Hi! is an Arabic language aimed at youth in the Islamic world. It is published by the U.S. State Department, and features, from what I can tell of the pictures (it's in Arabic, after all), mainly stories about U.S pop culture.
The first issue came out last summer, but I'm just running across this now and find it very interesting. Check out this State Department press briefing which covers some of the questions that should immediately spring to mind about this venture. (you'll have to do a text search for "hi magazine" since it wasn't the only topic covered during the briefing.
As they do every year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is tracking Santa Claus' progress across the globe. NORAD used their sophisticated radar and web of satellites to track the progress of Santa Claus, and provides access to both on their website.
Merry Christmas.
Inside Politics is dubbed a "Your Guide to National and State Politices," and is just that. There is a wealth of information here, mostly financial data about US legislators and research/polls performed by Brown University, which only makes sense considering the site is compiled by Darrell West, a profesor at Brown's Center for Public Policy. What should be of particular interest to anyone who'd be stopping by here are the Urban, State and Federal, and Global eGovernment reports. I wont offer any critique, since I haven't poured through them all yet, but I feel safe sharing the links since this is the third year West has performed this survey, and each of the reports seems to offer a very detailed analysis. The Global eGovernment report, for example, looked at 1,197 iniatitives in nearly 200 hundred countries.