Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Pick Hit: Pearl Jam, Binaural war How Bin Laden's Huge Convoy Gave American Forces the Slip (at least according to the Times) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-362078,00.html US Army to Carry Out Massive Exercise (from Agence France Presse) http://www.dawn.com/2002/07/24/int5.htm jargon watch: very disturbed column advocating indifference to civilian deaths (gangsta conservatism) http://www.townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/bs20020725.shtml more on US-EU relations http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15632 more on WTC redevelopment http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/26/opinion/26FLOR.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/26/MN152822.DTL&type=printable http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/53278.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/27/nyregion/27LOWE.html civil liberties and security General: US Military Doesn't Want Police Power http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&ncid=716&e=11&u=/nm/20020724/ts_nm/attack_military_dc_1 Citizen Padilla: Dangerous Precedents http://www.cato.org/cgi-bin/scripts/printtech.cgi/dailys/07-01-02.html Homeland Security Strategy Calls for Widespread Background Checks http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2002/0,4814,72921,00.html supermarket loyalty card database handed over to law enforcement http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0230/baard.php "phone companies can share a consumer's private information without consent" http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,102743,00.asp http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/printer/18634/ Privacy, Open Society and the Challenge of Sept. 11th, London, 6 September 2002 http://www.privacyinternational.org/conference/london2002/ Alabama Activates Tank Unit as Part of Homeland Defense (thus heading off al-Qaeda's infantry invasion of Mobile) http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/3683920.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp "homeland security training summer camps for teenagers" http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/3724243.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp The Department of Homeland Security: An Alternative That Will Work http://www.homelandsec.org/Pub_category/pdf/kettl-treverton_planrevised.pdf Interactive Maps of Nuclear Power Reactors http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/north_america.html http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/world_map.html technical detail on security problems with 802.11 wireless LAN's http://www.commsdesign.com/printableArticle?doc_id=OEG20020716S0003 http://www.commsdesign.com/printableArticle?doc_id=OEG20020723S0009 why electronic voting systems need to leave paper audit trails http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.17.html#subj4 Government Documents Roundtable (monitoring and protesting threats to public information) http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GODORT/legislation/ Crimes of War Project http://www.crimesofwar.org/ US May Block UN Torture Vote (invoking sovereignty selectively: human rights, yes, but not trade) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1900619,00.html corruption Papers Show Bush Played Active Role at Harken http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/news/politics/3735460.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=453&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0 "when a Bush is in power, Bush's business associates benefit" (theocratic cronyism is a sign of social decay - it's conservatism in practice) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/26/opinion/26KRUG.html Review of the Bush-Cheney 2000 Recount Fund and 527 Disclosure Law http://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/legislation/section527/articles.cfm?ID=8077 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A7904-2002Jul26?language=printer On the Wrong Track http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2927-2002Jul25.html Warren Harding: Biography http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/bios/29phard.html jargon watch: "he's trying to talk down the market ... he's basically saying ..." (they've settled into a pattern of twisting statements, as they did with Gore) http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2002/07/news0718a.html SEC v. Adelphia et al. ("one of the most extensive financial frauds ever at a public company") http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/sec/secvadelphia072402.html S&P 500 Price/Earnings and Price/Dividend Ratios (both are still far out of whack historically, even with inflated earnings) http://www.globinvestor.com/s&p.htm http://www.leggmason.com/capitalmarkets/research/images/commentary/pecomparison.gif http://www.globalfindata.com/trial/10004.php3 everything else interesting argument about shifting demographics of US politics http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020805&s=judis080502 jargon watch: a virtual pantheon of leading jargonists (one day our debased culture will recover its capacity for rational thought) http://www.hillsdale.edu/newimprimis/archives.htm Information Systems in the Context of Globalization, Athens, 15-17 June 2003 http://www.aueb.gr/ifip-isglob03/ Globalization: Stiglitz's Case http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15630 Amazon Web Services API http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/wlg/1707 How Web Services Are Changing the Internet http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068502&device= fights over future television architecture http://www.msnbc.com/news/783378.asp http://news.com.com/2102-1023-944917.html On the Trail of an Identity Thief ("the authorities are little help") http://www.msnbc.com/news/785533.asp FCC Strategic Plan http://www.fcc.gov/omd/strategicplan/ software industry group counts open source software use as "piracy" http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/07/20/1026898931824.html stunningly ill-designed competitor to the Access Guides (do the Access Guides have a patent on putting numbers on the map?) http://www.moon.com/metro/ photojournalism sites (from the July/August 2002 issue of Columbia Journalism Review on the topic) http://www.digitaljournalist.org/ http://www.journale.com/ http://www.pdn-pix.com/ http://www.pixelpress.org/ http://www.red-top.com/ http://www.reportage.org/ http://www.zonezero.com/ http://www.f8.com/ http://www.foto8.com/ NASA Visible Earth http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/ Postcard Resources (turns out there's a whole subculture of postcard enthusiasts -- of course!) http://www.library.arizona.edu/users/mount/postcard.html the true spirit of rock and roll ("what happened next was incontrovertible proof that he wasn't feeling well") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/arts/music/24RADA.html?pagewanted=print NBC Gets Its Own Ice Cream Flavors (barf) http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=35520 end
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