[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 10:37:53 PDT

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    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/
    
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