Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war cowboy culture in the US Army's biowarfare labs ("a decade's delay in bothering to look for missing Ebola seems a bit much") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/19/opinion/19KRIS.html Highly Mobile, Lightly Armed British Forces to Take on Terrorists (anyone have a URL for this report? sounds similar to RAND-type scenarios) http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,11816,757759,00.html Army-USC program to get Hollywood's ideas for future warfare http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-institute19jul19012049.story controversy about World Trade Center redevelopment http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature47.htm http://www.renewnyc.com/concepts.htm http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2002_07_17.htm http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2002_07_18.htm http://www.economist.com/world/na/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1239255 http://imagineny.org/resources/inysummaryreport.html http://www.imaginenyideas.org/Projects/Imagine/ideaGallery.asp France's Islam Problem (the article is better than the title) http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/435tebxi.asp how the Catholics won the civil war in Northern Ireland (by going to college) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/18/international/europe/18ULST.html?pagewanted=print civil liberties and security US Held 600 Immigrants for Secret Rulings http://www.freep.com/news/mich/secret18_20020718.htm "Ashcroft is a hype artist who plays fast and loose with the truth" (pattern of exaggerated and opportunistic warnings of terrorism) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22349-2002Jul17?language=printer House bill to ban the "TIPS" citizen informer program (oddly becoming controversial now though it become public maybe six months ago) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-spy19jul19.story Britain's Internet spying law goes into effect next month http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2124000/2124551.stm radical changes proposed to British criminal law (among other things, reinstating double jeopardy after 800 years) http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=315994 foolish liberals mocking the dangers of a stealth national ID (think for one second: you can improve licenses without standardizing them) http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/07/tapped-s-07-15.html#300pmhomeland "Face Testing" at Logan Airport Is Found Lacking http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/198/metro/_Face_testing_at_Logan_is_found_lackingP.shtml Logan Proposing Driver's License Scan http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/196/metro/Logan_proposing_driver_s_license_scanP.shtml Liberty Alliance Launches First Specifications Giving Users Simplified Sign-On (competitor to Passport; of uncertain reality) http://www.projectliberty.org/press/releases/2002-07-15-1.html article that takes the Liberty Alliance specs seriously http://www.economist.com/business/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1240843 Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing, Goteborg, 29 September 2002 http://guir.berkeley.edu/privacyworkshop2002/ The National Strategy for Homeland Security http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/book/ applications of GIS in homeland security http://www.fortune.com/indext.jhtml?channel=print_article.jhtml&doc_id=208640 a world of gadgets being reinvented as homeland security tech http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-terrortech17jul17005048.story geekish publicity piece about patent examiners' role in homeland security http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/opa/pulse/epulse/pulse0204_4.htm new issue of PR Watch: corporate information warfare against citizens http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q2/ Create Your Record of Service http://www.networkforgood.org/usafreedomcorps/recordofservice/ the criminal class Bush and the Texas Land Grab ("it was a $200 million transfer to Bush and Rangers owners") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/opinion/16KRIS.html Bush Brothers Practice Capitalism for the Rich (Bush and Cheney spent much of 2001 working similar deals for their friends) http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/3667101.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp White House Watch: Credibility Problem http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20020717-062330-9990r.htm Dick Cheney's problems http://talkingpointsmemo.com/july0203.html#071602346am http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=2469 "little-noticed executive orders to ease the tax burden on corporate America" (they should all be investigated) http://www.thehill.com/050802/treasury.shtm Washington Masks Deficits Using Accounting Tricks (this is the important point: the Enron culture controls the government) http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2002/07/16/nceditf.htm some interesting polls http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/18/politics/18POLL.html?pagewanted=print http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/corporatecrimes_poll020716.html http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/17/opinion/polls/main515481.shtml Ed Asner reads Alan Greenspan's testimony on corporate greed and fraud (for those outside the US, Asner is a famously social-democratic actor) http://marketplace.org/shows/2002/07/16_mpp.html jargon watch: "Bush's message was as tough as a sermon at a liberal church" (common device: admit a fault but do it by smearing the concept back onto Them) http://www.msnbc.com/news/746662.asp Political Fallout of Corporate Scandals http://www.ipsospa.com/pubaff/dsp_displaypr_us.cfm?id_to_view=1568 deregulation and privatization? why, we never supported any such thing! http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/business/17CONG.html?pagewanted=print http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21966-2002Jul17.html House GOP's Leaders Fight Audit Plan (make my day -- though we'll have to see if the Democrats flake on options) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16029-2002Jul16?language=printer explanation of the difference between the House and Senate reform bills http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22356-2002Jul17?language=printer jargon watch: "they're fine with someone losing their entire life savings" (much excellent jargon in this article -- this particular quote takes the cake) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-rnc19jul19.story Stock Options Said Not to Be as Widespread as Backers Say (like with the estate tax: protecting the few by pretending many are affected) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/18/business/18OPTI.html Republican analysis of the politics of Social Security privatization (they're hosed) http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/nrcc.soc.sec.complete.pdf but they're going ahead anyway http://www.nandotimes.com/politics/story/469665p-3753823c.html interview with a retiree who lost his life savings in the stock market slump (stoically going back to work at 67) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020718.atc.03.ram Majority Less Likely to Invest Because of Scandals http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=601 financial "experts" who shafted investors with "buy-and-hold" advice (even though stocks were absurdly overpriced by historical norms) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fi-investors19jul19012049.story more on the culture of creative accounting at AOL http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28624-2002Jul18?language=printer ugly article about Bernie Ebbers http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-pfriendly/story/3964p-3555c.html jargon watch: "the reflexively focusing all energies on punishing executives" (comfortable billionaire dares to compare the current uproar to communism) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16187-2002Jul16?language=printer "I was embarrassed to tell people I was a CEO" http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfi%2Dceo18jul18005040 everything else introduction to newspaper design (sample chapter from a publisher) http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olc/dl/24076/013_042.pdf article about asynchronous computing (easier said than done) http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00013F47-37CF-1D2A-97CA809EC588EEDF&catID=2 the ugly world of corporate software contracts (open source open source open source) http://news.com.com/2009-1017-943258.html The Cult of Linux http://www.forbes.com/technology/2002/07/16/linuxintro.html?partner=newscom Half the Nation's R&D Concentrated in Six States (and nine of the top ten R&D states voted Democratic in 2000) http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/infbrief/nsf02322/start.htm Environmental Informatics, Vienna, 25-27 September 2002 http://enviroinfo.isep.at/ pervasive "cornification" of the food supply due to federal subsidies ("why feed fish corn? because it's the cheapest thing you can feed any animal") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/19/opinion/19POLL.html possible mechanism of cancer risk from extremely low frequency EM fields (hardly conclusive; it's just interesting how this sort of work is done) http://www.cancerci.com/content/2/1/3 Immense, Ravenous Carp Ready to Eat Way Through Great Lakes (requires registration with somewhat obnoxious privacy policies) http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0207180219jul18 http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-carp19jul19012049.story Find Sheds Light on Antics of Huge Flying Lizard (and someone caught a foot-long red-bellied piranha in a US lake) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,757826,00.html end
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