Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war US Plan for Iraq Is Said to Include Attack on Three Sides (uh, except there don't exist countries on three sides that'll let us do it) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/05/international/middleeast/05IRAQ.html?pagewanted=print the invasion plan is ridiculous and the military people don't believe in it (but the government is run by nuts, so the generals do what they're told) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020705.atc.12.ram 9/11 Exposed Deadly Flaws in Rescue Plan http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/nyregion/07EMER.html?pagewanted=print did you know that the NY Times ran a puff piece about Scientology on 9/20/01? (Scientology offices are posting this article in their windows for recruitment) http://www.lisamcpherson.org/carmichael.htm After 9/11, a Steep Drop in Foreign Patients http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/188/metro/After_9_11_a_steep_drop_in_foreign_patientsP.shtml civil liberties and security the reality of the bag-scanning machines now being installed in airports http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/3613447.htm September 11th Hijackers Said to Fake Data on Bank Accounts http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/10/national/10TERR.html?pagewanted=print claims that al-Qaeda is hiding messages in images on eBay (can you find them?) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/07/10/web-terror-cover.htm Hackers Target Energy Industry http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-sci-hackers8jul08005047.story more on the potential for cyber attacks on infrastructure ("the digital controls typically lack even rudimentary security") http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3554402.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Richard Clarke claiming universities "are the major source of hack attacks" (news to me) http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/2002/01416243.html "end-users overwhelmingly support full disclosure of security vulnerabilities" http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26090.html interesting analysis of Microsoft's security claims for Palladium http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.14.html#subj4 Rental Car Tracking Spurs Suit (customers were charged $1 a mile for going outside company-imposed boundaries) http://www.azstarnet.com/star/sat/20706rentalcar2ftracking.html interagency dispute about the wiretapping of broadband http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/07/09/wiretap-net.htm conservative lobbying group's tracker for state-level homeland security bills (the links will download as Excel files) http://www.alec.org/viewpage.cfm?pgname=4.292 full text of documents relating to American independence http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm the criminal class "there's no capitalism without conscience" -- alliteration makes it so (and "defrauding investors is a serious offense") http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/07/20020709-4.html as expected, the speech was designed to sound impressive and mean little http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/10/business/10ASSE.html http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020709.atc.03.ram Investors Skeptical of Bush Plan (CEO's, though, found it thoughtful and judicious) http://www.msnbc.com/news/777992.asp http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/10/business/10REAC.html?pagewanted=print "Bush's personal fortune was built on privilege and insider dealings" (to be honest, his whole career is built on lying and cheating) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/opinion/07KRUG.html http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol17/issue19/pols.bush.html http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/bushboys.html http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=13539 "the president was also vague and dismissive about the accounting at Harken" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/09/business/09BUSH.html?pagewanted=print http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/09/business/09HARK.html?pagewanted=print http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067870 Cheney Led Halliburton to Feast at Federal Trough (and then he lied about it during his debate with Joe Lieberman) http://www.public-i.org/story_01_080200.htm Anger at Executives' Profits Fuels Support for Stock Curb ("much of what is going on here is symbolic") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/09/business/09PAY.html?pagewanted=print WorldCom Revised Statement Pursuant the Securities and Exchange Act (and several supporting exhibits) http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/worldcom/70802revsection21.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/worldcom/and20602audcom.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/worldcom/intaudit61202capex.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/worldcom/intaud61302capex.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/worldcom/6212402sullimemo.pdf Bernie Ebbers, capitalist, being treated like a communist (with this look on his face like he doesn't understand what he did wrong) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41627-2002Jul8?language=printer http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/10/business/10LEGA.html it only cost $500B us to remember that telecommunications is a natural monopoly (good thing the government wasn't in charge) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36589-2002Jul7?language=printer booming market for white-collar criminal defense attorneys http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1024078955007 The Role of the Board of Directors in Enron's Collapse http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/070702enronreport.pdf http://www.msnbc.com/news/777112.asp Enron bankruptcy legal fees headed for $250 million http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1024078944643 Accounting Abuses and Proposed Countermeasures (the abuses are pervasive) http://www.standardandpoors.com/Forum/RatingsCommentaries/CorporateFinance/Articles/070202_accounting.html politics jargon watch: study the artful falsehoods in this typical hate message (shrieking abuse at strangers is a political tactic of the dead) http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/hate.html Tennessee Senator suspends his re-election campaign after threatening calls (part of a long campaign of violence and intimidation by income tax opponents) http://www.wsmv.com/global/Frameset.asp?P=/Global/story.asp?s=845556&FramesetID=1 the Washington Times bemusedly reports a defense of Gore on the Internet (about two years after it would have been responsible to) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020705-30337228.htm jargon watch: study the numerous jargon devices in the first four paragraphs (sophistry, like circuitry, is growing exponentially) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-green5jul05.story religion Justice Scalia's Chilling Vision of Religious Authority in America http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/08/opinion/08WILE.html http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0205/articles/scalia.html Christian-Style Capitalism Grows in the South http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0709/p01s02-ussc.htm Lutheran leader suspended for participating in post-Sept. 11 multi-faith event (let's recall that interreligious strife was the reason for secular government) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30501-2002Jul5.html http://www.lcms.org/news/2002_037.html http://www.lcms.org/news/2001_100.html http://www.newstribune.com/stories/021602/sta_0216020002.asp http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A7821-2001Nov23 http://www.lcms.org/news/2001_097.html "less than 1/3 of born again Christians believe in absolute moral truth" (that's because the absolute-versus-relative distinction is simplistic) http://www.barna.org/cgi-bin/PagePressRelease.asp?PressReleaseID=106&Reference=B conferences hacking conference this weekend in New York http://www.h2k2.net/ Literary Analysis Meets HCI, London, 3 September 2002 http://cise.sbu.ac.uk/hci2002/w4.html Urban Data Management, Prague, 2-5 October 2002 http://www.udms.net/ Development by Design, Bangalore, 1-2 December 2002 http://www.thinkcycle.org/dyd02/ audio and paper archives from last year's conference http://www.thinkcycle.org/dyd/ Financial Cryptography, Guadeloupe, 27-30 January 2003 http://www.ifca.ai/fc03/ everything else Internet News Service Ordered to Stop Linking to Danish Papers' Web Sites http://www.nando.net/technology/story/457230p-3659078c.html http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0709-deeplink.html Pooling Open Source Software http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida/export/files/en/1115.pdf the sad life of a Microsoft customer http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26077.html "one sure way to stop unwanted e-mail is to make the senders pay" (Bob Hall at AT&T actually implemented a version of this years ago) http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-arrison08jul08.story spam blacklist case in Australia http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4646951%5e15306%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html project on ethics in socioeconomic research relating to IT http://www.respectproject.org/ map links starting from a given Web page (requires Java) http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html Bad Times Turn Worse for Venture Capitalists ("thousands more startups are desperately hanging on") http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3576927.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp community wireless in New York http://www.nycwireless.net/ entertaining site of weather stats http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/severeweather/extremes.html Mysteries Under Moscow (1997) http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/1997/mj97/mj97ilnitsky.html article about Mission of Burma (whose leader had a loft next door to mine in Boston in the 1980s) http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/2002/07/09/mission_burma/print.html http://www.missionofburma.com/ interesting commentaries on the architecture of museums (the examples are in this area but the issues are universal) http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=co&air_date=5/8/02&tmplt_type=Show http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=co&air_date=4/17/02&tmplt_type=Show http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=co&air_date=12/26/01&tmplt_type=show http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=co&air_date=3/7/01&tmplt_type=show http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=co&air_date=12/12/01&tmplt_type=show http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=co&air_date=12/19/01&tmplt_type=show http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=co&air_date=1/23/02&tmplt_type=show children's baseball field designed to prevent parents from interfering (architectural response to the ever more bizarre culture of competition) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020709.atc.20.ram an example of just how dogmatic billion-dollar science can be (but he should distinguish better between high- and limited-fat low-carb diets) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/07FAT.html?pagewanted=print end
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