[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 10:28:19 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  As a periodic reminder, information on
    (un)subscribing, plus Web archives and much more, can be found at:
    
      http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
    
    Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    politics
    
    Republican complaints about election night coverage are, as usual, irrational
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h062101_1.shtml
    
    Election Worker Charged with Tampering with Ballots
    http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/cuyahoga/993029410241251.xml
    
    a mining lobbyist to regulate mining on public lands -- sure, makes sense
    http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/28171_mine20.shtml
    
    You Can Bank on the Ethics of the Bush Administration
    http://www.newsday.com/coverage/current/editorial/thursday/nd6768.htm
    
    the programs that Bush is pushing nationally were all disasters in Texas
    http://washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25773-2001Jun20?language=printer
    
    Bush Loses Favor, Poll Says, Despite Tax Cut and Trip
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/21/national/21POLL.html?pagewanted=1
    
    Evolution Opponents on the Offensive in Senate, House
    http://www.agiweb.org/gap/legis107/evolution_update0601.html
    http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2001/US/432_senate_passes_antievolution_re_6_13_2001.asp
    
    oh, and they falsely accused the Clintons of stealing furniture, too
    http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-06-19/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-115458.asp
    
    
    privacy
    
    shocked that all that personal information is going to waste
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16240-2001Jun19.html
    
    members of Congress observe that financial privacy notices are badly designed
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30104-2001Jun21.html
    
    Consumers Can't Bank on Privacy Protection
    http://www.latimes.com/business/20010622/t000051657.html
    
    GPS tracking of parolees
    http://www.etak.com/News/continent.html
    
    Car Spy Pushes Privacy Limit
    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2778752,00.html
    http://www.newmassmedia.com/nac.phtml?code=new&db=nac_fea&ref=16435
    
    
    everything else
    
    interesting review of the Tate Modern (huge new art museum in London)
    http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_1000/rev.htm
    http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/building/default.htm
    
    Urban Belgrade Culture
    http://www.cyberrex.org/
    
    Secrecy and Openness in the EU
    http://www.statewatch.org/secreteurope.html
    
    Free Hardware Design: Past, Present, Future
    http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/200106/msg00051.html
    
    what people are searching for on Lycos (unfortunately)
    http://50.lycos.com/
    
    Global Treaty Could Transform Web
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-6345725.html
    
    video of riots in Belfast, set off by sectarian attacks on schoolchildren
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1400000/video/_1400380_belfast12_hughes_vi.ram
    
    Digital Music's New Battle Hymn
    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2001/tc20010621_702.htm
    
    Microsoft reinvents network computing, only worse
    http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/06/18/010618oppetreley.xml
    
    releasing open source into the public domain to defend against bogus patents
    http://www.priorart.org/press1.jsp
    
    Wireless Secrets and Lies
    http://www.mformobile.com/default.asp?Redirect=main.asp?pk=17409
    
    Cyc is interesting despite the retrobogosity about artificial intelligence
    http://www.latimes.com/print/asection/20010621/t000051293.html
    http://www.cyc.com/
    
    Canadian government broadband report
    http://broadband.gc.ca/english/
    
    conference on IT for trade unions, Stockholm, 5-7 December 2001
    http://www.ida.liu.se/conferences/EmL/
    
    "technology is wreaking havoc on old-fashioned methods of building plot complications"
    http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/06/21/tech/print.html
    
    open-source educational course management system
    http://web.mit.edu/oki/
    
    increasing globalization of human rights law
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/21/national/21LEGA.html?pagewanted=all
    
    E-Mail Overload in Congress
    http://www.congressonlineproject.org/email.html
    
    rights management software is almost here
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-6328327.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/20/technology/20DIGI.html
    
    accounting firms have an inherent conflict of interest
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/19/business/19CND-SUIT.html
    
    GAO report on NTIS versus the Web
    http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01490.pdf
    
    an even better piece about Archimedes's "On Method"
    http://www.aip.org/pt/june00/origins.htm
    
    The Bad, Bad Meeting (very funny)
    http://hotwired.lycos.com/animation/wired_news/scott_bateman/bad_meeting/
    
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