Here are some more URL's on topics that don't involve people dying. Thanks to everyone who contributed. election (I take no position about what the unreleased NORC study says) Did Al Gore Win After All? US Newspapers Would Rather Not Say http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/21/wgore21.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/21/ixhomer.html/ Media Suppress the News That Bush Lost Election to Gore http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/22/world/world14.html Palast Clarifies "Gore Won" Statements http://www.bushwatch.net/palast.htm The NORC Florida Ballot Study http://democrats.com/view.cfm?id=4623 NY Times' relentless vendetta against Al Gore (e.g., no on-record quotes support the thesis that Democrats are dissing Gore) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/20/national/20DEMS.html Smearing Those "Lazy" Blue States (jargon pundits get away with stereotyping huge portions of the US population) http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001_10_21_archive.html#6540009 politics False Advertising (the "economic stimulus package") http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000084250oct22.story Laid-Off Workers Hardly Missed (listen to the sheer human kindness: "most of those laid off were slackers") http://www.forbes.com/2001/09/06/0906topnews.html Secretary Norton Falsified Arctic Refuge Data and Misled Congress http://www.peer.org/press/190.html Christian Reconstructionists Launch "Operation Potomac" http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=5870 Single Religion Doesn't Fit All Texans http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/tuesday/editorial_2.html Florida's Shortfall a Legislative Quandary http://www.miami.com/herald/content/opinion/opcol/digdocs/042407.htm news from Planet Microsoft Microsoft: Extending Its Tentacles http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=822234 How to Sidestep XP's Pushy Pitches http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_44/b3755031.htm Programmer Exposes Microsoft Rights Management Flaws http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/23/technology/23PIRA.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22354.html Microsoft Explores Legal Options Against Hacker http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=310157 intellectual property Aggressive Strategy Brought on Inquiry of Recording Industry http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/22/technology/ebusiness/22TUNE.html?pagewanted=print "the classical recording industry seems to be collapsing" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/arts/music/21TOMM.html?pagewanted=print University Obstructs All File-Sharing Programs http://thedailyaztec.com/Archive/Fall-2001/10-18-01/city/city01.html "critics question pay of overseas workers who help put texts online" http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i09/09a03501.htm Open-Source Digital Library Software http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october01/witten/10witten.html Sound Archives in the 21st Century, Los Angeles, 9-10 November 2001 http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/symposiumsched1.htm new economy, quote-unquote Venture Capital, Withering and Dying http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/business/yourmoney/21VENT.html?pagewanted=print Time to Look at Stock Options' Real Cost http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/business/yourmoney/21WATC.html?pagewanted=print How Bush and Michael Powell Are Killing the New Economy http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0110.kornbluh.html security and privacy Nortel Helps Build "Great Firewall of China" (ugh) http://www.tibet.ca/wtnarchive/2001/10/19_3.html Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps http://www.interactiveweek.com/article/0,3658,s%3D605%26a%253D16678,00.asp People for Internet Responsibility -- Fact Squad Radio http://www.factsquad.org/radio UK Data Protection Act Kicks in on Wednesday http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/22394.html tool to slow down worms' attempts to scan your IP address space http://www.hackbusters.net/LaBrea/LaBrea.txt http://www.hackbusters.net/LaBrea.html Very Large Data Bases, Hong Kong, 20-23 August 2002 http://www.cs.ust.hk/vldb2002/ everything else Will California's Knowledge Factories Survive? (history of the University of California) http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/books/la-000083707oct21.story Grad Students Turning Away From UC System (attracting quality PhD students is incredibly important to the state's future) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000084208oct22.story Scientists Criticise Hawking "Hype" http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1604000/1604714.stm Retail Meats Host Drug-Resistant Bacteria http://sciencenews.org/20011020/fob5.asp Village in the Clouds Embraces Computers (getting the remote villages of Nepal on the Internet) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1606000/1606580.stm "technological advances are liberating news reporting" http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=821955 Creative Room for Art and Computing http://www.crac.org/htmls/context.html Dialing for Help on Cell Phone Is a Crapshoot http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000084209oct22.column EU Says "Oui" to Spam http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22418.html article on microelectromechanical systems http://physicstoday.org/pt/vol-54/iss-10/p38.html The Unsettled Question of Europe's Ascendancy http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0111/cover.html books on theology and the historical Jesus http://www.thenewrepublic.com/101501/fredriksen101501_print.html end
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