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Here Are Your 31 New Project Gutenberg eTexts For This Week:
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First, Four More eTexts from Project Gutenberg of Australia:
Oct 2001 Klee Wyck, by Emily Carr [EC#02][010013xx.xxx]0013A
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100131.txt ]
Oct 2001 The House of All Sorts, by Emily Carr [EC#01][010012xx.xxx]0012A
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100121.txt ]
Oct 2001 Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence [TL#01][010011xx.xxx]0011A
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100111.zip ]
Oct 2001 To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf [VW#01][010010xx.xxx]0010A
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100101.txt ]
The last list we received indicated these were all the "life +50's":
Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Bulgaria,
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, El Salvador,
Iceland, Japan, (South) Korea, Latvia, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand,
Panama, the Philippines, Poland, St. Vincent and the Grenadines,
Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad
and Tobago, and Ukraine are all "life plus 50 years" countries,
or were last I checked.) and Portugal. Please advise of changes.
Jun 2003 Christopher Columbus by F. Young entire [CC#09][cc09vxxx.xxx]4116
Jun 2003 Christopher Columbus by Filson Young v8 [CC#08][cc08vxxx.xxx]4115
Jun 2003 Christopher Columbus by Filson Young v7 [CC#07][cc07vxxx.xxx]4114
Jun 2003 Christopher Columbus by Filson Young v6 [CC#06][cc06vxxx.xxx]4113
Jun 2003 Christopher Columbus by Filson Young v5 [CC#05][cc05vxxx.xxx]4112
Jun 2003 Christopher Columbus by Filson Young v4 [CC#04][cc04vxxx.xxx]4111
Jun 2003 Christopher Columbus by Filson Young v3 [CC#03][cc03vxxx.xxx]4110
Jun 2003 Christopher Columbus by Filson Young v2 [CC#02][cc02vxxx.xxx]4109
Jun 2003 Christopher Columbus by Filson Young v1 [CC#01][cc01vxxx.xxx]4108
[The above are Jun 2003 = 4100's listings, those below are May 2003 - 4000's]
May 2003 Who Spoke Next, Eliza Lee Follen [whspkxxx.xxx]4033
May 2003 Atlantis:The Antideluvian World, Ignatius Donnelly[xatawxxx.xxx]4032
[The plain version is 7ataw10.txt and .zip, accents in 8ataw10.txt and .zip]
May 2003 The London Prodigal, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws50xxx.xxx]4031
30
May 2003 Travellers' Stories, by Eliza Lee Follen [ELF#3][trvstxxx.xxx]4030
May 2003 True Stories About Dogs and Cats, by Follen[ELF#2][tsdgcxxx.xxx]4029
May 2003 Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Tr. Symonds [7cllnxxx.xxx]4028
May 2003 Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Tr. Symonds [8cllnxxx.xxx]4028
May 2003 Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Tr. Symonds [7cllnxxh.xxx]4028
{These are 7- and 8-bit ASCII versions, and 7clln10h.htm and .zip is HTML]
May 2003 Little Songs, by Eliza Lee Follen [Follen#1][lttlsxxx.xxx]4027
May 2003 The First Man, by Eugene O'Neill [O'Neill#3][frsmnxxx.xxx]4026
25
May 2003 Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill [O'Neill#2][nnchrxxx.xxx]4025
May 2003 The Man of Destiny, by G. B. Shaw [Shaw#28][tmndsxxx.xxx]4024
May 2003 Candida, by George Bernard Shaw [Shaw#27][cnddaxxx.xxx]4023
May 2003 Coral Reefs, by Charles Darwin [Darwin#20][crvsgxxh.xxx]4022
[This is a HTML version of the complete book from which PG texts Coral Reefs
(#2690), Volcanic Islands (#3054) South American Geology (#3620) were made.]
May 2003 Dear Brutus, by J. M. Barrie [Barrie#6][brtusxxx.xxx]4021
20
May 2003 Arcadian Adventures, by Stephen Leacock[Leacock#3][rcddvxxx.xxx]4020
[Full Title: Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich]
May 2003 The Lure of the Labrador Wild, by Dillon Wallace [tlolwxxx.xxx]4019
May 2003 Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki [jpnftxxx.xxx]4018
May 2003 The Hollow Needle, by Maurice LeBlanc [LeBlanc#2][hlwndxxx.xxx]4017
May 2003 Prince Eugene, by Louisa Muhlbach [Muhlbach#10][prncgxxx.xxx]4016
[Variant spellings: Louisa, Louise, Luise Muhlbach; and Luise von Muhlbach]
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We created 31 new eTexts for you this week.
With 4007 eTexts online as of October 17, it now takes an average of
100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $2.50 from each book,
for Project Gutenberg to have alreacy given away $1,000,000,000,000
[One Trillion Dollars] in books.
*100,000,000 readers is one to two percent of the world's population!*
We currently have 58 *reserved* slots, which is why the total number
of titles is not as high as the Etext ####'s might indicate. . .and
we are also working on two sections now, the 4000's and the 4100's
Our Total For The Year Is About 962 For 289 days,
this is 3.33 per day or 100 Per 30 day month. . . .
This Would Yield About 1215 For The Year. . . .
We are about 42 weeks through the year. . . .
counting each Wednesday as ending one week.
Weekly Yearly
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
01/17/01 31 22.90
01/10/01 22 22.70
01/03/01 29 22.74
October total 82
09/26/01 27 22.59
09/19/01 31 22.47
09/12/01 31 22.3
09/05/01 27 22.2
September total 116
08/29/01 25 22
08/22/01 21 22
08/15/01 30 22
08/08/01 20 22
08/01/01 22 22
August total 117
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
And for the 13 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 282 21.69
And for the 16 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 326 20.38
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HANDSPRING TO DEBUT ALL-IN-ONE UNIT
Handspring announced its new line of handheld organizers that will
incorporate built-in cell phone, Web-browsing and e-mail features. The
all-in-one Treo devices, which will hit the shelves in early 2002, could
help revitalize the sluggish PDA market, analysts say. "Over the past year,
of all othe devices that have come out -- the Palms, the Handsprings, the
Pocket PCs -- all of them have given current users very little reason to
upgrade," says an IDC analyst. The Treo 180 features a tiny keyboard
similar to those used in e-mail pagers and the Treo 180g uses Palm's
Graffiti handwriting recognition system. Both weigh 5.4 ounces and are
priced at $399. A color-screen version, the Treo 270, is tentatively priced
at $599 and will be available by mid-2002. (AP 15 Oct 2001)
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/011015/00/handspring-pda-phone
GOV'T PLANS NEW CELL PHONE PRIORITY SYSTEM FOR CELLPHONES
Presidential cybersecurity advisor Richard Clarke has proposed a new system
for prioritizing cell phone calls. Currently, new callers get through on a
first-come-first-served basis; in the future, priority will be given to 911
calls and calls made by government officials who have special access codes.
The wireless industry says it fully supports implementation of the new
system. (AP/New York Times 11 Oct 2001)
http://partners.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Attacks-Cell-Phones.html
[PBS Finally Publicly Admits To Wanting To Air Commercial Ads]
FCC WILL ALLOW ADS ON PUBLIC TV'S DIGITAL BROADCASTS
The Federal Communications Commission has voted 3-1 to let public
broadcasters sell ads and other services on their digital television
broadcasts, which are now offered by 38 of the nation's public TV stations.
FCC chairman Michael K. Powell says that the change in policy in no way
compromises "the soul of public broadcasting." Andy Schwartzman, president
of the nonprofit Media Access Project, disagrees, and intends to challenge
the decision in court: "The whole point of creating public television was to
have a noncommercial preserve for television," Schwartzman says. (Los
Angeles Times 12 Oct 2001)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/
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RIAA WANTS TO HACK YOUR PC
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) tried
to attach amendments to the antiterrorism act that would allow
it to hack people's computers with impunity in order to delete
illegally copied files. Privacy and consumer advocates were
alarmed over the original language of the amendment, language
which the RIAA has now backed away from. The RIAA now is trying
to keep the Deterrence and Prevention of Cyberterrorism portion
of the act from changing current federal law allowing copyright
holders to take limited action against networks trading pirated
files. Under language currently in the legislation, any persons
involved in hacking attempts that total $5,000 in damages over
one year would be guilty of a criminal act.
(Wired News, 15 October 2001)
PROBE OF ONLINE MUSIC BUSINESS EXPANDS
The Justice Department has served subpoenas to the five major
record labels and their two new online music services in order
to determine whether there was illegal coordination to block
other companies from the market. Although companies are allowed
some coordination to discuss copyright and licensing matters,
the industry's own online music services, pressplay and MusicNet,
have been granted universal licenses when independent services
have fought long for the same rights. European antitrust
investigators are also looking into the jointly launched
services, which are divided in terms of technology and
competitors. MusicNet relies on RealNetworks technology and
licenses from AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and EMI, whereas
pressplay operates on Microsoft technology and music from Sony
and Vivendi. (Wall Street Journal. 15 October 2001)
BROADBAND AND MAIN
Evanston, Illinios is pioneering an all-broadband community as
it strives to remain independent of Chicago, the metropolis
bordering the city's south side. The town's business and
community leaders joined together to form e-Tropolis Evanston
and have managed to boost high-speed Internet access to 15
percent of the 33,000 resident households, compared to the
national average of 6 percent. E-Tropolis Evanston has
encountered many obstacles in its quest for ubiquitous broadband,
including the shutdown of independent ISPs the group originally
contracted with and a stark demographic divide between the city's
rich and poor. E-Tropolis Evanston organizers signed a deal with
AT&T to extend more reliable cable modem service to that city
and launched a Recreation Education Center in the city's poor
southeast neighborhood to boost the Internet skills of all its
residents. (Business Week, 8 October 2001)
SAYING GOODBYE TO THE STYLUS
Technologists at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and other
speech recognition labs are pioneering new software that makes the
handheld computer a voice-computing platform. Such computers are
able to accept voice commands and reply to questions. Currently,
IBM has succeeded in equipping Palm and Compaq PDAs and other
handhelds with microphones, speakers, and extra processing power
so that they can be operated without a stylus. This approach
capitalizes on recent improvements in battery life and processing
power. The strategy differs from that of Microsoft, which favors
wireless connections between handhelds and central processors
that translate voice data. Meanwhile, speech software company
Voice Signal Technologies has succeeded in compacting its voice
recognition software to about one megabyte of memory, letting
handhelds process e-mail dictation.
(New York Times, 11 October 2001)
DIGITAL FREELANCERS WIN AGAIN
The Supreme Court turned down an appeal Tuesday regarding
reprinted photos from National Geographic, which insisted it
would be impossible to find all freelance journalists whose
stories and photographs were used in each of the issues. The
problem came to light when the magazine was sued by freelance
photographer Jerry Greenberg after National Geographic sold a
CD-ROM that included computer versions of issues from 1888 to
1996. Greenberg said the CD release had music, a new
advertisement, and other items not included in the original
versions, which makes it a new product worthy of reimbursement
to freelancers. The Supreme Court agreed with Greenberg, having
also ruled in favor of freelance journalists in New York Times
v. Tasini, saying journalists have rights in regards to work
posted on the Internet. (Associated Press, 9 October 2001)
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