Here are some more URL's about normal subjects that don't cause children to have nightmares. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html> politics The Right and US Trade Law: Invalidating the 20th Century http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20011015&s=greider the smear machine is getting ready for John Edwards http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0110.green.html "John Dean talks about Richard Nixon's appointment of Chief Justice Rehnquist" http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/10/02/dean/print.html news from Planet Microsoft Supreme Court to Take Up Microsoft Appeal on Friday http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO64408,00.html interview with Microsoft's antitrust expert witness http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1014-201-6271161-0.html Your Stolen Passport (including more Microsoft doubletalk about security) http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2814881-92,00.html Ban Outlook -- Now http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2814683,00.html All Public Hospitals in Gothenburg Sweden Crippled by Nimda Microsoft Worm http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.67.html#subj13 80,000 Microsoft Servers "Disappear" (incredible) http://www.vnunet.com/News/1125766 Microsoft Attempts to Allay Security Fears (pathetic) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7396207.html http://www.secadministrator.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=22751 Microsoft Stands by IIS Despite Gartner Recommendation (pathetic) http://www4.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/27/msoft.supports.IIS.idg/ Mutiny Against Microsoft http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cio/article/0,,11967_894871,00.html civil liberties Three Political Websites Downed After Government "Homeland Security" Threat http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/30/1859212 Activists and Companies Confront Face Recognition Software http://www.notbored.org/ciberpais2.html Carnivore Substitute Keeps Feds Honest http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21992.html New FTC Head Wants "Pause" in Push for Privacy Laws http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO64453,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/technology/03PRIV.html Zero-Knowledge Shelves Anonymity Tool (that sort of thing probably can't work unless it is built in) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7412015.html Seeking Sunlight for a Prisoner in the Chinese Gulag http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000078572oct01.story intellectual property controversy over patent policy at the W3C http://davenet.userland.com/2001/09/30/patentsAndTheW3c http://www.openphd.net/W3C_Patent_Policy/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2001Oct/ Internal Memos Outline RIAA's Offensive Against Peer-To-Peer Networks http://www.dotcomscoop.com/riaamemo.html http://www.dotcomscoop.com/riaa1003.html wired university Hampshire College Favors Noncommercial Web Software Open to All http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001100301t.htm Princeton Review Buys Online College-Admissions Service (important as "a sign of consolidation among dot-com college businesses") http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001100401t.htm Scholar Calls Governments to Take a Realistic View Toward Distance Education http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001100301u.htm Abilene Network Expands Beyond Research Universities http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001100101t.htm wireless A Wireless Neighborhood Freenet http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1436/byt20010926s0003/1001_bar.html US wireless industry's fight for more spectrum http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=10000001&doc_id=790020279 Impolite Cell Users, We Will Find You http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000079241oct04.column Motorola Creates Gas-Powered Cell Phones http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5097726,00.html everything else Digital Democracy and Civic Engagement, Washington, 15-17 November 2001 http://www.ncl.org/ncg/index.htm Electronic Voting at the Next ACT Legislative Assembly Election http://www.elections.act.gov.au/Elecvote.html http://www.elections.act.gov.au/media0104.html UN Wire http://www.unwire.org/ Study of Science and Technology, York, UK, 31 July - 3 August 2002 http://www.york.ac.uk/org/satsu/easst2002/ Vulnerability of Transportation Infrastructure Relying on GPS http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps/geninfo/pressrelease.htm dot-com's blow up and people who bought inconsequential gadgets get hosed http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079101oct03.story Postcard Purveyor to Sign Off (I used to live a couple of blocks from this shop) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000078576oct01.story American Field Guide ("over 1200 searchable video clips of American wilderness by PBS stations") http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide/ end
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