Sunshine in Britain:
Fascinating post in Gary Price's Resourceshelf to a story in The Times about Britain's new freedom of information law, going into effect Jan. 1. Wow.

From schools to prisons, police authorities to government departments, railway bodies to local councils, any public body must be prepared to release information on its files.

Oh, but: Hundreds of thousands of government documents being shredded, according to The Independent.
(Via J-Walk Blog.)