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In this issue: Salon; ASA
Web site recommendations: IT/politics

I have subscribed to Salon, the no-ads version.  I will be posting more
links to their material as I think much of it is really good stuff.
Apologies if these links require you to jump through various ad pages.
They're raising subscription prices on the 15th so this may be a good time
to sign up.  Let me know if you'd like me to send you a Salon subscription
referral.

I'll be in Atlanta briefly this weekend for the Am Soc Assn meetings. Let
me know if you'll be there and would like to meet up.  Also, there will be
a gathering (or two) for those interested in comm & info tech research,
send me a note if you'd like more info.

And now onto some links.

Keeping the Net Neutral
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/08/12/net_neutrality/

Millions Going Solo With Cells
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59896,00.html

Creative Commons Moving Image Contest
http://www.creativecommons.org/contest/

CFP: British Medical Journal theme issue on eHealth applications
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/327/7410/300

Internet Filters Block Valuable Data, Too
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-08-05-rideout_x.htm

Supreme Court Oral Arguments Now Available for File-Swapping
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/08/07/downloadable.scotus.ap/

A Fight for Free Access To Medical Research
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19104-2003Aug4.html

A good cartoon on freedom of speech issues
http://www.salon.com/comics/lay/2003/08/12/lay/index1.html

CFP Participatory Design Conference 2004
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2004/index.html

Digital Games Research Conference 2003
http://www.gamesconference.org/2003/index.php

The rise of "flash mobs" - you'll want to read this to make sure you're
not caught off guard at one of these:)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=16&u=/ap/20030805/ap_on_hi_t\
e/flash_mobs
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/04/flash.mob/index.html

Religion and Politics: Contention and Consensus - poll results from The
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
http://pewforum.org/docs/index.php?DocID=26

a few notes on the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System
http://www.washtimes.com/business/20030616-104109-4241r.htm

Bush Misuses Science, Report Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31318-2003Aug7.html
&
details at http://www.politicsandscience.org

Arnold's Nazi Problem - Why won't he repudiate Kurt Waldheim?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2086742/

Hong Kong fashion company uses swastikas and other Nazi party symbols
in a clothing line and to decorate its chain of stores
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/10/hk.store.ap/index.html

Coca-Cola promotes drink with 'swastika' robots
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_775737.html

Mankind, Other Lazy Terms, Return to News Pages
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=1252

Lawyers group argues rights of cloned humans
http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/10cloning.html

"So if you're asking me did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction, I'm
saying, well, it all depends on what you mean by 'have.'" by Steve Martin
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/08/opinion/08MART.html

"A combination of summer heat and a rigid dress code has led a Swedish bus
driver to wear a skirt to work."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3129401.stm

Movie: Dirty Pretty Things - highly recommended! - for reviews, see:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/DirtyPrettyThings-1122798/reviews.php
&
Salon's review
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2003/07/18/dpt/

The K Chronicles - What happens when a white guy invites five black men
into his house for a complete fashion and lifestyle overhaul?
http://www.salon.com/comics/knig/2003/08/06/knig/index1.html
&
Queer Guy With a Slob's Eye
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/fashion/10VIEW.html?

Cartoon: The Defense of Traditional Marriage Act
http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2003/08/07/boll/index1.html

Cartoon: freedom of speech issues
http://www.salon.com/comics/lay/2003/08/12/lay/index1.html

Correction: I should not have posted this link last week: Teens and Young
Adults Now Spend More Time Online Than Watching Television
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030724/245198_1.html
The study had some serious research design problems.  Thanks to reader CK
for pointing this out!

Today's quote:
"If you can look into the mirror without laughter, you have no sense of
humor." -- Unknown

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Salon subscriptions
  Net neutrality
  New Web site: CACPS
  When the rest of life intervenes...
  Movie: Dirty Pretty Things
  The politics of science
  Can social connections and recommendations be automated?
  New blogs added
  Pill controversies
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From E-BLOG: How to sit at a cafe [7/31/03]
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000385.html for underlying
links or to comment

Unfortunately, this is the second time within a month that I find myself
commenting on security/privacy issues with respect to computers. My last
such message was prompted by a burglary. This time I write because a good
friend of mine had his laptop stolen right from under him at a cafe in
London.

A really efficient way to prevent such an event is to put your feet around
the strap of your bag ALWAYS. I do this with my bags of various types at
cafes and restaurants alike.

I learned the hard way myself. I once had something stolen from right
under me at a cafe in New York. I must have been so engulfed by reading
Durkheim that I did not notice someone swiping my backpack from under my
table. I was relatively lucky though. I had just gone home and changed
bags. The only things in my bag were a CD and my calendar. The bag itself
was a conference bag, which would have been neat to hold onto, but I have
done just fine without it. The calendar was trickier as it had contained
the phone numbers of everyone I knew in the city (I was living there at
the time). Luckily, someone called me a few days later to say they had
found it. He delivered it to my place. (Note that sometimes this can be a
trick to get into a person's place. I lived in a building with a doorman
and was not at home when the person made the delivery so it was safe.)

The point is, do not wait for something to be stolen from right under you
before instituting this very simple little ritual. Always put a foot
around the strap of any bag you have with you. Last year at a conference I
attended, several people reported having their bags stolen from the back
of their chairs and such. It is not worth the risk, use that strap to your
advantage!

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In this issue: more on Blogathon '03
Web site recommendations: IT/misc/fun

Thanks to those who've kindly signed up to support my blogathoning for
Planned Parenthood.  It's not too late to contribute, please see details
here: http://www.esztersblog.com/blogathon03
During the Blogathon, I will be posting all sorts of material related to
reproductive health/rights.  Some of it will be serious with a fun twist
like this puzzle:
http://www.eszter.com/flash/jeans-puzzle.html
If you've meant to contribute but couldn't quite figure out how, please
let me know and I'll be happy to help.

And now onto some links.

Online Policy Group - "a nonprofit organization dedicated to online policy
research, outreach, and action on issues such as access, privacy, digital
defamation, and the digital divide"
http://www.onlinepolicy.org/

Wi-Fi access points across the globe
http://www.hotspotlist.com/

Planned Parenthood Files Lawsuit Against Antiabortion Advocates in Web
Site Domain Name Dispute
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=18767

DVD-Piracy Paranoia Proves Counterproductive
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17791-2003Jun20.html?nav=hptoc_tn

Disposable email - need an email address just for a few days, get one here
(I haven't tried it, because if you own your own domain name you can do
this for yourself using your own name, but it looks promising.)
http://jetable.org/

Howard Dean guest-blogs on Larry Lessig's blog this week
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/

Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative: Digital resources for the study
of religion
http://www.atla.com/digitalresources/

New cellphones used in 'digital shoplifting'
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=qw1056959460701B215

Rape (and Silence About It) Haunts Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/16/international/worldspecial/16RAPE.html

Disturbing: "men are paying thousands of dollars to shoot naked women with
paint ball guns"
http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1356380&nav=168XGqk0

Decoding Bush
http://motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2002/52/we_245_01.html

Dubya Speak - "We record the damage"
http://www.dubyaspeak.com/

Calendars Through the Ages
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/

Electronic flash cards for studying facts about geography, history, math,
languages, science, medicine (good study tool for students, fun trivia for
adults)
http://www.studystack.com/java-studysta/frames.jsp

Interactive Units Converter (e.g. how many acres is a hectare of land?)
http://www.convert-me.com/en/

About a book: We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0328/todaro.php

Full text of Plato, Phaedrus
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/phaedrus.html

Learning Japanese? Basic Hiragana Chart (neat little videos with how to
write the characters)
http://www.genki-online.com/kyozai/hiragana.html

Bill of Rights Pared Down to a Manageable Six :)
http://www.theonion.com/onion3847/bill_of_rights.html

Some M$ parody :)
http://www.microsith.com/

Type weapons of mass destruction into Google and see what you get:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=weapons+of+mass+destruction

Today's quote:
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living..." -- Dr. Seuss

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Labor market updates
  Hidden treasures of New Jersey
  It's not too late
  New blog: Crooked Timber
  It is not Google but search savvy that may make the Web God,
  and only for some
  WMD
  Always password protect!
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From E-BLOG: It is not Google but search savvy that may make the Web God,
and only for some [7/8/03]
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000363.html for underlying links
or to comment

Thomas Friedman recently asked "Is Google God?" (NYTimes June 29, 2003,
Sunday - available for paying subscribers only). Just like there is large
variance in how close people are to a higher power, there are differences
in how much Godlike knowledge people can extract from the Web. The
centuries old attempt to know all things continues and has likely come
closer to reality than ever before. But it would be incorrect to think
that Google is God available to everyone.

Results from a study I conducted on average users ability to find
information on the Web suggest that there is great variance in whether
people can locate different types of content online and their efficiency
in doing so. These findings imply that simply offering an Internet
connection to those without access will not alleviate differences or the
so-called digital divide. Rather, providing training is a necessary
component of making the medium a useful tool for everyone.

Referring to Google has become the high-culture status symbol of Web use.
When presented with an information-seeking task, the supposed savvy
searcher quickly suggests the use of Google. However, just like simply
referring to the latest opera at the Met should not be equated with
expertise in the genre, a throwaway comment about Google should not make
us think that people know how to find information online.

Knowing about Google does not equal knowing how to use Google - or any
other search engine for that matter - effectively. Todays search engines
are not evolved enough to guess what we mean when we type in a single-word
search query while looking for answers to complex questions. Yet research
has shown that the majority of users employ such limited strategies when
using search engines.

Moreover, although it may be hard to believe, many people do not know
about Google and even some of those who do never use it. The good news for
the "Googleless" is that you do not need to use any one search engine to
make the most of the Web. Results from my study suggest that the
particular strategies people employ to look for content is a more
important predictor of their ability to find material than whether they
use Google. As long as users know to include more than one word in a query
or add quotation marks around some of the terms in certain cases, they
will be likely to find a match regardless of the search engine.

But to assume that anyone anywhere has the Web savvy to do this is
misleading. The rhetorical shift to the Web being everything to everyone
perpetuates the idea promoted by the Administration a year and a half ago
that the US is a Nation Online. The reality is that even among those who
do use the Web on a daily basis, some are more online than others.

Finally, the focus on Google is problematic because it is a private
company with no obligations to serving the public interest. I love Google
as much as the next Web user, but we should tread with caution when
thinking of it as our savior (or source of demise). It is a privately held
company with profit motives guiding its evolution over which we do not
necessarily have much say. Of course, in this day and age of media
deregulation coming from institutions supposedly representing the public
interest, it may be our best hope to seek God in a privately held company.

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/gender/misc

Blogathon '03 takes place this weekend.  Feel free to stop by
http://www.esztersblog.com/blogathon03 to see what I'm up to those 24
hours.  Thanks to all those who've contributed to Planned Parenthood via
this event!

And thanks to those who keep sending me pointers to interesting material,
here's some of it.

Digging for Googleholes - some thoughts on Google's shortcomings
http://slate.msn.com/id/2085668/
&
my thoughts on this from a few weeks ago
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000363.html

Journal of Digital Information - full text online
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
&
current issue on
Economic Factors of Digital Libraries
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/?vol=4&iss=2

Report on Internet use for health information
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=95

Yahoo acquires Overture.. and what does the search engine landscape look
like now
http://www.researchbuzz.com/articles/2003/yover051403.shtml

List of spam laws across the world
http://www.spamlaws.com/

White House E-Mail System Becomes Less User-Friendly
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/18/technology/18MAIL.html

Blogging for Bucks
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59603,00.html

A map of francophone blogs in Europe
http://blogmap.fr.st/

Microsoft drops development of Internet Explorer for Mac
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/13/explorer/

March for Freedom of Choice in DC - April 25, 2004
http://www.marchforchoice.org/

When Women Lose Health Care Options
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/20/business/yourmoney/20HEAL.html

Weird Science - If You Want the Truth about Abortion and Breast Cancer,
Beware of the National Cancer Institute
http://www.msmagazine.com/june03/jordan.asp

Look for more links along these lines this weekend during my Blogathon
2003 participation.  http://www.esztersblog.com/blogathon03
It's not too late to contribute!:)

Game Makers Aren't Chasing Women
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59620,00.html

Gender bias in teaching evaluations - a list of relevant readings
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~twilliam/teaching/genderteaching.htm

Passenger made to leave airplane for wearing a "Suspected Terrorist"
button - a must read!
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04973.html

Grounds for Sculpture - a wonderful sculpture garden in the middle of New
Jersey
http://www.groundsforsculpture.org/

The origins of words and expressions (e.g. "spitting image", "pushing the
envelope", "sabbatical", etc.)
http://www.wordorigins.org

Something different - an interactive digital art site
http://www.tamar-schori.net/beadgee/beadgee.html
[requires Flash - it's a bit invasive as it goes outside of your windows]

"Hunting for Bambi" (I posted on this last week) is a hoax
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/bambi.asp

Forgotten New York - lots of old photographs (e.g. signs, cobblestones)
http://www.forgotten-ny.com

A nice description of the game Go
https://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/11/62356/9269

Today's quote:
"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the
fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To
the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the
confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things
better." -- King Whitney Jr.

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  More on how Google isn't God
  Scary
  Bumper sticker
  Completely free credit reports
  Blogathon '03 sponsorship update
  Daily health reports
  Labor market updates
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From E-BLOG: Hidden treasures of New Jersey
[7/11/03]
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000366.html for underlying links
or to comment

New Jersey is not exactly known for its beauty. My first exposure to its
reputation for lacking beauty - to put it mildly - was in college via a
woman who lived in my house and always apologized before stating the state
in which she grew up. The reasons for the not-so-positive reputation
become apparent while taking the train south from New York. The tracks
pass by landfills and big warehouse lots. When opting for the highway, one
can even experience the smells while driving by the signs that are
familiar to millions now thanks to the opening credits of the Sopranos.
(And remember Tony Soprano's official occupation? He's in waste
management.) But regardless of all this, I have loved living in Princeton
for the past six years and part of this has had to do with the surrounding
beauty.

Given that I've lived here for this long, it's a bit shocking that I only
now got around to visiting the Grounds for Sculpture. It's an amazing
sculpture garden that practically doubles as a botanical garden with
wondrous landscaping and plants from all over. There are several pieces by
Seward Johnson across the park, among them "Dejeuner Deja Vu". Dozens of
other artists have pieces as well. Walking through the park is delightful.
The sculptures are sometimes hidden behind fascinating trees and bushes.
Some are best during the day, others are more exciting when lit up at
night. There is a restaurant, a bar and a cafe on the grounds so best is
to start with a little tour while it's still light outside, go have dinner
and then go see the lit sculptures after sundown.

It's on the way from New York to Philly, I highly recommend stopping by if
ever in the area.

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In this issue: Blogathon 2003
Web site recommendations: IT/maps/misc

Some people run or cycle for charity, I've decided to blog for it instead.
(I know, it's shocking!:)  I am participating in Blogathon 2003, which
means that I have committed to staying up for 24 hours straight to blog
and thereby collect donations for Planned Parenthood.  To find out more
about this event and the organization, please see my Blogathon '03 page:
http://www.esztersblog.com/blogathon03
Please consider supporting this cause.  You can donate by clicking here:
http://www.blogathon.org/Pledge.php?p=78
Thanks!
If you have any questions about all this, please let me know.

And now onto some links.

Where Are They Now?  Search Engines We've Known & Loved - helpful timeline
of search engines
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175241

How Netflix decides who gets a movie next from the queue
http://dvd-rent-test.dreamhost.com/

Does 'True' Warchalking Really Exist? - if you can prove it, you can win
this bet
http://www.niftyc.org/bet/

Political Artivism Collection - "activism possible through hypermedia"
http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/polart.html

Bloggers Gain Libel Protection
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59424,00.html

Oxford Univ Press offers developing countries free (or greatly reduced)
access to many journals
http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/devel/

College Rivalry "Universities will do almost anything these days to land a
star professor who can bring instant prestige, attract large donors, and,
oh yes, even do some teaching."
http://boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0629/coverstory_entire.htm

Extreme weather prompts unprecedented global warming alert
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=421166

Women and heart disease
http://www.womenheart.org/

Anti-Semitism in Israel
http://virtualjerusalem.com/news/infocus/?disp_feature=y4IF7E.var

What you should know about "zero-percent for life" credit cards
http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/01/pf/banking/q_zeropercent/

Inside Iraq's National Museum
http://www.artnewsonline.com/currentarticle.cfm?art_id=1368

Historic Cities - old maps
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/
&
Ancient Maps of Jerusalem
http://maps-of-jerusalem.huji.ac.il

Need a US map to work with?  Here's an outline free for use
http://www.io.com/persist1/projects/sketchgfx/us_map.html?pop-up&size=632,432

Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/07/02/chile.science.reut/index.html

For cooking:
Ingredient Substitutions
http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/ftfeb01.htm
&
Preparing Healthy Food: How To Modify A Recipe
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5543.html

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation - a parody
http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

Word Search Game - online interactive
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/summer/wordsearch/index.htm

Battleship Flash game
http://www.funsilly.com/free-online-games/battleship.html

Today's quote:
"Planned Parenthood believes in the fundamental right of each individual,
throughout the world, to manage his or her fertility, regardless of the
individual's income, marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation,
age, national origin, or residence. We believe that respect and value for
diversity in all aspects of our organization are essential to our
well-being. We believe that reproductive self-determination must be
voluntary and preserve the individual's right to privacy. We further
believe that such self-determination will contribute to an enhancement of
the quality of life, strong family relationships, and population
stability."
From Planned Parenthood's Mission Statement
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about/thisispp/mission.html

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  WMD
  Always password protect!
  Photo scavenger hunt
  Blogathon 2003 on Eszter's Blog!
  Oxford prof rejects student based on nationality
  Photo fun
  Blog (and general Web) ban likely worsens
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From E-BLOG: Always password protect! [7/2/03]
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000361.html for underlying
links or to comment

Some people very close to me got completely robbed recently. The robbers
took jewelry, anything that was made of silver, who knows what else... and
three laptops. The number of issues that comes up for the victims is
countless. It will probably take weeks if not months to realize what all
is missing. Most of what was stolen was very personal; objects passed down
from generation to generation, personalized mementos, too many things to
list.

One thought I had is that I hope email programs and Web sites they visit
with sensitive information were not set up on their machines to recognize
passwords automatically. As though all the loss wasn't enough, wouldn't it
be just horrible to then think people may be downloading your email and
moving things around in your bank accounts? And what a mess to lose all
that intellectual property and communication (I dearly hope their digital
photographs are saved on CDs!). Maybe it's not a crazy idea to add a lock
to one's computer at home. But where would you keep the key if not at
home? Always on you even when vacationing abroad? This may be where
friends come in the picture. Leave some essentials with someone at another
location.

This reminds me of something a friend of mine did recently. She was taking
precaution in case of a different robbery. She was going abroad and wanted
to make sure that in case she got robbed during the trip she wouldn't be
completely stranded. So she made copies of the important pages in her
passport, copies of her credit cards (front and back) and some other
documents. She then left these with me. In case something did happen, she
could call me and I could help in getting the material/information to her
or whomever.

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/current affairs/fun

Less IT related material and more fun links in this issue, but also some
outrageous current affairs.

I posted about this over a year ago, but many have subscribed since and
others may have missed it as well.  When you are planning trips, do not
miss the opportunity to get some great hotel rates.  I explain the details
on this page: http://www.eszter.com/hotels.html

A post-doc is available immediately on a project looking at children's
development and technology use at Northwestern's School of Communication
with Prof Justine Cassell (currently MIT Media Lab), more info here:
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000354.html

New Google Toolbar in testing phase (as earlier one, only for Win OS & IE)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43955-2003Jun28.html?nav=hptoc_tn
&
its causing some controversy
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/2228651
&
you can get it from here (I haven't tried it yet, I can't comment)
http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php

Yahoo Spam Filter Thwarts FTC
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59427,00.html

American Library Association Denounces Supreme Court Ruling on Children's
Internet Protection Act
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/ContentManagement/Content\
Display.cfm&ContentID=36357

Recently I posted an entry about how multi-region DVD players do exist
http://www.canadacomputes.com/story.asp?id=9937&sb=122
A friend of mine replied to note that you don't have to pay extra $$ to
get such a machine.  These sites offer more info.  (If you're about to buy
a DVD player, you may want to check these out before you decide on a
brand.)
http://www.dvdregionhacks.com/
http://www.regionfreedvd.net/faq.html

A free simple little poll builder for Web sites (does have limitations)
http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/polls/

"Presumably by accident, somebody left a live prototype of President
Bush's 2004 campaign site on the Web for a few hours"
http://slate.msn.com/id/2084803/

"An Oxford University professor has provoked outrage by rejecting an
application from an Israeli PhD student purely because of his
nationality."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/29/noxf29.xml&sShee\
t=/portal/2003/06/29/ixportal.html
or click here if that address is too long: http://tinyurl.com/fjbr
&
See original letter from Oxford prof here:
http://allisonkaplansommer.blogmosis.com/history/012787.html#012787

Suddenly, America Has a Brash Neighbor Up North
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0627/p02s01-woam.html

Teen Sues Over 'Lesbian Barbie' Shirt Ban
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=6&u=/nm/20030620/\
od_nm/life_barbie_dc

US Court Overturns Gay Sex Ban
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3022026.stm

A matrilinear state in India - and changing times
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3015838.stm

A Nation of Victims - how Bush uses "emotional language--especially
negatively charged emotional language--as a political tool"
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030630&s=brooks

Resumes for a New Millennium
http://www.seattlewritergrrls.org/archive/2003i1_resume.html

Free trip to Israel - deadline: July 5th!
http://www.israel4free.com
Eligibitility requirements: http://www.israel4free.com/eligibility.asp

Play twenty questions - great artificial intelligence program
http://y.20q.net:8095/btest

Irregular verbs in English grouped by type (helpful for those not fully
fluent in English.. and for some who think they are:)
http://www.eslfocus.com/grammarfolder/irregverbgroups.html

You can always tell a two-way mirror by...
http://www.cnet.com/techtrends/0-7311128-8-7319952-1.html

This is pretty cool.. create sketches online and pass them on with full
animation
http://www.imaginationatwork.com/Imagine?_nolivecache

Photo scavenger hunt, starts this week!
http://www.sh1ft.org/26things/

Can you guess which photo is fake (computer-generated) and which is real?
http://www.fakeorfoto.com/quiz.html

Today's quote:
"We're all born naked, the rest is drag." - RuPaul

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Oxford prof rejects student based on nationality
  Photo fun
  Blog (and general Web) ban likely worsens
  Music recommendations
  Post-doc available immediately
  Blogathon 2003
  More on name changes
  Neat ad
  How do you feel about English grammar?
See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

From E-BLOG: Blog (and general Web) ban likely worsens  [6/28/03]
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000356.html for underlying
links or to comment

Mamamusings and then Invisible Adjunct both comment on the problems with
filtering software. It started out with mamamusings noticing that her blog
was not accessible from an Internet kiosk. The message she got: "Access to
this site has been restricted at the request of this organization". I've
commented on both posts but thought would add some additional notes here
as well.

I posted a related entry back in December when Ed noticed that he couldn't
get to my blog from a location due to "possibly inappropriate content".

One of the biggest problems with these filtering programs is that they
have a very large number of false positives. That is, they potentially
filter an immense amount of content that has nothing to do with
"inappropriate" material. For example, any resume that lists latin honors
would have a good chance of being banned. I won't spell it out here
because I don't want to get E-BLOG banned any more than it is already but
think summa.. magna... Also, as others have noted, geographical locations
- of which there are several both in the UK and the US and easily
elsewhere - that have "seks" (you know what the ks stands for) in them
would get banned as well. Then there are sites dealing with cancer of
particular organs, these are some of the more well known examples, not to
mention sites that address gay and lesbian issues (huh, I wonder if by
merely writing out those two words this blog is getting black-listed).

Perhaps the biggest concern is that we don't know what is being banned
because companies that make filtering software claim that it's proprietary
information and they won't share it. So unlike public libraries, which
would have to make public decisions about not wanting to carry certain
books based on particular types of content, here no one really knows what
is being filtered and why exactly.

Josh Marshall - before his Talking Points Memo fame - wrote a nice related
piece on "Will Free Speech Get Tangled In The Net?" back in 1998 in the
American Prospect in which he explores related concerns in some detail.

Of course, makers of filtering software are not the only ones putting
thought into what content underlies sites with certain words. Search
engines have been doing it for years as well. Do a search in Google on
"seks" (with the appropriate letter) and you'll get sites about "safe
seks". Moreover, note that the popular HBO series with the s word in the
title has no problem staying high up among the results. In fact, it comes
up as #3. I guess it is theoretically possible that these really are the
most popular (as in linked to) seks related sites out there, but one
wonders.

The discussion on Invisible Adjunct's blog about the topic focuses mainly
on adults' ability to request librarians to turn off filtering programs on
library terminals while they are using them. Some in the comments section
have already noted the problems with this approach (e.g. that some
filtering happens at the server level, which is not necessarily that easy
to turn off and would likely influence other machines at the library). I
wanted to bring up an additional point (and I do over there in the
comments.)

This entire discussion about adults having the ability to ask that a
filter be turned off *assumes* that adults know what filtering software is
in the first place and would know what it means to ask that it be turned
off. These assumptions seem problematic. I say this based on research I
have done on people's Web use abilities. When I asked people if they knew
what filtering software is, 45% (of 100 randomly sampled Internet users in
my area) said they had little or no understanding of the term. (I know
it's a small sample, it was a complex project that didn't allow for more
respondents.) People who access the Web in libraries are likely to know
even less about the Web because they don't have the freedom to explore it
in detail like those who use it at home (or use it freely at work).
Moreover, given the limited amount of time people get to spend at library
terminals, it's highly unlikely that they'll spend their allocated 15-30
minutes asking for modifications to the settings.

So yes, there are numerous issues with requiring libraries to use
filtering software (assuming they want to hold on to federal funding) and
there are concerns regarding their use in private settings as well.

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In this issue: dissertation defense
Web site recommendations: IT/misc

I defended my dissertation last Thursday.  Pictures from a wonderful party
that evening are available here: http://www.eszter.com/photos/defenseparty
I had several pages of acknowledgements in my dissertation because I was
fortunate to have numerous remarkable people and institutions support me
in this endeavor over the past few years.  Thanks go out to all of them!
Many of the individuals are subscribers to this list, to you I say THANK
YOU!

And now onto our regular programming.

Peep Research - A study of small fluffy creatures and library usage
(shows some resemblance to my dissertation work:)
http://www.millikin.edu/staley/fluff/peep_research.html

Conference CFP: The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication
http://www.fil.hu/mobil/2004/

Cell Users Can Keep Numbers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26146-2003Jun6.html

Graph: Stagnation of the Public Domain
http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/10/publicdomainpostcard.php

Bloggers across the world
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2992587.stm

The MP3 Economy: How labels and artists divvy up your MP3 dollar
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,49472,00.html

Timeline of copyright laws in the US
http://arl.cni.org/info/frn/copy/timeline.html

Girls Teach Teen Cyber Gab to FBI Agents
Md. Students Help Catch Pedophiles On the Internet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10052-2003Jun3.html

National Do-not-call list (FTC sponsored) starts this summer!
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/business/yourmoney/30PDIG.html
&
National Do Not Call Registry
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/donotcall/

Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal
http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/JSIJ/

Stores Fight Shoplifting With Private Security
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/17/nyregion/17MACY.html

Do the Democrats Have a Prayer? To win in '04 the next nominee will need
to get religion
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0306.sullivan.html

Area Council Ousts Openly Gay Scout
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/6067592.htm

American Homosexuals Looking to Canada as Wedding Destination
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/06/13/110644-cp.html

Gay Kiss: Business as Usual
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/arts/television/22RICH.html

Online Museum of Long Island Rail Road and Photo Gallery
http://arrts-arrchives.com/

The difference between "will" and "shall" in English
http://grammar.englishclub.com/verbs-modals_shall-will.htm

Summertime Favorites - readings for kids kindergarten through high school
http://www.neh.gov/projects/summertimefavorites.html

1000 biosciences images by category and searchable
http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/imagebank/

"Science behind the news" - explaining scientific phenomena
http://whyfiles.org

Homeland Security Self-Examination :) :(
http://www.funnytimes.com/lessercolumns/200306RL.html

Today's quote:
"Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for
doing it." -- Katherine Whitehorn

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  TV shows on demand online
  The 2 percent club
  Webshop 2003
  Upcoming defense
  Not your typical 404
  The academic journal review process
  Others reporting
  Reporting live...
  When using the Web is a big challenge
  Petition to Reclaim the Public Domain
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In this issue: Pledge and the "dissy"
Web site recommendations: IT/politics/misc

I have imposed a rule on the frequency of E-LISTs in an effort to stay on
track with my dissertation.  I am only allowing myself to send out issues
after finishing the draft of a chapter.  This seems like good public
accountability.  Wish me luck.:)  Yesterday, I wrapped up the Data and
Methodology section, 45 pages with 48 pages of appendixes.
I have not, however, stopped posting to my blog so if you get pangs of
E-LIST withdrawal:) do check out http://www.esztersblog.com .

And now onto the links. Thanks for reading, and for pointing me to
interesting material!

Summer program for student Internet researchers - stipends provided
http://www.webuse.umd.edu/webshop03.htm
(if you are not based in the US you should check with the organizers about
your eligibility)

CFP: Special issue of IT and Society on Digital Divides: Past, Present,
Future
http://www.itandsociety.org

CFP: New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methods
http://www.inms.umn.edu/convenings/newresearch/main.htm

Radio frequency ID tags in your clothes - trackable for life?
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,58006,00.html?tw=wn_ascii

Court strikes down Child Online Protection Act
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/03/07/online.porn.ap/index.html

Democracy in the Dark: Public Access Restrictions from Westlaw and
LexisNexis
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan03/barr.htm

A Million Blogs Blooms (some Irish:)
http://www.irishecho.com/search/searchstory.cfm?id=12892&issueid=298

Potential problems stemming from particular uses of cc and bcc functions
in email
http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/blt/2002-05-06/swiggart.html

Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the
Research University - entire book available online for free
http://www.nap.edu/books/030908640X/html/

Feds Grab Internet Domain Names
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/05/net.forfeitures.ap/index.html

US public turns to Europe for news
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story576.html

Reporter Takes His Weblog to War
http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,58043,00.html

U.S. Diplomat Resigns, Protesting 'Our Fervent Pursuit of War'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/international/middleeast/27NATI.html

The War Against Ourselves - the biological and environmental consequences
of the 1991 war
http://traprockpeace.org/rokkeyesspring03.html

Authors Arrested in War Protest at White House
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/reuters20030308_272.html

Man arrested for wearing a T-shirt that said "Give peace a chance"
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/03/04/iraq.usa.shirt.reut/index.html

The Urge to Help, The Obligation Not To - letter to an unknown Iraqi
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A45508-2003Feb21

Anti-Semitism is back, taking the place of intelligent criticism of Israel
and its policies
http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/commentary/opinion/gitlin_june.html

New airport security plan: every passenger is assigned a threat level (?!)
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/5279926.htm
&
in response, boycott Delta
http://www.boycottdelta.org

Prank against privacy-invading supermarket shopping club cards - great:)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/10/business/10SHOP.html
&
some additional related links
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000229.html

Women being tricked about abortion and missing the chance to get one - one
of the most depressing things I've read recently
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2002-01-08/cover_story.html

State cuts off payments ($400/month) for man's medications leaving him in
need of 24/7 hospitalization costing taxpayers (via Medicair) $3,500/day.
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/mor20030312.html#BlogID336

Afghanistan: Women's Plight Worsening after Brief Period of Hopefulness
http://www.msmagazine.com/dec02/thom2.asp

A good review of the book "Mismatch" (& thus why it's probably not worth
reading)
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/03/12/hacker/

A Writing Contest: Women's Voices in War Zones
http://www.wworld.org/programs/newItem.asp?eventID=36

At Girls' Schools, Teaching Finances as Sum of Equality
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/17/education/17GIRL.html

School outs gay student to parents and forces him to read Bible
http://www.aclu.org/LesbianGayRights/LesbianGayRights.cfm?ID=12082&c=106

A happy fish story or "composting with a kick"
http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1047466834283551.xml

Tampon art - very interesting and very creative
http://www.tamponart.com
Don't miss the gallery page: http://www.tamponart.com/catmain.html

Pyramid Scheme Alert
http://www.pyramidschemealert.org

Giant Chee-to and the frenzy that followed
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/05/offbeat.big.cheeto/index.html

For cow fans: cow memory game - if you've had it with Solitaire, time to
get acquainted with some cows
http://www.crazyforcows.com/concentration/smallboard.html

Today's quote:
"If you're not pissed off at the world then you're just not paying
attention."
-- Kasey Chambers, "Ignorance" song

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Appendixes triumph
  Berlin as a safe haven from anti-Semitism
  Video: Read my lips
  Gendered pronouns
  Paths to blogs
  A pledge and the dissy
  Communication, Information and Internet Policy
  New sociology blogger.. and more on current affairs
  The less visible consequences of war
  The right to protest or ignore
  Your privacy for pennies
  Networks by networks
  Quiet weekends in blogworld
  Blog added: bIPlog
  Creativity
  Bank glitch gives student access to Princeton's accounts of $9.9 million
  Who rules? They rule.
  New blog added
  Free trip to Israel
See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

From E-BLOG: Berlin as a safe haven from anti-Semitism (3/16/03)
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000238.html for underlying links
or to comment

Last year's Literature Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz reminds us how
unfortunate it is that the situation with Iraq is getting confounded with
so much anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli sentiment. Kertesz is spending a
year in Berlin on a writing fellowship and comments on the irony of how
that city seems to be a relative safe haven from anti-Semitic sentiments
these days. I'm afraid the article I'm referring to will only be
accessible to the few Hungarian speakers who visit this blog.

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In this issue: avoiding spam
Web site recommendations: IT/misc

The Center for Democracy and Technology did a nice study on how email
addresses end up on spam lists (in other words, why you end up getting
unwanted junk email).
http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml
The main finding: posting email addresses on Web sites is a major source
of spam.  Even if you post your address without a mailto link, spam robots
will harvest your address.  The report offers some alternatives, among
them: posting your address in a human readable format, e.g.
eszter~at~eszter~dot~com.  See some more relevant links on this blog
entry: http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000251.html

And yes, I handed in another dissertation chapter draft, thus the new
issue.  (No, I don't write them this quickly, I'm working off of existing
material which in some cases is just in need of some editing.)

And now on to some links.  Also, lots of additional links - especially
related to war coverage - are available on my various blog entries from
the past week. http://www.esztersblog.com

The SSRC Information Technology and International Cooperation program is
seeking scholars and activists to participate in two research networks it
is currently organizing
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic/researchnetworkrfp.page

How Google Grows... and Grows... and Grows
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/69/google.html

Connected to the Future: A Report on Children's Internet Use
http://www.cpb.org/ed/resources/connected/

References: Research on ICTs in the Home
http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/ICTRefs.html

Detailed article about Larry Lessig
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/lessig.html

Appellate Court Rules Media Can Legally Lie
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/02/28/arpubmg022803.htm

With 6 Degrees of Separation, Computers Stay in Sync
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/technology/circuits/27next.html
&
my comment about an aspect of the story the author did not address
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000228.html

Things helpful to think about when taking your laptop abroad
http://www.walkabouttravelgear.com/modem.htm

Harvard Professor Proposes Alternative Economics Class
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/business/04HARV.html

Bank glitch gives Princeton student access to univ accounts of $9.9million
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/06/offbeat.banking.error.ap/

A Medium Meets Its War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56322-2003Mar19

Technology Providing War Insights
http://news.com.com/1200-1025-993560.html

CNN Expelled from Baghdad by Iraqi Government
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=597&ncid=772&e=1&u=/nm/20030321\
/tv_nm/iraq_cnn_dc

Halliburton Makes a Killing on Iraq War
Cheney's Former Company Profits from Supporting Troops
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6008

A reminder: What is in the Saudi peace initiative?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1844214.stm

A Life Lost, A Family In Jeopardy: The Story of the Hasan's
http://holt.house.gov/display2.cfm?id=4037&type=Home

A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/

Disability Links for people of All Abilities
http://www.allabilities.com/

All sorts of interactive online games for kids to learn about safe use of
roads
http://www.walkingbus.com/kidszone1.htm

The Mirror Project - Adventure in Reflective Surfaces
http://www.mirrorproject.com/

For cow fans: cow memory game - great alternative to Solitaire
http://www.crazyforcows.com/concentration/smallboard.html

Today's quote:
"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that
do?" -- Pablo Picasso

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Paper: The Changing Online Landscape
  Great study on spam - careful with email addresses on Web sites!
  More sources on Iraq
  More on Iraq
  Firsthand account from Iraq
  A different petition
  Violence forgotten
  Blog added: Brad DeLong
  Where do you get your news?
  $1,250/word
  Documenting domestic violence
  Public Knowledge
  Gender and self-assessed skills - some puzzles
See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

From E-BLOG: $1,250/word [3/19/03]
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000243.html for underlying
links or to comment

Larry Lessig shares a story about reprinting permissions. MIT Press is
publishing a book in which the author plans to cite a line from a dozen
pop songs. The Press wanted to get permission for the lines.
Representatives of the Kinks demanded $10,000 for a line made up of eight
words help me, help me, help me sail away (I guess you could also see the
price as $2,500/word since it's really just four different words).
Amazing. So much for fair use.

I guess in the blogworld we can be less paranoid because if the lawyers
were to come after us we could just close our entries and make the
whoa-so-offensively-unfair-and-detrimental-to-creativity use dissappear?

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In this issue: E-LIST is back:)
Web site recommendations: IT/politics/humor

Sorry for the long silence, this latest dissertation chapter took a while
to finish.

Feedback tells me some of you don't like the really long E-LISTs so I may
start cutting back.. after this issue that is, since so much has
accumulated.  I always welcome your thoughts, by the way, so keep 'em
coming.

And now onto the current finds. Lots of IT related links.  If you don't
care for those keep scrolling, there are some very good ":-)" links at the
end.

New data archive related to issues of cultural policy and the arts -
amazing resource very nicely put together, very user-friendly, lots of
interesting data (includes some IT related survey data as well)
http://www.cpanda.org/

Third Annual Graduate Webshop - great for grad students who have Internet
related interests
http://www.webuse.umd.edu/webshop03.htm

Q & A with expert tech tinkerer Ed Felten
"If average voters view censorship of technologists in the same way they
view other forms of censorship, we'll be in much better shape."
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/1222220&mode=thread&tid=1\
53&tid=123

Internet diffusion levels off in US
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=88

Being Googled: Web search tool is not without critics
http://www.iht.com/articles/90737.html

Google: Is all the news fit to post?
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-996100.html

Experts: Microsoft security gets an 'F'
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/02/01/microsoft.security.reut/

Text messaging used by government to allay SARS fears in Hong Kong
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,928906,00.html?=rss

Tracking blog coverage - graph of changes in blog coverage in mainstream
print media
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000275.html

New virus to watch out for - plays off of current events, yuck
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000917.shtml#000917

Ruling Backs Anti-Spam Activist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51418-2003Apr7.html

Judge: File-swapping Tools Are Legal
http://rss.com.com/2100-1027-998363.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news

Multi-region DVD players do exist
http://www.canadacomputes.com/story.asp?id=9937&sb=122

Streaming audio files from the 13th Annual Conference on Computers,
Freedom & Privacy
http://www.cfp2003.org/cfp2003/program.html

Call for Report Proposals: gender and Internet use (two-page proposal due
on Apr 30th)
http://www.wmn.ca/uncsw/call_e.htm

Gender equity project post-doc
http://www.rfcuny.org/hr/pvn/cgi-bin/show_job.asp?pvn=RRS-119

"Well-behaved women rarely make history"
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/04/09/anita_borg/index_np.html

Summer internship opportunities at MASS MoCA - a very cool
contemporary art museum in Massachusetts
http://www.massmoca.org/jobs/

"THE UNITED STATES may be at war -- both with al Qaeda and in Iraq -- but
the military still knows a domestic threat when it sees one: gay linguists
in training."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34475-2003Apr15.html

Equal Access to Israel's Western Wall Denied
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1297/context/outrage

Critics Call On Education Secretary to Repudiate Published Statement or
Resign
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59692-2003Apr8.html

At a Model UN conference, Israeli and Palestinian teens succeed where
their leaders have failed
http://tinyurl.com/8w79

The Museum of Unworkable Devices - very cool!
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm

Some non-traditional portrait busts with extreme expressions on their
faces from the 18th century
http://insel.heim.at/hawaii/310945/Charakterkopfe.html

New Fox Reality Show To Determine Ruler of Iraq :-)
http://www.theonion.com/onion3915/new_fox_reality_show.html

Looting as an American value :-)
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/looting.html

Patriotic items for fanatical flagwavers :-)
http://www.totalobscurity.com/mind/flagstore/

Today's quote:
"War is about dead people, not gorgeous-looking soldiers." -- Susan Sontag

Recently on Eszter's Blog (just some of the posts from the past month, I
never said I'd suspend blogging!:):
  How much is a childhood memory worth?
  Expert on technology and policy
  Mixing holidays
  Looting and apple pie
  Movie: Bend It Like Beckham
  Gender Equity Project post-doc
  How 'bout some serious studies of gender?
  The environmental effects of war
  More praise for Nobel Prize book
  YES: Hungarians vote to join EU
  Destroying artifacts, new and old
  TAPPED usability
  Blogs added
  Religion and schools
  Rational consistency about religion and the Loch Ness monster
  Something different
  RIAA vs Princeton student(s)
  Letting go
  Classifying computer and Internet terms
  The new science of networks: pastries and other goodies
  Forgetting to remember
  Vote for music and more
  America's French's
See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

From E-BLOG: Destroying artifacts, new and old [4/12/03]
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000286.html for underlying
links or to comment

As I was looking at pictures of everything being destroyed in Iraq, I
wondered whether it made sense to topple all signs of Saddam Hussein.
Would there not be some historical value to keeping at least some of the
statues in tact just so we have some record of how things used to be?

I am glad that the transition in Hungary in 1989 was reasonably peaceful.
Among other things, this meant that statues of Lenin and Marx were not
necessarily bulldozed and trampled on. Rather, they were taken to a remote
location just outside of the city where they now stand in a statue park.
The park has a nice Web site with pictures of the statues (e.g. Marx and
Engels). Some of the statues could easily represent different time periods
but because of their communist association I guess those in charge felt
they had to be moved out. And isn't it ironic that as statues of Marx were
being destroyed or moved to museum parks in the ex-Soviet bloc, I was
sitting at an American school reading his work - as were many of my peers
- for various classes required by our majors?

Perhaps some would argue that we don't want any reminders of certain
people. But if labelled and discussed appropriately in, say, a museum or
educational park setting wouldn't it be better to remember the past? I
realize "appropriate" is very blurry and potentially arbitrary, but isn't
it also somewhat arbitrary for the current regime to decide what parts of
the past are to be erased completely?

Now comes to us this depressing story about how the National Museum of
Iraq has been stripped of all its contents. (Perhaps some things are
locked up elsewhere but that's unclear and regardless, a lot has been
lost.) [via Matt Yglesias] At this level we're not just talking about
erasing recent history but much more than that. I realize the reasons for
this destruction are different, but overall these acts all contribute to
knowing less about the past. Since that is likely an important component
of making informed decisions about the future, losing so much historical
data is incredibly unfortunate.

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In this issue: Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day and I want to take more than a moment
to remember.  Recently I've realized - albeit I don't base this on any
scientifically rigorous content analysis of materials - that referring to
the Nazis and their treatment of Jews is a very often cited but too often
miscited historical reference.  And one wonders, perhaps it's still better
that we remember at all.  But is it enough to just remember vaguely and
misrepresent, or should we be better about remembering more accurately?
That's all just some food for thought on this day.

In the US, the Holocaust often seems more distant than it should.  One
doesn't walk the streets where people experienced the horrors.  Moreover,
survivors are depicted as part of a distant past.  I recall in college an
event organized for those whose grandparents were survivors of the
Holocaust.  But what about our parents?  Why make it seem as though it was
so long ago that our parents couldn't be survivors as well?  Some of them
are, like my father, and I think it's important to remain conscious of
that fact.

Today, I share with you some relevant links.  Also, below, I share some
book related excerpts.  Recently, my brother read a description of events
in 1944 Hungary that is precisely about why some of my family survived.
We knew about some of this, but it's interesting to see it written up.
It descibes the reasons why the train that my father, uncle, grandmother,
great-uncle, great-aunt and great-grandmother were on changed route from
Auschwitz to a camp in Vienna and ultimately allowed them to survive. (My
grandfather had already been killed by then in a labor camp so he was not
part of this journey.)  I share with you this excerpt.  But then, to offer
some context to its concluding thoughts ("On the whole they were often
treated quite humanely") I also share with you some snippets from my uncle
about his experiences when he was 11 in the camps published in my father's
recently completed book.  I wrap up the excerpts with a bit about my
father's visit last year to the camp he'd been in and how poor the
rememberance is there.

So I invite you to join me today in thinking about some of these things,
whether it is the suffering to which people were subjected or the grand
apathy of so many, there's lots to remember and lots from which we can
learn.

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
http://www.vhf.org/

The Holocaust History Project
http://www.holocaust-history.org/normal-index.shtml

Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/

Some pictures of present-day Auschwitz
http://www.merengo.hu/galeria/?id=340

Pictures of Auschwitz/Birkenau, 1978-1981
http://www.remember.org/jacobs/

---

Excerpt from
"The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary"
Condensed Edition
Randolph L. Braham
Wayne State University Press (in association with the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Detroit, 2000

Original book published at Columbia University Press, 1981

Chapter 7: Deportation

pg. 147-149

The Strasshof Transports

The Jews who lived in Gendarmerie Districts V and VI fared relatively
better than their counterparts in the other provincial gendarmerie
districts.  This was due to a combination of good luck and a new
element introduced in the so-called blood for trucks negotiations
between Rudolph (Rezso) Kasztner, the leader of the Budapest Relief and
Rescue Committee of Budapest (Vaadah), and the SS.  On June 14, during
the deportations from Zone III, Eichmann unexpectedly informed Kasztner
that he was willing to allow thirty thousand Hungarian Jews to be "laid
on ice" in Austria as a demonstration of his goodwill.  He demanded, as
counterdemonstration of goodwill, an immediate payment of five million
Swiss francs.  Since the Jews of Carpatho-Ruthenia and Northern
Transylvania had already been deported, Eichmann insisted that only
Jews from Trianon Hungary could be considered for the transfer.  He
referred to the former as "ethnically and biologically valuable
elements," whom he would not allow to remain alive.  As originally
envisioned, half of the thirty thousand Jews were to come from Budapest
and half from the provinces.  Kasztner revealed the details of the new
Eichmann offer to the Jewish Council that very day.

Eichmann's offer was based on instructions he had received from Ernst
Kaltenbrunner.  The head of the RSHA, as the evidence reveals, was
besieged by Austrian entrepreneurs operating war industries and by
government officials, including SS-Brigadefuhrer Karl Blaschke, the
mayor of Vienna, with requests to provide them with desperately
needed slave labor.  Since Hungarian Jewry was at that time the one
still relatively untapped reservoir of Jewish labor, Kaltenbrunner
requested that Eichmann have a few transports of deportees diverted to
Austria.

From the Germans' point of view the deal with Kasztner offered
several distinct advantages:
- It provided an opportunity for a demonstration of goodwill in the
"blood for trucks" negotiations.
- It supplied the Austrian industrial and agricultural entrepreneurs
and local government officials with needed slave labor.
- It enriched the coffers of the Sonderkommando.

The selection of the Jews for the Austrian transports appers to have
been the responsibility of the Zionists or other well-known Jewish
leaders in the concentration and entrainment centers in the affected
zones, acting on instructions from Kasztner.

Kasztner had expected that the first trainload of Jews would be
leaving from Gyor and Komarom, the areas from which Jews were being
deported at the time.  Although this plan reportedly had the
approval of Eichmann, all the transports from Gendarmerie Districts
II and III, including of course those from Gyor and Komarom, were
routinely directed to Auschwitz, presumably due to the inertia of
some of the officers in charge of the transports.  (When the
Scharfuhrer responsible for the take-over of the transports from
Gyor at Kassa noticed that the train's number was not on his ledger,
he called Eichmann for instructions.  Motivated by a concern for
efficiency rather than moral obligation, Eichmann apparently
decided that as long as the transport was already at the Slovakian
border it might as well continue on to Auschwitz.)  Eichmann decided
to compensate Kasztner with a transport from Zone IV.

It was during the deportations from this zone of anti-Jewish
operations on June 25-28 that six or seven transports were directed
to Strasshof, a camp near Vienna.  The approximately twenty thousand
Jews in these transports came mostly from ghettos in Gendarmerie
District IV.

After their arrival in Strasshof during the first days of July, the
Jews were sent to labor in industrial and agricultural enterprises in
a number of communities in eastern Austria, including Gmund, Weitra,
Wiener-Neustadt and Neunkirchen.  Many of them worked under the
auspices of the Todt Organization.  Their treatment varied with the
disposition of the individual employers and foremen.  On the whole
they were often treated quite humanely and about 75 percent of them,
including children and the elderly, survived the war.
Organizationally, they were under the control and command of a
central office in Vienna headed by SS-Oberstrumbannfuhrer Hermann
Alois Krumey, a leading member of the Eichmann-Sonderkommando in
Hungary.

---

Excerpt from "Our Lives" by Istvan Hargittai [my father]
Chapter on Sanger
For Preface, see http://www.eszter.com/ol/
The Hungarian version of this book is out now. My father is still seeking
a publisher for the English version.

[this quote in the book is from my uncle who was 11 at the time]

The first day after our arrival [in the camp] the people got their work
assignments.  Mother was directed to be helper to a roofing master who
turned out to be a humane Viennese man.  He often shared his sandwich with
Mother who pretended to eat it and brought it back for us.  Children
younger than 10 years old stayed behind in the camp during the day.
Children above the age of 15 were considered adults and went to work with
the rest.  Children between 10 and 15 years old formed a special labor
unit.  I was in this unit, which had about 20 children.  We were taken to
bombed-out buildings, immediately following the bombing.  We had to reach
places that adults could not have reached.  We had to bring out cadavers
and wounded people and all the valuables.  If we found just limbs or other
body parts we had to bring them out as well.  It was a cruel and
frightening job and dangerous too.

Falling down killed some of us.  They were replaced then by younger
children.  The German guards were not brutal just for the sake of
tormenting us, but they required unconditional discipline.  When they
ordered us to climb to a place, however dangerous it was or to walk on a
beam however unstable it was, they expected blind obedience.  When any of
us appeared hesitant, they let out a round next to us from their machine
guns to frighten us.  I have sharp memories of various events.  I remember
when we were carrying a heavy container and when the guard sensed that I
wanted to pause, he gave a round and I did not dare to stop.  From the
heavy weight and the fright I wetted my pants.  It was so cold that the
urine froze along my legs.  I remember my shoes, which were in a terrible
state and we did not have stockings and used newspaper pieces to wrap our
feet.  In one of the bombed-out homes I found a pair of shoes that would
have fit me and I changed into them.  Upon my return downstairs, the guard
noticed this, he became very angry and ordered me to return and change
back the shoes.  This episode stayed with me more sharply than many more
horrible events.  I could not figure out why he did not let me have a
better pair of shoes.  At about that time, I started having dreams about
Father.  He came for us in my dream and engineered our escape.  In other
dreams, we went for long walks in the woods just as we used to when we
lived back home and he was still alive.  Such dreams I still have
occasionally, and I am now 61 years old.

Istvan, who was 3 years old, was a good child throughout the deportation.
He was quiet and withdrawn.  When soldiers entered the room he always hid
behind Mother.

The sick in the camp were moved to the attic.  So was grandmother when she
became sick.  It was a final move because seldom did anybody return from
the attic.  Nobody tended the sick.  Their meals were placed at the
entrance to the attic and those in better condition among the sick
distributed the food and reported in the morning about the recent dead.
One morning then grandmother was among the dead.

[the chapter continues with my father's return to the camp site in 2002,
this is now my father's voice]

Vienna 2002

In June 2002, I visited our former camp, Lager 12 at 10 Bischoffgasse in
Vienna. It was my first visit to the former camp site and I am the only
member of our family who has ever visited the place since World War II.
There was no trace of the former camp there, outside or inside the school,
as if the camp might have not existed.  I almost felt embarrassed, but the
director had vaguely heard about some camp.  She showed me the school and
took me to the attic, where they keep the old year books.  In the one for
the year 1944/45, there were only short notes, and not a word about the
camp that operated on the premises of the school.  I found that part of
the attic to which a stair-case leads and which I recognized from
Brother's narrative.  I was there, alone for a few moments in empty, dusty
space, held up by heavy wooden beams, and I felt very close to my
grandmother.

On that visit, I contacted the Research Center of the History of Jews in
Austria and they sent me photocopied material of the trial of the
Lagerfuhrer of Lager 12.  There were about 130 pages, mostly testimonies
of former inmates, that is, surviving Jews from Hungary, also, testimonies
by Viennese people, who lived nearby, and could see some of what was going
on in the camp.  There were enclosures in the material, and I found my
name in the listings as Stefan Wilhelm (Stefan is the German equivalent of
Istvan). [my father later changed his name to Hargittai, this is explained
in another part of the book]

The testimonies described how Franz Knoll, the Lagerfuhrer, beat not only
the young but also 80-year-old people, how he locked people up in the cold
cellar in wintertime without food, how he stole the rations and had them
delivered to his home by the prisoners, and how he tried to hide his loot,
from the prisoners, in three big boxes after the camp had been liberated
by the Russians.  He was characterized by former prisoners and neighbors
as brutal, inhuman, ruthless, and sadistic.  A former inmate described how
she had to witness the slow dying of hunger of her infant son, her
pleading in vain for help to the Lagerfuhrer, who then did not let her be
there when her child was buried.  Witnesses described how others,
including children, perished in the camp.  There were close to 600
grownups and about 60 children incarcerated there, and the Lagerfuhrer
referred to them as if they were things rather than human beings in his
testimony.  He repeatedly referred to children as children only for the
age group between 0 and 10 years old. [fn8]

Franz Knoll was born in 1894 in Vienna.  He did not have much schooling,
did not have any profession, and before the Nazis elevated him to
positions of importance, he used to work mostly as a waiter.  He joined
the Nazi party in 1932, that is, long before the Anschluss.  He was
accused not only of the crimes he committed as the Lagerfuhrer of Lager 12
but also of other crimes committed during the preceding years in other
positions.

I have no expertise in legal matters, so it is only my impression that the
trial was meticulous, preceded by a meticulous investigation during
Knoll's long detention of about 22 months.  Knoll pleaded not guilty, but
the Court found him guilty and on August 20, 1948, it sentenced him to 18
months of imprisonment.  The Court considered several mitigating
conditions, among them his partial confession, the difficulty of his
service, his reduced sense of responsibility, and his duties of supporting
his wife and underage child.  The Court also ordered to deduct Knoll's
detention from his prison term.  Thus, when the sentencing was over, Knoll
walked free.

[Please see http://www.eszter.com/ol for more information about this
book.]

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In this issue: E-LIST is back
Web site recommendations: IT/misc

I apologize for the long break. I have now finished writing my
dissertation and E-LIST will appear regularly again.  I will continue to
work on my dissertation topic - differences in people's Web use skills -
and will be sending out articles to journals in the coming months.  I'll
also be working on a book manuscript so the excitement continues.:)  But
so will E-LIST!:)

And now onto today's list of links.

Please sign this petition related to copyright law in the US and
reclaiming the public domain (if for any reason you disagree with it or
don't want to support it, I'd be very curious to hear why)
http://www.petitiononline.com/eldred/petition.html

Internet is dying - Larry Lessig
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30733.html

Children Go Online: Emerging Opportunities and Dangers
http://www.children-go-online.net/

Web directory of Webmaster resources
http://www.dwoz.com/

MouseSite - history of the computer mouse
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/

A bit of background on the Library Awareness Program from the 70s & 80s
http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA24504\
4

Scholars at Risk Network - promotes academic freedom and defends the human
rights of scholars worldwide
http://scholarsatrisk.uchicago.edu

Multi-region DVD players do exist
http://www.canadacomputes.com/story.asp?id=9937&sb=122

FTC Files Suit Against Sender of Porn 'Spam'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48121-2003Apr17.html
&
ways to make sure your address doesn't end up on spam lists
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63400-2003May31.html

Directory of outdoor drama performances across the US
http://www.unc.edu/depts/outdoor/dir/

For Princeton locals: check traffic status before heading out on Rte 1
http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/traffic/cameras/rt1/index.html

Qualitative data analysis software resources
http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrnorris/qda.html

Einstein Archives Online - fully digitized manuscripts
http://www.alberteinstein.info

It's Cheaper to Send Someone to Penn State Than to State Pen
http://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-05-14-03.htm

New pot bill introduced in House (Canada)
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/05/27/marijuana_law030527
for background:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/background/marijuana_legalize.html

Office workers give away passwords for a cheap pen
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30324.html

Pictures of lost treasures from Iraq
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/iraq.html

A graduate student of design in Nebraska documents _everything_ she buys
with photos and commentary
http://www.obsessiveconsumption.com

"Inflatable Church Brings New Meaning to Mobile Wedding"
http://www.inflatablechurch.com/

Another fun memory game with neat animated images
http://www.zefrank.com/memory/
.. lots of other fun interactive games (especially for kids.. uhm, of all
ages:)
http://www.zefrank.com/

The Museum of Unworkable Devices - very cool!
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm

The Daily Show: Bush vs Bush :)))
http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/play.php?reposid=/multimedia/tds/stewart/jon_713\
1.html

Historical timelines of things that never were
http://www.mts.net/~arphaxad/history.html
example: Star Wars timeline
http://www.mts.net/~arphaxad/chronosw.html

Today's quote:
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?" --Albert Einstein

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
Lots since the last E-LIST.. feel free to visit the Blog at
http://www.esztersblog.com

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In this issue: search engine popularity?
Web site recommendations: IT/gender/misc

I am looking for figures on search engine popularity.  That is, what
percent of people use Google and/or Yahoo and/or MSN etc for their
searches?  There is a LOT of _anecdotal_ evidence that Google is the most
used search engine, but I have yet to see data on this.  Can anyone point
me to data?  I only know of this one source and this cites 30% for Google:
http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/netratings.html
I would really appreciate any other sources. Thanks!!

Welcome new readers from the SWS list!  On to the links.

Princeton Presidential Lecture Series:
Anytime, Anywhere: The Recent Revolution in Wireless Communications
TODAY, Wed, March 5th, 4:30pm, 104 Computer Science Building
Webcast live: http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/
http://www.princeton.edu/Siteware/WebAnnounce.Princeton_Announcements.shtml#3

New issue of IT and Society on Web Navigation
http://www.itandsociety.org
&
my piece in it on Serving Citizens' Needs: Minimizing Hurdles to Accessing
Government Information Online
http://www.eszter.com/research/a10-taxtask.html

Is Google too powerful?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2786761.stm

Ratings Agency Says It Erred in Measuring Web Site Use
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/24/technology/24NET.html

AltaVista sold to Overture (example of no source for claims about Google's
popularity)
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/051/business/AltaVista_s_lost_mission+.shtml

Papers about language, literacy, technology, the Internet and more
http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/papers.html

Communication, Information and Internet Policy Call for Papers
http://www.tprc.org/tprc03/call03.htm

Usability Glossary
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/index_terms.txl

Usability News newsletter
http://wsupsy.psy.twsu.edu/surl/usability_news.html

Noise Barrier Aesthetics
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/noise/6.htm

How Conservatives Pigeonholed Those Poor Liberals
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/weekinreview/02NUNB.html

A chronology of Bush saying one thing then doing another
http://www.house.gov/appropriations_democrats/caughtonfilm.htm

The Mommy Wars: How the media turned motherhood into a catfight
http://www.msmagazine.com/feb00/mommywars1.html

Fighting postpartum depression (10-20% of mothers go through this)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0302160276feb16,1,4961982.story
[the Chicago Tribune requires registration]

Men Must Join Women to End Violence against Women
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1234

PBS American Experience series: The Pill
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/index.html

Save Title IX - for women's participation in sports
http://www.savetitleix.com

Women's Health and Urban Life - fully online journal
http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/sever/journal/about.html

The Scholar and Feminist Online - women's studies online journal
http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/

Presidential candidate wife will continue pursuing her own career
http://rutlandherald.nybor.com/Search/Categories/Article/60772

The World's Richest People - Forbes magazine's list of billionaires
http://www.forbes.com/2003/02/26/billionaireland.html

Who is benefiting from all the duct tape sales across the US?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38109-2003Feb20.html

God, Satan and the Media - Gallup poll shows 48 percent of Americans
believe in creationism, and only 28 percent in evolution
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/opinion/04KRIS.html

Encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture
http://www.glbtq.com/

Some great music: Kasey Chambers
http://www.emimusic.com.au/artists/kaseychambers/index.asp
&
my comments after her concert last week
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000215.html

Women comment about their ex's online - yet another proof that anything
you can think of already has a corner carved out for it online
http://www.ex-so.com/
&
A different twist on a similar theme
http://www.greatboyfriends.com

Today's quote:
"If a woman is swept off a ship into the water, the cry is `Man
overboard!' If she is killed by a hit-and-run driver, the charge is
`manslaughter.' If she is injured on the job, the coverage is `workmen's
compensation.' But if she arrives at a threshold marked `Men Only,' she
knows the admonition is not intended to bar animals or plants or inanimate
objects. It is meant for her." -- Alma Graham, ``How to Make Trouble: The
Making of a Nonsexist Dictionary.'' Ms., December 1973, p. 16.

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Ann Crittenden's ultimate survivor game
  Local Googles try to second-guess user preferences
  Paper: Serving Citizens' Needs
  Celebrations
  Freedom-to-Tinkerer profile & where are the sociologists?
  Concert: Kasey Chambers
  The digital divide and what to do about it
  More blogs
  Sociologist dies
  E-LIST update
  Helpful software: PhoTags
See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

From E-BLOG: Ann Crittenden's ultimate survivor game (3/4/03)
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000220.html for underlying links
or to comment

Ann Crittenden gave a talk at Princeton this afternoon. She started by
describing what she suggests would be the ultimate survivor game: Six men
on an island, each with four kids. There are no fast food restaurants and
no TV. The fathers have to go through the usual responsibilities involved
with raising children including four hour PTA meetings. After each
episode, the kids get to vote off the fathers one by one. The prize for
the winner is that he gets to go back to his paying job.

Ann Crittenden is the author of The Price of Motherhood which is a book
you should go and read if you haven't yet (Paul Starr reviewed it in the
New York Times two years ago). The focus of the book - and Crittenden's
talk today - is the inability of the U.S. to accept the investment in
children as a social investment. In the U.S. more than most other
countries in the world, mothers bear the economic burden of raising kids,
kids who will be paying for everyone's social security benefits in the
future thus constituting a social good from which all of society benefits.
Crittenden calls this the "Mommy tax" which often costs women easily $1
million in lifetime earnings. She pointed out that the gender gap in wages
has close to diminished for those 35 years old and younger. The real gap
exists between men & childless women as compared to mothers.

The United States joins just four other countries across the globe with no
universal paid parental leave policy: Australia (they are working on it
now), Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, and Swaziland. In contrast, Canada
recently passed a law which grants mothers 12 months' leave. In Sweden,
families get 12 months' leave but only if the father takes at least one of
those months for leave (I'm assuming/hoping they deal with homosexual
couple issues somehow).

Crittenden's book is incredibly well researched and addresses lots of
important points with separate chapters dedicated to the question of
welfare, the argument of "but it's your choice" and policy considerations.
It's the kind of book one hopes everyone will read.

As to forthcoming policy steps, it's hard to say. We are discussing
potential options in a book group partly sponsored by the Gender and
Development Policy Network here at Princeton.

Crittenden has a nice piece about A National-Security Gender Gap in the
latest issue of The American Prospect.

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In this issue: call for papers for a great conference
Web site recommendations: IT/gender/misc

I'm on the Program Committee for TPRC 2003 on Communication, Information
and Internet Policy.  TPRC hosts a great conference every year, this will
be their 31st (my fourth).  Participants come from a range of academic
disciplines but also include decision-makers from both the public and
private sectors.  The topics range from digital inequality to spectrum
policy, from privacy issues to education policy and much more. Check out
the call for papers here: http://www.tprc.org/tprc03/call03.htm .
Submissions of 500 word abstracts are due by March 31, 2003.  I encourage
you to attend!  It will be in the DC area on Sept 19-21, 2003.
http://www.tprc.org

I'll be at the Easterns in Philly this coming weekend if anyone would like
to meet up. http://www.essnet.org/Program/program/index.htm

And now on to our regular programming.  Thanks for expressing concern -
from several continents, no less:) - about the lack of frequent E-LISTs
recently.  I'm making a push toward finishing the dissy which is keeping
me away from some of my other activities.  Do keep sending me links
though, that helps accumulate new lists.:)  Enjoy.

Number of corporations that control nearly all US media
http://www.corporations.org/media/

Top US ISPs by subscriber
http://www.isp-planet.com/research/rankings/usa.html

List of articles on cell phone use
http://socio.ch/mobile/index_mobile.htm

The Internet in China - a look at govt's role in how the medium is used
http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/features/html/china021108.html

Google buys Blogger
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000802.shtml#000802

A Penny for Your Blogs
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20030204-9999_1c4blogs.html

Transforming Disciplines: Computer Science and the Humanities - conference
summary
http://www.carnegie.rice.edu

Free/Open Source Research Community
http://opensource.mit.edu/

People-Rating on the Web?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/technology/circuits/20POGUE-EMAIL.html

Great way to share the love and joy of books
http://www.bookcrossing.com

Retelling Jewish History, Abraham to Israel - huge multimedia project
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/technology/circuits/20hist.html

Software for organizing photos with superimposed messages - introductory
1/3rd price (<$10) offer expires tomorrow (2/24) - looks promising
http://www.photags.com
(requires Win and IE)
via NYTimes review: Write on Your Pictures (Without Ink Smudges)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/technology/circuits/20pixx.html

Schoolgirl turns tables on email credit card fraudster
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29403.html

Song: "The Lurkers Support me in E-mail" :)
http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/commentsn/blog_id=90000016394_and_blog_entry_id=9\
0338851#4594361

Amazon.com Recommendations: Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering
http://dsonline.computer.org/0301/d/w1lind.htm

Pre-movie ads rip off theatergoers, suits claim
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-film19.html

Govt officials don't approve of hacking activity directed at enemies
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/technology/circuits/20hack.html

A National-Security Gender Gap
http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/3/crittenden-a.html

Girls Find Safety Posing as Boys on Tehran's Mean Streets
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/19/international/middleeast/19IRAN.html

An Alarming Report on the State of New York's Women of Color
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0308/davis.php

Nicaragua Mulls Abortion for 9-Year-Old
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2412399,00.html

Violence against women & girls statistics
http://www.feminist.com/antiviolence/facts.html

Gender and HIV/AIDS Web portal
http://www.genderandaids.org/

Operation KFC (Kuwaiti Field Chicken) - use of chickens in war to detect
chemical attacks
http://www.time.com/time/europe/me/daily/0,13716,423690,00.html//

Answers to environmentally relevant questions, like this day's column on
whether it's best to turn off fluorescent lights or leave them on
http://www.gristmagazine.com/ask/ask011603.asp?source=daily

Explanation of threats to salmon and rainforest, with lots of great photos
http://www.raincoast.org/imagebank.html

Residents take offense to snow woman's figure
http://www.stater.kent.edu/today/fristories/residentstake.html

Antiwar Error Message (it really does look like an error message, don't
just hit the Back button)
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Dave Barry Answers Alert Slashdot Readers' Questions
http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/03/02/18/0027217.shtml?tid=133&tid=149

Lonely socks out there :) - another one in the series of "Yes, there's a
Web site out there for the most random things"
http://www.lonelysocks.co.uk/

The Flash Mind Reader - How long does it take you to figure this out?
http://mr-31238.mr.valuehost.co.uk/assets/Flash/psychic.swf

Today's quote:
"With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which
the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act,
with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is
the true home of the spirit of humanity." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Tidbits
  Larry Lessig's Princeton visit
  Social norms, trust, privacy
  Real winters
  Why discard anything?
  Mind reader or ...
  Still more snow
  More snow
  Closed due to snow
  The marches in pictures
  Signs in NYC rally
  V*gin* Monologues
  E-voting - striking the right balance
  NJ art funds in danger
See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

From E-BLOG: V*gin* Monologues (2/15/03)
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000198.html for underlying links
or to comment

Just saw another production of the V*gin* Monologues performed by
Princeton students (and a "special guest" from the administration). It was
yet another great production.

By now, V-Day has become a global movement. Around this time of year,
hundreds (perhaps by this year thousands) of groups perform the play
across the world. The goal is to raise awareness about violence against
women and girls across the world and to celebrate women's se8ual freedom.

Here are some statistics to consider:
Four million women and girls are trafficked annually.
An estimated one million children, mostly girls, enter the se8 trade each
year.
An estimated 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the United
States annually for se8ual exploitation or forced labor.
More than 90 million African women and girls are victims of female
circumcision or other forms of genital mutilation.
Somewhere in America, a woman is raped every 2 minutes.

See more statistics here.

Proceeds of this weekend's performances here at Princeton go to Womanspace
in Trenton.

[I haven't spelled out certain words to make sure my blog doesn't get
blocked by filters.]

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In this issue: National Condom Week
Web site recommendations: IT/politics/photos/misc

I know you're probably thinking Happy Valentine's Day which is nice and
all (or silly depending on where you stand) but I'd prefer to call your
attention to something else that kicks off today: National Condom Week.
I realize it's not relevant to all of my readers personally, but the focus
here is more of a public health issue.  Read up on it on these pages:
The Truth About Condoms
http://www.ppcw.org/outreach/NCW.asp
&
Take Action! Send a Condom to Africa in the President's Name
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/sendCondom
&
Spread Condoms - Not Aids
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about/pr/030214_condoms.html
&
Counting Condoms: How Many Are Needed for HIV Prevention Efforts?
http://www.popact.org/resources/publications/condomscount/CountingCondoms.htm

And now on to other sites.  There's less IT related material (although
I'll start with those as usual) and more political content, I guess a sign
of the times.

Programmers redesign Back button so it retraces your steps (MUCH more
efficient than the current model!)
http://www.nature.com/nsu/nsu_pf/021230/021230-3.html
(a more detailed piece is forthcoming in a journal I'll post about in a
future issue as soon as it goes public)

Computer scientists campaign for trustworthy e-voting
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000290.html

3D model search engine
http://shape.cs.princeton.edu/

Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html

How MP3 Files Work
http://www.howstuffworks.com/mp3.htm/printable

FBI Seeks Hacker Who Stole eBay Info
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=1212&e=1&u=/ap/20030208/ap_on_hi_te/\
ebay_hacker&sid=95573501

New York Times' Web Site: Plans Print-Like Ad Format
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1044045107442450944,00.html

Electronic Surveillance Spies a Perfect Gift
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/10/technology/10GIFT.html

Amazon Tries Word of Mouth - no more TV ads
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/10/business/media/10ADCO.html

Senate Remarks: Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences
http://www.senate.gov/~byrd/byrd_newsroom/byrd_news_feb/news_2003_february/news_\
2003_february_9.html

College Try: Why universities should stop encouraging applicants to take
the SATs over and over again
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/01/vigdor-j-01-24.html

Partial Issue: The "partial-birth" abortion debate is back. And it's just
as contrived as ever.
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/02/sullivan-am-02-11.html

Catholic Hospitals Refuse Patients Contraception
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1209/context/archive

"independent reviews of survival equipment and outdoors gear"
http://www.equipped.org/

NJ Governor proposes eliminating all state funding for arts and culture
http://www.artpridenj.com/  - suggests ways to take action

A Prolific Genghis Khan, It Seems, Helped People the World
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/science/11KHAN.html

Some GREAT political cartoons
http://www.claybennett.com/archives.html

Gulf Wars Episode II: Clone of the Attacks
http://www.thescreamonline.com/images3-1/clone2.html

Iraq Goes Up For Auction on EBay
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1093&ncid=1093&e=10&u=/pcworld/200301\
31/tc_pcworld/109146

It's Not Easy Being Orange - thoughts about orange terrorist threat level
from an orange-loving Princetonian
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2003/02/11/opinion/7244.shtml

UK census: hundreds of thousands affiliate with Jedi faith
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2757067.stm

Did you know that the Swiss electorate accounts for about half the
referendum ballots conducted worldwide?
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20030209/D7P36ER00.html

What the Hell is the Fibonacci Series - very nice little flash
http://www.textism.com/bucket/fib.html

Breathtaking nature photographs
http://zoltantakacs.com/

Snow Crystals
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/

Today's quote:
""It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  E-voting - striking the right balance
  NJ art funds in danger
  Nature photos
  Political cartoons
  Innovative ways of teaching
  A penny a song
  Blog types
  Power law distributions and blogs
  From above
See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

From E-BLOG: Blog types (2/10/03)
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000191.html for underlying links
or to comment

Blog types

Yesterday's entry inspired me to think about blog types in an attempt to
create a classification scheme (I said earlier that's an interest of
mine).

First of all, there is style and then there is content.

Regarding style, there are the interactive blogs and closed ones mostly
based on whether the blogger allows for comments on the page. This gets a
bit blurred by the Trackback feature on Moveable Type (MT) which is an
indirect way to allow for comments. (Trackback allows for links to entries
on other MT blogs that refer to the entry with the Trackback option.)
Unfortunately, the interactive nature of this feature is limited by the
fact that it's only available to other MT users.

Interactivity isn't only relevant via comments or the Trackback feature,
however. There are bloggers who engage the content of other blogs in their
posts and those who simply post material without ever (or almost never)
referring to other blogs.

As for content, there are all sorts. There are those who comment on very
personal topics. Then there are the political commentary types (including
lots of economic and social commentary). Some bloggers comment on anything
and everything whether political or personal. Then there are those who
focus on a particular topic, say law or information technology (both
pretty broad, but still somewhat confined in relative terms).

Merging the styles and contents, here are some types.

* personal journal (mostly includes descriptions about the author's
day-to-day activities perhaps not directly aimed at but certainly of most
interest to friends and family)

* links galore (offers lots of links to elsewhere on the Web with little
commentary on behalf of the blogger about the links)

* interactive commentary (has a lot of commentary on a particular topic -
often political, economic or social commentary - which often addresses and
engages in a conversation with commentary from other sites)

* one-way commentary (commentary without any interactive nature, almost
like reading the editorial pages of an established media outlet but the
author doubles as editor)

* hodge-podge (addresses all sorts of topics, sometimes offers links
without much commentary, sometimes offers commentary without (m)any links)

Of course, there may be overlaps which makes this less useful than I'd
like, but it's a start.

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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)

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Pictures
  Similar yet different
  How pink can you get?
  NPM in TANF
  I know what you did .. way back when
  Crosslinks
See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

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.

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In this issue: job update
Web site recommendations: IT/music/misc

The job search process if finally over.  Starting next September, I'm
going to be Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at
Northwestern University with a courtesy appointment in Sociology.  I'm
extremely excited about this opportunity.  I'll post updates about the
transition as things move forward.

I wanted to add that the whole job search process has been fascinating..
for the most part grueling, stressful, and exhausting, but at times also
exciting and exhilerating.  I got to visit some great places and had the
good fortune to meet some wonderful people for which I'm very grateful.

Also, immense amounts of thanks and appreciation go out to my wonderful
family and friends, and my tireless advisors and mentors for all their
support!

And now on to our regular programming...

For the Mix Tape, a Digital Upgrade and Notoriety
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/30/technology/circuits/30mixx.html
&
Limerick Mix
http://www.artofthemix.org/getmotw.asp?strMixID=41387
&
Haiku Mix
http://www.artofthemix.com/FindAMix/getcontents.asp?strMixID=39972&format=CD

Launching E-MIX - my own CD mix club inspired by the above, consider
joining today!
http://www.eszter.com/emix

Search Engine Dictionary for search related terminology
http://www.searchenginedictionary.com/

A friend's two great new course syllabi
Internet Policy
http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/classes/SP03/396-6/
Play & Technology
http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/classes/SP03/396-5/

Using a blog for teaching (Media in the Info Age course)
http://mitia.karakerwin.net/blog.html

Third UCLA Internet Report [pdf file]
http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pdf/UCLA-Internet-Report-Year-Three.pdf

In Net Attacks, Defining the Right to Know
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/30/technology/circuits/30secu.htm
&
for background: Virus Overwhelms Global Internet Systems
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20030125/D7OPB5980.html

Judge Bars Sending of Unwanted Email
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030123/D7OO0PR80.html

An interesting detailed report on the DC protests
http://www.buffalobeast.com/article.php?article=01_0

The Protest-crowd Numbers Game
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/01/24/crowds/index_np.html
(info about new options for reading articles on Salon:
http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2003/01/22/new_deal/ )

Survivors of the Shoan Visual History Foundation - incredible project that
has collected over 50,000 testimonies from Holocaust survivors
http://www.vhf.org/

Pennsylvania's "Do Not Call" Hotline
http://www.nocallsplease.com/

Senate Blocks Privacy Project
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/politics/24PRIV.html

Ashcroft Online 1.0
http://www.idleworm.com/nws/2002/12/aol10.shtml

Who Dies for Bush Lies?
http://www.whodies.com

World Population Simulation Growth (dynamic map, requires QuickTime)
http://www.iitap.iastate.edu/gcp/issues/pop/growth.html

Population pyramids
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/clock.html

Animated pyramid for the US
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Animation/pyramid.html

Animated pyramids for the world
http://www.magnet.at/heilig/dto_new/ani_1.html

Love Manuals Are Evil
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/01/28/chocano_book/index.html

The Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer
http://www.mautnerproject.org

Fun January courses at Smith (my alma mater)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/01/23/lite.courses.ap/index.html

On design work in the men's bathroom at Shipol Airport, Amsterdam
http://maddog.weblogs.com/stories/storyReader$68

Do the Math column (by a young Princeton math prof)
http://slate.msn.com/?id=3944&QueryText=Do+the+Math&Action=DepartmentSrch&GroupB\
y=Department

Space Invaders - the classic arcade game now in Flash version
http://www.spaceinvaders.de/
&
playing other 80s games online
http://www.behlau.net/videogames.html

Today's quote:
"Just enough is more." -- Milton Glaser

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Launching E-MIX
  Staying warm
  The future
  M$ vocab & blog definitions
  Sotudg
  Classifications and world soccer
  Oh-oh
  Sex unknown - now passport-proof
  Cool Google features
See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

From E-BLOG: Classifications and world soccer (1/25/03)
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000177.html for underlying links
or to comment

Last night, some good friends had a nice dinner party; present were two
Americans, an Irish, a Brazilian and a Hungarian (we also have other
identities but this is relevant to the topic here). Somehow we got on to
the topic of the World Soccer Championships. It's one of those rare
cultural events where even those without much interest in their national
identity will proudly dress in their national colors and seek out every
opportunity to showcase their affiliation.

I was made to endure some painful comments about Hungary's lack of ability
to qualify in the past few years. In fact, my Brazilian friend confused
Hungary's presence in the finals in 1954 with its last qualifying year
(that was in the '80s). Perhaps this was simply a bitter reflection of
Hungary's win over Brazil back in 1954.

So how bad is Hungary these days if it can't even qualify when the US can?
Cute question. If you know anything about the World Soccer Championships
you know that qualifiers are broken down by continent. So while the US
conveniently gets paired with countries that lack a strong soccer
tradition, countries in Europe and elsewhere compete with extremely
serious rivals.

That's when we got onto discussing how many slots are allocated to various
continents. Latin America lost one recently. And it was at this point in
the conversation that one of my friends commented: so shouldn't the
European Union just send one team? You would never guess which of the five
of us came up with that idea. An interesting one, to be sure. I never
thought all those countries would give up on their national currencies
(another important component of national identity [pdf]) so who knows,
maybe one day they will join forces and send one team to the World
Championships. Yeah right.

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In this issue: lit review query
Web site recommendations: IT/heritage/environment/misc

I'm looking for literature on
1. people's Internet use for health information
2. how people with disabilities use the Web (especially for health
information but also in general)
I have some leads (like the Pew report on the topic: The Online Health
Care Revolution: How the Web helps Americans take better care of
themselves http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=26 and pieces
from the Journal of Medical Internet Research http://www.jmir.org ) but
would appreciate any other pointers that come to mind.  Thanks!

Thanks to all those who contributed to this issue!

The Value of Reputation on eBay - A Controlled Experiment
http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick/papers/postcards/index.html

The Hole-in-the-Wall experiments in India
http://www.niitholeinthewall.com

The A to Z of Usability (including great use of network analysis to map
the community)
http://www.usabilityviews.com

Thumbnails of the day's newspaper's from around the world all on one page
- very cool!
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

Start-Up Marries Blogs and Camera Phones
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/28773.html

Postdoc/Fellowship at Institute for Security Technology Studies, Dartmouth
http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/ISTS/fp.htm

Did you know that Happy Birthday is copyrighted?
http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.htm
&
given recent events, that copyright will continue to hold :-((
Supremes Uphold Longer Copyrights
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57220,00.html

Interactive multi-source news summarization
http://www.newsinessence.com

The Internet picture dictionary - simple pictures with their names in
various languages for a learning tool
http://www.pdictionary.com

More on airport security experiences - this one with a different twist
"freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that
I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it"
http://pennandteller.com/sincity/penniphile/federalvip.html

Study Looks at Squatters and Land Titles in Peru - a good friend's
fascinating work written up in the NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/business/09SCEN.html

Net Captures Lost World of Shtetl
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57204,00.html
&
Jewish Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe
http://www.centropa.org

Cuba popular study destination for US students
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/01/07/cuba.studies.ap/index.html

Pictures of Cuba
http://alai.cigb.edu.cu/HavanaCubaBiomed11.htm#hav

A good starting point for the human health antibiotic-resistance and
livestock story
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=2500

End of critical protection for sea turtles?  (sad picture:( )
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=2587

Organic dining options come to Princeton dining halls (largely thanks to a
good friend's efforts)
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2003/01/08/news/6688.shtml

Scientific American: Top Science Stories of 2002
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00077641-A3BF-1E03-8B3B8\
09EC588EEDF

Stories about people's cherished ticket stubs
http://stories.about.ticketstubs.org/

"slang, webspeak, colloquialisms.." - can be useful for communicating with
people from other generations and regions
http://www.pseudodictionary.com/

Today's quote:
"The earth laughs in flowers." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Recent work
  Mobile blogging.. any blogging?
  Short break
  Overdue thanks
  Cool quote
  Some good empirical work in econ
  21st century 8 ball
  Bloggies 2003
  Google does seem to love blogs
  The New Year is finally here, blog on
See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

From E-BLOG: M$Speak (11/17/02)
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000123.html for underlying links
or to comment

I found the following gem via "soy sauce and garlic". Microsoft has a
Manual of Style for Technical Publications which has the following entry
for "navigate":

"Avoid the verb navigate to refer to moving from site to site, page to
page within a site, or link to link on the Internet (or on the desktop or
in other applications, as well). Instead, use explore to mean looking for
sites or pages generally, move to or move through to refer to sequentially
moving from one link or site to another, or a similar neutral term
describing the action."

It turns out that others have commented on this years ago and with some
added wit. If you didn't really understand why the above quote is so
interesting then let me just say that Netscape used to rule the browser
market with its program called Navigator. This Manual of Style was written
around the time when Netscape Navigator was still an important player in
the browser market.  Microsoft's own browser is called Internet Explorer
and thus the encouragement to use "explore" instead of "navigate".

I think it's fascinating how powers-that-be try to influence people's
thoughts, understandings and attitudes via use of particular language.
This reminds me of the Bush Administration's approach to the digital
divide, or the supposed lack thereof, to be precise. I commented on this
on my E-LIST but since I didn't have a blog then yet, I'll just repost the
comment here:

Looking for the latest US Govt report on Americans' connectivity? You
won't find it at http://www.digitaldivide.gov . The report is no longer
part of the Falling Through the Net series, instead, it is now titled "A
Nation Online". And although differences are decreasing, it's interesting
how the change in language is supposed to make all the difference. Of
course, this new spin on the topic will help justify the cuts in spending
on info tech subsidies. (February 7, 2002 E-LIST issue)

And here's another related note (from the April 8, 2002 E-LIST issue):

The other day I needed to look at the various Digital Divide reports of
the NTIA so I went to www.digitaldivide.gov . The site no longer exists.
As the "Falling Through the Net" reports transformed into a report called
A Nation Online, the URL referring to the divide is also falling into
oblivion. Links to the past reports are now available under a new
directory "digitalnation" on the ntia.doc.gov site. It's possible to get
archives of the www.digitaldivide.gov site using the Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.digitaldivide.gov but if you
simply type in http://www.digitaldivide.gov you get a page-not-found. (It
is possible that this is a temporary glitch, but somehow I doubt it.)
[Jan 2003 update: the URL now redirects.] This is all in line with the
Administration's related proposed budget cuts and some recent commentaries
that there is no longer a digital divide problem. But note that although
the gap may have decreased in terms of connectivity, or technical access,
it's important to recognize that with the Internet, mere access does not
constitute effective access to all that the medium has to offer. For more
on this, see my new paper on what I call "the second-level digital
divide", or the differences in people's ability to use the Web:

Second-Level Digital Divide: Differences in People's Online Skills
(some findings from the Web Use Project)

In any case, these are just some more examples of Agendaspeak.

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In this issue: intertwining E-LIST & E-BLOG
Web site recommendations: IT/politics/misc

Some people read both E-LIST and E-BLOG, some people read just the list,
others just the blog (and billions out there read neither.. go figure).
Although there's a reason for maintaining them separately, I'm going to
merge some of the content.  With this issue I'll start posting the entire
contents of a blog entry at the end of the list, just to give E-LIST
readers an idea of what the blog is about.

There's lots of good stuff out there, increasingly I find sites via blogs.
See my thoughts on this on my blog, of course:)
The New Year is finally here, blog on
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000159.html

Please keep sending me stuff and thanks to those who do!

Association of Internet Researchers 4th annual conference CFP
http://aoir.org/2003/

Dust or Magic Conference: Creative Work and Workmanship in Cyberia
http://publishing.brookes.ac.uk/emedia/dustormagic/index.html

Teen Cleared in Landmark DVD Case
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/01/07/dvd.johansen/index.html

Professors Vie With Web for Class's Attention
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/technology/02WIRE.html
(as always, the NYTimes requires free registration)

Trying to map blog networks
http://radio.weblogs.com/0114726/2003/01/02.html#a176

Google Loves Blogs
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googleblogs.htm
&
an example of this (much of my blog traffic is via Google as well..
and sometimes I'm amazed at how quickly my entries get indexed)
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000160.html

Lots of interesting material for librarians and other "information
junkies"
http://marylaine.com

Web site/ISP to be shut down due to law suit (another DMCA victim)
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57011,00.html

Troubles among Amazon's reviewer community
http://www.dancingbadger.com/amareview.htm

Is the Computer Desktop an Antique?
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2075219

Eight e-mail mistakes that make you look bad - a good recap
http://www.bcentral.com/articles/komando/115.asp?cobrand=msn&LID=3800

Spiritual Connection on the Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/28/national/28RELI.html
(this comment is a bit suspect though: "who has been studying religious
Web sites for more than a decade" .. since 1991? hmmm...)

"webloggers [..] serving as an early warning system for traditional
journalists"
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56978,00.html

An Online Course Gets Students Thinking About Drinking
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/parents/conversation/articles/25ALCO.html

Divided We Stand??? - on today's political book networks
http://www.orgnet.com/leftright.html
&
an earlier piece on this: The Social Life of Books
http://www.orgnet.com/booknet.html

A New Antisemitic Myth in the Middle East Media: The September 11 Attacks
Were Perpetrated by the Jews
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=antisemitism&ID=SR00802

Scientists Develop Remote-Controlled Rats
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/rats020501.html

Gay Focus at Holocaust Museum
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/04/arts/design/04HOLO.html

Joe Chemo: A Camel Who Wishes He Had Never Smoked - great little
anti-smoking site, especially geared toward kids
http://www.joechemo.org

The rise of "super-size" at American fast food restaurants
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46261-2002Dec27

Research about merit-based financial aid (especially Georgia's HOPE
Scholarship)
http://www.terry.uga.edu/hope/home.html

Postdoc in demography (bottom of page)
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/anthro/news-events.html

Images of pre-prohibition era products that used cocaine
http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm

Need the official US time?
http://time.gov

Facts behind topics that come up in some of our favorite TV shows
http://www.footnote.tv

Managing supermarket queues :)
http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?030113ta_talk_parker

Today's quote:
"I always say ... keep a diary, and someday it will keep you." -- Mae West

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Bloggies 2003
  Google does seem to love blogs
  The New Year is finally here, blog on
  Mp3 player recommendations?
  Continental DiViDes
  Memories
  Movie: Chicago
  Welcome to 2003
See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

A recent blog entry:  The thinking behind movie ratings (12/29/02)
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000151.html for underlying links
or to comment

I saw Catch Me If You Can last night upon the recommendation of a friend
of mine, but I'm not here to tell you about that movie. I enjoyed it, it
was entertaining, but the most long lasting effect from that movie-going
experience comes from some of the previews.

You've all seen it before: "This preview has been approved for all
audiences". I saw a preview for a movie that is all about featuring in the
most gruesome and practically more-real-than-life-itself manner accidents
that can happen to us on a daily basis. I had to wonder about not only
what sicko would make such a movie but what deranged mind would approve it
for all audiences?! (I will spare you the details because I don't want to
inflict on you the kind of graphical description that I was involunteerly
subjected to last night.)

So this started me thinking about movie ratings and how much they tell us
about the values of the society in which they are implemented. Growing up
in Europe, I was used to seeing shows on TV with fairly elaborate physical
intimacy scenes [I have to avoid the s word here to make sure my blog
doesn't get censored by too many]. So it's been a shocker how prude
certain regulations are in the US. But perhaps it's even more of a shocker
that in grave contrast, violence of all sorts is fully acceptable. How
else could some of those previews possibly be "approved for all
audiences"?

Catch Me If You Can has a rating of PG13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned -
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13). It took me a
while to figure out why it did not get a G (General Audiences - all ages
admitted) rating in light of the G-rated previews we saw. The movie barely
has any physical intimacy scenes and there are certainly no images of
people without clothes on [I'm avoiding the n word here as well]. Then I
realized the likely culprit: the f word is spoken twice! That must be it.
Hearing the f word will corrupt our youth much more than seeing the most
lurid horrible violent scenes. How could I miss that?!

You have to wonder what kind of values are being advocated when people
losing body parts and being killed in the most ghastly ways is completely
acceptable for general audiences but seeing two people express love and
affection for each other is a grave sin from which we must protect the
next generation. Only one question remains, I guess: what is going to
protect me from the kind of generation that grows up on such values?

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In this issue: Happy New Year!
Web site recommendations: "Best of 2002"

Today, I list some "best of 2002" lists I've found online, some are better
than others, I share all of them because it's interesting to see what
types of tops people bother to assemble.

Thanks, as always, to those who helped me find this stuff.

Hungarian tradition has it that the first thing you should eat in the New
Year is lentil soup for good luck.  In case you'd like to join in on this
tradition, I've posted the recipe below:
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000153.html

All the best to you and yours for the New Year!  (To my readers in Asia,
Australia/NZ, sorry this is a bit late.. we're a bit behind in some things
in the US...)

Law.com's Best of the Web 2002
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1039054427506

Top search terms in 2002 (I'll post a blog entry about this in a few days)
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56861,00.html

Timeline of the Free Online Scholarship Movement (including some of the
main events in 2002)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm

Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 (via amusing cartoons)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021223.html

On Target and Off in 2002 - the most overrated and underrated ideas
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/28/arts/28INTR.html

The Year in Film (from the American Prospect)
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/24/parker-j.html

The Year in Pictures by the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/photo/20021230_YIP2002/index.html

Top Ten Stories of the Year on ZDNet UK (IT news)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2127901,00.html

Interesting inventions in 2002
http://www.time.com/time/2002/inventions/

A Celebration Of Business Innovators And Ideas
http://forbes.com/2002/11/01/85.html

What's Missing From the Year's Top Religion Stories?
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/000391.shtml#000391

Writers who died in 2002
http://www.mobylives.com/0bits_2002.html

Today's quote:
"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully
upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."
-- Alexander Graham Bell

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Lentil soup for good luck in the New Year
  Back to the basics
  The thinking behind movie ratings
  Today's front pages
  Internet user statistics
  More on airport security
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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/security/references

I'll be sending out an issue with "top XYZ of 2002" lists next week.  If
you know of any such interesting compilations, please send me pointers.

Thanks to all those who contributed!

As We May Think - the 1945 article by Vannevar Bush
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm

WWW - the beginning and now (nice class project by a college senior)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mattkaz/history/index.html

How the Web Will Change Campaigns (written by a friend of mine)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/25/opinion/25HIND.html

Considering starting a Weblog?  Here are some pointers (not technical,
content based)
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/writeliving/

A profitable corner of the Web: online personals sites
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56940,00.html

Consumers Finding Ways to Zap Telemarketer Calls
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/18/technology/18TELE.html

AOL Patents Instant Messaging
http://www.msnbc.com/news/848770.asp?0dm=C14KT&cp1=1
&
some commentary on it
http://www.jabber.org/aol-patent/jsf-position.php

ResearchBuzz - news and information about search engines and databases
http://www.researchbuzz.com

Pirated sites - originals and copies
http://www.pirated-sites.com

Blogs of PhD students
http://phdweblogs.net

Software for interactive online forum
http://www.phpbb.com

Google fun summarized on one page (I've posted links to most of these,
but it's nice to have them all together in one location)
http://www.karakerwin.net/archives/00000092.html

Careful with Flash files
http://rss.com.com/2100-1001-978261.html?tag=lh

collecting information on those who collect information about you
http://sfweekly.com/issues/2002-11-27/smith.html/1/index.html
&
update on this
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56860,00.html

Increased security check at airports - tips for packing luggage
http://www.arizonarepublic.com/news/articles/1221search21.html

A nightmare airport security story
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/monahan1.html

Social networks references in Spanish
http://www.redes-sociales.org

Expecting a Laugh Boosts Stress-busting Hormones
http://www.ucihealth.com/News/Releases/LaughStressBuster.htm

An example of the types of random information available online:
Episode lists for over 2000 US TV shows
http://epguides.com/

The nutritional value (yeah, right) of fast food chain foods
http://www.olen.com/food/

Lego sculptures (this is the guy's full time job, neat) - see image list
on right hand side
http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/index.html

Today's quote:
"There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination."
-- Roald Dahl, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  More on airport security
  The Internet and political campaigns
  Taking a break
  When you become the spammer
  Guarding email
  Adbusters
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In this issue: E-LIST is one year old
Web site recommendations: from E-LIST archives

One year ago I sent out the first issue of E-LIST and I'm very glad I did
because it's been a blast.  I can't quite say why I like to do it so much,
but it's a lot of fun and useful too (it's useful for me and some of you
have let me know that you find it helpful as well which is a pleasure to
know).  Recently at a job interview I was telling someone about my tiny
journalistic background.  We were talking about my academic interest in
communication research and I noted how at one point in my life I was also
interested in the day-to-day of journalism.  In addition to the various
school publications I'd worked on, one summer I also worked as a reporter
at a big Hungarian daily.  I decided that it was too stressful on a
day-to-day basis and coverage of topics was necessarily too superficial
for my interests so I did not pursue it.  The person listening to me talk
about this noted that I haven't completely given up on it though as per my
list and blog.  I thought that was an interesting point.  Thanks to the
way we're using new technologies, it's been possible for me to pursue my
journalistic interests, broadly defined, in some way.

Thanks for joining me on the ride, you're a great readership!

Some of you sent me pointers to your favorite links from E-LIST issues.
Here I share these picks adding some of my own. I'll be sending out a new
list in a few days.  Thanks for contributing, you know who you are!

The Internet Archive: Way Back Machine
pick a Web site and see what it looked like years ago
http://www.archive.org/

Digital Divide and Libraries: Equity and the Internet - a bibliography
http://web.syr.edu/~jryan/infopro/divide.html

Is your email being filtered without your knowledge?
http://strom.com/awards/293.html

Weblogs: a history and perspective
http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

Blogosphere: the emerging Media Ecosystem
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/blogosphere.htm

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (syllabi, book reviews, etc.)
http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/

Mailing lists related to Internet research
http://www.aoir.org/list.php

SocioLog - Sociology references, departments, organizations and much more
http://www.sociolog.com

Creative Commons - a non-profit to help those who "do not want to exercise
all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them"
http://www.creativecommons.org/

The Free Expression Policy Project - on copyright & free expression,
media literacy, media violence research and much more
http://www.fepproject.org

Pew Internet and American Life Project reports (fully available for free
online)
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/index.asp

Visualizing Internet industry partnerships
http://www.orgnet.com/inetindustry.html

Who Owns What - what the major media companies own
http://www.cjr.org/owners/

a critical look at entertainment giant Clear Channel which owns stations
with a total of 103,000,000 listeners in the U.S. and 1,000,000,000
globally
http://www.clearchannelsucks.org
&
a Salon article on them: Radio's Big Bully
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/04/30/clear_channel/index.html

"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

Visualizing Internet Topology at a Macroscopic Scale
http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_network/

The Censorware Project
http://censorware.net

Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/checklist.html

Staying Safe Online
http://www.staysafeonline.info/

'Have an Excel puzzle you can't solve?  Post a query on this board.
(people were amazingly helpful and got back to me within minutes)
http://www.mrexcel.com/board/index.php

WordNet - "a lexical database for the English language" - it not only
gives definitions and extensive lists of synonyms, but also links words
together via a web of semantic relationships - very cool
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/

Common Errors in English
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html

NameBase - great examples (graphical and otherwise) of social network
analysis
http://www.namebase.org/

The Dvorak Keyboard - for a healthier and quicker typing experience
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jcb/Dvorak/
&
Online course for teaching yourself Dvorak
http://www.karelia.com/abcd/

Tips on Academic Professionalization
http://www.eszter.com/academia.html

Metamorphosis: Transforming the Ties That Bind
Communication Technology and Community Program
http://metamorph.org/index1.html

Hard-to-find Apple software and hardware (plus donation program info)
http://www.mactreasures.com/

Women: The Shadow Story of the Millennium
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m2/index.html

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/

If Men Could Menstruate (great little piece I read in my sex and gender
course in college that I was happy to find online)
http://www.mum.org/ifmencou.htm

For young women, pass this on: GYN101
http://www.gyn101.com/

Sex Slaves in Europe
http://www.msnbc.com/news/725802.asp

Prison Sucks - Research on the crime control industry
http://www.prisonsucks.com/index.shtml

You Are a Suspect
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html

WHY: Art about the attack on the World Trade Center & Pentagon
http://www.whyproject.org

Chocolate Exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago - I saw this a few
weeks ago, it's open til 12/31
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/

You probably already know about the Internet Movie Database
(http://www.imdb.com ) for anything and everything about movies,
but did you know there's a similar site for Broadway shows?
Internet Broadway Database
http://www.ibdb.com

The MegaPenny Project - visualizing large numbers
http://kokogiak.com/megapenny/

The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements - neat
http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/index.html

Today's quote:
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change
your attitude. Don't complain." -- Maya Angelou

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  E-BLOG blocked
  Recipe page keeps on giving
  More products of interest
  Proud to be a geek
  Best of E-LIST?
  Public use of wireless and the military - a century later
  Too old for the candles
  Laptop nightmare at airport security
  The kindness of strangers
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In this issue: your E-LIST favorites?
Web site recommendations: IT/misc

In a few days E-LIST will be a year old.  I'm curious what sites readers
have found most interesting/useful/intriguing.  If you have a moment,
please look through the E-LIST archives and send me your favorite links.
I will redistribute these in the next issue. The archives are here:
http://www.eszter.com/elist/urls2002.html

E-LIST (and E-BLOG entries) should be back on a more regular schedule from
now on.

And now onto some links:

Transforming Enterprise - "First International Conference on the Economic
and Social Implications of Information Technology"
http://transformingenterprise.com/

Where do letter searches lead to on Google?
http://www.gerv.net/writings/who-owns-the-alphabet/

Google vs Evil
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google.html

Limits Sought on Wireless Internet Access
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/technology/17WIRE.html
&
my thoughts on this:
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000136.html

Two new free online scientific journals
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/science/17JOUR.html

A conference on spam filtering
http://spamconference.org/

Record the Lens That Records You
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,56185,00.html
&
World Sousveillance Day
http://wearcam.org/wsd.htm

Computer scientist takes on Congress
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i14/14a02701.htm

CFP: graduate student conference in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology
of Science, Technology and Medicine
http://philosophy.wisc.edu/mephistos2003/mephistos.htm

What's In a Name? Perhaps Plenty if You're a Job Seeker
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/12/business/12SCEN.html

Arts & education = better math scores
http://qnc.queensu.ca/story_loader.php?id=3de4e35f6695d

The Heavy Cost of Chronic Stress
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/health/psychology/17STRE.html

Wal-Mart Resells Donated Toys
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/1821982/detail.html

Another donation site, just click
http://www.buildaschool.org/

Music from commercials
http://www.songtitle.info/

A Guide to the Lesser-Known Movie Ratings :)
http://www.comedycentral.com/webshows/spot/mirth/essay1.jhtml

Interesting signs (funny even if created with an editor, that part is
unclear)
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dah18/america/

Today's quote:
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."
--Sebastien Roch Nicholas Chamfort

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Public use of wireless and the military - a century later
  Too old for the candles
  Laptop nightmare at airport security
  The kindness of strangers
  Almost back...
  Pool disassembly not included
  Some books to read...
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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.)

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Holiday weekend
  Thanksgiving cooking and Web searches - take II
  Email 101: the importance of bcc
  Thanksgiving cooking & Web searches
  Water, lozenges and some CH3COOC6H4COOH
  Who counts as a techie?
  M$Speak
  "Fast Food Nation" at Princeton
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In this issue: comedy club in NYC
Web site recommendations: IT/refs/fun

I took some time off on Monday and went to the Boston Comedy Club in New
York with a good friend, it was great fun.
http://www.bostoncomedyclub.com
Although the Web site says there is a cover, they are so desperate to get
a few peope in on a Monday night that they'll wave that fee with a flyer
they give to everyone who passes by.  There's a two drink minimum, but
it's completely reasonable. It was interesting to be at a show with such a
small crowd.  If you're super-shy you may not enjoy it as everyone gets
picked on over and over again, but I thought it made the experience that
much more amusing.  I'm sure you'll never guess what theme comes up when a
male and female friend sit together and say they're not on a date.:)
Monday is their New Talent Showcase which worked out really well.  If
you're interested in trying out your talents, you, too, can become part of
the show.  Check out the details here (and let me know if you try it out,
I want to be in the audience!):
http://www.newtalentshowcase.com/pages/main.html

On a completely different note, Thanksgiving is approaching in the US.
Last year I cooked a full meal (minus the turkey) which was a lot of fun.
Pictures of the dishes and pointers to the recipes are here in case you're
looking for some ideas:
http://www.eszter.com/recipes/#tx

And now onto site recommendations, thanks to those of you who sent me
links!

You Are a Suspect - if you will click on just one link in this issue, this
should be the one
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html

How Free Are We? - a quiz
http://www.aclu.org/Quizzes/QuizIntro.cfm?ID=4

Descriptions of some fascinating projects by Warren Sack
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/socialtech/
&
his Conversation Map: An Interface for Very Large Scale Conversations
http://web.media.mit.edu/~wsack/CM/

The Information Society in Switzerland - 130+ page report free online
http://www.statistik.admin.ch/stat_ch/ber20/publ/fpub01-01.htm (in French)
http://www.statistik.admin.ch/stat_ch/ber20/publ/dpub01-01.htm (in German)

Information Research (free online peer-reviewed journal)
http://informationr.net/ir/

Kuro5shin - for discussing technology and culture, a great example of
a popular ongoing peer review system
http://www.kuro5hin.org

How Stuff Works - descriptions of cell phone, automobile engines, toys...
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

HTML code for special symbols (math symbols, currency, etc.)
http://www.chaos.org.uk/~eddy/bits/chars.html

London's Privacy Falling Down
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,56152,00.html

The Social Life of Paper
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/020325crbo_books

The Sociology of the Arts Network of the European Soc Association
http://ace.acadiau.ca/artsnet/artsesa.htm
&
CFP: New Trends in the Sociology of the Arts
http://ace.acadiau.ca/artsnet/calls.htm

Googlism.com - some fun with Google
http://www.googlism.com

Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
Internet stats in particular
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stsci.html#internet

Half-A-Million March in Anti-War Rally in Italy
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1109-01.htm

The First National U.S. Survey of Women's Childbearing Experiences
http://www.maternitywise.org/listeningtomothers

The Big Cartoon Database
http://www.bcdb.com

First Gov for Kids (includes a Treasure hunt game)
http://www.kids.gov/

Remember Lego Star Wars Trilogy?
http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/sworde.htm
Here are some other stories via Lego
http://www.ozbricks.net/bricktales/

A nice description of the game Go
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/11/62356/9269

Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu :)
http://www.theonion.com/onion3826/grad_student.html

Today's quote:
"Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it."
-- Lily Tomlin

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  "Fast Food Nation" at Princeton
  "Please leave the plane, we can't close the door with
   this many people on it"
  More on mixing computer science and social science
  Success!
  Scientific fraud
  Computer science and the liberal arts
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In this issue: schedule update/ASA section name change
Web site recommendations: IT/misc/fun

After a few days of relative calm here in Princesstown (emphasis on
relative), I'm off to various places in the next few weeks and probably
won't be sending out much on the list.  Among other things, next Sat I'll
be in Philly for a seminar on Measuring Search Behaviors: Current and
Proposed Methods sponsored by the Special Interest Group on Information
Needs, Seeking and Use of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology.  That should be interesting, it's great to talk to people
who've been struggling with similar methodological issues.
http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGUSE/

Also, hot off the press is that our work has paid off in changing the
name and mission statement of the American Sociological Association's
Section on "Sociology and Computers".  The new name is
"Communication and Information Technologies".  I'll post a note on the new
mission statement on my blog later today.  Please spread the word to
sociologists (and others who may be interested), and join the section!
Thanks to Keith Hampton (MIT) and Anabel Quan Haase (Toronto) with whom I
worked on this.

This E-LIST issue is a bit longer than usual to make up for the absence.:)
Enjoy, and please do keep sending pointers my way.  Thanks to those of you
who have!

Does Search Engine's Power Threaten Web's Independence?
http://news.com.com/2009-1023-963618.html

To the Liberal Arts, He Adds Computer Science - Brian's great!
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/technology/circuits/31prof.html

Global Media Journal
http://www.globalmediajournal.com
&
its section for graduate student research in particular
http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/graduate_research.htm

When Interfaces Kill: What Really Happened to John Denver
http://www.asktog.com/columns/027InterfacesThatKill.html

The Cranky User: Could you repeat that?
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/us-cranky23.html
&
here's a great little shareware editor that allows such cross-file actions
and takes less than ten minutes to learn - I highly recommend it!
http://www.ultraedit.com/
&
some pointers on how to use it when writing for Stata
http://www.eszter.com/stata.html#editor

Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/09/bookmobile/index.html?x

Where Net Luminaries Turn For News
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1035486868.php

Tomorrow's Professor Listserv - info on faculty development
http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/tomprof/newtomprof/postings.html

Blog to Court: Check Your Facts
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56126,00.html

Word Up: Keeping Languages Alive
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54345,00.html

Meatmarket.com - on online dating
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/05/15/online_dating/?x

The First Smiley:-)
http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html

Do Women Lack Drive? Or a Wife?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/business/yourmoney/13WCOL.htm

On Profit, Loss and the Mysteries of the Mind - about Danny Kahneman's
work (this year's Nobel laureate in Econ)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/health/policy/05CONV.html

Sheila Wellstone Became a Respected Voice in Her Own Right
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1752/3389565.html

Academics against attacking Iraq
http://www.noattackiraq.org

Scientific Fraud Found at Bell Labs
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/88624_bell261.shtml
&
some brief comments on this
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000118.html

Mass Mailing Attacks Lesbian Candidate
http://www.365gay.com/newscontent/2002/11/110302baldwinTricks.htm

Ads on Police Cars
http://www.commercialalert.org/index.php?category_id=3&subcategory_id=70&article\
_id=171

The Phrase Finder
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/index.html

The effects of college exams on the life expectancy of grandmothers :)
http://alex.halavais.net/news/archives/2002_10.html#000074

Spank Bush
http://www.spankbush.com

Today's quote:
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." -- Woodrow Wilson

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
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  Computer science and the liberal arts
  Halloween costumes
  Helpful resource on prison statistics
  Google censors sites
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  Usability glitch at EWR
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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/misc

I guess I wasn't kidding when I said E-LIST would be out less frequently
this Fall.  I've been extremely busy working on my job talk and starting
campus interviews for an academic position.  Things are quite exciting.
I'm also happy to see some results emerging from my data.  I'll keep you
posted as I write up the results.

Happy Halloween!  (If you have suggestions for a simple yet
funny/imaginative costume, let me know, I need it for a party this
weekend.)

And now on to the links, thanks to those who contributed!

ResearchBuzz - news and information about search engines and databases
http://www.researchbuzz.com

Documentation of Internet Filtering Worldwide
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/

Google Excluding Controversial Sites
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963132.html
My comments on this:
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000114.html

IT related book reviews
(I think I've posted this before, but it's constantly updated AND check
out the great new site design)
http://www.com.washington.edu/RCCS/booklist.asp

The Global Diffusion of the Internet Project
http://mosaic.unomaha.edu/gdi.html

Software discounted for schools and non-profits
http://www.npsoft.org

Study: Few Women at the Top of Media Companies
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=1048

Love Online - Digital Renaissance
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_jenkins100402.asp

Stand Down: The Left-Right Blog Opposing and Invasion of Iraq
http://www.nowarblog.org/

Homeland Security Posters
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html

The Nigerian Nightmare - Who's Sending You All Those Scam Emails?
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2072851

Some examples of people conning the con-artists:
http://www.haxial.com/fraud/mikeaba.html
In this one, the guy gets the scammer to email in Pig Latin:
http://www.xach.com/togo/
This guy managed to get $3 from the would-be scammer:
http://www.scamorama.com/threebucks.html

Prison Sucks - Research on the crime control industry
http://www.prisonsucks.com/index.shtml

Prime Time Gets Real With a Plump Heroine
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/arts/television/08PLUM.html

Contractor Meat Market
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,394981,00.asp

26-yr photo timeline of a family - neat idea
http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html

The History of Daylight Savings Time
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/

Calendars Through the Ages
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/

Am I President or Not?
http://www.brunching.com/cgi/amipresidentornot.cgi

Info on chocolate, candy and gum
http://www.candyusa.org/

Today's quote:
"Give a man a fish and you have given him a meal; teach him how to fish
and you have given him a livelihood." -- Chinese proverb

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Google censors sites
  Shawn Colvin concert in Princesstown
  Usability glitch at EWR
  A visitor
  I'm still here...
  The Nobel Prize keeps giving (Literature)
  Nobel Prize down the hall
  Cool software
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In this issue: a note on list volume
Web site recommendations: IT/history of computing/misc

E-LIST may appear a bit less frequently in the coming months.  The
academic job market is now in full swing and I am also finishing my
dissertation.  So in between looking for a job and doing my work I'm left
with less time than usual on other fronts.  Do keep sending interesting
links my way!  And as always, thanks to those who contributed this time
around!

New online journal: IT and Society (all content freely accessible online)
http://www.itandsociety.org

Free dot-tk domain names
http://www.dot.tk/vc00500.html

List of sites blocked in China
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/test

The Special Interest Group on Information Needs, Seeking and Use
http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGUSE/

Internet Explorer Flaw Can Expose Credit Cards
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949551.html

Control of your PC
http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2002/08/22/nondiscretionaryControlsCantLiveWit\
hemCant.html

Security Flaw in Google Toolbar (should now be fixed via autoupdates)
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1442611

Apple: Burn DVDs -- And We'll Burn You
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-955805.html

Fuzzy Language, Fuzzy Thinking
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000012.html

She Wants P2P for the People - the "Weblog Candidate"
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54693,00.html

History of the Internet
http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/

PBS site to complement "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental
Empires"
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/

Where Old Macs Go Off to Thrive
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51231,00.html

Gallery of all Apple/Mac models
http://www.apple-history.com/

Computer Museum of America
http://www.computer-museum.org/

Slide presentation on the History of Computers
http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/historyofcomputers_files/v3_document.htm

Tech pioneer recalls how he brought the World Wide Web to America
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/december12/webturns10-1212.html

Take a step back in Web history - what Web surfing was like in its early
days
http://www.dejavu.org/

Browse what Web sites used to look like
http://www.archive.org

International Journal for Equity in Health - new online journal
http://www.equityhealthj.com

Newspapers reporting same-sex unions
http://www.poynter.org/talkaboutethics/082202.htm

Don't Call Me Mr. Mom! What Not to Say to an At-Home Dad
http://www.slowlane.com/articles/mcclain/mr_mom_dont.html

Rape and Sexual Assault: Reporting to Police and Medical Attention,
1992-2000
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/rsarp00.htm

Russian information portal on Women and Society
http://www.owl.ru/english/

Customs concealment methods re smuggling
http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/photo/smugshrt.htm

Comic about Macromedia Flash
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-03-03&res=l

Today's quote:
"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Here a blog, there a blog, where's the blog?!
  Comic relief
  Woman from Joysee seeks news
  Required first year books
  Nice map
  Free the mouse!
  Budapest & the region's floods
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In this issue: gallery show in Princeton
Web site recommendations: IT/women/art/chocolate

As luck would have it, one of my favorite Hungarian artists, Istvan Orosz,
will have an exhibition at a local Princeton gallery.  I encourage those
of you in the area to come to the opening reception (Fri & Sat Sept 27 &
28th) or check out the show some other time before October 24th.  For more
info, see the gallery's page here: http://www.mchildcontemporary.com .
For more examples of the artist's work, see
http://www.marlenaagency.com/Pages/orosz/orosmal.html (be sure to click
on the thumbnails for larger images).

And now on to a batch of URLs, thanks for contributing!

Free the Mouse free bumper sticker
http://www.bumperactive.com/freemouse.html
I got my own!  See it here:
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000092.html

Internet Filtering Software Wrongly Blocks Many Sites
http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Academic_edu/Censorware/net_block_report/20020918_\
eff_pr.html

The Recording Industry is Trying to Kill the Goose That Lays the Golden
Egg
http://www.bricklin.com/recordsales.htm

No more laptops on planes?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-09/ns-two091102.php

Phones Join File-Sharing Revolution
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2253185.stm

Caught in the Kid Porn Crusade
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/kidporn.html

Visualizing Internet Topology at a Macroscopic Scale
http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_network/

Worm attacks Linux servers
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-957988.html?tag=fd_top

Anonymous $1 Million grant To Test Copyright Laws
http://www.theregus.com/content/6/26213.html

In Greece, use a Game Boy, go to jail
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-956357.html

A guide to key user experience differences between M$ Windows and Mac OSX
http://developer.apple.com/ue/switch/windows.html

Microsoft Warns of Theiving Word Docs
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-957786.html

Canadian Business School's Journal Opts Out of Print and Onto the Internet
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/09/2002091001t.htm

Sisters Speak Out: The Lives and Needs of Prostituted Women in Chicago.
A Research Study.
http://www.impactresearch.org/documents/sistersspeakout.pdf
(requires Adobe pdf reader)

"Shadhika is a non-profit U.S. foundation whose mission is to assist needy
women, children, and their families in India to acquire shelter,
education, health care and employment by providing selective financial
assistance to social service agencies in India."
http://www.shadhika.org

One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html

The Literature Network - "over 300 full books and over 1000 short stories
and poems by over 90 authors"
http://www.online-literature.com/

Gallery or Mathematical Art
http://www.mathartfun.com

Chocolate Lovers Get It While You Can
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&;cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20020912/od_n\
m/chocolate_dc

Today's quote:
"It's hard enough to understand art. But it's almost impossible to
understand critics!"
-- Professor Jim Henle, Math 101: Mathematics as Art (Smith College)

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Closed due to illness
  Journalists and academics
  Selective Google blocking in China
  Free books online, copyrighted or not
  A really good conference
  Free the mouse sticker is here!
  Google block in China - the plot thickens
  Gadgets galore
  Patterned parking lots, hanging trees
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In this issue: Nobel Prizes
Web site recommendations: IT/vision

I'm extremely busy with work, but have been a bit sidetracked yesterday
and today with the exciting Nobel Prize announcements for Econ and
Literature.  See my comments on my Weblog: http://www.esztersblog.com .

And now onto links, thanks for sending interesting material my way!

Law School in a Nutshell, Part 1 - how to read a legal document
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=364&mode\
=thread&order=0&thold=0

Information technology: Trojan Horse of information overload
http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2002/nt_2002_09_30_trojan.htm

School tool eyes students' Web habits
http://rss.com.com/2100-1023-960309.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news

Wireless Coupons on Phones' Horizons - can't wait:(
http://rss.com.com/2100-1033-960898.html?tag=lh

Week in Review: Tech Tricks
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-960758.html?tag=fd_top

Today's Kids are More at Home on the Web than with a Book - some of this
is a bit silly but some of the tidbits are interesting
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=12950

Literacy in America
http://www.bookmagazine.com/issue24/literacy.shtml

Social Insecurity - a good little political ad
http://www.democrats.org/social_insecurity/

Study Doubts Breast Self-Exams Cut Deaths - but are the costs of doing
them so high?  Is the idea to cut costs by eliminating related public
education?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/03/health/03EXAM.html

Lavatory and Liberty: The secret history of the bathroom break
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/272/focus/Lavatory_and_Liberty+.shtml

Migration Information Source
http://www.migrationinformation.org

Bridges of the 19th Century
http://bridges.lib.lehigh.edu/

Causes of Color
http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor

Pigment Through the Ages
http://webexhibits.org/pigments/

Checkershadow Illusion - incredible, do check this out!
http://www-bcs.mit.edu/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html

Today's quote:
The same poem segment as last week but a preferred translation:
"...
and, going to school, on the sidewalk's edge along the way,
I stepped on a stone, I did, so as not to recite that day -
here: see this stone, from up there?  try as you might, you can't;
to show all this fine detail - there is no such instrument."
-- Miklos Radnoti, written in 1944 a few months before his death

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  The Nobel Prize keeps giving (Literature)
  Nobel Prize down the hall
  Cool software
  Regulate electronic whoopee cushions!
  The online trick or treat experience
  Another Google game
  Internet Problems for the Public Interest
  Hello goodbye
  Clicking frustration
  Making sense of proposed gadget regulation
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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/misc

It's been a busy week with trips to both DC and NYC.  TPRC
(http://www.tprc.org ) was great, as usual, I hope people will consider
going next year, I'll keep you posted of CFPs.

Thanks to all those who contributed, you know who you are!

The New Jersey Ethicist - very funny.. probably not just for those living
in Joysee
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/opinion/21KELL.html

Digital Consumer - protecting fair-use rights in the digital world
http://www.digitalconsumer.org

The Right to Tinker
http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=La\
wArticle&cid=1032128612645&t=LawArticleTech

Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teacher
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/technology/circuits/19MESS.html

MIT's courseware online for free
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2270648.stm

Internet Society close to win of ".org" domain
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1485446

Have you helped a spammer today?
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-958847.html?tag=fd_top

Safe at Any Speed: How To Stay Safe Online if You Use High-Speed Internet
Access
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/safeonline.htm

Ekit - HTML editor as Applet
http://www.hexidec.com/ekit.php
(I haven't tried it but looks interesting)

Georgia School Board OKs Alternatives to Evolution
http://www.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/09/26/creationism.evolution/index.html
& some good commentary on it:
http://fiachra.soc.arizona.edu/blog/archives/000107.html#000107

Islamic architecture
http://archnet.org/library/images/

Do Men Pant for Anna K. Because She Loses?
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=1027

For a laugh, albeit a sad one
http://maxspeak.org/gm/archives/00000524.html

For more laughs: The World's Funniest Joke -- Official
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20021003/od_nm/life_joke_dc

Another Google game (a pretty simple idea, but nice little interface)
http://www.googlefight.com
Googlewhacking was much more interesting though
http://www.unblinking.com/heh/googlewhack.htm

Today's quote:
From one of my favorite Hungarian poems, a timely quote in times of war:
"and on my way to school, by the kerbside to postpone
a spot-test one certain morning, I stepped upon a stone:
look! there's the stone whose magic the pilot cannot see,
no instrument would merge it in his topography."
-- Miklos Radnoti, written in 1944 a few months before his death

The full poem is here:
http://www.bajabela.sulinet.hu/tubi/iearn/war/radnotie.htm
Although no translation will capture the original:
http://www.bajabela.sulinet.hu/tubi/iearn/war/radnoti.htm

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Another Google game
  Internet Problems for the Public Interest
  Hello goodbye
  Clicking frustration
  Making sense of proposed gadget regulation
  Smiling Marx
  Book sales
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