Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. election Court Scrutinized for Supreme Intervention http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000069129aug26.story 1 Person, 1 Vote -- Not in America http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59815-2001Aug24.html "J. Edgar Hoover waged a war of enmity against Al Gore Sr." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48873-2001Aug22.html ... much like the war the Washington Post waged against Al Gore Jr. (the media especially despises Gore for his rational discussion of real issues) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h082301_1.shtml politics having gotten tax cuts, Bush has forgotten about his social spending promises (and he's acting like it's a surprise that there's no money) http://latimes.com/news/politics/la-082401tommy.story http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000068531aug24.story http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/238/oped/The_brutal_price_of_Bush_s_tax_cut+.shtml one thing's constant: he's pretending that the numbers add up when they don't (and having promised big spending, he's lecturing Congress not to spend!) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/opinion/24KRUG.html http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpcoc232332872aug23.column http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/opinion/24FRI11.html http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/08/23/corporate.taxes/ he viciously abuses the media, which then tells everyone what a nice guy he is http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/082701a.html The Guards of Our "Captive Agencies" http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/239/oped/The_guards_of_our_captive_agencies_+.shtml Comments Presented to the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security http://www.cepr.net/Social_Security/baker_comments_to_committee.htm impressive new report of FBI bungling in the Lee case (Republicans ignored Louis Freeh's incompetence because he whacked Clinton) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A623-2001Aug26.html let's remember who the conservatives' favorite, Jesse Helms, really was http://www.charlotte.com/observer/natwor/docs/hudson0823.htm http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/sunopinion/la-000069248aug26.story http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/politics/25LIVE.html The Enduring Legacy of the South's Civil War Victory http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/weekinreview/26DAVI.html?pagewanted=all restoring another conservative institution: hereditary aristocracy (one party's kids get elected; the other party's kids get appointed) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010822/pl/bush_hiring_kin_1.html news from Planet Microsoft a new variant of the Code Red II Microsoft worm is spreading (but we sophisticates are used to the idea that the net is infested with worms) http://webserv.vnunet.com/News/1124977 http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2807674,00.html another extremely dangerous attack on Windows machines (oh, but it spreads by e-mail, not automatically, so I guess it's all hype) http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,5096155,00.html http://webserv.vnunet.com/News/1124976 http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6961705.html and *another* extremely dangerous attack on Windows machines (and yes, you're right, this one is a buffer-overflow attack) http://www.incidents.org/diary/august2001.php#132 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-023.asp Microsoft's Browser Update Riles Critics (more details here on MS's unilateral destruction of the "plugin" standard) http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/ms082401.htm Antitrust Policy: A Century of Economic and Legal Thinking http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/~shapiro/century.pdf "the MS case now is officially under the supervision of Cheney's son-in-law" http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A715-2001Aug26.html privacy Borders is planning to use face recognition to identify shop-lifters http://www.sundayherald.com/18007/ Florida City Moves to Ban Face-Recognition System http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/fcw2.htm Good Monitors Make for Better Contracts (interesting economics; too bad about the privacy policy) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/23/business/23SCEN.html?pagewanted=print Task Force on Privacy, Technology, and Criminal Justice Information http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/rntfptcj.htm As Public Records Go Online, Some Say They're Too Public http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/nyregion/24VOTE.html FBI's "Carnivore" Might Target Wireless Text http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/12051-1.html alarming legal escalation in secrecy of digital surveillance technology http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/technology/25CODE.html Personal Privacy in the Digital Age, Blacksburg, VA, 28-30 October 2001 http://www.conted.vt.edu/privacy.htm human rights interview with the author of a book about truth commissions (a globalized institution that isn't destructive) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesat/20010825.wesat.12.ram "Humanrightsism" and the Int'l Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia http://wwics.si.edu/ees/reports/2000/191hay.htm Colombia Support Network http://www.colombiasupport.net/ Democracy and the Information Revolution http://www.ceip.org/files/Publications/idea.asp?p=5&from=pubdate everything else Global Warming: Early Warning Signs http://www.climatehotmap.org/ "genetically modified crops are being driven into reluctant markets" http://www.monbiot.com/dsp_article.cfm?article_id=446 Law and Politics Book Review http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/lpbr/ another issue of Economics Reporting Review (I won't filter it regularly, but do give it a chance) http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/08/20/ An MLS via Distance Learning: A Conversation http://librarians.about.com/library/weekly/aa081101a.htm Librarians Serving Genealogists http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/genealib/ Acoustics and Vibration Animations (you already know the first several slides, but scroll down and try again) http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/demos.html the move to part-time faculty is destroying Australia's universities (and not just Australia's) http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/2001/08/26/FFXX1DDASQC.html Groups Ask States to Investigate Channel One's Payments to School Employees http://www.commercialalert.org/releases/agrel.html Mathematical Knowledge Management, Austria, 24-26 September 2001 (let's create a global hyperlinked registry of theorems) http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/institute/conferences/MKM2001/ Copy-Proof CDs Shrouded in Secrecy http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Stealth-CDs.html How the Sklyarov Case Exposes the Power of the Copyright Lobby http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20010821_chander.html interesting article about the fate of local newspaper sites online http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/27/business/media/27WEB.html Distributed Denial of Service Attacks: Who Pays? http://www.mazunetworks.com/radin-toc.html Online Submission Process Fails Medical School Hopefuls (why do bureaucrats keep believing lies about when systems will work?) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000068762aug25.story rant against hidden software that changes incoming Web pages http://www.scumware.com/ The Construction of Marketplace Architecture http://www.stanford.edu/%7Efbar/Drafts/emarketplaces.pdf the cyberspace fad is a leading cause of a dangerous worldwide recession (and the real uses of information technology are making it more dangerous) http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=748689 end
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