[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 22:36:42 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
    
    
    war
    
    How Briton Hid Deadly Boot Bomb on Jet
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/02/09/wreid09.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/02/09/ixworld.html
    
    Military Fuses Old, New to Create a Lethal Force
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000010464feb10.story
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000010491feb10.story
    
    "a weapons smorgasbord"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/weekinreview/10DAO.html
    
    Unknown Toll in the Fog of War: Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/international/asia/10AFGH.html?pagewanted=all
    
    Civil Affairs Troops Aim to Win Afghan Hearts, Minds
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000010705feb11.story
    
    Taliban's Enemies Emerge From the Shadows
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60255-2002Feb11.html
    
    Philippine Army Attacks Guerrilla Positions
    (somehow it seems like a global war should be a bigger deal than this)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000010717feb11.story
    
    September 11th Has Scrambled Our Concept of War
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/042/oped/Sept_11_has_scrambled_our_concept_of_war+.shtml
    
    increasing calls for unilateral partition in Palestine
    http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=126665&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
    
    Courage to Refuse: Combatant Letter 2002
    http://www.seruv.org.il/defaultEng.asp
    
    Kissinger Phone Calls To Be Released
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20020211/ap_on_re_us/kissinger_phone_calls_2
    
    September 11th Story: The Silence of the Birds
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/02/09/rec.attacks.birdlady.ap/
    
    what happened to all the stuff people donated on September 11th
    (answer: nobody knows)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/703560.asp
    
    Grim Scavenger Hunt for DNA Drags on for September 11th Families
    (brave new world)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/09/nyregion/09DNA.html?pagewanted=print
    
    E-mail Transformed Personal Communication After September 11th Attacks
    http://www.uclanews.ucla.edu/Docs/3009.htm
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Trial of Milosevic Will Peel Layers of Balkan Guilt, Too
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/international/europe/11YUGO.html?pagewanted=print
    
    The Koran as a Classroom Lesson? At the Right Time, Yes
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000010355feb10.column
    
    Arab Americans Insist Ashcroft Clarify Offensive Remarks
    http://www.aaiusa.org/newsandviews/newsreleases/020802.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60304-2002Feb11.html
    
    Can Missile Defense Work?
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15132
    
    MIT Professor Alleges Fraud in Missile Defense Research
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/040/metro/MIT_professor_alleges_fraud_within_research+.shtml
    
    Public Entity Risk Institute Symposium Papers
    http://www.riskinstitute.org/symposium_papers.asp
    
    jargon watch: classic PR approach to promoting a national ID
    (delimit "concerns", then offer "points" that sound good but lack substance)
    http://news.com.com/2010-1078-833684.html
    
    Robbers Flee With $6.5m in Heathrow Airport Heist
    (insert caustic comment on airport security)
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,648897,00.html
    
    test of iris scanning at Heathrow
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1808000/1808187.stm
    
    Digital Dog Tags: Would You Wear One?
    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-833379.html
    
    TiVo's Data Collection and Privacy Practices
    http://www.privacyfoundation.org/privacywatch/report.asp?id=62&action=0
    
    How to Fake a Passport
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/magazine/10PASSPORT.html?pagewanted=all
    
    more on wireless LAN security (or lack thereof)
    http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-000010614feb11.story
    
    Microsoft Security: Check the Fine Print
    http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/02/11/020211opfoster.xml?Template=/storypages/printfriendly.html
    
    MSN Messenger Hijacking
    http://tom.me.uk/msn/
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/11/msn.messenger.flaw.idg/
    
    Apple Spams Users With Virus
    http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=51139
    
    
    scandal
    
    "Cheney's posturing is familiar to someone who served in the Nixon White House"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/opinion/11DEAN.html?pagewanted=print
    
    outline of the controversy over administration secretiveness
    (if you haven't been following it from day to day)
    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020225&s=baker
    
    Battling Over Records of Bush's Governorship
    (likewise)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/politics/11LIBR.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Mitch Daniels' Fuzzy Math
    http://www.salon.com/politics/col/spinsanity/2002/02/12/daniels/print.html
    
    New Bush Tie to Enron
    (White House counsel Alberto Gonzales)
    http://www.mostnewyork.com/2002-02-10/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-140876.asp
    
    The Company Presidency by Kevin Phillips
    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000010256feb10.story
    
    the fascinating question of who the entities' outside investors were
    http://j-marshall.com/talk/feb0202.html#021002941pm
    
    scorecard for all the Enron investigations in Congress
    (not counting easily hundreds of investigations by states and private lawyers)
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2061872
    
    Enron: Time for a Special Counsel
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/09/opinion/09HOLL.html?pagewanted=print
    
    details of Jeb Bush's relationship with Enron
    http://www.publiccitizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/electricity/Enron/articles.cfm?ID=7115
    
    White House Seeks Broader Look Into Vandalism Rap
    http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-02-09/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-140819.asp
    
    Enron Lobbyist Plotted Strategy Against Democrats
    http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-000010595feb11.story
    
    Enron Executives: Every Man For Himself
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/703670.asp
    
    "First Step" in Enron Cover-Up?
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/02/08/dean.cheney.cnna/
    
    Web of Details Did Enron In as Warnings Went Unheeded
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/business/10COLL.html?pagewanted=print
    
    How Enron Dealt With Congress, Bureaucracy
    (the high-tech methods that Enron pioneered will be perfected by others)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51802-2002Feb9.html
    http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-000010594feb11.story
    
    A Gadfly Who Raised Some Early Questions About Global Crossing
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/technology/ebusiness/11NELL.html
    http://www.thecorporatelibrary.com/
    
    Never Have So Many Missed the Forest
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/weekinreview/10CLYM.html
    
    How Will Washington Read the Signs?
    (it's time for the greatest revolution in corporate governance in a century)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/business/yourmoney/10FIXX.html?pagewanted=print
    
    "this turns us into Russia"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/opinion/12KRUG.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    sad strange story of people who thought their cell phones would save them
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,648729,00.html
    
    project to create customizable intellectual-property licenses
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL&type=printable
    
    criticism of the Recording Artists Coalition
    (I have no opinion)
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2061830&device=
    
    article on the changing academic library
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/02/10/MN169969.DTL
    
    Mobile Europe, Bremen, 18-19 March 2002
    http://www.umts-bremen.org/
    
    Financial Jam Mires Orange County's Toll Highways
    (they were a national test case for high-tech privatized toll roads)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000010632feb11.story
    
    lawsuit against a farmer who unknowingly had his crops polluted by GM genes
    (think of the implications: Monsanto owns everything its genes blow onto)
    http://www.percyschmeiser.com/
    
    guerrilla broadband wireless
    http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020207.html
    
    more on the National Science Digital Library
    http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/arms/01arms.html
    http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0201027
    http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0201025
    
    funding for nanotechnology
    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-833691.html
    
    Scientists Sharing Fewer Discoveries
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000010586feb11.story
    
    newsletter explaining the pre-tribulation theology of the "Left Behind" books
    http://www.timlahaye.com/about_ministry/index.php3?lo=y&p=newsletter§ion=PreTrib%20Newsletter
    
    Anti-US Propaganda in the 20th Century
    http://www.fecundswamp.net/~hatridge/stamps/
    
    weird campaign to make Utah universities allow weapons on campus
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000010463feb10.story
    
    A Global Vision for a Global Art Show
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/arts/design/12CURA.html
    
    free sample issue of the ChowNews New York Tristate edition
    http://www.chowhound.com/chownews/ny.html
    
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