Weekend update: Other things found this week:
Jim DeFede's Trip with the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich just keeps getting weirder and weirder....

In another new Miami Herald blog, Idy Fernandez has started posting the results of a really smart project she started a few weeks back: Your Stories. Idy asked readers to send her story ideas and promised to report them. The stories have been running in The Herald, and this blog is her Reporters' Notebook about how it went.

More links....

Reference:

Cryptome Eyeball Series: this site collects maps of strategic locations (lots from Fallujah there now, but also has maps of DC, Iraq, Bush ranch, intelligence centers, lots lots more).

Report on World Trade Center victims health

Commemorative Observances: a Chronological List days/weeks/months authorized by Congress. (Oh, and a decade! We're in the bone and joint decade.)

Who Named It? a database of medical conditions, etc. which carry a person's name.

The Authentic History Center has artifacts from American history, by decade, including some things we'd probably rather forget. Featured now: The Catholic Guild's Treasure Chest kids' magazine did a 1961-series on 'Godless Communism'. The entire thing is onine, including a supporting letter from J.Edgar Hoover.
Statistics:

State of the World Links from World Bank, UN and other international organizations. This page links to all of them. Lots more economic and finance policy resource links on this page.
Governments, Politics:

ICRC Guantanamo Report: press release. (The whole report doesn't seem to be online yet.)

Hot Topics: Guantanamo from JURIST. Great links and news.
News:

U.S. Politics and World News from Nexis, quick links to best stories by topic.

BizJournals RSS: get the news from your favorite BizJournal (like South Florida Business Journal), or news from all over the country by topic, direct to your RSS reader.
Journalism:

Coalition of Journalists for Open Government, headed by Pete Weitzel (former Miami Herald ME).
Florida:

Miami-Dade E-Maps: the county has put up a new page of maps and data. There's also a new address for Broward's Maps and Stats page.
Tools:

Yahoo Shortcuts: easy links to how to search for maps, addresses, zip codes, gas prices, scores, exchange rates, lots lots more.

Reporters Toolbox for international reporters, from Reporters Without Borders' Damocles Network.
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs

Neeka's Backlog, a blog from a journalist in the Ukraine; she's writing about the election crisis. Good Ukraine links here too. And, Orange Ukraine, another blog.

Your PI News: blog by a California PI, with links to interesting public records information.
Fun/Entertaining:

CartoonHub: from Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, at University of Kent. Great collection of 20th-century British cartoons.