[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 22:25:57 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
    
    A Critical Appraisal of Operation Enduring Freedom and the Afghanistan War
    http://www.comw.org/pda/0201strangevic.html
    
    A Selection of Daniel Pearl's Work
    http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/pearlstories022202.htm
    
    US Begins Anti-Terror Assistance in Georgia
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7806-2002Feb26.html
    
    Retired Generals Call for Sharon to Rethink Strategy
    (does anyone have documents from this campaign?)
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4358861,00.html
    
    Alternatives to Illicit Crops in Colombia Have Made Little Progress
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gao/clmbiadrgprb0202.pdf
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    further attacks on independent media by Italian police
    (you'll recall that the place literally ran with blood after the last attacks)
    http://italy.indymedia.org/underattack/
    
    Mugabe Ready to Flee Zimbabwe
    (most likely this is just the Times discrediting itself again)
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-218319,00.html
    
    White House Angered at Plan for Pentagon Disinformation
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61716-2002Feb24.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/26/international/26OFFI.html
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/711387.asp
    
    A False News Story About False News Stories?
    (their history of falsehood is vast, but I'm not sure the NYT story was right)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=100001704
    
    more on the very symptomatic rehabilitation of John Poindexter
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062542&device=
    http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/020304fa_FACT
    
    The File Room Censorship Archive
    http://www.thefileroom.org/FileRoom/documents/return.html
    
    The Disappeared
    http://commondreams.org/views02/0226-08.htm
    
    Jerry Falwell's comments on Islam
    http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/25/cf.00.html
    
    conservative denunciation of Pat Robertson
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=105001693
    
    New Front on Ecoterror?
    (vandalism is bad, but inflating the word "terrorism" is extremely dangerous)
    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/ecoterror_support020226.html
    
    London Mayor Approves London Congestion Charges
    ("a toll area policed by 230 video cameras")
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/livingstone/article/0,2763,658421,00.html
    
    In the Name of Safety: Video Surveillance
    http://www.justicetalking.org/shows/show198.asp
    
    Colleges Fear Anti-Terrorism Law Could Turn Them Into Big Brother
    http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i25/25a03101.htm
    
    The Murky Debate Over an Internet Address Database
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/technology/ebusiness/25NECO.html
    
    more on criticism of fingerprint matching
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000014695feb26.story
    
    US Agency's Computers Didn't Protect Indian Fund
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/26/technology/26INDI.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Microsoft buffer overflows become even more trustworthy
    http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/print/0,,10_980561,00.html
    
    
    scandal
    
    How the "Felon" Voter-Purge Was Itself Felonious
    http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=122&row=1
    
    GAO v. Cheney
    http://www.gao.gov/press/gaostatement0222.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gao/wlkrchny022202cmp.pdf
    
    Lay Told Workers of His Support for Bush
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/special/enron/1271289
    
    The Miracle of the Warm Pizza Crust
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2191-2002Feb25.html
    
    Army Secretary White Must Go
    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020311&s=borosage
    
    At Enron, Lavish Excess Often Came Before Success
    ("it was important for employees to believe the hype")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/26/business/26EXCE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Investigator Fears "Dozens of Enrons"
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1836000/1836473.stm
    
    Berlusconi Comes Under Fire as Crowds Remember "Clean Hands" Bribe Inquiry
    http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=139499
    
    Ashcroft Sings!
    http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    proposed changes at ICANN
    http://www.icann.org/general/lynn-reform-proposal-24feb02.htm
    
    extensive comment on them
    http://www.icannwatch.org/
    
    Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
    http://www.chillingeffects.org/
    
    Analysis of BNETD v. Blizzard
    (Blizzard using the DMCA to squash a Battle.net emulator)
    http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=149
    
    listen to the film industry slip into the same tank as the music industry
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62085-2002Feb24?language=printer
    
    Understanding the Digital Home Video Controversy on Copy Protection
    http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_9_1/feature-article-digital-home-video-2-2002.html
    
    Broadcasters Outraged Over Proposed Reporting Rules
    http://www.radiohorizon.com/index.php3?fcn=displayarticle&id=2424
    
    Think Your DJ Is Local? Think Again
    (radio is a machine)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/715538.asp
    
    Pop Music's New Creed: Buy a TV Commercial
    (bands didn't sell out -- radio sold out)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7730-2002Feb26.html
    
    directory of photographic archives
    http://www.photographiclibraries.com/
    
    
    technology
    
    Wireless Future
    http://www.wirelessfuturemagazine.com/
    
    Xerox PARC is now an independent company
    http://www.parc.xerox.com/parc-go.html
    
    electronic guidebook project at PARC
    http://www.parc.xerox.com/csl/projects/guidebooks/publications.html
    
    Functionality Needed in Middleware for Future Mobile Computing Platforms
    http://www.cs.arizona.edu/mmc/02%20Raatikainen.pdf
    
    At Home with Ubiquitous Computing: Seven Challenges
    http://www.cs.utah.edu/~sgoyal/pervasive/22010256.pdf
    
    Ubiquitous Agents, Bolgna, July 2002
    http://www.autonomousagents.org/ubiquitousagents/
    
    
    politics
    
    read the fourth paragraph of Bush's speech to the Japanese Diet
    (I suppose he meant to say "half a century")
    http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/02021803.htm
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1825000/video/_1828526_presser01_bush_vi.ram
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/02/25/BU152031.DTL
    
    yet somehow it's not included in this list of stumbles from the trip
    (which ignores the big picture: the consequences of his extremist rhetoric)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/national/25LETT.html
    
    a conservative discussion of "victims" that is not completely abhorrent
    (but don't use patriotism and national identity as a way to ignore oppression)
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/947jouzy.asp
    
    
    everything else
    
    ratings for search engines
    (I have no idea how valid these numbers are)
    http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0226-traffic.html
    
    article on the politics of the HR 1542 broadband bill
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7677-2002Feb26.html
    
    DoubleClick Offers Improved Way to Target Email Ads
    (well now)
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020225/tc_nm/doubleclick_dc_1&printer=1
    
    Fight Spam in Australia
    http://www.caube.org.au/
    
    Online Students Don't Fare as Well as Classroom Counterparts, Study Finds
    (these studies are very hard to do well)
    http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002022501u.htm
    
    long hilarious discussion of "New York City Food Myths"
    http://www.chowhound.com/boards/outer/messages/12390.html
    
    International Federation of Competitive Eating
    http://www.ifoce.com/
    
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