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Subject: December Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:40:21 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter: Wednesday, December 2, 1998
[Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.]
[This one is going out the second Wednesday of October, 1998. . . . .]
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We are sending this out now since we are ahead of schedule, and should
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Can you find me a German copy of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time.
David Penner <davidp@voyageur.ca>
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Lars-Toralf Storstrand <xlts@online.no> requested:
The Children of Captain Grant or In Search of the Castaways
and both by Jules Verne
Michel Strogoff or A Courier of the Czar
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Here are the 36 Etexts for March, 1999
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Mar 1999 1492, by Mary Johnson [For Columbus Day, 1998] [c1492xxx.xxx]1692
This Etext is being posted on October 12, 1998, Columbus Day, US
We are several months ahead of schedule, so it appears as March.
Mar 1999 I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. [dreamxxx.xxx]1691
We originally did this on Martin Luther King Day, a few years ago, but waited
until all the court cases were completed before posting. Note inside Etext.
Mar 1999 Marie, by H. Rider Haggard [H. Rider Haggard #4][mariexxx.xxx]1690
Mar 1999 The Pivot of Civilization, By Margaret Sanger [pvcvlxxx.xxx]1689
Mar 1999 The People of the Abyss, by Jack London[London#70][tpotaxxx.xxx]1688
Mar 1999 Parmenides, by Plato [More Socrates] Plato #24][prmdsxxx.xxx]1687
Mar 1999 The Secret of the Night, by Gaston Leroux [GL #3][tsotnxxx.xxx]1686
Mar 1999 Mystery of the Yellow Room, by Gaston Leroux[GL#2][ylormxxx.xxx]1685
This Etext contains ASCII diagrams, so views best with non-proportional fonts
Mar 1999 The Egoist, by George Meredith[George Meredith #6][egostxxx.xxx]1684
Mar 1999 Honorine, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac#59][hnrnexxx.xxx]1683
Mar 1999 Menexenus, by Plato [Yet More Socrates] [Plato#23][mnxnsxxx.xxx]1682
Mar 1999 Eryxias, not by Plato [More Socrates] [Plato#22][ryxisxxx.xxx]1681
Mar 1999 At the Sign of the Cat & Racket, by Balzac[Hdb#58][ctrktxxx.xxx]1680
Mar 1999 Hiram The Young Farmer, by Burbank L. Todd [hrmyfxxx.xxx]1679
Mar 1999 An Historical Mystery, by Honore de Balzac[HdB#57][hmystxxx.xxx]1678
Mar 1999 Alcibiades II, not Plato [More Socrates][Plato#21][2lcbdxxx.xxx]1677
Mar 1999 Alcibiades I, by Plato? [More Socrates] [Plato#20][1lcbdxxx.xxx]1676
Mar 1999 New Forces in Old China, by Arthur Judson Brown [ldchnxxx.xxx]1675
Mar 1999 The Narrative of Sojourner Truth [Slavery] [sjrnrxxx.xxx]1674
Mar 1999 Lesser Hippias, by [?]Plato[More Socrates]Plato19][lhppsxxx.xxx]1673
Mar 1999 Gorgias, by Plato [A Socratic Dialog] [Plato #18][grgisxxx.xxx]1672
Mar 1999 When a Man Marries, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [#7][whammxxx.xxx]1671
Mar 1999 Martin Luther's Small Catechism, Trns. by R. Smith[smlctxxx.xxx]1670
The above Etexts are Not on archive.org, which may be back up now...
Mar 1999 The Human Drift, by Jack London[Jack London#62-69][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
A Collection of Stories Which Includes:
Mar 1999 The Birth Mark (Sketch), by Jack London[London#69][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser) by Jack London #68[hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 A Classic of the Sea, by Jack London [London #67][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 That Dead Men Rise up Never, by Jack London [#66][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 Nothing that Ever Came to Anything, by London[#65][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 Four Horses and a Sailor, by Jack London/London#64[hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 Small-Boat Sailing, by Jack London[Jack London#63][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 The Human Drift, by Jack London [Jack London #62][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 Death of the Laird's Jock, by Walter Scott [WS #8][tpschxxx.xxx]1668
Mar 1999 The Tapestried Chamber, by Walter Scott [WS #7][tpschxxx.xxx]1668
Mar 1999 My Aunt Margaret's Mirror, by Walter Scott [WS #6][mamsmxxx.xxx]1667
Mar 1999 The Golden Asse, by Lucius Apuleius "Africanus" [gldnsxxx.xxx]1666
Mar 1999 Derrick Vaughan--Novelist, by Edna Lyall [dvnvlxxx.xxx]1665
Mar 1999 Songs for Parents, by John Farrar [sfparxxx.xxx]1664
Mar 1999 Webster's March 7th Speech/Secession, by HD Foster[wsm7sxxx.xxx]1663
resend when pnet mailer is upper
Mar 1999 The 1997 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook #7][No#6][world97x.xxx]1662
Mar 1999 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 A Scandal in Bohemia, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Red-headed League, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 A Case of Identity, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Boscombe Valley Mystery, by A Conan Doyle[#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Five Orange Pips, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Man with the Twisted Lip by A. Conan Doyle #15[advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, by Doyle[#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Adventure of the Speckled Band, by Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb by Doyle #15[advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, by Doyle[#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, by Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, by Doyle[#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, by Balzac[HdB #56][sfaclxxx.xxx]1660
Mar 1999 The Girl with the Golden Eyes, by Balzac [HdB #55][gwtgixxx.xxx]1659
Mar 1999 Phaedo, by Plato [AKA"The Death of Socrates 3"]#17[phadoxxx.xxx]1658
Mar 1999 Crito, by Plato [AKA"The Death of Socrates 2"]#16[critoxxx.xxx]1657
Feb 1999 Apology, by Plato[AKA"The Death of Socrates 1"]#15[pplgyxxx.xxx]1656
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WEB PATENTS WEAVE CONFUSION
A federal appellate court ruling in July confirming that computerized
"business methods" can be patented has sparked a wave of patent applications
that electronic commerce proponents fear will amount to "holdups in
cyberspace." The July case involved a computerized mathematical formula for
apportioning the administrative costs associated with a family of mutual
funds, but by "claiming the computer as part of the invention, you can make
things patentable that weren't patentable before," says a patent attorney in
California. Skeptics say many of the new patents won't hold up in court,
and will suffer the same fate as the 1993 patent granted to Compton New
Media, protecting a method for combining text, audio and video on a compact
disk. That patent was revoked in 1994, after critics demonstrated the
technology was already in common use. "Everyone is under the impression the
Patent Office thoroughly investigates your claims," says a Forrester
Research analyst. "They really don't." (Wall Street Journal 9 Oct 98)
[Compton's also tried to TradeMark the term Multimedia. . .a term I had
used in print as early as the late '70's. . .I still have copies. . .]
PCs BREAK $500 PRICE BARRIER
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that newly formed Emachines is
introducing a fully equipped PC, including a monitor, for less than $500.
The $499 eTower sports a 266 MHz Cyrix microprocessor, a 2.1 gigabyte hard
drive, 32 megabytes of memory, a 56K modem, a CD-ROM drive and a 14-inch
monitor. The same machine can be purchased without the monitor for $399.
"Five hundred dollars is the magic number for opening up the next wave of
adopters in the home," says the company's CEO. Emachines is a joint venture
of two Korean companies -- TriGem and Korean Data Systems. The company is
planning to offer several other computers in the next year or so, including
a 300 MHz eTower with monitor for $599, an ultralight notebook for under
$2,000 and an entertainment device for playing games and watching DVD
movies. (St. Petersburg Times 10 Oct 98)
SHOULD THE NET BE PRIVATIZED?
The organization called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility has
begun a battle against a Clinton Administration plan that would largely turn
over management of Internet domain names to an as-yet-unformed nonprofit
corporation. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, a member of the group,
says the plan is flawed because it gives too much power to a commercially
minded corporation with a potentially self-perpetuating board. Saying that
such an entity is unlikely to be a strong enough watchdog for privacy, free
speech, due process and other democratic values, Lessig asks: "If
government doesn't protect those values, who will?" (AP 10 Oct 98)
COMPUTERS INSTEAD OF CASH ON CAL. STATE CAMPUS
California State University at San Marcos is offering needy students
computers rather than tuition money as part of a new scholarship program.
The students receive a laptop, a set of software and technical training. If
they graduate, they get to keep the computer. "We're a very high-tech
university with a lot of low-income students," says the school's
financial-aid director. "We have been wrestling with a problem of the
'have/have-not.'" The university requires all students to demonstrate
computer literacy during their first year. (Chronicle of Higher Education 9
Oct 98)
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