Weekend update: Other things found last week

More hurricane background:

A Failure to Communicate: Politics, Scams, and Information Flow During Hurricane Katrina in Searcher. Discussion of Websites, blogs and coverage from two library professionals at Western Washington U.

IbisEYE, hurricane forecasting tool (using Google Maps) from Sarasota Herald Tribune. Also has tracks of all Florida-landing storms since 1851.

The other links:

Reference:

Dictionary of Victorian London

Reports:

Congressional Budget Office report on immigration projections

Trafficing in Persons report, 2006 from State Dept.

A New Retirement Risk Index from Boston College.

Statistics:

IPUMS International, from Minnesota Population Center, is compiling IPUMS individual-level census data from several countries.Just added: Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, South Africa, and Venezuela. Data is from censuses around the world since 1960.

Governments, Politics:

2004 Presidential Term Web Harvest from National Archives and Internet Archive, collecting and preserving Federal websites as they existed at end of term.

Journalism:

Coalition of Journalists for Open Government with great links page.

Nieman Narratives collects great narrative writings, with a searchable database.

Tools:

Create a Graph from Dept. of Education, provides a template with design features to create several types of graphs using your own data.

News:

Reuters Labs includes services like Newsbeats (news with music), a dashboard, audio and podcasts, a financial glossary.

Terrorism plot indictment from Canada, via Findlaw.

Eat the Press: Huffington Post's compilation of media news.

Fun/Entertainment:

Miami-Manhattan mashup, in which Miami Beach is replaced by that other island. Amazingly, it fits perfectly! Was it shrunk? Or does Miami Beach just SEEM smaller?