National Campaign For Fair Elections: 2008 Voter Registration Guides
2008 Voter Registration Guides: The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, founded in 1963, and its pro bono law firm partners have compiled comprehensive third-party voter registration guides for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The guides will help volunteers, organizers, and leaders navigate the complex rules that govern voter registration in each state. They are designed for informational purposes only.

California County Plans Huge Solar Power Farms
Scientific American: "The amount of solar photovoltaics harnessing electricity from sunshine in the U.S. will more than double by 2013, thanks to plans to build 800 megawatts worth in California. The two vast solar farms—covering more than 12 square miles—will be among the largest ever built in the world and dwarf the current U.S. record holder: Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada with 14 megawatts.”
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Report: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century
Council on Library and Information Resources, pub 142 - No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century, August, 2008 (74 pages, PDF)
"In February 2008, CLIR convened 25 leading librarians, publishers, faculty members, and information technology specialists to consider this question. Participants discussed the challenges and opportunities that libraries are likely to face in the next five to ten years, and how changes in scholarly communication will affect the future library."

A nugatory law is invalid or ineffective.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:nugatory&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

New on LLRX.com: Expanding the FOIA
FOIA Facts: Expanding the FOIA - Scott A. Hodes highlights the recent introduction of legislation that would eliminate the FOIA shield for the Smithsonian Institute, and the continued lack of transparency when dealing with other federal agencies.

A search of Google images produces 17,000 hits for prometheus sculpture. Adding paul manship takes it down to 235. http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=prometheus+sculpture+%22paul+manship%22
American sculptor Paul Manship (1866-1966) produced the famous 1934 Prometheus fountain sculpture in front of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. A list of his works in museums (including Toledo) and public art galleries is here: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/manship_paul.html

Inflatable dog turd created by the American artist Paul McCarthy blown from its moorings at a Swiss museum on July 31 The exhibit, the size of a house, brought down a power line and broke a window before landing in the grounds of a children's home.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/12/3?gusrc=rss&feed=artanddesign