Actually, this is what looks useful

Using Second Life to do collaborative emergency training

This looks useful

Disaster training -- collaborating in Second Life

A great series from Slate on European views of immigration

Europe deals with immigration. - By Alexandra Starr - Slate Magazine

This is bound to have emergency communications uses too

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Solar plane makes record flight

Lobbying against E-Verify: "If it ain't broke, call it broke and fix it bad."

Leadership Journal

Fingerprinting proposed for Gypsies in Italy; Catholic group calls proposal "racist" and invokes Star of David

AKI - Adnkronos international Italy: Move to fingerprint Gypsies sparks controversy

Does DHS only go after illegal workers and not the people who hire them?

Leadership Journal: Myth vs. Fact: Worksite Enforcement

Washington Post covers DHS talks with Europe on terrorist and criminal data

U.S. Seeks Data Exchange - washingtonpost.com

Test

If I post something here, can I get it to automatically propagate to Friendfeed and Facebook?

Which is the bigger threat -- laptops seized at the border or laptops lost in the airport?

PC World - Business Center: Laptops Lost Like Hot Cakes at US Airports

How can this good idea be adapted for disaster preparedness?

Personal Democracy Forum Stephenson

Good paper on how government data should be presented -- but will Privacy Act prove to be a hurdle as web tools turn anonymous data into personally identifiable data?

SSRN-Government Data and the Invisible Hand by David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller, Edward Felten

NYT notices that employers dislike immigration enforcement

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06employer.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin