[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 10:59:06 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 Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms
    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-030902bombs.story
    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-arkinmar10.story
    
    US Expands Its Presence Across the Globe
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,663947,00.html
    
    "Bush may pursue Al Qaeda even in countries that do not ask for a US presence"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/international/10PREX.html
    
    planning a war against Iraq
    http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020311fa_FACT
    
    US Military in Georgia Will Increase Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Security
    http://huknews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc_id=NR20020308670.2_e94e0005c4fa1ba6
    
    The Big Guys Work For the Carlyle Group                 
    http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=206684
    
    long article on the supposed "revolution in military affairs"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/magazine/10MILITARY.html?pagewanted=all
    
    DNA-matching of World Trade Center victims
    http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2002-03-06/smith.html/1/index.html
    
    "children attempted to build a barricade from stones and a burning tire"
    ("an Israeli jeep burst easily through the rubble")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/09/international/middleeast/09MIDE.html?pagewanted=all
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/international/middleeast/10MIDE.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/03/medics030902.htm
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Arafats-Office.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/opinion/10FRIE.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2228-2002Mar9.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Civil Liberties Take Back Seat to Safety
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000017740mar10.story
    
    conservative comment on the surveillance state we're building
    http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/fri/opinion/news_1e8twight.html
    
    compendium of state open records laws
    (obtaining government records should be a graduation requirement)
    http://www.reporterscommittee.org/tapping2001/index.cgi
    
    Netscape Navigator Browser Snoops on Web Searches
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175035.html
    
    antennas for hacking 802.11b
    http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448
    http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html
    
    UK Big Brother Awards
    http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/uk2002/
    
    legal conflict over governments setting up religious monuments
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20020305.html
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    news from the file-sharing universe
    http://www.slyck.com/
    
    more on the mandatory copy-protection bill
    http://www.eff.org/effector/HTML/effect15.07.html#I
    
    Disney, the Copyright Term Extension Act, and Eldred v. Ashcroft
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_sprigman.html
    
    Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment
    http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub104abst.html
    
    
    scandal
    
    Enron, Fed Meetings Stir Investigation
    http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/2817262.htm
    
    Lawyers Work on Enron Disclosure Rules
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZJ5VI5JYC
    
    The Enronization of Social Security
    http://www.aflcio.org/enron/spotlight_ss.htm
    
    
    politics
    
    review of a book about the conflict between Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/books/review/10ELLIST.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Jerry Falwell Calls for "Conservative Revolution"
    http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2002/03/030802_Falwell_Letter.html
    
    more on the case against Charles Pickering
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=crowley030502
    
    jargon watch: study the paragraph beginning "what this is about"
    (and marvel at an artistic spinner clucking at the spinning of politicians)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=105001740
    
    jargon watch: dissolve an issue into fragments to exaggerate its effects
    (a common pattern is pretending that regulating X means banning it)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2207-2002Mar9.html
    
    a rant about the symptomatic Norah Vincent and some of her friends
    (have you seen Tammy Bruce's book? "bad logic" doesn't begin to describe it)
    http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/16/cover-lewis.shtml
    
    it's astounding how weak the evidence for "liberal bias" is
    (its purpose is to enmesh its victims in an endless cycle of bogus uproars)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h030802_1.shtml
    
    
    everything else
    
    The Next Wave of Nomadic Computing
    http://www.weatherhead.cwru.edu/sprouts/2001/010301.pdf
    
    survey of basic concepts for studying transnational social formations
    http://opr.princeton.edu/papers/cmd0106n.pdf
    
    Information Technologies in International Finance and the Role of Cities
    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb74.html
    
    World City Actor-Networks
    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb71.html
    
    Globalization, Innovation and Human Resources, Bangkok, 17-19 December 2002
    http://www.som.ait.ac.th/cere/conference/SOMCall_for_Papers_comp.doc
    
    Documenting the American South
    http://docsouth.unc.edu/
    
    Bill Jones' Web Site Yanked After Flood of E-Mail
    (California sec'y of state, he lost big in the Republican primary for governor)
    http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/1738515p-1818349c.html
    
    "Microsoft has the same disdain for law that Enron did"
    http://www.sumeria.net/politics/enronms.html
    
    World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets
    http://www.worldbank.org/wdr/2001/fulltext/fulltext2002.htm
    
    detailed guides to Scientology's new buildings in Clearwater, Florida
    http://clearwater-scientology.theflaglandbase.org/
    http://scientology.fso.org/
    
    Chat on Design for Interactive Communities and Technologies, March 13th
    http://techport.umbc.edu/chat/
    
    jargon watch: deceptive title and lead that plays up a stereotype
    (if you read closely, you see that feng shui was actually a minor issue)
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/03/07/building-feng.htm
    
    meanwhile, Orange County has opened a feng shui branch in suburban Beijing
    (they no doubt heard about Orange County from the huge Chinese community there)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000017503mar09.story
    
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