Weekend update: Other things found this week:
Seems like I just keep getting busier and busier and with the long holiday weekend, another late update:

The links....

Reference:

The Sports Cliche list

Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support from U.S. DoD. (PDF)

Are We There Yet? A Report on Summer Traffic Bottlenecks and Steps Needed to Ensure that Our Favorite Vacation Destinations Remain Accessible from AAA.

NPR on Guantanamo, includes timelines.

Food 411 a directory and reference site.
Governments, Politics:

Good links from Al Tompkins on the Supreme Court, Justice Rehnquist, and the Ten Commandments question.

ReligionLink on the 10 Commandments decision: lots ot good links, sources and analysis.

Open CRS: Congressional Research Reports. They've never been posted online in one place before, but this project attempts to make them all available...and searchable.

Net for Cuba: "Your educational and informational resource of the realities of Cuba today". Lots of info here, like a database of 'Cubans assasinated by Castro's Regimen'.
Tools:

Google Earth: now a free download, lets you zoom, turn, and rotate satellite images, get directions, etc.

Technorati. There's a new design which didn't seem like news to me, but I've decided it makes this blog search service a much easier way to find out what's being said on topics in the blog world.
Statistics:

World Drug Report: latest stats, etc. from UN.

New Report on Violence and the Homeless from Natl Coalition for the Homeless.

TIPs in Asia: a database of 'country-specific information on trafficking in persons in multiple languages, as well as anti-trafficking news and information about individual countries.'

Statistical materials for learning about Japan.
People:

RootsWeb's Social Security Death Index search claims to be the most up-to-date on the Web. As of today, last updated 5/18.
Public Records:

BRB Public Record Resouce Finder.

Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

The New Yorker posts Calvin Trillin's Edna Buchanan profile as a tribute to Gene Miller.