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: dj Cheb i Sabbah, Krishna Lila
war
Halliburton to Build New Cells at Guantanamo Base
(talk about your revolving doors)
http://commondreams.org/headlines02/0727-02.htm
House vote to investigate intelligence failures behind September 11th
(which was not widely reported)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002-07-26-house-panel_x.htm
online lecture series about September 11th
http://www.yale.edu/dsj/
more on WTC redevelopment
http://reconstructionreport.org/
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/30/nyregion/30LOWE.html?pagewanted=print
FDNY Reviewing Procedures After September 11th Deaths
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/474782p-3794449c.html
Campaign of Terror in Guatemala
(again)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10616-2002Jul27?language=printer
civil liberties and security
article on government information-sharing and quote-unquote homeland security
http://www.ndol.org/print.cfm?contentid=250675
War on Terrorism Highlights FBI's Computer Woes
http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dcomputer28jul28005104
http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dtechnology29jul29
OMB Halts Spending for Homeland Security IT
http://www.gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcn2&story.id=19472
Information Sharing and Homeland Security, Philadelphia, 19-21 August 2002
http://www.federalevents.com/ishs/
Hamdi, Lindh, Terrorism and the Courts
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/mariner/20020722.html
Council Task Force Urges the Bush Administration to Upgrade Public Diplomacy
http://www.cfr.org/public/resource.cgi?pub!4681
Higher Education Contribution to National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=NET0027
Wi-Fi Honeypots a New Hacker Trap
(makes no sense until we settle the rules for legitimate use of others' WLAN's)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26434.html
FCC declining to make rules on locational privacy
http://www.epic.org/privacy/wireless/FCC_order.pdf
"advanced mobile privacy and security"
http://www.pampas.eu.org/
Identix Supports Proposed New Jersey Biometric Legislation
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020730/latu079_1.html
Biometrics, Hawaii, 10-13 November 2002
http://biometrics.wcc.hawaii.edu/
cops pulling people over at random to conduct a marketing survey
(this may be the weirdest item I've ever carried on RRE)
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA5WPU8Z3D.html
Crash Recounts Florida's Last Election Imbroglio
(the FedEx plane that crashed? it was only one of the problems)
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA4Z9RZ44D.html
corruption
extensive pattern of accounting fraud in both government and business
(someone's finally reporting the appalling case of New Jersey under Whitman)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/30/opinion/30KRUG.html
Bush's Tangled Past Is Relevant Today
http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=6128
CEO Assets Now a Debit for Cheney
http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dcheney29jul29005041
The Corporate Scandal Sheet
http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/07/25/accountingtracker.html
"the Internet's largest collection of internal corporate communications"
http://internalmemos.com/memos/
series about what happened at Enron
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18876-2002Jul29?language=printer
WorldComNews
http://www.worldcomnews.com/
Blame Newt Gingrich for WorldCom
http://www.redherring.com/columns/2002/friday/lastword062802.html
of course you've heard about Qwest -- but do you know who their auditor was?
(oh, you do -- okay, never mind)
http://msnbc.com/news/786870.asp
jargon watch: "a typical Clinton response: attack and politicize"
(projection: they attack, he defends himself, they accuse him of attacking)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10947-2002Jul27?language=printer
programmed to pin business scandals on Them, the machine went after Bob Rubin
(its victims must be kept in an uproar, screaming abuse at imaginary enemies)
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/getrubin.html
The Corporate Abuse-Reform Cycle
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-06/29herman.cfm
intellectual property
Auerbach v. ICANN
http://www.eff.org/Infra/DNS_control/ICANN_IANA_IAHC/Auerbach_v_ICANN/20020729_superior_court_ruling.html
http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-29jul02.htm
comment on privacy aspects of rights management systems
http://www.epic.org/privacy/drm/tadrmcomments7.17.02.html
more on the proposed law to let copyright holders interfere with file sharing
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/cyberlaw/p2pbill072602.pdf
http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998,a=29478,00.asp
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/30/file_trading/print.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/29/technology/29DIGI.html?pagewanted=print
http://www.urbanreflex.com/may24_02/record.html
Will Independent Webcasters Survive the New Copyright Royalties?
(only for people who are following the issue closely)
http://www.weeklydig.com/?ContentId=1234
conferences
eGovernment, Aix-en-Provence, 2-6 September 2002
http://falcon.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/news/cfp_egovernment2002.html
Digital Economy, Paris, 24-25 October 2002
http://www.ensmp.fr/~scherer/men/confint/
Information Society Technologies, Copenhagen, 4-6 November 2002
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/programmes/research/ist_event_2002/index_en.htm
everything else
have you actually *read* any of the "Left Behind" books?
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/07/29/left_behind/print.html
jargon watch: evidence presented just so, to sound like it proves a conspiracy
(counting on readers not to know this sort of thing is common and bipartisan)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak29.html
a study in the self-deceptions of a spammer
("it's not wrong, because right and wrong are moralistic interpretations")
http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/07/26/1027497416227.html
Reinventing Medical Records and Patient Care (1MB file)
(dissertation based on an extended ethnographic study of an HMO)
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~judithg/phd_mstrx.pdf
IBM to Enable Honda Drivers to Talk to Cars
(and you can just imagine what they'll be saying)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3755134.htm
article about Scientology's new headquarters in (where else?) Florida
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/28/NorthPinellas/Unmistakable_presence.shtml
The Wacky World of Japanese Ice Cream
(what would we do without Japan?)
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/japano/0207/ice-cream/1.html
What Are the Odds of Dying?
(on these sorts of statistics, see also Bowker and Star's "Sorting Things Out")
http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
Extreme Survival Quiz
http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/extremesurvival/extremesurvival.html
Thousands of Squid Wash Ashore in California
("they made these strange noises like a dolphin or a seal")
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/07/27/squid.deaths.ap/
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