[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 09:24:17 PDT

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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: Charles Webster, Born on the 24th of July
    
    
    war
    
    "Sharon is obliterating the Palestinian Authority"
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/735254.asp
    
    an Israeli's war diary
    http://talg.blogspot.com/
    
    Palestine Chronicle
    http://palestinechronicle.com/
    
    The Danger in Lebanon
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23409-2002Apr10.html
    
    Israel and Occupied Territories: Joint Statement of Amnesty et al
    http://www.amnesty-usa.org/news/2002/israel04072002.html
    
    Amnesty Calls for Suspension of Weapons Transfers to Israel and Bombers
    http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/2002/israel04092002.html
    
    Israel Runs Risks With Assault on Its "Deputy Sheriff"
    http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=357092002
    
    jargon watch: "why the Europeans and Arabs hate America and Israel"
    (it's a formula: pick a symbol, X, and construct the strategy "they hate X")
    http://theweeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=1102&R=4FB822EC7
    
    Why Isn't Burma on Bush's "Axis of Evil" List?
    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0204.kurlantzick.html
    
    Improved US Accuracy Claimed in Afghan Air War
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/09/international/asia/09MISS.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    FOI Advocate
    http://foi.missouri.edu/newsletter/
    
    Security Concerns Allegedly Force House to Limit Access to Documents
    http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2002/03/news0325a.html
    
    Action to Safeguard Information Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
    http://www.fas.org/sgp/bush/wh031902.html
    
    Court Overturns Book Store Order
    http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/4-8-2002/200204081018283105.html
    http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=co&vol=2002sc%5c560&invol=1
    
    Justice Department Refusing to Comply With Judge's Orders to Release Records
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16958-2002Apr8.html
    
    ID Cards for "Trusted Travelers" Run Into Some Thorny Questions
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/09/technology/09PASS.html
    
    Australian Terrorism Bill "Worst Legislation Ever Seen"
    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/09/1017206318512.html
    
    Somali Grocers Lose Right to Use Food Stamps
    (extremely Ashcroftian)
    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/65785_usda09.shtml
    
    
    politics
    
    Widening the Enron Net
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZA6MA3TZC
    
    Army Secretary White -- It Gets Worse
    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020422&s=borosage
    
    New Democratic Idea: Freeze Tax Cuts Just For Richest 2 Percent
    (they can't do it because they don't have five dozen pundits howling for it)
    http://www.rollcall.com/pages/columns/kondracke/
    
    jargon watch: lifetime achievement award for distortion of the English language
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=105001896
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/april0202.html#040802910pm
    
    
    everything else
    
    Google's beta News Search feature
    http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/04/08/020408opwinman.xml
    
    Columbia Newsblaster
    http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/
    
    The World's First Higher Education Simulation and Learning Tool
    (there's a whole world of organizational simulation)
    http://www.virtual-u.org/
    
    Sun is talking about moving to a peer-to-peer model
    (they talk good)
    http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1020705
    
    New Breed Spam Filter Slashes Junk E-Mail
    (does anyone have URL's with details of this?)
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992141
    
    Web Surfers Brace For Pop-Up Downloads
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-877568.html
    
    Windows Messenger "Trojan Update"
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24668.html
    
    Anti-Trustworthy Computing
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/09/trustworthy/print.html
    
    Improvising an Alternative Music Scene
    http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/20/music-duff.shtml
    
    Second-Level Digital Divide: Differences in People's Online Skills
    http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_4/hargittai/
    
    "independent forum for IT and development issues"
    http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/solaris
    
    jargon watch: knocking down a series of vaguely phrased straw men
    (this is a massive genre of public-relations writing, called "myths and facts")
    http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2001/easterly.html
    
    bill in Washington St. to make politicians take the high school graduation exam
    (now that's accountability)
    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/65657_wasl08.asp
    
    Ivan Illich: Writing on the Web
    http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich.html
    
    attempts to evaluate the "broken windows" theory of policing
    http://www-polisci.mit.edu/BR27.2/harcourt.html
    
    Restating the '90s
    http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_13/b3776001.htm
    
    Nuclear Plant Operators Missed Warning Signs
    http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-08-06.html
    
    Blackwater Event Current Status Information
    http://www.floridamarine.org/features/view_article.asp?id=15348
    
    forget the political thugs: this is what Jesus was talking about
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22621-2002Apr9.html
    
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