Weekend update: Other things I found last week:

As a Blogger user, I have the invitation to sign up for Google's GMail. Should I? I already have too many email addresses....

Some of these are a little old as I didn't update last week, but here they are for the record:

The links....
Reference :

The Art Milennium: huge encyclopedia of art images by over 1000 artists.

MSU Global Access: detailed country information, including news, from Michigan State.

Directory of School sites on the Internet

Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939: wonderful baseball history resource from Library of Congress.

Africa South of the Sahara: a good directory from Stanford U. library.

U.S. News and World Report photo collection now at Library of Congress.

IWS: Information Warfare Site includes watches on terrorism, homeland security, and Iraq war.
Tools:

A9, the new search engine from Amazon.com. This is interesting for the tab that finds results in book texts.

Redesigned: National Geographic's Map Machine.

Datedex: great resource for finding what's happening/happened on a certain date, and what's coming up.
People:

Skipease: nice collection of people finding searches, including a mail drop search, cell phone identifier, etc.

VA Cemetery search: find U.S. war veterans' burials.

Online searchable death indexes: find what's online by state.
Business:

2004 Baseball team valuations from Forbes.

Top U.S. Corporate Brands from Forbes.

Plain Vanilla Shell has data, statistics, on retail and shopping center real estate, including a database of tenants. Must join to get access.
Journalism:

BusinessJournalism.org: new site for business reporters/editors/designers.
Governments, Politics:

2.004k.com: this site tracks presidential campaign polling.
Public Records:

Public Access to Court Records, a great clearinghouse for information.
Florida:

Refugee and entrant arrivals in Florida, 2002: lots of stats from DCF.

Miami-Dade Planning Department: Census information. Useful tables.

FloridaDEP: new Dept of Environmental Protection Web site.

Florida Charts: get stats on health indicators for Florida.
Statistics:

U.S. Statistical Abstract: Historical! Now you can get stats from old versions of the book, going back to 1878!

Census of Population and Housing, 1790-2000 now online, in PDF format (not all years, all volumes, yet....)
News: no links this week

Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

Word Spy: I linked to this once before, but find this even more fascinating. They do a great job of looking up new word usage. A couple of the latest ones: "Purple states" refers to those too close to call red or blue on the political spectrum, like Florida. "Rino" = "Republican in name only".

Washington Monthly's Web site is now "Political Animal" blog, by Kevin Drum (formerly Calpundit).

NK Zone: blog by CNN correspondent covers North Korea, lots of info on the train explosion.

Oxblog: by a couple Rhodes scholars.

John Kerry's military service record, including documents.

Witmer family Website: from the family with 3 girls in Iraq, one killed.....

Sabernomics: interesting blog applies economic principles to baseball study.

From the Kerry campaign: The middle-class misery index.