Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war more on the NRO plane crash exercise that was scheduled for September 11th http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020821/ap_on_go_ot/sept_11_plane_exercise_2 the road to war http://www.ucomics.com/patoliphant/2002/08/21/ thank goodness the Taliban isn't destroying archaeological sites any more (no, now it's the free market that's destroying archaeological sites) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/magazine/25AFGHAN.html?pagewanted=print one-sided democratization policy gives no credit to the world's intelligence http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/21/opinion/21FRIE.html a brief history of PR in war ("when our neighbors call us vermin / we send out Woody Herman") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/weekinreview/25DEGR.html?pagewanted=print Media "Ground Rules Agreement" in Afghanistan http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/ground-rules.htm the Washington Times publishes a hit piece on the NEA's Sept. 11th curriculum (including some really disturbing quotes, e.g., about Islam) http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020819-34549100.htm but the NEA's rebuttal doesn't even bother explaining what is wrong with it (most liberals are just ignoring conservatives and hoping they'll go away) http://www.nea.org/nr/nr020820b.html September 11 Digital Archive http://www.911digitalarchive.org/ civil liberties and security Secret Court Says FBI Aides Misled Judges in 75 Cases http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/23/national/23FBI.html?pagewanted=print http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/fisa51702opn.pdf http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec02/court_8-23.html http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dfisabox24aug24 Who Decides Whether Yaser Hamdi, or Any Other Citizen, Is an Enemy Combatant? http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/dorf/20020821.html http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/ramasastry/20020821.html Transport Worker ID in Works http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/236/nation/Transport_worker_ID_in_worksP.shtml more on the Japanese ID system http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51216-2002Aug22?language=printer latest on tracking devices for people http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1280634 Big Brother Hiding Inside Cars' Airbags http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/0822car.html NASA Rejects Washington Times Claims It Plans Mind Reading Capability http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=9061 http://www.nasawatch.com/misc/08.19.02.mindreading.html Microsoft Discloses "Critical" Security Flaws (the reporters' laptops must have a function key programmed with that headline) http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/08/23/microsoft.security.reut/ Worm Spreads Through KaZaA Network, Again http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26794.html Extent of Money Laundering Through Credit Cards Is Unknown http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gao/gao72202ccmlrpt.pdf Argentine Military Believed US Gave Go-Ahead for Dirty War http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB73/index3.htm Kissinger Watch http://www.icai-online.org/xp_resources/kissingerwatch/kw9.pdf new problem with Palm Beach County's touch-screen voting system http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/wednesday/news_d336f01410bb815f1090.html corruption Targeting Skilling, Lay May Prove Tough http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1546605 Prosecutors Target Millions Held by Enron Execs (but they're using forfeiture laws that are famously short on due process) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1544312 http://news.findlaw.com/ap/f/1310/8-22-2002/20020822051501_02.html Deals Within Telecom Deals (remember to say "alleged") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/business/yourmoney/25TELE.html?pagewanted=print Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents? http://papers.nber.org/papers/w8661 Cheney Ruthless as a CEO http://www.thedailyenron.com/documents/20020820094250-29013.asp politics raving madness fills the media and goes nearly unremarked ("drugged and controlled by demagoguery" -- Karl Mannheim, 1933) http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh082202.shtml oh, and the machine went after Steve Earle a while back (a whole industry now circulates falsehoods about one person after another) http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=84 The White House: Fat Cat Hotel Still Open for Business http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=460&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0 everything else a more interesting scenario for the future of the laptop http://www.nonsensical.com/viridian/notebook/ article on security in a distributed operating system http://www.askemos.org:9080/RomePaper.pdf open source strong cryptography for Internet telephony and the like http://www.nah6.com/nah6-h2k2_files/v3_document.html Spam Crusaders Slog It Out in Court http://news.com.com/2102-1023-954960.html Critique of the Proposed UK Implementation of the EU Copyright Directive http://uk.eurorights.org/issues/eucd/ukimpl/critique_uk_impl.html decision rejecting claimed patent on hyperlinks http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/cyberlaw/btelprdgy82202dec.pdf http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1029689057140 "the supply of programmers exceeds demand" http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/07/15/020715opsurvival.xml?Template=/storypages/printfriendly.html Central Banking for a New Era http://www.fmcenter.org/pdf/ACCBreportonline.pdf computing and sustainable development http://www.panda.org/resources/publications/ict.cfm World Development Report http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2003/ NPR Worldwide http://npr.org/worldwide/ A "Red River" in Spain May Yield Clues to Life on the Red Planet (does anyone have URL's for cool scientific papers about extremophiles?) http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfg%2Dtinto24aug24 When Ad Offends, Cadbury Eats Its Words http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-briefs23.7aug23.story end
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