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 Rough Guide to Australian Aboriginal Music war US Military Reportedly in Somalia (we're in another secret global war, just like the Cold War) http://www.msnbc.com/news/670355.asp http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1702000/1702338.stm Hunt for Twenty Terror Ships (hey, maybe we'll do something about the "flags of convenience" system) http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,624196,00.html Al-Jazeera Interview With Top Al-Qa'ida Leader Abu Hafs "The Mauritanian" http://www.memri.org/sd/SP31301.html The Political Life of Pakistan's General Babar (May 2001) (interview with Interior Minister who coordinated support of the Taliban) http://www.defencejournal.com/globe/2001/may/babar.htm Afghanistan Media Dossier 2002 (review of psychological warfare operations) http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/html/afghan_us.html State Department Works to Create Brand of the Free http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1101/111601nj2.htm Occidentalism (Islamist anti-Westernism compared with the early 20th C Japanese far right) http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15100 The Trouble With the CIA http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15109 "the American embrace of terrorism was global" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64907-2002Jan4.html Firefighter Mag Raps 9/11 Probe http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-01-04/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-137143.asp civil liberties and security Clipper to Carnivore: Balancing Privacy, Law Enforcement and Industry Interests http://papers.tcnj.edu/papers/040/040003ReganPrisc.pdf jargon watch: attacking due process by presupposing that the accused are guilty (the whole point of a trial is to determine whether they're terrorists or not) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000001279jan06.story The Rule of Law: Indispensable to a Wider War http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64889-2002Jan4.html Injectable Chip Opens Door to "Human Bar Code" http://eetimes.com/story/OEG20020104S0044 Drawing a Blank: The Failure of Facial Recognition Technology in Tampa, Florida http://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy/drawing_blank.pdf Tampa Police Stopped Face Scans in August http://tampatrib.com/floridametronews/MGAZKW6L1WC.html The Geeks Who Saved Usenet (did the people who wrote those messages know they'd be searchable eternally?) http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/07/saving_usenet/print.html paper on racial aspects of online voting http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/kang/Scholarship/Kang_Eracing_Elections.pdf Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (1997) http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/commissions/secrecy/ depressing interactive diagram of media concentration http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html librarians mobilize to keep HarperCollins from suppressing Michael Moore's book http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/01/07/moore/ "nuclear industry ignored warnings that reactors were vulnerable to terrorism" http://www.motherjones.com/magazine/JF02/nuclear_denial.html Politics vs. Air Safety http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000001254jan06.story where buffer overflow problems come from in the most widely used language http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html Enron How Deregulation and Enron's Influence Over Government Looted Billions http://www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=195 Bush's First Big Scandal Rises From the Ashes of Enron http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=113038 lack of transparency as a factor in Enron's collapse and the danger to others http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64887-2002Jan4.html Internal Papers Track Enron's Partnerships http://www.contracostatimes.com/biztech/stories_business/oenron_20020103.htm Accountants Kill Global Credential Plan http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020103/bs/financial_accounting_dc_1.html politics "Bush said Democrats who criticized the tax cuts were tax-raisers in disguise" (now we can talk about Bush's secret plans, e.g., shut down the public schools) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush.html Huge Decline Seen in Budget Over Next Decade http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/politics/06BUDG.html jargon watch: diluting the issue into something vague and harmless-sounding ("certainly there are changes" -- Heritage was openly founded on PR principles) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/005/nation/Quiet_environmental_rules_changes_decried+.shtml some quotes from C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (1951) http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Mills/#Power music John Peel's Festive Fifty 2001 (with audio clips) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/peel_features/peel_festive_fifty.shtml everything else "why doesn't the US appreciate wireless text messaging? it has no standards" http://www.techreview.com/articles/garfinkel0102.asp Hot Type Redefined (start of computer typography) http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-000001337jan06.story Performance Analysis of k-ary n-Cube Interconnection Networks (this is relevant to my note on peer-to-peer and parallelism the other day) http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/aries/papers/networks/k-ary_n-cube.pdf MicroStrategy's CEO Sped to the Brink (start of a series about the rise and fall of a dot-com egomaniac) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2889-2002Jan5.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6157-2002Jan6.html Gallery of Regrettable Food http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/ Outcry Over Pets in Pet Food (cats are made of cat food, and vice versa) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000001483jan06.story Scientists Working on Stink Bomb (c'mon folks, there's real science that needs doing) http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2002/01/06/stinkbomb/ How to Buy the Olympics http://www.observer.co.uk/osm/story/0,6903,626771,00.html end
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