Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. election Palm Beach County Wiped Out Computer Files From Presidential Balloting http://www.sun-sentinel.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=sfl%2Daballot01aug01 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010801/us/palm_beach_ballots_2.html United on Vote Overhaul, Divided on How to Do It http://www.newsday.com/news/daily/bush801.htm Senate Republicans Boycott Vote on Election Reform http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/politics/AP-Electoral-Changes.html politics Dwindling Surplus Has GOP Scurrying (George I said "no new taxes"; George II said "we'll keep Medicare in a box") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000062535aug01.story right is *shocked* that Bush ignored defense increases when defending tax cuts http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010731-740793.htm Halting Global Warming Is Cheapest Option http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/globalwarming/story/0,7369,525243,00.html Alabama establishes a state religion http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010801/us/ten_commandments_monument_1.html there are no depths to which conservative character attacks will not go http://www.ardemgaz.com/Week/wed/edi/wopLyons1.asp jargon watch: accusation of "smear" that doesn't even allege false statements (recall that objecting to Ashcroft's lies about Judge White was also a "smear") http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010802/ts/congress_consumer_dc_3.html right-wing communist spy Robert Hanssen is one weird dude (what's scariest is the idea that, at the FBI, this freak fit right in) http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=4650 privacy Tampa City Council meeting which voted to keep the face recognition cameras http://www.ci.tampa.fl.us/appl_Cable_Communications_closed_captioning/frmAgenda.asp Matching Faces With Mug Shots http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12629-2001Jul31.html "Big Brother" Cameras on Watch for Criminals http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/08/02/privacy.htm spyware that phones home with your data (PC OS's need a decent interface to show you the network traffic in and out) http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/02/parasite_capital/print.html http://www.macintouch.com/spyware.html "End Secrecy" Over Speed Cameras http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,531591,00.html Telematics, Dearborn, 14-16 August 2001 (in the US, "telematics" means wireless data communications to and from cars) http://www.it-telecomsolutions.com/pages/conferences/telematics2001.htm Telematics: Your Car's Collision with Commerce http://www.mcommercetimes.com/Solutions/109 Computers, Freedom and Privacy, San Francisco, 16-19 April 2002 http://www.cfp2002.org/ call for nominations for a CSTB study on "Privacy in the Information Age" http://www.cstb.org/web/project_privacy_nominations security Code Red Internet Worm Disturbs Pentagon Networks http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010801/tc/tech_codered_dc_19.html follow-up survey of hosts that were infected with the "Code Red" worm http://worm-security-survey.caida.org/ stupid commentary on the "Code Red" worm (forget this guy: the worm could *easily* have been very destructive) http://www.time.com/time/columnist/taylor/article/0,9565,169678,00.html SirCam Worm Still Spreading Documents (I don't get it -- why aren't there mobs with torches outside billg's house?) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6759035.html Worm Nabs Secret Ukrainian Files http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6763200.html Justice Mysteriously Delayed for "Melissa" Author http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/20751.html technology IBM Systems Journal issue on pervasive computing http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj38-4.html report on XML in pervasive computing http://www.xmlmag.com/upload/free/features/xml/2001/09sep01/sj0109/sj0109.asp Global Grid Forum, Frascati, Italy, 7-10 October 2001 http://www.gridforum.org/Meetings/GGF3/Default.htm IBM commitment to grid computing http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/02/technology/02BLUE.html stock bubble post mortem Morgan's Meeker Accused of Biased Research http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-6745016.html "conflicts of interest run deep at almost all the largest brokerage firms" (next please look at market-makers who trade against their clients) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/01/business/01PLAC.html George Gilder's hyperbolic praise of the incredible imploding Uniphase in 1998 (virtually the entire sector that Gilder promotes is now in a depression) http://www.gildertech.com/public/May98Intel.pdf everything else Wireless Net: Convenience vs. Annoyance http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-6747356.html tenure-track job at Stanford in social aspects of digital media http://www.stanford.edu/dept/communication/department/employment.html cool photos from space http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagepump/index.php Jim Romenesko's Media News http://www.poynter.org/medianews/ the culture of competition again http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000062560aug01.story end
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