Weekend update: Other things I found last week:
With Iraq on all our minds, again, some new sources that may be useful:
Administration quotes on al-Qaeda sortable by source, and with links to original transcripts. Note links to collections of quotes on WMD and Iraqi democracy. Collected by Billmon via Iraq Coalition Casualty Count.
U.S. Occupation Facilities in Iraq. Maps and info from Global Security.
Detailed Iraq Chronology 1980-2004 from DoE.
Background on Muqtada al-Sadr from Council on Foreign Relations.
Keeping the Shiites Straight from the The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College.
Muslims, Islam, and Iraq from University of Georgia.
The other links....
Reference :
Butterflies of North America from USGS.
New York Times theater pages have been redesigned. Included here: All theater reviews back to 1905 (Peter Pan), and an archive of 93 Hirschfeld drawings.
Athens 2004 Olympic Games
Sports Facility Reference list from Institute of Sports Law at Marquette, has great information about facility financing, construction, etc. Click on Facility Update charts for info on specific stadiums/arenas. (from an answer on NewsLib.)
Historical portraits in the public domain, a nice collection from the UT library.
CandyUSA: everything you would want to know about.....
Tools:
Phishing archive: list of fake emails trying to solicit account numbers, PINs, etc.
People:
Ask Jeeves now has a function to find biographical info on celebrities. Look for 'biography' in 'related links' list on right-hand side of results. Here's the Colin Powell results. (via Resourceshelf.)
New York City Deaths: searchable archives covering turn of the century.
Business:
Forbes 2000: the world's leading companies
Ad Age: Fact Pact 2004, large PDF of supplement with advertising/marketing facts, rankings, etc. Interesting stuff here. Top U.S. Marketer? Verizon. AT&T also beats Ford and Chevrolet, by a mile.
News:
Noted Now: Latest breaking political news from ABC News' The Note.
Journalism:
Facts About Newspapers, 2003 from NAA.
Governments, Politics:
U.S. Blue Pages a newly-created site for finding government phone numbers. Searching by city/state/agency doesn't get any Florida listings. But I searched 'miami' in the text search box, and got 466 listings, including INS offices all over the state. You can sort by agency, so this may work.
Homeland security alerts to techical/research reports from NTIS.
Public Records:
New address for New York State E-Courts: New address for online decisions and future appearances Not all counties available for criminal cases, 21 courts.
Maryland DoC inmate locator.
Illinois VINElink: locate offenders' custody status.
Louisiana VINElink.
Statistics: no links this week
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
The Four Corners: a lovely group blog, DC-based, about history and place.
Living in Europe: a group blog. Note links to other 'Living in....' sites.
Fun/Entertaining:
New sites making fun of Bush are popping up everywhere; a few:
The Bushiad and the Idiodyssey.
Billionaires for Bush: "Because the deficit isn't growing fast enough".
Western White House.
With Iraq on all our minds, again, some new sources that may be useful:
The other links....
Reference :
Tools:
People:
Business:
News:
Journalism:
Governments, Politics:
Public Records:
Statistics: no links this week
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
Fun/Entertaining:
New sites making fun of Bush are popping up everywhere; a few:
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