[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 08:53:38 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
    
    Problems With Iraq Invasion Plans
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/780434.asp
    http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,755059,00.html
    
    Rumsfeld trying to reduce Congressional oversight
    ("the proposals are the tip of the iceberg")
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Ddefense15jul15
    
    Memorial Park Plays Large Part in Preliminary Trade Center Plans
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/nyregion/16REBU.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10136-2002Jul15?language=printer
    
    At Morgue, Ceaselessly Sifting 9/11 Traces
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/nyregion/14EXAM.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    a wide-ranging rant against the war on terrorism
    http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,754972,00.html
    
    Justice Department to Attempt Shutdown of 9/11 Evidence
    (I have no idea)
    http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00087.htm
    
    jargon watch: "journalist is detained because he questioned US Saudi policies"
    (WSJ editors resort to tendentious language even when they're in the right)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/?id=110001991
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63413-2002Jul12.html
    http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document071502.asp
    
    In China's West, Ethnic Strife Becomes "Terrorism"
    (not to mention "evil")
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4215-2002Jul14.html
    
    former Gap executive freaking about suits against multinationals in US courts
    (did you know that Unocal is on trial for human rights abuses in Burma?)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63990-2002Jul13?language=printer
    
    Will California Voters Opt for "Opting In"?
    http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2002/nf20020711_5915.htm?c=bwinsiderjul12&n=link7&t=email
    
    Linux Attacks on the Rise?
    (now we'll see whether open source systems really are easier to defend)
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26177.html
    
    
    the criminal class
    
    Harken Papers Offer Details on Bush Knowledge
    (but all this was reported during the campaign -- it's only new to the Post)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1447-2002Jul13.html
    
    so maybe their logic-challenged editorial about Harken is no longer operational
    (they argued in 1994 for investigating Whitewater though it was clearly bogus)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58393-2002Jul11.html
    
    Secrecy Surrounds Bush Stock Deal
    (where are all the jokers who thought it crucial to investigate Whitewater?)
    http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2002/07/12/harken/
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9841-2002Jul15?language=printer
    
    Bush's pattern of inside dealing began in Texas
    (and his inventive budget accounting has been Harkenesque from day one)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/opinion/16KRUG.html
    
    must-hear interview with James Doty on the SEC "investigation" of Bush
    (in which Bob Edwards tries not to laugh as he pulls out a letter)
    http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=07/12/2002&PrgID=3
    
    Why Investigation of Bush's Stock Sale "Just Didn't Pan Out"
    (and the claims we hear that Whitewater hadn't been investigated were false)
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dharken14jul14
    
    Bush Signed Stock "Lockup" Letter
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&u=/ap/20020716/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_harken_2&printer=1
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10786-2002Jul16.html
    
    Right on the Money: The George W. Bush Profile
    http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=431&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0&Task=Print
    http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=434&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0&Task=Print
    
    jargon watch: "only an hour and a half after the speech did the market decline"
    (standard device: break an association by putting something else in the middle)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63482-2002Jul12?language=printer
    
    jargon watch: "it's more about the policies than anything about the president"
    (a very basic example of the PR strategy of breaking and building associations)
    http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2002/07/11/loans/
    
    "at some point, Cheney is going to have to address these accounting questions"
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/780130.asp
    http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,320735,00.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10129-2002Jul15?language=printer
    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scheer16jul16.column
    
    corporate crime task force is led by a past director of a corporate criminal
    http://www.canada.com/hamilton/story.asp?id={264BC6B1-135F-46CF-8DB6-BBC02B9CD829}
    
    Broad Skepticism Over Accounting Punishes the Stock Price of AOL
    (you may recall that AOL was famous for its accounting from its earliest days)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/15/technology/15AOL.html?pagewanted=print
    
    John McCain's speech on corporate criminals
    http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/07/12/mccain/print.html
    
    adjusting business incentives to prevent future scandals
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/449zsyik.asp
     
    An Idea Gone Haywire: Linking Executive Pay to Sales
    (it isn't just democracy that can get hammered by unanticipated consequences)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/business/yourmoney/14WATC.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Stocks' Slide Is Playing Havoc With Older Americans' Dreams
    (to this day I hear financial "experts" telling people to buy stocks)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/business/14INVE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    "1/3 of all profits in the boom years was the result of one accounting gimmick"
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/780027.asp
    
    
    politics
    
    Ottawa Says Bush "Texans" Tried to Bully G8 Host
    http://www.nationalpost.com/components/printstory/printstory.asp?id=5CC39E73-A239-4A2E-9F5E-AA00AA900FF5
    
    White House Chooses a Friday Afternoon to Project a Higher Budget Deficit
    (everyone knows the game: they're causing deficits as a political strategy)
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/12/budget.deficit/
    
    jargon watch: "everything, everywhere is George W's fault"
    (the stupidity throughout this column isn't random; it's minutely cultivated)
    http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=\\Commentary\\archive\\200207\\COM20020710b.html
    
    jargon watch: J. C. Watts' very sad comments on "tokenism"
    (don't face the truth; harp misleadingly about what you'll get "accused of")
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4268-2002Jul14.html
    
    jargon watch: "liberals will do what it takes to keep control of the high court"
    (projection: to justify taking control, falsely allege the others have control)
    http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_3_why_the_battle.html
    
    jargon watch: what counts as a negative review of Ann Coulter's demented book
    (jargon afurl, he praises her calumnies but would fine-tune her politics)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26274-2002Jul4.html
    
    Pat Oliphant's editorial cartoons
    http://www.ucomics.com/patoliphant/
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Linker vs. Lawyer: The Deep Link Controversy Continues
    http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0716-linkcon.html
    
    economically illiterate article about concert tickets
    (prices up 11%, unit sales down only 3% -- bad for fans, but for the industry?)
    http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/reuters20020714_252.html
    
    new public interest group on intellectual property
    http://www.publicknowledge.org/
    
    TCPA and Palladium: Sony Inside
    http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/9/17842/90350
    
    
    everything else
    
    new cyberculture magazine
    http://www.21cmagazine.com/
    
    Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions and Intervention
    http://www.comunica.org/netknowledge/
    
    Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance
    http://wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/Report/NBIC_frontmatter.pdf
    
    NSF Middleware Initiative
    http://www.nsf-middleware.org/
    
    what carbon nanotubes can do
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/science/physical/16NANO.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Visiting Professorship in e-Democracy at the Oxford Internet Institute
    http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/demprof.shtml
    
    Search Engines Not Differentiating Ads From Results
    ("Google was the only engine that appeared to meet all the FTC criteria")
    http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/07/12/online-search-engines.htm
    
    "Yahoo's e-mail has long been replacing complete words in mail to its users"
    http://www.ntk.net/2002/07/12/
    
    Stanford President Plugs Campus Into World of VCs and Start-Ups
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3647476.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    game site's review of the Army's online game
    http://pc.ign.com/articles/361/361145p1.html
    
    AOpen Announces AX4B-533Tube: World's First Vacuum Tube Motherboard
    (now this is something I'd never have heard of otherwise)
    http://club.aopen.com.tw/News/News_showAnswer_New.asp?RecNo=713&Language=English
    http://english.aopen.com.tw/products/mb/ax4b-533tube.htm
    http://english.aopen.com.tw/products/mb/Pax4b-533tube1.htm
    
    design consequences of fuel cells for the rest of the car
    ("the industry's sincerity in developing fuel-cell cars is hard to determine")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/15/technology/15NECO.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Switzerland confronts the conflict between competition and efficiency
    (and we thought they were the same)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/13/international/europe/13SWIS.html?pagewanted=print
    
    The Mystery of the Forgotten US Flag Revealed
    http://ddi.digital.net/~kenaston/Patr/USCivFlag.html
    
    the Washington Post's paganism is finally in the open
    http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/07/tapped-s-07-15.html#305pmzeus
    
    A Pesticide-Parasite Role in Frogs' Deformities?
    ("if common pesticides compromise the immune system of a vertebrate ...")
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4387-2002Jul14.html
    
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