Weekend update: Other things found last week:


First time in a long time that I've posting something in nearly every category. Lots of good stuff this week. Work on a project kept me from doing much updating on the blogs, but despite the lack of time to browse, seems like the good stuff just kept coming.

The links:

Reference:

Godchecker.com: your guide to all the gods.

Infotrieve Article Finder search articles in science, medical and technical journals (search and citation is now free, there's a charge for fulltext).

FishOnline can help identify fish and gives info on environmental stability.

Satellite database from Union of Concerned Scientists, download this database to find out what satellites are in the sky.

Dictionary of American Word Origins from Answers.com.

Dictionary of Wisconsin History

News:

Academy Awards Press Kit.

Public Records:

HHS excluded individuals search includes companies and people excluded for past convictions, care violations, fraud, etc.

Tennessee Meth Offender Database

Atlanta Constitution analyzed voter records and found huge numbers used work addresses, post office boxes, jail addresses, etc.

The Smoking Gun's investigation on James Frey.

Statistics:

Facts for Features on Baby Boomers from Census.

Historical Census Data: one page pulls together links to all the old data available on Census server. Also: Historical Census Browser from University of Virginia. (Tx to NewsLib contributors for these.)

Governments, Politics:

Alito hearings in AskSam database

Information withheld by the Fed. govt, a bibliography from LLRX.

Declassified intelligence products on Vietnam, 1948-1975 from Natl Intelligence Council; also: China, 1948-1976

The Economic Cost of the Iraq War (PDF) report from Kennedy School of Govt.

Tools:

DoHop.com a new airline search that can show you all the flights from one airport to another on a particular day. Prices not displayed but when you click on a flight it shows prices (in Euros) and details from, and links to, booking sites.

Google Pack: free one-stop download of some very good software like Picasa for photo organizing, Google desktop, Google Earth, Firefox and more. Windows XP only.

Some articles about interesting new investigative tools: Data Mining for banned books tells how to use Amazon's Wish Lists to find out what people are reading; Chicago Sun Times on a new cell phone database that will tell you who people are calling (for a fee) (more on this on my other blog); How to use copyrighted material, a primer from an expert.

Business:

OPEC revenues fact sheet from EIA.

Cruise Passenger Statistics for first 9 months of 2005 from BTS.

100 Best Companies to work for from Fortune.

Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki see if someone inside a company you're writing about is blogging....

Journalism:

The State of the News Media, 2005 from Columbia's Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Journalists killed, attacked in 2005, latest report from Reporters sans Frontieres...

Some interesting stories/blogs:

Editorial cartoonist's blog from Borgman in Cincinnati. Includes sketches of cartoons in progress.

Toot follows blogs on the Mideast, in English or Arabic.


Fun/Entertainment:

Birds Eye Tourist finds interesting aerial shots from Microsoft Live Local.

Art Deco Buildings in London; one was The Spitfire Works. Who knew they built them there?

Movie Keyword Analyzer from IMDB. Put in Miami, e.g. and get 89 movie titles on Miami Florida.

American Left Ephemera Collection from a Pitt prof.