[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 12:35:32 PDT

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    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
    
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