Weekend update: Other things found this week:
I posted lots of useful and interesting hurricane links to my blog on Herald.com, and yesterday included links to state and county sites with relief/recovery information. With the storm and other things going on this is a larger compilation than usual as it covers two weeks of links.

The links....

Reference :

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors from American Museum of Natural History.

Birds, Birds, Birds from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, includes a Bird Identification Center as well as lots more information.

Highway History from Federal Highway Administration. History of Interstate Highway System, and more.

Four things Yahoo can do that Google can't, by Tara Calashain.

The Very Best of British: an American's guide to speaking British.

Natural Hazard Statistics from NOAA.

Also from NOAA: Operational Event Imagery: high-res photos of hurricanes, tornadoes, dust storms, fires, etc.

Good hurricane reminder from Al Tompkins: Coastal Population Tool from NOAA calculates population along the coast. Example: Here's Manatee County: shows huge increase in population since the last (indirect category 2) storm hit 40 years ago.

Coral Reef Conservation Program from NOAA.

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident: flawed intelligence and the decision for war in Vietnam. New report from the National Security Archives.

Testing the Waters, 2004 NRDC on pollution at popular beaches. Here's the Florida Report.

World War I Document Archive at Brigham Young University.

American Council on Education Information Center: lots of factsheets and reports on education.
Governments, Politics:

Political Party Fundraising, 2004 data from Federal Election Commission.

Silent Partners Center for Public Integrity's site on 527 political committees has a searchable database to track funding.

Vote! The Machinery of Democracy Smithsonian exhibit.

OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights: Elections monitoring: this international organization will be monitoring U.S. election this year.

Survey of State Firearm Sales Procedures from DoJ.
Tools:

Gmail tweaks: if you've got Google Mail, here are some things you can make it do (like import all your mail from Outlook).
People:

UK National Archives has migration records and 1901 Census to search, and images of important documents (Queen Victoria's Census return) among other things.
News:

Darfur Humanitarian Emergency from U.S. AID. Has stats, news, and satellite photos of destroyed villages.

All Headline News: a Web-based news aggregator with a pull-down menu of lots and lots of categories. Here's Cuba news, e.g.. Also searchable or you can sign up for email alerts.
Statistics:

2004 World Population Reference Sheet from Population Reference Bureau.

Literacy rankings, 2004: Miami 37th, Hialeah 78th.

Grantmaker Stats from the Foundation Center.

Highway Fatality Rates, 2003 from NHTSA.
Journalism:

Crisis Journalism: a handbook from American Press Institute.

Tips and Tools for journalists covering trauma, from Dart Center.
Florida:

Miami-Dade Candidate financial reports from a service called precinctfind.com.

Florida's Historical Hurricanes from FIU's International Hurricane Center.

Mr. Miami Beach: a PBS special on Carl Fisher.
Business:

The Business of Baseball with lots of databases and a blog for latest news.
Public Records: no links this week.

Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

Starbucks Gossip: a blog about 'America's leading drug dealer' by Jim Romenesko.

J.D. Lasica posts a great list of videoblogs.

Blogitics: interesting blog on Bush administration.
Fun/Entertaining:

Alabama Mailroom Veterans for Bush (via South Knox Bubba).

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