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: Myra Melford, Dance Beyond the Color Did anybody tape CNN on the morning of 9/11? Can you send me a dub? war Aggressive New Tactics Proposed for Terror War http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38165-2002Aug2?language=printer US Returns to Theory of Iraq Link to September 11th ("despite deep doubts by the CIA and FBI ...") http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfg%2Diraq2aug02 Mobilizations Hint at Date and Strategy for Iraq War (probably a temporary link) http://www.stratfor.com/fib/topStory_print.php?ID=205579 Rumsfeld's role in dealing with Saddam while Iraq was using chemical weapons http://commondreams.org/views02/0802-01.htm article about bin Laden's relations with the Taliban http://www.msnbc.com/news/788932.asp more on amphetamine use by US fighter pilots (gives new meaning to the phrase "war on drugs") http://makeashorterlink.com/?I53E21D61 Future Combat Systems http://www.boeing.com/fcs/ UN Report on Jenin (in which the PA wrests propaganda defeat from the jaws of victory) http://www.un.org/peace/jenin/ Bush's Support for Reformers Again Backfires in Iran (so, idiot or jerk? I say jerk) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38398-2002Aug2?language=printer Scientist Says FBI Asked About Setup (it's the Washington Times so who knows, but it sure is weird) http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20020803-26337484.htm Fire Department Lapses on 9/11 Are Cited http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/03/nyregion/03FIRE.html?pagewanted=print New York Plans Code Overhaul for High-Rises http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/nyregion/02CODE.html?pagewanted=print civil liberties and security decision that US courts have no jurisdiction over prisoners at Guantanamo (so the US government can detain anyone and hold them indefinitely w/o trial) http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/rasulvbush073102dsm.pdf Order Directing the Department of Justice to Disclose Identities of Detainees http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/cnssvdoj080202ord.pdf GM Unveiling OnStar Service That Will Automatically Relay Crash Data http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_technology/3774573.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp a lot of big talk about a war between hackers and the FBI http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,766789,00.html Klez Microsoft Worm Tops the Virus Charts (I get several Klez messages a day) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/26473.html speakers and abstracts from Defcon http://www.defcon.org/dcx-speakers.html New Security Paradigms, Virginia Beach, 23-26 September 2002 http://www.nspw.org/current/ papers from a workshop on "economics and information security" http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/affiliates/workshops/econsecurity/ corruption Florida Recount Funded by Enron/Halliburton http://www.thedailyenron.com/documents/20020730085550-68379.asp http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2EC52D61 Bush-Cheney Recount Fund Filed Disclosure Forms Plagued With Errors http://www.publiccitizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=348 Bush, Cheney Under Fire Over Offshore Subsidiaries http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/31/bush.harken.reut/ http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/7314p-6742c.html http://www.citizenworks.org/admin/press/halliburton-pr.php Bush Admits Offshore Tax Haven Problem (he's sure got a problem) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=536&e=1&cid=536&u=/ap/20020801/ap_on_go_co/tax_havens_21 Questions on Halliburton Deal Under Cheney (caution, though: it's by Jeff Gerth, chronic recycler of partisan half-truth) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/01/business/01HALL.html?pagewanted=print Deputy AG Thompson Made Providian Profit ("the stock plummeted when the company surprised investors with problem loans") http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A33804-2002Aug1?language=printer summary of Democratic allegations against Bush, Cheney, Thompson, and White (but the important thing isn't crimes but the larger pattern) http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/bushcorpltrattach72402.pdf incredulous chortling as Bill Simon's company is found guilty of fraud (Republican candidate for governor of California) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-me-simon2aug02005054.story http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-support2aug02005054.story fraudulent budget accounting in New Jersey under Whitman (e.g., the lame-duck GOP legislature deliberately ran crippling deficits) http://www.njpp.org/moneyrun.html WorldCom Execs Surrender (okay, they're being handcuffed, good, but what kind of prison are they in?) http://www.msnbc.com/news/788228.asp http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/worldcom/usvsull080102comp.pdf http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024079088274 More Perp Walks, Please (whatever happened to the Justice Department's Enron investigation?) http://money.cnn.com/2002/08/01/news/perpwalk/index.htm Executives in Top US Collapses Made $3.3bn (and to think there are kids who want to be drug dealers when they grow up) http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1028039797414&p=1027953298906 the accounting accusations against AOL are less serious than others http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068762 SEC Web Site Provides Link to CEO, CFO Certifications of Financial Statements http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2002-115.htm http://www.sec.gov/rules/extra/staff21a1.htm poll of CFO's on pressure to commit fraud http://www.cfo.com/printarticle/0,5317,7502|,00.html Enron Pact Troubled Merrill Employee http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23497-2002Jul30?language=printer http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/3769254.htm corporate bankruptcies being filed in New York, allegedly to get better deals http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024079068893 Another Accounting Issue: Pension Funds and Executive Pay http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6115/view/print the new business reform law http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gwbush/sarbanesoxley072302.pdf Legal Reasons to Keep E-Mail, Web Pages and Other Records http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2000-all/gall-2000-09-all.html Corporate Lawyers Subject to New Reporting Obligations http://radio.weblogs.com/0110692/2002/07/26.html#a31 many facts that I hadn't known about the S&P 500 stock index http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068724 Protesters Say Bill Is Designed to Halt Berlusconi's Trial http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4473291,00.html politics Bill Would Grant Executive Branch Sweeping Authority to Override Federal Laws http://www.cbpp.org/5-13-02tanf.pdf What Is Going On With the Justice Department and Guns? http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024079069179 Ancient History: The Deficits of the 1980s (except it's not ancient history: we're reliving the 1980s without the growth) http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000432.html the sort of person that George Bush thinks should be a judge for life http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20020725.html the latest antics of Katherine Harris (what's going *on* down there?) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-harris3aug03.story http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/national/02HARR.html?pagewanted=print false accusations of media bias are projection (if people can be persuaded to screen out the news, then they'll believe lies) http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh072902.shtml http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh073002.shtml http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh073102.shtml Will Hillary And Bill Clinton Be Reimbursed For Whitewater Legal Fees? ("a pattern in favor of reimbursement of conservatives") http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020802.html read the first of these letters about the article on the "Left Behind" books (some of the others are interesting too, though I don't endorse them all) http://www.salon.com/books/letters/2002/08/02/aug02/print.html FEC Rules on "Issue Ads" Decried (campaigns are a mess, but those ads are totally protected speech) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29076-2002Jul31?language=printer intellectual property Digital Library for Nuclear Issues (an actual small example of a digital library) http://alsos.wlu.edu/ death throes of UCITA, once considered unstoppable http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947182.html why starving Zimbabwe is rational to reject US genetically engineered corn (the zealots here are the people using famine to force GE on vulnerable people) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23728-2002Jul30?language=printer more on the sad life of a Microsoft customer (open source open source open source) http://news.com.com/2100-1001-947164.html article on changing relations between open source and corporate vendors http://www.economist.com/business/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1251254 Pressplay Revamps Online Music Service (do they have any customers at all?) http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/3777666.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Save Internet Radio http://www.saveinternetradio.org/ Institutional Repositories' Critical Role in Reforming Scholarly Communication http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=f60 design Don Norman's design columns http://www.jnd.org/ Everything I Need to Know About Usability, I Learned at the Arcade http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/us-cranky17.html tech design and customer support for people with disabilities in US versus EU http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2165893.stm everything else The Impact of State Anti-Spam Laws (with, ahem, "practical tips for companies that want to use e-mail marketing") http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2002-all/wood-2002-03-all.html http://caag.state.ca.us/_misc/content/spam.htm Social and Ethical Impacts of ICT's, Lisbon, 13-15 November 2002 http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/conferences/ethicomp2002/ The Digital Divide From an Ethical Viewpoint, Augsburg, 3-5 October 2002 http://www.capurro.de/augsburg2.htm fraud vigilantes on eBay http://www.msnbc.com/news/784132.asp cool online map collection http://www.davidrumsey.com/ GPS Sparks Boundary Wars http://www.msnbc.com/news/789040.asp overview of economists' schools of thought http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/home.htm "the disconnect between trade rules and development" http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/070280.html Matthew Jay rtsp://212.135.73.204/matthew_jay/youre_always_going_too_soon.rm end
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