[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Sep 17 2002 - 10:53:57 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
    
    Pick Hit: Fred Anderson Quartet, The Milwaukee Tapes, Volume 1
    
    
    Iraq
    
    Iraq's letter to Annan accepting inspections
    http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/letters/2002/s2002-1034.pdf
    
    Bush Planned Iraq "Regime Change" Before Becoming President
    http://www.sundayherald.com/print27735
    http://www.newamericancentury.org/publicationsreports.htm
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020911/4437020s.htm
    http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5345/view/print
    
    on the alleged capitulation of Iraq war foes
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/sept0203.html#091602138am
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Doutlook16sep16002051
    http://www.salon.com/politics/conason/2002/09/13/bush/print.html
    
    Backing on Iraq? Let's Make a Deal
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfg%2Dbazaar13sep13
    
    Iraq: War, Then It Gets Hard
    (uh, but let's not talk about any war as easy)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22275-2002Sep15?language=printer
    
    the politics of Iraq's oil after "regime change"
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18841-2002Sep14?language=printer
    
    US Think Tanks Give Lessons in Foreign Policy
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html
    
    Bush Aide Says Iraq War Cost May Reach $200 Billion
    http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20020916_65.html
    
    War Issue Imperils Constitution
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Doe%2Dappleby17sep17
    http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6392/view/print
    http://hnn.us/articles/printfriendly/905.html
    
    "the last time Donald Rumsfeld saw Saddam, he gave him a cordial handshake"
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/807688.asp
    
    New ICM Poll Shows British Opposition to Iraq War Diminishing Rapidly
    (I hope it works)
    http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,793571,00.html
    
    
    war
    
    Confessions of an al-Qaeda Terrorist
    http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020923/story.html
    
    complaints against alleged terrorists in Buffalo
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usgoba091302cmp.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usal-bakri091302cmp.pdf
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/national/15INDI.html?pagewanted=print
    
    photos of Ramzi Binalshibh in custody
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020914/161/294bh.html
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020914/168/294aq.html
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020914/168/293y6.html
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020914/170/2939j.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/international/asia/15TERR.html?pagewanted=print
    
    indictment dismissed against an Illinois-based Islamic charity
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usbif91302opn.pdf
    
    on the very weird media coverage of the terror "hoax" in Florida
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh091602.shtml
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/134536062_terror15.html
    
    left-wing rant about the war on terror
    http://www.counterpunch.org/dixon0911.html
    
    right-wing rant about the war on terror
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/mhelprin/?id=110002272
    
    How Have Terrorists Entered the US?
    http://www.cis.org/circle.html
    
    interview with air traffic controllers from 9/11
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/806685.asp
    
    One Year Viewed From Space
    http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/9-11/default.htm
    
    post-9/11 poll of US ethnic communities
    http://ascweb.usc.edu/news.php?storyID=19
    
    Selective Memri
    (investigating the organization that translates the Arabic language press)
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,773258,00.html
    
    allegation of CIA involvement in training terrorists
    (interview with former US foreign service officer Michael Springmann)
    http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/dispatches/audio/020116_springman.rm
    
    Afghan's Thirst for Web Access
    http://www.ojr.org/ojr/world_reports/1030032560.php
    
    some of the people who survived the anthrax attack aren't doing too well
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/national/16LIMB.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Respiratory Ills Plague Ground Zero Workers
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22212-2002Sep15?language=printer
    
    New Thinking to Make Skyscrapers Safer
    http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=00021172-86BE-1D76-90FB809EC5880000
    
    I found the widespread disparagement of the 9/11/02 ceremonies to be repulsive
    (and the media coverage, with few exceptions, was perfectly reasonable)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/12/national/12TUBE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Blood Spills to Keep Oil Wealth Flowing
    ("the military and the paramilitaries here are the same")
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfg%2Dpipeline15sep15005033
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfg%2Dlinks15sep15005033
    
    Researchers Put Together Story of the Khmer Rouge
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/international/asia/15CAMB.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Library Records Post-Patriot Act
    http://www.llrx.com/features/libraryrecords.htm
    
    Shine Light on Secret Court
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Ded%2Dfisa16sep16
    http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1153/9-13-2002/20020913090002_07.html
    
    Hong Kong Plans to Draft Law Against Subversion
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfg%2Dsubvert14sep14
    
    Guardian series on surveillance
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/bigbrother/privacy/0,12377,783005,00.html
    
    Americans Still Divided on Issue of Rights vs. Security
    (even framing the issue as "rights vs. security" prejudges the issue)
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Drights17sep17
    
    Terror Warning Over Electronic Equipment
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99992780
    
    page scans of the draft government cyber security report
    http://www.uscryptomail.org/cybersecurity/
    
    nasty new Apache worm
    (press reports keep calling it a Linux worm, but that's not really right)
    http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-27.html
    https://gtoc.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21130
    http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1105-957988.html
    http://msn-cnet.com.com/2102-1001-957988.html
    http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2002.09.13.html
    
    Security Flaw Discovered in Microsoft Word
    (the problem is still Microsoft's reckless embedding of code in documents)
    http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2002-09-12-word-flaw_x.htm
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27114.html
    
    Microsoft Word Flaw Allows Digitally Signed Forgeries
    http://www.msnbc.com/local/pisea/86882.asp
    
    Massive Credit Card Heist Suspected
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/807675.asp
    
    Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis: One Year Later
    http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/newtcp/
    
    What eBay Isn't Telling You About Auction Fraud
    http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,42194,FF.html
    
    
    politics
    
    the industrial organization of jargon
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_09_08_archive.html#85445174
    http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/4062553.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    Poor Lady Lamenting Harkin's 1983 Vote Is From Central Casting
    http://DesMoinesRegister.com/news/stories/c5917686/19200043.html
    
    NRA Campaign Escorts Decried
    (if the media were liberal then five dozen pundits would be howling about this)
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dcandidate15sep15
    
    the pathetic vote-counting problems in Florida
    (does anyone have URL's with technical and other details on the problems?)
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dflorida14sep14005046
    http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2002/09/13/florida/print.html
    
    constitutional opposition to Bush homeland security proposals
    (a clear case of using the war on terror to push extraneous agendas)
    http://www.farleyfiles.com/content/sayno.htm
    
    The Judiciary Committee as Political Killer
    (was the same author so upset when qualified nominees were ignored in the 90s?)
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Doe%2Dkmiec17sep17
    
    Intense Logging Blamed for Wildfires
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dlogging17sep17013053
    
    jargon watch: "greens accused of helping Africans starve"
    (here on earth, the Africans have very good reasons to reject GM materials)
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20020830-2441442.htm
    
    article blaming Democratic politicians for the pundit gap
    (the fact is, hardly anyone is out there articulating their side's values)
    http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/15/tomasky-m.html
    
    
    conferences
    
    New Media: Critical Approaches, Newcastle, Australia, 3-4 October 2002
    http://www.octapod.org/newmediaconference/
    
    Electronic Networks and Democratic Engagement, Nijmegen, 9-12 October 2002
    http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jankow/Euricom/
    
    Virtual Community Informatics, Barcelona, 15 December 2002
    http://web.njit.edu/~bieber/vci-workshop-2002.html
    
    
    spam
    
    State Wins Case Against Deceptive Spammer
    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/87049_spam14.shtml
    
    more on spam attacks on commercial mailing lists
    http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/print.php/1462531
    
    dangerously misguided proposal for revenge against spammers
    (the problem, as he surely knows, is that it's trivially easy to forge headers)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/14/opinion/14ETZI.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Open Source Satellite Control
    http://ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sat/?t=gr,lnxw01=OSsat
    
    Richard Stallman on the difference between free software and open source
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27121.html
    
    artists' rebellion against the record companies
    (but it's all noise until they develop an alternative business model)
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020916/4450243s.htm
    
    What Microsoft Doesn't Want You to Know
    (white paper about Microsoft licensing from a competitor)
    http://www.novell.com/info/collateral/docs/4621266.05/4621266.html
    
    more on Verizon refusing to turn over a subscriber to the music industry
    http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/sep2002/tc20020912_9326.htm
    
    
    everything else
    
    The Brain as User Interface
    http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/aug02/brainimplants.html
    
    Nanosecrets of Everyday Things
    http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Research-Review/Magazine/2001/Fall/features/03Beyond.html
    
    strategies of Microsoft competitors
    http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,40438,00.html
    
    "there is no basis for any rumors that Steve Case is leaving"
    (basic PR: address the weakest version, using "any" to invent it if necessary)
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4089186.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    SEC Probes Welch's Benefits
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfi%2Dge17sep17010958
    
    even more about Army Secretary White and his experiences at Enron
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/opinion/17KRUG.html
    
    99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete
    (because they use nonstandard features)
    http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2002-09.shtml
    
    "smileys on PLATO were already an art form by 1976"
    http://www.platopeople.com/emoticons.html
    
    How College Students are Living in the Future with Today's Technology
    (they can surf, good, but how many can make Web pages, much less program?)
    http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=71
    
    faculty position in information science
    http://www.ils.unc.edu/html/1_jobs_at_sils.shtml
    
    ICT and Urban Form
    http://www.networkcity.nl/pdf/pub07.pdf
    
    Audio Spotlight: Put Sound Where You Want It
    http://www.holosonics.com/
    
    Songlines world music magazines -- includes sampler CD's -- highly recommended
    (tell them I sent you)
    http://www.songlines.co.uk/
    
    article about a historian of Irish myth-making
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/258/focus/_Tisn_tP.shtml
    
    The Incredible Shrinking Ozone Hole
    (environmental regulation works)
    http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2002/09/16/1032054763580.htm
    
    How to Build Yourself a One Atmosphere Plasmoid
    (don't try this at home)
    http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/oa_plasmoid.htm
    
    Physics in Crisis
    http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-55/iss-9/p55.html
    
    Hope Has Dried Up on Farms
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Ddrought16sep16002051
    
    Corporate Agribusiness Control of Farm Policy
    http://www.familyfarmer.org/sections/corpcontrol.html
    
    HHS Seeks Science Advice to Match Bush Views
    (the new Lysenkoism)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26554-2002Sep16?language=printer
    
    Cloned Food Products Near Reality
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22061-2002Sep15?language=printer
    
    Rural Revolution Takes Shape in China
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/808238.asp
    
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