[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2001 - 17:59:59 PST

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    RRE home page: <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html>
    
    
    
    war
    
    Bloodbath Fears as Bombers Queue to Blitz Siege City
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/24/world/world3.html
    
    Silent Sensors Lie in Wait for Bin Laden
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991588
    
    His Grasp of Spin Is Chilling ...
    (Osama bin Laden's recruiting video)
    http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/16/wvid16.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/11/16/ixhome.html
    
    US State Department slide show about the war
    http://www.usinfo.state.gov/quicktime/defend.mov
    
    trying to make Islam into the new Communism
    http://www.nationalreview.com/15oct01/johnson101501.shtml
    
    Aloof Terrorists Were Town's Elite
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000093210nov22.story
    
    A Bosnian Blueprint for Afghanistan
    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000092997nov21.story
    
    US Efforts to Make Peace Summed Up By "Oil"
    http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/1119/wor8.htm
    
    Master of the Afghani Lutes
    http://www.mymusic.com/product.asp?curr=0&muzenbr=109552
    
    Latest 9/11 Lesson: Government, Like Charity, Is Us
    http://www.tmsfeatures.com/TMSFeatures/fs_feature3/1,1303,20011121ts--s-a,00.html
    
    Scientists: Anthrax "Almost Certainly" From US Defense Lab
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/11/21/anthrax.weapons.ban.ap/
    
    FBI Is Watching Case of Missing Biologist
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/328/nation/FBI_is_watching_case_of_missing_biologist+.shtml
    
    a bad attitude
    http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/viewbo.cfm?uc_fn=1&uc_full_date=20011122&uc_daction=X&uc_comic=bo
    
    Rabid Journalists and Pundits Push Bush to Extremes
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11952
    
    Apocalyptic Theology Revitalized by Attacks
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/national/23THEO.html
    
    Sleepers Suffer WTC Nightmares
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011122/us/attacks_dreams_2.html
    
    jargon watch: rebut an accusation by mechanically asserting a double standard
    (notice how he depends on the listener to be unaware of liberals' actual views)
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001_11_18_archive.html#7277450
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Military Favors a Homeland Command
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61145-2001Nov20.html
    
    The Posse Comitatus Act: A Principle in Need of Renewal
    http://law.wustl.edu/WULQ/75-2/752-10.html
    
    Legal Powers Are Expanded in Bush Plan
    ("any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/politics/25LEGA.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/24/opinion/24RICH.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/24/opinion/24LEWI.html
    
    Abandoning the Constitution to Military Tribunals
    http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0147/hentoff.php
    
    The WWII Tribunal That Bush Is Citing as a Precedent Was Model of Deception
    http://www.bloomberg.com/feature/feature1006529973.html
    
    Visitors to US Can Expect Probing Terrorism Questions
    (including the questions themselves and the document that prescribes them)
    http://www.detroitfreepress.com/news/metro/quest24_20011124.htm
    http://www.detroitfreepress.com/news/metro/qlist24_20011124.htm
    http://www.detroitfreepress.com/gallery/2001/interviews/index.htm
    
    New South Wales Internet Censorship Bill 2001
    http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/nswbill.html
    
    An Organization on the Lookout for Patriotic Incorrectness
    (making clear how little evidence they needed to make grave accusations)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/24/arts/24LIST.html?pagewanted=print
    
    "The spirit of Islam is the spirit of the antichrist"
    http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/daily/20011122/LocalNews/189152.shtml
    
    Breaking Law or Principles to Give Information to US
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/national/23LIBR.html?pagewanted=print
    
    After September 11th, Echelon Attracts New Attention, New Questions
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/661464.asp
    
    US Shuts Down Somalia Internet
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1672000/1672220.stm
    
    Logan Airport to Reinstate Security Firm
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000093227nov22.story
    
    Zimbabwe Correspondents Accused of "Terrorism"
    (this is where we're headed if we let the word "terrorism" keep inflating)
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,605003,00.html
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    Microsoft Moves on Weakened Rivals
    (when you're a monopoly, you can wait for your competitors to get in trouble)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/660370.asp
    
    Microsoft Makes Its Pitch on Security, Cyber Terror to House
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22933.html
    http://energycommerce.house.gov/107/hearings/11152001Hearing420/hearing.htm
    
    Chasing Microsoft Viruses Is Costly, so Hunters Pass Along the Expense
    http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,72703,tk,dn112001X,00.asp
    
    Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters
    http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q276/3/04.ASP
    
    
    everything else
    
    Scientists Build Tiny Computer From DNA
    (as usual, I won't be impressed until they can make a four-bit counter)
    http://in.news.yahoo.com/011121/107/199x5.html
    
    article about community-owned wireless networks
    http://www.techreview.com/magazine/dec01/innovation1.asp
    
    Active Networking and End-to-End Arguments
    http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/ANe2ecomment.html
    
    SprinkLink tolerates spam
    http://www.spamhaus.org/newsdog.lasso?article=105
    
    Digital Cash Payoff
    (the online payment business turns out to be all about suppressing fraud)
    http://www.techreview.com/magazine/dec01/schwartz.asp
    http://webtechniques.com/archives/2001/12/hurwicz/
    
    Follow the Money: Who's Really Making the Dough in the Music Industry?
    (you've probably seen this calculation before -- the short answer is "nobody")
    http://industryclick.com//magazinearticle.asp?magazinearticleid=132835&magazineid=33&mode=print
    
    Dispenser of Instant Treasures
    (eBay has revolutionized collecting)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000093213nov22.story
    
    the disaster at the Guggenheim
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/artnotes/perl112001.html
    
    libertarian book that denounces democracy and praises monarchy
    (you couldn't make this stuff up)
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765808684
    
    heartbreaking story about Martin Luther King's Birthday
    (it starts just after 13 minutes into this show and lasts about four minutes)
    http://www.thislife.org/ra/188.ram
    
    Lung Cancer to Change Name to Philip Morris
    http://www.satirewire.com/news/0111/altria.shtml
    
    So Bush Did Steal the White House
    http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/112101a.html
    
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