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 end
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