Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented? http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,333835,00.html http://news.lycos.com/news/forms/printstory.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=482381 Exposing Al Qaeda's European Network http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/216/nation/Exposing_Al_Qaeda_s_European_networkP.shtml Who Declares a War? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/opinion/04RAKO.html?pagewanted=print The Hunt for the Anthrax Killer http://www.msnbc.com/news/789805.asp Performance Maintenance During Continuous Flight Operations (about amphetamine use by military pilots) http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/NAVMEDP-6410.pdf http://www.aerospacemed.org/downloads/gopills97.ppt Lost Voices of Firefighters, Some on the 78th Floor http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/nyregion/04WTC.html?pagewanted=print Post-9/11 Thefts From ATM Lead to NY Arrests http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dfraud6aug06 tacky WTC souvenirs from Canal Street http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2002/08/01/magazine/04gallery.1.jpg civil liberties and security After September 11th, a Legal Battle Over Limits of Civil Liberty ("secret arrests are a concept odious to a democratic society") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/national/04CIVI.html?pagewanted=print Charges Dropped Against Bomb Suspect at Library http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20020801&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=208010564&Template=printart high levels of management turnover at the FBI (given the FBI's record, why does the Post treat this as bad news?) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40928-2002Aug3?language=printer Reliability of Face-Scan Technology in Dispute (vendors focus on accuracy rates, not false positives and database problems) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/217/business/Reliability_of_face_scan_technology_in_disputeP.shtml New ID System Off to a Rough Start in Japan (does anyone have URL's for more detailed coverage of Japan's ID system?) http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Db%2Did6aug06 Privacy, Security, and Data Mining, Maebashi City, Japan, 9 December 2002 http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/clifton/psdm.html infrared cameras in wild areas to prevent auto collisions with animals (I'd like to see cameras in cities to measure on-time performance of the buses) http://www.stockhouse.com/news/news.asp?tick=RBP&newsid=1253038 Legal Issues in Monitoring Network Use, Webcast on Wednesday afternoon http://sans.digisle.tv/audiocast_080702/brief.htm Freedom and Privacy by Design http://foner.www.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Reports/TIS-WFPD/TIS-article.html lame Bush response to a civil liberties disaster in Egypt http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/opinion/04FRIE.html?pagewanted=print the bubble and the crash analysis of the Internet bubble http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/06/buy_lie_sell_high/print.html what happened at Andersen http://www.businessweek.com:/print/magazine/content/02_32/b3795001.htm more on the foolishness of "Dow 36,000" (at least some of the people who promoted the stock bubble are saying "oops") http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/dow36K.html http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000451.html "foreign ownership has made its way into almost every industry in the US" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/business/04INVE.html?pagewanted=print some questions Dick Cheney would have to answer if he were answering questions http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2002/08/06/tax_havens/print.html politics Bush's Conspiracy to Riot http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/080502a.html "you have to imply the falsehood without actually saying it outright" (jargonists treat politics as war against an infinitely evil foe) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/06/opinion/06KRUG.html?pagewanted=print http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_07_28_archive.html#85306714 http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_08_04_archive.html#85316637 "conservatives who hide the true cost of private Social Security accounts" (in the new language of politics, "truth" means whatever is expedient) http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_07_28_archive.html#85310293 confident now, conservatives are increasingly honest about what conservatism is (and it's not a pretty sight) http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/derbyshire/derbyshire080202.asp jargon watch: "when senators get together to fix prices on prescription drugs" (take the phrase stuck to us, "fix prices", blur it, and stick it to them) http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/511nqhkj.asp Majority Status Enriched GOP Areas http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48314-2002Aug6?language=printer jargon watch: "an unabashedly liberal campaign book" (media regularly treats liberalism as something to be abashed about) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/books/review/04BELLUCT.html?pagewanted=print "this time, the Democrats cannot blame a Bush for a problematic voting process" (huh? can you make any sense out of the final paragraph of this?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/politics/04FLOR.html?pagewanted=print Once Again, Florida Ballot Spurs Drumbeat of Complaints (Katherine Harris' final gift before moving along to Congress) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-florida4aug04.story Al Gore's rant against George Bush (what if five dozen pundits were ranting like this all day long?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/opinion/04GORE.html?pagewanted=print intellectual property Microsoft License Agreement Asks for Root Rights -- Again http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26517.html survey of corporate enclosures of various types (it's a boringly familiar argument, but this collation of specifics is useful) http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.3/bollier.html Cambridge University trying to take faculty's patents (we'll be happy to hire Cambridge's most productive scientists over here) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/expropriation.html ICANN: Nothing to Hide http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=888 everything else The HDTV Fiasco Gets Worse (trying to make things happen before they're ready) http://www.cato.org/cgi-bin/scripts/printtech.cgi/tech/tk/020805-tk.html more on the spread of Linux http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/software/2002-08-04-linux_x.htm Stupid Linking Policies http://www.dontlink.com/ Amtrak Subsidy Support Strong, Survey Shows (use the money to redesign the trains, or at least get the old ones back) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43767-2002Aug4?language=printer The Food Timeline http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html Neil Halstead http://www.beggars.com/cgi-bin/sound.cgi?l=HALSN-CAD2202CD-02-MP3-US end
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