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Happy Labor Day. Here are two great personal efforts:

Oliver Ding is looking for 92 more freesouls to give him material with which to create another freesouls slideshow.

Freesouls group on Slideshare.net

http://www.slideshare.net/group/freesouls

Freesouls 100 Master deck:

http://www.slideshare.net/OliverDing/freesouls-100-master-deck-20080828-presentation

Freesouls 100 Introduction:

http://www.slideshare.net/OliverDing/freesouls-100-introduction-presentation

You can reach him at swordi AT gmail.

Meanwhile, Carl Malamud is bringing a lot of public information to light.   Previously squelched OSHA films:

Making their public debut after 30 years are “Worker to Worker,” “Can’t Take No More,” and “The Story of OSHA.”

Link to YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=31E75CE43C7B93B5

Link to the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22public.resource.org%22%20AND%20subject%3A%22osha.gov%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies

( http://tiny.cc/hdLvC )

And the building codes etc. of 50 states:

After a systematic survey of all 50 state fire marshalls, building commissions, administrative codes, and other authorizing legislation and regulations, we are pleased to announce that our code site has now gone national:

http://bulk.resource.org/codes.gov/

These codes are all critical for public safety, apply to us all, and the model codes and standards incorporated therein were all intended to be made into laws by the standards creators.  It is ironic that the laws that most directly touch our daily lives have been the least accessible, locked up behind a cash register.

In addition, the above-referenced directory features other laws of general applicability, including the California Code of Regulations and California local and county administrative codes.

Bravo to Carl.