[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 13:40:43 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
    
    
    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
    
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