[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sat Dec 22 2001 - 09:52:19 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: 15 Early Tejano Classics (Arhoolie)
    
    In addition to the music critics' 2001 top-ten lists enclosed, RRE's
    Amman correspondent stopped by his local record store to find out
    what cool young Arabs are listening to, most of it Arab pop ballads:
    
    'Amrodiab
    Mustafa Qamar
    Nawal Al-Zu'bi
    Najwa Karam
    Fadhl Shaker
    Kadhim Al-Saher
    Ragheb Allama
    
    And Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid sent his "Discs in Serious Rotation"
    for December/January:
    
    1. Dj Spooky featuring Killa Priest "Catechism" 12" Blue Juice
       recordings/Wu Tang Records/Priority
    2. (Compilation) The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop,
       Liason Records
    3. Charley Patton: Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues (Box Set), 
       Revenant Records
    4. The Coup, "Party Music" 75 Ark records
    5. (Compilation) Africanism All Stars (Box Set), Yellow Productions
       Recordings
    6. Dj Swamp, "Never is Now" Lakeshore Records
    7. Yoko Ono "Blue Print for a SunRise" Captitol Records
    8. John Oswald, Plunderphonics (Box set), Seeland
    9. Femi Kuti featuring Mos Def "Do Your Best" MCA
    10. Dj Spinna "Final Guidance Mix" Instinct/Shadow Records
    
    Bonus Beats:
    Fugazi "The Argument" Dischord Records
    
    
    
    war
    
    The Campaign Against Terrorism: Prospects After the Fall of the Taliban
    http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2001/rp01-112.pdf
    
    Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq
    http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/
    
    International Federation of Iranian Refugees
    http://www.hambastegi.org/
    
    Pashtuns Have Cornered Omar "And Will Lynch Him"
    http://www.paknews.com/specialNews.php?id=392&date1=2001-12-20
    
    US Inquiry Tried, but Failed, to Link Iraq to Anthrax Attack
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/national/22INQU.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Compound 1080: Invisible Threat?
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/674131.asp
    http://www.google.com/search?q=sodium+monoflouroacetate&btnG=Google+Search
    
    History in the News: Middle East History, Society, and Culture Resources
    http://www.albany.edu/history/middle-east/
    
    Yemen Pursues Hunt for Bin Laden Fighters After 17 Killed
    http://www.albawaba.com/headlines/TheNews.php3?action=story&sid=194454&lang=e&dir=news
    http://www.albawaba.com/headlines/TheNews.php3?action=story&sid=194275&lang=e&dir=news
    
    Yemen: Map and CIA Fact Book
    http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/Yemen/Map.html
    http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ym.html
    
    Somalia: Map and CIA Fact Book
    http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/Somalia/Map.html
    http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/so.html
    
    Philippine War's New Front
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15303-2001Dec21.html
    
    Philippines: Map and CIA Fact Book
    http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/Philippines/Map.html
    http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/rp.html
    
    Flight School Warned FBI of Suspicions
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/national/22PILO.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Database Flaws Could Hamper Any National ID System, Experts Warn
    http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1a122001.html
    
    "Voluntary" Police Interviews of Middle-Easterners Are Wrongful and Ineffective
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20011217_ramasastry.html
    
    White Paper on the Assassination of Union Leader Casimiro Huanca
    http://www.narconews.com/warlog.html
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Coming Soon: Hollywood Versus the Internet
    http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-net-mg.htm
    
    The DMCA, Decryption, and Building Fences in Cyberspace
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20011220.html
    
    amendments to UCITA
    http://www.nccusl.org/nccusl/UCITA-2001-comm-fin.htm
    
    Copy Protection Stalemate Slows Broadband Deployment
    http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011221S0040
    
    
    music critics' top-ten lists
    
    Jumping Fences Best Albums of 2001
    ("compiled from every critics' list we've been able to get our hands on")
    http://geocities.com/jfences/Gr1000_2001.htm
    http://geocities.com/jfences/Gr1000_2001b.htm
    http://geocities.com/jfences/Gr1000_2001critics.htm
    
    top 20 records from Pitchfork
    http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/
    
    Djangos 50 Best CDs of 2001
    https://www.djangomusic.com/features/2001/011119_F1.asp?djc=DJ2412230237182122201314461014DT22C02CWWDT8219WIZIIZ0WG3BWSBSUGAD
    
    Amazon.com: Music / Best of 2001
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/714572/ref=m_hp_r_ls_1_1/
    
    Village Voice Pazz and Jop Critics' Poll 2000
    (if/when they publish the 2001 poll we'll send it out)
    http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/00/
    
    Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll
    http://www.bestmusicpoll.com/
    
    
    politics
    
    Job Swap In Public Affairs at RNC, DOJ
    (this is the person who ran the "Gore is a liar" smear campaign)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15206-2001Dec21.html
    
    GOP Pushes to Make Daschle Appear a National Villain
    (attacked by anthrax and slime, he calmly does what's right)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/21/politics/21DASC.html
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2060133
    
    Daschle's response to some of the slime
    (the slime about judicial nominations is especially vile)
    http://www.truthout.com/12.22A.Daschle.Fleischer.htm
    
    this "red states versus blue states" business is stupid and wrong
    (it's the new stereotyping)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h122101_1.shtml
    
    Lobbying Battles of 2001
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZF43Q3HVC
    
    bringing back the Cold War
    http://www.stopottoreich.net/
    
    
    everything else
    
    Microsoft Launches "Gold" Security Partner Program
    (you can join the club if you don't talk about the bugs)
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/21/microsoft.gold.idg/
    
    bizarre Novell anti-Microsoft site
    http://www.WhyTheyLie.com/
    
    CWA's AT&T site
    http://www.attinsider.com/
    
    "Errors of Judgment" Are Piling Up at Andersen
    (the big accounting firms have severe conflict-of-interest problems)
    http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=917422
    
    another site by ex-Enron employees
    (who should sue the brains out of Andersen)
    http://www.thecrookede.com/
    
    The Crime of Distributed Computing
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23477.html
    
    faculty jobs in HCI and privacy etc at Penn State
    http://ist.psu.edu/jobposts/index.cfm
    
    Cognitive Science, Fairfax, Virginia, 8-10 August 2002
    http://hfac.gmu.edu/~cogsci/
    
    Architects Ask, "What Did I Do to Cause This?"
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000101120dec21.story
    
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