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Whitehouse.gov, or what is now titled Welcome to the White House, has a new look, inclusive of links, on the top of the homepage, to podcasts (there appears to be a very shallow archive – with availability beginning on February 25, 2007) and RSS feeds.
Press release: “U.S. Representatives Rick Boucher (D-VA) and John Doolittle (R-CA), today introduced the Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007 (FAIR USE Act) to protect the fair use rights of users of copyrighted material and thereby enable consumers of digital media to use it in ways that enhance their personal convenience. The …
Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal. Nuremberg. (“Blue Series”), Nuremberg, 14 November 1945 – 1 October 1946 – released by the Library of Congress, February 28, 2007. “This 42-volume series, also known as The Blue Series, is the official record of the trial of the major civilian and military leaders …
“World Book Day was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and is marked in over 100 countries around the globe. The origins of the day we now celebrate in the UK and Ireland come from Catalonia, where roses and books were given as gifts to loved ones on St. Georges …
Library of Congress – U.S. Army Field Manuals, War Department/Department of the Army Pamphlets: “The full text of selected U.S. Army Field Manuals (FMs), War Department Pamphlets (WD PAMs), and Department of the Army Pamphlets (DA PAMs), which particularly address some of the current research needs and interests of The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center …
From the Washington Post, Internet Offers Many Ways to Avoid Harmful Drug Mixtures. The article includes two categories of links, Medication Information and Drug Interaction Checkers, both of which include a dozen sites each.
Press Release: “The Fair Use Project of the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School announced that it has teamed with Media/Professional Insurance and leading intellectual property attorney Michael Donaldson to provide critical support for documentary filmmakers who rely on the fair use of copyrighted material in their films…In order to help solve …
“The eDesignate is a secure, electronic, web-based system that allows a probation office and the U.S. Marshals Service to electronically transmit documents to the BOP after a defendant is sentenced to custody. That is proving to be a welcome alternative to collecting and mailing paper documents to the BOP, a process that is more labor-intensive …
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing: Reforming the Presidential Library Donation Disclosure Process, February 27, 2007. “This hearing will examine the need for public disclosure of donations made to private foundations established to fund presidential libraries and related facilities. The committee will consider possible legislative proposals to require such disclosure.”
FDIC Outlook, February 27, 2007: “The FDIC Outlook provides a quarterly analysis of current national and regional trends that may affect the risk exposure of insured depository institutions.” [note: via this link users may search for data back to 1st QTR, 1997]
OMB Fact Sheet, Strengthening State & Local Communities, February 27, 2007 OMB Fact Sheet, State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) (February 27, 2007)
Envisioning the Whole Digital Person, by Jonathan Follett, Published February 20, 2007: “Our lives are becoming increasingly digitizedfrom the ways we communicate, to our entertainment media, to our e-commerce transactions, to our online research. As storage becomes cheaper and data pipes become faster, we are doing more and more onlineand in the process, saving a …
