[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 12:01:15 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    politics
    
    happy article about the Republican "researchers" who spread lies about Gore
    (e.g., that he wanted to outlaw the family car)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43033-2001Aug21.html
    
    threatening to steal old people's retirement money is getting on toward evil
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010822/pl/retirement_dc_5.html
    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010820&s=greider
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Social-Security.html
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010821/3559778s.htm
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/08/16/garrett.otsc/
    http://www.centeronbudget.org/8-21-01socsec3.htm
    
    that's not a "surplus" -- it's our retirement money!
    (Clinton deceived when he had to; Bush deceives as his basic modus operandi)
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Budget-Surplus.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48849-2001Aug22.html
    
    "Bush takes credit for legislation that looks nothing like what he proposed"
    (same thing with education, where he was almost totally defeated)
    http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf20010821_403.htm
    
    Bush Aide Accused of Having a Talk Canceled
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/21/politics/21CENS.html
    
    this is what government by the oil industry would be like
    (um, *is* like)
    http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0820-09.htm
    
    that DOE report approving Yucca Mt? they got the numbers from industry lawyers
    http://www.mapcruzin.com/news/nuke080101a.htm
    
    our enemies are all starving, so we need an Official Secrets Act
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/22/opinion/22BLAN.html
    
    jargon watch: projection in the self-pitying rhetoric of white supremacists
    (trying to disenfranchise them by falsely accusing them of disenfranchising us)
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010822/us/supremacist_e_mail_1.html
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    ICANN Approves Domain Cybersquatting
    http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?id=1569
    
    An Examination of the Allegations of Systemic Unfairness in the ICANN UDRP
    http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~geist/geistudrp.pdf
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21185.html
    
    the MPAA causes innocent people's Internet service to be turned off
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/23/pirate/print.html
    
    Overseas Groups Battle Their Own Net Piracy
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6950486.html
    
    Internet Piracy Spreads from Music to Books
    http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3J98FDPQC
    
    low correlation between critics' and audiences' opinions of movies
    (which is a bad sign if you want to reintermediate giant media companies)
    http://xocxoc.home.att.net/math/math_and_movies.htm
    
    Treasure Trove of Twang
    (another huge audio collection that ought to be digital)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000068261aug23.story
    
    
    privacy
    
    Pennsylvania High Court Rules Individuals Have No Privacy in Phone Calls
    ("reasonable expectation of privacy" is such a worthless doctrine)
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZHW8CDOQC
    
    Cable-Based Internet Provider Cannot Reveal Federal Probe
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ5C1JRPQC
    
    Wireless Networks in Big Trouble
    http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,46187,00.html
    
    devices that supposedly protect license plates against red-light cameras
    (I have no idea if they work, or if they are legal)
    http://www.photoblock.com/
    http://www.photobuster.com/
    http://radar-detectors.com/protector_overhead.htm
    
    Facing the Truth: A New Tool to Analyze Our Expressions
    (put up a camera and you can continually measure your workers' cheerfulness!)
    http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/may2001/faces/index.html
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    serious damage and disruption from the Code Red Microsoft worm
    (and all unpatched servers now have Code Red II back doors installed in them)
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010820/3556859s.htm
    http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-6950192-0.html
    
    Insurer: Microsoft Is A Costly Choice
    http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2805929,00.html
    
    Lobbyists Tied to Microsoft Wrote Citizens' Letters
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000068380aug23.story
    
    
    conferences
    
    Online, Everywhere, All The Time [etc], Camden, Maine, 19-21 October 2001
    http://www.poptech.org/
    
    Computers in Education, Seoul, 12-15 November 2001
    http://www.icce2001.org/
    
    Developing a Sense of Place for Distance Education, Tucson, 24-27 January 2002
    http://www.place.arizona.edu/
    
    
    human rights
    
    impunity for massive human rights violations in Colombia
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/weekinreview/19FORE.html
    
    why a tribunal for Kosovo but not for much greater atrocities in East Timor?
    http://www.etan.org/legislation/sconres9.htm
    http://www.indonesianetwork.org/reports/report.asp?id=3
    
    House Republicans are holding up UN dues to stop the Int'l Criminal Court
    http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=opinion_a&slug=ED20a
    
    Mennonite project to remove unexploded bombs in Laos
    http://www.mcc.org/clusterbomb/laos_legacy/
    
    "California's three-strikes law had no significant effect on crime"
    (three strikes for violent criminals, okay, but most by far are nonviolent)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/23/national/23SENT.html
    
    Johns Hopkins Tragedy: Could Librarians Have Prevented a Death?
    http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb010806-1.htm
    
    court decision in a case where JHU deliberately exposed children to lead dust
    (the feds are cracking down massively on research ethics, and this is why)
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991191
    http://www.courts.state.md.us/opinions/coa/2001/128a00.pdf
    
    
    everything else
    
    Networked Cultural Heritage Newsletter
    http://www-ninch.cni.org/
    
    Living the Wired Life in the Wired Suburb
    http://web.mit.edu/knh/www/downloads/khampton01.pdf
    
    SpamCon Foundation
    http://www.spamcon.org/
    http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06526
    
    Telstra Investigated Over Charging Customers for "Spam" Message
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-21aug2001-32.htm
    
    Destroy a Freeway, Save a City
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/23/opinion/23LOCK.html
    
    Transatlantic Tuna Travel   (very cool)
    http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2001/816/3
    
    Signs You Live in the Year 2001
    (and a strange year it is)
    http://homepages.apci.net/~ipw4/bigmuddy/signs.html
    
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