Weekend update: Other things found last week:


Some great resources this week for news coverage of the biggest topics in the news: the war on terrorism:

• Voices of Jihad Database from RAND Corp., text of speeches, publications, etc. by Jihadist leaders; searchable. Part of larger RAND site on Terrorism and Homeland Security.
  
• Faces of the Fallen: the Washington Post memorial to Iraq/Afghanistan dead has switched from a Flash display to a searchable text database. Much better. You can search by state, branch, date, too. This also has photos of many of the solders, unlike Coalition Casualty Count. Or: put this link in your RSS reader to get news of recent casualties when they're added.
  
• Coalition Operations Bibliography from library at Air University, Maxwell AFB.

Immigration:

• Immigration-Related Products from GAO includes demographics reports, documents.
  
• Public Agenda: Immigration various links, reports, surveys on the issue.

(Added later:) Another place for news on these topics: Lexis Nexis' free news site.

The other links:

Reference:

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), from Library of Congress, searchable database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, etc.

Resources on Immigrants and health from KFF.

SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archives, has archives of old birding journals going back to 1800s.

Governments, Politics:

2006 Congressional Pig Book now out from Citizens Against Govt Waste. Includes a Complete Pork Database.

Pushing Prescriptions, report on the drug industry and political influence from Center for Public Integrity.

Statistics:

Statemaster.com lets you compare states by statistics. Also: Nationmaster.com.

Juvenile Offenders and Victims, 2006 from DoJ.

Population Profile of the United States, Dynamic Version from Census, this format for latest population releases is Internet-only and updated whenever new info is available.

World Health Report, 2006 from WHO.

Index of Leading Environmental Indicators 2006 from Pacific Research Institute and American Enterprise Institute.

Glenmary Research Center is mapping religious faith in the U.S. and has statistics on Catholics.

Public Records:

Some states are now putting traffic accident reports online, at least for awhile after the crash: here's Missouri; Iowa.

Journalism:

Real or Fake? fascinating story in National Journal about separating faked photos from real in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tools:

Domain Tools, formerly WHOIS.sc, one of the best domain name search directories. This new site has more features, including historical domain names by subscription (but there is also a similar database on Dialog). There are also DNS Tools, like ping and traceroute.

Yahoo! Maps (beta) said to have more satellite image detail than Google Maps.

What was the price of gold then? going back to 1257. Part of How much is that? economic history site at Miami University.

Some interesting stories/blogs:

Gangrey.com, a reporters' blog 'prolonging the slow death of newspapers', highlighting great writing.

Passport blog from Foreign Policy magazine.

PJNet Today, a public journalism weblog from Leonard Witt.

Language Log, interesting blog on useage, including a discussion on why use of 'spaz' is so much worse in Europe than here.