Weekend update: Other things found this week:
Sorry the update didn't get done over the weekend, but I was busy...

More links....


Reference :

Avibase, the world bird database.

The World's Healthiest Foods nice profiles of lots of different foods, and lots of background info.

How volcanos work, just in case.

Mount St. Helens observations

Flu Shot database: find where and when to get them anywhere. Also, lots more flu info from American Lung Assn.

Herbal Safety: a guide to herbal medicines from UT.

WikiQuote is an outgrowth of Wikipedia, a collaborative collection.
Tools:

Clusty, new search engine from Vivisimo. This looks really good, also has News and Images searches as well as shopping, encyclopedia, and gossip.

411blog.net: this attempts to link journalists and experts who blog. How it works. From J-prof Andrew Cline.
People:

Bush's military records online at USA Today.

Letter from Baghdad depressing story of life under the gun from a Wall St. Journal correspondent.

Meet Ayad Allawi: Ken Layne on the background.

Studs Terkel's Conversations with America audio now archived by Chicago Historical Society.
Statistics:

Population by Race and Hispanic or Latino Origin for the United States: 1990 and 2000: new Census analysis.

CIA World Factbook has been updated with 2003 figures.

North American Transportation Statistics database: stats on transportation between Canada-US-Mexico.

2004 Report Card on American Education has rankings by state.

The economic downturn and changes in health insurance coverage, 2000-2003": report from Kaiser Family Foundation.

White Evangelical Protestants by state: report from Annenberg Public Policy Center shows they are 23% of Florida voters. In Tennessee it's 51%.
Journalism:

Every Four Years Journalism: essay by Jay Rosen.
Governments, Politics:

Religion and the campaign: analysis from RelgionWriters.com.

This is getting emailed a lot: E.L.Doctorow on "The Unfeeling President" in the Easthampton Star.

Michael Moore on the Bush 'flip flops'.

Outsourcing the Pentagon: Center for Public Integrity report on civilian contractors.
Florida:

There's a new Florida Politics blog, which seems to have hijacked the old one. Lots of interesting comments....Some of the story here.
Business, News, Public Records: no links this week.


Some Interesting stories/Weblogs

Art News blog.

George Soros is starting a blog.

BlogSlot: Bill Walsh's blog.

Sports Designer Blog

Doug Clifton gives up blogging in E&P; it's been obvious since June.

What She Said has a list of female progressive bloggers.

A list of Spanish speaking bloggers blogging in English, from Jose Luis Orijuela. (There's also a blogroll here of lots of Spanish blogs.) One here that looks good: Latino Pundit.

"Rathergate" is now a website and/or blog.

LibrarianActivist.org