[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 09:00:56 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
    
    President Broadens Anti-Hussein Order
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57969-2002Jun15.html
    
    Bush to Formalize a Defense Policy of Hitting First
    (I think that policy might have a technical name in international law ...)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/17/international/17POLI.html?pagewanted=print
    
    "it was 20 minutes before I saw an ambulance, or a Karachi police officer"
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54339-2002Jun14.html
    
    The War From al Qaeda's Standpoint
    http://www.stratfor.com/fib/topStory_view.php?ID=204880
    
    Documentary of US "War Crimes" Shocks Europe
    (I have no idea)
    http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=22&art_id=qw1023894901416B265&set_id=1
    http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=648372002
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/15/massacre/print.html
    
    What Price the American Empire? by Pat Buchanan
    (not that I condone Pat Buchanan)
    http://www.wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27771
    
    How to Fight the Terror Networks
    ("engage civil society actors to try to be the interlocutors of a peace")
    http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/06/02networks
    
    video from the school that George Bush was visiting on September 11th
    http://www.newworldtimes.com/scsb.bush.mov
    
    New York September 11 by Magnum Photographers
    http://www.journale.com/stories/magnum911/
    
    Economic Impact of September 11th
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gao/post911wtcecon.pdf
    
    more on architects' responses to September 11th
    (it's good they cleaned up so quickly, but now they'll rebuild too soon)
    http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0602/rev/rev02_0602.html
    http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5994
    
    Airborne Laser Aircraft Poised for First Flight
    ("the high-energy beam will be about the diameter of a basketball")
    http://www.janes.com/defence/air_forces/news/jdw/jdw020606_1_n.shtml
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Terrorism Suspect's Detention by Military Faces Tide of Criticism
    http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/3478264.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/opinion/16TRIB.html
    http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024078851032
    
    Historically, Laws Bend in Time of War, Rehnquist Says
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D000041966jun15
    
    more interesting documents from John Lindh's lawyers
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/uslindh61302sup5th.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/uslindh61302dstat.pdf
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/767536.asp
    
    rehabilitating the search for traitors
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/weekinreview/16POWE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    bizarre attack on press freedom by a State Dept. terrorism guy
    (somehow it remains unintuitive that open is stronger than closed)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54650-2002Jun14.html
    
    "scorn for Islam has become a staple of conservative Christian leaders"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/national/15BAPT.html
    
    Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America
    http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/main.html
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000042778jun18.story
    
    Bush speech: "anyone demonstrating would be subject to expulsion and arrest"
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020614/ap_to_po/bush_7
    http://www.turnyourbackonbush.com/
    http://www.usatoday.com/elect/ep/epd/epdc097.htm
    http://www.panix.com/~jdev/osu-protest.html
    
    ... and the Washington Post remarks on the warm welcome and lack of protest
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50940-2002Jun14.html
    
    new issue of Crypto-Gram with homeland security comments and useful links
    http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0206.html
    
    Homeland Security Department Proposal Calls for an Enterprise Architecture
    http://www.gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcn2&story.id=18975
    
    After Meeting at Massport, Logan Airport Review Changed
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/169/metro/After_meeting_at_Massport_review_changedP.shtml
    
    Army Cleaning Up Web Sites
    http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0617/web-dod-06-18-02.asp
    
    latest from the British surveillance wars
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/netprivacy/article/0,2763,739360,00.html
    http://politics.guardian.co.uk/whitehall/story/0,9061,739143,00.html
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2049000/2049593.stm
    http://www.surveillancecommissioners.org/
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25761.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25771.html
    
    "it's time to roast companies who profit by creating fear in their customers"
    http://features.slashdot.org/features/02/06/14/1343223.shtml?tid=166
    
    
    politics
    
    Cracks Show in Bush's White House
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,738011,00.html
    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/14/1023864349316.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61345-2002Jun16.html
    
    trying to politicize homeland security without getting caught
    (the stealth tactics of the Christian Coalition never went away)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/politics/15CAMP.html
    
    Bush Policies Follow Politics of States Needed in 2004
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020617/4198563s.htm
    
    jargon watch: "can you imagine the criticism if ..."
    (notice how the issue gets defocused: the complaint wasn't that he told us)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61345-2002Jun16.html
    
    trying to keep the missile defense program secret
    http://commondreams.org/views02/0615-02.htm
    
    The Chickenhawk Database
    http://www.nhgazette.com/chickenhawks.html
    
    amplifying the social and economic distortions of excessive wealth
    (e.g., why are stocks still grossly overvalued? far more capital than demand)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54507-2002Jun14.html
    http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5984
    
    article on Bush environmental regulation in Texas, and what it left behind
    http://www.observer.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,738196,00.html
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    Microsoft Accidentally Distributes Virus
    (it's called bundling)
    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-935994.html
    
    Microsoft Desktop Licensing Driving Customers Away?
    http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/06/14/020614hnmmslicensing.xml?Template=/storypages/printfriendly.html
    
    economists' amicus brief recommending penalties in the Microsoft case
    http://www.stanford.edu/~tbres/Microsoft/economists_amicus_brief.pdf
    
    earlier papers about the Microsoft case and IT generally by Timothy Bresnahan
    http://www.stanford.edu/~tbres/research.htm
    
    Why Software Is So Bad
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/768401.asp
    
    
    conferences
    
    Computer-Human Interaction, Fort Lauderdale, 5-10 April 2003
    http://sigchi.org/chi2003/
    
    Design Research, London, 5-8 September 2002
    http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/des/drs/
    
    Cognitive Science, Fairfax, Virginia, 8-10 August 2002
    http://hfac.gmu.edu/~cogsci/
    
    Cognitive Modeling, Bamberg, Germany, 10-12 April 2003
    http://iccm2003.ppp.uni-bamberg.de/
    
    webcast of Jim Morrison on the wired university, 21 July 2002, 11am EST
    (register in advance)
    http://www.quickslides.com/quickreg/sq.cfm?ObjectID=470
    
    
    everything else
    
    "winning an eBay auction these days practically requires 'sniping' software"
    ("as for the community itself, it's largely gone")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/books/review/16NOCERAT.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/06/15/ebay.the.little.guy.ap/
    
    Fair On-Line Auctions Without Special Trusted Parties
    http://www.stubblebine.com/researchlabs/electroniccommerceprivacy.html
    
    search engine that claims more pages than Google
    http://www.alltheweb.com/
    
    Largest Free Public Records Database Collection
    http://www.searchsystems.net/
    
    Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice
    http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=2855&sid=0&pid=0&t=knowledge
    
    a bunch of interesting papers about open source
    http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/vonhippel3.pdf
    http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/pedersen.pdf
    http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/madanmohan2.pdf
    http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/jungwirth.pdf
    
    LWN: SELinux and Patents
    ("SELinux is a distribution produced by the US National Security Agency")
    http://lwn.net/Articles/2376/
    
    "Gary Winnick and his cronies are arguably the biggest group of greedheads"
    http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=208320
    
    Telecom Outlook: First the Bad News, Then the Bad News
    ("I foresee a near total collapse as the endgame")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/18/technology/18FONE.html
    
    papers on IT and telecom economics by Paul Klemperer
    http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/klemperer/papers.html
    
    The Bottom Line in IT
    http://www.baselinemag.com/
    
    Home Depot Stops Doing Business With Federal Government
    http://makeashorterlink.com/?X2F033211
    
    Genome Annotation and Protein Structure
    http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/020417-ee380-100.asx
    
    Jim Romenesko's MediaNews Letters
    (an interesting window on the way that reporters talk to one another)
    http://www.poynter.org/medianews/letters.htm
    
    review of the celebrated Folk Art Museum building in New York
    http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0602/rev/rev01_0602.html
    
    Smithsonian Folk Life Festival, Washington, 26 June - 7 July 2002
    http://www.silkroadproject.org/smithsonian/
    
    Hollywood's deepest secret: where the money comes from to make bad movies
    (or used to)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000042527jun17.story
    
    scholar putting thousands of Tibetan books online
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/national/15RELI.html
    http://tbrc.org/
    
    Hunger Spreads in Recession-Wracked Argentina
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020612/ap_wo_en_ge/argentina_s_hungry_2&printer=1
    
    some interesting climate models
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992394
    http://www.csiro.au/index.asp?type=mediaRelease&id=SahelDrought
    
    Now, in Alaska, Even the Permafrost Is Melting
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/national/16ALAS.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Agency Made the Desert Bloom, But at a Price
    http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-000042158jun16.story
    
    Nuclear Waste Route Atlas
    http://www.mapscience.org/
    
    Hollywood keeps using the wrong bird songs in its movies
    http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2002/06/13/ornithology/print.html
    
    The Sustainable Metropolis
    http://www.metropolismag.com/html/sustainable/
    
    Guess the Dictator or Sit-Com Star
    http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html
    
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