Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. politics The Unexpected Origins of the Supreme Court's Worst Decision http://www.thenewrepublic.com/073001/adler073001_print.html Disabled Latch Could Skew Election Results http://www.newsday.com/coverage/current/news/sunday/nd1195.htm Bush is a weak leader with an unpopular agenda, as the HMO debate illustrates http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35265-2001Jul22.html Bush Employs Light Touch in Dealing with G-8 Leaders (really embarrassing) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32235-2001Jul21.html using lies and doubletalk to shut down Social Security http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/opinion/22KRUG.html Wall Street is a den of thieves (so let's give them our retirement funds!) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/business/yourmoney/22BROK.html?pagewanted=all you must read this very disturbed rant by Rush Limbaugh about Tom Daschle http://www.spinsanity.org/posts/limbaugh7-21-01.html Ashcroft's Assault on Gun Laws http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/202/oped/Ashcroft_s_assault_on_gun_lawsP.shtml praising the free market while subsidizing pollution http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2001/07/18/ Earth Likely to Warm 4-7 Degrees by 2100 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-07/ucfa-elt071301.php http://www.ucar.edu/ucar/ "Theater" Missile Defense is the respectable kind, but it shouldn't be http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2517/parrish2517.html a flood of judicial activism (under the guise of stopping judicial activism) http://www.freep.com/voices/columnists/esedl18_20010718.htm globalization in action Truncheons Rained Down on Me in the Battle of Genoa (extreme brutality against journalists and bystanders is now the norm) http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/07/22/stifgneur02005.html accounts of the police attack on the media center and protest organizers (no sympathy for the guy who got shot, but that's no excuse) http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php?id=102064 http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5539 a prominent pacifist's diary from Genoa http://starhawk.org/activism/genoa1.html http://starhawk.org/activism/genoa2.html Farm Unrest Roils Mexico, Challenging New President http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/international/22MEXI.html?pagewanted=all Leaked Memo Reveals WTO Plan to "Sell" Itself to American Youth http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11172 privacy Concerns for ID Theft Are Often Unheeded http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27475-2001Jul20.html Review of "Covert" Speed Cameras http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,2763,526002,00.html Smart Cameras Will Spot the Guilty Before They Commit a Crime (people generally don't realize how much public video cameras can do) http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,525656,00.html Crypto Conference, Santa Barbara, 19-23 August 2001 http://www.iacr.org/conferences/c2001/ computer security SirCam Virus Clogs Mailboxes, Spreads Secrets (I've gotten a whole bunch of these -- why does Microsoft even still exist?) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6647394.html Windshield Toll Transponders Used to Charge $4,000 at McDonald's http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000060199jul23.story Everyone Agrees: Wireless Security Stinks (*all* security stinks, because system architects are still in the 1970's) http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2795483,00.html CERT Advisory: Continuing Threats to Home Users http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-20.html everything else Preserving the Architecture of the Internet in the Broadband Era http://www.bepress.com/blewp/default/vol2000/iss2/art8/ The DSL Debacle http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=10000001&doc_id=170019817 appeal to PC manufacturers to install a standard Java virtual machine http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/24/java/print.html the technology boom was a mirage, and its continued implosion drags us all down (IT does change the world, but slowly, and hype just ends up making it slower) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/24/business/24FED.html radio is wall-to-wall payola (this is why people want to believe that the net destroys old institutions) http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/07/24/urban_radio/print.html Adobe Calls for Programmer's Release http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Hacker-Convention-Arrest.html Africa Goes Online (maybe) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/203/nation/Africa_goes_online+.shtml http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/204/nation/Entering_the_queue+.shtml Schools' Computers Keep Parents in the Know (beneath all the nonsense, normal people are quietly using the net to do good) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000059717jul22.story Anti-Insurance http://www.bepress.com/blewp/default/vol2001/iss1/art1/ Torture Suspects Find US Haven http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/dade/digdocs/111553.htm Archives Detailing Radiation Closed http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000059722jul22.story end
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