[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 07:11:48 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
    
    
    attack
    
    Remains of 11 Firefighters Are Found at Trade Center
    ("the collapse compressed 30 floors into no more than 20 feet")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/13/nyregion/13BODI.html?pagewanted=print
    
    radio story about New York firefighters
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020311.atc.17.ram
    
    The World Trade Center: Before, During, and After
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15224
    
    more conspiracy theory about flight 77
    (fascinating in its own cracked way -- as if you could hide a whole airplane)
    http://www.humanunderground.com/11september/pent.html
    
    and there were lots of eyewitnesses
    http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=19882
    
    
    war
    
    Bin Laden's Men Wait to Take Bloody Revenge
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,664988,00.html
    
    Sheikh Gilani's American Disciples
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/996lxfmd.asp
    
    America as Sparta
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/071/oped/America_as_Sparta+.shtml
    
    To Keep a Population in Line, Wage Perpetual War Against a Vague Enemy
    http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/1913245.html
    
    National Review's Editor Suggests Nuking Mecca
    (it's the death of conscience)
    http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/03/lott-j-03-11.html
    
    Human Rights Not a Foreign Policy Concern
    (conscience is back in fashion, except when it's not)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/donfeder/printdf20020311.shtml
    
    The Killing of Mohammed Salah by Israeli Police on 8 March 2002
    (includes graphic images)
    http://electronicintifada.net/features/articles/020312beithanina.shtml
    
    During Gaza Raid, Some Civilians Slain Without Apparent Provocation
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17004-2002Mar12.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Terrorist Pilots' Student Visas Arrive
    ("the INS is the Mickey Mouse Club of federal agencies")
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16787-2002Mar12.html
    
    DC Favors Flat Fee For Traffic Cameras
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2201-2002Mar9.html
    
    Air Force Seeks Better Security From Microsoft
    http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/03/11/gilligan.htm
    
    ACLU: Police Illegally Monitor Protest Groups
    http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_1025504,00.html
    
    Paraguay's Archive of Terror
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1866000/1866517.stm
    
    more on "smart" ID cards in Hong Kong
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/03/11/hong.kong.smart.ids.ap/
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    How a Subversive Legal Theory Can Make a Good Copyright Case Go Bad
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ2PF9GQYC
    
    Record Companies: Save Us From Ourselves!
    (the music industry is so dysfunctional it's incredible)
    http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/03/13/indie_promotion/print.html
    
    outline of the fight between the copyright interests and the geeks
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/13/copy_protection/print.html
    
    Cease and Desist Letter Concerning http://www.bnetd.org/
    http://www.eff.org/Censorship/SLAPP/Cease-and-desist_abuse/Blizzard_v_bnetd/20020312_eff_blizzard_letter.html
    http://www.bnetd.org/eff_press_release.php
    
    Global Internet Body Set for Showdown
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/03/12/icann.reut/
    
    
    politics
    
    In Appointments, Administration Leaves No Family Behind
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10476-2002Mar11?language=printer
    
    media conservatives claiming that conservatives are excluded from the media
    (and media willing to print claims that make no sense)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h031202_1.shtml
    
    this is the only mention of jargon I can recall seeing in the mainstream media
    (it's annoying, cliched, and not very analytical, but it's something)
    http://images.ucomics.com/comics/nq/2002/nq020310.gif
    
    Andersen Staff Thought Shredding Met Policy
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/723343.asp
    
    Enron IT: A Tale of Excess and Chaos
    http://www.cio.com/executive/edit/030502_enron.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    program that tries to prevent spammers from scanning Web sites
    http://www.robotcop.org/
    http://slashdot.org/apache/02/03/11/2228242.shtml?tid=148
    
    An Anthropologist Studies Universities' Approaches to Distance Education
    http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031201u.htm
        
    Research Group to Release Standards for Free Course-Management Software
    http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031101u.htm
    
    Community Knowledge Sharing in Practice
    (read this)
    http://www.viu.unive.it/courses/ictfall2001/documentation/eureka_storyfinal.pdf
    
    IT in the construction industry, Salford, UK, 19-21 November 2002
    (construction is interesting because it's very hard to automate and routinize)
    http://esmart.salford.ac.uk/eSMART.htm
    
    The Labour History of the Information Revolution
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=129879
    
    High Tech: The Next Steel?
    http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2002/nf20020311_2874.htm
    
    Tech Museum of Innovation Awards
    http://www.thetech.org/techawards/
    
    Cool Robot of the Week
    http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/coolrobots.html
    
    Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/2002/0402issue/0402feiner.html
    
    21st-Century Plumbing for New York City's Leaky Old Water Tunnel
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/12/science/12AQUE.html?pagewanted=all
    
    Tiny Technologies Slip Unseen Into Daily Life
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/technology/11NANO.html?pagewanted=print
    
    article about Stephen Jay Gould's magnum opus
    http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i27/27a01401.htm
    
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