Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. politics economic perversity of those backloaded tax cuts (Bush keeps saying they're arriving at just the right time, but he's lying) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/opinion/31KRUG.html "personal investment accounts" are government bureaucracy on androstenedione (look, they're trying to shut down the public schools and Social Security) http://www.msnbc.com/news/619528.asp a good sampling of Bush quotes on the Social Security money he's spending http://www.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=241 Bush Plans "Space Bomber" http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,529208,00.html Intercepted Missiles Could Fall on Europe (it's too hard to track all the stories on the stupidity of missile defense) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991210 jargon watch: Reason article *again* repeats conservative smear of Paul Begala (the logic here is extraordinarily twisted: you really must savor it) http://www.reason.com/0103/co.cy.many.html jargon watch: you can say *anything* if you just make it a little vague (in this case, the wacky claim that Jesse Helms was indifferent to race) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/iprn/20010829/cm/slandering_jesse_helms_1.html news from Planet Microsoft US Report: Code Red Computer Worm Born in China http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem-printer/0-9900-1021-7017660.html campus networks continue to be scanned by Microsoft-infected machines http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001082901t.htm Breaking Microsoft's e-Book Code http://www.technologyreview.com/web/roush/roush083001.asp a whole new world of security attacks on Microsoft products http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010830/3589733s.htm European Union Expands Antitrust Probe of Microsoft http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22236-2001Aug30.html privacy Ross Anderson on copyright and medical privacy http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/med-privacy/2001q3/000276.html latest on attempts to ban automatic face recognition in Florida http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/083101/met_7161286.html International Day of Action Against Video Surveillance, 7 September 2001 http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php?id=103333 Australian ISP's Forced to Abet "Orwellian Creep" http://www.zdnet.com.au/printfriendly?AT=2000020814-20257583 more economists defending privacy invasion on grounds of economic efficiency (this case it's the rental car company with the GPS tracking devices) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/opinion/31AYRE.html Personal Information Handling Practices of the Canadian Firearms Program (this, for you Americans, is what a privacy commissioner's report looks like) http://www.privcom.gc.ca/information/fr_010813_e.pdf intellectual property legal and economic aspects of radio stations streaming on the net (good news: independent stations with unique offerings are positioned best) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010830.atc.15.ram Reporter to the Register of Copyrights Pursuant to Section 104 of the DMCA http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/sec-104-report-vol-1.pdf http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/31/dmca_report/print.html http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46440,00.html the long arm of the DMCA reaches all the way to New Zealand (remember when the Internet was going to make territorial laws obsolete?) http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=211491 conferences EU/IST Meeting on Technology Supported Learning, Luxembourg, 1 October 2001 http://www.proacte.com/challenge/ Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, 7-9 November 2001 http://www.imls.gov/conference/index.htm Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, 6-8 February 2002 http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/02/index.shtml Computers in Libraries, Washington, 13-15 March 2002 http://www.infotoday.com/cil2002/default.htm everything else Making New Technologies Work for Human Development http://www.undp.org/hdr2001/ Programmers to Encode Human Behaviour (I've no idea whether this is connected to reality, but it's sure a phenomenon) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991192 http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2001-02-28-a.html http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/humanML.html http://www.virtuum.com/humanml.htm court ruling that Australians can sue anyone worldwide for online defamation http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,2705557%255E421,00.html http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2706219%5E442,00.html http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2705264%5E442,00.html Sysadmin Spy Left Digital Trail (including details on the US intelligence intranet) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21327.html Tarnished New Economy Loses More Luster (when you take the productivity numbers apart, there ain't no there there) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/30/business/30SCEN.html skeptical financial analysis of AOL Time Warner http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf20010831_301.htm bizarre right-wing site covering the Klamath water controversy http://www.sierratimes.com/ debunking complaints about dropping SAT scores (an ever-broader base of students has college ambitions, and that's good) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/29/education/29LESS.html article on PR critic John Stauber (it's mind-boggling to realize we're saturated with antirational PR messages) http://www.westchesterweekly.com/articles/prnation.html the mother of all fences will protect the IMF meetings in Washington http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16237-2001Aug29.html Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/ end
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