Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Iraq Prepared Testimony by US Secretary of Defense, September 19th http://www.senate.gov/~armed_services/statemnt/2002/September/Rumsfeld.pdf Untested Administration Hawks Clamor for War http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020917/4453455s.htm Evidence on Iraq Challenged http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36348-2002Sep18?language=printer Ousting Saddam "Would Be Good Business" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/17/wirq217.xml/ The Economic Costs of Going to War with Iraq http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2002/0209warimpact.html Selling the War on Iraq http://www.moveon.org/moveonbulletin/bulletin4.html argument against preemption http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n14/print/byer01_.html war is bad, but Saddam is still a snake http://slate.msn.com/?id=2071086 http://www.thenewrepublic.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020930&s=notebook093002inspections http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/opinion/19MATH.html?pagewanted=print war Bush Weighs Tribunal for Binalshibh http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1151/9-17-2002/20020917010006_5.html A Real War on Terrorism http://slate.msn.com/?id=2070210 Camp Delta Breakdown http://www.mirror.co.uk/printable_version.cfm?objectid=12204870&siteid=50143 the suspects in Buffalo: so far as we know right now, it's guilt by association (with all these vague charges, public presumption of innocence is important) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/20/nyregion/20BUFF.html?pagewanted=print more on the very weird press coverage of the terror "hoax" ... http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh091802.shtml such as pundits who, lacking facts, feel free to just make things up http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110002297 http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20020919.shtml amazing scope of intelligence failures before 9/11 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36754-2002Sep18?language=printer http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/politics/19INTE.html?pagewanted=print http://www.msnbc.com/news/809484.asp http://intelligence.senate.gov/0209hrg/020918/hill.pdf more on the strange story of Bush's response to news of the 9/11 attacks (he kept reading stories to children as the attacks were under way) http://www.visualjournalism.com/Files/reviews/bush911/page.shtml Cantor Fitzgerald Critique of the September 11th Victims' Compensation Fund http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/cantor/cantor902smdojsub.pdf "All Out War" Looms Among Loyalist Factions in Northern Ireland (while Catholics have bettered themselves, loyalism has devolved into gangs) http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,794062,00.html Missile Silo Home: Safe, Secure, Underground http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1761906773 civil liberties and security "Viet Dinh was the chief architect of the USA Patriot Act" http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dviet18sep18002046 high rates of phone tapping in Australia http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/09/16/1032054714938.html Pro-Israel Web Site to Monitor Views of US Academia http://sg.search.yahoo.com/search/news_sg_pf?p=ukey%3A5172461 decision ordering that detainees' immigration hearings be open to the public http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/haddadashcrft91702opn.pdf DOJ Urges 3rd Circuit to Uphold Closed Deportation Hearings http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128562573 Indefinite Detention: Using Outdated Precedents to Defend Unjust Policies http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/mariner/20020917.html EU Data Protection Chiefs Oppose Data Retention Moves http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27155.html Voting Rights in Florida 2002 http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/sum0802.htm Computers Criticized in Florida Voting http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer/ap.asp?category=1700&slug=Digitally%20Informed A Rush to Get It Right in Florida Produces More Election Wrongs (spending big bucks on hardware and ignoring training is astonishingly common) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/18/politics/18FLOR.html?pagewanted=print A Responsible Approach to Homeland Security http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_newsroom/byrd_news_sept2002/rls_sept2002/rls_sept2002_6.html Draft National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/ US Cybersecurity Strategy Faulted (a study in uselessness) http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/print_story.asp?story=28725458 Fed Cybersecurity Initiative Boosts TCPA http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27159.html Two Critical Security Flaws Taint Microsoft's Java (they are as follows: one, it's Microsoft, and two, see one) http://news.com.com/2102-1001-958547.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/27201.html OMB Weighs Info Classification http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0916/news-omb-09-16-02.asp more on threats to open information http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dop%2Dpeterson15sep15 Department of Education to Delete Years of Research From Its Website http://www.thememoryhole.org/edu/ed-info.htm http://www.edweek.org/ew/ew_printstory.cfm?slug=03web.h22 corruption Tyco Details Extravagance of Ex-CEO http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfi%2Dtyco18sep18002046 http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128560949 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A31362-2002Sep17?language=printer http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20020917/manufacturingtycoinvestigationdc.html Ex-Tyco CEO May Face Jail http://www.msnbc.com/news/809480.asp California Regulators Reveal Houston Role in Crisis http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1579928 Overseer of U. of Texas Trust Fund Conceals Details on Investment Performance http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1576368 spreadsheet of Jack Welch's perks http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/gewelch1.html politics the proper procedures for reviewing judicial nominations have been restored (a small step toward the restoration of Constitutional government) http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/editorial/4080130.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp more on the hidden politics of defining "failing schools" (which turn out to be schools with high standards in states that voted blue) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/18/education/18LESS.html?pagewanted=print jargon watch: study this typical collection of quotes evidencing "bias" (reporting facts, asking questions, merely reporting opponents' views, etc) http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/2002/nq20020916.asp yet more on the Orwellian campaign to erase all memory of "privatization" http://www.salon.com/politics/conason/2002/09/18/bush/print.html the smear against the NEA continues to spread, getting uglier as it goes (new research makes clear how bogus the original Washington Times article was) http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020918.html everything else survey of meta search engines http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0918-meta1.html An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging http://blogbib.blogspot.com/ Microsoft Slammed for Antitrust Deal Violations http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27198.html article about jurisdiction in Internet controversies http://www.llrx.com/features/pavlovich.htm GAO report on electronic government http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-02-1083T Journal of Software History http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/ German Online Research Conference, Stuttgart, 10-11 October 2002 http://www.dgof.de/gor02/programm_en.html priceless jargon from the telemarketing industry (including an extremely dubious claim about "180 million Americans") http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020917/4453495s.htm mobile phone service in the UK that claims to identify music tracks from clips http://www.shazam.com/shazam/do/home playing vinyl records by scanning them digitally http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/ Designing the Century's First Digital City (I don't know how real this is, but it's interesting) http://news.com.com/2008-1082-958461.html Villages Hustle to Sell Naming Rights (Greetings from the City of Disney Los Angeles) http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0209170263sep17 movie of matter and antimatter moving away from the Crab Nebula (not an animation) http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/19sep_crabmovie.htm end
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