Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war the nasty reality of urban warfare http://www.msnbc.com/news/797549.asp Iowa National Guard Battalion Mobilized for Federal Duty http://www.rense.com/general28/guard.htm White House Must Reject Navy's Assault on the Oceans http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-oe-cousteau22aug22.story Atop Church, Another, Less Deadly Holy War http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/international/middleeast/26JERU.html?pagewanted=print creeping dictatorship further arrogation of war powers based on absurd arguments (Article I, Section 8: "The Congress shall have power ... to declare war") http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020826.atc.11.ram http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61040-2002Aug25?language=printer about this "secret court" ("someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, ...") http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Doe%2Dturley26aug26 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/27/opinion/27BAMF.html?pagewanted=print http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110002181 "about 3% of the US adult population is in the US correctional system" http://www.reuters.com/printerfriendly.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1369469 Delaware Police Stir Controversy by Compiling Database of Future Suspects http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020826/ap_wo_en_po/us_future_crime_database_2 "police pepper sprayed reporters and photographers covering the march" (protests against Bush policies in Portland) http://www.kpdx.com/Global/story.asp?S=907583&nav=2cFk3gTHAqwk http://la.indymedia.org/news/2002/08/18585.php http://portland.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=17932&group=webcast How Lewis Powell's Attack Memo Changed America (long-winded but interesting) http://www.mediatransparency.org/stories/powell.htm more on the Washington Times' slander against the NEA (it's incredibly ugly, and the machine has spread it from coast to coast) http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh082602.shtml http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh082702.shtml jargon watch: the Wall Street Journal's jargon-laden apology for Ann Coulter (announcing that casual smears are a permanent feature of conservative society) http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000617.html jargon watch: utterly mechanical application of the "perversity thesis" (study how sketchy and evasive his "evidence" is -- messages first, then facts) http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20020816.shtml news from Planet Microsoft serious holes in Microsoft's banking software (note the attempt to blame banks for failing to configure the mess properly) http://news.com.com/2102-1001-955442.html ho hum, *six* newly discovered Microsoft security vulnerabilities (including, la de da, a buffer overrun for an ActiveX control, ho hum) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26807.html article about Microsoft implementation of its FTC privacy settlement (the devil is in the details) http://news.com.com/2102-1023-955514.html Those Microsoft API Disclosures: Errors, Incomplete, Useless? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26803.html civil liberties and security "public right of access to deportation hearings" http://laws.findlaw.com/6th/02a0291p.html Doubleclick Agrees to Privacy Standards for Online Tracking http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2002/aug/aug26a_02.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64716-2002Aug26?language=printer long article putting the case for automatic toll collection (the systems *can* be made anonymous, but they probably won't be) http://newyorker.com/printable/?fact/020902fa_fact Documents Link FBI Brass to Mob-Informant Scandal http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/news/nation/3750540.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp corruption details on Michael Kopper's Enron plea bargain http://www.msnbc.com/news/798765.asp CEO's Who Cook the Books Earn More http://www.faireconomy.org/press/2002/EE2002_pr.html interesting story about an ancient deception in mortgage contracts http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2002-08-21/feature.html/print.html intellectual property Recording Industry May Target Individuals in Online Piracy Battles http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/26/BU150108.DTL&type=printable Study: Governments Need Open Source (does anyone have a URL for this study, or "study", as the case may be?) http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1104-955282.html videocassettes are the new eight-track tapes (and film is the new vinyl) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/technology/26DVD.html?pagewanted=print everything else The Impact of Internet Subsidies in Public Schools (access is restricted in some way I can't figure out) http://www.nber.org/papers/w9090.pdf Community Networks, online conference, 18 September - 2 October 2002 http://www.civicnet02.net/ nanotech news http://www.smalltimes.com/ Photo Essay: China's Hi-Tech Toxics http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2002/disposable_planet/waste/chinese_workshop/default.stm High-Tech Devices Distracting Drivers ("some stores are installing video screens on front-seat passenger visors") http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/08/23/digital.distractions.ap/ When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager (full text of the book in PDF) http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MOSWHE.html Mega Rebukes Minister as Treasure Hunt Stopped http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,139047-1030139940,00.html http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20020822.E01 Katherine Harris ... oh, why bother? http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/26/harris.book.ap/ Reef Check http://www.reefcheck.org/ http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dsci%2Dreef26aug26 cool scientific stuff on extremophiles (which persuade me that the universe is packed with life) http://www.spaceref.com/directory/Astrobiology_and_Life_Science/Extremophiles/ http://www.biol.rug.nl/microbiologie/EXTREME/ http://www.ualberta.ca/~csotonyi/extremophiles/ http://www.astrobiology.com/extreme.html Why Are the State Quarters So Ugly? http://slate.msn.com/?id=2070005&device= end
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