[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 10:55:08 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
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Terrorists at Threshold of Using Internet as Tool of Bloodshed, Experts Say
    (somehow they manage to overhype and underhype the problem at the same time)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50765-2002Jun26?language=printer
    
    claim that al-Qaeda cyberterrorism threat is nothing but industry FUD
    (curiously timed to coincide with the publicity for Microsoft Palladium)
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25938.html
    
    The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism
    http://books.nap.edu/books/0309084814/html/
    
    Fourth Generation Warfare
    http://www.d-n-i.net/second_level/fourth_generation_warfare.htm
    
    350 Revenge Crimes After September 11th
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,744142,00.html
    
    Even a "Bad Man" Has Rights
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39143-2002Jun24.html
    
    Deadly Soviet Caesium Is Missing
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992445
    
    FBI Wants to Track Your Web Trail
    (from a few weeks ago)
    http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1105-933202.html
    
    The FBI in Your Library
    http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/fbiinyourlibrary.html
    http://www.holtuncensored.com/members/column330.html
    
    Richard Nixon's "Enemies" List
    http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~polisci/calvert/PolSci3103/watergate/enemy.htm
    
    Calgary Gets Taste of Martial Law
    http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id=18F22B46-47FA-48CB-8B27-996AD12AEA4D
    
    "a picture of the heat in your face detects lies as well as polygraph machines"
    http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/printing/article/1668.51354
    
    some treasonous satire
    http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html
    
    Maher Sounds Off With Final "Politically Incorrect"
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/28/tv.maher.ap/
    
    he was chased off the air by liars and thugs ...
    http://www.charm.net/~somerby/h100101_1.shtml
    
    ... when in reality many people including conservatives had said the same thing
    http://www.charm.net/~somerby/h092901_1.shtml
    
    
    scandal
    
    more detail on George Bush's serial lies about his statements on deficits
    (all the more egregious, of course, given his lies about Gore's supposed lies)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/773123.asp
    
    a blog devoted to fact-checking conservative hero Ann Coulter's "Slander"
    (which, needless to say, lives up to its name)
    http://www.anncoulter.blogspot.com/
    
    projection hall of fame! "I detest you and will do my best to destroy you"
    (this may be the most primitive example of projection I have ever encountered)
    http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-22&id=1978
    
    a study in just how spurious establishment claims of "liberal bias" can be
    http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/MRC.html
    
    How Corrupt Is Wall Street?
    (and what % of Bush campaign funds came from companies with major frauds?)
    http://aol.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_19/b3782001.htm
    
    Flavors of Fraud
    ("each of the major business scandals so far involved a different scam")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/opinion/28KRUG.html
    
    no prizes for guessing who WorldCom's auditor was
    ("you wonder how the entire analyst community missed something so egregious")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/business/28TELE.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44367-2002Jun25?language=printer
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/business/27RECO.html
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20020627/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/hard_times_1
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/business/28AUDI.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58584-2002Jun27.html
    
    Telecom in Financial Chaos
    (it turns out that the greedhead corruption of the 1980's never stopped)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/772602.asp
    
    Enron Criminal Investigation Is Said to Expand to Bankers
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/business/26ENRO.html
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/27/enron.bankers.charged.ap/
    
    danger of capital flight from the corrupt US economy
    http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=309438
    
    In House Bid, Democrats Target Corporate Abuse
    (it's only "risky" because they don't have five dozen pundits working on it)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44930-2002Jun25?language=printer
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    more on Microsoft Palladium
    http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,274309,00.asp
    http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1104-938968.html
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25843.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25852.html
    http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2002-08.html
    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-938973.html 
    http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25905.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/25892.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/opinion/11ZITT.html
    
    Digital Rights Management Operating System (Microsoft Patent 6,330,670)
    http://makeashorterlink.com/?C42325821
    
    critical security flaw in Microsoft's rights management software
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-940050.html
    
    Microsoft's attempt to push proprietary media formats
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-938997.html
    
    more on Scientology's attack on Google
    http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1023826492846
    
    bill to allow copyright interests to disrupt P2P services
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25903.html
    
    Corrupt Audio Discs, aka "Copy-Protected CDs"
    http://uk.eurorights.org/issues/cd/quick/
    http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06829
    
    Yahoo!'s RIAA Deal Was Designed to Stifle Competition!
    (I have no idea)
    http://www.kurthanson.com/cuban/
    
    
    everything else
    
    chalk-marking wireless access points
    http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/
    
    US Senator Takes Up Open Source Fight Against ... the Auto Industry
    http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/17/3394/78895
    
    Clueless Mailers: The Latest Ugly Trend in Spamming
    http://www.cluelessmailers.org/spamdemic/mapfullsize3.html
    
    Your PC's Enemy Within
    http://news.com.com/2009-1023-937457.html
    
    article on next-generation Windows
    http://www.fortune.com/indext.jhtml?channel=print_article.jhtml&doc_id=208505
    
    "experimental latent semantic search engine" for blog posts
    http://www.idlewords.com/semantic/
    
    Richard Saul Wurman's "Understanding USA"
    (I find it needlessly garish, but it does include some good design features)
    http://www.understandingusa.com/
    
    Babbage's Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System
    http://cci.wmin.ac.uk/schaffer/schaffer01.html
    
    How the GOP Abandoned Social Security Privatization
    (but left a privatization paper trail a mile long)
    http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/06/kuttner-r-06-24.html
    
    Supreme Court decision in Cleveland vouchers case
    (now Republican politicians will have to defend their unpopular voucher stands)
    http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/01pdf/00-1751.pdf
    
    "why cities without gays and rock bands are losing the economic race"
    (gays and rock bands obviously need tax cuts)
    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0205.florida.html
    
    Fighting Global Warming Would Barely Dent the World's Economy
    http://www.spacedaily.com/news/greenhouse-02g.html
    
    special issue of Journal of Molecular Biology on life sciences and society
    http://www.idealibrary.com/links/toc/jmbi/319/4/0
    
    Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments
    (don't try this at home)
    http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/weird/microexp.html
    
    Antique Instruments to Raise Money for Berkeley Physics Department
    http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/06/27_physics.html
    
    Beyond T. Rex
    http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020701/misc/1dino.htm
    
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