Weekend update: Other things found last week:


This week I had a hard time finding much of anything interesting enough to post on my Infomaniac blog, or here. Must be the late winter doldrums.
And the terrible news. It's getting so I can barely watch TV news or read newspapers lately, it seems things are spinning out of control everywhere.
Let's hope for something positive, soon.

The links:

Reference:

2005 World Shark Attack summary from UF.

#1 song on this date in history from Billboard charts, back to 1940.

Hurricane Spending and the Federal Government from Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress. On Katrina, Rita, Wilma.

Snapshot of Philanthropy's Response to the Gulf Coast Hurricanes from the Foundation Center.

Real estate tracking links: wonderful collection from Resourceshelf on real estate trends, costs, bubble.

Word on the Street: old newspaper pages from Natl Library of Scotland.

Digital Orchid Library at Michigan State.

Governments, Politics:

Black Box Voting's report on Palm Beach voting machines; The event logs.

Business:

Some good Port references from BeSpacific: World Port Index and searchable database; List of U.S. Ports; List of worldwide ports; Ports in the World; Seaports of the Americas.

Statistics:

Housing Tracker tracks housing prices by metropolitan area.

North American Cruise Passenger Statistics (Excel spreadsheets): Summary tables 2003-2005; Detail 2003-2005

Fraud Update: news and research from Center for Study of Economic Crimes at FSU, St. Thomas U.

Flight Delays, Mishandled Bags, Consumer Complaints Up in 2005 Over Previous Year, lastest stats from BTS (Summary with link to fulltext PDF).

U.S. Statistical Abstract, 2006

People:

Human Trafficking Search

InterviewsRus: Missed a celebrity interview on TV you wanted to see? This site archives them, just need to register.