At RRE Labs, we have a remarkably strange batch of URL's for you today. Thanks to everyone who contributed. politics Palm Beach to Unload Voting Machines on eBay http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000071084sep02.story the cyberspace stock bubble has left tremendous destruction in its wake (such as the hallucination that we can afford a giant back-loaded tax cut) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/opinion/02KRUG.html Social Security's Real Problem: Trust Fund Theft http://www.cepr.net/columns/trustfundtheft.htm US to Tell China It Will Not Object to Missile Buildup (wow, that really *is* crazy) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/international/02CHIN.html?pagewanted=all ABM Tests Mostly Miss Real Issues, Analysts Say http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/245/nation/ABM_tests_mostly_miss_real_issues_analysts_say+.shtml Missile-Defense System Critic Says He's a Target ("Pentagon knows it can't build an effective shield and plans to do it anyway") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000070888sep02.story Treasury is fining Ry Cooder $25,000 for making "The Buena Vista Social Club" http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0901-02.htm Media Downplay Bigotry of Jesse Helms http://www.fair.org/press-releases/helms.html news from Planet Microsoft bizarre story on Canada's parliamentary library's insistence on using Microsoft http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/archives/story.asp?id=18D75B7B-DCEB-46CD-BF5C-AC53D6200D17 Microsoft antitrust inquiries in the US and EU, so why not Canada? http://www3.sympatico.ca/cjw/EnquiryLetterToTobin-reMicrosoftCorporation.html How Microsoft Is Using Its Own Legal Defeat to Hurt Java http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010816.html privacy (How to Obtain) State Do Not Call Lists http://www.the-dma.org/government/donotcalllists.shtml open letter from EF Australia on the disastrous new Anti Privacy Act http://www.efa.org.au/Publish/nppopenltr.html http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Privacy/#npps http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Privacy/#bill The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (a funny introduction to coding theory) http://www.conceptlabs.co.uk/alicebob.html Single-Number Plan Raises Privacy Fears http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000071061sep02.story everything else A Profitable E-Business Idea: Go Sue a Spammer (spam is illegal in Washington State, so have the spammer pay you with Paypal) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1278-210-6344921-1.html hard-core brain damage at Excite@Home (in the war of cable guys and dot-com guys, l'enfer c'est les autres) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-201-7013071-0.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010830.html yes, just to be clear, the glut of fiber bandwidth *will* get used eventually http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/business/02CONT.html An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/sep01/speak.html Napster Rips Court's Technical Advice http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5095449,00.html Army Knowledge Online Accounts Now Mandatory http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/news/Aug2001/a20010823armyknowledgeonline.html Alter Our DNA or Robots Will Take Over, Warns Hawking (no no no, hyperintelligent machines are not going to take over the world) http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,545684,00.html experimental Java site that surveys the Smithsonian (thrashes the daylights out of every browser I have, but what the heck) http://www.historywired.si.edu/ instructive column about interoperability problems in wireless communications http://pd.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Article_ID=113586 He Drops Dead After Playing Computer Game for Almost a Day http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/npwo602.html Food Brokers Are Bigger, So Shelves Look Smaller (remember when technology was going to increase diversity in the market?) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/business/02FOOD.html A Virtual Revolution: Trends in the Expansion of Distance Education http://www.aft.org/higher_ed/downloadable/VirtualRevolution.pdf NSF Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, and Technology Program http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf01152 http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/ses/sdest/ Children Asked to Jump for Science http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1482000/1482116.stm Creating a Development Dynamic http://www.markle.org/news/DigitalOpportunityInitiativeFinalReport.pdf HTML version: http://www.markle.org/news/pages/contents.html Scott Adams and IDEO reinvent the cubicle (they do it as a joke but end up having a bunch of good ideas anyway) http://www.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/jobenvy/08/28/dilbert.scott.adams/ 404 Research Lab http://www.plinko.net/404/ Map Shows the Way to Green Land http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000071189sep02.story http://www.greenmap.com/ Impulse Gravity Generator Based on Superconductor with Composite Crystal Structure (in other words, they think they made negative gravity in the lab) http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0108005 Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy http://www.tchrd.org/ Exposed: Secret Plot to Start UK Race Riots http://www.guardian.co.uk/racism/Story/0,2763,545632,00.html Address by Hanan Ashrawi at WCAR http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=9561 end
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