[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 14 2002 - 08:02:36 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
    
    War on Error: Live Pictures Taken by US Planes Were Freely Available
    http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=189&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,736462,00.html
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/audiovideo/programmes/newsnight/newsid_2041000/2041754.stm
    
    "Ashcroft overstated the threat by 'dirty bomb' suspect, officials said"
    (impressive bipartisan snorting that the announcement was another trick)
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020612/4185665s.htm
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020612/4185756s.htm
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/765862.asp
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/13/opinion/13SAFI.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41678-2002Jun12.html
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066935&device=
    http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5995
    
    entertaining conspiracy theories about anthrax and oil
    http://www.freefromterror.net/
    http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/30/cover-corn.shtml
    
    why the alleged shoe bomber didn't violate the Patriot Act
    (don't read this unless you're prepared to find the shoe bomber's trial funny)
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066958&device=
    
    The Role of the Arms Lobby in the Bush Reversal of US Nuclear Policy
    http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/reportaboutface.html
    
    September 11, Terror War, and the New Barbarism
    http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/sept11kell.htm
    
    Leaflets Dropped Over Afghanistan
    http://www.centcom.mil/images/Images/Enduring%20Freedom/Leaflets/Default.asp
    
    don't eat the food in Kabul
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066779&entry=2066943&device=
    
    Azzam Publications is back!
    (gift shop of the jihad)
    http://www.azzam.com/
    
    article on the assassination of Ahmed Shah Masoud
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000041300jun12.story
    
    engineers building micro flying machines based on insects
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000041725jun14.story
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Hiding the Dirty Bomber from the US Constitution
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066866&device=
    
    "many Americans resist accepting the war on terrorism as a real war"
    (understandably so: war inflation creates ever more dangerous precedents)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000041766jun14.story
    
    Public Safety Group
    ("Specializing in CBW Issues Since 1981")
    http://www.psgcabo.com/
    http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-cfbtech03060302jun03.story
    
    hacking biometrics
    http://chris.fornax.net/biometrics.html
    
    European Digital Rights
    http://www.edri.org/
    
    ACLU Congratulates People of North Dakota For Defending Their Privacy
    http://www.aclu.org/news/2002/n061202a.html
    
    Kissinger May Face Extradition to Chile
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/pinochet/Story/0,11993,735920,00.html
    
    "astonishing levels of collusion between terrorists and the security forces"
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,737222,00.html
    
    AAAS Science and Human Rights Program Systems Administrator Job Posting
    http://shr.aaas.org/sysad/
    
    
    politics
    
    Bush Says Air Traffic Control "Not Inherently Governmental"
    http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2002/02-2-192x.html
    
    Republican study finds amazingly little duplicate voting
    (and manages to ignore the obvious explanation for duplicate registrations)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41287-2002Jun12.html
    
    Karl Rove's political analysis slides found on a street corner
    http://www.politicspa.com/mehlman-rove_files/v3_document.htm
    
    conservative project to investigate the political background of lobbyists
    http://www.atr.org/KStreet/index.htm
    
    Why No Whitewater Treatment Over Halliburton?
    http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/columnists/molly_ivins/3432437.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    in a widening scandal, it was revealed today that Enron still exists
    http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.enron13jun13.story
    
    "sharp drop in the number of reporters assigned to cover statehouses"
    http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=2562
    
    some entertaining political blogs
    http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/06/tapped-s-06-10.html
    http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/The_Note.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    Antitrust Ruling Lets Iowans Seek Microsoft Refunds
    http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/18439267.html
    
    The World Fights Microsoft With Open Source
    http://www.idg.net/ic_874742_1793_1-1681.html
    
    Anti-Open Source "Whitepaper" Devastated
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25659.html
    
    Clear Channel Sucks
    http://www.clearchannelsucks.org/
    
    Broadband to the People!
    http://www.sfbg.com/36/37/cover_wireless.html
    
    Governing Global Electronic Networks
    http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic/activities/ggenrfp.page
    
    The Public Voice in Internet Policy Making, Washington, DC, 22 June 2002
    http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/dc02/
    
    review of a book about ICANN
    http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2002/06/14/root/print.html
    
    File Sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
    (may require subscription)
    http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/print.html
    
    more about the foolish attack on deep linking in Denmark
    http://www.newsbooster.com/?pg=pressinfo10&lan=eng
    
    instructive story about using the Internet to work a bureaucracy
    http://www.econetwork.net/~jdavis/Essays/insurance.html
    
    think tanks of the world
    (weirdly compelling)
    http://www.nira.go.jp/linke/tt-link/
    
    site that tracks geese migration and shows current position on a map
    http://www.wwt.org.uk/brent/
    
    controversy about the quality of the squirrel-watching experience at UCLA
    (plus squirrel reports from other colleges)
    http://gottshall.com/squirrels/campsq.htm
    
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