[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2002 - 18:23:23 PST

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    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: Samia Farah
    
    
    war
    
    War Command Center in US, Thanks to IT Advances 
    http://www.newsbytes.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=newsbytes&story.id=173237
    
    Gul Agha Gets His Province Back
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/magazine/06WARLORD.html?pagewanted=all
    
    A Body and Spirit Broken by the Taliban
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64452-2002Jan4.html
    
    Worries of al-Qaida in Somalia
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020104/wl/attacks_somalia_1.html
    
    Muslims and the West After September 11
    http://www.nautilus.org/fora/Special-Policy-Forum/43_Hoodbhoy.html
    
    memo on the creation of a Missile Defense Agency
    http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2002/d20020102mda.pdf
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Texas Fights Ruling of Legal Incompetence
    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000000292jan02.story
    
    report critical of the DoE's inspection of nuclear weapons
    http://www.ig.doe.gov/pdf/ig-0535.pdf
    
    History of "Buffer Overflow" Security Problems -- especially in C
    (maybe you have to be a computer person to realize what an outrage they are)
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.84.html#subj10     
    
    w00w00's Instant Message: Listen Up, AOL
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64274-2002Jan4.html
    
    Product Review: Fingerprint Scanner
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020103/bs/tech_test_uareu_personal_1.html
    
    ACLU Frowns on Face-Recognition Tool
    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5101223,00.html
    
    Euro Bank Notes to Embed RFID Chips by 2005
    (this makes it more likely that everything else will embed RFID chips)
    http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011219S0016
    
    
    politics
    
    CBO Report Rates Bush Economic Proposals Poorly
    (their purpose is not to fix the economy)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64194-2002Jan4.html
    
    incredibly mean attack on the Clintons
    (how can anyone stand to think like this?)
    http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2002/01/04/opinion/GORIN04.htm
    
    now the machine is going after Gray Davis
    (blaming him for a sales tax increase that was triggered by a Republican law)
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020102.atc.05.ram
    
    jargon watch: using nasty words in an inflated way, in this case "tyranny"
    (their own filibuster threats and stalling on nominees are now unhistory)
    https://secure.chargedcontribution.com/ATA_60s_Daschle/default.asp?s=true&r=c&ref=bcntd
    
    this is the Washington Times article they are referring to
    http://www.washtimes.com/national/20011231-8478860.htm
    
    jargon watch: criticizing Falwell means smearing Christians in general
    http://www.BuzzFlash.com/alerts/2002/01/010401_Falwell_Taliban.html
    
    outline of the politics of the Enron collapse
    http://interactive.wsj.com/fr/emailthis/retrieve.cgi?id=SB1010009947188449240.djm
    
    Concerns Over Criticism Stall Decision on Pollution Rules
    (they operate very much like a corporate public relations department)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000000939jan04.story
    
    America the Polarized
    (growing inequality, yes, but surely the South's realignment was a factor too)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/04/opinion/04KRUG.html
    
    
    music
    
    Top Albums of 2001
    http://www.milesofmusic.com/momzine/topten32.html
    
    Austin Chronicle critics' top-tens
    http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-01-04/music_string_all.html
    
    Waterloo Records top 100 sellers
    http://www.waterloorecords.com/top100.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    why university research code should be open source
    http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/04/university_open_source/print.html
    
    The Future of Ideas
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/books/chapters/06-1st-lessi.html
    
    Protecting the Old With Copyright Law
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/books/review/06ZALEWST.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Satanic imagery in a computer security project at Harvard
    http://www.light1998.com/EXPLANATION.htm
    
    Rise of Net "Borders" Prompts Fears for Web's Future
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173389.html
    
    Court Upholds Anti-Spam Law
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/01/04/MN228257.DTL
    http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/A092653.PDF
    
    Teachers Train in New Classroom: Cyberspace
    (this might actually be a good application for online training)
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0103/p2s1-ussc.htm
    
    Gurus of Tomorrow's Tech
    (caveat emptor)
    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/guru.htm
    
    article about media concentration
    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020107&s=miller
    
    Reagan Papers, Under Wraps a Year, Are Released
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000000945jan04.story
    
    Argentina's Crisis, IMF's Fingerprints
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12152
    
    Lie of the Land: The Secret Life of Maps
    (at the British Museum)
    http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/lieland/m0-0.html
    
    Condiment Packet Museum
    http://www.clearfour.com/condiment/cindex.html
    
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