FOIA’d doc reveal narrowly averted 1961 Goldsboro Nuclear Accident
The National Security Archive yesterday published a new “Electronic Briefing Book” entitled “New Details on the 1961 Goldsboro Nuclear Accident” which details the 1961 nuclear weapons accident in Goldsboro, North Carolina as described by a recently declassified Sandia National Lab report. The report was originally declassified by a FOIA request by Eric Schlosser, who wrote […]
Document of the Day: Animal Congregations
USGS brings us Animal Congregations, or What Do You Call a Group of…..? by Dave Fellows. So you’re stuck on 15 down (the collective name for a group of rhinos) in today’s crossword puzzle or you are writing the definitive novel about 17th century England and you need to know what they called a group […]
State Agency Databases Activity Report 6/8/2014
It was a somewhat active week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases as we started up our June link-checking activity. FEATURED DATABASE Today’s featured database is from Jenn Zuccaro, who maintains the Hawaii page: Hawaii State Archives Digital Collections – archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/cgi-bin/library – Search digital collections of Hawaii State Archives, including Chinese, […]
Let’s end gerrymandering: let the people draw the lines
[[Gerrymandering]] has long been a problem in American politics. Every 10 years, after the decennial census, Congressional districts are re-drawn to even out the population of every district (700,000 people / Congressional district). Alan Lowenthal, Representative for California’s 47th congressional district, has introduced H.R. 2978: Let the People Draw the Lines Act of 2013 to […]
Frontline documentary: United States of Secrets
In case you missed it, PBS now has both parts of the Frontline Documentary “United States of Secrets” online. United States of Secrets. PBS. 2014. Part One – “The Program: How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?” Part Two – “Privacy Lost: How Silicon Valley feeds the NSA’s global dragnet.”