Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war Al Qaeda: One Year On http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jid/jid020905_1_n.shtml Why We Fight America (al-Qaeda spokesman) http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=SP38802 interviews with people who knew Mohammad Atta http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/atta/interviews/ "why do they hate us?" http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,788470,00.html How the US Helped Osama's Family Leave the Country After 9/11 http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york091102.asp another enterprising 9/11 conspiracy site http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00068.htm Islamists in Morocco http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jiaa/jiaa020906_1_n.shtml War Without Evidence http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59592-2002Sep9?language=printer http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10645-2002Sep12?language=printer http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/international/middleeast/11IRAQ.html?pagewanted=print an argument from actual evidence that Iraq war talk is political (presumably it has several motivations) http://www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?custid=67&catid=1104 more on the administration's claims of self-defense against Iraq http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020910_fletcher.html Iraq War Hawks Have Plans to Reshape Entire Mideast http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/253/nation/Iraq_war_hawks_have_plans_to_reshape_entire_MideastP.shtml US Labeling of Group in China as Terrorist Is Criticized http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/13/international/asia/13CHIN.html?pagewanted=print Chemical Weapons Program Could Be Improved and Expanded http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02890.pdf The War on Terror on Earth, in Orbit and in the Future http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/911_space_war_020911.html No Northern Command Without the National Guard, New Chief Says http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2002/n09102002_200209102.html The Day of the Attack http://www.time.com/time/world/printout/0,8816,174655,00.html what happened to the businesses in the World Trade Center http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/nationchallenged/11TOWE.html?pagewanted=print issues uninvestigated from the 1993 WTC attack, and from 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/nationchallenged/11CRIT.html?pagewanted=print kindness from our friends in Britain http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/001943.html#001943 conservatives and liberals fighting uselessly about patriotism at Berkeley (from reading these two pieces it's impossible to tell what the facts are) http://www.calpatriot.org/issueupdate/911.html http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/living/education/4015313.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp civil security and liberties Reexamining Civil Liberties Since September 11th http://www.lchr.org/aftersept/loss/report.htm Enemy Aliens and American Freedoms http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020923&s=cole The USA Patriot Act in Practice: Shedding Light on the FISA Process http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/ complete set of FISA Annual Reports since 1979 http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/index.html#rept postal service trying to secure against bioterrorism (tracking individual letters) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/10/science/10POST.html?pagewanted=print "facial recognition technology's troubled past -- and troubling future" http://www.reason.com/0210/fe.dk.face.shtml Radar Flashlight for Through-the-Wall Detection of Humans http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/res-news/SPFlash.htm administration preparing a "national strategy" on cyber security http://www.gcn.com/research_results/cybersecurity1.html "a centralized source for reviewing e-mail relating to cyber security" http://ecommerce.internet.com/how/tk/print/0,,10366_1451481,00.html more funding for security-related computing applications after September 11th http://gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcn2&story.id=19923 Microsoft Windows XP Help Center Request Wipes Your Hard Drive http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27074.html Customers Blame Spam on Filched Lists (it's time to take the worst-offending countries offline, starting with Korea) http://news.com.com/2102-1023-957567.html "drive-by spamming" article is not true (it could happen, but nobody's claiming it has) http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2002/09/05#1031251800 http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2002/09/06#1031359200 US Agency Seeks to Keep Energy Plant Info Secret http://www.planetark.org/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=17675 http://www.ferc.gov/news/pressreleases/sept5critical.pdf Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute http://www.cbaci.org/ Aerogels Could Make Buildings Stronger http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2002/2002-09-11-09.asp#anchor5 September 11th Pushes Firms to Suburbs http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/after_sept11/ Critics: INS Roundup Targeted Immigrants, Not Terrorists (whatever the merits, it's an example of their thoroughness) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1572878 little progress on standardization of radio for emergency workers http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62641-2002Sep10?language=printer Court Allows Greek Gamers to Play On http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2249656.stm corruption legal actions against former Tyco executives http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/tyco/tycokozlowski91202cmp.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/tyco/nykozlowski91202ind.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/sec/uskozlowski91202cmp.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/tyco/nybelnick61202ind.pdf http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1030821213567 indictments of three British bankers involved with an Enron off-shore entity http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/usbrmnghm91202ind.pdf Probe of Enron Internet Division Deepens http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1573012 Ex-CEO's Well Paid for "Consulting" http://www.msnbc.com/news/807472.asp Employment and Post-Retirement Consulting Agreement Between GE and Jack Welch http://contracts.corporate.findlaw.com/agreements/ge/welch.emp.1996.12.20.html Congress referring the Martha Stewart case to the Justice Department (holding hearings on this was silly) http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/mstewart/encmrc91002dojltr.pdf one of Bill Simon's ethical problems has disappeared (I carried it, so I guess I should carry its somewhat odd overturning) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10533-2002Sep12?language=printer IRS Sets Secret Trap to Catch Fat Cats Who Cheat on Taxes (forgetting all about the fraudulent House hearings on the IRS in Fall 1997) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/13/MN169009.DTL&type=printable politics voting problems in Florida an old story: buy hardware, ignore everything else (Jeb: "What is it with Democrats having a hard time voting -- I don't know") http://www.sun-sentinel.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=sfl%2D910problemcounties http://www.sptimes.com/2002/09/11/news_pf/State/What_a_mess.shtml http://www.naplesnews.com/02/09/florida/d827770a.htm http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/local/4054538.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/politics/11FLOR.html?pagewanted=print http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62468-2002Sep10?language=printer good discussion of the Florida problems by Rebecca Mercuri http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.24.html#subj1 http://www.ecotalk.org/Dr.RebeccaMercuriComputerVoting.htm Florida Vote Foul-Up Puts Reform Onus on Congress http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dvote12sep12005037 more on Katherine Harris' removal of innocent citizens from the FL voting rolls http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=167&row=0 Voter Anger Places Incumbents at Risk http://www.thehill.com/issues/091102/voter.shtm more on the Orwellian campaign to erase the concept of "privatization" (a strategy of blurring issues to place them beyond rational thought) http://talkingpointsmemo.com/sept0202.html#0912021005pm http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10524-2002Sep12?language=printer http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10534-2002Sep12?language=printer anti-Social Security propaganda reaches new depths http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/09/tapped-s-09-09.html#1230pmbias jargon watch: study the bizarre "evidence" in this attack on John Kerry (you know what's happening: he's trying new attack messages, facts to follow) http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020603&s=crowley060302 as the smears propagate, they are continually revised and expanded (until, facts or no, they fit with the approved partisan "strategies") http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_09_08_archive.html#85434019 sanitizing White House transcripts http://ajr.org/article_printable.asp?id=2620 conferences Media, Technology, and Social Change, Boston, 20-21 September 2002 http://www.ltc.org/gbbn/techconf/ Open Source Content Management, Berkeley, 25-27 September 2002 http://www.oscom.org/conferences/berkeley2002/ LaborTech, New York, 26-28 September 2002 http://www.laborsvoiceslabortech.org/ Media Arts and Culture, Seattle, 2-5 October 2002 http://www.pullfocus.org/ Infopolitics, Electronic Media and Democracy, Vienna, 3-4 October 2002 http://darkmarkets.t0.or.at/ Autonomous Media, Tucson, 3-6 October 2002 http://www.consensus.net/autonomousmedia.html Developing Country Access to Online Scientific Publishing, Trieste, 4-5 October 2002 http://www.ictp.trieste.it/ejournals/meeting2002/ Rural Telecommunications Congress, Des Moines, 6-9 October 2002 http://ruraltelecon.org/RTC02/ Race and New Media Technologies, Los Angeles, 11-13 October 2002 http://www.annenberg.edu/race/ Advancing the Research Agenda on Open Source, Brussels, 14 October 2002 http://merit0227ts49.unimaas.nl/FLOSS/workshop/ Africa in the Information and Technology Age, Washington, 5-8 December 2002 http://www.africanstudies.org/asa_papercalltheme.html intellectual property P2P Swamps Broadband Networks http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/27092.html Motions Filed in Morpheus Peer-to-Peer Case http://www.eff.org/effector/HTML/effect15.28.html analysis of the music industry and music downloads http://www.bricklin.com/recordsales.htm more on content control built into Intel devices http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27065.html everything else claims about environmental dangers of nanotech (I have no idea) http://www.rafi.org/documents/Comm_NanoMat_July02.pdf US Study Says All Clones Genetically Abnormal http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&u=/nm/20020911/sc_nm/science_clones_dc&printer=1 financial services firms trying to force instant messaging standards http://news.com.com/2102-1023-957787.html researcher discovers first known "smiley" -- arrest warrant issued http://news.com.com/2102-1023-957817.html http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html the FBI's files on MAD Magazine ("the entire magazine is 'too cleverly' filled with Communistic intent") http://www.collectmad.com/fbi/FBI-MAD-Bufiles.htm archaeologists mystified at ancient hominids who discarded their tools (as opposed to us, who have evolved far beyond primitive disposable culture) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2002/leicester_2002/2254139.stm What Can Economists Learn From Happiness Research? (no, really) http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/law_econ/workingpapers/PDFpapers/Frey&Stutzer.pdf http://www.iew.unizh.ch/wp/iewwp015.pdf end
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