Pius XII Memorial Library Government Documents

Homeland Security is concerned about an upcoming threat to national security — winter.  Add a new color to the rainbow-schemed Security Advisory System -WHITE.  Read all about it at “Ready America“.  This and many other chilling publications are available to authorized subscribers to the Homeland Security Digital Library. My personal favorite is from the arctic [...]

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With all the hot air circulating in the corridors of Gov Doc land, it is sad to see the big daddy of wind tunnels take a tumble. But alas, the LFST is no longer serviceable.

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Dan Brown’s latest blockbuster, The Lost Symbol, drones on for 528 pages but has nothing on one of the latest incarnations from the US Weapons Lab at Los Alamos, MaRIE, (Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes).

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An Internet blackout may be the news that ends the annual August news lull (forces the reporters back to work from vacation). A report by Homeland Security implies that the “internets” are at risk…  Summary here at the Financial Times.

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So much about the bureaucracy that I will never understand — here is a little gem from FedBizOpps.gov:
Under the authority of FAR 6.302 1, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) intends to award purchase orders to Professor Frank E. Vecchio, Dr. Gene Corley, Professor Jerome F. Hajjar, and Professor James Jirsa to allow them to [...]

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Mercury contamination is getting attention from the USGS. This is a problem in lakes and in oceans.

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The Unclassified Report on the President’s Surveillance Program has been released — let the investigations begin.  And if there is an aspiring director out there who wants to produce the next “All the President’s Men” here is the contact at the CIA –the Entertainment Industry Liaison.

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Somehow this State of Missouri website is just too cheery — doesn’t reflect the 1930’s depression-era statistics that are closing in… but perhaps I am just attracted by those great WPA photos. Plus it is rough when you look at the counties where there are no jobs–

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NIF is the current iteration of the 1950s mantra “energy too cheap to meter” that described the joys of nuclear power plants (oops, forgot about the waste, Yucc(o)a).  Here is the blurb for today’s invention…

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Catching up to the revolution in the dissemination of data comes the announcement of DATA.gov, “a searchable data catalog that includes access to data in two ways: through the “raw” data catalog and using tools.”   Wired Blog has a interesting brief note on the introduction.

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