======== Subject: [gweekly] Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org> To: "Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter" <gweekly@listserv.unc.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:56:23 -0500 (CDT) The Project Gutenberg *Weekly* Newsletter for Wednesday, June 20, 2001 Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet [Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] Main URL is promo.net Webmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy *Check out our Websites at promo.net, and ask me for our FTP servers.* ***Only two weeks to our 30th Anniversary Newsletter*** If you have sent in Etexts to be posted, but are not sure they have been, or have sent in copyright research, please let me know [hart@pobox.com]. If our catalog on gutenberg.net [promo.net/pg] misses them, please let Alev, our Chief Cataloguer know Alev Akman <alevwho@mediaone.net>. 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(Albert Einstein) *** Here are the 20 new Etexts and 5 improved Etexts [20 Etexts per week would yield 1024 per year] [I'm not sure I actually counted these right, but I have to leave for Geek Lunch in 1/2 hour] !!!!!!!Please note these files are in our new /etext03 directory!!!!!!! Here are the 15 new Etext for January, 2003 Jan 2003 Honore de Balzac, by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet [hblzcxxx.xxx]3625 [This file is available as hblzc10.txt and .zip and also in HTML hblzc10h.zip] Jan 2003 Chaucer, by Adolphus William Ward [chacrxxx.xxx]3624 Jan 2003 The Golden Bough, by James George Frazer [boughxxx.xxx]3623 Jan 2003 The Duke's Children, by Anthony Trollope [AT#15][dkchlxxx.xxx]3622 Jan 2003 Peg O' My Heart, by J. Hartley Manners [pgomyxxx.xxx]3621 20 Jan 2003 South American Geology, by Charles Darwin [CD #17][smcngxxx.xxx]3620 [Also listed as: Geological Observations On South America] Jan 2003 Cousin Maude, by Mary J. Holmes [maudexxx.xxx]3619 Jan 2003 Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw[Shaw #19][rmsmnxxx.xxx]3618 Jan 2003 Quotations From Dumas Celebrated Crimes, by Widger[dwqdcxxx.xxx]3617 Jan 2003 O'Conors of Castle Conor, by Anthony Trollope[#14][oconrxxx.xxx]3616 15 Jan 2003 John Bull on the Guadalquivir, by Anthony Trollope[jbgudxxx.xxx]3615 Jan 2003 An Exhortation to Peace and Unity, John Bunyan[#7][expcuxxx.xxx]3614 [This work is incorrectly attributed to Bunyan, but no other author is known] Jan 2003 Miscellaneous Pieces, by John Bunyan [Bunyan #6[bnmscxxx.xxx]3613 Jan 2003 Second Shetland Truck System Report, by Guthrie [truckxxx.xxx]3611 [Guthrie was a Sheriff who prepared the report for a Royal Commision] and we have now completed the non-reserved sections of 2002 [Please note that we have whittled down the reserveds to 66, total, for the total 31+ years of our index. . .we usually have averaged somewhere around 2% of our numbers reserved.] Here are the last five Etexts for December, 2002 Dec 2002 The Complete Essays of Montaigne, Cotton [MN#20][mn20vxxx.xxx]3600 Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V19, 1877, Cotton [MN#19][mn19vxxx.xxx]3599 Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V18, 1877, Cotton [MN#18][mn18vxxx.xxx]3598 Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V17, 1877, Cotton [MN#17][mn17vxxx.xxx]3597 Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V16, 1877, Cotton [MN#16][mn16vxxx.xxx]3596 *** We have posted a significantly improved 12th edition of: Jul 1992 The War of the Worlds, H.G. 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Lakshana: Autopsy of a Century takes a look at the boy-beast contract. First: as it appears in myths of the mutant centaur's cave. Next, as it is brought up to date to implement the demands of technology's cosmic cave. An attempt is made to show how Einstein, Planck and Picasso (and others) decked out the cave in a stunning array of modern artifacts. The impact and consequences of this on children of the millennium is discussed. Noam Chomsky said of the book, "Poignant and compelling." There are both WordPerfect and HTML versions you can work from, and a number of illustrations. If we release this book we will want to do both a plain text and HTML version. Please contact: Mark Slade <lakshana@portal.ca>, and cc: me *** Excerpts from Edupage and Newsscan AOL-MICROSOFT TALKS ENDED BY GROWING RIVALRY Microsoft and AOL this weekend disagreed over the future of their software alliance and abandoned negotiations concerning the new Windows XP release. AOL wanted to continue an existing agreement to feature AOL software prominently on the desktop system, but the two firms reportedly reached an impasse over AOL's relationship with Microsoft rival RealNetworks. As Microsoft plans to offer more and more customer services through the Internet, it is finding itself at odds with AOL on many fronts. Besides the issue of AOL's exclusive deal with RealNetworks, AOL still refuses to open its AOL Instant Messenger system to competing instant messaging systems. AOL executives say the failure to close a deal with Microsoft is not significant to them because they are confident about their other means of reaching end users, including contracts with computer makers to preload their software. (New York Times, 18 June 2001) COMPUTER TAX BENEFIT FAVORS TOP BRACKETS The tax legislation signed into law by President Bush earlier this month may help some families purchase PCs for children. The legislation lets taxpayers contribute up to $2,000 to a savings account. Taxpayers can then use the tax-free earnings from this account for "qualified expenses" for education, such as tuition, school clothing, and computers. Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) supported the measure, whose aim, according to a statement, was "to reduce taxes so that parents could more easily purchase computers, Internet access, and educational software." However, the program works through a tiered system that is of the greatest benefit to taxpayers in the highest bracket. For example, taxpayers in the top bracket would be able to spend up to $579 toward computers and peripherals. However, the majority of taxpayers would be limited to $225. The lowest-income taxpayers would receive nothing because they pay little or no taxes. (New York Times, 18 June 2001) SENATE APPROVES STUDENT PRIVACY BILL The Student Privacy Protection Act, legislation sponsored by Sens. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), has been passed by the Senate as an add-on to the education reform bill. The Shelby-Dodd bill protects the privacy of children's personal data by prohibiting schools from collecting such data for commercial purposes unless parents have granted their permission. The American Association of School Administrators and the National School Board Association are fighting the bill, which they criticize as overly restrictive. (Newsbytes, 15 June 2001) SENATE PASSES BILL EXTENDING COPYRIGHT EXEMPTIONS The U.S. Senate on Friday approved the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act. The legislation, written by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), would extend traditional copyright privileges to nonprofit distance-education courses. The law would cover "dramatic literary and musical works," such as film clips and popular songs, which have long been allowed in the classroom. Leahy says the act "reflects our understanding that we must be able to use new technologies to advance our education goals in a manner that recognizes and protects copyrighted works." The legislation must still gain approval from the House of Representatives, where it is sponsored by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), and from President Bush. (Chronicle of Higher Education Online, 12 June 2001) You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage@educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** More on a story listed above: MICROSOFT AND AOL TIME WARNER END TALKS ON WINDOWS XP Negotiations between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner regarding the use of AOL software in the next version of the Windows operating system have collapsed, bringing relations between the two companies to a new low. Each side blamed the other for the failure of talks, which have been ongoing for the past 10 weeks. AOL said Microsoft objected to AOL's inclusion of RealNetworks' RealPlayer software with its Internet access service. "The talks broke down over Microsoft's determination to control digital music on the Internet," said an AOL spokesman. But Microsoft insisted the two companies were unable to reach agreement on a number of issues. "We are disappointed the discussions between AOL and Microsoft ended without agreement on a broad range of issues between them," said Microsoft in a statement. "While unable to conclude a broader view, we will continue our work to ensure the AOL service runs well on Windows XP." (Financial Times 17 Jun 2001) http://news.ft.com/news/industries/infotechnology BOOKS BY THE NUMBERS When is a best-seller not a best-seller? When it's sales are interpreted imaginatively rather than presented in hard, cold numbers. But poetic renderings of sales figures may soon come to an end, because a company called Bookscan, a unit of the media group VNU of the Netherlands, is about to introduce a system that will disseminate sales information collected at the cash registers of bookstores nationwide. Bookscan has cut already cut deals with Borders, Barnes & Noble, Costco, and Target, and will record more than half the book sales in the United States. Jennifer Rudolph Walsh of the William Morris agency says: "Something like that could actually be the death of some kinds of literary darlings -- when you try to sell the next book, the perception of their sales would be, frankly, so true to life that it would prevent people from looking at the big picture, that a book is prestigious or has prize potential or is well reviewed or something." (New York Times 18 Jun 2001) http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/06/18/technology/18BOOK.html DICK ARMEY CONTINUES OPPOSITION TO CARNIVORE In a letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft, House majority leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) is urging the Justice Department and the FBI to consider abandoning its DCS-1000 system (popularly known as "Carnivore"), which monitors large amounts of Internet traffic in search of communications to or from the target of an investigation. Armey noted that the Supreme Court has just ruled that the police must discontinue use of thermal-imaging technology to look inside a suspect's house, and argued that the same privacy principles apply to Carnivore. 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