[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 21:39:57 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
    
    Pick Hit: System of a Down, Toxicity
    
    
    war
    
    Wounded Army Captain Details Teamwork Against Taliban
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22725-2001Dec10.html
    
    How Many Dead? Major Networks Aren't Counting
    http://www.fair.org/activism/afghanistan-casualties.html
    
    US in Secret Move to Widen War on Terror
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/11/world/world102.html
    
    Fear of US Strikes Grips Somalia
    http://allafrica.com/stories/200112110090.html
    
    Kabul Deal Promotes Regional Stability?
    http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/rca/rca_200112_92_1_eng.txt
    
    US Ties to Saudi Elite May Be Hurting War on Terrorism
    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/americas_new_war/saud12102001.htm
    
    try to follow the logic of these headache-inducing columns from the Wash. Times
    (they're about John Walker, or about Judaism being a "grey area", or something)
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/ed-column-200112715345.htm
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/ed-column-200112715360.htm
    
    John Walker Lindh's alleged Usenet postings
    doodooat_private&hl=en">http://groups.google.com/groups?q=doodooat_private&hl=en
    
    indictment, US v. Moussaoui
    (everyone's wondering why this French citizen isn't getting a military tribunal)
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/moussaoui1201.pdf
    
    Central Casting's "Terrorist" Studies, and Then Warns
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/12/arts/12ACTO.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Engineers Study WTC Destruction
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011212/us/attacks_fireproofing_1.html
    
    
    civil liberties
    
    Massport to Test High-Tech ID Check
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/346/metro/Massport_to_test_high_tech_ID_check+.shtml
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/671633.asp
    
    review of new biometric products
    http://www.gcn.com/20_34/news/17626-1.html
    
    Rumsfeld Wants Every Member of al Qaeda Imprisoned
    (it's hard to be sympathetic to al Qaeda, but what precedent does this set?)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28521-2001Dec11.html
    
    Antivirus Firms: FBI Is Out of Line
    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100528,00.html
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8134814.html
    
    McCarthyism Watch
    (everyone please grow up!)
    http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxmc120801.html
    
    Orders to Purge Records Have Librarians Worried
    http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/2001/12/08/topstory/fw010102-1208-XA001-security.htm
    
    Conservatives Set Sights on Senator Leahy
    (this is so vile)
    http://www.thehill.com/121201/leahy.shtm
    
    here is one of the alerts
    (you wouldn't know from it that they've already given him massive authority)
    http://www.conservativehq.com/activist/60second/action/12-12-01.htm
    
    Pat Robertson's nasty treatment of Islam
    http://www.cbn.com/SpiritualLife/understandingislam/IslamUnveiled.asp
    
    
    security
    
    Chat Volunteers Block Worm's Channel of Attack
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172814.html
    
    Arrested Goner Creators Left Obvious Online Trail
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172821.html
    
    Military Wary of Topographic Map's Release
    http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,49033,00.html
    
    The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
    http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/treaties/abmpage.html
    
    Recent Safety Hazards at Aging Nuclear Plants
    http://www.ocregister.com/sitearchives/2001/12/9/news/nukeax01209cci5.shtml
    
    DOE Amends Rules on Nevada Nuclear Waste Site
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22799-2001Dec10.html
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    Microsoft Still Under Fire
    ("its legal headaches seem almost as bad as ever")
    http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=903957
    
    Lockyer Squares Off With Microsoft
    http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000098123dec10.story
    
    MS TV: It'll Be Watching You
    http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,49028,00.html
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/670796.asp
    
    Microsoft to Plug Devastating Browser Download Hole
    (again)
    http://www.newsbytes.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=newsbytes&story.id=172878
    
    
    the fall of Enron
    
    Enron Officials Avoid Congress
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011211/ts/enron_congress_5.html
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1168987
    
    report from last year on the trail of destruction that Enron has left behind
    http://www.progressive.org/pc0900.htm
    
    Bankruptcy Tip of Iceberg in Forums Seeking Enron Redress
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1166721
    
    Enron Fallout Hits State Pension Fund
    http://orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-asecenron11121101dec11.story
    
    Enron-gate
    http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=12461
    http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/feature/election/bushlayed.html
    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-000098235dec11.column
    
    Close Friend of Texas Supreme Court Goes Down in Flames
    http://www.tpj.org/payola/docket17.html
    
    
    politics
    
    Debunking the Conservative Attack on Social Security
    http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=13526
    
    Looking at the Hypocrisy of Trade Promotion Authority
    http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/12/11/
    
    United States Lawmakers Set to Strike Out at Global Tribunal
    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1211-01.htm
    
    Bush undermines former hostages' suit against Iran
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/12/opinion/12ROSE.html
    
    stupidity of the pundits
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h121101_1.shtml
    
    
    everything else
    
    A New Industry Threat: CD's Made From Webcasts
    (who cares about the industry? what matters is what the bands think of it)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/12/arts/music/12POPL.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Internet Piracy Is Suspected as US Agents Raid Campuses
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/12/technology/12PIRA.html?pagewanted=print
    
    tips for professors on dealing with the media
    http://www.mcgill.ca/public/publicrelations/media/
    http://www.mcgill.ca/public/publicrelations/media/speaking/
    
    DVD Menu Design: The Failures of Web Design Recreated Yet Again
    http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20011209.html
    
    "faster Internet and wireless could threaten 3G mobile phones"
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,612492,00.html
    
    Sociological Research on September 11th
    http://www.socresonline.org.uk/6/3/contents.html
    
    dot-coms that done gone
    (in alphabetical order)
    http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=205619
    
    E-Mail Gets the Cold Shoulder in Congress
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/technology/circuits/13CONG.html
    
    California Candidate Spams Voters
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/671170.asp
    
    Peacefire.org Wins Spam Suits
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172891.html
    
    Group Sues SBC PacBell Over False Billing for Net Service
    (this sort of thing has been going on for years)
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-8147851.html
    
    Attorney General Investigates Wall Street Analysts
    http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bc-ny--investmentprobe1210dec10.story
    
    documents in the now-dismissed case against Narco News
    http://www.eff.org/Cases/BNM_v_Narco_News/
    http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48996,00.html
    
    project that's building tools to manage multithreaded discussions
    http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/feenberg/textweaver/twstory3.htm
    http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/feenberg/textweaver/hyper.html
    http://www.eli.sdsu.edu:8888/TextWeaver
    
    How IT Will Change the Ways Nonprofits and Foundations Work
    http://www.surdna.org/documents/morefinal.pdf
    
    Google's archive of classic Usenet postings
    (but I personally don't approve of having the whole history of Usenet online)
    http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
    http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,49016,00.html
    
    Get Rid of the Bluetooth Ache
    http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/coolgear/wireless/story/0,2000023546,20262304,00.htm
    
    Debating the Demise of NYUonline
    http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i16/16a03101.htm
    
    Norah Vincent isn't just stupid -- she's evil
    (watch her project her own indiscriminate hatred into the people she hates)
    http://www.salon.com/news/col/vincent/2001/12/12/palestinian/
    
    Public Information Network
    (resources for environmental activists)
    http://www.endgame.org/
    
    more on "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
    http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/12/07/
    http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/12/11/1.html
    
    Scientists Now Fear "Abrupt" Global Warming Changes
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000098689dec12.story
    
    Rights Group Disappointed in Fox
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000098361dec11.story
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000098335dec11.story
    
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