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: Cecil Taylor Quartet, Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Iridium, Volume Two war Bravery and Breakdowns in a Ridgetop Battle http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1951-2002May23.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6815-2002May24.html amazing stories of FBI incompetence and worse (will they blame it on fear of being accused of profiling?) http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,249997,00.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000037397may27.story http://www.fortune.com/articles/phoenix_memo.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/25/national/25INQU.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7214-2002May24.html http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,249994,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/27/national/27THRE.html?pagewanted=print "Jordan advised US intelligence that Al Qaeda planned airborne terrorism" http://www.iht.com/articles/58269.html FAZ article alleging advance intelligence about September 11th from Echelon German: http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q131320F English: http://makeashorterlink.com/?W411320F Diane Feinstein's attempts to get Dick Cheney to prevent terrorism before 9/11 http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020527/knew/congress.html "Bush issued terror alerts to mute criticism on intelligence warnings" (everyone knows how they operate; it's just that some people like it) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020522-217139.htm impressive message-discipline of conservative politicians and pundits (large numbers of them made the same tendentious accusation on cue) http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020521.html "many in the GOP suggested that FDR had personally known of the Japanese plan" (conservatism *means* disregard of the norm against double standards) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8285-2002May25.html Fighting to Live as the Towers Died http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/nyregion/26WTC.html?pagewanted=print civil liberties and security face recognition system fails at Palm Beach Airport http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25444.html Face Recognition Technology Being Used to Scan Visitors at Statue of Liberty (not a joke) http://www.msnbc.com/news/757630.asp Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, Copenhagen, 1 June 2002 http://pets2002.visualsurveillance.org/ Wiretap Report 2001 http://www.uscourts.gov/wiretap01/contents.html Patriot Act's Supposed Justification Is Gone http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/2848003.html The Attack on Civil Liberties http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/civil_liberties/ interesting court filings by attorneys for John Lindh http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/uslindh52202damnd.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/uslindh52302drspwit.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/uslindh52402grspnsub.pdf EU privacy investigation of Passport http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25433.html Hackers Gain Entry to Key State Database http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/25/MN179392.DTL&type=printable now *here's* a privacy policy, uh, not ("GECF has implemented procedures regarding ..." but won't say what they are) https://www.genetservice.com/GE_Commercial/ss_termsoutside.jsp Police Believe Soldier Tried to Plant Explosive Device at Power Plant http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/051602/LOCsoldierarrest.shtml Research Offers New Ways to Study, Alter Brain Function (this could get weird) http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/3305713.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp politics Bush reelection strategy: govern right, split off an extra self-interested 2% (will his next opponent explain his record and respond to his smears?) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000037395may27.column worse than Clinton ("character" is just a word to them -- a stick to hit people with) http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020603&s=notebook060302bush jargon watch: "African Americans who escape from liberalism's plantation" (grab any negative symbol and mechanically stick it on your opponents) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7631-2002May24.html jargon watch: "86 percent of newspaper journalists voted for Stalin" (how to lie with humor -- in reality press coverage strongly supported Bush) http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/3192208.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp GOP Leader Admits Staff Faked Democratic Candidates (a deeply ingrained culture of dirty tricks) http://www.mlive.com/news/muchronicle/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/1022255115241060.xml http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10689-2002May25.html Moon Speech Raises Old Ghosts as the Washington Times Turns Twenty http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60061-2002May22.html The New Face of Another Gilded Age http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8284-2002May25.html everything else Why Your New Car Doesn't Have a Built-In PC http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020523.html major Korean companies flouting anti-spam laws http://www.koreaherald.com/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/05/24/200205240017.asp "data mining for libraries" http://www.bibliomining.com/ a Dutch city is planting chips in trees to monitor their health http://nu.nl/document?n=57035 Eight Technologies That Will Change the World (follow the links) http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,40435,FF.html Supporting Multiple-Location Users http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020526.html TiVo lets broadcasters tell it what to record (it's a trend: it's yours, but you don't control it) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25436.html disk drive densities are growing much faster than bandwidth to the home ("not only everything I've ever written but everything I've ever read") http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/Issues/Comsci02/Compsci2002-05.html article on the MPAA's scary-odd "Content Protection Status Report" (they sound desperate) http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/000113.html Copyright Is Not About Copying http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/jf/MF.pdf Charles Babbage Institute: Oral History Database http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/subject.phtml US Exports Misery to Africa With Farm Bill ("free trade", like "personal responsibility", is for other people) http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D000037337may27 article about Joseph Stiglitz's attempt to reform the IMF http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20020610&s=press S&Ls to Enron: A Primer on CEO Fraud http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=738 brain injuries from thrill rides (let's also ban heading from kids' soccer) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000037335may27.story end
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