[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 19:07:50 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: Orlando Cachaito Lopez
    
    
    war
    
    UN Aid Reaches Jenin, Where Relief Workers Report Widespread Devastation
    http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=3401&Cr=unrwa&Cr1=
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=286197
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=271739
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000027205apr16.story
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000027203apr16.story
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/opinion/13GORD.html
    
    West Bank Commuter Odyssey
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1899000/1899387.stm
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1913000/1913607.stm
    
    more fallout from the failed coup in Venezuela
    (including some items whose credibility I can't evaluate)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/16/opinion/16KRUG.html
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000027187apr16.story
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/17/international/americas/17DIPL.html
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,685531,00.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62680-2002Apr16.html
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-041702usvenez.story
    http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/3077666.htm
    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0417-01.htm
    http://www.intelbriefing.com/afi/afi020413a.htm
    http://www.spiescafe.com/wm/wmuscoups.htm
    http://www.narconews.com/rangel1.html
    
    US Cooking Up a Coup in Venezeula? (December 2001)
    http://www.examiner.com/opinion/default.jsp?story=OPhallinan1228w
    
    William Bennett Chases His Tail
    ("moral clarity" for him is an unclear way of saying "I'm right, you're wrong")
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064359&device=
    
    US Considers Renewing Military Ties to Indonesia
    (no no no -- the Indonesian Army's record of terrorism is world-class)
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/12/news1.shtml
    
    prospective coup at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,685123,00.html
    
    Dutch Cabinet Quits Over Srebrenica Massacre
    (it's hard to imagine governments in many other countries doing the same)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/739331.asp
    
    A Texas Tale Exposes Drug War Abuses
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000027122apr16.story
    
    Rich Firms, Poor Ideas on Towers Site
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/18/arts/design/18NOTE.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Proposal Sets National Rules For State IDs
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62695-2002Apr16.html
    
    Police Use Cameras to Protect Cameras
    http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_567932.html
    
    eBay Toughens Up on Discussion Boards
    http://news.com.com/2100-1017-885574.html
    
    
    politics
    
    Stunning Depths of Government Collaboration With Enron Revealed
    http://www.seen.org/pages/press_releases/enronrelease0302.shtml
    
    "Enron has been behaving abominably around the world for nearly a decade"
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/outlook/1364196
    
    How Microsoft Conquered Washington
    ("money of course, but lots of creative lobbying you don't know about")
    http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207250
    
    America's Dangerous Economic Mythologies
    (e.g., that Social Security is endangered)
    http://www.milkeninstitute.org/review/2002qtr1/pdf/2002qtr1.pdf
    
    Professor: Florida Legislature May Not Have Solved State's Election Problems
    http://www.napa.ufl.edu/2002news/electionreformtip.htm
    
    White House Learns the Hard Way That Oprah Winfrey Is Nobody's Fool
    (they constantly spread nasty stories about their opponents, e.g., Krugman)
    http://www.courier-journal.com/cjextra/columns/baye/baye.html
    
    more budget trickery
    http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020218&s=chait021802
    http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/franknernest/archive/franknernest-20020416.html
    
    jargon watch: check the quote starting "I'm very proud of my service ..."
    (standard technique for defocusing the issue and reaching for abstract symbols)
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1366641
    
    jargon watch: flash -- conservatives not nasty enough
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/printps20020417.shtml
    
    jargon watch: Rush Limbaugh mocks the death of an environmental protester
    (I'm not sure it's even possible to be nastier than this)
    http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041502/content/stack_d.guest.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    Wireless Data Blaster
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/2002/0502issue/0502leeper.html
    
    Microsoft Anti-GPL Fine Print Threatens Competition
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24885.html
    
    escalating war between Google and the link bombers
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-883558.html
    
    "player-created additions to computer games"
    http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/16/modding/print.html
    
    New York's Natural History Museum Pioneers Use of Internet 2
    http://chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002041701t.htm
    
    the presentation for Glenn Murcutt's Pritzker prize
    http://209.15.130.81/pritzker/index.htm
    
    Industrial Instrumentalization of Theories of Practice
    http://weber.ucsd.edu/~gbowker/ethnography/instrumentalizing.pdf
    
    Social Studies of Science, Milwaukee, 7-10 November 2002
    http://www.lsu.edu/ssss/
    
    Some Companies Profit When Workers Die Using Secret Life Insurance Policies
    http://199.97.97.16/contWriter/yhd7/2002/04/16/medic/7406-0019-pat_nytimes.html
    
    Ants Create United Europe
    http://www.nature.com/nsu/020415/020415-1.html
    http://www.antcolony.org/
    http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/ants/argentine/
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000027218apr16.story
    
    Argentine Ants in California Linked to Decline in Coastal Horned Lizards
    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-02/uoc--poa022602.php
    
    Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
    (manically researched, wildly entertaining, and now very cheap)
    http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/itemdetail.asp?iid=026133
    
    The Arctic Meltdown: Quick Thaw Alarms Natives and Scientists
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=134436644&zsection_id=268448413&slug=arctic15&date=20020415
    
    Huge Hydrogen Stores Found Below Earth's Crust
    http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/story.asp?id=%7B1F54AEED-A34B-411B-B95F-972AB119DD85%7D
    
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