[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 17:23:26 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
    
    I've tried to weed out the April Fool's jokes, but the world is weird
    enough that it's hard to be sure.  There are literally a half-dozen
    articles in here that I thought were April Fool's jokes at one point
    or another.  If any of them really are, do let me know.
    
    
    war
    
    US Report on Trade Center Echoes Lessons of Past Disasters
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/02/nyregion/02TOWE.html
    
    For Many Children, September 11th Fears Are Still Simmering
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/066/at_home/For_many_9_11_fears_are_still_simmeringP.shtml
    
    Who Terrorizes Whom?
    http://www.transnational.org/features/2002/Herman_Peterson_Terrorizes.html
    
    interview of Jeffrey Goldberg on Saddam Hussein's chemical attacks on the Kurds
    http://freshair.npr.org/dayFA.cfm?display=day&todayDate=03%2F27%2F2002
    
    worrisome doubletalk on nuclear weapons
    (they think they can twist some words and nobody will notice)
    http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5365
    
    Laser Surgery Battle-Worthy in Army's Eyes
    (very weird)
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44398-2002Mar31.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Judge Orders End to Secret Detentions in New Jersey Jails
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZMBE2WIZC
    
    Boise to Be Test Target for Marine Snoops
    http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=30032002-024315-8298r
    
    A Patriot's Guide to Debating the War on Terror
    http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2002/04/01/tomo/
    
    Most Far-Reaching Gag Order in First Amendment History?
    http://209.11.43.220/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1454789
    http://www.kypost.com/2002/apr/01/book040102.html
    
    Don't Always Trust What They Tell You in the War on Terror
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=280281
    
    High-Tech Firms Vie to Fight Terrorism
    (scroll down to get the useful content)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41390-2002Mar30.html
    
    Israel: Opportunistic "Illegal Combatants" Law Condemned
    http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/03/israel0307.htm
    
    Third Former Militiaman With Links to Sabra and Chatila Is Murdered
    http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=273152
    
    threats of criminal penalties against those aiding escaped asylum seekers
    http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/04/01/1017206179882.html
    
    A Nuremberg Prosecutor's Response to Henry Kissinger
    http://www.benferencz.org/kislet.htm
    
    Kissinger Watch
    http://www.icai-online.org/kissingerwatch/
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    USACM letter on CBDTPA
    (get used to that dumb abbreviation)
    http://www.acm.org/usacm/Legislation/Holllings_S2048.htm
    
    In Mexico, Pirated Music Outsells the Legal Kind
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/01/business/worldbusiness/01MEXI.html
    
    alternative databases for looking up information about CD's
    http://www.freedb.org/
    
    Stealth P2P Network Hides Inside Kazaa
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-873181.html
    
    Codeweavers Runs Office Without Windows
    (I have no idea how real this is)
    http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/03/29/020329hncodeweavers.xml
    
    Free Code, Free Labor
    http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/020220-ee380-100.asx
    
    open-source crypto
    http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/27/gnupg/print.html
    
    
    politics
    
    now we learn how dishonest the rhetoric of the 1990's really was
    http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_1058202,00.html
    
    there's nothing wrong with Social Security
    (and there never has been)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/02/opinion/02KRUG.html
    
    jargon watch: a memoir of dittohead hate mail
    (study especially the Limbaugh representative's comment)
    http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/04/mooney-c-04-01.html
    
    Yucca Mountain Bought and Sold
    http://www.citizen.org/documents/yuccamtbands.PDF
    
    Enron: What Dick Cheney Knew
    http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20020415&s=nichols
    
    How Will Arthur Andersen, DOJ Prepare Criminal Case in Six Weeks?
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ6TGTZIZC
    
    Kentucky politics at its best
    http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/record/02rs/HR256/bill.doc
    
    
    everything else
    
    Australian Broadcasters Fear Monolithic Telstra
    http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/24/1016843089153.html
    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,3995777%255E16943,00.html
    http://203.6.251.7/accc.internet/digest/view_media.cfm?RecordID=625
    http://www.telstra.com.au/newsroom/release.cfm?ReleaseID=19161
    
    The Dominoes Keep Falling in Telecom
    http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/04/02/0402metromedia.html
    
    Telecom's Fiber Pipe Dream
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000023360apr01.story
    
    AOL Time Warner Merger Adds Up to Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43992-2002Mar31.html
    
    E-Mail Is Evolving Into Fee-Mail
    http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/04/01/fee-mail.htm
    http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/04/01/free-email.htm
    
    Get Ready for Advertisers to Take Over Your Web Browser
    http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/UNMAPPED/2980593.htm
    
    Open Relays vs. Open Proxies
    (the underlying problem with the flood of spam from Korea)
    http://news.spamcop.net/pipermail/spamcop-digest/2002-April/000012.html
    
    embedding anti-theft chips into shaving razors
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/089/business/Razor_burnP.shtml
    
    Learning Sciences, Seattle, 23-26 October 2002
    http://depts.washington.edu/cogstudy/ICLS/
    
    Wal-Mart Watch
    http://www.walmartwatch.com/
    
    controversy in political science
    (does anyone have a URL for the original "Mr. Perestroika" manifesto?)
    http://www.apsanet.org/new/planning/steinmo.cfm
    http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i04/04a01601.htm
    http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/isafp/2000/msg00150.html
    http://www.eiu.edu/~polisci/peres1.htm
    http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/Perestroika.htm
    http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5296
    http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/04/technology/04TANK.html
    http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i30/30b01001.htm
    
    new search engine
    http://www.teoma.com/
    
    if it splits from LA, San Fernando Valley won't be called Hellish Pit O'Despair
    (someone please get them a decent name)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000023556apr02.story
    
    an absurd amount of work went into this
    telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl/
    
    I have no idea why this is so funny
    http://www.g-news.ch/articles/nhp200nc/
    
    Mysterious "Blob" Off Florida Coast Baffles Scientists
    (Florida!)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44231-2002Mar31.html
    http://www.naplesnews.com/sections/specials/blackwater/front.html
    
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