[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 14:15:34 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    The Nader-sues-AOL page that I sent out last time was a hoax.  Oh well.
    That's what I get for putting one of these lists together when I'm tired.
    
    
    politics
    
    Gore's Lost Votes
    http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/071201a.html
    
    Bush Doesn't Care About Election Reform
    http://www.sunspot.net/bal-op.witcover11jul11.story
    
    Medicare Fund May Get Tapped
    http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/thursday/news_b3d40431c64f32b40030.html
    
    this is exactly what happens when you start intertwining church and state
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48279-2001Jul11.html
    
    "Bush expects to withdraw from the ABM treaty in less than two years"
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000057078jul12.story
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47591-2001Jul11.html
    
    
    privacy
    
    Wireless Networks Wide Open to Hackers
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-202-6554365.html
    
    Democrats Focus on Internet Privacy
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48700-2001Jul11.html
    
    Dick Armey and the ACLU want to investigate face recognition cameras in Tampa
    http://www.wtsp.com/news/2001_07/12_ybor_cameras.htm
    http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n070601a.html
    
    
    architecture
    
    entertaining rant about the current state of architecture
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/070901/filler070901.html
    
    "deconstructionist" architect Peter Eisenman's masterpiece is falling apart
    http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0701/ob/ob09.html
    
    "curators and architects debate how to display virtual art in the physical world"
    http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0701/new/
    
    directory of online publications about architecture
    http://cyburbia.ap.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/pairc/pub_arch
    
    another excellent cartoon by Ben Katchor
    http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0601/ben/
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    "the appeals court's ruling shows that it was right to sue Microsoft"
    http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=687513
    
    Microsoft's Meaningless Concession
    http://www.forbes.com/2001/07/11/0711msft.html
    
    Inside Windows Product Activation
    http://www.licenturion.com/xp/fully-licensed-wpa.txt
    
    
    conferences
    
    Developmental Embodied Cognition, Edinburgh, 31 July 2001
    http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~deco/
    
    International Federation of Library Associations, Boston, 16-25 August 2001
    http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla67/index.htm
    
    The Electronic Library: Management Issues, Loughborough, 9-14 December 2001
    http://www.britishcouncil.org/networkevents/2000/0134p.htm
    
    Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, Glasgow, 25-28 July 2001
    http://www.vasari.co.uk/eva/scotland/scot2001.htm
    
    Asian Digital Libraries, Bangalore, 10-12 December 2001
    http://www.icadl2001.org/
    
    Social Issues of Telematics, La Spezia, Italy, 26-28 September 2001
    http://www.castagna.it/ICSIT2001/
    
    
    everything else
    
    the dot-com fad wasted the talents of a generation
    http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/01_28/B3740ebiz.htm
    
    Hackers Launch New E-Mail List for Security Bugs
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167891.html
    
    Georgi Guninski finds yet another fatal problem with ActiveX
    http://www.guninski.com/vv2xp.html
    
    article on the spread (about time, too) of distributed computing
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-071201distrib.story
    
    guy who's being prosecuted by State of Georgia for using distributed.net
    http://www.interesting-people.org/200107/0054.html
    
    The Physics of the Web
    http://www.physicsweb.org/article/world/14/7/9
    
    Social Implications of the Internet
    http://soc.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/full/27/1/307
    
    hilarious song made of samples from Dan Rather plus drum and bass
    http://www.evolution-control.com/cbs.html
    
    Librarians Targeted in Latest Copyright Battles
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-6545588-0.html
    
    Why ICANN's Domain Dispute Rules Are Flawed
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20304.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20305.html
    
    How Computers Affect Education, Culture, and Ecological Sustainability
    http://coe.asu.edu/edrev/reviews/rev119.htm
    
    A Space for Place in Sociology
    http://soc.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/full/26/1/463
    
    where is "the South"? the answer in maps
    http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/REED/tears.html
    
    Global Warming Much Worse Than Predicted, Say Scientists
    http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=83051
    
    Moscow Times
    http://www.themoscowtimes.com/
    
    New Round of Russian Sweep Operations Triggers Outflow of Civilians
    http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/07/chechnya-0707.htm
    
    Three Colombian Journalists Killed in Past Week
    http://www.cpj.org/news/2001/Colombia11jul01na.html
    
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