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 end
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