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: There Will Be No Sweeter Sound: The Columbia OKeh Post-War Gospel Story, 1947-1962 Does anybody have URL's for good photos of those cool giant squids that the scientists discovered the other day? war Al-Qaeda Were Among Convoy Dead: Afghan Minister http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/12/25/FFX1SSFUGVC.html US Finds Bin Laden's Uranium http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/2001/12/25/FFX7B5S4LVC.html Former Minister Says Fugitive Taliban Leaders Living Life of Luxury in Pakistan http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,624586,00.html Would-Be Suicide Bomber Not Sri Lankan: Colombo http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/12/25/FFXSP5S4LVC.html Shoe Bomb Graphic (sports shoes are full of compartments and electronics, so it's evolution) http://www.guardian.co.uk/graphic/0,5812,624724,00.html information on plastic explosive C-4 http://www.army.dnd.ca/LFWA_HQ/Documents/Facts/FS-C4.doc http://www.llnl.gov/str/Kury.html http://news.excite.ca/news/cp/011222/22/c-4-a-powerful http://archive.dumpshock.com/ArchiveShowArticle.php3?ID=548 how to make C-4 (supposedly) (don't try this at home) http://www.strange-days.demon.co.uk/anarchy/bomb/aspbomb.html Next Up: Saddam (Saddam is a bad dude, but the bottom line is there's nothing much we can do) http://www.msnbc.com/news/677077.asp a claim that even *Sudan* is now our ally (say it's not so) http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0151/hentoff.php Why Not Spare Somalia the Ravages of War http://allafrica.com/stories/200112230006.html Army Harvested Victims' Blood to Boost Anthrax http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.md.detrick23dec23.story Terrorism and the Present Danger: A Perspective for the American Left http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/message/1688 civil liberties and security America the Unready http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=917304 File-Killing Shoho Microsoft Worm Reported ("pest doesn't rely on Outlook, but spreads through its own e-mail engine") http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,77326,tk,dn122101X,00.asp http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-027.asp PayPal Spoof Site Sought Credit Details http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23479.html Threat of National ID http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/24/opinion/24SAFI.html Camera Becomes New Weapon in War on Graffiti (I have to admit, "just pushes the problem around" is a weak argument) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000101835dec24.story ECE Team Helps Build the Ultimate Surveillance System (a small window on the world of research about sensor fusion for surveillance) http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ece/newsletter/2001-2002_fallwinter/sensor.html shouting down a speaker is freedom of speech! (imagine how lost someone would have to be to write this letter) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000101745dec24.story jargon watch: accusing people of the views that they are arguing against (they do this constantly: spreading lies through their media echo chamber) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h122201_1.shtml Opportunism in the Face of Tragedy (survey of repression in the name of anti-terrorism in a dozen countries) http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/september11/opportunismwatch.htm Zimbabwe: Human Rights Abuses Intensify http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/news.nsf/WebAll/9498C9B28D36DB9580256B260053D398?OpenDocument Rights Defender Reported Killed in Chechnya http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/12/chechnya1222.htm music critics' top-ten lists A Dark Year's Great Music (from the Globe and Mail) http://makeashorterlink.com/?I3471504 world-weary music recommendations from Salon http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/12/26/year_end_music/index2.html design Software Design: Working With Symbolic Material (some analogies to other design disciplines) http://www.ifi.uio.no/~tone/Publications/Bratt-Intermedia.htm Understanding Design (using activity theory and actor network theory to study the design process) http://www.ifi.uio.no/~tone/Publications/Bratt-greg-01.htm Problems of Introducing Computer Support for Cooperative Work (working together is hard and computer tools don't change that) http://www.ifi.uio.no/~tone/Publications/Bratt-nokobit'98.html Designing Interactive Systems, London, 26-28 June 2002 http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/dis2002/ everything else "You've Got Mail", More and More, and Mostly, It Is Junk (check the very common PR rhetorical trick from the DMA president) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/24/technology/24SPAM.html?pagewanted=all some plain talk about copyright http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/21/155221 portal on European e-commerce regulatory issues http://www.elexportal.com/ annotated directory of left-wing political media sites http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020107&s=letter Cultural Research and Activity Theory, Amsterdam, 18-22 June 2002 http://www.psy.vu.nl/iscrat2002/ Argentina's Senseless Sacrifice http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=011219001443 http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=011213000411 http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=011213000638 1990 Oil Spill Suit Still Stuck in Court http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000101825dec24.story textbook examples of PR rhetoric in this radio story about salmonella (the industry representative's comment repays minute analysis) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesun/20011223.wesun.13.ram Bush Plans to Ease Portions of Clean Air Act (he's turning the whole country into Texas) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/358/nation/Bush_plans_to_ease_portions_of_Clean_Air_Act+.shtml Religious Right Finds Its Center in Oval Office http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19253-2001Dec23.html end
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