Here are some more URL's not relating to the war. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html> politics News Organizations Delay Reporting on Meticulous Presidential "Recount" http://www.inside.com/product/product.asp?entity=localhost&pf_ID=875BEE02-1B64-4435-A4B1-4FEEB24A2A2B The Media Cover-Up of the Gore Victory http://makethemaccountable.com/coverup/Part_02.htm Lott's Push for Judges Imperils Partisan Truce http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2001/10/news1004a.html news from Planet Microsoft Microsoft Warns of PowerPoint, Excel Vulnerabilities (pathetic) http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/10/08/011008hnpower.xml?1008alert Microsoft -- Not Users -- Must Bear Security Brunt http://www.internetweek.com/graymatter/ednote100401.htm The Devil Is in Windows' Details http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2001/10/08/file_monopoly/ Free Software: The Free Market/Free Speech Solution to the Microsoft Problem http://www.gnu.org/press/2001-09-24-CPI.html wireless With Cellphones, Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (a really annoying design flaw in every cell phone I've seen) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/technology/circuits/04BASI.html Trying to Attract Cell Users to Next Wireless Generation http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/08/technology/ebusiness/08DOCO.html article on driver distraction issues with car-based Internet http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/1001issue/1001ashley.html technology Trusted Computing Program Announcement http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf01160 Embedded and Hybrid Systems Program Announcement http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2001/nsf01161/nsf01161.html "a low cost portable alternative to PCs for the third world" http://www.simputer.org/ Rethinking the Design of the Internet http://www.ana.lcs.mit.edu/anaweb/PDF/Rethinking_2001.pdf Machines With a Human Touch http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=779503 other stuff relating to social aspects of technology Globalization and World Cities Network Research Bulletins http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/publicat.html Digital Cultures Research Stipend http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/research.html Music Services Still Face Bumpy Road http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7461343.html Movie Studios Playing Up Potential of DVD Format (another example of how long it often takes for a standard to get established) http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000080279oct08.story The New Meaning of New Economy http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/08/technology/ebusiness/08NECO.html MIT's Media Lab, a Media Darling, Seeks Global Role and New Missions http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i07/07a04101.htm Aboriginal People in Canada Embrace Distance Education http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001100801u.htm Euro telecom newsletter http://www.connectuk.org/research.html A Call for the Discovery of All Life-Forms on Earth http://www.all-species.org/ California Stumbles Over the Junk E-Mail Question http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/13817.html Tim O'Reilly's Archive http://tim.oreilly.com/ The Public Domain, Duke Law School, 9-11 November 2001 http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/ criticism of W3C patent policy http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1272-210-7420188-1.html Woman Receives One Year in Identity Theft (one year is not enough considering the scale of it) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000079581oct05.story everything else Cultural Profiles Project (summaries of 100 countries' cultures to help new immigrants adapt) http://cwr.utoronto.ca/cultural/ contribution of social sciences and humanities to Europe, Bruges, 29-30 October 2001 http://www.cordis.lu/belgium/29102001_prog.htm the scandal of binding arbitration http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/10/07/MN61162.DTL Some Southern Charm Is Wearing Off; It's the Unique Way It Sounds http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14719-2001Oct6.html College: The End of the Golden Age (or, at least, something that enjoyed thinking of itself as the golden age) http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14628 important statement about the campaign against Michael Bellesiles (historian who wrote an inconvenient book about guns in early America) http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Law&month=0110&week=a&msg=P4xZZCNnRg2QFd0CjULMBg&user=&pw= http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2000/December/erDec.11/12_11_00firstperson.html The Good, the Bad and the Costly of Fighting Forest Fires (we need to limit fire-fighting subsidies to people who build in forests) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000079849oct06.story Price Anderson Act: The Billion Dollar Taxpayer Subsidy for Nuclear Power http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/nuclear_power_plants/nuclear_revival/articles.cfm?ID=4912 Police Make Doughnut Run via Chopper http://www.salon.com/people/wire/2001/10/05/doughnuts/ end
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