[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 12:59:53 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
    
    Tapes Shed New Light on Bin Laden's Network
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/18/terror.tape.main/
    
    Saudis Withdraw Billions of Dollars from US
    http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1028185905754&p=1012571727092
    
    Rumsfeld Key Player in Iraq Policy Shift
    (more on US aid to Saddam while he was using chemical weapons)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/795649.asp
    
    jargon watch: distorting the facts to accuse others of distorting them
    (i.e., accusing the press of bias because it won't print propaganda)
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/aug0203.html#082102853am
    
    House Whip DeLay Calls Republican Critics "Apologists"
    (Tourette's Syndrome is no longer a disqualification from public office)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42501-2002Aug20?language=printer
    
    The Cold War Is Over, But US Preparation For It Continues
    http://www.independent.org/tii/content/pubs/review/tir62_higgs2.html
    
    more on the allegedly rigged war games
    http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1060102.php
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,778070,00.html
    
    more on the media anthrax suspect
    http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.08.16/featherman.html
    
    US Tax Dollars Helped Finance Some Chavez Foes, Review Finds
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/230/nation/US_tax_dollars_helped_finance_some_Chavez_foes_review_findsP.shtml
    
    Improving NYPD Emergency Preparedness and Response
    http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/pdf/nypdemergency.pdf
    
    Increasing FDNY's Preparedness
    http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/mck_report/toc.html
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/20/fdny/print.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    "at all times the American position is to support the rule of int'l law"
    (Ari Fleischer actually said this)
    http://news.findlaw.com/ap/i/1103/8-20-2002/20020820113005_14.html
    
    spam accusations and due process
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.19.html#subj7
    
    claim that government data mining would have stopped the 9/11 attacks
    (he's conflating "data fusion", basically a social problem, with data mining)
    http://computerworld.com/printthis/2002/0,4814,73633,00.html
    
    FBI Gives Warchalking Warning
    http://www.pcw.co.uk/News/1134451
    
    looking for wireless LAN's in an airplane
    http://www.e3.com.au/stories.php?story=02/08/18/7667279
    
    more on EU data retention policies
    http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/aug/05datafd1.htm
    http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26751.html
    
    much detail about the airplane collision over Germany
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.19.html#subj8
    
    Bush helping oil companies accused of involvement in human rights abuses
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/opinion/19MON3.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    politics
    
    GOP collecting church directories for voter registration and get-out-the-vote
    http://newsobserver.com/news/v-print/story/1654190p-1680391c.html
    
    Tax Revolt Takes Aim at a County's Libraries
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/20/national/20LIBR.html?pagewanted=print
    
    very clear pattern of using any excuse to push pre-conceived policies
    (as rational thought is destroyed, policies can be unrelated to stated reasons)
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dforest21aug21
    
    jargon watch: amazing interview with Ann Coulter
    (what's so impressive isn't the illogic as such but how practiced it is)
    http://www.webactive.com/webactive/cspin/cspin20020809.html
    
    "platoons of liberals infest the Justice Department"
    (pundits who casually refer to people they disagree with as vermin)
    http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak15.html
    
    Supreme Court power grab
    (they opposed judicial activism and budget deficits ... until they took power)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/books/review/18GREENHT.html?pagewanted=print
    
    what the polls say about Democrats' appeals to populism
    (they also say that the lies about Gore's "untruthfulness" cost the election)
    http://www.tcf.org/Opinions/Public_Opinion_Watch/july29aug9.pdf
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/20/opinion/20KRUG.html?pagewanted=print
    
    "today in the United States white people have no political representation"
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr20020813.shtml
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    defending regulations requiring open standards for government software
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26752.html
    http://www.redhat.com/opensourcenow/bill_opensource.html
    
    China Targets Windows With Linux-Based OS
    (more details, but it's still hard to tell how real it is)
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26737.html
    
    TextWeaver: Solutions for Online Education
    http://coe.sdsu.edu/textweaver/
    
    DOE Database PubSCIENCE Joins the Endangered Species List
    http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020819-2.htm
    
    proposed revisions to UCITA don't change its dumbest, most regressive feature
    http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/08/19/020819opgripe.xml
    
    more on the bill giving copyright holders the right to hack P2P networks
    (sounds cool to me: I hold dozens of copyrights, and you probably do too)
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20020820.html
    
    IWT Bans RIAA From Accessing Its Network
    (and just as interestingly will ban anyone who tries to download spoof MP3's)
    http://www.informationwave.net/news/20020819riaa.php
    
    The Music Industry's Self-Inflicted Wounds
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2069732
    
    Online "Spoofing" Turns the Tables on Music Pirates
    (that's what you get for having any interest in the very boring Moby album)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42239-2002Aug20?language=printer
    
    
    everything else
    
    Kopper May Not Be Enough
    (framing the Enron story as appeasing the mob rather than rendering justice)
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/business/1542506
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/uskopper82102cinf.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/uskopper82102pagr.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/sec/seckopper82102cmp.pdf
    
    Giving Rise to the Professional Blogger
    http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/2629
    
    virtual architecture exhibit in New York
    http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/Out%20of%20Site/detail.htm
    
    depressingly unimaginative picture of future laptops
    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-951449.html
    
    Fossil Wrist PDA
    http://www.fossil.com/Product/Product.asp?Tier1=Mens&Tier2=MW&Dept%5FID=MW&Cat%5FID=MW22&Prod%5FID=FX2001
    
    Finnish Hunting Dogs Are Issued With Mobile Phones
    (next year they'll issue the deer and ducks with phones too)
    http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_654158.html
    
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