Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Does anybody have a copy of "The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters" by the late James D. McCawley (University of Chicago Press, 1984) that you're not using? war analysis of the war on terror http://slate.msn.com/?id=2070210&entry=2070211 Plans for Iraq Attack Began on 9/11 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/printable520830.shtml Jets Bomb Key Iraqi Air Base http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=989192002 history of deceptive claims about Iraq http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p01s02-wosc.htm US Stands Frighteningly Alone in the World http://www.newsday.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=ny%2Dvpcoc052851122sep05§ion=%2Fnews%2Fopinion http://www.diezeit.de/2002/37/Politik/200237_01_leit_1.html don't accuse Bush of warmongering for political purposes without evidence (Andrew Sullivan is highly truth-challenged, but on this topic he's right) http://www.salon.com/news/col/sullivan/2002/09/05/rich/print.html more on the rigged war game http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/06/opinion/06KRIS.html?pagewanted=print http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,786992,00.html more on Dana Rohrabacher's dealings with the Taliban http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/03/01/cover-moxley.php Criminal Enforcement Against Terrorists http://trac.syr.edu/media/ Scientists Join War on Terror http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/249/nation/Scientists_join_war_on_terrorP.shtml the conflict between area studies and abstract formalism in political science (both sides go overboard) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/07/arts/07AREA.html?pagewanted=print Tony Blair is trying to sell a British military research unit to Carlyle http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,11816,786712,00.html Documenting the Tragedy http://www.nyshrab.org/WTC/document.html Elevator Lobby Was the Deadliest Spot in the South Tower (these articles are not pleasant reading) http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020904/4416173s.htm http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020905/4420020s.htm http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020905/4420024s.htm http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020905/4420025s.htm http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020905/4420026s.htm children's responses http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/247/metro/Fear_and_young_mindsP.shtml 9/11 museum exhibits http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/06/arts/design/06SMIT.html?pagewanted=print The Fiscal Impact of 9/11 on New York City http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/911nycimpactrpt.pdf the US on 9/11/02 as seen from Germany http://www.zeit.de/2002/37/Politik/200237_essay.html In the Muslim World, Anger and Introspection http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/248/nation/In_the_Muslim_world_anger_and_introspectionP.shtml Allegations of Post-9/11 Silence Stun US Muslims http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/attack/bal-te.muslims02sep02.story Skyscrapers http://www.skyscrapers.com/english/ civil liberties and security John Ashcroft goes around casually destroying people's lives (it makes great TV) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/09/04/jama/print.html Anti-Terrorism Drive Threatens Internet Freedoms Worldwide http://www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=3671 more on the proposed Canadian law on ISP surveillance (hard to say how likely it is) http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/news/nr/2002/doc_30670.html http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/news/nr/2002/doc_30672.html defense of the so-called PATRIOT Act http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/07/arts/07SURV.html?pagewanted=print Denver Stasi Opens 3,200 "Spy Files" ("American Friends Service Committee was listed as a criminal extremist group") http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/09/04/spy.files.ap/ http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E836532%257E,00.html Cell Phone Records Playing Key Role in Criminal Cases http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dme%2Donthelaw6sep06 the strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui's e-mail http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usmouss90402grsp.pdf Privacy and Security Risks in Driver's License Proposals http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_8.17.shtml#1 Viisage Director Takes Homeland Security Post http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=VISG&script=410&layout=0&item_id=330130 more on the Delaware police database of people it has rounded up http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020905/4420139s.htm more on alleged NASA "mind-reading" technology ("core technology: neuro-electric sensing") http://www.epic.org/privacy/airtravel/foia/foia1.html ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2002/02-160.txt more on "black boxes" for cars http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/02/BU167062.DTL&type=printable Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, New York, 1-4 April 2003 http://www.cfp2003.org/ Security Becomes a Way of Life After September 11th http://www.boston.com/news/packages/sept11/anniversary/security.htm Anti-Terror Screening Draws Fire http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dvisas5sep05005046 Complex Air Passenger Profiling Network Months Behind Schedule http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34738-2002Sep3?language=printer Firms Resist New Rules for Warding Off Terror http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38213-2002Sep4?language=printer Computer Security Applications, Las Vegas, 9-13 December 2002 http://www.acsac.org/ Biometric Consortium, Arlington, VA, 23-25 September 2002 http://www.nist.gov/bc2002/ more pathetic security news from Planet Microsoft http://news.com.com/2102-1001-956647.html http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/sep2002/tc2002095_4700.htm http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-050.asp the destruction of reason the New York Times again caves in to intimidation by retracting a true story http://talkingpointsmemo.com/sept0201.html#0904021108pm http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/09/tapped-s-09-03.html#430pmsullivan jargon watch: accusing people of "slander" without alleging specific falsehoods (systematic inflation of words -- compare the earlier case of "name-calling") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/06/politics/06JUDG.html?pagewanted=print another nineteenth-century judicial nominee http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/opinion/3996957.htm in defense of the ninth circuit http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1029689051786 more on the attempt to erase all memory of Social Security privatization (it's straight out of Orwell -- a new landmark in the demolition of reason) http://talkingpointsmemo.com/sept0201.html#090102151pm http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/06/opinion/06KRUG.html http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/17/mcintyre-r.html and check the stunning double-reverse projection from Brooks Jackson ... (toward the end, after some interesting modern history of Orwellianism) http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh090602.shtml extensive materials on Social Security privatization from Cato Foundation (start saving all these pages in case they disappear down the memory hole) http://www.cato.org/pubs/ssps/ss_prjct.html http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_qdr=all&q=Social-Security+privatize+site%3Acato.org extensive materials on Social Security privatization from Heritage Foundation (site is recently reorganized, so use cached copies) http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_qdr=all&q=Social-Security+privatize+site%3Aheritage.org&btnG=Google+Search Bruce Bartlett on privatizing Social Security http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brucebartlett/bb20010810.shtml David Limbaugh on privatizing Social Security http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/dl000522.shtml Bob Novak on "Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security" http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20011126.shtml Tony Snow: "yes, [Bush] wants to privatize some of Social Security" http://www.townhall.com/columnists/tonysnow/ts2000825.shtml extensive further materials on privatizing Social Security from townhall.com http://makeashorterlink.com/?E501218B1 more on the smear campaign against the NEA (although such campaigns are now routine, their victims are oblivious) http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020905.html NY Times columnist briefly outlines the smear campaign against the NEA ... http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/04/education/04LESS.html?pagewanted=print ... but never mind, because on page one a "reporter" totally misrepresented it http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh090502.shtml Slate, in any case, is still down with the program (conservatism can only succeed by destroying rational thought) http://slate.msn.com/?id=2070415&device= more on the "Left Behind" books (trying to persuade Christians that God wants them to lie and cheat) http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/17/gorenberg-g.html http://www.leftbehind.com/ http://www.nativityukr.org/various_files/Rapture_article.html it's getting on time to give the Great Plains back to the buffalo http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/03/opinion/03KRIS.html?pagewanted=print Norah Vincent is back! check the shrieking illogic of the first two paragraphs (some activists made a proposal, therefore they've "changed the way we ...") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-oe-vincent5sep05.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dpe%2Dcalifornia Is NewsMax Corrupt? http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2002/nmcorrupt.html A President's Insecurity Detail http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/248/metro/A_president_s_insecurity_detailP.shtml correction: we misreported the outcome of the election http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020906/ap_on_re_us/harris_book_2 intellectual property "Duke Law School has made Intellectual Property a major priority" http://www.law.duke.edu/ip/ eBay tries to shut down a political parody site (against Gray Davis, who unfortunately deserves it) http://www.eGray.org/index.php http://news.com.com/2102-1017-956968.html war over copy-protected CD's (instructive for the number of different fronts on which it's being fought) http://news.com.com/2102-1023-956069.html ICANN Threatens to Take Away VeriSign's ".com" Privileges http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34373-2002Sep3?language=printer http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-03sep02.htm more on governments' moves to require open source software (the secret-source model is bad engineering, and Microsoft should abandon it) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/technology/05CODE.html?pagewanted=print American Plans to Promote Genetically Modified Crops Defeated ("the American delegation has been blocking progress on most issues ...") http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=329680 Reviews, Databases, and Resources on Genomics and Bioinformatics Systems http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Francisco.Azuaje/genomes&machines.html everything else "Monster Machines" Let Loose on Wildfire Test Range (anyone have URL's for more details?) http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0209030181sep03 How Some Universities Encourage the Creation of Prime Research Web Sites http://infotoday.com/searcher/sep02/Block.htm Google news search service beta http://news.google.com/ United States Government Manual (I have no idea what it is, but it sure sounds interesting) http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara001.html The Networked Nature of Community Online and Offline http://www.stanford.edu/group/siqss/itandsociety/Vol01-1-A10-Wellman-Boase-Chen.pdf Scholarly Networks as Learning Communities http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/scholar/barab4e.PDF Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Cambridge, 5 October 2002 http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/annmtg02/ movement to broaden the definition of "deceptive" spam http://trac.policy.net/banspam/ The Impact of Internet Subsidies in Public Schools (this version should be more accessible than the one at nber.org) http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/research/workshops/wae/guryan.pdf article alleging that Markle Foundation's Internet work has been ineffective http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/06/business/06MARK.html?pagewanted=print faculty position in social aspects of technology http://communication.stanford.edu/department/employment.html Graduate and Research Program Rankings (which carry much more weight than they can bear) http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankgrad.htm how not to write about math (Sudan's result on probabilistically checkable proofs sounds cool though) http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/05/math_prizes/print.html treasures from the British library http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/treasures.html "the Greek government has banned all electronic games" (that can't be right) http://news.com.com/2102-1040-956357.html interesting polemic against the WTO http://www.exile.ru/148/148020101.html Dow 5,000 (the author runs a large bond fund) http://www.pimco.com/ca/bonds_commentary_investment_outlook_0902.htm Ties to Enron Blinded Andersen http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0209030210sep03 All About Glaciers (there's a whole world of glacier nerds) http://nsidc.org/glaciers/ http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=VISG&script=410&layout=0&item_id=330130 A Smart Weapon for the Links: The GPS-Enabled Golf Cart (get over it: it's actually pretty cool) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/technology/circuits/05GOLF.html?pagewanted=print end
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