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: Alligator Records, 20th Anniversary Collection As a periodic reminder, the RRE home page includes instructions for unsubscribing, plus links to dozens of articles, book chapters, etc that have gone out to the list. war CIA Takes on Major New Military Role http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/020/nation/CIA_takes_on_major_new_military_role+.shtml civil liberties and security St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport Deploys Face Recognition (without mentioning terrorism) http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020122/222602_1.html National ID in Development ("but enthusiasm for the system appears to be fading, poll says") http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/01/22/id-cards.htm remarkable age skew in a poll on wiretapping http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZCXKPHMWC more on the tract advocating a massive high-tech surveillance state http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173794.html Uncovering Alleged Government Purchases of Electronic Personal Data http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZLRJGTQWC Rights Group Orders Zundel to Kill Hate Site http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.ArticleNews/relatedstories/gam/20020119/UZUNDN/ http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/decisions/docs/citron-e.htm ads for a Christian tract banned in Germany (I don't care if they're right-wingers -- you shouldn't be censoring them) http://www.iht.com/articles/45267.html http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020122.atc.04.ram http://powerforliving.com/ Anti-Spam Plan to Track Net Users (I haven't ready this closely enough to have an opinion) http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3630475%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html East Timor Truth Commission Will Look Into 1974-99 Atrocities (which were much worse than anything in countries that receive more publicity) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000005648jan22.story the Bush scandals Enron Posts Guards to Prevent Document Shredding http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/01/22/enron/ FBI Probes Alleged Enron Shredding http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020122/ts/enron_investigation_73.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/691845.asp http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22184-2002Jan22.html FERC Chief's Ouster Raises Enron-Bush Questions http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/2476617.htm Enron Got Its Money's Worth http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000005500jan22.column Crime in the Suites (remember to say "alleged") http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20020204&s=greider Enron Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12257 several public radio stories about Enron (scroll down) http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=01/22/2002&PrgID=2 Taking the Toll of Enron's Excess http://www.msnbc.com/news/691234.asp Enron's Human Toll http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/23/enron_toll/ Enron Adds Insult to Injury (it deducted a final 401(k) contribution from employees' severance checks) http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0204/conaway.php Bush Urges Stricter Rules on Corporate Disclosures (he's good at thinking contradictory thoughts) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/22/politics/22CND-OUTRAGE.html the good old days when Ken Lay was rumored as our Secretary of the Treasury (i.e., just over a year ago) http://www.businessweek.com:/2000/00_51/b3712054.htm Blaming the Dems for Enron (the empire of unreason will make any argument, no matter how weak) http://www.msnbc.com/news/688131.asp http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/22/DD237190.DTL jargon watch: Enron is the liberals' fault! (vague associations that stop making sense if you think for one second) http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=95001756 more on Andersen Shredding's work at the FBI http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2001/July/345ag.htm Vinson and Elkins Parry Enron Onslaught http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/special/enron/1220664 "this case is the full employment act for Texas lawyers" http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000005470jan21.story The Enron Endgame http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZPXJJXQWC politics economists protest the Bush administration's distortions of their views http://www.thenewrepublic.com/express/soskis012202.html Economic Stimulus: Evaluating Proposed Changes in Tax Policy (CBO says Bush's "stimulus" plans are nearly worthless -- scroll to the table) http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=3251&sequence=0&from=7 Here Comes "Daschlenomics": The GOP Readies Its Rhetorical Playbook http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020122.html No More Tax Cuts: Many Americans Would Kill Cuts to Avoid Deficit http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/taxcut_poll_020122.html funny "special notice" in response to NewsMax doing its thing http://www.goldstarmoms.com/ http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2001/5/26/73332 interview with Gene Lyons about the depths of anti-Clinton Arkansas politics http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/01/Gene_Lyons_012202.html everything else How GPS Gets the Taxi to You Faster (I say fine: taxi dispatch has always been pathological) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/01/21/luxorgps.DTL&type=printable Democracies Online: Online Consultations and Civic Events http://groups.yahoo.com/group/do-consult/ lecture by Larry Page about replicating Google's innovation process http://Quarry.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/020111-cs547-100.asx Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia http://www.wikipedia.com/ Amazon Settles Music Patent Dispute (drag) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-820008.html MP3.com Sues Cooley Over Legal Advice (foo -- MP3.com blew their chance to reintermediate the music industry) http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZX5HYQQWC Netscape Files Suit Against Microsoft For Violations of the Antitrust Laws (does anyone have a URL for it?) http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=25986887 Microsoft alleges that software pirates fund terrorists (but the study allegedly proving it isn't online) http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,49856,00.html Computing for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Santa Barbara, 8-10 March 2002 http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/conference.asp Distributed Collective Practice, San Diego, 9 February 2002 http://weber.ucsd.edu/~gbowker/dcp/ Literature and Space, Eugene, Oregon, 18-20 October 2002 http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=129421 lecture on the global warming controversy by Steven Schneider http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/020109-ee380-100.asx The Hiking Trail Database http://www.hejoly.demon.nl/ end
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