[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 22:17:28 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
    
    Pick Hit: Neil Halstead, Sleeping on Roads
    
    
    war
    
    Special Forces and Smart Bombs Turned Tide and Routed Taliban
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54162-2002Apr2.html
    
    anti-war protesters living in their own heads
    (they seem to have no idea how to communicate with a majority of Americans)
    http://www.a20stopthewar.org/
    
    Ramallah: How to Get Food While Getting Shot At
    http://www.ccmep.org/hotnews2/eyewitness040202.html
    http://electronicintifada.net/diaries/
    http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=13988
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58175-2002Apr3.html
    
    background to the war in Palestine
    http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20011224&s=friedman
    
    analogy between Sharon's policy now and in Lebanon in 1982
    http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT38UTT3KZC&live=true
    
    "anti-Semitic conspiracy theories fill the pages of Egypt's press"
    (requires subscription)
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/04/04/arab_news/print.html
    
    vast collection of footnotes for a new volume of Noam Chomsky's political talks
    (even without the book the footnotes are interesting)
    http://www.understandingpower.com/
    
    more eyewitness reports of the plane striking the Pentagon
    (contradicting conspiracy theories that it didn't)
    http://criticalthrash.com/terror/identification.html
    
    A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals
    (I'm afraid they say more about the state of architecture than about the WTC)
    http://www.architecturalrecord.com/wtc/newWTC.asp
    
    Six Months After Prosecutor's Slaying, Silence Reigns
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/national/03SLAY.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    secretive government: the big picture
    (and what "republican" used to mean)
    http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-03-22/cols_ventura.html
    
    Judge Rejects Rule Closing Immigration Hearings
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58187-2002Apr3.html
    
    Financial Companies Discuss How to Use Consumer Databases to Profile Terrorists
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2989812.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    Eighteen Tales of Media Censorship
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12753
    
    Antonin Scalia repeals the Sixth Amendment's counsel clause
    (he constantly rewrites the Constitution while pretending to protect it)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54345-2002Apr2.html
    
    interview with Israel's state prosecutor
    http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=146409&sw=illegal+combatants
    
    Video Arrays for Real-Time Tracking of Persons in an Intelligent Room
    http://cvrr.ucsd.edu/publications/pdfs/MVA2001.pdf
    
    Kazaa Plans Raise Privacy Alarm
    http://news.com.com/2009-1023-875036.html
    
    how architects are thinking about pervasive computing
    http://www.archrecord.com/DIGITAL/features/feature0302/feature0302.asp
    
    investigative report on red-light cameras
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/078ftoqz.asp
    
    Yahoo! Rips! Up! Privacy! Policy!
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24683.html
    
    "in every area of security the FBI's system was absolutely dysfunctional"
    (does anyone have a URL for this report?)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000023889apr03.story
    
    New Technology Ties Guns to Crime
    http://www.detnews.com/2002/oakland/0203/30/d04-449558.htm
    
    Hackers, Hot Rods, and the Information Drag Strip
    http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/oct01/speak.html
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Personal Libraries
    http://www.sdsc.edu/TR/TR-2001-09.doc.pdf
    
    "more than 100 alternatives to Napster"
    http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/printer/17054/
    
    Intel's trademark lawyers are suing a group of volunteer yoga teachers
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/24649.html
    
    more on Office for Linux
    http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/4126/1/
    http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/the_real_dirt.php
    http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/27/0444257&tid=15
    http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT6509081484.html
    http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/
    
    
    everything else
    
    Digital Art Source
    http://www.digitalartsource.com/
    
    European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, 24-28 April 2002
    http://www.emaf.de/
    
    The TeraGrid: Cyberinfrastructure for 21st Century Science and Engineering
    (the grant proposal for a project that I've sent out other URL's for already)
    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/Access/Releases/01Releases/PublicTeraGrid.pdf
    
    Microsoft Anti-Unix Web Site Goes Off-Line After Switch to Windows 2000
    http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/Printer_Friendly_Version/0,1212,NAV47_STO69778-,00.html
    
    special report on wireless LAN's
    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/wireless.htm
    
    a perfect example of the destructive false professionalism of opinion editors
    (constantly spreading lies and illogic makes the WSJ "lively and vital")
    http://www.cjr.org/year/02/2/klurfeld.asp
    
    nasty, dismissive comments by Bush people about Republican governors
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/politics/04WELF.html
    
    Enron: Uncovering the Uncovered Story
    http://www.cjr.org/year/02/2/sherman.asp
    
    Mysterious Black Water in Florida Bay
    (satellite photograph)
    http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020402.html
    
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