Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. election How to Make Over One Million Votes Disappear http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/electioncommreptpr73101.pdf http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/electionreport.pdf http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/20/politics/20ELEC.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37579-2001Aug20.html A Right to Vote http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/15/raskin-j.html Florida Legislature Secretly Authorized a New Felons Purge http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=4169 Florida Voting Reforms Face Discrimination Review http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010820/pl/rights_voting_dc_2.html jargon watch: where to begin? okay, start with the bit about equal protection (it's important to see how mechanical and formulaic these jargon op-eds are) http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95000959 politics Americans never wanted these stupid tax cuts, and now they're blowing up (worse: Bush promised big big spending, but now he's blaming others for it) http://economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=739087 http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30602-2001Aug18.html http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-08-19/News_and_Views/Opinion/a-122303.asp http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/231/oped/Bush_numbers_are_falling_apart+.shtml Fabricating a Social Security Crisis (they think it's okay to deceive because God is on their side) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/21/opinion/21KRUG.html Bush Flatters the "Heartland", Disses Coasts (since losing the election, Republicans have been pushing an ugly sectionalism) http://www.sacbee.com/voices/news/voices01_20010818.html Bush's Washington power grab (they lecture us about absolute truths and then apply them selectively) http://www.msnbc.com/news/614182.asp Foreign Pilots Hired to Boost US War in Colombia (spooky analogy to Reagan's circumvention of Congress to support the Contras) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-081801cap.story conservatives protest because they can't bring guns into a political convention http://www.sltrib.com/08202001/utah/124360.htm Empire or Not? A Quiet Debate Over US Role (conservatives make a game of reviving ever-more-reactionary ideas) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37019-2001Aug20.html news from Planet Microsoft Microsoft Quietly Removes Plugin Support From Internet Explorer (plugins are a mess, but MS's preferred alternative, ActiveX, is a disaster) http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/16/2138224&from=rdf amended privacy complaint against Microsoft (the amendments alone could easily be broken into half a dozen complaints) http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/MS_complaint2.pdf The Trouble With Hotmail http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/21/hotmail/print.html strongly worded court order denying Microsoft's motion for extra hearings http://ecfp.cadc.uscourts.gov/MS-Docs/1753/0.pdf why is the headline "Code Red threat low" and not "huge MS worm remains alive"? http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/assessments/2001/01-018.htm security (not including for the countless security problems associated with Microsoft) column about wireless security http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep01/garfinkel.asp Russian Mafia Net Threat http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2784950,00.html Cyber Citizen Lands Felony Charges (take-home: if you discover a security problem, don't report it) http://www.linuxfreak.org/post.php/08/17/2001/134.html http://www.bkw.org/pdf/ intellectual property How Radiohead Took America by Stealth http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,539105,00.html Why Just Listen to Pop When You Can Mix Your Own? (and many more bands are now able to build their own studios) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/20/arts/music/20ARTS.html Hollywood Exports Technology Ban Overseas Despite US Abuse http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010816_eff_ftaa_alert.en.html The Battle Over the Institutional Ecosystem in the Digital Environment http://www.law.nyu.edu/benklery/CACM.pdf Shfiting Regulation Towards Sustainable Commons and User Access http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v52/no3/benkler1.pdf Intellectual Property and the Organization of Information Production http://www.law.nyu.edu/benklery/IP&Organization.pdf the wasteful and destructive dot-com fad Audit Raises Hard Questions About Health of At Home http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/21/technology/ebusiness/21EXCI.html?pagewanted=print numerous investigations of alleged sleaze at the center of Silicon Valley (and recent losses have canceled all NASDAQ profits back to 1995) http://www.fortune.com/indext.jhtml?channel=print_article.jhtml&doc_id=203661 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/business/19ACCO.html?pagewanted=all another lawsuit over analysts' ridiculous dot-com stock recommendations (someone should start a site to keep track of action against the "analysts") http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,538905,00.html human rights Standards Urged for Community of Democracies (living in the US you don't see how globalized politics has become) http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/08/democracies-0809-ltr.htm China Said to Remove Revered Tibetan Monk http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35993-2001Aug20.html Indonesia: The War in Aceh http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/aceh/ Mugabe's War on His Own People http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,539052,00.html Schools' Backing of Behavior Drugs Comes Under Fire http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/health/children/19RITA.html?pagewanted=all "using video and technology to fight for human rights" http://witness.org/ everything else Communication, Information and Internet Policy, Alexandria, VA, 27-29 October 2001 http://www.tprc.org/TPRC01/2001.HTM explosion in genealogy fueled by the Internet (interesting example of the net connecting people with physical records) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/national/19SEAR.html good essay about journalistic cliches (and more interesting than I'm making it sound) http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=87307 "companies are developing the technology to clone chickens on a massive scale" http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991159 The $3,880 Megawatt-Hour (Econ 101.25, in which non-ideologues acknowledge the fact of market power) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37586-2001Aug20.html jargon watch: observe the PR person at the end break and build associations (first she breaks bedbugs-her client's hotels, then she builds bedbugs-guests) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/magazine/19SALIENT.html How Can I Train Myself for Jihad http://www.ummah.net.pk/dajjal/121.html end
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