[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sat Jun 02 2001 - 06:55:07 PDT

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    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/
    
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