Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Pick Hit: The Ornette Coleman Trio at the "Golden Circle" Stockholm war White House in Disarray Over Cheney Iraq Speech http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,784720,00.html having alienated most of the world, Bush can't fight the war on terror (his promise of a "humble" foreign policy was one of his more bizarre lies) http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0209.clark.html Officers: Iraq Could Drain Terror War http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A21639-2002Aug31?language=printer Commanders Want Elite Units Freed From Qaeda Hunt http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/03/international/asia/03INTE.html?pagewanted=print more right-wing doubts on Iraq http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20020831-79011854.htm strong public opposition to unilateral, dictatorial warmaking (media call him popular though Clinton was more popular after he was impeached) http://www.msnbc.com/news/801501.asp conservative defenses of the media anthrax suspect http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak29.html http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20020901-67207268.htm Dart Bombs "Killed Four Palestinians" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2225706.stm Why Arabs Lose Wars http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/AD_Issues/amdipl_17/articles/deatkine_arabs1.html "visually identify over 150 different types of landmines" http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?prodID=41030 Struggle to Tally All September 11th Dead by Anniversary http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/nyregion/01COUN.html?pagewanted=print WTC site: serious need for architects and 9/11 survivors to communicate (the survivors aren't architects and the architects aren't surivors) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/02/nyregion/02REBU.html?pagewanted=print heroes of September 11th http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/america.remembers/subsection.heroes.html civil liberties and security post-September 11th erosion of civil liberties worldwide http://www.economist.com/printedition/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1301751 Privacy and Human Rights Report http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2002/ significance of sixth circuit's decision on access to deportation hearings http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/weekinreview/01LIPT.html?pagewanted=print article on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/01/MN220045.DTL&type=printable FBI Lauds Loosening of Surveillance Regulations http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dfbi3sep03 Bush policy on "enemy combatants" circumvents the Constitution's treason clause (he thinks he can make problems go away by just changing the name) http://www.dankohn.com/blog/2002_08_25_archive.html#85388930 documents etc on Canadian surveillance proposals http://www.canada.justice.gc.ca/en/cons/la_al/ http://www.g8j-i.ca/english/doc3.html http://makeashorterlink.com/?D28F159A1 http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/cons/la_al/law_access.pdf http://www.nationalpost.com/components/printstory/printstory.asp?id=59874CF0-072A-4BF7-885F-B7E480FDA95B http://www.itbusiness.ca/print.asp?sid=49751 http://www.canada.com/components/printstory/printstory.asp?id=D16F4AD9-B646-4EF1-869A-0B76019770C9 European Parliament Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (data retention for surveillance) http://register.consilium.eu.int/pdf/en/02/st03/03636en2.pdf Police Ask Stores to Take Fingerprints http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/3976347.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp post-September 11th security making it harder for homeless people to get ID http://www.westword.com/issues/2002-08-29/news.html/print.html Citibank Mails Raise Privacy Concern (if true, this is a real prize-winner) http://www.msnbc.com/news/802701.asp radio documentary on airport security http://insideout.wbur.org/documentaries/unfriendlyskies/ Twin Missions Overwhelmed TSA http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A27543-2002Sep2?language=printer Safety Threat May Force Airlines to Ban Laptop Use (because of the prospect of interference from UWB wireless networking -- ack!!) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-401104,00.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/26910.html corruption Bush's Buddy Economy (they made their money by lobbying, not work) http://newyorker.com/printable/?talk/020902ta_talk_surowiecki GOP Senator threatening Bush over his undermining of anti-corruption rules (illegitimate, his agenda irrelevant, Bush is increasingly isolated) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20020830/pl_nm/financial_bush_dc_1 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0209.marshall.html moral crisis in business (notice how the language of right and wrong drifts into the language of PR) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/03/business/03CHIE.html?pagewanted=print Court-Appointed Enron Examiner Demands Records from Dozens of Law Firms http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1030343784928 politics Gore won http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/opinion/3973122.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp term limits increase the power of campaign contributors (which is, of course, the point) http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dme%2Dlegis2sep02002048 New Wildfire Plan Watchdog Has Unorthodox Views (his empty use of the word "center" is very characteristic of timber PR) http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=134526256&zsection_id=268448413&slug=interior31&date=20020831 Charter School Students Scoring Below Their Public Peers, Study Finds (school-score comparisons should be controlled for parents' education levels) http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dcharter3sep03 study how this article both presents a controversy and presupposes one side (and notice the projection involved in using fuzzy math to attack fuzzy math) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A27574-2002Sep2?language=printer more on the weirdness of Edison (the school privatization company that reminds us why we have public schools) http://slate.msn.com/?id=2070329&device= global conspiracy against white people (even the most primitive thought-patterns are getting PR updates) http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2002/8/30/121900 "we don't welcome haters, Ann, and that's what you are" http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/3977402.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp jargon watch: "there are certain segments of our society where ..." (creating a stereotype in such a vague way that it can't be rationally refuted) http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2002-08-19-1.html Blumenthal v. Drudge and American Online, Inc. (1998) (opinion that dismissed the claim against AOL but not against Drudge) http://www.epic.org/free_speech/blumenthal_v_drudge.html news from Planet Microsoft the ludicrous life of a Microsoft customer http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26911.html Microsoft Outlook Digital Signatures Easily Forged http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26924.html Spammers Help the Klez Microsoft Worm Top the Virus Charts (five months in a row -- it represents about 1% of all e-mail) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/26906.html everything else yet another new method of spam filtering http://tmda.net/ Radio Emerges from the Electronic Soup http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99992732 Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow's Internet http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2002/papers/tussle.pdf more Sigcomm papers etc http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2002/adprog.html papers by Richard Langlois on technology and industry structure http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~langlois/resume.html The Economics of Organization (with links to many of the readings) http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~LANGLOIS/e386syl.HTML Industrial and Economic Properties of Software http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~messer/PAPERS/01/Software-econ/Software-econ-TR-endnotes.PDF the endless cycle of AI hypesters giving the field a bad name (there's lots of applicable AI work, but lazy journalists focus on the hype) http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/08/ai082302.html confirming what you always knew about the pricing of new-economy IPO's (analogous to corrupt underpricing of shares in newly privatized companies) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/business/yourmoney/01WATC.html?pagewanted=print Why You Shouldn't Upload Independently Produced CD's http://www.furious.com/perfect/indiedownloads.html The Free Online Scholarship Movement: An Interview with Peter Suber http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1025 Floods in Europe: Damages to Libraries and Archives http://www.unesco.org/webworld/floods_europe/ Lee Felsenstein et al building a pedal-powered Linux machine in Nigeria http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/print/0,,1781_1454991,00.html African photography site http://www.africanaperture.com/ glaciers are excellent (does anyone have URL's for scientific papers on glacier movements?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/03/science/earth/03GLAC.html?pagewanted=print end
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