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/ end
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