[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 07:13:08 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: Asian Dub Foundation, Rafi's Revenge
    
    
    war
    
    US Armed Forces Push for Offensive Biological Weapons Development
    http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/pr080502.html
    
    authoritarians need enemies, so they find them wherever they can
    (or make them)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000033153may10.story
    
    Beers Asks Congress for Nearly $600m Propaganda Budget
    http://www.odwyerpr.com/0501beers.htm
    
    "what is the status of the meeting between Mohamed Atta and Iraq intelligence?"
    http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/2002question/prague.htm
    
    Dick Armey retracts his wacky statements on Palestine
    (more or less)
    http://freedom.house.gov/library/foreignaffairs/hardball.asp
    
    Colombian War Brings Carnage to Village Altar
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/09/international/americas/09COLO.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    EU Secretly Planning Universal Surveillance of Telecommunications
    http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/may/05surv.htm
    
    New Bill Will Increase ISP Surveillance of Users
    http://dc.internet.com/news/print/0,,2101_1080171,00.html
    
    "eBay will use VeriSign to authenticate its auction sellers"
    http://news.com.com/2102-1017-902040.html
    
    INS Tracking System for Foreign Students Set to Roll
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62852-2002May9.html
    
    trying to get your name off a "terrorist list"
    (notice, among other things, how the word "terrorist" got inflated)
    http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?020513ta_talk_mcnamer
    
    US Non-Lethal Weapon Reports Suppressed
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992254
    
    
    politics
    
    Concerns About Debt Ceiling Rise Again
    http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0502/050802cd1.htm
    
    when Clinton told lies 10% this bad, Bush's followers called him evil names
    (it's scary how mad they can act about accusations they don't really mean)
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020513&s=chait051302
    
    the Constitution artificially favors rural states
    (which then take our money -- fine, but at least stop acting superior to us)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/opinion/07KRUG.html
    
    the media echo chamber and Rep. Cynthia McKinney
    http://onlinejournal.com/Media/Utwater050602/utwater050602.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/09/national/09BURE.html
    
    jargon watch: dime-store psychoanalysis of your opponents
    (it's a cheap tactic, and it's everywhere)
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_05_05_archive.html#85071775
    
    
    Enron
    
    the alleged incriminating Enron memos
    http://news.findlaw.com/wsj/docs/enron/stoelrives120600mem.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/stoelrives120800mem.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/wsj/docs/enron/brobeckenronstrpt.pdf
    http://www.ferc.fed.us/electric/bulkpower/pa02-2/pa02-2.htm
    
    Memo Shows Enron Division of Thomas White Manipulated California Energy Market
    http://www.publiccitizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1106
    
    "yet federal officials offered nothing but sermons on the free market"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/10/opinion/10KRUG.html
    
    Information Sooner, Yes, But Make It Better, Too
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/business/yourmoney/05WATC.html
    
    
    Microsoft
    
    Microsoft's $40 Billion Bet
    (piling up monopoly profits to deter would-be competitors)
    http://money.cnn.com/2002/04/12/pf/agenda_msft/index.htm
    
    Microsoft Admits to "Critical" Security Hole
    (all that money and they still write bad software)
    http://www.vnunet.com/News/1131609
    
    abusive Microsoft contract for schools
    (wouldn't it be easier to run Linux?)
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25179.html
    
    "Microsoft was convicted of software piracy last year by a French court"
    http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/05/07/2234251.shtml?tid=3
    
    
    everything else
    
    newsletter about online searching
    http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert.shtml
    
    To Reduce Spam, Some ISPs Block E-Mail From Asia
    (Korea is completely out of control)
    http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/2717256.html
    
    Digitization of Cultural Heritage Information
    http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/lynch/
    
    "unauthorized copies of the next 'Star Wars' episode hit the Internet Thursday"
    (like, who cares?)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000033053may10.story
    
    International Conference on Advanced Buzzword Engineering, Rome, 17-19 June 2002
    http://www.ice2002.org/
    
    Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure
    https://worktools.si.umich.edu/workspaces/datkins/001.nsf
    
    how the Internet and reality forced IBM to use open standards
    (thus leaving Microsoft uncannily in the position IBM occupied 15 years ago)
    http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,39361,FF.html
    
    AOL Watch
    http://www.aolwatch.com/
    
    Plagiarism.org
    http://www.plagiarism.org/
    
    Reclaiming the American Commons in an Age of Market Enclosure
    http://www.newamerica.net/Download_Docs/pdfs/Pub_File_650_1.pdf
    
    "the church was deliberately designed like a mall"
    (not that there's anything wrong with that)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/09/garden/09CHUR.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Ex-Scientologist Collects $8.6 Million in 22-Year-Old Case
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63143-2002May9.html
    
    weird new creatures
    http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v417/n6884/full/417027a_fs.html
    http://www.biologie.uni-regensburg.de/Mikrobio/Stetter/Bilderhtml/nanoarchaeum.html
    http://www.nature.com/nsu/020429/020429-8.html
    http://www.nature.com/nature/links/020502/020502-5.html
    http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/05/06/0506dvsa.html
    
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