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 end
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