[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 09:25:08 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
    
    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
    
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