: how it works.

Air Force Stats database from recent issue of Airman magazine, has military strength, bases, pay, grades, lots more.

A Visual Dictionary of Fashion

Time Life Images: galleries show some of 425,000 images available for licensing.

American history picture collection
Tools:

Fagan Finder's Google Interface gives you advanced Google search features from one search form. (Via Hidden Google Tools, article by Mary Ellen Bates on AskSam's Web site.)

Sort by Date: new news/blog search lets you get date you want.

JiWire Wi-Fi Hotspots Database: find wireless connections nationwide. A downloadable version is available for PDAs and cel phones. This seems to be best of all the directories I've tried, it finds 8 sites within 2 miles of my ZIP code in Miami, mostly Starbucks and Mail Boxes Inc. sites. But it doesn't find the public library with Wi-Fi in my NC town, so this may only list commercial Wi-Fi. I also tried the Google Labs' location search, which many people are recommending as a good way to search for Wi-Fi connections, but find it gets an awful lot of false hits.
Governments, Politics:

Electing a President: nice explainer from Detroit Free Press. First of several?

The best campaign interactives: Cyberjournalist' s list of Campaign 2004 news sites.

Security companies doing business in Iraq from State Dept.

Foreign Terrorist Organizations: latest report for Congressional Research Service.

FCC Search Tools: search FCC's website.

2003 Human Rights Reports from Dept. of State.
Florida:

DiscoverBiscayneBay.org: environmental news. Also: A Bright, Great Bay: PDF of report on history of the Bay from Biscayne Bay Partnership.

CUES: Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions: site of FAU's Anthony Catanese Center, has S. Fla. development news.

Seisint's MATRIX is still out there: Florida ACLU asks people to petition the Legislature against it.
People:

World's richest people, from Forbes.
News:

NHL/CBA News: collective bargaining news from the NHL.
Statistics:

Most stolen cars, by state from National Insurance Crime Bureau.
Public Records:

South Carolina State Salary Database on the Columbia State's Web site.

Secret No More: an activist releases FBI file names to make it easier for people to do FOIA requests...Also: FBI Central Records System file classifications.
Journalism, Business: no links this week.

Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

Elmore Leonard's 10 rules for writers.

Castro's game of chicken in Slate.

The coming RSS revolution in Forbes.

Hiawatha Bray: the Boston Globe's technology writer has a blog.
Fun/Entertaining:

Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails, with a Women's History Month theme.