Secret GAO Reports
Steven Aftergood says that “The Government Accountability Office this week quietly published a list of titles of its restricted reports that have not been publicly released because they contain classified information or controlled unclassified information.” GAO Posts Titles of Restricted Reports by Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists, Secrecy News (Oct.16, 2015). There are several […]
President Obama interviews Marilynne Robinson
Lunchtime Listen. Yes, you read that right: Listen to President Obama interview Marilynne Robinson, the author novels “Lila,” “Home,” “Gilead” (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and “Housekeeping.” The conversation was recorded in in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 14, 2015. You can listen to it via iTunes on the The New York Review of Books […]
GPO To Digitize The Federal Register 1936-1994
Press Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 14, 2015 No. 15-20 GPO TO DIGITIZE TWO MILLION PAGES OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER WASHINGTON – The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) partners with the National Archives’ Office of the Federal Register (OFR) to make every issue of the Federal Register digitally available to the public. A total of […]
Tell the FCC what you think about its website
The Federal Communications Commission has a prototype of a new version of its website and is soliciting comments: Your Feedback is Building a Better FCC.gov, by: Dr. David A. Bray, FCC CIO, Official FCC Blog (October 9, 2015 – 11:00 AM). The prototype site. comment form.
Project Apollo Archive
All 12,588 photos taken during the Apollo missions are up on Flickr in high-res. Wow, endless hours of fascination if you’re a space geek! The Project Apollo Archive was created in 1999 as a companion to my “Contact Light” web site…a personal retrospective of the era of the space race. A subsequent collaboration between the […]