[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sun Feb 24 2002 - 10:39:13 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
    
    Musharraf Takes on Spy Agency
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0222/p01s04-wosc.html
    
    "US retracting a pledge not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states"
    http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020222-77660232.htm
    
    Bush's War in Afghanistan: A Case of Big Mission Creep?
    http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=19
    
    Europe Seethes as the US Flies Solo in World Affairs
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/international/europe/23NATO.html?pagewanted=all
    
    How the Left Undermined America's Security by David Horowitz
    (it's like a visit to another planet)
    http://bugler-john.50megs.com/HOROWITZ%20ON%20911.PDF%20FEB%2018%202002.pdf
    
    "National Guard units across the country fake troop level reports"
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/02/21/usat-guard.htm
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Drivers Face Road Charge By Satellite
    http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,656107,00.html
    
    Report Reveals Serious Flaws in Safe Harbor Agreement
    http://europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=8608
    
    The Video Surveillance Debate
    http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/feb/surveillance/020225.surveillance.html
    
    Risks Prompt US to Limit Access to Data
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58430-2002Feb23.html
    
    Whose History Is It, Anyway? The Public's or the Officials'?
    http://nytimes.com/2002/02/24/weekinreview/24BOHL.html
    
    Indonesia: Justice for East Timor Still Elusive
    http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/02/etimor0221.htm
    
    
    scandal
    
    Did Illegally Counted Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the 2000 Election?
    http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kimai/research/ballots.html
    
    Contracts So Complex They Imperil the System
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/business/yourmoney/24DERI.html?pagewanted=print
    
    A Fellow May Squirm a Bit in a Chair Endowed by Ken Lay
    ("reviled tycoons have long bankrolled the nation's finest universities")
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000014258feb24.story
    
    Enron Designed Fake Trading Floor
    http://www.click2houston.com/hou/news/stories/news-124836820020222-130220.html
    
    SEC Draws a Hard Line on Enforcement After Enron
    (we'll wait to see if they actually clean the stables)
    http://netscape5.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B5DF7959E-CFBE-44B1-A918-9BC1B937FDBB%7D
    
    Tech Firms Fight Shift in Rules on Options
    (distorted accounting rules on options a major factor in the dot-com bubble)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35660-2002Feb19.html
    
    radio story about Al Haig's allegedly fraudulent public TV program
    (kind of pathetic actually)
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020222.atc.06.ram
    http://www.wnyc.org/new/talk/onthemedia/transcripts_022302_wbr.html
    
    
    politics
    
    Overdue Reform: The Need For Statewide Computerized Voter Registration Systems
    (I haven't read this carefully and don't have an opinion about it)
    http://www.demos-usa.org/Pubs/Overdue/overdue_reform_final.pdf
    
    jargon watch: ethnic stereotypes are back!
    (study the contorted rhetoric that drags them out from under their rock)
    http://play.rbn.com/?wgbh/world/demand/fr8.rm
    
    jargon watch: pundit A hints at something false, pundit B out and says it
    (study how Gingrich breaks the association by projecting it into others' heads)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h022202_1.shtml
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    more on the woes of the music industry
    (which deserves them)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000014253feb24.story
    
    Webcasters, Analysts Survey Internet Radio's Post-CARP Landscape
    http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/022202/index.asp#story2
    http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/022202/index.asp#story1
    
    more on the settlement in the privacy-invasive CD suit
    http://www.techfirm.com/sunnk.pdf
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/22/1518243&mode=thread
    http://www.fahrenheitentertainment.com/newsreleases/newsrelease032201.htm
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-272784.html
    
    Napster Wins One Round in Music Case
    ("these ventures look bad, smell bad and sound bad")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/technology/23MUSI.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    "a new mass-mailing worm is the first to use its own SMTP routine to propagate"
    http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002feb/gee20020222010390.htm
    
    Spam Worsens, Slows AT&T E-Mail
    ("unsolicited messages now 20 percent off all traffic")
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/713079.asp
    
    Web Site Helped Change Farm Policy
    ("in farm circles the site has the name recognition of Heinz ketchup")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/politics/24WORK.html
    
    Collaboration Services in a Participatory Digital Library
    http://www.ils.unc.edu/ils/research/reports/TR-2001-03.pdf
    
    Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor
    http://www.louisville.edu/journal/workplace/wp42.html
    
    article on the bungled roll-out of HDTV
    (no, it worked fine -- the broadcasters got all the free spectrum they wanted)
    http://www.slate.msn.com/?id=2062270
    
    scientist who studies self-medication in animals
    http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23315
    
    Captain Euro
    http://www.captaineuro.com/
    
    Commander Europe
    (halfway down the page)
    http://minorities.orf.at/austria/en/archiv02/010521_en.htm
    
    Chant to the OAS
    http://www.oas.org/children/chant.html
    
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