Forward From: Phil Agre [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 5:40 AM
To: Red Rock Eater News Service
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

Pick Hit: System of a Down, Toxicity


war

Wounded Army Captain Details Teamwork Against Taliban
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22725-2001Dec10.html

How Many Dead? Major Networks Aren't Counting
http://www.fair.org/activism/afghanistan-casualties.html

US in Secret Move to Widen War on Terror
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/11/world/world102.html

Fear of US Strikes Grips Somalia
http://allafrica.com/stories/200112110090.html

Kabul Deal Promotes Regional Stability?
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/rca/rca_200112_92_1_eng.txt

US Ties to Saudi Elite May Be Hurting War on Terrorism
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/americas_new_war/saud12102001.htm

try to follow the logic of these headache-inducing columns from the Wash.
Times
(they're about John Walker, or about Judaism being a "grey area", or
something)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/ed-column-200112715345.htm
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/ed-column-200112715360.htm

John Walker Lindh's alleged Usenet postings
[log in to unmask]&hl=en" target="_blank">http:[log in to unmask]&hl=en

indictment, US v. Moussaoui
(everyone's wondering why this French citizen isn't getting a military
tribunal)
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/moussaoui1201.pdf

Central Casting's "Terrorist" Studies, and Then Warns
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/12/arts/12ACTO.html?pagewanted=print

Engineers Study WTC Destruction
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011212/us/attacks_fireproofing_1.html


civil liberties

Massport to Test High-Tech ID Check
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/346/metro/Massport_to_test_high_tech_ID_ch
eck+.shtml
http://www.msnbc.com/news/671633.asp

review of new biometric products
http://www.gcn.com/20_34/news/17626-1.html

Rumsfeld Wants Every Member of al Qaeda Imprisoned
(it's hard to be sympathetic to al Qaeda, but what precedent does this set?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28521-2001Dec11.html

Antivirus Firms: FBI Is Out of Line
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100528,00.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8134814.html

McCarthyism Watch
(everyone please grow up!)
http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxmc120801.html

Orders to Purge Records Have Librarians Worried
http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/2001/12/08/topstory/fw010102-
1208-XA001-security.htm

Conservatives Set Sights on Senator Leahy
(this is so vile)
http://www.thehill.com/121201/leahy.shtm

here is one of the alerts
(you wouldn't know from it that they've already given him massive authority)
http://www.conservativehq.com/activist/60second/action/12-12-01.htm

Pat Robertson's nasty treatment of Islam
http://www.cbn.com/SpiritualLife/understandingislam/IslamUnveiled.asp


security

Chat Volunteers Block Worm's Channel of Attack
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172814.html

Arrested Goner Creators Left Obvious Online Trail
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172821.html

Military Wary of Topographic Map's Release
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,49033,00.html

The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/treaties/abmpage.html

Recent Safety Hazards at Aging Nuclear Plants
http://www.ocregister.com/sitearchives/2001/12/9/news/nukeax01209cci5.shtml

DOE Amends Rules on Nevada Nuclear Waste Site
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22799-2001Dec10.html


news from Planet Microsoft

Microsoft Still Under Fire
("its legal headaches seem almost as bad as ever")
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=903957

Lockyer Squares Off With Microsoft
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000098123dec10.story

MS TV: It'll Be Watching You
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,49028,00.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/670796.asp

Microsoft to Plug Devastating Browser Download Hole
(again)
http://www.newsbytes.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=newsbyte
s&story.id=172878


the fall of Enron

Enron Officials Avoid Congress
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011211/ts/enron_congress_5.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1168987

report from last year on the trail of destruction that Enron has left behind
http://www.progressive.org/pc0900.htm

Bankruptcy Tip of Iceberg in Forums Seeking Enron Redress
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1166721

Enron Fallout Hits State Pension Fund
http://orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-asecenron11121101dec11.story

Enron-gate
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=12461
http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/feature/election/bushlayed.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-000098235dec11.column

Close Friend of Texas Supreme Court Goes Down in Flames
http://www.tpj.org/payola/docket17.html


politics

Debunking the Conservative Attack on Social Security
http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=13526

Looking at the Hypocrisy of Trade Promotion Authority
http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/12/11/

United States Lawmakers Set to Strike Out at Global Tribunal
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1211-01.htm

Bush undermines former hostages' suit against Iran
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/12/opinion/12ROSE.html

stupidity of the pundits
http://www.dailyhowler.com/h121101_1.shtml


everything else

A New Industry Threat: CD's Made From Webcasts
(who cares about the industry? what matters is what the bands think of it)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/12/arts/music/12POPL.html?pagewanted=print

Internet Piracy Is Suspected as US Agents Raid Campuses
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/12/technology/12PIRA.html?pagewanted=print

tips for professors on dealing with the media
http://www.mcgill.ca/public/publicrelations/media/
http://www.mcgill.ca/public/publicrelations/media/speaking/

DVD Menu Design: The Failures of Web Design Recreated Yet Again
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20011209.html

"faster Internet and wireless could threaten 3G mobile phones"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,612492,00.html

Sociological Research on September 11th
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/6/3/contents.html

dot-coms that done gone
(in alphabetical order)
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=205619

E-Mail Gets the Cold Shoulder in Congress
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/technology/circuits/13CONG.html

California Candidate Spams Voters
http://www.msnbc.com/news/671170.asp

Peacefire.org Wins Spam Suits
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172891.html

Group Sues SBC PacBell Over False Billing for Net Service
(this sort of thing has been going on for years)
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-8147851.html

Attorney General Investigates Wall Street Analysts
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bc-ny--investmentprobe1210dec10.story

documents in the now-dismissed case against Narco News
http://www.eff.org/Cases/BNM_v_Narco_News/
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48996,00.html

project that's building tools to manage multithreaded discussions
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/feenberg/textweaver/twstory3.htm
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/feenberg/textweaver/hyper.html
http://www.eli.sdsu.edu:8888/TextWeaver

How IT Will Change the Ways Nonprofits and Foundations Work
http://www.surdna.org/documents/morefinal.pdf

Google's archive of classic Usenet postings
(but I personally don't approve of having the whole history of Usenet
online)
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,49016,00.html

Get Rid of the Bluetooth Ache
http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/coolgear/wireless/story/0,2000023546,2026230
4,00.htm

Debating the Demise of NYUonline
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i16/16a03101.htm

Norah Vincent isn't just stupid -- she's evil
(watch her project her own indiscriminate hatred into the people she hates)
http://www.salon.com/news/col/vincent/2001/12/12/palestinian/

Public Information Network
(resources for environmental activists)
http://www.endgame.org/

more on "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/12/07/
http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/12/11/1.html

Scientists Now Fear "Abrupt" Global Warming Changes
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000098689dec12.story

Rights Group Disappointed in Fox
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000098361dec11.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000098335dec11.story

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