[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 14:33:43 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
    
    GIs Battle "Ghosts" in Afghanistan
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22683-2002May15.html
    
    false statements about advance knowledge of possibility of suicide hijacking
    (lots of material -- I hardly know where to begin sorting it)
    http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/2002/05/17_Bush_Is_Lying.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/politics/17RICE-TEXT.html
    http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html
    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-051602warning.story
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020517/ap_on_go_pr_wh/attacks_1999_warning_6&printer=1
    http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Sociology-Psychology%20of%20Terrorism.htm
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/18/politics/18FLIG.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/news/nation/3282968.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26904-2002May16
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35744-2002May17.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39166-2002May18.html
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=716&e=7&u=/nm/20020518/ts_nm/attack_warning_memo_dc_1
    http://businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/may2002/nf20020520_3078.htm
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/753689.asp
    http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/blogger.php
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47968-2002May20.html
    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000035739may21.column
    http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2002/05/16/coverup/print.html
    
    defenses against airborne attacks at last year's G8 summit in Genoa
    http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2002/05/16_Bush_Knew.html
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D092701genoa
    
    Statement by Senator Feinstein on Concerns About Possible Terrorist Attacks
    http://www.senate.gov/~feinstein/Releases02/attacks.htm
    
    1999 Report Warned of Possible Hijacking Attacks
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2002/05/17/terror-report.htm
    
    "a jut-jawed, disjointed discourse with a diatribe and podium pounding"
    (they live in a medieval world of unquestioned authority)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/754330.asp
    
    "Washington is a place where second-guessing has become second nature"
    (notice how he treats the very idea of a democratic opposition as pathological)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/18/politics/18BUSH.html?pagewanted=print
    
    "a vague yet troubling series of communications"
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/may0203.html#0518021004pm
    
    "for the first time, the CIA and FBI now compare notes"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/national/19THRE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    world-class bungling at the FBI
    http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak20.html
    
    On the Trail of a Man Behind Taliban's Air Fleet
    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-051902bout.story
    
    What the Federal Raids in Northern Virginia Uncovered
    (i.e., the Saudis)
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/001/072kqska.asp
    
    Space Weapons for Earth Wars
    http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_war_020515-1.html
    
    Weapons of Precise Destruction
    http://www.techreview.com/articles/wo_muller051002.asp
    
    US Combat Controllers Guide Bombers to Precision Targets
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39171-2002May18?language=printer
    
    the Crusader and other weapons systems that should be cancelled
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44956-2002May20.html
    
    Israel Refocuses on Urban Warfare
    http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z5A3249E
    
    links about the war
    http://www.cursor.org/
    
    who gets put on terrorist lists and who doesn't
    (to be sure, the folks on the list generally deserve it -- but so do others)
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/mariner/20020513.html
    
    "applying to ourselves the same standards we apply to others"
    http://cbc.ca/programs/sites/hottype_chomsky911.html
    
    amateur video of the September 11th attacks
    http://www.wnbc.com/news/1463815/detail.html
    
    US Attitudes Altered Little by September 11th, Pollsters Say
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/politics/20CIVI.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Fun With Fingerprint Readers
    http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0205.html#5
    http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=214
    http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/05/16/020516hngums.xml?Template=/storypages/printfriendly.html
    
    Optical Fault Induction Attacks on Smart Cards
    http://www.ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/faultpap3.pdf
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992273
    
    Senate Panel OK's Bill With Security Standard Mandates
    http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=27081,00.asp
    
    Manchester [MA] Airport to Implement Viisage Face Recognition Technology
    (does there exist a complete list of such airports?)
    http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020516/neth026_1.html
    
    Face-Recognition Test at Palm Beach Airport Demonstrates Systems' Fatal Flaws
    http://www.aclu.org/news/2002/n051402b.html
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176621.html
    
    worm spreading through Kazaa
    http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.html?id=49790
    
    the mysteriously underhyped Klez Microsoft worm
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.06.html#subj6
    http://news.com.com/2102-1001-916945.html
    
    FDA Launches Investigation Into VeriChip
    http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3384927,00.html
    
    Guidelines for Safeguarding Building Ventilation Systems From Terrorist Attacks
    http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r020510.htm
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/bldvent/2002-139.html
    
    INS Criticized for Giving Hijackers US Visas
    http://news.findlaw.com/politics/s/20020520/attackimmigrationdc.html
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/doj/dojoig052002insrpt.pdf
    
    Oracle Contract Raises Issues of Security, Privacy
    (the good news is that it's very hard to impose a standard on a bureaucracy)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/05/19/MN244573.DTL&type=printable
    
    13,000 Credit Reports Stolen by Hackers
    (how bad does it have to get?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/17/technology/17IDEN.html?pagewanted=print
    
    opening brief in the Eldred copyright extensions case
    http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/supct/opening-brief.pdf
    
    Thousands of South Carolina Voters Purged
    http://greenvilleonline.com/news/2002/05/15/2002051523481.htm
    
    No Legal Standing for Abortion Foes' Web Site Threats
    http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/05/17/MN54155.DTL&type=printable
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ9FD7EB1D
    
    the Weekly Standard speaks up for empire, order, and dictatorship
    ("but a relatively benign one, like Pinochet")
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/248ipzbt.asp
    
    Chilean Mystery: Clues to Vanished American
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/international/americas/19CHIL.html
    
    EU to Adopt Arbitrary Powers to Freeze Assets and Seize Evidence
    http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/may/01freezing.htm
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    Allchin: Disclosure May Endanger US
    ("some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed")
    http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp
    
    Microsoft fails to patch security vulnerabilities
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25326.html
    
    US DoJ Rep Moves to Blunt Europe's Action on Microsoft
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25348.html
    
    States: Microsoft Pushed for Linux Attack
    http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1104-913219.html
    
    
    politics
    
    George Bush? He's Nice But Dim, Says Crown Prince
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,715714,00.html
    
    Run Left, Govern Right: The Fraudulence of the Bush Presidency
    http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/10/kuttner-r.html
    
    Financial Report of the United States Government
    (see page 5 under "accrual based financial reporting" for the $500b deficit)
    http://www.fms.treas.gov/cfs/01frusg/01frusg.pdf
    
    John Ashcroft's First Year as Attorney General
    http://pfaw.org/issues/constitutional_freedoms/reports/ash_first_year/
    
    Memo Warned FERC of Enron's California Strategy
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24062-2002May15.html
    
    the establishment wants you to sleep while it shuts down Social Security
    (simulated rationality is very important -- why are no tracts written on it?)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h051502_1.shtml
    
    PR people creating "fake citizens" in public debates
    (it happens every day)
    http://www.monbiot.com/dsp_article.cfm?article_id=510
    
    misguided attempt to measure partisanship among pundits
    (Krugman, for example, treated Clinton harshly as well)
    http://www.lyinginponds.com/
    
    
    everything else
    
    Companies Squander Billions on Tech
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020520/4124243s.htm
    
    Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, Maryville, Missouri, 18 October 2002
    http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/pr/symposium/2002.htm
    
    newsletter for bulk e-mailers
    (I haven't read it so I'm not endorsing it; it's just news that it exists)
    http://www.emailsherpa.com/
    
    Foreigners Make Angry Protests Against Korean Spam Mails
    http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/kt_tech/200205/t2002051418150845110.htm
    
    Here Come the Ads, Over Your Cellphone
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0514/p03s01-ussc.htm
    
    The Construction of Marketplace Architecture
    http://www.stanford.edu/~fbar/Publications/Brookings-E-Marketplaces.pdf
    
    Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing
    http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/orlikowski.pdf
    
    An Empirical Examination of 100 Mature Open Source Projects
    http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/krishnamurthy.pdf
    
    Sustainable Computing Consortium
    (claims to be doing something about the decades-old software quality crisis)
    http://www.sustainablecomputing.org/
    http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/05/13/1857235.shtml?tid=19
    http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eHMB0Cqz2R0V20Bcz80AF
    
    When the FCC Knocks on Your Door
    (Part 15 wireless politics)
    http://www.isp-planet.com/fixed_wireless/politics/2002/part15.html
    
    Solid State Lighting
    http://lighting.sandia.gov/Xlightingoverview.htm
    
    Nanotechnology: The Next (Not So) Big Thing
    http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020510S0005
    
    Bio/Nano/Materials Trends and Their Synergies with IT by 2015
    http://www.cia.gov/nic/pubs/research_supported_by_nic/rand.htm
    
    interaction of people with robot pets
    (brave new world)
    http://www.ischool.washington.edu/robotpets/
    
    well over 100 mistakes in "The Matrix"
    http://www.movie-mistakes.com/film.php?filmid=808
    
    executive options as fuel for corruption etc
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/21/opinion/21KRUG.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/business/20BERM.html
    
    jargon watch: read the paragraph starting, "Hell, I've eaten ..."
    (a stunning example of defocusing, as if the critics were attacking all food)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/national/20JUNK.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Cambridge Company Pressing Ahead on Implantable Chips to Deliver Drugs
    (they're talking about integrating biosensors in them, but I'd be surprised)
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3298225.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    The Top 200 Prescriptions for 2001 by Number of US Prescriptions Dispensed
    http://www.rxlist.com/top200.htm
    
    The Spurious Foundation of Genetic Engineering
    http://www.mindfully.org/GE/GE4/DNA-Myth-CommonerFeb02.htm
    
    the astounding unhealthiness of much restaurant food
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/diet.fitness/05/20/ots.fast.food.cnna/
    
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