Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war military turning to Congress to derail Bush's plan for a war against Iraq (and here all these military officers thought they were Republicans) http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/15/vest-j.html the prospect of war on Iraq puts Tony Blair in a tough spot ("Mr. Bush's spectacular unpopularity among British voters") http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4477556,00.html http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,772576,00.html How Al-Qaeda Slipped Away http://www.msnbc.com/news/791852.asp where they went http://www.balochistanpost.com/ Al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia: The Case of the "Ngruki Network" in Indonesia http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/projects/showreport.cfm?reportid=733 Rohrabacher Secretly Met Taliban Prior to 9/11 (according to his opponent) http://www.schipske4congress.org/afghanstn.html http://www.afghan-info.com/News/April13_update.htm In Disasters, Panic Is Rare; Altruism Dominates http://www.asanet.org/media/panic.html civil liberties and security Under Fire, Justice Shrinks TIPS Program (some critics overhyped it; still, it's just one part of a larger apparatus) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A921-2002Aug9?language=printer ABA Task Force on Treatment of Enemy Combatants http://www.abanet.org/media/aug02/enemy_combatants.html Alex Padilla: "authorities are not even interested in making a case" http://www.msnbc.com/news/792462.asp US secret detentions in global context http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/weekinreview/11CROS.html?pagewanted=print an instant expert's outline of the arguments for a national ID card (so you can check that you know why they're wrong) http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/0811/id.htm more on the Japanese ID system (an excellent drama) http://nationalid.hantai.jp/ http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3847177.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3816796.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2002/08/11/idsystem/ http://australianit.news.com.au/common/print/0,7208,4883957%5E15441%5E%5Enbv%5E15306%2D15319,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/06/international/asia/06JAPA.html?pagewanted=print http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ed20020810a1.htm http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20020808a1.htm http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020805a5.htm http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020803a4.htm http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020802a4.htm http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020709b1.htm http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fd20020609pb.htm http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fb20001017a1.htm http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn19990611a2.htm Millions in Pakistan May Not Vote in October Due to ID Card Scam http://www.satribune.com/archives/Aug10-16_02/Nadra_StoryP1.htm having guessed his PayPal password, someone cleaned out his bank account http://lowendmac.com/musings/02/0808pf.html serious SSL security problem in Explorer (written up in the Register's inimitable style) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26620.html http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/08/13/microsoft.security.ap/ corruption One Year Later, Watkins' Memo Tip of Iceberg http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/topstory2/1530788 trying to measure how much money CEO's made by cashing out before the crash http://www.fortune.com/indext.jhtml?channel=print_article.jhtml&doc_id=209015 that sort of thing didn't happen during the New Deal http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1182-2002Aug9?language=printer flash: Bernie Ebbers didn't have the slightest idea what he was doing (someone please dig up URL's for encomia to his visionary business skills) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/technology/08TELE.html?pagewanted=print Options Do Not Raise Performance, Study Finds http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/business/yourmoney/11VIEW.html?pagewanted=print corporate reform was almost entirely defeated (not that you'd know this from the people whose job it is to tell you) http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/files/080802.html intellectual property field study of music sharing http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~barry/papers/BrownB%20ECSCW%20music%20paper.pdf more papers on open source software http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=313202 http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/bonaccorsi-rossi.pdf http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/counting-potatoes.html British MP who is trying to get Microsoft to stop gouging schools (open source open source open source) http://www.bobblizzardmp.co.uk/press.asp Microsoft "Software Choice" Scheme a Clever Fraud http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26616.html long, painfully detailed article about a lawsuit involving Disney and Pooh (written as a Pooh book, sort of -- you've been warned) http://www.lamag.com/cover2.htm article about Web-based systems for peer-reviewed journals http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/12/technology/12NECO.html?pagewanted=print politics Race in American Public Schools: Rapidly Resegregating School Districts http://www.law.harvard.edu/civilrights/press_releases/reseg_districts.html http://www.law.harvard.edu/civilrights/publications/reseg_districts02/Race_in_American_Public_Schools1.pdf Grover Norquist's June 2001 article on the Muslim Republican vote http://www.spectator.org/amspec/gilderarchives/June01/frontnorquistPRINT.htm jargon watch: study how he cuts the logical connections among the symbols (this is similar to the one about food stamps as vouchers from early July) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-le-kreis13.2aug13.story jargon watch: flaky liberals are allowing animals to defile normal Americans! (the inconvenient fact that they're trying to solve the problem is buried) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-birds10aug10.story design several interesting publications on the sociology of wireless communications http://www.interactiveinstitute.se/mobility/publications.htm Coordinating Heterogeneous Work: Information and Representation in Medical Care http://www.ics.uci.edu/~pratt/pubs/ECSCW.pdf Cognitive Properties of a Whiteboard: A Case Study in a Trauma Centre http://www.hfrp.ummc.umaryland.edu/coordination/Xiao%20ECSCW2001.pdf Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, Rio de Janeiro, 25-27 September 2002 http://2002.cscwid.org/ Mench und Computer, Hamburg, 2-5 September 2002 http://www.mensch-und-computer.de/mc2002/ E-Learning, Dortmund, 30 September - 2 October 2002 http://ipsi.fhg.de/concert/cscl-02/ Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Bergen, 14-18 June 2003 http://www.intermedia.uib.no/cscl2003/ IEEE Distributed Systems Online http://dsonline.computer.org/ everything else further evidence that new-economy productivity growth was real (but nobody really understands it yet) http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000474.html#000474 grants for community technology centers http://www.americaconnects.net/research/default.asp?subid=26 Quicktime video of new Sony robot (very creepy) http://www.tokyodv.com/news/RoboDex2002SDR-3XSonybot.html Netsurfer Robotics http://www.netsurf.com/nsr/ Kristen Nygaard, 75; Computer Pioneer http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-nygaard12aug12.story http://www.ifi.uio.no/~kristen/ end
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