Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Now that it's clear what sort of alleged government we have in the US, I'm hoping that I can ease off on the political materials. But no guarantees. politics "Bush v. Gore" in the context of voting rights and equal protection http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumnew23.htm "the conversation in the White House rarely strayed from superficialities" http://www.latimes.com/print/asection/20010607/t000047496.html The Bush Dyslexicon http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10989 http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10988 the anti-Gore accepts that global warming is real -- so now he's in a trap http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/08/politics/08WARM.html http://www4.nationalacademies.org/onpi/webextra.nsf/web/climate?OpenDocument they're not liberals -- they're leftist communist anti-American terrorist traitors! (there's a whole genre of conservatives prodding one another to be nastier) http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-horowitz060601.shtml intellectual property Online Search Tool Finds Copyright Owners http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6185249.html http://www.loc.gov/copyright/search FindLaw's Copyright Law Library http://library.lp.findlaw.com/intellectualproperty_copyright_1.html professors sue record industry so they can present their security research http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/20010606_eff_complaint.html http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010606.atc.19.rmm http://www.chronicle.com/free/2001/06/2001060701t.htm Technology and the Corruption of Copyright http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2770541,00.html "the recording industry is taking aim at streaming-music services" http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jun2001/nf2001067_844.htm http://www.videobusiness.com/053101_sweeting.asp cash bounties for researching prior art to bump off patents http://www.bountyquest.com/ privacy Web Bug Detector from the Privacy Foundation http://www.bugnosis.org/ junk mailers "warn" of stronger privacy initiatives in a Democratic senate http://www.mailingsystemsmag.com/mstpressrel2.asp?ID=384 bogus estimates of the cost of privacy protection http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jun2001/nf2001067_517.htm conferences Conference on Assistive Technologies, Edinburgh, 8-10 July 2002 http://www.acm.org/sigcaph/assets02/ conference on cheap Linux-cluster supercomputing, Urbana, 25-27 June 2001 http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/LinuxRevolution/ Library Research Seminar, University of Maryland, 2-3 November 2001 http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~folive/LRSII/index.htm Society for Social Studies of Science, Cambridge, MA, 1-4 November 2001 http://web.mit.edu/sts/www/4s/ news from Microsoft Doonesbury http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index20010601.htm Worm Launches Microsoft Attack (worm engineering is coming right along) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-202-6226352.html New Windows XP Feature Can Re-Edit Others' Sites (might be overhyped) http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB991862595554629527.html further explanation of the issue http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2001/06/08#moreSmartTags weird stuff Computer Screen Parrot Alerts Firefighters http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,502969,00.html spread of bizarre "reality TV" in Latin America http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atcupdate/20010606.atcupdate.01.rmm Canadian Boy Runs Riot with Chicken Finger (caution: violent content) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/19547.html Vigilantism Against Pachyderms in East Tennessee (probably a parody but still pretty funny) http://www.internetwebguide.com/mag2000/aug/mary.asp http://www.internetwebguide.com/mag2000/aug/graphics/bigmary.jpg everything else A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~rik/foa/index.html Groove Product Backgrounder http://www.groove.net/pdf/groove_product_backgrounder.pdf New York Judge Sides With Alleged Spammer http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166441.html Court Upholds Washington Anti-Spam Law (but lobbyists throttle federal bill) http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,5092345-2,00.html Human/Machine Reconsidered http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/soc040ls.html site to help tactical voters in the British elections http://www.tacticalvoter.net/ interview with James Bamford about stupid Cold War tricks and the NSA http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010607.me.03.rmm Cinema To Eject Mobile Phone Users http://www.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/UK/0,2478,961180,00.html The Dot-Com Kevorkians http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jun2001/nf2001068_102.htm Death of the Free Web (at least that's the current fad) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-5995337-0.html hackers permanently destroy the official Dr. Seuss Web site http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/drseuss.html the RRE consortium is finally selling the island http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Island-Sale.html end
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