[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 05:24:29 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
    
    
    war
    
    Details of September 11th Plot Elude US Investigators
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000030673apr30.story
    
    Report Assesses Trade Center's Collapse
    (does anyone have a URL for this report?)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11614-2002Apr30?language=printer
    http://www.pbs.org/nova/wtc/
    
    interview with Cesar Pelli
    http://www.salon.com/people/conv/2002/05/01/pelli/print.html
    
    alleged Saudi role in funding terrorism
    http://democrats.com/display.cfm?id=272
    
    Saudis Hire GOP Spin Docs
    http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/46866.htm
    http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/archive/2002_04_28_bloggera.html#76000990
    
    Iraqi Link to September 11th Dissolves
    http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/3170624.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11966-2002Apr30?language=printer
    
    Noam Chomsky: US-Israel-Palestine
    http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=20020430040854309
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12956
    
    radio interview with an Israeli refusenik
    http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2002/0426_soldier.asp
    
    US, European Press Stand Divided Over Israel, Palestinians
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/121/living/US_European_press_stand_divided_over_Israel_PalestiniansP.shtml
    
    Hamas Continues Raising Funds Via Internet in the USA
    (including a list of alleged terrorist fund-raising sites)
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/print.php3?what=news&id=22567
    
    Iran on the Brink
    (though he doesn't explain why he lumps Khatami with the mullahs)
    http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen042902.asp
    
    The US Hit List at the United Nations
    http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/commentary/2002/0204un.html
    
    Rumsfeld's Rules
    http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2001/rumsfeldsrules.pdf
    
    The FBI's Anthrax Investigation Turns on Itself
    http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/9/rozen-l.html
    
    Venezuelan Coup Plotters Fly to US Asylum Via Bolivia
    (the big news is that the US gov't was isolated in its attack on democracy)
    http://news.findlaw.com/international/s/20020429/venezuelaboliviadc.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    grand jury witness may not be unlawfully detained as a material witness
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usawdllh42902opn1.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usawdllh42902opn2.pdf
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZTCT5EO0D
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/04/30/perjury.dismissal/
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11562-2002Apr30.html
    
    more on national ID politics
    http://news.com.com/2102-1017-896649.html
    http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-drivers-licenses0501may01.story
    http://www.newsbytes.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=newsbytes&story.id=176235
    http://www.newsbytes.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=newsbytes&story.id=176252
    
    INS Information Sharing for Homeland Security
    http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/congress/testimonies/2002/hastings.pdf
    
    Hackers Continue "Early Warning" Attacks on US Web Sites
    http://www.newsbytes.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=newsbytes&story.id=176256
    
    Best Buy Closes Easily Hacked Wireless Cash Registers
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/746380.asp
    
    Anthrax Probe Teaches USPS Its Machines Can Track Mail
    http://www.linns.com/print/archives/20011224/news4.asp
    
    National Preparedness: Technologies to Secure Federal Buildings
    http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02687t.pdf
    
    reporters ejected from a synagogue service where Ari Fleischer was speaking
    http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/3151590.htm
    
    
    politics
    
    pathologies of computer-driven redistricting in the US
    http://www.economist.com/world/na/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1099030
    
    Bush's War on Honest Economics
    (his followers laugh about it among themselves; they're all in on the game)
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020506&s=scheiber050602
    
    Bush's War on Honest Science
    (they use the word "science" in the same special way as corporate PR people)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18131-2002May1?language=printer
    
    Support Katherine Harris, House Speaker Says
    http://www.thespleen.com/politics/xspleennation/index.php?artID=604
    
    jargon watch: "equates capital formation with production of tobacco products"
    (another example of a fundamental PR technique for breaking an association)
    http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?print=1&guid={204D443C-57F3-462A-988A-9CEDFBB3C282}&siteid=mktw
    
    jargon watch: we need to cut down the forests in order to save them
    (they associate forests with disease and death)
    http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-forest-service0501may01.story
    
    jargon watch: it's time to associate the word "lie" with David Brock
    (and as with Al Gore, it can be easily done whether it's true or not)
    http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2002/mrcbrock.html
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064849
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Emerging Legal Guidance on "Deep Linking"
    http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2000-all/kubiszyn-2000-05b-all.html
    
    Stallman Takes Gates to Task Over GPL
    http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1104-896171.html
    
    Don't Let the Government Kill Internet Radio!
    (from one of the few decent radio stations left on the planet)
    http://www.kcrw.com/about/frame_internetradio.html
    
    Comments on ICANN Reform and Evolution
    http://www.cptech.org/ecom/icann/reform-comments.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    Geographies of the New Economy, Leicester, England, 29 May 2002
    http://www.ges.bham.ac.uk/research/human/neweconomy/seminar2.htm
    
    Fiber-Optic Overdose Racks Up Casualties
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18217-2002May1?language=printer
    
    Rats Turned Into Remote-Controlled Robots
    (this sort of electronic-biological interface is all the rage now)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18261-2002May1.html
    
    universities abandoning their distance education dot-coms
    (the Internet will be important in higher education but not overnight)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/circuits/02DIST.html
    
    worldwide directory of technology museums and the like
    http://www.sericyb.com.au/geek-holiday.html
    
    California Bills Would Stop Automatic Billing After Free Trial Periods
    http://industryclick.com/newsarticle.asp?Newsarticleid=308639&SiteID=3&magazineid=151&mode=print
    
    The Technology Source, May/June 2002
    (journal about information technology in higher education)
    http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=issue&id=145
    
    excerpts from Cultures@SiliconValley by Jan English-Lueck
    http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/anthropology/svcp/SVCPbook.html
    
    Museums, Libraries, and Archives, Los Angeles, 29 July - 1 August 2002
    http://skipper.gseis.ucla.edu/orgs/gettysi/html/summer.html
    
    It's Amazing What You Can Learn from the Manchster Guardian These Days
    http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TotW/Daily_Journal.html#2002-04-29-pdty
    
    Growth Overwhelms State Universities
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020429/4066701s.htm
    
    United States Green Building Council
    http://www.usgbc.org/
    
    Images of the 1939 New York World's Fair
    http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/nywf.html
    
    Toronto Public Space Committee
    http://www.publicspace.ca/
    
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