Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. politics Bush, Joking, Tells Media to "Shut Up" in Spanish (what a likeable guy he is!) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010905/pl/bush_mexico_media_dc_1.html John Ashcroft's First Six Months at the Justice Department http://www.pfaw.org/issues/democracy/ash_update.shtml Our Man in Honduras (i.e., John Negroponte) http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14485 The White House Hides History http://www.thenewrepublic.com/082701/chafetz082701.html really impressive conservative ugliness in New Hampshire (not just the actions but the words, a viciousness that has become routine) http://www.fosters.com/news2001c/september/04/nh0904n.htm Utah Challenges Mandatory Guns Law (conservatives oppose government control of our lives, except when they don't) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010904/us/brf_mandatory_guns_2.html argh! Norah Vincent, who *never* makes sense, is now in Salon! (her rise is a howling symptom of our national collapse into dementia) http://www.salon.com/news/col/vincent/2001/09/06/sharks/print.html news from Planet Microsoft Text of Justice Department Statement On Microsoft (okay, forget the break-up, but the tying issue is even more central with XP) http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/s/20010906/microsoftjusticetext.html press reports on the government's abandonment of the break-up and tying charge http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52575-2001Sep6.html http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZPXBP0BRC http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7076177.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/07/technology/07SOFT.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/07/technology/07ASSE.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/07/technology/07REAC.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000072211sep07.story http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/09/06/breakup_reacts/print.html http://www.forbes.com/2001/09/07/0907topnews.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010906/tc/microsoft_antitrust_33.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1529000/1529036.stm the role of Microsoft's vast lobbying campaign (which, for example, caused me to get whole books in the mail) http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_26.asp http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/07/technology/07LOBB.html US Brief in Opposition to Microsoft's Petition for Certiorari (from last week) http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/microsoft/usbrfinopp83101.pdf J2EE and .Net: Two Roads Diverge in XML http://www.aspnews.com/trends/article/0,2350,9921_868321,00.html the Magistr Microsoft virus now comes in a highly destructive extra-strength (we now treat viruses as just one more category of news, like the weather) http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169743.html Security Firm Raps FBI's Microsoft Code Red Response http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7078908.html Bigger, Badder Code Red Microsoft Worms Being Built http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/software/security/story/0,2000023554,20258965-1,00.htm privacy Government Is Wary of Tackling Online Privacy (oh, right, it's "wary") http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/06/technology/06COOK.html?pagewanted=all Spam Limits, Privacy on White House Agenda (they need to hear from people now) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7067220.html Fuel Cell System Could Help Nab Drunk Drivers (or, Things That Fink) http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010906S0167 Biometric Consortium, Orlando, 12-14 September 2001 http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/isis/bc2001/home.htm more technical detail on 802.11b wireless security issues http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,3396,s%253D1024%2526a%253D13880,00.asp everything else Minority Access to Technology: Lessons Learned http://www.jsri.msu.edu/RandS/research/ops/oc67.html Assessing the Net's Structural Integrity http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=special_report_gen&doc_id=960020096 Financial Times Series: The Telecoms Crash ("glorious hopes on a trillion-dollar scrapheap") http://www.ft.com/telecomcrash All-but-Secret Battle Rages Over Fate of Airwaves http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2001-09-05-ncguest1.htm "resource for information regarding technology and its effects on society" http://www.factsquad.org/ Mexican online journal about the media and communications http://www.razonypalabra.org.mx/ journal issue about politics of the Internet http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1801index.html Syllabus Magazine (about technology in education) http://www.syllabus.com/ Documentary on Steve Mann http://cbc.ca/cyberman/ Diplomacy in the Information Age http://www.cisp.org/imp/july_2001/07_01contents.htm information science student conference, London, ON, 27-28 October 2001 http://www.fims.uwo.ca/organizations/dsa/connections01/ "Middle English Dictionary ... may be among the last of its kind" (but tech can make old-fashioned labor-intensive scholarship viable again) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000071967sep06.story jargon watch: a cornucopia of doubletalk from the supplements industry (e.g., "science-based", and gutting a regulation is "improving" it) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000071962sep06.story jargon watch: defocus the reality until it's blurry enough to defend ("we believe there is a great deal of useful and accurate information in here") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000072238sep07.story quietly advancing treaty to globalize law http://www.cptech.org/ecom/jurisdiction/hague.html summary of Irish press coverage of loyalist violence against schoolchildren http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,547893,00.html end
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