Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war "The Americans ... They Just Drop Their Bombs and Leave" http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000038891jun02.story Operation Enduring Payouts http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000038553jun01.story World Trade Center redevelopment activities http://www.newyorknewvisions.org/ http://www.aiany.org/NYNV/GrowthStrategies.html http://www.archrecord.com/NEWS/ARTICLES/redev.asp http://www.renewnyc.com/ The Battle for Ground Zero http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020527-238628,00.html Narco-Candidate in Colombia http://www.narconews.com/narcocandidate1.html wartime violence and deception as metaphors for life in general (how cute) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000038270may31.story 9/11 investigation scandal vicious public infighting between the FBI and CIA (somehow the NSA has stayed out of it) http://www.msnbc.com/news/760647.asp http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/01/justice.report/ Wary of Risk, Slow to Adapt, FBI Stumbles in Terror War http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/national/02FBI.html?pagewanted=all More Pre-Attack Warning Memos Turn Up http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/49163.htm Sorting Fact From Fiction in 9/11 Conspiracy Theories http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/15/feature1.shtml the case against John Ashcroft ("he consistently misled Congress and the public about the reforms needed") http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/28/news-shapiro.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/01/national/01INQU.html?pagewanted=print http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020601/ap_on_re_us/attacks_chertoff_2&printer=1 The Real Deal on 9:11: Rewarding Failure (conspiracy stuff but interesting) http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0205/S00173.htm civil liberties and security Courts Likely to Endorse FBI Policy http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000038290may31.story the racial profiling lobby defies democratic values, and logic too (the FBI *did* have sufficient knowledge to investigate these individuals) http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1154481 Senators Push to Keep Genetic Defects Private http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0602genetics02.html Social Engineering Attacks via IRC and Instant Messaging http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2002-03.html politics jargon watch: yet another article twisting Eric Alterman's column on blogs (the dishonest phrase "seem to imagine" lets you imagine anything) http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=2555 read it for yourself: look at how Seipp has twisted Alterman's mention of Kaus (among other distortions and general illogic -- and this is not unusual) http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020408&s=alterman The Peculiar Duplicity of Ari Fleischer http://www.thenewrepublic.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020610&s=chait061002 http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066449&device= jargon watch: standard, mechanical PR techniques from a supposed law professor (e.g., misusing the word "precedent" to create an association) http://www.instapundit.com/archives/001376.php#001376 Still Unbiased: Closing the Case on Media Labeling (serious people are finally investigating the claims of the bias industry) http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/05/nunberg-g-05-15.html Cheney's Former Oil Firm Founders http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/153/nation/Cheney_s_former_oil_firm_foundersP.shtml gays, bohemians, and liberalism generally as the foundation of prosperity (those who tell us that red-staters are better than us will now please shut up) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/01/arts/01BOHO.html cutting-edge conservatism at Newsmax jargon watch: disturbing attack on democracy and race-mixing (notice how the term "politically correct" can be applied to anything) http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2002/5/29/235658 jargon watch: stunningly nonsensical column alleging class bias by NY Times (watch the very weird thing he does with word "lowbrow") http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2002/5/31/152618 jargon watch: more poor oppressed white males feeling sorry for themselves (if anyone but white males were complaining, they'd be disparaged as "victims") http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/5/31/155250 news from Europe Europe Bans Spam (does anyone have a URL for the directive and related documents?) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25515.html jargon watch: "the EU has now become the first to enslave foreign businesses" (professional jargoneers continually search for ways to inflate strong words) http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=20354&dest=article Secret Documents Reveal EU's Tough Stance on Global Trade http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,685670,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,686162,00.html "Bob the Builder to cut its takeover offer for Thomas the Tank Engine" (not a joke) http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,725908,00.html everything else bizarre case of satellite TV piracy ("1998: Hacker Found Dead") http://www.msnbc.com/news/745312.asp more on Infiniband (standards are such 4D chess that it's always hard to tell how real they are) http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=884983 remarkably weak evidence for a resurgence of AI (in fact any number of stronger but less hyped examples could have been found) http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1020789 congestion and interference in wireless networks (the tech should be able to detect and minimize these problems itself!) http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/06/02/wireless.crowding.ap/ back-seat video in cars distracting drivers in neighboring cars http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/31/automobiles/31DRIV.html Smaller, Slower Supercomputers Someday May Win the Race (interesting green approach to measurement of computing) http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/releases/archive/02-058.shtml Scenarios for the Coexistence of Genetically Modified and Organic Crops http://www.jrc.org/our_work/focus_on.htm?iCodFirst=87&sTitolo=null&iIdInstituteUnit=null "white-collar corruption seems to be the crime of choice of the baby boomers" (two seconds' thought would have revealed how little sense this makes) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/business/02CRIM.html Public Lettering: A Walk in Central London (a breath of fresh air, given all of the nauseating news this week) http://www.publiclettering.org.uk/ end
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