[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 15:28:34 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: William Parker Trio, And William Danced
    
    
    Iraq
    
    war authority votes
    http://www.senate.gov/legislative/vote1072/vote_00237.html
    http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2002&rollnumber=455
    
    Quietly, US Adds Thousands of Forces to Gulf in Case Bush Decides on War
    http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20021014-1107-us-gulfbuildup.html
    
    Divergent Views on Military Action 
    http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/14392.pdf
    http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/14391.pdf
    http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/14389.pdf
    http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/14390.pdf
    
    analysis of Canadian policy on Iraq
    http://makeashorterlink.com/?M1A625912
    
    more on the oil connection
    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021007&s=klare
    
    Film Probes German-Iraq Nuclear Link
    http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021014/D7MLEG9G3.html
    
    The Cheney Plan for Iraq: Chop It Up and Give Away the Pieces
    (I have *no* idea of the reliability of this -- it's just interesting)
    http://onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Conover100302/conover100302.html
    
    German analysis of the US war "debate"
    http://www.spiegel.de/politik/debatte/0,1518,217953,00.html
    
    GOP Candidate's Antiwar Vote Proves Popular
    (unilaterialism, like impeachment, is press and politicians versus the people)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/politics/campaigns/13DIST.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Support for Attacking Iraq Begins to Wane Across the US
    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/war_opposition021014.html
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=676&ncid=716&e=21&u=/usatoday/20021014/ts_usatoday/4531507
    
    Why Liberals Should Support the War
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021021&s=chait102102
    
    Conservative Christians Biggest Backers of Iraq War
    (is there a poll of how many think the Iraq war will bring on Armageddon?)
    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1010-02.htm
    
    Rush Limbaugh once again broadcasts pure speculation about an opponent
    (easily found to be without value by anyone who cared about truth)
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_10_13_archive.html#85562226
    
    Slate "journalist" runs a false attack memo
    (and when it's pointed out, slimes the people who were right)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh101702.shtml
    
    new depths of illogic among the warlike
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh101502.shtml
    
    
    war
    
    Civilian Sales of Military Sniper Rifles
    http://www.vpc.org/graphics/snipcov2.pdf
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/oct0202.html#101202500pm
    
    Ari Fleischer blames liberals for the Washington sniper
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37795-2002Oct16?language=printer
    
    Time to Take On America's Haters
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/820736.asp
    
    Rumsfeld's Style Roils Pentagon
    http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=73985
    
    Pentagon infighting over air support for ground troops
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0210130421oct13
    
    GAO: Commercial Satellite Security Should Be More Fully Addressed
    http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02781.pdf
    
    How the War on Terrorism Is Shrinking Congressional Powers
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/dean/20021011.html
    
    Pakistan's Elite Gravitate Toward Islamic Religious Parties
    (you'll recall that pundits mocked those who predicted this)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/international/asia/13STAN.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1015/p06s01-wosc.htm
    
    Plastic Explosive Clue in Bali Bombing
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2329189.stm
    
    Australian newspaper's articles about the bombing in Bali
    http://www.smh.com.au/specials/Bali/
    
    Green Berets Move Into Colombia's Oil Fields
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/10/12/wcolom12.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/10/12/ixworld.html
    
    more details on US biological weapons tests in the 1960's
    http://starbulletin.com/2002/10/09/news/story1.html
    http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Oct/10/ln/ln04a.html/?print=on
    http://dod.gov/news/Oct2002/t10092002_t1009ha.html
    
    Agribusiness, Biotechnology and War
    http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6390/view/print
    
    laser weapons
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/24/news1.shtml
    http://www.airbornelaser.com/
    
    Polish Generals Discuss Warsaw Pact Secrets
    http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/news/pressrelease020918.htm
    
    timeline of wars throughout history
    http://www.warscholar.com/timeline.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    US deports Canadian citizen to Syria
    http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20021014/UDEPON
    
    more on the third circuit's media blackout on certain immigration proceedings
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/hilden/20021015.html
    http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128730174
    
    civil liberties brief to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review
    http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/fisa/FISCR_amicus_brief.pdf
    
    how votes don't get counted in Ohio
    http://www.citybeat.com/2002-10-17/printable/cover.html
    
    news from US state governments, e.g., about voting rights
    http://www.statesnews.org/
    
    
    politics
    
    With Few Jobs Being Created, Pain Is Felt Far and Wide
    (we're still recovering from the appalling distortions of the "new economy")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/business/13JOB.html?pagewanted=print
    
    jargon watch: "get the few liberals out"
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/11/elec02.christian.coalition.ap/
    
    jargon watch: "I'm serving to make a difference, and some people don't like that"
    ("make a difference" defocuses the issue, and "some people" makes it deniable)
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=710&e=1&cid=710&u=/usatoday/20021011/pl_usatoday/4527856
    
    jargon watch: "a standard on paper will not solve a problem simply because it exists"
    (he's mechanically breaking an association, but does he know what he's saying?)
    http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021015/D7MLMOE80.html
    
    US political campaigns feature less and less campaigning
    (the column's title is not accurate)
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Doutlook14oct14§ion=%2Fnews%2Fprintedition%2Fasection
    
    entertaining articles about the candidates for governor of Florida
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32140-2002Oct15?language=printer
    http://www.sptimes.com/State/92098/Make_The_Money_and_Ru.html
    
    markets work great for some things, but medical care isn't one of them
    ("free market economics" is really just a rhetoric for obscuring such facts)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/opinion/13ANGE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Center on Religion and Democracy at the University of Virginia
    (includes a good collection of online texts)
    http://religionanddemocracy.lib.virginia.edu/
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Understanding, Averting and Surviving the Software Audit
    (open source open source open source)
    http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128711116
    
    depths of absurdity in the ElcomSoft/Sklyarov copyright case
    http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2400
    
    online collection of 19th century sheet music
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    Microsoft Offers, Then Pulls, Its Own Mac-to-Windows Switcher Story
    (pretty sad)
    http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/10/14.14.shtml
    
    Ballmer: "any code of significant scope and power will have bugs in it"
    (utterly standard PR strategy: defocusing the issue, breaking the link to MS)
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.29.html#subj4
    
    implementation of the FTC's Microsoft consent order
    http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/microsoft/ordercomments.html
    
    more on the pathetic life of a Microsoft customer
    http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/02_42/b3804074.htm
    
    
    everything else
    
    Korea Telecom originates a staggering amount of spam
    (the backbone providers know this, but they carry the traffic anyway)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A33231-2002Oct16?language=printer
    
    secrecy of proceedings under international trade treaties
    http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/4271738.htm/
    
    Hierarchical Tendencies and Regional Patterns in the World City Network
    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb88.html
    
    Rem Koolhaas' New Logo for the EU
    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb86.html
    
    "how a record store in Paris became a center of African music"
    http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/021014fa_fact2
    
    some interesting results on automated playing of combinatorial games like Go
    http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/021016-ee380-100.asx
    
    remember when CD's were new? publicists exclaimed how perfect they sounded
    (Neil Young was one lonely voice noting how cold they are)
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/10/13/nextphase.audio.ap/
    
    Specialized Search Engine FAQ's
    http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/oct02/price.htm
    
    The Journalist's Toolbox
    http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/
    
    EE Times special issue on future technologies
    http://www.eet.com/reshaping/
    
    Seismo-Surfing the Internet
    http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html
    
    Microbes May Have Carved Caves
    http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021014/D7MLCIB00.html
    
    Greenland's Glaciers Crumble
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18559-2002Oct12?language=printer
    
    "abrupt climate change"
    http://www.whoi.edu/home/about/whatsnew_abruptclimate.html
    http://www.nap.edu/books/0309074347/html/
    
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