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NOAA image puzzler and the “fugitive of the day”

NOAA’s Earth Observatory does an image puzzler of the month where they post Landsat 8 images from their Operational Land Imager (OLI) satellite. April’s image turned out to be a twofer: a very cool image of South Korean seaweed cultivation AND in the citation was a fugitive document “Seaweed Cultivation of Korea” published by NOAA […]

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FBI replies to Stingray FOIA request with 5,000 blank pages

This is an unbelievable story about the FBI being complete jerks about the FOIA requests they’ve received from MuckRock in regards to fake cellphone towers called “Stingrays” which are used to “gather identity/location information” on everyone that passes by them — which btw I had no idea these things were real! MuckRock received almost 5000 […]

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Senate Republican’s Open Letter to Iran AND Iranian Response

1. Senate Letter: March 9, 2015 An Open Letter to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran: It has come to our attention while observing your nuclear negotiations with our government that you may not fully understand our constitutional system. Thus, we are writing to bring to your attention two features of our Constitution-the […]

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DOJ Gov Doc: Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department [March 4, 2015]

Report Summary: …Ferguson’s law enforcement practices are shaped by the City’s focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs.  This emphasis on revenue has compromised the institutional character of Ferguson’s police department, contributing to a pattern of unconstitutional policing, and has also shaped its municipal court, leading to procedures that raise due process concerns […]

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Docs of the week: Ferguson Grand Jury, 100 years of INS annual reports, and the historic Moynihan Report

Here at Stanford libraries, my colleague Kris Kasianovitz and I are busy putting context to the *massive* haystack that is the Internet — and we could use some help (want to be a lostdocs collector?!)! Below are just a few of the documents we’ve collected in the last week, stored in our Stanford Digital Repository […]

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