[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 09:00:56 PDT


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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