[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 13:06:19 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    election
    
    Freepers organizing to trash Alan Dershowitz's election book on Amazon
    http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b2e8e7e7650.htm
    
    an excerpt from same
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/586915.asp
    
    non-stop Republican deception about the Civil Rights Commission report
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/18/opinion/L18FLOR.html
    
    The Washington Times Institute of Advanced Character Assassination
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h061801_1.shtml
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h061901_1.shtml
    
    
    politics
    
    extreme disconnect between symbolism and reality
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/18/world/18BUSH.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/16/opinion/16LEWI.html
    http://www.bouldernews.com/news/worldnation/17abush.html
    
    Florida Republicans are changing the rules for the Democratic primary
    http://www.sptimes.com/News/061801/Columns/GOP_s_ploy_gives_Demo.shtml
    
    "a hostile takeover of the Interior Department by the oil industry"
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010617/pl/environment_alaska_dc_1.html
    
    Why Free David Hale?
    http://www.arktimes.com/dumas/060801dumas.html
    
    the Republican smear machine now runs the country
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/169/nation/Democrats_rap_picks_by_Bush_as_partisan+.shtml
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16156-2001Jun19.html
    
    
    technology
    
    Document Markup Language XML Finding Widespread Use
    http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/28399p-494926c.html
    
    more middleware for location-based services
    http://www.xmarc.com/news_events/2001/press_axle.htm
    
    Networks Promise Unfettered File Swapping
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6312714.html
    
    An Open-Source Rival for MP3
    http://www.techreview.com/web/kiang/kiang061401.asp
    
    National Science Foundation Digital Library
    http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/due/programs/nsdl/
    http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october98/wattenberg/10wattenberg.html
    
    
    privacy
    
    Whitehall Plans New Checks on Citizens
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000323637725360&rtmo=V15PlF5x&pg=/et/01/6/19/ndata19.html
    
    Identity Theft Highlighted in SAR Activity Review
    http://www.ustreas.gov/fincen/sarreview06182001.pdf
    http://www.ustreas.gov/fincen/sarreview2issue4web.pdf
    
    Unresolved Issues Dog Fed's Data-Tap Efforts
    http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2773783,00.html
    
    article about prison webcams in Arizona (weird and gross)
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/18/webcam_privacy/print.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    "highly personalized 15-second commercials via e-mail" (ugh)
    http://www.emarketer.com/analysis/email_marketing/20010618_email.html?ref=dn
    
    DoCoMo Takes Spammers to Court
    http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27271,00.html
    
    The Web as Dictator of Scientific Fashion
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/19/science/19NET.html
    
    An Experiment in Interactive Legislation
    http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/egov/
    
    "Would you hop into a 300km/h car that is controlled by software you wrote?"
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.48.html#subj4
    
    The Man Who Bought the Internet (i.e., Stratton Sclavos of Verisign)
    http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=202984
    
    Once-Bright Future of Optical Fiber Dims
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/18/technology/18MELT.html?pagewanted=all
    
    Microsoft Uses Open-Source Code Despite Denying Use of Such Software
    http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm
    http://slashdot.org/bsd/01/06/18/1153235.shtml
    http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2776342-2,00.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19771.html
    
    Earth to Microsoft: there is no reason why a buffer should ever overflow
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-202-6312870.html
    http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,44620,00.html
    http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27256,00.html
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/588963.asp
    
    Weak Security Taints Directory
    http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61444,00.html.html
    
    Tulsa Firm Had Southern California Plants Curb Output, Boosting Prices
    http://www.ocregister.com/news/aes00617cci1.shtml
    
    Mubarak Regime Is Now on Trial in Egypt
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/17/magazine/17EGYPT.html?pagewanted=all
    
    politicians' bizarre hatred of schoolteachers has brought imminent disaster
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010618.atc.12.rmm
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010618.atc.13.rmm
    
    "supporting human rights of communities resisting mining and oil exploitation"
    http://www.moles.org/
    
    Half of World's 6,800 Languages Could Die by 2100
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/06/18/disappearing.languages.ap/
    
    Unknown Poisonous Spider Invades Bowels of Windsor Castle (cool)
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,509027,00.html
    
    studying dinosaurs with computer simulations (very cool)
    http://www.latimes.com/print/asection/20010618/t000050631.html
    
    article about interesting new texts by Archimedes
    http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/06/17/stimazmaz03006.html
    
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