[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 10:21:35 PST

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    Here is an unusually excellent collection of URL's.
    Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
    
    Pick Hit: Brazil Classics 3: Forro etc.
    
    
    
    war
    
    Bin Laden's Special Complaint With the World Trade Center
    http://slate.msn.com//?id=2060207
    
    13 More Bodies Recovered at World Trade Center Site
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000000634jan03.story
    
    The War in Afghanistan by Noam Chomsky
    http://www.zmag.org/lakdawalalec.htm
    
    Timeline of Competition between Unocal and Bridas for the Afghanistan Pipeline
    http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm
    
    Human Rights and Terrorism in the Central Asian OSCE Member States
    http://www.ihf-hr.org/reports/Bishkek/FirstPages.pdf
    http://www.ihf-hr.org/reports/Bishkek/Terrorism%20report%20final.pdf
    
    Battling Islamic "Puritans"
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000000283jan02.story
    http://www.law.ucla.edu/Faculty/Bios/abouelfadl/
    
    Anti-Occupation Activists Question US Aid
    http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0152/solomon.php
    
    hopelessness of the Middle East
    http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?020107fa_FACT1
    
    al-Qaeda cell in the Philippines
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14725-2001Dec21.html
    
    Indian military's propaganda site about Kashmir
    http://www.armyinkashmir.org/
    
    
    privacy and security
    
    FBI May Use Keystroke-Recording Device Without Wiretap Order
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZDRC3TZVC
    
    Staffing at US-Canadian Border Cut Despite Concerns
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134385637_border01m.html
    
    Digital Images Will Verify Identity of Visitors to US
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000000278jan02.story
    
    more on the Bush-Ashcroft coverup of FBI involvement in organized crime
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/03/opinion/03SAFI.html
    
    Suit Against Gun Makers Gains Ground in Illinois Court
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/03/national/03GUNS.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Microsoft Worm Targets Security Software
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8334809.html
    
    Another Scripting Hole In Microsoft Internet Explorer Exposes Local Files
    ("Guninski said he alerted the company to the problem December 11th")
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173315.html
    http://www.guninski.com/getob3.html
    
    File-Sharing Programs Carry Trojan Horse
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8335745.html
    http://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,49430,00.html
    
    New Security Hole in AOL Instant Messenger
    (only Windows users are affected -- and, yes, it's a buffer overflow)
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/01/02/aol.security.ap/
    http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,49442,00.html
    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5101170,00.html
    
    w00w00 Security Development
    (who found the IM problem)
    http://www.w00w00.org/
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Stealth Copy Protection: Where We Are Now
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/23516.html
    
    RioPort Allows for Portability of Legally Downloaded Music
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/port010302.htm
    
    Microsoft Struggles to Discredit Linux
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23518.html
    
    The Real Stakes of Virtual Publishing
    http://www.slis.indiana.edu/csi/WP/wp01-03B.html
    
    Lawmakers Take Aim at Music Industry Contracts
    (this is from August 2000 -- does anyone have URL's with updates?)
    http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000064238aug08.story
    
    
    music
    
    Top 50 Albums of 2001 from public radio in Philadelphia
    http://xpn.org/story.mv?n=11502
    
    Best of the Obscure Among 2001's Albums
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/03/arts/music/03POPL.html?pagewanted=all
    
    The War Against Silence
    http://www.furia.com/twas/twas0362.html
    
    another list of top-ten lists
    http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/cont/critics.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    E-Government Bulletin
    (news mostly from the UK)
    http://www.headstar.com/egb/
    
    Is the Internet Good for Democracy?
    (summer 2001)
    http://bostonreview.mit.edu/ndf.html#Internet
    
    "the atomisation of society requires novel forms of political organisation"
    http://www.monbiot.com/dsp_article.cfm?article_id=479
    
    interview with one of the pioneers of jargon
    (jargon isn't just culture -- it's an industry, very top-down and organized)
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/newtintwshtml/mahe.html
    
    George W. Uses 9/11 as a Pretext to Wall Off Presidential Records
    http://chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0201020122jan02.story
    
    Electronic Records Baffle Agencies
    http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1217/web-nara-12-24-01.asp
    
    working papers from the Center for Social Informatics
    http://www.slis.indiana.edu/csi/papers.html
    
    Groupware, La Serena, Chile, 1-4 September 2002
    http://www.cs.colorado.edu/serl/seworld/database/2311.html
    
    Beyond Bowling Together: SocioTechnical Capital
    http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick/papers/stk/
    
    Social Inclusion and Libraries: A Resource Guide
    http://www.la-hq.org.uk/groups/csg/si/si.html
    
    Social Skill and the Theory of Fields
    http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~iir/culture/papers/Fligstein01_01.pdf
    
    "Junk" E-Mail Costs Internet Users Euro 10 Billion a Year Worldwide
    http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/media/dataprot/studies/spam.htm
    
    IBM Finds New Profit in Recycling Old Computers
    (sounds good, but recall IBM made most of its money by leasing in the old days)
    http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000000266jan02.story
    
    State AGs Urge FCC To Adopt Opt-In Reg For Telcos
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173328.html
    
    Broadband Strategy Plunged Enron Into Trouble
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/002/business/Broadband_strategy_plunged_Enron_into_trouble+.shtml
    
    Too Many Standards Spoil Wireless LAN Soup
    http://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2002/0102wlesslan.html
    
    Job Sites Produce Few Actual Hires
    (bottom line: it's about networking)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/680715.asp
    
    explosion of academic research on bioinformatics
    http://www.google.com/search?as_q=bioinformatics&num=50&btnG=Google+Search&lr=lang_en&as_qdr=m3&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=.edu
    
    Scientists Find That Tiny Pipes Offer Big Payoffs
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/01/science/physical/01MICR.html
    
    demographic tidal wave of students expected to hit universities soon
    (and a whole generation of faculty will be retiring soon as well)
    http://www.berkeley.edu/news/extras/2000/tidalwave2/
    
    Preparing for Tidal Wave II Enrollment: Can Technology Help?
    (video from November 2000)
    http://www.oid.ucla.edu/Webcast/Sianme/SIANME_001117_body.html
    
    Larry Summers' travails at Harvard
    (everyone needs to grow up a bit)
    http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=161209
    
    Stop Giving America a Bad Rap
    (for once she's half-right: it's not anti-American but it's junk)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20011230.shtml
    
    IMF Seeks to Draw Lessons From Turmoil in Argentina
    http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3K2515YVC
    
    Human Rights Quarterly
    (full text, but may require a license)
    http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/
    
    University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
    http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/
    
    Plot to Undermine Global Pollution Controls Revealed
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991734
    
    Ken Friedman 52 Events
    (conceptual art)
    http://www.heartfineart.com/Images/Friedman.html
    
    The Math in "A Beautiful Mind"
    (it's great math; whether it maps human reality is another question)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/001/science/The_math_in_A_Beautiful_mind_+.shtml
    
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