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In this issue: typo
Web site recommendations: IT/politics/environment/images

Apologies for a typo in the last issue, the correct entry is:
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation - incredible project that
has collected over 50,000 testimonies from Holocaust survivors
http://www.vhf.org/

Thanks, as always, to all those who through email messages or blog entries
contribute to E-LIST content!

How Google is changing what we can find out about one another - and
raising questions about whether we should
http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0202/coverstory_entire.htm
&
some thoughts on how this relates to the ethics of academic research (from
a July 2002 blog entry)
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000050.html

New Biz on the Blog - making a profit from blogs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,884658,00.html

Finding a date via your cell phone
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,57394,00.html

The difference between "program" and "data"
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000277.html

Turning a Digital Database Into Local Radio
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/technology/03DALY.html

A Digital Icon in Time - the man who captured Columbia's demise
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=19484

EBay Deletes 'Shuttle Debris' Offerings
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20030202/D7OUKKNO0.html

Radio Shock Jock Pushes Limits of Sexist Gab
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1172

Creating a Culture of Ideas
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/negroponte0203.asp?p=0

Surveillance & Society - online journal
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org

Privacy Resources
http://lorrie.cranor.org/privacy

Conference: National Feminism in a Transnational Arena
http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/eucenter/Conferences/Feminism/

Information about upcoming anti-war events
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/

"If You Want to Be a Hero and Your IQ's Nearly Zero" - !
http://www.foodrevolution.org/iraq.htm

No Promotion of Marriage in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/ams3/npmbasis.html

Minorities More Likely to Receive Lower-Quality Health Care,
Regardless of Income and Insurance Coverage
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/030908265X?OpenDocument

Texas School District Is Sued Over a Gay-Straight Club
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/education/02ACL.html

Troublesome implications of salmon farming.. and govt/big business mess
http://www.cbc.ca/disclosure/archives/030204.html

Are Green Giants in Our Future? Toward Sustainable Architecture in the
21st Century
http://eg.washingtonpost.com/profile/1079256/?&flavor_id=14&context=arts

Big and Green - Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century
http://www.nbm.org/Exhibits/current/Big_and_Green.html

Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/085_disc.html

The National Library of Australia Pictorial Collection
http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/index.html

Beautiful Nature Photographs
http://www.billatkinson.com/Homepage.pl

History Wired - you have an input in how prominent the items will be for
future site visitors http://historywired.si.edu/index.html

National Association of Comics Art Educators
http://www.teachingcomics.org/

Do the Math column (about grade inflation and much more)
http://slate.msn.com/?id=3944&QueryText=Do+the+Math&Action=DepartmentSrch&GroupB\
y=Department

Want to practice writing?
http://www.oneword.invisibleland.tv/

AOL Time Warner's $99 Billion Loss :-))!
http://www.theonion.com/onion3904/infograph_3904.html

Today's quote:
"History has consequences, but it need have no permanent franchise on the
future."
- Prof. John Fleming (Daily Princetonian, 10/24/02)

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From E-BLOG: How pink can you get? (2/5/03)
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000186.html for underlying links
or to comment

Mother Jones has a nice little snippet critiquing various corporate
strategies to profit from people's concerns about breast cancer. There are
lots of pink ribbon campaigns these days and some are more genuine than
others. When makers of vacuum cleaners pledge to give one dollar to the
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for each pink ribbon vacuum sold
(retail price around $200-$300) you have to wonder about their commitment
to the cause.

Previously, I've commented on BMW's Ultimate Drive program, I think they
do a better job of connecting to the cause for real and there is a better
awareness aspect to that campaign which I do think is quite important. I
also found KitchenAid's Cook for the Cure program a bit more convincing
since they pledge $50 for each appliance bought, do not cap their overall
donation where the vacuum cleaner company does, and I do not recall any
price discrepencies between the Cook for the Cure products and the other
equivalent products when I last checked.

To recap, I think awareness campaigns are really important because people
do need to keep hearing about breast cancer to realize that they need to
go get checked regularly. Early detection can be a crucial component of
fighting cancer and people need to know that. But when corporations see no
limit to exploiting people's fear of and concern about this cause it gets
bothersome.