Weekend update: Other things found last week:


Stats! We're full of stats this week....

The links:

Reference:

Access to Archival Databases from Natl Archives, new search function, works better in Explorer than Firefox.

DailyMed from NIH, has current info on currently marketed drug, including package inserts.

Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang

Marine Debris Abatement, EPA site monitoring trash in our oceans.

The U.S. Military: Under Strain and at Risk from The National Security Advisory Group.

News:

Procon.org: finds the arguments on various sides of issues in the news.

Public Health Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita --- Louisiana, 2005

Statistics:

Highway Statistics 2004 from Federal Highway Administration.

U.S. Foreign Visitors, monthly stats, 2005

Record Temperatures, 2005 hottest year on record in northern hemisphere.

World Proved Reserves of Oil and Natural Gas, Most Recent Estimates

Indicators of school crime and safety, 2005 from BJS.

Digital Music Report, 2006, Facts and Figures, from IFPI, with link to press release (which links to full report).

America's Most Connected Campuses from Forbes, none in Florida here.....

FanGraphs has stats on every baseball player who entered the majors since 2002.

Public Elementary and Secondary Students, Staff, Schools, and School Districts: School Year 2003-04 latest stats from Natl Center for Education Stats.

Earthtrends Poverty Resource has stats on poverty around the world and its relationship to environment.

Governments, Politics:

Human Rights Watch World Report 2006

Justification of domestic spying program from DoJ, 42-page PDF.

U.S. House public disclosure from Office of the Clerk, online campaign disclosure, asset and travel disclosure, etc.

Significant Terrorist Incidents, 1962-2003. Finally the State Dept. updates its list.

Congressional Research Reports on the Middle East, compiled by FAS.

New searchable databases from AskSam (you have to download, along with the free AskSam reader): U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 of US Code); Digital Milennium Copyright Act; State of the Union Speeches (all US presidents)

StateLine.org has new features like a hurricane section, a collection of state of the state addresses, RSS feeds and news alerts so you can get the news you need, etc.

Tools:

EXALEAD: Gary Price-recommended search engine from France that has lots of great features, including proximity searching, OR searching, sorting by relevance or chronology or reverse chronology, etc.

Tips for developing non-English web sites from Penn State, has info on making diacritical marks in HTML, etc. including a good chart of alt codes for accents (worth printing out and keeping handy).

Business:

Law Firm mergers, 2005

On the Corner: Day labor in the U.S.

Journalism:

Targeting Journalists, report from Annual Federation of Journalists says there's a 'culture of indifference' resulting in 150 journalist deaths last year.

Some interesting stories/blogs:

Tainted Trials, Stolen Justice: San Jose Merc package on local prosecutors' mistakes leading to bad convictions.

Sherman's March: profile of the KR stock manager in AJR.

SportsMediaWatch, a blog on sports news coverage.