[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 07:48:14 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
    
    If you're going away for the summer, I'm afraid I have no way of
    suspending your subscription temporarily.  Just unsubscribe now
    and resubscribe when you get back.  Details on the RRE home page.
    
    
    war
    
    Bush first-strike policies and international law
    http://monkeyfist.com/articles/786
    
    war story or bad movie script? you decide
    http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020618-17361288.htm
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    "the right to detain American citizens *forever* without trial"
    (some people are surprised -- I'm not sure why)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14477-2002Jun19.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14203-2002Jun19.html
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/hamdirums61902gbrf.pdf
    
    A Small Cartel of Conservative Lawyers Rewrites the American Rule
    (superficial but it's a start)
    http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0225/ridgeway.php
    
    "among the 128 charges against the 1000-plus detainees, none are for terrorism"
    (requires subscription)
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/19/detain/print.html
    
    "proposed legislation to create a new Cabinet Department of Homeland Security"
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020618-5.html
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020618-9.html
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020618-4.html
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/whhomesec61802bill.html
    
    Homeland Security Project
    http://www.homelandsec.org/
    
    Ramparts as a Design Element
    http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/editorial/102405574937520.xml
    
    security and privacy papers by Ross Anderson
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/
    
    controversy over the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/technology/20CODE.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3505238.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    don't take your GPS device to Russia
    http://travel.state.gov/gps.html
    
    "collusion allowed loyalists to murder innocent Catholics with near impunity"
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,739914,00.html
    
    
    politics
    
    Bush keeps on lying about his campaign statements on the budget
    (will this affect his nearly 100% support among conservatives? stay tuned)
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_06_16_archive.html#85178498
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020701&s=notebook070102bushlying
    
    more on the quackery of Social Security privatization
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/21/opinion/21KRUG.html
    http://www.cbpp.org/6-18-02socsec-pr.htm
    
    Year-by-Year Analysis of the Bush Tax Cuts Shows Growing Tilt to the Very Rich
    http://www.ctj.org/html/gwb0602.htm
    
    one exception, just one, to my strict rule against Maureen Dowd's column
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/19/opinion/19DOWD.html
    http://www.salon.com/politics/bushed/2002/06/20/aristotle/
    
    The White House: Allegations of Damage During the 2001 Presidential Transition
    http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02360.pdf
    
    Republican Groups Returning Donations to Woman With Dementia
    ("rush me $300 right now ... America may turn into a Communist police state")
    http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/3487543.htm
    
    sorting out the facts of Bush's commencement speech at Ohio State
    (protesters *were* threatened with expulsion, though some sites went further)
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_06_16_archive.html#85179250
    
    conservative foundations and how they think
    http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/13/kuttner-r.html
    
    table of payments to Enron insiders
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/enron61702insiderpay.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/enron61702retenbonus.pdf
    
    Enron bankruptcy documents
    http://www.elaw4enron.com/
    
    GAO report on obliviousness at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
    http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02656.pdf
    
    Federal and State Election Resources
    http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup25.htm
    
    
    everything else
    
    Search Engine Showdown
    http://www.galegroup.com/reference/peter/june.htm#ses
    
    A Current Awareness Weblog for the Information Community
    http://www.nfais.org/noteworthy.asp
    
    Open Source as an Alternative to Commercial Software Development
    http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/mateos.pdf
    
    a small dispatch from the trenches of the Microsoft antitrust wars
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25816.html
    
    Vodafone and Its $128B Bonfire of the Vanities
    http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news_analysis/story.jsp?story=298951
    
    new wireless technologies
    http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1176136
    
    The Wireless Arcade
    http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/print_version/kushner0702.asp
    
    Distributed Applications in Ad Hoc Networks of Small Mobile Wireless Devices
    http://www.cs.rit.edu/~anhinga/publications/AnhingaPaper20010522.pdf
    
    Challenges in Managing and Preserving Electronic Records
    http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02586.pdf
    
    "linking to any material without prior written consent is prohibited"
    (get a life)
    http://www.npr.org/about/linking_form.html
    
    Record Labels Around the World
    http://www.lights.com/scott/allrecordlabels/
    
    The Strange Triumph of Electronic Music
    (more persuasive as economics than as criticism -- requires subscription)
    http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/06/19/electronic_music/print.html
    
    why Los Angeles is such a great city
    ("my 7-year-old took one look at the chicken and burst into tears")
    http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/31/counter-gold.shtml
    
    Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee
    (the phrase "tragic remodeling" made me laugh)
    http://www.modcom.org/
    
    J. Carter Brown, Who Transformed the Museum World, Dies at 67
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/19/obituaries/19BROW.html?pagewanted=print
    
    lessons from Paris for "Big Dig" urban planning in Boston
    (which, last I heard, was going badly)
    http://www.boston.com/beyond_bigdig/paris.shtml
    
    Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook
    ("The Bad Bug Book")
    http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html
    
    shake hard
    http://www.koor.org/stuff/fun/movies/swf/go.swf 
    
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