[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 21:49:13 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
    
    US Backing Helps Warlord Solidify Power
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25851-2002Feb17.html
    
    Bin Laden's No 2 "Captured in Iran"
    (who knows)
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,652071,00.html
    
    conservatives gung-ho for war with Iraq
    http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/17/122713.shtml
    
    the seriously creepy return of John Poindexter
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,651975,00.html
    
    Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html
    
    leading politician gives major war speech -- press writes about his beard
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h021802_1.shtml
    
    refugees dying in Afghanistan
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/magazine/17AFGHAN.html?pagewanted=all
    
    New York Debates Competing Visions for Rebuilding Devastated Downtown
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22040-2002Feb16.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Where the Bodies Are Buried in Peru
    (if anyone has URL's for documents relating to the commission, do send)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/international/americas/18PERU.html
    
    French Decision Prompts Questions About Free Speech and Cyberspace
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/technology/11NECO.html
    
    Canadian Media Spat: Profit vs. Free Speech
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0215/p06s01-woam.html
    http://www.newsguild.org/gr/gr_display.php?storyID=605
    http://www.newswire.ca/releases/February2002/05/c9098.html
    http://www.fpjq.org/canwest/
    http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020131/1294510.html
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/columns/omalley/martin020104.html
    
    extensive censorship of biology research
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/politics/17SECR.html
    
    The USA PATRIOT Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet Terminals
    http://www.llrx.com/features/usapatriotact.htm
    
    Justice Department Hiding Secret Weekly Reports to the Attorney General
    http://cryptome.org/doj-footshot.htm
    
    "smart" biometric ID cards in Hong Kong
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/18KONG.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Center for Identification Technology Research
    http://www.csee.wvu.edu/citer/
    
    Larry Smarr's talks on future Internet architecture and applications
    (some of which involve pervasive sensor networks with privacy implications)
    http://soeunix.ucsd.edu/~lsmarr/talks/
    
    BMW's iDrive May Herald New Era
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/048/auto/BMW_s_iDrive_may_herald_new_era+.shtml
    
    impressive "This American Life" show about the mob mentality
    (listen and think about campus confrontationalists or talk radio ranters)
    http://www.thislife.org/ra/158.ram
    
    Scientists Recount US Biodefense Labs' Security Lapses
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30241-2002Feb18.html
    
    Airlines Fended Off Security Upgrades
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0202180177feb18.story
    
    
    scandal
    
    Bush in Verbal Japan Deflation-Devaluation Debacle
    (war suits him because the concepts are simple)
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20020218/pl/bush_japan_gaffe_dc_1.html
    
    Defense Department Cannot Account for 25% of Funds --  $2.3 Trillion
    http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,325985-412,00.shtml
    
    Records: Bush Smoothed Path for Enron
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1258323
    
    Bush 2000 Adviser Offered to Use Clout to Help Enron
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22380-2002Feb16.html
    
    Army Secretary's Enron Role Probed
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25816-2002Feb17.html
    
    Controversial US Army Secretary, Ex-Enron Exec, Building Home in Naples
    http://www.naplesnews.com/02/02/naples/d739795a.htm
    
    The Potemkin Populism of the Republicans' Chief Enron Investigator
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062048
    
    Acting CEO Plans Legal Assault Amid Effort to Salvage Enron
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000012600feb18.story
    
    Enron Had More Than One Way to Disguise Rapid Rise in Debt
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/business/17BANK.html
    
    "documents show Enron hid a disastrous bookkeeping error from investors"
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/709343.asp
    
    Firms Reverting to by-the-Books Balance Sheets
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000012601feb18.story
    
    Congress to Investigate Wall Street's Ties With Enron
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/business/19WALL.html
    
    Enron Moved Accounts Offshore, Harder to Track
    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/enron_cayman020214.html
    
    Cayman Islands Open to US Requests for Assistance on Enron Investigation
    http://www.cimoney.com.ky/templates/PressRelease/defaultDisplay.asp?text_id=PressRelease89858&button=1
    
    Enron Case Shapes Up as Tough Legal Fight
    (the difference between rich and poor is that the crimes of the rich are legal)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25922-2002Feb17.html
    
    Enron Is Not Yet a Political Scandal, But It Will Become One
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020215.html
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    article about the woes of the music industry
    (under the guise of an article about boomer come-back bands)
    http://www.usatoday.com/money/covers/2002-02-18-music.htm
    
    Record Labels Answer to Napster Still Has Artists Feeling Bypassed
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/18SONG.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Entertainment Industry's Copyright Fight Puts Consumers in Cross Hairs
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2658555.htm
    
    scaling up Gnutella
    http://www.perfdynamics.com/Papers/Gnews.html
    
    Developing User-Friendly Digital Rights Management
    http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2452/new1011653160573/index.html
    
    "defensive publishing" to prevent others from patenting your idea
    (we should organize "prior art parties" to brainstorm ideas to prevent patents)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/ebusiness/18NECO.html
    
    Intellectual-Property Ecology
    http://www.techreview.com/articles/shulman0302.asp
    
    Searchable Intellectual Property Databases
    http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup21.htm
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    Ashcroft Queried Over Microsoft Campaign Contributions
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24086.html
    
    Microsoft's Lobbying Efforts Eclipse Enron
    http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-835267.html
    
    Microsoft Must Give States Windows Code, Says Judge
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/02/16/microsoft.code.reut/
    
    New Microsoft Bug Problems Blamed on Globalization
    (foo)
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174512.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration
    http://www.globus.org/research/papers.html#OGSA
    
    Bio IT World, Boston, 12-14 March 2002
    http://www.bioitworld.com/
    
    ArsDigita Shut Down
    (they tried to organize an independent computer science undergraduate program)
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/08/1319206&mode=thread
    
    Design Research News
    http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/design-research.html
    
    German Experience in the Construction of Virtual Town Halls and Market Places
    http://www.idt.unisg.ch/org/idt/egce.nsf/profile1-05/7D42F71BD6F9BFF1C1256AF8004B55A2
    
    Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems, Orlando, 19 May 2002
    (I don't know about this as science, but it's sure interesting as ideology)
    http://www.teccomm.les.inf.puc-rio.br/selmas2002/
    
    Digital Resources for Information Research
    http://informationr.net/fr/subguide.html
    
    Search Engine Guide
    http://www.searchengineguide.com/
    
    Information for Social Change
    http://libr.org/ISC/TOC.html
    
    Spam and Web-Visible E-Mail Addresses: Bait a Spammer and See the Results
    http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/15234
    
    special report on the crisis on the cell phone industry
    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/cellphone.htm
    
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