[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Dec 07 2001 - 19:24:34 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
    
    interview with a Muslim legal scholar on the validity of bin Laden's claims
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZCNQE4JUC
    
    We Are the War Criminals Now
    http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=107292
    
    investigating the concrete used in the World Trade Center
    http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23205
    
    article about the supposedly prescient Samuel Huntington
    http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/12/kaplan.htm
    
    Beijing Produces Videos Glorifying Terrorist Attacks on "Arrogant" US
    (imagine what Chinese propaganda would be like if they had US jargon tech)
    http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/04/wchin04.xml
    
    conspiracy theory: not only is it about oil, but the communists have won
    http://www.bigeye.com/foreignc.htm
    
    President's Statement on Caspian Pipeline Consortium
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011128-11.html
    
    Perspectives on September 11th from the Social Sciences
    http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/
    
    In 1941, Americans Gamely Stumbled Off to War
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5813-2001Dec6.html
    
    Treat the Army of God as a Terrorist Organization
    http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=12459
    
    Anthrax Won't Halt Santa's Letters
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62466-2001Dec5.html
    
    
    civil liberties
    
    Justice Kept in the Dark
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/666237.asp
    
    Ashcroft Deconstructed
    ("the attorney general cast defenders of civil liberties as traitors")
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059538
    
    The Ashcroft Smear
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5982-2001Dec6.html
    
    Blurring the Lines Between Tribunals and Military Justice System
    (Ashcroft accusing critics of "fog" is pure projection)
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001_12_02_archive.html#7676751
    
    Popularity Proves Poor Way to Measure Anti-Terror Laws
    (and conservatives support them much more strongly than moderates and liberals)
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20011206/3677916s.htm
    
    The USA PATRIOT Act and the US Department of Justice: Losing Our Balances?
    http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/forumnew40.htm
    
    Criminal Enforcement Against Terrorists
    http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/report011203.html
    
    military tribunal resources
    http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/documents/tribunals.html
    
    Attacking the Academy in the Name of Saving It
    (detailed analysis of the bizarre ACTA report)
    http://la.indymedia.org/specials/weaklink2.html
    
    Congressman Talks of Inquiry of Portland Police
    http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/100755703615349436.xml
    
    Draconian Media Bill Passed in Zimbabwe
    http://allafrica.com/stories/200112030480.html
    
    States' Anti-SLAPP Measures Meet Resistance From Business
    (i.e., bogus lawsuits aimed at suppressing citizen criticism of business)
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZK9B4OVUC
    
    more on the student who was suspended for trying to start an anarchy club
    http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=13416
    
    conservative hero Ann Coulter makes her living saying horrible things
    (e.g., "Bush should expand the military tribunals to ... liberal lawyers")
    http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/23/cf.00.html
    
    
    news and information
    
    Americans and Allies Are Getting Different Stories
    http://www.iht.com/articles/40900.html
    
    dramatic increase in classification of government information during 2000
    (the Republicans have long fought public accountability)
    http://www.fas.org/sgp/isoo/2000rpt.html
    
    Security Concerns Drive Rise in Secrecy
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1203/p1s3-ussc.html
    
    resources on smart weapons
    (this is one of the sites that had been taken down earlier)
    http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/
    
    Seven Good Reasons to Stand Up for Information Freedom on Bioweapons Research
    http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/pr301001.html
    
    
    security
    
    Airbus pilot's response to "NTSB Birdbrains Sticking Heads in Rockaway Sand"
    http://avconsulting.com/airlines/flight587.htm
    
    Do Disposable Cell Phones Pose a Security Threat?
    http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000096999dec06.column
    
    denial-of-service attack against CERT
    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100341,00.html
    
    special report on security
    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/security.htm
    
    Will XP Allow Hackers Into Your Fridge?
    (or your car's brakes?)
    http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20262189,00.htm
    
    Hacker Had WorldCom in His Hands
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8091945.html
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/080991.htm
    
    Judge Orders Interior to Cut Internet Access
    http://www.indiantrust.org/clips.cfm?news_id=158
    
    Court-Appointed Hacker Altered Indian Accounts
    http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E254976,00.html
    
    
    politics
    
    The Right and US Trade Law: Invalidating the 20th Century
    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011015&s=greider
    
    New Jersey elected a Democratic governor, so Republicans are blowing the budget
    (will they spend the next four years howling about big-spending Democrats?)
    http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/page1/ledger/1529a5d.html
    
    the smear machine is going after Tom Daschle
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5588-2001Dec6.html
    
    where echo-chamber lies come from, part 10944
    (in this case, it's part of the assault on Tom Daschle)
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001_12_02_archive.html#7737995
    
    Incest and Corruption, Texas Style
    (gosh, we could paralyze the country by investigating the Bush scandals)
    http://www.bartcop.com/1205lyons.htm
    
    House Dems Will Probe White House Links to Enron
    http://www.hillnews.com/120501/enron.shtm
    
    
    everything else
    
    Davis Suspends Sale of State's Birth, Death Data
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/depth/priv120601.htm
    
    Bill Would Bar Blocked Telemarketer Call IDs
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000096799dec05.story
    
    Would No Totalitarian Microsoft Equal Total Chaos?
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20011205/3673937s.htm
    
    Rebel States Ready to Hit Microsoft Hard
    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100302,00.html
    
    "more and more intellectual property disputes head to criminal court"
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZXGTPBUUC
    
    World Intellectual-Property Treaty Set to Enter Force
    http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/12/07/011207hnwipo.xml?Template=/storypages/printfriendly.html
    
    directory of spam-fighting software
    (I have to trust pcworld.com that these programs are what they say they are)
    http://support.xo.com/abuse/guide/links.html
    
    Spam Out, Cookies Tolerated, Data Retention Remains: EU
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23268.html
    
    Online Limits to the First Amendment
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8026297.html
    
    The Philosophy and Design of Socially Adept Technologies
    http://www1.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/chi2002/workshop-sunday.html#six
    
    The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value
    http://www.brightplanet.com/deepcontent/tutorials/DeepWeb/index.asp
    
    Surveying the Digital Future: Year Two
    http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pdf/UCLA-Internet-Report-2001.pdf
    
    Technology in Teaching Languages and Cultures, Monterey, 21-23 March 2002
    http://iwlc.csumb.edu/digitalstream/
    
    Fetuses Can Hear Ultrasound Examinations
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991639
    
    (2^13,466,917)-1 is a prime number
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1693000/1693364.stm
    
    Emacs-based spreadsheet program
    http://www.gnu.org/software/dismal/
    
    Adam Smith's Identity Crisis
    http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20011203/816581.html
    
    Ford and Kissinger Gave Green Light to Indonesia's Invasion of East Timor, 1975
    http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB62
    
    site with folk music from India
    http://www.beatofindia.com/
    
    The Latest Battle for Europe's Constitution
    http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=896882
    
    Big Tobacco Accused of Destroying Evidence
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6138-2001Dec6.html
    
    big trouble at the most excellent chowhound.com
    http://www.chowhound.com/california/boards/losangeles/messages/13602.html
    http://www.chowhound.com/california/boards/losangeles/messages/13566.html
    
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