[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Dec 26 2001 - 12:36:07 PST

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed,
    and thanks to everyone who sent holiday greetings and the like.
    
    RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
    
    Pick Hit: Asha Bhosle: The Golden Collection
    
    Feel free to put your own year-2001 music top-ten on a Web page
    and send a URL along.  If you can include a few words describing
    each item and and why you're recommending it, that would be great.
    
    
    war
    
    The Iraq Hawks: Can Their War Plan Work?
    http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?011224fa_FACT
    
    Rights Activists Worry Over US-Indonesia Military Ties
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/oneworld/20011224/wl/rights_activists_worry_over_u_s_-indonesia_military_ties_1.html
    
    Language of War Claims Its Own Victims by Umberto Eco
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/26/opinion/opinion4.html
    
    Laughable Campaign to Alter Muslims' Image of US Falls Short
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/360/nation/Campaign_to_alter_Muslims_image_of_US_falls_short+.shtml
    
    Afghan Journalism's Postwar Mission
    (someone should help the United States build an independent press too)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/26/opinion/26BORD.html
    
    Tracking Bioterror's Tangled Course
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/26/national/26ANTH.html?pagewanted=all
    
    
    Yemen
    
    Sanaa Seeks to Bring Home Up to 500 Yemeni Fighters From Afghanistan
    http://www.yementimes.com/01/iss52/ln.htm#2
    
    President Ali Saleh: Yemen Supports Hamas Operations
    http://www.albawaba.com/headlines/TheNews.php3?action=story&sid=195117&lang=e&dir=news
    
    Yemen news and resources
    http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/
    
    extensive Yemen links from the local phone company
    http://www.y.net.ye/
    
    Yemen Times Online
    http://www.yementimes.com/
    
    
    civil liberties
    
    Critics' Attack on Tribunals Turns to Law Among Nations
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/26/national/26LAW.html?pagewanted=print
    
    secret arrests and military tribunals make us less safe, not more
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/opinion/25SHAT.html
    
    that 1942 Court decision on tribunals wasn't supposed to be a precedent either
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ9R42KIVC
    
    more on face recognition cameras
    http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20011220.html
    
    
    politics
    
    Since 1974, FCC Has Tried to Dispel Rumor of a Petition to Ban God
    (real Christians don't spread lies about their opponents)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24664-2001Dec25.html
    
    Campaign Gifts, Lobbying Built Enron's Power in Washington
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22448-2001Dec24.html
    
    the tale of Marc Racicot and Enron
    http://www.missoulanews.com/Archives/News.asp?no=2105
    
    The Conservative Contradictions Are Stacking Up
    (they run the government like a business, namely Enron)
    http://www.missoulanews.com/News/News.asp?no=2138
    
    
    music top-ten lists
    
    John Sakamoto's Anti-Hit List Best of 2001
    http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicAntihit/bestof2001_anti-can.html
    
    Artist Top 10 Lists
    http://www.cdnow.com/allstararticle/fid=297964
    
    Perimeter Records Top Ten Lists
    http://www.perimeterrecords.com/topten/topten.htm
    
    
    everything else
    
    shameful argument about competition supposedly "regulating" Microsoft
    (as they know, the problem isn't just that Microsoft is a "market leader")
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000102095dec26.story
    
    background on the Nobel Prize to Akerlof, Spence, and Stiglitz
    (interesting and useful work on the economics of information, esp. Stiglitz)
    http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/2001/ecoadv.pdf
    
    article about mailing lists for ex-coworkers
    (ex-coworker relationships are very important in Silicon Valley)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/26/business/26NETW.html
    
    The Magazine of Digital Government Research
    http://www.dgrc.org/dg-online/
    
    Digital Government, Los Angeles, 19-22 May 2002
    http://www.dgrc.org/dgrc/dgo2002/
    
    Marketizing Higher Education: Neoliberal Strategies and Counter-Strategies
    http://eserver.org/clogic/4-1/levidow.html
    
    Coordinating Heterogeneous Work: Information and Representation in Medical Care
    http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/jpd/papers/2001/ecscw01-coordinating.pdf
    
    Foundational Relationships Between Ethnomethodology and System Design
    http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/jpd/papers/1998/hci-technometh.pdf
    
    What Is Enlightenment? by Michel Foucault
    (a late text that one reader says will refute my criticisms)
    http://eserver.org/philosophy/foucault/what-is-enlightenment.html
    
    Sydney fire photos
    http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=australia+fire&c=news_photos
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/26/gallery/snapshot1.html
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/26/national/national1.html
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/26/national/graphic1.html
    
    the amazing true story of the exploding whale
    (including a pricelessly dated video news report)
    http://hackstadt.com/features/whale/
    
    photos and video of the giant squid
    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/av/squid.ram
    http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2001/dec21_clague/dec21_clague.html
    http://www.mbari.org/education/cruises/hawaii/Leg4/May16.htm
    http://www.actionreporter.com/001.monde/0007.cachalot/page_giantsquid.htm
    http://newsday.com/news/health/ny-squidvideo1220.videogallery
    http://www.eurekalert.org/sci_pub/vecchione-12-21-01.html
    http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec2001/2001L-12-21-03.html
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20011220/ts/imdf20122001233125a.html
    http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/294/5551/2505/F1
    http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/squid_links.html
    
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