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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/health/politics

In addition to the usual IT links, there are quite a few links to
political material below. Is this issue too long or too dense? I welcome
your feedback, as usual.

I'll be on the road for the most part until the 20th but hope to be back
on track regularly responding to emails, compiling E-LIST and adding to my
blog after that.

Happy Hanukkah!
(see my graphics greeting here:
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000129.html )

Thanks to all those who contributed to this issue!

The Freedom of Imagination: Copyright's Constitutionality
"In some parts of the world, you can go to jail for reciting a poem in
public without permission from state-licensed authorities. Where is this
true? One place is the United States of America."
http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/112-1ab1.html

Telling All Online: It's a Man's World (Isn't It?)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/circuits/28blog.html
(reminder NYTimes articles require free registration)

Walker in the Wireless City - Wi-Fi in NYC
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/nyregion/24FEAT.html

Death by Spam - The e-mail you know and love is about to vanish
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2074042

"Do the conflicts of interest of our highly concentrated media constitute
a threat to democracy?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/29/opinion/29KRUG.html

Who does TiVo think you are?
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1038261936872356908,00.html

Postcards from Planet Google
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/circuits/28goog.html

CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
The Form and the Feel: Combining approaches for the study of networks
on the Internet
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/cfp2.html

GuideStar - The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations -
provides hours of fun looking up the financial records of nonprofits
(note the privacy implications for those listed: publicly available SSN)
http://www.guidestar.org

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

Tech Women Experience Power Surge
http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2002/11/18/story3.html

Visa Suit: Dictionary Discredited
"the first time a corporate trademark has prevailed over a word in the
dictionary"
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56432,00.html

Grant for research on music in America
http://www.sinfoniafoundation.org/Research%20Grant%20Info%20and%20Instructions.h\
tm

The New Old Slavery
"The trafficking of human beings is a polite phrase for slavery..."
http://eatthestate.org/07-05/NewOldSlavery.htm

WHO Report Details Global Violence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35213-2002Oct2.html

Military Spending: U.S. vs the World, FY'01
http://www.cdi.org/issues/wme/spendersFY03.html
&
FY'03 Discretionary Budget
http://www.cdi.org/issues/budget/FY03Discretionary-pr.cfm

Treatment of Israel Strikes An Alien Note
"a visitor [..] would [..] come away with the conclusion that the Earth is
a peaceful and fair planet with only one villainous nation determined to
destroy the peace and to violate human rights"
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1102/alien_visit.asp

Judging Judaism by the Numbers
"For too long, the health of Judaism has been defined largely by numbers."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/20/opinion/20RUSH.html

USDA closes meat packing plant
"violations [..] for allowing feces to contaminate beef carcasses"
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E33%257E994589%257E,00.html

White Poison: The Horrors of Milk - it would be great if people could
point me to some more related material (e.g. how hormonal treatment
increases milk production in cows across countries, etc.)
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12002

The BGH-Cancer Connection
http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/1996Newsletters/Newsletter034D.htm\
l

Vaccine against HPV-16, a virus linked to cervical cancer, appears
effective
http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2002archive/11-02archive/k112002.html

The Sons Also Rise
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/opinion/22KRUG.html

How George W. Bush is related to 16 other US presidents
http://www.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/03/31/bush/

The Successor Generation - American Politics as Family Business
http://www.prospect.org/print/V9/41/brownstein-r.html

UK Watchdog Pulls Plug on Bush TV Ads
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/reuters20021127_235.html

Testing if drink is safe from drugs
http://www.drinksafetech.com/

A Word of the Day Keeps Banality at Bay
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/circuits/28garg.html

Idiom Site - find out why you say what you say
http://www.idiomsite.com/

The Dialectizer - Convert English text to any of several comic dialects :)
http://rinkworks.com/dialect/


Today's quote:
"For 45 years of the Cold War we were in an arms race with the Soviet
Union. Now it appears we're in an arms race with ourselves."
-- Admiral Eugene Carroll, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.)

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