[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 17:53:11 PDT


Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.

RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html


war

US military running the war in Afghanistan over the Web
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/05/30/afghan.war.web.page.ap/

article arguing that Al Qaeda was less disciplined than thought
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020603fa_FACT

WTC Victims Deserve Proper Memorial
(does anyone have URL's for documents from the WTC redevelopment process?)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2002/05/30/ncguest1.htm

photographs from the World Trade Center
http://www.septembereleven.net/

strong majority give US policies some blame for September 11th
(by conservative logic, a strong majority of Americans are anti-American)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52516-2002May21.html

The Amazing $20 Bill Trick of 9/11
http://egomania.nu/20.html
http://www.glennbeck.com/news/05172002.shtml


the dysfunctional FBI

Tearful FBI Agent Apologizes to September 11th Families and Victims
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200205\NAT20020530d.html

criticism of FBI agent's celebrated memo
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000038055may30.story

"FBI latitude to monitor Internet, libraries and churches without evidence"
(but it's now clear that the FBI had all the information it needed)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30427-2002May29.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/30/politics/30SPY.html

Thinking Behind FBI Plan Faulted
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000038039may30.story

FBI's Carnivore System Disrupted Anti-Terror Investigation
http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24213-2002May28.html


civil liberties and security

Yellow Flag for DOJ: Several Judges Have Taken Shots at Anti-Terror Tactics
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZSHO7TT1D
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/njmashcrft052902opn.pdf

Why Dick Cheney's Secrecy Scheme For Pre-9/11 Information Makes No Sense
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020524.html

Amnesty International Report
http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/home/home?OpenDocument

call-for-papers for a journal issue on information warfare
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~lueg/CfP_JASIST.html

Meet the Lead Architect for Echelon II
http://cryptome.org/echelon2-arch.htm

Enigma: Dayton's Code Breakers
http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/projects/enigma/enigma_index.html

local phone companies selling customers' calling information
(and providing only a lame opt-out, if you can figure it out)
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/05/28/telecoms.privacy.ap/

interesting facts about surveillance of music CD's played in computers
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-923472.html

PDA's Make Easy Pickings for Data Thieves
(likewise, I don't put any account numbers, passwords, etc in my laptop)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25478.html

Microsoft worms can be spread by Excel spreadsheets
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-924704.html

Common Security Exploit and Vulnerability Matrix Poster
http://www.tripwire.com/literature/poster/index.cfm?djinn=530


politics

conservative judicial activists are trying to repeal the Constitution
(even Doug Kmiec says it's wacky -- at least William O. Douglas was honest)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=01-46
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020528.atc.15.ram
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/29/national/29FEDE.html

jargon watch: opposition mainly from one side, but jargon makes it sound equal
(that's how jargon works, by collapsing all sense of proportion)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000037495may28.story

An Interview With Mark Crispin Miller
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/05/p/30_mcm.html


design

compare the clean, efficient, navigable BMW Web site ...
http://www.bmw.com/

... to the impossible murk at Honda and Mazda
(it's enough to make you want to pay twice as much to get a well-designed car)
http://www.honda.com/
http://www.mazda.com/

but the car user interface is an emerging disaster area
(the problem is that they're signifying tech, not making it invisible)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/05/30/car-stuff.htm


everything else

"SEC is likely to bring charges that Microsoft failed to keep accurate books"
http://www.smartmoney.com/bn/ON/index.cfm?story=ON-20020530-000017-0033

another software project killed by Microsoft's abuses
(a former HTML editor)
http://www.telacommunications.com/crackerjack/

Clear Channel's Big Radio Ways Are Getting a Lot of Static These Days
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23996-2002May28?language=printer

bad idea hall of fame: the "e-mail science fair project"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/29/education/29LESS.html?pagewanted=print

"media technical assistance to nonprofit public-interest organizations"
http://www.spinproject.org/

Global Media Cities in a Worldwide Urban Network
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb80.html

faculty positions in IT studies at Aarhus
http://www.hum.au.dk/stilling/index_uk.htm

the telecom bubble's inventory glut is throttling next-generation tech
http://news.com.com/2102-1033-923014.html

links about the InfiniBand standard
http://www.business2.com/webguide/0,,71505,00.html
http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1105-922702.html

"it takes more time to teach in a virtual classroom than in a regular one"
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i38/38a03101.htm

Amazon Customers' Recommendations Scammed
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/5/25/141522/582

Russians Pay Out $36b Per Year in Bribes
http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/771/news/n_6473.htm

more details on the government's case against Andersen
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZA7P1MM1D

article about an excellent folk art tradition from Romania
(including a slide show)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/29/international/europe/29ROMA.html

architects have hardest time resolving the tension between style and context
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0502/per/index.html

contamination from GM grops threatens to drive organic farming to extinction
(does anyone have a URL for the leaked report?)
http://ens-news.com/ens/may2002/2002-05-21-01.asp
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=299036

"deformed fish, caribou with bad livers, seals left by their mothers to starve"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18506-2002May27.html

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