Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war Anthrax? The FBI Yawns http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/opinion/02KRIS.html article on the CIA's Counterterrorism Center http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,267725,00.html Terror Was Low Priority Before September 11th http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1842913,00.html Arab Human Development Report 2002 http://www.undp.org/rbas/ahdr/ The Ad Council: Campaign for Freedom http://www.adcouncil.org/campaigns/campaign_for_freedom/ civil liberties and security Report Says CCTV Surveillance Is Overrated http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4450705,00.html Rebellion Over British Plans for a National ID Card http://www.observer.co.uk/libertywatch/story/0,1373,746744,00.html Supermarket Cards: The Pricing Issues http://www.nocards.org/savings/index.shtml "security vulnerabilities in a ubiquitous Internet remote management protocol" http://online.securityfocus.com/news/474 corruption Bush decries executives who "fudge the numbers" (that's funny: Bush personifies the culture of corporate number-fudging) http://money.cnn.com/2002/06/28/news/companies/worldcom/index.htm Bush Violated Security Laws Four Times, SEC Report Says http://www.public-i.org/story_01_100400.htm http://www.public-i.org/story_01_040400.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/opinion/02KRUG.html SEC Chief Vows Ongoing Audit Probe of Halliburton http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A5561-2002Jun30?language=printer http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=310471 the destruction caused by systemic fraud at WorldCom ("of the 29 or 30 carriers, easily 20 of them could declare bankruptcy") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/business/yourmoney/30TELE.html?pagewanted=print http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2002/tc20020628_3955.htm The Collapse of Enron: A Bibliography of Online Resources http://www.llrx.com/features/enron.htm the new adventures of Ken Starr http://arktimes.com/reporter/020628reportera.html Market Extremists Amok http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/13/phillips-k.html The Power of the Super-Rich http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15605 politics read the final quote from Bush in this article on judicial appointments (he is attacking the Constitution's ban on religious tests for judges, VI.3) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55614-2002Jun27.html jargon watch: food stamps are "vouchers"! (NPR has relaxed its stupid linking policy, so now I can bring you this URL) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020627.atc.10.ram majoritarianism is bad in economics, we're told, but not in religion (opposition to majority rule has defined conservatism for millennia) http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=cohn070102 Bush and company are openly trying to destroy the profession of teaching (the reason is simple: teachers form unions) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/29/opinion/29LEVI.html Bush is now using "national security" to shut down union organizing (elastic concepts are the enemies of democracy) http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024078914123 media blackout on best-selling liberal books (those tricky liberals, always up to something) http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13476 Timber Family May Cancel Its Scholarship (this is a preview of a conservative society run by local elites) http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/134485586_timber01.html The States' Rights Scam (jargon lets you keep two opposite arguments ready, whichever is convenient) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/178/oped/The_states_rights_scam+.shtml Senate Race: Coleman, Wellstone Remain Nearly Tied http://www.startribune.com/stories/784/3022716.html everything else Burst.com Accuses Microsoft of Theft http://news.com.com/2100-1023-937501.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020620.html http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/convergence/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1521467 "Microsoft has just assumed the right to attack your computer" http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25956.html For the Anti-Spammers, It's All-Out E-War http://www.ctnow.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=hc%2D2sp1rothjul01 http://www.ctnow.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=hc%2Dsp1scelsonjun30 new issue of The Technology Source on educational computing http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=issue&id=165 Library Digitization Projects and Copyright http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm All Educational and Community Radio Webcasts Are in Jeopardy http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~willr/cb/sos/ more on community wireless in San Francisco http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/30/BU161955.DTL&type=printable article about media designer Ben Rubin http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0702/rub/ the peculiar economics of auction design http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1200807 article about a conference on the Riemann zeta hypothesis http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/science/physical/02MATH.html?pagewanted=print An Online Journal of Ideas from Architectural Record http://archrecord.construction.com/InTheCause/default.asp long article about the chronic weirdness at the Guggenheim Museum (anyone have a URL for a list of the new art museums being built worldwide?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/magazine/30KRENS.html?pagewanted=print Systematic Pattern of Rainfall Across US Discovered http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0627022.htm Freakish Fish Causes Fear in Maryland ("it's the baddest bunny in the bush") http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52395-2002Jun26.html end
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