[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 13:42:46 PST

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    Here are some more URL's on all topics including the war and Microsoft.
    I'm making another attempt at not covering the war encyclopedically.
    Please do send the top 5% most important links that aren't likely to
    get covered in the mainstream media, especially on civil liberties and
    security topics.  If someone produces a Web-based filtering tool that
    I can use, then we'll use it to do some experiments with covering the
    war in an encyclopedic way again.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    war
    
    millions of Afghans are starving in the desert
    (and when they die this winter, the Muslim world will blame us)
    http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=11855
    
    It's About Oil
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/02/ED90804.DTL
    
    A Difficult War by Ahmed Rashid
    http://www.feer.com/2001/0111_08/p014region.html
    
    Bin Laden Rails Against Crusaders and UN
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports/newsid_1636000/1636782.stm
    
    "The Second Half of 48": The Sharon-Ya'alon Plan
    http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/print.php3?article_id=4433
    
    Synthesis: Ground Zero, the Internet, and Networked Society
    (with many links)
    http://www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/911/bauwens_network.html
    
    Wars of the Wide Area Networks
    http://www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/911/deibert_wide.html
    
    Crisis Response May Harm US Economy
    http://www.stratfor.com/home/0111022300.htm
    
    article on Carlyle Group's hiring of former world potentates (May 2001)
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,37-2001180089,00.html
    
    Pat Robertson's partnership with Osama bin Laden's diamond dealer
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33005-2001Nov2.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27281-2001Nov1.html
    
    Sites Claiming to Fight Bioterrorism Investigated
    (an explosion of crackpot medical stuff is feeding the net's hypochondriacs)
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/037317.htm
    http://www.sec.gov/news/headlines/anthraxdisinfect.htm
    
    American Folklife Center's September 11 Documentary Project
    http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/nineeleven/nineelevenhome.html
    
    Afghanistan for Children
    http://www.public.asu.edu/~apnilsen/afghanistan4kids/
    
    Enduring Freedom Picture Cards
    http://www.topps.com/enduringfreedom.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Police Get Sweeping Access to Net Data
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,589006,00.html
    
    Nation's Frantic Dragnet Entangles Many Lives
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000088949nov07.story
    
    Behind the USA Patriot Act
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11854
    
    The Security of Freedom: A Conference on Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill
    http://www.law.utoronto.ca/c-36/index.htm
    
    Threats to War, Cybersecurity Enters a New Era
    http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=Technology&storyId=276767
    
    Airline Security Still Winging It
    (don't read this if you're scheduled to fly anytime soon)
    http://www.miami.com/herald/content/opinion/columnists/hiaasen/digdocs/090911.htm
    
    FAA's Bumpy High-Tech Ride
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000088962nov07.story
    
    
    politics
    
    Mark Warner's victory in Virginia is a model for Democrats nationwide
    (just as the Democrats' screwup in New York is a major how-not-to)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51188-2001Nov6.html
    
    A Year After Contested Election, Few States Have Made Changes
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44848-2001Nov5.html
    
    For High-Tech Voting Machines, High-Stakes Marketing
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44807-2001Nov5.html
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    latest stipulation and revised proposed final judgment in the Microsoft case
    http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/microsoft/prpsrvsfnljdg110601.pdf
    
    an earlier version
    http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f9400/9462.htm
    
    Why the MS-DOJ Deal Seems Like It's From Alice's Wonderland
    http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2822358,00.html
    
    Questions Remain Over Proposed Microsoft Settlement Deal
    ("riddled with loopholes")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/06/business/06CND-SOFT.html?pagewanted=all
    
    Analysis of the Microsoft Settlement and What It Means for Samba
    http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-11-06-005-20-OP-MS
    
    Microsoft Admits Major Passport Flaw
    (but doesn't admit that the Passport architecture is fundamentally shoddy)
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/11/03/microsoft.hackers.ap/
    
    egregious sophistry using Sept 11th to defend Microsoft's record on security
    (e.g., it confuses blaming Microsoft with blaming Microsoft's customers)
    http://intranetjournal.com/articles/200110/gb_10_31_01a.html
    
    Microsoft, Researchers Tussle Over Security Issues
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/050585.htm
    
    Microsoft in a Pinch at Security Forum
    http://www.idg.net/ic_724501_1794_9-10000.html
    
    more on Microsoft's attempts to suppress information on its security problems
    (hey, it's easier than writing decent software)
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7789528.html
    
    E-Legal: Microsoft Windows XP Attacked by Privacy Groups
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZEXE8VOTC
    
    
    security and privacy
    
    Welcome to the Era of Drive-By Wireless Hacking
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1639000/1639661.stm
    
    Illinois School Uses Lie Detectors
    http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=276582
    
    Web Mishap: Kids' Psychological Files Posted
    (it's too easy to do this by accident)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000088956nov07.story
    
    
    open source
    
    Why Should Open Source Software Be Used in Schools?
    http://edge-op.org/grouch/schools.html
    
    The Linux for Schools Project
    http://www.lfsp.org/
    
    Open Source Schools
    http://www.opensourceschools.org/
    
    Some IBM Software Tools to Be Put in Public Domain
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/05/technology/05OPEN.html
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    file-trading sites gain momentum, could pass Napster
    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5099235,00.html
    
    File-Swapping Case May Break New Ground
    (EFF is defending MusicCity)
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7798704.html
    
    Free Online Scholarship Lists
    (e.g., "declarations of independence" by journal editors moving online)
    http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm
    
    Plagiarism in Natural and Programming Languages
    http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~cloughie/plagiarism/HTML_Version/
    
    the distasteful copyright saga of MathWorld is over
    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/authors_note.html
    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/erics_commentary.html
    
    Internet Liberation Theology
    http://www.salon.com/tech/review/2001/11/07/lessig/
    
    Amazon Losing Ground in Core Area: Books
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-7765107.html
    
    
    spam
    
    Ruling Sets Stage for Washington State Spam Trial
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/technology/02CYBERLAW.html
    
    Snail-Mail Woes Heat Up Debate Over Spam Rules
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0111050261nov05.column
    
    Japanese Giant Mounts New Wireless Spam Offensive
    http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/14612.html
    
    
    government information
    
    Yourcongress.Watch Free E-Mail Service
    http://www.yourcongress.com/ViewArticle.asp?article_id=303
    
    A Fight Brews Over Ex-Presidents' Papers
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1106/p2s2-usju.html
    
    E-Government Makes Strides in Past Year
    http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/professional/article/0,,5971_887581,00.html
    
    A Guide to the US Federal Legal System: Web-based Public Accessible Sources
    http://www.llrx.com/features/us_fed.htm
    
    
    everything else
    
    Lycos Redeems Itself With Relaunch
    http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/current.html#lycos
    
    IT Spending Down, Productivity Up
    http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/professional/article/0,,5971_913561,00.html
    
    Whither the Broadband Revolution?
    http://wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,47968,00.html
    
    Designing a DNA for Responsive Architecture
    http://architecture.mit.edu/~carlo/designingadnaforresponsivearchitecture.pdf
    
    Othello Navigator
    (example of a thorough hyperlinked annotation of a literary text)
    http://www.clicknotes.com/othello/welcome.html
    
    Brazil Plans Thousands of Web Kiosks
    (this is the sort of thing that can be done very well or very badly)
    http://news.excite.com/news/ap/011107/00/brazil-internet
    
    UMBC Seeks Chair for Information Systems Department
    http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/news/P071301.htm
    
    University of Cambridge Report Criticizes Online Accounting System
    (a scary study in the conflict between IT and university governance)
    http://chronicle.com/free/2001/11/2001110704t.htm
    http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2001-02/weekly/5861/
    
    Euro Conference on IT in Education and Citizenship, Barcelona, 26-28 June 2002
    http://web.udg.es/tiec
    
    Uniform Framework for Sharing Information and Organizing People
    http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/Grassroots/WWW96/
    
    Machine-Made Links Change the Way Minds Can Work Together
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/05/technology/ebusiness/05HAFN.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Executed Man's Voice Echoes in New Probe
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000088241nov04.story
    
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