Weekend update: Other things found last week:


Just a straight link dump this week:

The links:

Reference:

BNA's Web Watch Reading Room is a great resource highlighting new government reports, bills filed, hearing information, and NGO reports by topic of the day.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Center for Operational Analysis: unclassified historical report of military operations conducted in Iraq

Fairchild Guide to Palms

Current topics in psychology, research guide for finding web sources from a psych. prof. Links on addiction, conditions, etc.

Facts about Sexual Orientation, guide from UC Davis psych. dept.

US Weather Service Climate Data from Weather.gov, click on a location to get recent climate data, then click NOWData tab for historical climate info.

AP's profanity study

Governments, Politics:

Lobbying Database from OpenSecrets.org, Center for Responsive Politics. Search lobbyist spending from 1998-present.


Business:

Boat Manufacturers Database from Coast Guard, get info and address. Can search by state, city to get local factory list.

Statistics:

OECD Factbook 2006: international databases of economic, environmental, and social statistics.

The size and characteristics of the undocumented alien population in the U.S. (summary), full report; from Pew Hispanic.

Cost of Driving: Now $.52/mile, press release from AAA with link to full report in PDF.

Liber8, a research resource from Federal Reserve bank, St. Louis. Has links to databases like FRED (economic statistics), CPI and other stats, inflation tracking, IES (international economic stats), plus research.

Journalism:

Baghdad: the besieged press in NY Review of Books by Orville Schell.

News:

Two new newspaper story archives from NewspaperArchive.com (stories are images of pages in PDF): FBI archive and September 11th Archive.

Tools:

Aeroseek Web flight tracking. a new tracking service using data from FBOWEb, with a nice display, with maps of the flight in progress. Search with airline and flight number, but if you don't have a flight number click on 'Check it out' to get a search page with airport, airline, or time/day searches. There's also an aviation search engine here.

Use Firefox? Did you know you can customize your search bar to add whatever searches you want? Go here. I added Wikipedia, Ask.com, Technorati blog search, and Food Network recipe search. Lots more available, including BBC News. More here.

Some interesting stories/blogs:

After the Levees, a Katrina recovery blog from TPM Cafe.

TPM Muckraker

Fun/Entertainment:

Top 15 skylines in the world. Great photos. Miami isn't one of them.