[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 23:08:58 PST

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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
    
    
    war
    
    US Is Preparing Base in Gulf State to Run Iraq War
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/01/international/middleeast/01MILI.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Ideal Terror Weapons: Portable, Deadly, Plentiful Missiles
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/29/international/29MISS.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/11/22/missiles/print.html
    
    Effects-Based Operations: Change in the Nature of Warfare
    http://www.aef.org/pub/psbook.pdf
    http://www.dfi-intl.com/Shared/AirSpaceSeminars/ General_Deptula_transformation_Brief__27_June_01.pdf
    http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj01/fal01/phifal01.html
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/840503.asp
    
    faster weapons
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/01/business/yourmoney/01BUIL.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
    
    The Pentagon Muzzles the CIA
    http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/22/dreyfuss-r.html
    
    Bin Laden's Alleged "Letter to America"
    http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,845725,00.html
    
    Henry Kissinger's appointment to the 9/11 commission
    http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=176
    
    The Prospect of War
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15911
    
    Death in Moscow: The Aftermath
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15925
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    experiment with mapping people's movements around Amsterdam
    http://www.waag.org/realtime/
    http://www.waag.org/realtime/images/kaarten/2-11-40d.jpg
    
    a fascinating example of Donald Rumsfeld's version of the English language
    http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/11/dod111802.html
    
    Risk of Internet Collapse Rising
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2514651.stm
    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-11/osu-lom112102.php
    http://gissa.artsci.uc.edu/grubesic/
    
    what happened when a hospital's network broke
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/330/science/Got_paper_P.shtml
    
    Illustrative Risks to the Public in the Use of Computer Systems
    (sorted by topic)
    http://www.csl.sri.com/neumann/illustrative.html
    
    counterfeiting by terrorists
    http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,45486,FF.html
    
    Drug-Resistant Bacteria Discovered in Detroit
    ("totally resistant to vancomycin, the longtime drug of last defense")
    http://www.freep.com/news/health/nstaph12_20021112.htm
    
    Scientists Condemn New Gene Technique
    ("speed evolution by inserting human cancer genes into animals and plants")
    http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,846528,00.html
    
    
    politics
    
    Bush Plan Ties Foreign Aid to Free Market and Civic Rule
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/26/international/26PREX.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Big Business's Funding Shift Boosts GOP
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43694-2002Nov26?language=printer
    
    Ex-Aide Insists White House Puts Politics Ahead of Policy
    ("you've got everything, I mean everything, being run by the political arm")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/02/politics/02BUSH.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Bush Anything but Moronic, According to Author
    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1128-02.htm
    
    Key Company Assets Moving Offshore
    ("rapidly shifting some of their most valuable assets to tax havens")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/business/22TAX.html?pagewanted=print
    
    starving the SEC
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/01/business/01SEC.html?pagewanted=print
    
    jargon watch: projection from George Will regarding the Florida vote count
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/752664.asp#021125
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    Microsoft Paper Touts Unix in Hotmail's Win2k Switch
    (pretty funny)
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28226.html
    
    Microsoft, Intel Backed Outfit Slams DoD Open Source Study
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28342.html
    
    Microsoft Targets Linux Defectors With "Special" Price Discounts
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28348.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    Public Comments Needed to Stop the "Broadcast Flag" Proposal at the FCC
    http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/fcc.flag.xhtml
    
    Hubs, Nodes, and Bypassed Places: A Typology of E-Commerce Regions in the US
    http://www.zooknic.com/info/Zook-Hubs_Nodes_and_bypassed_Places-prepub.pdf
    
    on Google's news service
    http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/powers2002-11-26.htm
    
    decentralized weblog package
    http://www.movabletype.org/
    
    Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
    
    Amazon, Google Lead New Path to Web Services
    http://news.com.com/2009-1017-966099.html
    
    AI planning systems do have some use in highly controlled environments
    (e.g., inside a machine)
    http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/roush1202.asp?p=0
    http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/williams/williams.shtml
    
    using extremophile microbes to grow nanoelectronics, of all things
    http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2002/02_122AR.html
    
    DJ Spooky's remix of Marcel Duchamp
    http://www.moca.org/museum/digital_gallery/pmiller/opener.html
    
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