[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 00:06:02 PST


Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.

RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html


war

9-11 Hijackers: A Saudi Money Trail?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/838867.asp
http://www.msnbc.com/news/839095.asp

US Ponders Resumption of Nuke-Weapons Test
("the interest comes primarily from conservative civilian leaders")
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/4530780.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

interesting case study in the role of defense firms in military aid
http://www.americas.org/news/nir/20021117_u_s_blocks_brazil_plane_deal.asp
http://www.dailyfreepress.com/main.cfm/include/smdetail/synid/66141.html

Dumb Bombs and Smart Munitions
http://www.vectorsite.net/twbomb.html

The Role of Think Tanks in US Foreign Policy
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps/1102/ijpe/ijpe1102.htm

Designers Draw Praise for Trade Center Ideas
(does anyone have details?)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/nyregion/22REBU.html?pagewanted=print
http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dmemorial24nov24§ion=%2Fnews%2Fprintedition%2Fasection

The Potential for Community Radio in Afghanistan
http://comunica.org/afghanistan/


civil liberties and security

Homeland Security Act of 2002
(someone ought to read it)
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/hsa2002.pdf

John Birch Society's campaign against the Homeland Security Department
http://www.jbs.org/congress/alerts/homeland.htm

The USA Patriot Act: One Year Later
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/11.16D.cm.usapa.2.htm

annual US government report on classified documents
http://www.fas.org/sgp/isoo/2001rpt.html

a remarkably unreassuring defense of the "total information awareness" program
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1102/112002ti.htm

Auto-ID: Tracking Everything, Everywhere
http://www.nocards.org/AutoID/overview.shtml

Audits and Surveys of State Freedom of Information Laws
http://foi.missouri.edu/openrecseries.html

Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet
(sounds like some people's time got wasted)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/politics/22TRAC.html?pagewanted=print

Microsoft Warns of Windows, Explorer Security Hole
(my new policy is only to cover every fifth critical Microsoft security problem)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24700-2002Nov22?language=printer

"how did a ubiquitous software package grow up to be chronically insecure?"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/28235.html


politics

Agency Draft Information Quality Guidelines
http://www.ftc.gov/os/comments/sec515comments/omb020610.pdf

White House lies on terrorism insurance: a case study in many things
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6777/view/print

a measure of just how radical Bush's anti-corporate-reform stand is
http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dbizfix18nov18001442§ion=%2Fnews%2Fprintedition%2Fasection

conservatism returns
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/opinion/22KRUG.html?pagewanted=print


intellectual property

Radio Deregulation: Has It Served Citizens and Musicians?
http://www.futureofmusic.org/research/radiostudy.cfm

"world's first digital news archive"
http://www.britishpathe.com/index.cfm

maybe "junk DNA" isn't junk
(and maybe someone's about to get a patent for the very idea of studying it)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/11/21/jnkdna.DTL&type=printable

Microsoft Researcher Says Efforts to Stop Music Piracy "Pointless"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2502399.stm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28231.html
http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc


everything else

A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations
http://basic.fluid.cs.cmu.edu/articles/orlikowski00-PracticeLens.pdf

extensive collection of links about Internet research and online art
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem/pool.htm
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/kuenst.htm
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/wiss.htm

Geographic Information Science, Lyon, 24-26 April 2003
http://agile2003.insa-lyon.fr/

alarm clock that wakes you up depending on traffic conditions
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/technology/2269144.stm

The Pebbles Project: Using Hand-Held Computers With Other Devices
http://Quarry.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/021122-cs547-100.asx

Controller Pushes Ethernet Into Everyday Equipment
http://www.eetimes.com/printableArticle?doc_id=OEG20021122S0031

mass-customized houses
http://architecture.mit.edu/house_n/

interesting article about green design
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_1102/moo/
http://www.moore.org/stories/08_15/news_story.asp

"farmers in Nebraska shaken by consolidation and globalization"
http://www.ctnow.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=hc%2Dneb1main%2Eartnov24

more on glacier melting
http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dsci%2Dglacier18nov18001442§ion=%2Fnews%2Fprintedition%2Fasection

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