Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. politics Dirty Pool in Florida http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6450-2001Jul16.html critique of the NY Times' story about Florida absentee vote counting http://slate.msn.com/code/kausfiles/kausfiles.asp?Show=7/17/2001&idMessage=7994 Bush predictions of disaster from TX patients' bill of rights didn't happen (this is the bill that he fought, refused to sign, and then took credit for) http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/07/17/patient/print.html dangers of deregulating the culture of brutality (ignore the title: it's not Jesus' fault) http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11193 MIC plans for the militarization of space (out in the open for anyone to see) http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/spacechapter2.pdf science and politics of climate change http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?20010705036R Bush Vows to Remove Toxic Petroleum from National Parks http://www.theonion.com/onion3724/bush_vows_to_remove.html Ann Coulter: The Jargon Vanguard http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20010716.html the world review of Wesley Clark's clueless book about the war in Kosovo (military people live in a dream, but war is now thoroughly mixed with politics) http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?20010719016R more on ExxonMobil's involvement in human rights abuses in Indonesia http://preventconflict.org/portal/main/research/jereski.htm truth and reconciliation in Guatemala (and the same people who supported the butchers are again running US policy) http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?20010621061R Daily Chronology of Atrocities (committed by the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe) http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=1537 Under Siege in Avondale http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=2105 Mugabe's Men on the Run from Witchcraft http://www.zwnews.com/print.cfm?ArticleID=1798 intellectual property Mike Godwin's review of Jessica Litman's book about copyright abuses http://reason.com/0107/cr.mg.copywrong.html criminal complaint against Russian geek who hacked Adobe copy protection http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/20010707_complaint.html background on problems with Adobe http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/bplist/archive/2001/2001-07-19$2.html court case contesting private copyright of public laws (i.e., building codes) http://regionalweb.texoma.net/CR/ legal train wreck after recent copyright rulings protecting authors http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZFEBIKBPC http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27702,00.html the music industry is tanking http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/07/19/industry_downturn/print.html Reading: The Digital Future http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?20010705046F "articles freely available online are more highly cited" http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/ A Guide to Creating Community-Controlled Science Journals http://www.arl.org/sparc/DI/toc.html computer security New Connections for Museum Visitors, Cincinnati, 24-27 October 2001 http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2001/index.htm Global Sustainability and Information Economy http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/gmi/gmi32.htm Noise Pollution Clearinghouse http://www.nonoise.org/ "paper money could be transporting antibiotic resistant bacteria" http://www.newscientist.com/conferences/confarticle.jsp?conf=amsmi200105&id=ns9999788 police attacks on medics at the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=38603 Crowd Control Technologies http://www.europarl.eu.int/stoa/publi/pdf/99-14-01-a_en.pdf Security Role for Traffic Cameras http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,523483,00.html the need for laws on Internet privacy http://www.epic.org/privacy/internet/testimony_0701.html dissenting views on Steve Gibson's criticism of Windows XP security (true, the real headline is that it's too hard to defend against DDOS attacks) http://www.politechbot.com/p-02094.html "Code Red" Worm Claims 12,000 Servers Running Microsoft IIS (millions of servers are vulnerable -- why isn't anyone freaking out?) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6604515.html Bad Human Factors Design http://www.baddesigns.com/ BBC World Service going off shortwave http://213.159.10.102/francemain.asp?pad=279,327,&item_id=10855 destructive Navy sonar experiments are back, and they're bigger than ever http://www.nrdcaction.org/index.asp?step=2&item=518 The Latest in Children and Media http://www.cme.org/publications/ecme/index_ecme.html Where Webvan Went Wrong http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-588.html#lnk2 article about prosecution of geek who installed distributed.net http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/17/screensaver/print.html end
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