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: Green Linnet Records, Twentieth Anniversary Collection Please keep sending me music critics' 2001 top-ten lists. They'll probably keep coming out until February. Also: The war ain't over! I hope you can take a minute to hunt down URL's for background on terrorists and/or freedom fighters in Yemen, Somalia, and the Philippines, which appear to be the next stops in our global geography lesson. war Bin Laden Translation Omitted Sections That Would Embarrass Saudi Arabia http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1220-06.htm Broad Effort Launched After '98 Attacks http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62725-2001Dec18?language=printer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3616-2001Dec19.html leftist rant against thoughtless leftist opposition to the war (in the old days, the left couldn't wait to make war on fascists) http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/05/dissonnance-cooper.shtml Voices From Behind the Veil http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1219/p1s3-wogi.html long two-part radio story about Arabs' views of the United States http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011220.atc.06.ram http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011220.atc.07.ram Why Are They So Angry At Us? http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/resentment/ entertaining rant about Osama bin Laden http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20011217/COSPIDER FBI Investigates Possible Financial Motive in Anthrax Attacks http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9523-2001Dec20.html the United States harbors terrorists (you will recall that George Bush even pardoned one of them) http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2001-12-20/feature.html/1/index.html civil liberties very creepy interview with the guy who's implanting ID chips of people (you must hear his list of potential scenarios for using them) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011219.atc.05.ram A Pitch for Smart Postal Stamps (someone's law: everything in the world is growing a digital shadow) http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,49186,00.html Smarter Driver's Licenses (someone else's law: say no to anything that's "smart") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000100654dec20.story "a look at the FBI's computer surveillance scheme" http://www.sfbg.com/News/36/12/fbi.html When Jail Is No Alibi in Murders (this is why we have trials, appeals, and all that) http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0112190353dec19.story Strategies for Complying With Australia's Privacy Principle http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2001/handelsmann-2001-11.html Australian Agencies Get OK To Read Private E-Mail http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/173088.html the murder of Mexican human rights activist Digna Ochoa http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/05/news-trevino.shtml politics "is it OK to talk about the recount yet?" http://www.newyorker.com/THE_TALK_OF_THE_TOWN/CONTENT/?011224ta_talk_hertzberg the Republican "stimulus" bill leaves me speechless (it's like something out of the 19th century) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/21/opinion/21KRUG.html The GOP's New Lobbyist in Chief (amazing) http://www.public-i.org/commentary_01_120701.htm New Rules Called Loopholes to Pollute ("grandfathering" under the Clean Air Act is a long-running scandal) http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/thursday/news_c3128765377161ee00e0.html Freedom, Openness And Presidential Papers (this is wonderfully Orwellian -- librarians should not read it while eating) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3912-2001Dec19.html Bush is protecting the FBI over its involvement in organized crime in Boston http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=shapiro20011219 Perry Defends Appointment of Ex-Enron Official http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1180366 Enron: A Complicated Collapse (remember to say "alleged" whenever you talk about them) http://www.msnbc.com/news/675290.asp jargonheads think in stereotypes so primitive that one fact can prove anything (it's a wonder they can feed themselves) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h121901_1.shtml news from Planet Microsoft Microsoft Issues Patch for "Serious" XP Hole (idiots) http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO66849,00.html http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2001/12/20/microsoft.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8244349.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,623459,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1717000/1717676.stm http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-059.asp http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011220/tc/microsoft_hackers.html http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20011220.html yet another Microsoft virus http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/12/19/011219hnreeezak.xml Halting Microsoft's March in Europe? http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2001/nf20011220_8690.htm Save the Net, Sue a Software Maker (please) http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/47 music critics' top-ten lists Kevin Whitehead's year-end jazz picks, from "Fresh Air" http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/fa/20011210.fa.02.ram best of 2001 from public radio in New York http://www.wfuv.org/wfuv/bestof01_staff.html weekly and monthly DJ picks from public radio in Santa Monica http://www.kcrw.org/music/djpicks/ http://www.kcrw.org/music/top5.html http://www.kcrw.org/music/charts.html everything else Software Glitch Grounds New Nikon Camera (oh, great) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-8246450.html Hack Turns Servers Into Waiting Zombies http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8249159.html Warez Groups Wracked by FBI Raids http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100883,00.html Is 802.11g Wireless Doomed? http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000024993,20262461,00.htm background on interference and safety with LAN's in the microwave oven range (okay, it's three orders of magnitude less power than an oven, but still) http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/24/wireless.lan.idg/ http://www.sfu.ca/radiation-safety/wireless.pdf Web Radio Not Making Waves (give it time) http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000098785dec13.story Why Being Multinational Is No Longer Enough http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=2679&sid=0&pid=0&t=globalization Organize to Win: A Grassroots Activist's Handbook http://britell.com/text/tgrassroots.html Funology (CHI workshop), Minneapolis, 21 April 2002 http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~djr14/CHI02_funology you swallow a litre of snot a day (I figured you'd want to know that) http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns232216 You Have a Very Bad Hotel (requires PowerPoint, might not work right under Netscape) http://www.craphound.com/misc/doubletree.htm party tricks to create phantom-limb-like illusions in normal people http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mind/note_nf6.html end
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