Archive for March 2008
Press Release: LinkedIn Now Supports Companies.
There’s an online book repair manual at http://library.state.ak.us/hist/conman.html .
Dipnote gives you the skinny on your passport file.
Press Release: American Wine Blog Awards?
Yahoo Maps has updated with new data.
Yale has a new digital collections page.
Bloglines gets a Flickr view. This makes me very happy.
Genealogy buffs! Now you can take a look at Missouri death certificates covering 1910 to 1957 — that’s over 2 million certificates available at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ . Access is free.
The index is searchable by first and last name, county, and year of death. My search for Smith found 23,878 results. Results are presented in a table that shows name, date of death, county, city (there’s not always a city) and certificate number. There’s also a link to an image of the death certificate itself. These are good-quality images but some of the handwriting makes it a tough read.
If you want more Missouri records, there’s a pre-1910 database at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/ , and a FAQ about the Missouri death certificate project at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/deathFAQ.asp .
I knew about the regular Wikipedia, but I didn’t know about the Simple English Wikipedia until I stumbled across it at http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page . As you might suspect, the Simple English Wikipedia is written in simpler language. There’s a whole set of standards set up around Basic English and the Simple English Wikipedia has a page devoted to writing Simple English articles. If you review that page you’ll get a better idea of who this Wikipedia is designed for.
This Wikipedia is a lot smaller than the main one — a little under 27,000 articles. Even though this is the Simple English Wikipedia, the concepts here are anything but simple; topics include physics (though there have apparently been some issues with the quantum physics page), engineering, several religions, and philosophy.
There’s a fairly busy SimpleTalk forum here, and a School Gateway Page for students wanting to access and edit this Wikipedia.
