Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Pick Hit: DJ Spooky, Modern Mantra war Excerpts from "Unbuilding the World Trade Center" http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/07/langewiesche-excerpts.htm reinsurance companies hammered by September 11th http://www.theglobalist.com/nor/richter/2002/06-20-02.shtml civil liberties and security US Cartoonists Under Pressure to Follow the Patriotic Line ("death threats, efforts to silence me, people who compare me to a traitor") http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=308068 FBI Begins Visiting Libraries http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37774-2002Jun24?language=printer Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/ Mexico's President Opens Up the Files on Decades of Repression (let me know if those files start showing up on the Web) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/international/americas/23MEXI.html "Britain accused of helping terrorists assassinate enemies of the state" http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/audiovideo/programmes/panorama/newsid_2019000/2019301.stm latest on UK surveillance politics http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_2051000/2051117.stm http://www.stand.org.uk/weblog/archive/2002/06/19/000199.php Credit-Card Hackers Stung With Bogus IIS Exploit http://www.theregus.com/content/55/25216.html NY Times changes its paid customers' passwords to be easily guessable http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1482 Security in Open Versus Closed Systems http://www.ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/toulouse.pdf intellectual property Microsoft's Secret Plan to Secure the PC (please send URL's for analyses of this) http://www.ntsecurity.net/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=25681 http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?print=1&guid={6BCEB51B-D04A-4790-819C-EB94CC70C190}&siteid=myyahoo http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp Software Is Movie Studios' Latest Weapon in a Growing Battle http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A5144-2002Jun18?language=printer newsletter loses its domain name because its renewal notices got filtered http://www.macslash.org/articles/02/05/31/1738247.shtml Net Radio Going Off the Air http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25823.html Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property http://www.americanassembly.org/PDF/ATIPspreads.pdf Usability and Privacy: A Study of Kazaa P2P File-Sharing http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/papers/kazaa/KazaaUsability.pdf NPR explains but doesn't retract its ridiculous linking policy http://www.npr.org/about/privacypolicy.html politics a very clear explanation of how Bush and company work (though the AP later corrected the claim about "thunderous applause") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/25/opinion/25KRUG.html "Nixon planned to parlay his reelection into an internal takeover of the gov't" http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0621/p11s02-cods.html Pat Buchanan explains that only white people are civilized (and the audience at the Richard Nixon Museum couldn't agree more) http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/02/42/news-arellano.php jargon watch: defocusing -- "a structure that abolishes greed or skulduggery" (the column as a whole exemplifies ancient arguments against democracy) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26487-2002Jun21.html conferences Information Design Summer Academy, Vienna, 8-27 July 2002 http://www.iiid.net/ Open Source Convention, San Diego, 22-26 July 2002 http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ Bridging the Digital Divide, Montreux, Switzerland, 8-11 October 2002 http://www.internetworldsummit.org/ Privacy and Security, Toronto, 7-8 November 2002 http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2002/isw-eleventh/announcement.html Doors of Perception, Amsterdam, 14-16 November 2002 http://www.doorsofperception.com/ everything else Librarians Teach and Preach Open Source Software at Convention http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/06/17/1514234.shtml?tid=11 The Languages of the Semantic Web http://www.newarchitectmag.com/print/documentID=25298 Car Repair Shops Often Can't Crack Diagnostic Code http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/06/24/diagnosing.cars.ap/ notice the different spin on the Rite Aid story in the NYTimes and Wash Post (and this jargon: "criminalizing earnings management plus general deception") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/22/business/22RITE.html?pagewanted=print http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26137-2002Jun21.html jargon watch: "off-the-clock work is an infrequent and isolated problem" (among other things, quietly shifting the issue from Walmart onto the employee) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/25/national/25WALM.html Hearing "I Work Cheap" From Across the Globe http://tinyurl.com/efp http://tinyurl.com/efs The Rage in China: Lunching on Wildlife, and Mao http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/25/international/asia/25CHIN.html A Dyseducational Road Movie http://windward.nodalpoint.net/doc/media/liikenne.swf Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/ end
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