[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sun Aug 18 2002 - 17:38:45 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
    
    deepening conflict between the right and far right over Iraq war plans
    http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002133
    http://www.independent.org/tii/news/020805Higgs.html
    
    "failure to take on Saddam would produce a collapse of confidence"
    (scary logic, but the similar things were said about NATO and Kosovo)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/16/international/middleeast/16IRAQ.html?pagewanted=print
    
    jargon watch: "Saddam's raving from Baghdad built war fever in Washington"
    (Saddam is a bad man, but this is still projection)
    http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak12.html
    
    some arguments against the Bush "preemption" doctrine
    http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/comments/c453.htm#Werther
    
    Officers Say US Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas
    (and how many members of the current administration were involved in it?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/international/middleeast/18CHEM.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Who's on PFIAB? -- A New Bush Secret
    http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=96
    
    $100 trillion suit by 9/11 families against various Saudis etc
    (that's a one followed by fourteen zeroes)
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/burnettba81502cmp.pdf
    
    On 9/11, CIA Was Running Simulation of a Plane Crashing into a Building
    http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/cia-simulation.htm
    
    State Department Claim Under Oath of FARC-Al Qaida Link Rescinded
    http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020807-123019-5992r
    
    Death Ray Weapons "Ready in a Decade"
    http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/7-8-19102-23-44-22.html
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22directed+energy+weapons%22
    
    Ex-General: War Game Rigged
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28161-2002Aug16?language=printer
    
    interviews with 9/11 survivors
    http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,776307,00.html
    
    Measuring Downtown Manhattan's Future
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/16/opinion/16SCOT.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    United States: Abuses Plague September 11th Investigation
    http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/08/usdetainess081502.htm
    
    Justice Department Balks at Effort to Study Antiterror Powers
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/15/politics/15PATR.html?pagewanted=print
    
    jargon watch: study the techniques used against critics in the first paragraph
    (the four sentences among them employ maybe a dozen important jargon devices)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110002119
    
    Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision
    http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-turley14aug14.story
    
    Judge Skewers US Curbs on Detainee
    ("the most interesting precedent since the days of the Star Chamber")
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14862-2002Aug13?language=printer
    
    US to Begin Fingerprinting Aliens
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10090-2002Aug12?language=printer
    
    How Islam-Bashing Got Cool
    http://www.beliefnet.com/story/110/story_11074.html
    
    NASA Plans to Read Terrorists' Minds at Airports
    (you tell me)
    http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020817-704732.htm
    
    photo ID badges for high school students
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-badges18aug18005057.story
    
    computers tracking the driving patterns of people with DWI convictions
    http://www.sunspot.net/news/custom/guns/bal-md.ignition14aug14.story
    
    reporter is sent on a mission to build a dirty bomb, has adventures
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,769645,00.html
    
    Air Marshal Program in Disarray, Insiders Say
    (security is something you build over time -- you can't just buy it)
    http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2002/2002-08-15-air-marshals.htm
    
    can hard cyber infrastructure attacks do more harm than easy physical attacks?
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26675.html
    
    Homeland Insecurity
    http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/mann.htm
    
    Next Generation Data Mining, Baltimore, 1-3 November 2002
    http://www.cs.umbc.edu/NGDM02/
    
    summary of extensive problems with the Japanese ID system
    http://nationalid.hantai.jp/
    
    Palladium and the TCPA
    http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0208.html#1
    
    Silence That Shames Us All as Mugabe Destroys Zimbabwe
    http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/08/13/do1301.xml
    
    
    articles celebrating our favorite motel operator (please keep digging!)
    
    "there's no doubt that Bernie Ebbers is a living legend" (2000)
    http://www.findarticles.com/m0DUJ/8_104/62449749/p1/article.jhtml
    
    "stocks like Worldcom make sense as long-term investing opportunities" (2000)
    http://www.redherring.com/investor/2000/0710/inv-focb071000.html
    
    "WorldCom is here to stay -- it's a smart addition to any portfolio" (1998)
    http://www.time.com/time/digital/cyberelite/11.html
    
    a more neutral Bernie piece (1999)
    ("only as long as his share price keeps rising")
    http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/10/06/ebbers/
    
    
    corruption
    
    Did George W. Bush Evade Income Taxes on His Harken Loans?
    (written by a partisan but full of interesting detail)
    http://www.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=290
    
    yet more Harken docs
    http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=225&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0
    
    his company defrauded a partner, but conservative radio is okay with that
    (study the very PR thing they do with the word "crook")
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-me-simon16aug16005054.story
    
    Investigation of Potential Manipulation of Electric and Natural Gas Prices
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/fercenron81302rpt.pdf
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1533711
    
    Vinson & Elkins Lawyers Proud of Role at Enron
    (and why not? they did their job)
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1538107
    
    Severance Claims by Enron's Former Execs Anger Ex-Workers
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/business/1533657
    
    "as a rule, white-collar types are not thought well of by prison staff members"
    http://www.fastcompany.com/feature/02/novak.html
    
    "Jack Grubman wants your sympathy"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/business/yourmoney/18WATC.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Microsoft Leads Lobby Against Open Source
    http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1104-949527.html
    
    Microsoft's anticompetitive schemes have become even more baroque
    (open source open source open source)
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26698.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26645.html
    
    stupid rights management tricks
    http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000477.php#000477
    
    the eerie parallels between the Backstreet Boys and Blade Runner
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/arts/music/18STRA.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Digital Music's Future
    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/02digitalmusic.htm
    
    
    everything else
    
    more on Kristen Nygaard
    http://www.ifi.uio.no/in_memoriam_kristen/
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/14/obituaries/14NYGA.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Digital World Research Centre Papers and Publications
    http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/papers.html
    
    article and resources on ultrawideband wireless
    http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/focuson0902.asp
    
    The Widening Gap Between Internet-Savvy Students and Their Schools
    http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=67
    
    How Many Online?
    http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/
    
    Report on the Digital Preservation Planning Project
    http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/yea/
    
    The Economist, the Internet, Telecom and the Dow
    http://www.frankston.com/public/Writing.asp?item=Essays/EconomistTelecom.html
    
    the "free trade" system is no such thing
    (it's an instrument for powerful interests to impose terms on the weak)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/magazine/18GLOBAL.html?pagewanted=print
    
    more on the heartland that's supposedly better than us
    (this preoccupation with who's better than who is the most childish propaganda)
    http://www.economist.com/world/na/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1280837
    
    the latest in sophisticated modern politics
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,60194,00.html#2
    http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/08/09/gore/print.html
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20020813.shtml
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh081602.shtml
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/734679/posts
    
    A Washington Must: Embassies With Elan
    (this is a very weird article)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/17/international/17EMBA.html?pagewanted=print
    
    a bunch of cool MP3's from Steve Coleman
    http://www.m-base.org/sounds.html
    
    One Hundred Albums You Should Remove From Your Collection
    http://www.jaguaro.org/feature/03-09-02_wesk.shtml
    
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