[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 10:21:47 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
    
    IDEO's redesign of a hospital in the October issue of Metropolis
    should be required reading in design programs of every sort.
    
    
    Iraq
    
    Analysts Discount Attack By Iraq
    (as in the Reagan years, the CIA is being pressured to give the right answers)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63775-2002Oct9?language=printer
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dcia11oct11004439§ion=%2Fnews%2Fprintedition%2Fasection
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,807286,00.html
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/nation/1607676
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/10/politics/10INTE.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/4234259.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    critique of the Bush National Security Strategy and Cincinnati speech
    http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=98&DocID=1867
    
    protests at Bush's war speech in Cincinnati
    http://www.citybeat.com/2002-10-10/news.shtml
    
    DefenseWatch issue on Iraq
    http://www.sftt.org/dw10022002.html
    
    US Has a Plan to Occupy Iraq, Officials Report
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/11/international/11PREX.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Congress Must Resist the Rush to War
    (we're proving again that war is the enemy of law)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/10/opinion/10BYRD.html?pagewanted=print
    
    left-wing answers to questions about Afghanistan and Iraq
    http://www.zmag.org/45qairaq.htm
    
    reports from peace activists inside Iraq
    http://www.iraqjournal.org/
    
    US Forces Ill-Equipped for Chemical and Biological Warfare
    http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/article.asp?id=46
    http://www.sftt.org/dw10022002.html#5
    
    South Africa Denies Iraqi Arms Deal Claims
    http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.jsp?o=10272
    
    assorted sources on Iraq war issues
    http://lii.org/search?query=(Iraq+not+Babylonia);searchtype=subject
    
    article on Saddam's "palaces"
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/817665.asp
    
    Bush Studied Israel's 1967 Preemptive Strike
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/819372.asp
    
    Operation Endless Deployment
    http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20021021&s=hartung
    
    the ancient bond between war and mindlessless
    (projection: make no sense by pretending that opponents make no sense)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh101002.shtml
    
    "you're un-American! you hate America! you're with us or with the terrorists!"
    (oh, *that* new tone)
    http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/10/tapped-s-10-07.html#550pmblitzer
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_10_06_archive.html#85541371
    
    Democrats paying for their incoherence and collapse on the war
    (my view is that the Democrats and their supporters need to grow more pundits)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6721-2002Oct10?language=printer
    
    
    war
    
    indictment of the head of a Muslim charity
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usarnaout10902ind.pdf
    
    recently declassified information about US chemical weapons tests
    http://www.deploymentlink.osd.mil/current_issues/shad/shad_intro.shtml
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021009/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/chemical_weapons_tests_9
    
    Mass Graves Found in Northern Afghanistan
    http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.jsp?a=13&o=10278
    
    FBI Memo Details Pre-9/11 Sloppiness
    (might be a temporary link)
    http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/ap/ap_story.html/Washington/AP.V3389.AP-Attacks-FBI-Err.html
    
    article about DNA analysis of remains from the World Trade Center
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dsci%2Dremains9oct09004433§ion=%2Fnews%2Fprintedition%2Fasection
    
    Fighting Terrorism With Democracy
    http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20021021&s=rorty
    
    Navy Center for Contemporary Conflict
    http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/index.asp
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    third circuit says no first amendment right of access to deportation hearings
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/ashnjmg10802opn.pdf
    http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128705832
    http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/4238161.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    more on the ID card disaster in Pakistan
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/10/international/10STAN.html?pagewanted=print
    
    summary of hacktivism projects
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/10/technology/circuits/10hack.html?pagewanted=print
    
    "biometrics proves more difficult than feds anticipated"
    http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1007/cov-bio-10-07-02.asp
    
    what happened when part of the UUNet backbone failed last week
    http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/oct2002/tc2002108_4317.htm
    
    Satellite Systems Hackable: GAO Study
    (does someone have a URL for this?)
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/27508.html
    
    Aviation Accident Information Dating Back to 1962 Now Available Online
    http://www.ntsb.gov/Pressrel/2002/021009.htm
    
    conspiracy theory about Republicans and voting machines
    (I don't find the site credible, but they explain where to look for evidence)
    http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0210/S00044.htm
    http://www.talion.com/election-machines.html
    
    Lobbyist Made Money From Florida Voting Machine Sales
    http://www.sptimes.com/2002/10/06/news_pf/State/Lobbyist_made_money_f.shtml
    
    
    corruption
    
    Bush accused of colluding with Harvard to hide problems at Harken
    http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~skomarov/harvardwatch/
    http://www.thedailyenron.com/documents/20021009083424-82854.asp
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/11/opinion/11KRUG.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/282/business/Harvard_role_in_Harken_called_deeperP.shtml
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-442115,00.html
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,808933,00.html
    
    Documents Raise Questions About White's Senate Testimony on Energy Trades
    http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/print_release.cfm?ID=1229
    
    Enron Owes $6 Million in Taxes
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1611416
    
    Enron Bondholders to Get $8 Million
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=509&u=/ap/20021010/ap_on_bi_ge/enron_sec_1&printer=1
    
    Alabama retirement fund going after Enron's bankers
    http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128681489
    
    SEC watering down the Sarbanes-Oxley rules for corporate lawyers
    http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128710966
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Microsoft Nixes TV Copy Protection
    http://news.com.com/2102-1040-961376.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27531.html
    
    more on copyright extensions
    http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128711781
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3508-2002Oct9?language=printer
    http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002101001t.htm
    
    hardware that deactivates unless you register software upgrades
    http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/10/07/021007opgripe.xml?Template=/storypages/printfriendly.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    details on the human versus machine chess match in Bahrain
    (it's a fair fight this time, and we're winning)
    http://www.brainsinbahrain.com/
    http://www.chessbase.com/
    http://www.chessbase.com/shop/index.asp?cat=Fritz+Programs
    http://62.73.175.4/dynamic/articles/108193978.html
    http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Articles.asp?Article=34499&Sn=BNEW
    
    The Problem of Slow Productivity Growth in Europe
    (they accept the late-1990's productivity growth claims in the US as real)
    http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000949.html
    
    jargon watch: study how hard they stretch to insinuate wrongdoing
    (contortionists often develop serious joint problems as they grow older)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/10/politics/10GIFT.html?pagewanted=print
    
    A Concise Model of the University
    (ultra nerdly satire)
    http://pfaff.tcc.virginia.edu/home/MT/archives/000014.html#000014
    
    Java site for building animated, uh, well, just try it
    http://www.sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm
    
    Rumble of a Coming Ice Age
    http://www.nationalpost.com/components/printstory/printstory.asp?id=b7052ccd-012b-43b6-965d-817642a34738
    
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