this seems a particularly rich grouping:
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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:55:08 -0700
From: Phil Agre <[email protected]>
To: Red Rock Eater News Service <[email protected]>
Subject: [RRE]pointers
Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
civil liberties and security
Terrorists at Threshold of Using Internet as Tool of Bloodshed, Experts Say
(somehow they manage to overhype and underhype the problem at the same time)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50765-2002Jun26?language=printer
claim that al-Qaeda cyberterrorism threat is nothing but industry FUD
(curiously timed to coincide with the publicity for Microsoft Palladium)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25938.html
The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309084814/html/
Fourth Generation Warfare
http://www.d-n-i.net/second_level/fourth_generation_warfare.htm
350 Revenge Crimes After September 11th
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,744142,00.html
Even a "Bad Man" Has Rights
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39143-2002Jun24.html
Deadly Soviet Caesium Is Missing
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992445
FBI Wants to Track Your Web Trail
(from a few weeks ago)
http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1105-933202.html
The FBI in Your Library
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/fbiinyourlibrary.html
http://www.holtuncensored.com/members/column330.html
Richard Nixon's "Enemies" List
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~polisci/calvert/PolSci3103/watergate/enemy.htm
Calgary Gets Taste of Martial Law
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?idF22B46-47FA-48CB-8B27-996AD12AEA4D
"a picture of the heat in your face detects lies as well as polygraph machines"
http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/printing/article/1668.51354
some treasonous satire
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html
Maher Sounds Off With Final "Politically Incorrect"
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/28/tv.maher.ap/
he was chased off the air by liars and thugs …
http://www.charm.net/~somerby/h100101_1.shtml
… when in reality many people including conservatives had said the same thing
http://www.charm.net/~somerby/h092901_1.shtml
scandal
more detail on George Bush's serial lies about his statements on deficits
(all the more egregious, of course, given his lies about Gore's supposed lies)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/773123.asp
a blog devoted to fact-checking conservative hero Ann Coulter's "Slander"
(which, needless to say, lives up to its name)
http://www.anncoulter.blogspot.com/
projection hall of fame! "I detest you and will do my best to destroy you"
(this may be the most primitive example of projection I have ever encountered)
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue 02-06-22&id78
a study in just how spurious establishment claims of "liberal bias" can be
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/MRC.html
How Corrupt Is Wall Street?
(and what % of Bush campaign funds came from companies with major frauds?)
http://aol.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_19/b3782001.htm
Flavors of Fraud
("each of the major business scandals so far involved a different scam")
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/opinion/28KRUG.html
no prizes for guessing who WorldCom's auditor was
("you wonder how the entire analyst community missed something so egregious")
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/business/28TELE.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44367-2002Jun25?language=printer
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/business/27RECO.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cidS6&ncidp3&e=1&u=/ap/20020627/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/hard_times_1
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/business/28AUDI.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58584-2002Jun27.html
Telecom in Financial Chaos
(it turns out that the greedhead corruption of the 1980's never stopped)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/772602.asp
Enron Criminal Investigation Is Said to Expand to Bankers
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/business/26ENRO.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/27/enron.bankers.charged.ap/
danger of capital flight from the corrupt US economy
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story09438
In House Bid, Democrats Target Corporate Abuse
(it's only "risky" because they don't have five dozen pundits working on it)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44930-2002Jun25?language=printer
intellectual property
more on Microsoft Palladium
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,274309,00.asp
http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1104-938968.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25843.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25852.html
http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2002-08.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-938973.html
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25905.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/25892.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/opinion/11ZITT.html
Digital Rights Management Operating System (Microsoft Patent 6,330,670)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C42325821
critical security flaw in Microsoft's rights management software
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-940050.html
Microsoft's attempt to push proprietary media formats
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-938997.html
more on Scientology's attack on Google
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id23826492846
bill to allow copyright interests to disrupt P2P services
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25903.html
Corrupt Audio Discs, aka "Copy-Protected CDs"
http://uk.eurorights.org/issues/cd/quick/
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart829
Yahoo!'s RIAA Deal Was Designed to Stifle Competition!
(I have no idea)
http://www.kurthanson.com/cuban/
everything else
chalk-marking wireless access points
http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/
US Senator Takes Up Open Source Fight Against … the Auto Industry
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/17/3394/78895
Clueless Mailers: The Latest Ugly Trend in Spamming
http://www.cluelessmailers.org/spamdemic/mapfullsize3.html
Your PC's Enemy Within
http://news.com.com/2009-1023-937457.html
article on next-generation Windows
http://www.fortune.com/indext.jhtml?channel=print_article.jhtml&doc_id 8505
"experimental latent semantic search engine" for blog posts
http://www.idlewords.com/semantic/
Richard Saul Wurman's "Understanding USA"
(I find it needlessly garish, but it does include some good design features)
http://www.understandingusa.com/
Babbage's Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System
http://cci.wmin.ac.uk/schaffer/schaffer01.html
How the GOP Abandoned Social Security Privatization
(but left a privatization paper trail a mile long)
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/06/kuttner-r-06-24.html
Supreme Court decision in Cleveland vouchers case
(now Republican politicians will have to defend their unpopular voucher stands)
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/01pdf/00-1751.pdf
"why cities without gays and rock bands are losing the economic race"
(gays and rock bands obviously need tax cuts)
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0205.florida.html
Fighting Global Warming Would Barely Dent the World's Economy
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/greenhouse-02g.html
special issue of Journal of Molecular Biology on life sciences and society
http://www.idealibrary.com/links/toc/jmbi/319/4/0
Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments
(don't try this at home)
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/weird/microexp.html
Antique Instruments to Raise Money for Berkeley Physics Department
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/06/27_physics.html
Beyond T. Rex
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020701/misc/1dino.htm
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