It's been a strange week. Thanks to everyone who contributed. election Confusion Was Order of Day in Vote, Recount (even after all that's been written, this article is appalling) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3698-2001May31.html Florida's "Fixed It" Farce http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/Conover051101/conover051101.html conservative campaign against Florida Supreme Court violates campaign laws http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/tuesday/news_4.html politics this isn't just the permanent campaign -- it's the *deep* permanent campaign http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/01/politics/01CATH.html "criticize my positions and you're a divider" is an authoritarian thought-form http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20010529/pl/bush_california_6.html Republicans discriminate against those who gave only $100,000 http://www.msnbc.com/news/578759.asp?0nm=N35S tobacco administration to appoint Joe Camel defender to protect consumers http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/05/31/news/ftc_beales/ Utilities Play White House Off EPA http://www.msnbc.com/news/581211.asp?0nm=C11T Star Wars II: Here We Go Again http://past.thenation.com/issue/000619/0619hartung.shtml has the press figured out that they're crazy? http://www.tnr.com/060401/lizza060401.html Jeffords defection study carefully the important techniques of jargon in this column http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/willgeorge/A338-2001May31.html Propaganda's Triumph http://www.consortiumnews.com/053001a.html when the going gets tough, a psychotic rage comes to the surface http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010618&s=ivins Ready for Slime Time: Critics Slander Jeffords http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=4363 Jeffords Receives Death Threats After Party Switch http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2001-05-31-jeffords.htm McCain Is Considering Leaving the GOP http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10066-2001Jun1.html the bizarre tax bill Millions of Taxpayers Won't Receive Rebates (read this) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/nation/927279/ Bush's Tax Shuffle http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/01/business/01NORR.html the destruction of reason is complete http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010531/3361394s.htm http://www.fair.org/extra/0105/tax-cuts.html Fuzzy Math: The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005KHD5/ref=ed_oe_d/103-0469614-4483016 let's just say it: the conservatives intend to shut down the public schools http://members.home.net/mshapiro2/comments-5-25-01.htm everything else What Lies Behind the Globo-Babble in the New World Economy http://www.latimes.com/print/books/20010527/t000044216.html Dollar Bills Carry Potentially Harmful Bacteria (why didn't anyone do this earlier?) http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/money010523.html journalistic giants once strode the earth -- now we have John Stossel http://democrats.com/view.cfm?id=2648 Fear and Favor 2000: How Power Shapes the News http://www.fair.org/ff2000.html Move to Restore Soviet-Style Controls on Science Feared http://www.latimes.com/print/asection/20010601/t000045747.html http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999823 satellite uplink and broadcast of consumer videos http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999808 turning the first amendment into the monopoly protection clause http://www.latimes.com/business/20010527/t000044302.html The Music Revolution Will Not Be Digitized http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/01/digital_music/print.html "Ironically, Gnutella is now moving back to a system reminiscent of Napster" http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999814 Hailstorm: Open Web Services Controlled by Microsoft http://www.openp2p.com/lpt/a//p2p/2001/05/30/hailstorm.html "three dozen new telecommunications providers have collapsed since last fall" http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8834-2001Jun1.html middleware for location-based information services http://www.classwave.com/ one of several companies offering Bluetooth Access Points to the Internet http://www.axis.com/products/axis_9010/ Pupils Using Mobiles to Complain http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,499410,00.html first two parts of a deeply weird story about the LAPD (ignore the title) http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=13945&cf=1631 an earlier telling of the story before it got really bad http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2000-03-02/feature.html/printable_page Kissinger Summons Puts New Legal Focus on Human Rights http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=010530000817 http://www.lemonde.fr/rech_art/0,5987,190151,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1357000/1357632.stm FBI Termed Uncooperative in Waco Probe http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5301-2001May31.html http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/nation/928360/ they've ceded the moral high ground to Tim McVeigh -- quite an accomplishment http://www.latimes.com/print/asection/20010602/t000046038.html stupid Earth Liberation Front's arson manual (threatening "retribution" against government employees who copy it) http://www.earthliberationfront.com/library/elf_manual.pdf Evolving a Science of Information Systems, Montreal, 23-25 July 2001 http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/research/groups/IFIP2001/ Monuments of the Future: Designs of El Lissitzky http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/digital/lissitzky/ Origins of American Animation, 1900-1921 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html Ben Katchor's excellent cartoon for Metropolis http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0601/ben/ Dutch information society think tank http://www.infodrome.nl/english/ FTC guide to identity theft http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/idtheft.pdf The Wiretap Network http://www.wmob.com/ end
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