[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 10:23:20 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: Moke, Carnival
    
    
    war
    
    "What Kind of War Is This?"
    http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=153462
    
    What Israel Has Done by Edward Said
    http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/582/op2.htm
    
    The "Engineer"
    (one abusive individual claims this proves the refugees blew up their own camp)
    http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/582/6inv2.htm
    
    jargon watch: "European Union has reacted hysterically to the Arab rhetoric"
    http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-ratzlav-katz041502.asp
    
    The Last Negotiation
    http://www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/printable_fulltext.asp?i=20020501FAComment8054.xml&return=
    
    James Inhofe's Pro-Apocalypse Foreign Policy
    http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5489
    
    shifting Bush administration stories on Venezuela
    (and who paid the $100,000 bribes?)
    http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,688071,00.html
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/april0203.html#041802144am
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000028719apr22.story
    
    America Used Islamists to Arm the Bosnian Muslims
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/yugo/article/0,2763,688327,00.html
    
    "not a single piece of Army artillery has been tasked for any battle"
    http://stripesonline.com/article.asp?section=104&article=7453&archive=true
    
    Limits of DNA Research Pushed to Identify the Dead of September 11th
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/nyregion/22IDEN.html?pagewanted=all
    
    $7 Billion Estimate to Rebuild Transit Near Ground Zero
    (do it)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/20/nyregion/20REBU.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Privacy: The Continental Divide
    http://www.idg.net/ic_848526_4394_1-1681.html
    
    UK Government Backs Data Sharing
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24824.html
    
    Engineers Join Push For Automotive Black Boxes
    http://eet.com/printableArticle?doc_id=OEG20020419S0100
    
    dymaxion map of data surveillance
    (less exotic and more useful than it sounds)
    http://www.metamute.com/metamap.pdf
    
    Virginia GOP Braces For Fallout From Phone Tapping Scandal
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18041-2002Apr19.html
    
    Visionics Issues Statement on the Recently Passed Border Security Bill
    http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020419/192247_1.html
    
    Robot Cameras "Will Predict Crimes Before They Happen"
    (not a joke, or not intended as a joke anyway)
    http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=287307
    
    US Weighing New Doctrine for Tribunals
    (you can do anything if you call it a "doctrine")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/21/national/21TRIB.html
    
    Japanese War Crimes Disclosure Act: An Interim Report to Congress
    http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/iwgreport02.html
    
    The Big Picture Book of Viruses
    http://www.virology.net/Big_Virology/BVHomePage.html
    
    Scientists Weigh In With Deductions on Anthrax Killer
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000028483apr21.story
    
    White House Hasn't Sought Money to Guard Atomic Plants, Energy Official Says
    (I suppose guarding them might make people think they're dangerous)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/politics/22NUKE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Gee-Whiz Future of Aviation Is Arriving Now
    (good but I hope they do simulator training on the technologies' failure modes)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25764-2002Apr21.html
    
    German Railway Operator to Sue Google Over Sabotage Links
    http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/Printer_Friendly_Version/0,1212,NAV47_STO70203-,00.html
    
    Italian Leader Warns Critics on TV to Toe the Line
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/21/international/europe/21ITAL.html
    
    smirking geek announces that fair use rights are "too much of a burden"
    http://www.ojr.org/ojr/future/1019160490.php
    
    The Top 10 Abuses of Eminent Domain
    http://www.castlecoalition.org/top_10_abuses/top_10_report.pdf
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/dougbandow/db20020417.shtml
    
    University of Utah Professor to Quit If Campus Has Guns
    http://www.sltrib.com/04182002/utah/utah.htm
    
    
    politics
    
    European Group Proposes Huge Duties on US Goods
    (this is the consequence of Bush's attempt to split the labor vote)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/20/international/20WIRE-TRADE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Taiwan Slush-Fund Scandal May Push US Off East Asian Stage
    http://www.pacificnews.org/content/pns/2002/apr/0417scandal.html
    
    Heritage Foundation Seeks Payoff By Aiding Press With Data
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13169-2002Apr19.html
    
    jargon watch: systematically smearing Senators because they disagree with Bush
    (from charges of "obstructionism", it has quickly escalated to extreme slander)
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_04_14_archive.html#85021062
    
    jargon watch: casual smear against liberals as biased against Southern accents
    (one second of thought would have sufficed to come up with counterexamples)
    http://www.rollcall.com/pages/columns/rothenberg/
    
    
    everything else
    
    jargon watch: nauseating anti-open-source propaganda from Bill Gates
    (search for the paragraph starting "One thing that we get people discussing")
    http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2002/04-17glc.asp
    
    Network Institutional Theory
    http://www.ssc.ruc.dk/institutional/
    
    Institutional Theory Bibliography
    http://home.earthlink.net/~plschultz/academic_pages/files/biblio/institu_theory_biblio.html
    
    The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934
    http://www.moma.org/russian/
    
    Virtual Diasporas Project
    http://www.nautilus.org/virtual-diasporas/
    
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