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 end
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