Weekend update: Other things found this week:

It was a quiet Thanksgiving weekend with so much to do there wasn't much time to catch up; hope your holiday was restful.

The other links:

Reference:

Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary, for non-English speakers trying to learn.

Airport-to-Airport statute miles, official measurements from BTS.

On Their Own Terms: A Lexicon With an Emphasis on Information-Related Terms Produced by the US Federal Government from Federation of Amer.Scientists (PDF).

Who Lives Downtown? new report from Brookings.

Archive It, new service from the Internet Archive, proposes to permanently archive collections from anyone who wants to post them. Already here: an archive of Hurricane Katrina Web materials, and Latin American govt documents collected from govt websites by LANIC.

News:

Trouble in Toyland: annual report on toy safety.

Tools:

Melissa Data, great source of free lookups, has added some new ones: city boundary maps, congressional district maps, ZIP code maps.

Statistics:

New HIV diagnoses: 33 states from CDC, stats from last several years from states that make them available.

Indictors of School Crime and Safety, 2005: latest report from NCES.

Cruise Ship-related Legionnaire's Disease, report from CDC.

Governments, Politics:

Nice Work If You Can Get It: Political patronage rules in state utility commissions, report from Center for Public Integrity.

Library of Congress' Thomas website of bill texts, history and votes, has been redesigned to work better. Also: IRS Website.

Business:

BusinessJournalism.org has posted a guide to searching private company information (PDF). Some links:

Carolina Business News Initiative Internet source guide for business reporting.

Investopedia.com, with dictionary, tutorials, articles explaining investment basics.

BizWiki from Ohio U. library, business resource guide covering online and book sources.

America's Largest Private Companies, annual list from Forbes.

Hardball Times, baseball business/stats site, has a three part series on measuring the money value of a player. Browse down for the links, Nov 14-16.

Mortgage Closing Costs: State Rankings from Bankrate.com. Florida ranks 5th.

Journalism:

Reporting War from DART Center, war stories and warnings, including from some KR correspondents.

Poynter's News University has a new course on Covering Cops and Crime. Courses are free with registration.

50th Anniversary of the Village Voice.

Some interesting stories/blogs:

Good story in OJR about news organizations using Flickr for projects; like a NYT project picturing MLKing Boulevards around the country.

Change of Subject blog from Chicago Tribune's Eric Zorn.