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: The Best of Eric B. & Rakim war Military Action Against Terror Begins (it's official: we're engaged in secret war around the world) http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-beyond-afghanistan1227dec26.story Taliban's Victims Face Dire Winter http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-51/reg/talibans_victims_face.htm US Bombs Leave Wasteland http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0112280295dec28.story How We Could Still Lose in Afghanistan http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/362/oped/How_we_could_still_lose_in_Afghanistan+.shtml the ugliness of blaming all liberals for John Walker (and the vile Weekly Standard now says that al-Qaeda is just another NGO) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/361/oped/The_selective_blame_game_played_by_conservatives+.shtml Terror Cells Slip Through Europe's Grasp http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/28/international/europe/28EURO.html?pagewanted=all Holy War Lured Saudis as Rulers Looked Away http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/international/middleeast/27SAUD.html?pagewanted=all "news that doesn't make it into mainstream media" (links mostly relating to the war, with summaries) http://www.prng.net/asimov/Current civil liberties and security analyzing national ID card proposals (e.g., "what problem are IDs trying to solve?") http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0112.html#1 Mubarak Says Military Trials Were Always "Right" Policy (using US and UK abrogation of civil liberties to justify its own repression) http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-51/eg/mubarak_says_military.htm press unfreedom in the US as seen from Egypt (not that they are claiming to be remotely free) http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/564/12war.htm jargon watch: opposition to racial profiling is a "war on the police" (dissolve the issue into blurry concepts and issue wild accusations) http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/723rvluh.asp "Backflow" Water-Line Attack Feared (I had no idea) http://www.msnbc.com/news/678279.asp Who Needs Hackers? We've Got Microsoft! (Microsoft knew that Windows XP users were vulnerable for months) http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2001-15.html the disastrous Windows XP plug-and-play vulnerability was a buffer overflow! (incredible) http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/secur122101.htm music List of 2001 Lists (fairly extensive) http://www.fimoculous.com/year-review.cfm The Best of 2001 http://www.canada.com/regina/leaderpost/archives/story.asp?id=216C2EB7-2439-4669-ABAE-5A59F3033ABA The Year in Music http://www.msnbc.com/news/676022.asp survey of 2001 live albums http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/printedition/calendar/la-000102302dec27.story Picks for the Top 10 Discs Released in 2001 (a strange list, though Manu Chao is cool) http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/26/music.top.10.ap/ cheap online music site http://www.mymusic.com/ politics High Court's Political Position Debated One Year After Bush v. Gore http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZAPKKSFVC Statistics Don't Tell the Whole Story of Judicial Nominations Fight http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZNIXBQPVC Bush-Cheney Fund Shifts Money to GOP http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011228/ts/bush_recount_fund_1.html http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/2001/12/122801_Bush-Cheney_Recount_Donors.html some background on Marc Racicot and energy deregulation in Montana (that's Enron-lobbyist-turned-Republican-chairman Marc Racicot to you) http://www.missoulanews.com/Archives/News.asp?no=2105 Henry Waxman on Enron http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2001/12/Henry_Waxman_122401.html evidence that the Congress can be arrayed on a simple left-right spectrum http://slate.msn.com/?id=2060047&device= The Polarization of American Politics (if you believe the numbers it dates to 1985, i.e., the rise of Newt Gingrich) http://voteview.uh.edu/polartalk/polartalk.htm jargon watch: anything that is not absolutism is relativism (extremists always pretend that the only alternative is the opposite extreme) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28472-2001Dec26.html everything else Word a Day http://www.wordsmith.org/ Financial Cryptography, Bermuda, 11-14 March 2002 http://fc02.ai/ Online Influencers Rely on Company Web Sites (can you detect the mathematical fallacy starting in the first sentence?) http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/demographics/article/0,,5901_944881,00.html AOL Spam Filter Rejects Admissions Messages From Harvard http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/news_c3c211257171a1e100c2.html Digital Technology Is Reconfiguring the Taxi http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/technology/circuits/27TAXI.html?pagewanted=all Peer-to-Peer Is Not Always Decentralized: When Centralization Is Good (look in this directory for both PowerPoint and HTML versions of the slides) http://www.nelson.monkey.org/nelson-talks/oreilly-centralization/ Publisher of Free Online Journals Will Charge Authors a "Processing Fee" http://chronicle.com/free/2001/12/2001122101t.htm Farmers Abashed, or Irate, Over Subsidy List http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/national/27FARM.html?pagewanted=print http://www.ewg.org/farm/ Innovative Transportation Technologies (fascinating mixture of good ideas and retrotechno mishegas) http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/ article about the economic consequences of longer-lasting products (but I don't believe the economic argument against planned obsolescence) http://www.tnr.com/123101/scheiber123101.html How to Get Rid of Obsolete Tech Gear http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/24/BU182830.DTL end
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