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This week we added 71 new.(incl. 2 at PG of Australia).
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Aug 2000 Tales for Fifteen, by J. F. Cooper as Jane Morgan [tl415xxx.xxx] 2282
Aug 2000 Imagination and Heart, by James F. Cooper [JFC #4][tl415xxx.xxx] 2282
To:
Aug 2000 Tales for Fifteen, by Jane Morgan [JFC #4][tl415xxx.xxx] 2282
[Pseudonym of James Fenimore Cooper]
[Subtitle: Imagination and Heart]
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Nov 2004 Venus in Furs, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch [vnsfrxxx.xxx] 6852
[7-bit version remains in vnsfr10.txt and vnsfr10.zip]
[8-bit version in 8vnsf10.txt and 8vnsf10.zip]
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Feb 2006 The Spenders, by Harry Leon Wilson [?spndxxx.xxx] 9981
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Third Generation]
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - 8spnd10h.zip and 8spnd10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Dramatic Values in Plautus,William Wallace Blancke[?plutxxx.xxx] 9970
[Plain text in 7plut10.txt/.zip; 8-bit Unicode in 8plut10u.txt/.zip]
[Also posted: HTML in 8plut10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2006 Love's Final Victory, by Horatio [lvfvcxxx.xxx] 9969
Feb 2006 The Young Woodsman, by J. McDonald Oxley [?yngwxxx.xxx] 9968
Feb 2006 Mr. Waddington of Wyck, by May Sinclair [?waddxxx.xxx] 9967
Feb 2006 The Spartan Twins, by Lucy (Fitch) Perkins [#8][?sptwxxx.xxx] 9966
Feb 2006 An Enemy To The King, by Robert Neilson Stephens [?enkgxxx.xxx] 9965
Feb 2006 The Centaur, by Algernon Blackwood [#4][?cntrxxx.xxx] 9964
Feb 2006 Elsie's Girlhood, by Martha Finley [?lcghxxx.xxx] 9963
[Subtitle: A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands"]
Feb 2006 Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 21, 1870, Various [?p108xxx.xxx] 9962
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - 8p10810h.zip; and 8p10810h.htm]
Feb 2006 Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 7, May 14, 1870, Various [?p107xxx.xxx] 9961
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - 8p10710h.zip; and 8p10710h.htm]
Feb 2006 Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870,by Various[?p106xxx.xxx] 9960
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - 8p10610h.zip; and 8p10610h.htm]
Feb 2006 The Armourer's Prentices, by Charlotte Mary Yonge [arpnxxxx.xxx] 9959
[Text in arpn10.txt/.zip, XHTML in arpn10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2006 Explorations in Australia, by John Forrest [exausxxx.xxx] 9958
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - exaus10h.zip; and exaus10h.htm]
Feb 2006 The Personal Touch, by J. Wilbur Chapman [prsntxxx.xxx] 9957
Feb 2006 Hauntings: Fantastic Stories, by Vernon Lee [?hntgxxx.xxx] 9956
[Author AKA: Violet Paget]
Feb 2006 Bertha Garlan, by Arthur Schnitzler [?brgrxxx.xxx] 9955
[Tr.: unknown]
[Later published under the title "The Spring Sonata"]
Feb 2006 Story of the Invention of Steel Pens,by Henry Bore[ipensxxx.xxx] 9954
[Subtitle: With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which
They Are Produced]
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - ipens10h.zip; and ipens10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Punchinello, Vol. 1. No. 20, by Various [?p120xxx.xxx] 9953
[Full title: Punchinello, Vol. 1. No. 20, August 13, 1870]
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - 8p12010h.zip; and 8p12010h.htm]
Feb 2006 The Faery Tales of Weir, by Anna McClure Sholl [ftowrxxx.xxx] 9952
Feb 2006 Arbetets Herravaelde, by Andrew Carnegie [?rbhrxxx.xxx] 9951
[Language: Swedish]
Feb 2006 Abhandlungen ueber die Fabel, by G. Lessing [?abhfxxx.xxx] 9950
[Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing] [Language: German]
Feb 2006 The Bark Covered House, by William Nowlin [brkchxxx.xxx] 9949
[Subtitle: or, Back In the Woods Again; Being a Graphic and Thrilling
Description of Real Pioneer Life in the Wilderness of Michigan]
Feb 2006 The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat , by George A. Warren[bbscaxxx.xxx] 9948
[Subtitle: or, The Secret of Cedar Island]
Feb 2006 Queen Victoria,Anonymous [?qvicxxx.xxx] 9947
[Subtitle: Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901]
Feb 2006 Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No, 59, September, 1862[?10a3xxx.xxx] 9946
[Author: Various] [Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[This is the 3rd issue of Vol. 10.]
[Also posted: HTML in 810a310h.htm, illustrated HTML 810a310h.zip]
Feb 2006 Hist. de la Revolution francaise, tm. 1, A. Thiers[?lrf1xxx.xxx] 9945
[Title: Histoire de la RTvolution frantaise, tome 1]
[Author: Adolphe Thiers] [Language: French]
Feb 2006 The Conquest of Fear, by Basil King [?cqfrxxx.xxx] 9944
[Author: Introduction by Henry C. Link]
[Also posted: HTML in 8cqfr10h.htm and 8cqfr10h.zip]
Feb 2006 Expedition/Interior Australia, Mitchell [?jxpdxxx.xxx] 9943
[Title: Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia]
[Subtitle: In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria
(1848)] [Author: Thomas Mitchell]
[HTML in 8jxpd10h.htm, illustrated HTML in 8jxpd10h.zip]
Feb 2006 Ten British Mathematicians,by Alexander Macfarlane[tbmmsxxx.xxx] 9942
[Note: this is a mathematical etext, posted only as TeX and PDF]
[TeX in tbmms10t.zip only; PDF in tbmms10p.pdf and tbmms10p.zip]
Feb 2006 Biography of a Slave, by Charles Thompson [slavexxx.xxx] 9941
[Subtitle: Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson]
[Also posted: HTML in slave10h.zip and slave10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Life in London, by Edwin Hodder [?lflnxxx.xxx] 9940
[Subtitle: or, the Pitfalls of a Great City]
[Also posted: HTML in 8lfln10h.htm; illustrated HTML in 8lfln10h.zip]
Feb 2006 Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 [?loc5xxx.xxx] 9939
[Subtitle: Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly
Making Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; The Planning of
Meals]
[Author: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences]
[Also posted: HTML in 8loc510h.htm,Illustrated HTML in 8loc510h.zip]
Feb 2006 Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 [?loc4xxx.xxx] 9938
[Subtitle: Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts;
Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies]
[Author: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences]
[Also posted HTML in 8loc410h.htm; Illustrated HTML in 8loc410h.zip]
Feb 2006 Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 [?loc3xxx.xxx] 9937
[Subtitle: Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish]
[Author: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences]
[Also posted: HTML in 8loc310h.htm; Illustrated HTML in 8loc310h.zip]
Feb 2006 Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2, [?loc2xxx.xxx] 9936
[Subtitle: Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables]
[Author: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences]
[Also posted: HTML in 8loc210h.htm, Illustrated HTML in 8loc210h.zip]
Feb 2006 Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1, [?loc1xxx.xxx] 9935
[Subtitle: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads]
[Author: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences]
[Also posted: HTML in 8loc110h.htm, Illustrated HTML in 8loc110h.zip]
Feb 2006 A Primer of Quaternions, by Arthur S. Hathaway [pqtrnxxx.xxx] 9934
[Note: this is a mathematical etext, posted only as TeX and PDF]
[Zipped only TeX in pqtrn10t.zip; PDF in pqtrn10p.pdf/.zip]
Feb 2006 The Theory of Invariants, by Oliver E. Glenn [tvrntxxx.xxx] 9933
[Title: A Treatise on the Theory of Invariants]
[Math etext, PDF in tvrnt10p.pdf/.zip, and ZIPped TeX only tvrnt10t.zip]
Feb 2006 The Last Trail, by Zane Grey [lsttrxxx.xxx] 9932
Feb 2006 K, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [#17][kbymrxxx.xxx] 9931
Feb 2006 Groups of Order p^m, by Lewis Irving Neikirk [grdpmxxx.xxx] 9930
[Title: Groups of Order p^m Which Contain Cyclic Subgroups of Order p^(m-3)]
[Note: this is a mathematical etext, posted only as TeX and PDF]
[TeX in grpdm10t.tex and grpdm10t.zip; PDF in grpdm10p.pdf and grpdm10p.zip]
Feb 2006 Great Events by Famous Historians, V12,Ed. Johnson[?ge12xxx.xxx] 9929
[Full title: The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12]
[Full author: Editor-In-Chief Rossiter Johnson]
[Associate Editors Charles F. Horne and John Rudd]
Feb 2006 A Chair on The Boulevard, by Leonard Merrick [?chbdxxx.xxx] 9928
[With An Introduction By A. Neil Lyons]
Feb 2006 The Bronze Bell, by Louis Joseph Vance [?brzbxxx.xxx] 9927
Feb 2006 The Two Guardians, by Charlotte Mary Yonge [?2grdxxx.xxx] 9926
[Subtitle: or, Home in This World]
Feb 2006 Black Jack, by Max Brand [blkjkxxx.xxx] 9925
Feb 2006 Viviette, by William J. Locke [?vvttxxx.xxx] 9924
[Also posted: HTML in 8vvtt10h.htm, illustrated HTML in 8vvtt10h.zip]
Feb 2006 The Box with Broken Seals,byE. Phillips Oppenheim [?bxbsxxx.xxx] 9923
Feb 2006 Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, [?m267xxx.xxx] 9922
[Full Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,
Issue 267, August 4, 1827]
[Author: Various]
[Also posted: HTML in 8m26710h.htm, Illustrated HTML in 8m26710h.zip]
Feb 2006 Letters and Journals, Vol. 2, by Lord Byron [?blj2xxx.xxx] 9921
[Title: The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2.]
[Ed.: Rowland E. Prothero]
Feb 2006 The Garden of Bright Waters, Tr. by Mathers [?tgbwxxx.xxx] 9920
[Subtitle: One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems]
[Tr.: Edward Powys Mathers]
[Also posted HTML - 8tgbw10h.zip and 8tgbw10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, [?m266xxx.xxx] 9919
[Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,
Issue 266, July 28, 1827]
[Author: Various]
[Also posted: HTML in 8m26610h.htm, illustrated HTML in 8m26610h.zip]
Feb 2006 Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, [?m265xxx.xxx] 9918
[Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,
Issue 265, July 21, 1827]
[Author: Various]
[Also posted: HTML in 8m26510h.htm, illustrated HTML in 8m26510h.zip]
Feb 2006 Your Child: Today and Tomorrow, by S. M. Gruenberg[ychldxxx.xxx] 9917
[Author: Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg]
[Forward By Bishop John H. Vincent Chancellor of Chautauqua Institution]
Feb 2006 Spalding's Baseball Guide, 1895, by Chadwick [#2][sbg95xxx.xxx] 9916
[Title: Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895]
[Author: Edited by Henry Chadwick]
Feb 2006 Appeal to the Christian Women, Angelina E. Grimke [?acwsxxx.xxx] 9915
[Title: An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South]
[Author: Angelina Emily Grimke]
Feb 2006 Babylonian Legends of the Creation, British Museum[?blgcxxx.xxx] 9914
[Also posted: HTML in 8blgc10h.htm, Illustrated HTML in 8blgc10h.zip]
Feb 2006 The Trail Book, by Mary Austin [?trbkxxx.xxx] 9913
[Illustrations by Milo Winter]
[Also posted: HTML in 8trbk10h.htm, illustrated HTML in 8trbk10h.zip]
Feb 2006 An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism,Stump [xlsctxxx.xxx] 9912
[Subtitle: A Handbook for the Catechetical Class; An Outline and Analysis
for the Pastor's Oral Instruction, and a Summary for the Catechumens'
Study and Review at Home]
[Author: Joseph Stump]
[Also posted: HTML in xlsct10h.htm and xlsct10h.zip]
Feb 2006 The Torrents of Spring, by Ivan Turgenev [?trspxxx.xxx] 9911
[Tr.: Constance Garnett]
Feb 2006 Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1, John Charles Dent[?cnn1xxx.xxx] 9910
Feb 2006 Nightmare Abbey, by Thomas Love Peacock [#4][?nmabxxx.xxx] 9909
Feb 2006 The False Faces, by Vance, Louis Joseph [?flfcxxx.xxx] 9908
[Subtitle: Further Adventures From The History Of The Lone Wolf]
Feb 2006 Raid From Beausejour, by Charles G. D. Roberts [?raidxxx.xxx] 9907
[Full title: The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted
The Mortgage]
[Also posted HTML - 8raid10h.zip and 8raid10h.htm]
Feb 2006 In the Sargasso Sea: A novel, by Thomas A. Janvier[?sargxxx.xxx] 9906
Feb 2006 A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories, by Frank Norris[?diwtxxx.xxx] 9905
[Title: A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West]
Feb 2006 History of Pendennis, Vol. 2, William M. Thackeray[?pnd2xxx.xxx] 9904
[Author: William Makepeace Thackeray]
(See also: Vol. I # 7265)
Feb 2006 The Grand Old Man, by Richard B. Cook [?grmnxxx.xxx] 9900
[Life and Public Services of The Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone]
[Also posted: HTML in 8grmn10h.htm, Illustrated HTML in 8grmn10h.zip]
[Note: file size of 8grmn10h.zip is 6mb]
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Nov 2003 A Prince of the Captivity, by John Buchan [030140xx.xxx] 0289A
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Oct 2002 Ceiriog, by John Ceiriog Hughes [This is in Welsh][ceirgxxx.xxx] 3500
Oct 2002 Jo's Boys, by Louisa M. Alcott[Louisa M. Alcott #8[jsbysxxx.xxx] 3499
[Author: Louisa May Alcott] [Sequel to Little Women]
Oct 2002 Buch Der Lieder, by Heinrich Heine [H. Heine #4][?liedxxx.xxx] 3498
[Translation: Book Of Songs] [In German]
Oct 2002 The Swiss Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins [LFP #2][swtwnxxx.xxx] 3497
Oct 2002 The Japanese Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins [LFP #1][jptwnxxx.xxx] 3496
Oct 2002 The King of Ireland's Son, by Padraic Colum [kisonxxx.xxx] 3495
Oct 2002 Bluebeard, by Kate Douglas Wiggin[Kate Wiggin #19][blbrdxxx.xxx] 3494
Oct 2002 Widger's Quotations from Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.[W5][dwqohxxx.xxx] 3493
[Title: Widger's Quotations from the Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]
Oct 2002 Homespun Tales, by Kate Douglas Wiggin[Wiggin #18][hspunxxx.xxx] 3492
Oct 2002 Missy, by Dana Gatlin [missyxxx.xxx] 3491
Oct 2002 The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie [Barrie #5][theacxxx.xxx] 3490
Oct 2002 Fabre, Poet of Science, by G. V. (C. V.) Legros [fbrpsxxx.xxx] 3489
Oct 2002 Great Catherine, by George Bernard Shaw [Shaw #15][gratcxxx.xxx] 3488
Oct 2002 Augustus Does His Bit, by George Bernard Shaw[#14][acdhbxxx.xxx] 3487
Oct 2002 The Inca of Perusalem by George Bernard Shaw [#13][incapxxx.xxx] 3486
Oct 2002 Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, by Shaw [#12][annajxxx.xxx] 3485
[Author: George Bernard Shaw]
Oct 2002 O'Flaherty V.C., by George Bernard Shaw [Shaw #11][oflvcxxx.xxx] 3484
Oct 2002 Quotations of William Dean Howells by David Widger[dwqwhxxx.xxx] 3483
Oct 2002 The North-West Passage, by Richard Hakluyt [nwpasxxx.xxx] 3482
Oct 2002 The Life of George Borrow, by Herbert Jenkins [lfgbrxxx.xxx] 3481
Oct 2002 The Hunchback, by James Sheridan Knowles [hnchbxxx.xxx] 3480
Oct 2002 The Metal Monster, by A. Merritt [A. Merritt #2][memonxxx.xxx] 3479
Oct 2002 Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson [legvaxxx.xxx] 3478
Oct 2002 The Verse-Book Of A Homely Woman, by Fay Inchfawn [vbohwxxx.xxx] 3477
[Pseudonym of Elizabeth Rebecca Ward]
Oct 2002 Henry VIII And His Court, by Louise Muhlbach[LM#5][h8ahcxxx.xxx] 3476
[Variant spellings: Louise Muhlbach, Luise Muhlbach and Luise von Muhlbach]
Oct 2002 The Efficiency Expert, Edgar R. Burroughs [ERB #7][effncxxx.xxx] 3475
[Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs]
Oct 2002 Jeremy, by Hugh Walpole [Hugh Walpole #2][jremyxxx.xxx] 3474
Oct 2002 The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II [2mlazxxx.xxx] 3473
Oct 2002 Merton of the Movies, by Harry Leon Wilson [mrtnmxxx.xxx] 3472
Oct 2002 Widger's Quotations of Charles D. Warner [DW#3][dwqcwxxx.xxx] 3471
Oct 2002 Such is Life, by Tom Collins [aka Joseph Furphy][slifexxx.xxx] 3470
Oct 2002 The Hand of Ethelberta, by Thomas Hardy[Hardy #23][ethbrxxx.xxx] 3469
Oct 2002 Poems by the Way, by William Morris[Wm Morris #11][pmbwyxxx.xxx] 3468
Oct 2002 The Life of Cesare Borgia, by Rafael Sabatini[#15][lcbgaxxx.xxx] 3467
Oct 2002 The Foreigner, by Ralph Connor [Ralph Connor #6][frgnrxxa.xxx] 3466
[Title: The Foreigner: A Tale of Saskatchewan]
(Also see #3246, which is a different version)
Oct 2002 Under Two Flags, by Ouida [Louise de la Ramee][#3][u2flgxxx.xxx] 3465
[Author's Real Name: Louise de la Ramee]
Oct 2002 Tish, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [Rinehart #16][tishcxxx.xxx] 3464
[Title: Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions]
Oct 2002 The Boys' Life of Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine[mt8bgxxx.xxx] 3463
Oct 2002 More Hunting Wasps, by Jean Henri Fabre [Fabre #5][mhtgwxxx.xxx] 3462
[Often listed as J. H. Fabre or J. Henri Fabre or [J. H.] Henri Fabre]
Oct 2002 Essays on Life, Art and Science by Samuel Butler 9[esslfxxx.xxx] 3461
Oct 2002 Old Fritz and the New Era, by Muhlbach[Muhlback#4][fritzxxx.xxx] 3460
[Variant spellings: Louise Muhlbach, Luise Muhlbach and Luise von Muhlbach]
Oct 2002 Quotations of John Galsworthy, by David Widger[#2][dwqjgxxx.xxx] 3459
Oct 2002 Science and Health/Key to The Scriptures, by Eddy [shktsxxx.xxx] 3458
[Title: Science and Health With Key to The Scriptures]
[Author: Mary Baker Eddy] [Also index under Christian Science]
Oct 2002 The Man of the Forest, by Zane Grey[Zane Grey #xx][mnforxxx.xxx] 3457
Oct 2002 Tour Du Mond 80 Jours[in French] by Jules Verne#15[tdm80xxx.xxx] 3456
[Language: French, ISO 8859/1 Latin-1]
[Also see:
(Jan 1997 Tour Du Mond 80 Jours by Jules Verne#5[?80jrxxx.xxx] 800)
(and, in English:
(Apr 2000 Around the World in 80 Days Jr. Ed. by Verne[80dayxxa.xxx]2154)
(Jan 1994 Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne [80dayxxx.xxx] 103
Oct 2002 Nederlandsche Sagen en Legenden, by Josef Cohen [nsljcxxx.xxx] 3455
[Please note, this is in "Old Dutch". . .there were many changes around 1950]
[Other title: Netherlands Stories and Legends, by Josef Cohen]
[Other title: Dutch Myths and Legends, by Josef Cohen]
Oct 2002 The Lilac Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang, Ed.[Lang#33][lifryxxx.xxx] 3454
Oct 2002 The Royal Road to Health, by C.A. Tyrrell [trrthxxx.xxx] 3453
Oct 2002 Tea Leaves, by Francis Leggett & Co. [tealvxxx.xxx] 3452
Oct 2002 Marie Antoinette And Her Son, by Louise Muhlbach 3[mariexxx.xxx] 3451
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. . .
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V1, by Richard Burton[11001xxx.xxx] 3435
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Sep 2002 The Koran/The Q'uran, by Mohammed/Mohammad [koranxxa.xxx] 3434
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[Tr.: J. M. Rodwell] [Intro. by G. Margoliouth] (See also #2800)
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NINE OUT OF TEN KIDS USE COMPUTERS
About 90% of U.S. children ages 5 to 17 use computers and 59% of them use
the Internet, according to two new studies released by the U.S. Department
of Education. The new data also show that 99% of public schools now have
Internet access, up from 35% eight years ago. "Children are often the first
adopters of a lot of technology," says John Bailey, who oversees
educational technology for the federal agency. "^E Students, by and large,
are dominating the Internet population." That's not surprising, given the
rapid penetration of computer technology among U.S. homes, says educational
technology expert Peter Grunwald. "The dramatic increase in younger kids'
use of technology is not disconnected from what's going on with their
parents and their families. Younger kids are likely to have younger
parents, and it is those parents, especially mothers, who have a much
higher comfort level with technology than older parents -- or even younger
parents of five years ago." Almost 75% use the Net for help in school
assignments and more than half use it for e-mail, IM-ing or playing games.
Research shows the digital divide is still evident, however: while almost
two-thirds of white youth aged 5-17 use the Internet, less than half of
black youngsters do, and slightly more than a third of Hispanic young
people log on. (AP 30 Oct 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20031030/D7UGGVI00.html
CALLING ALL GADGETS: RADIOSHACK SEEKS INNOVATIVE INVENTORS
RadioShack recently unveiled its new strategy to carve out a bigger share
of the consumer electronics market -- it hosted 250 electronics developers
at its Fort Worth, Texas, headquarters to offer them its retail network of
7,000 stores, design expertise and access to financing to get new products
to market more quickly. "There are a lot of entrepreneurs who have patents
but no manufacturing capability," says RadioShack chairman and CEO Leonard
H. Roberts. "We want to match entrepreneurs with money, with manufacturing.
That's how we want to be a force in the marketplace." The company plans to
devote space in one of its factories in China to developing new ideas and
will back innovative efforts with its own money. In its first
joint-development agreement, RadioShack is partnering with Mobility
Electronics to design a universal system for recharging batteries for cell
phones, digital cameras, camcorders, MP3 players and other portable
devices. "We're metamorphosing the company to be more of a leader than a
follower," says Andy Berman, VP of new business development. "We've got to
get closer to the technology." (Wall Street Journal 30 Oct 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB106746401981805700,00.html (sub req'd)
AMAZON TURNS OVER A NEW LEAF ON BOOK SEARCHES
Amazon says its new "Search Inside the Book" feature does not allow users
to print pages from within books, allaying authors' fears that unscrupulous
readers might use it to print out recipes, hotel recommendations or other
such reference material. Amazon VP Steve Kessel refused to confirm that
Amazon had changed the feature to prevent such abuses, citing security
concerns, but acknowledged that 15 authors had requested their books to be
removed from the Search the Book database. Up until Friday, according to
Authors Guild executive director Paul Aiken, the Search Inside the Book
tool allows users to search the complete text of a book for words or
phrases and print out pages where the phrases appeared. That feature
appears to be disabled, said Aiken, who praised the feature but said "we
just think it needs a little work." (AP 31 Oct 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20031101/D7UHG5SG0.html
FCC FINES AT&T FOR VIOLATING DO-NOT-CALL REQUESTS
The Federal Communications Commission is planning to fine AT&T $780,000 for
continuing to make telemarketing calls to consumers who had placed their
numbers on AT&T's own do-not-call list. (This is separate from the national
list, and is maintained by individual companies told by consumers: "Take
this number off your calling list.") FCC Chairman Michael Powell said,
"Today's enforcement action demonstrates our resolve in the fight to protect
consumers from unwanted and intrusive telephone calls. This puts
telemarketers on notice that we will take all measures necessary to protect
consumers who chose to be left alone in their homes." AT&T doesn't believe
there have been as many violations as have been alleged, and says it has
"been cooperating with the FCC over the past several months in investigating
claims that date well back into 2002." (Wall Street Journal 4 Nov 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB106788078474158700,00.html?mod=technology
%5Fmain%5Fwhats%5Fnews (sub req'd)
GOOGLE AND MICROSOFT?
Google, which is now preparing to issue an Initial Public Offering, has
recently been exploring a partnership with Microsoft, after Microsoft made
overtures that included the possibility of a takeover. In its forthcoming
IPO, Google will be selling a 10-15% stake to the public to raise more than
$2 billion to be used to invest in the business and create wealth for its
employees, venture capitalists and early investors.
(New York Times 31 Oct 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/10/31/technology/31net.html
WHITE SPOTS ON POWERBOOK SCREENS
The new 15-inch-screen PowerBooks have unexplained white blotches showing up
on the LCD screens. Some customers say they sent their laptops in for
repair, only to see the spots reappear when the systems came back. A
statement from Apple says: "The new 15-inch PowerBook has been a big hit
with customers since its introduction last month. However, some customers
are reporting the appearance of faint, white spots on their displays after
using the system for a short period of time, and Apple is investigating
these reports right now. Any customers experiencing this problem should
contact AppleCare." (San Jose Mercury News 31 Oct 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7148746.htm
[Let's Say There Are 10 Million People Who Subscribe To Verizon This Year.
$100 From Each And Every One Will Go To Pay Off This Advertizing Campaign]
[One Hundred Dollars x Ten Million People = One Billion Dollars]
THEY WANT YOUR BUSINESS (OR DO YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS?)
The wireless companies are now engaged in one of the most expensive
advertising wars in American business history. Verizon Wireless alone will
be spending nearly $1 billion on advertising this year, and the wireless
industry as a whole has already spent $1.7 billion in just the first half of
this year. What are the wireless companies selling you? Your life. Neve
Savage, marketing and communications VP of AT&T Wireless, has revived AT&T's
famous slogan, "Reach out and touch someone," to inspire the company's new
"Reach Out" campaign; she says, "It's one of the great slogans of all
advertising. There's a huge amount of advertising in this industry, and a
lot of it focuses on rates, rate plans, equipment and so forth, but people
don't buy that. They buy the ability to reach out." Savage thinks that
wireless communication is ultimately "about relationships. Verizon can't
reach out, Cingular can't reach out, T-Mobile can't reach out. It's ownable
by us."... Well, maybe they can't reach out, but they sure can spend money
on advertising. (Washington Post 30 Oct 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44465-2003Oct30.html
"They said it couldn't be done but sometimes it doesn't work out that way."
Casey Stengel, All Time World Series Winner as Manager of New York Yankees.
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FOUR NEW DMCA EXCEPTIONS
Officials at the Library of Congress are required periodically to
review the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The latest review
has led to four new exceptions to the DMCA's prohibition against
circumventing electronic copyright protections. Under the new
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of Web sites blocked by Internet filters; computer applications
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CNET, 28 October 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5098639.html
[Would Someone Please Graph The Predicted Growth At This Rate?!?!?!?]
MORE DATA, BUT NO LESS PAPER
A study by the University of California at Berkeley shows that during
2002, 5 billion gigabytes of data was generated around the world. That
amount, which is the equivalent of about 800 megabytes per person, is
enough to fill 500,000 U.S. Libraries of Congress. The university
conducted a similar study in 1999, and the new results indicate a 30
percent rise since the first study in the amount of stored information.
The amount of data stored on hard disk drives was up 114 percent from
the earlier study. According to Peter Lyman, a professor at UC
Berkeley, those involved in the 1999 study expected that use of film
and paper would drop as users moved those media into electronic
formats. Although film-based photographs have dropped 9 percent since
1999, paper documents, including books, journals, and others, have
grown by as much as 43 percent. Lyman said that much of the content is
accessed on computers, but users print it out.
Reuters, 29 October 2003
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=3713686
U.S. TO USE BIOMETRICS TO SCREEN FOREIGNERS
Beginning early next year, those entering the United States on tourist,
business, or student visas will go through a biometric screening
process designed to improve national security. Asa Hutchinson,
undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security at the Department
of Homeland Security, this week unveiled the equipment to be used in
the new screening procedure, which includes fingerprinting and photo
tools. Visa holders will be screened when they enter the country to
verify they are not on terrorist watch lists, and when they leave the
country to keep a record of whether they have overstayed their visas.
Despite a General Accounting Office report expressing skepticism that
the system can be implemented efficiently and calling it "a very risky
endeavor," Hutchinson said the system will cause few delays and will
provide a strong boost for national security. The system will be
installed at 115 airports and 14 seaports.
Wired News, 29 October 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61010,00.html
MICROSOFT EYES GOOGLE MERGER
Microsoft reportedly approached Google within the past two months about
the possibility of a merger. Google--the leader among search
engines--generates significant ad revenues. Google, for the moment,
appears to have rejected Microsoft's overture, focusing instead on its
recently revealed intentions to pursue an initial public offering
(IPO). Microsoft might still consider a merger after Google goes
public, however, according to one source. Plans for Google's IPO
remain undecided. Google's founders reportedly have considered an
auction-style public offering, avoiding using financial institutions to
underwrite the IPO. Many banks are continuing to bid for the IPO,
however, believing that Google executives will ultimately opt for a
traditional approach.
New York Times, 31 October 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/31/technology/31net.html
LEGAL DOWNLOADS OUTPACE CD PURCHASES
A new report from Billboard magazine shows that online music purchases
have surpassed sales of CD singles. According to the report, 7.7
million songs were purchased online since the end of June, compared to
4 million CD singles. Some argued that these numbers are misleading
because relatively few songs are offered as singles on a disc, whereas
around 500,000 songs are available online from legal music services.
Several online music services are working to provide a legal
alternative to illegal file trading taking place over the Internet.
Phil Quartararo of EMI Music said, "Any way we can drive a consumer to
purchase music as opposed to taking music is a win for the industry."
BBC, 3 November 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3237021.stm
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A new European Union poll reveals that Europeans believe the
countries that are the largest threats to world peace are:
1. Israel
2. The United States
3. North Korea
4. Iraq
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Anti-war activist charged for 'misusing phone' to protest to US
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A little more about. . .
#9842:
Anuerin (also spelt Aneirin, Neirin) was a 6th century Welsh bard who wrote
this poem (in Welsh) about a battle between the Celtic peoples of Britian and
the then-settling Germanic invaders. The battle was probably fought near York
and was a total disaster for the Celtic peoples whose army was more or less
wiped out.
The poem mainly laments the death of the Celtic nobles, with most mentioned by
name. There's no narrative structure so we don't find out much about what
actually happened (the translator thinks the Celts lost because they got drunk
the night before the battle!)
This is one of the key Welsh texts being the earliest piece of Welsh
writing still extant (with the writings of Taliesin).
Thanks to David Widger
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It took us a day or so to get back up to speed, but by Tuesday we were
back above 7,000 pages a day and looking forward to greater growth and
expansion for November. At press time for the newsletter we are within
the final 72 hours of October. Short of another meltdown, the close of
the month promises to be as exciting as anything we have seen over the
past 28 days.
Looking back from today, we have an abundant set of achievements to
celebrate, and celebrate is what we are going to do...right up to
midnight on the 31st. Just within the past couple of days we have
passed both the milestone of pages ever proofed in a month and the
objective of 300 texts Post Processed. After that, there is only one
record left that October has not set. The greatest number of pages
proofed in a single day still belongs to November 8th, 2002. That may
change on Friday of this week, but for the present it lingers well out
of reach of even the best day of 2003.
This Friday is Halloween. Appropriate to a month as grand as this one,
DP is holding a day/night long party for October's final 24 hour
session. If you have been away for a while, this is a good time to
log-in. The mad doctor is on the loose, the Wolfman has the keys and
the gates of the asylum are wide open. Normal proofing projects will
go undisturbed, but beware! ... all manner of texts will be roaming
the rounds. From the enigmatically obscure to the chillingly horrific,
content will be provided (I may not say by whom) to satisfy the tastes
of the most ghoulish proofer. So dig up your favorite costume and
enjoy the incanta. . .err celebrations. The fun begins (of course) at
Midnight, Friday morning.
Wrapped up within Friday's festivities is a defiant challenge to go
after the single day record of November 8. This is quite an
undertaking, and will only succeed with a well coordinated effort from
all sectors of DP production. The number to surpass is 15,309. The
most obvious need to reach this objective is the availability of
proofable texts that could be processed in a quality manner within a
24 hour period. Content providers, scanners and project managers have
been busy building up a strong reserve of projects in advance, and
from what I have learned the odds are slowly turning to Friday's
favor. We'll be sure to let you know the outcome next week. Or...you
could stop by on Friday and add a few pages of your own. Whether we
catch November 8th or not, it's still likely to be the best proofing
day of 2003, so you'll still be a key participant in making DP
history. Besides, one could do worse than spend some time preserving
dead authors on Halloween!
So where do we go after the party, when we have finished enjoying the
wondrous heights October took us to? All the excitement is justified
and well worth celebrating, yet we have not lost our focus nor the
sense of practical planning. It is important during exceptional times
to make the most industrious use of the gifts that are placed before
you, we have not lost our sense for this. Within the heart of this
festive atmosphere, there is as much discussion and debate going on as
there is proofing. While the range of topics is far and wide, what
seems clear to me from all I measure, is that DP will not rest upon
its many accomplishments. This talented and diverse group has met
every challenge thus far faced, and with each the project has grown
stronger and more innovative. The future will proudly carry on this
tradition. That future begins November first...even as we are cleaning
up from the night before. It seems as if I was just writing the column
of October first. Now a new month is at the door which promises to be
as interesting and exciting as the one which is winding down... or
winding up, as seems to be the inclination!
The 'Road Ahead' for PG/DP is very different than the one Bill Gates
set out a few years back. It is more along the lines of the original
promise of the Internet, before it even registered on the radar of the
corporate world. Those of us who have chosen to support the ideals of
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conviction that the vehicles of digital communication can change the
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objectives of PG when we would have long left the ranks of other group
endeavors. There is something real and true going on here which is
close to heart of what called people to the Internet in the first
place.
2003 has been a very good year for the association of Distributed
Proofreaders with Project Gutenberg. Both projects have grown and
reaped the benefits of a closely intertwined collaboration. The future
is bright ahead and is already calling forth from all of us the best
we have to offer of dedication and innovation. With the initial
fanfare of the 10,000th title subsiding, the real meaning and
inspiration of this accomplishment is beginning to settle in for those
who are interested in the future of this ever-evolving world
library. The questions which are buzzing amongst all parts of this
community linger ever on that road ahead. These are exciting
times. Seldom when we travel down a road do we receive the privilege
of also building it as we go forward.
Enjoy these times! Wherever we go from here these later months of
2003 will always retain a unique quality all their own. The
celebrations of this week at DP will surely continue as we draw closer
to the closing of the year. Bring the best that you have within
yourself and participate in these celebrations and activities. Join
together with others--for that is what has made these projects what
they are today--and initiate discussions. Share your ideas of what the
future can be like. Creative production, like success, is
magnetic. Many new faces will joining us with each passing week and
there will be a great deal of attention upon PG and DP. These are
times of great promise and potential. Give your best to them, freely,
and be certain in your heart that the only the best will return to you
in its time. This medium can indeed change the world for the better,
but it cannot do so of itself. Each of us is the catalyst for change
when we give ourselves that one chance to act upon what we believe and
share who and what we are with others in dedication to a common
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Believe in the value of what you have to offer.
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
Notes from ...
"who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery?
Seize him and unmask him -- that we may know whom we
have to hang at sunrise, from the battlements!"
E.A.Poe
The proposal for Halloween piece came about two weeks ago. I was
thinking about the fest itself - as untrue as its essence - the fake
name, the borrowed traditions, and the less-than-perfect past were
kind of intriguing. Of course the most appropriate time to work on the
story is the night before the newsletter publishing day. Let us see
what we have - internet resources for Halloween and its history are
abundant. Flash multiplication is floating around, scary images
filling the screen and the music is definitely nervous. Halloween
jokes: "Q. What do you call a witch who lives at the beach? A. A
sand-witch." Ha-ha "Q. What did the skeleton say to the vampire?
A. You suck." Halloween.com and halloween-online.com. This link looks
appealing - http://www.illusions.com/halloween/hallows.htm, nice
pictures, though ... the comparision of different internet stories
about Halloween ... migration of proto-Celts
... witch-haunters. Interesting, however what's a point to rephrase
somebody's else piece? At this moment my mom entered computer room
and saw the pumpkin on the screen. Time for a story!
I've heard it at least 100 times but still enjoy the style - how my
mother and her friends, as resourceful teenagers, fought an evil
school manager sent to their village from metropolia. He was arrogant,
ignorant, drunker and in addition stole the firewoods, that students
prepared for the school on the summer vacation. One evening when the
manager had an important meeting in the vine house till very late
hour, they prepared the pumpkin with the candle inside and succeeded
to attach it between the windows at manager's home. At the midnight
they started to throw stones to his window and laugh with wild
laughs. The effect was more than satisfactory - the guy not only
screamed but also dashed aside and ruined a vase on the table. The
average mark in history (that he taught) on the next day was close to
negative, but whole school was in festive mode anyway. Mom said "Good
night" and left the room. Oh, the time is really nighty one - 23:59
... The right time for a Halloween story. Ghosts and the lost souls
that are wandering outside and knocking in the window. O my ... a hand
appeared from the dark air outside the window and tried to move the
fold ... Two cats peacefully sleeped on TV set in the living room
almost got a heart attack and Munk could be envy to the scream
timbre. Behind the dark window appeared a worried face of my mother
friend stayed for few days with visit in the house. She went to smoke
on the balcony and checked whether the windows were closed, since it
is not-smoking house generally ... Hands are too shaking so I'm
missing the keys on the key board .. the door somewhere is creaking
gloomily and there is definitely a sound of the steps in the empty
corridor ...
Hope that venerable public enjoyed the story and will generously throw
treats into the held mask.
Happy Halloween!
Gali Sirkis
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Edgar Allen Poe
Halloween approaches and, with it, the spectre of Edgar Allen Poe. By and
large, little about Poe is known for sure. Despite claims to the contrary
in books (although correctly cited in "Selections from Poe" by J.
Montgomery Gambrill http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext05/7spoe10.txt )
the Edgar Allan Poe Society (http://www.eapoe.org) will tell you that he was
born in 1809 in Baltimore. The details of Poe's life (and death for that
matter) are interesting reading and a story in and of themselves, but not
the topic of this short article. This article, instead, is intended to
persuade you to take a few moments and actually read one of his works. The
complete works of Poe are available on Project Gutenberg
(http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext00/poe1v10 is the first volume of a
five volume set; in addition consider
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext97/1epoe10.txt which is a collection
of some of his most famous works).
How can you not be entranced by the first line of "The Raven":
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
This is sort of a far more literate version of Snoopy's famous "It was a
dark and stormy night.." (this was actually the opening of "Paul Clifford"
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext05/b162w10.txt). Of course, suddenly,
you are trapped. What is the author doing at midnight? Why is he weak?
What did he ponder? Two lines later we discover:
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
So, our author is all but asleep, barely able to keep his head up--fairly
bouncing with fatigue, yet he plows on. SUDDENLY, not gently, not as though
in a dream or pulled from a dream, but with an urgency that almost leaps
from the page the author hears something. What? Three lines in and you can
paint the picture in your mind. It is a dark chamber lit with a reading
candle. It is light enough to read, but dark enough to nod off. Shadows
gather in the corners and grope out towards the reading table with blind,
dark hands as the candle flickers almost in rhythm with the nodding head of
a solitary reader. This reader whose eyes are weighted heavily so that
there is almost a palpable force drawing his eyelids down. The reader is
seemingly engrosed in pondorous books laid about him almost haphazardly, but
with sufficient order that he may reference one when searching for meaning
in another. The silence is suddenly, calamitously, brittlely broken by a
tap upon the door. Later we learn that the chamber likely had a chill,
therein (at the beginning of the next verse):
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
The cold permeates the page and even brings an involuntary shudder to the
reader who now pulls up the imaginary shawl over the author's shoulders and
tries, vainly, to help him blot out this interruption which threatens the
studies he is only barely able to manage as it is. By now, the reader is
hooked, but the wonderful descriptions continue (at the beginning of the
third verse):
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
So now we know about the draft in the room and the layers of curtains over
the window blotting out both the light and the cold. How the heavy
movements sound sad and infrequent. All this in a single line. The heavy
curtains must muffle noise from the outside (as though there were some at
midnight, right?).
Are you hooked? Do you wonder why the poem is called, "The Raven?" GO READ
IT! If these few lines can't convince you of the richness of language, the
power of metaphor, and the haunting fear that runs through each line of
Poe's work, then you are a hopeless case.
Perhaps, however, you need a different allure. A stirring of the soul.
Something with more prose and less poetry. Consider, "The Tell-Tale Heart."
In the opening paragraphs we learn:
"It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once
conceived, it haunted me day and night."
What, what, pray tell? Murder, I tell you. Foul and bedamned murder.
Murder for money. The task of the murder itself is told with chilling
detail and deft wordsmith. Here Poe tells us only of the victim's eye:
"It was open--wide, wide open--and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. I
saw it with perfect distinctness--all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over
it that chilled the very marrow in my bones;"
Yet, with perfect clearness we see the distress of the aged victim. The
murderous intent of the protagonist and the mustering of will for the
heinous deed. Once done we hear of the cover-up and the protagonist's effort
to conceal his "perfect crime." You may wonder how it could be a "perfect
crime." How, indeed, the protagonist would handle himself when confronted
by men of authority and justice. And Poe will tell you. You need only
read. But, beware the heart...the tell-tale heart. Having finished reading
think for a moment about the double meaning of the tell-tale heart.
Now, certainly, you have left this article, walked--no, run--to your
computer and you are coming back breathless with excitement ready to write
Michael Hart and thank him for creating Project Gutenberg. Right? WHAT!!!
There remain some doubters, some who feel that Poe is not for them?!? Well,
you have read this far and I must pull my trump card as space is waning.
Many of you know "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" from the late 1950s film.
THAT WAS A POE STORY!!!!! It was one of the first detective stories ever
written and, while a great detective story, is also a carefully wrought
allegory analyzing cunning and creativity. Read it and enjoy!
Brett Fishburne
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This Issue's Quiz: Ghosts & Goblins!
[Patrons are reminded that only entries dressed in appropriate costume
will win the newsletter 'spooky-pants' award for this weeks quiz!-Ed]
Match the 13 spooky titles with the correct first lines (you can always
cheat by visiting the URL).
Tonya Allen
===Titles===
1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext92/hyde10.txt
2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext92/sleep11.txt
3. A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext92/carol13.txt
4. The Haunted Hotel / Wilkie Collins
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext94/hhotl10.txt
5. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary / M. R. James
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext06/8jgs210.txt
6. Dracula / Bram Stoker
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext95/dracu12.txt
7. Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories / Ambrose Bierce
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext03/prhg10.txt
8. The Pit and the Pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext00/poe2v10.txt
9. The Ghost and the Bone Setter / Sheridan Le Fanu
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext96/pclp110.txt
10. The Castle of Otranto / by Horace Walpole
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext96/cotrt10.txt
11. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext02/bskrv11a.txt
12. Phantom 'Rickshaw & Other Ghost Stories / Rudyard Kipling
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext01/phric11.txt
13. Frankenstein / by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext93/frank14.txt
===First Lines===
a. Marley was dead: to begin with.
b. My peculiar relation to the writer of the following narratives is such
that I must ask the reader to overlook the absence of explanation as to how
they came into my possession.
c. Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never
lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in
sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.
d. 3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at
Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an
hour late.
e. I was sick -- sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at
length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were
leaving me.
f. In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician
reached its highest point.
g. In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern
shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the
ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently
shortened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they
crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is
called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the
name of Tarry Town.
h. Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days.
i. The following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family
in the north of England.
j. TO Mrs. Saville, England
St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the
commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil
forebodings.
k. One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great
Knowability.
l. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon
those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the
breakfast table.
m. In looking over the papers of my late valued and respected friend,
Francis Purcell, who for nearly fifty years discharged the arduous duties of
a parish priest in the south of Ireland, I met with the following document.
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[Alternate: Vindication of Rights of Women, by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin]
Sep 2002 Rebecca Mary, by Annie Hamilton Donnell [rbmryxxx.xxx] 3419
Sep 2002 Captain Brassbound's Conversion by G. Bernard Shaw[brscnxxx.xxx] 3418
[Author: George Bernard Shaw: he preferred just Bernard Shaw]
Sep 2002 The Fortunes of Oliver Horn, by F. Hopkinson Smith[tfoohxxx.xxx] 3417
Sep 2002 William Ewart Gladstone, by James Bryce [gladsxxx.xxx] 3416
Sep 2002 The South Pole, Volume 2, by Roald Amundsen [?tspv2xx.xxx] 3415
Sep 2002 The South Pole, Volume 1, by Roald Amundsen [?tspv1xx.xxx] 3414
Sep 2002 The Blazed Trail, by Stewart Edward White [#5][blztrxxx.xxx] 3413
Sep 2002 The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither, by Bird[gctwtxxx.xxx] 3412
[Author: Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)]
Sep 2002 The Stokesley Secret, by Charlotte M. Yonge[CMY10][stkscxxx.xxx] 3411
Sep 2002 The American Spirit in Literature, by Bliss Perry [aslitxxx.xxx] 3410
Sep 2002 The American Spirit in Literature, by Bliss Perry [aslitxxx.xxx] 3410
[Title: The American Spirit in Literature, A Chronicle of Great Interpreters]_
Sep 2002 Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope[Trollope11][barchxxx.xxx] 3409
Sep 2002 Shame of Motley, by Raphael Sabatini[Sabatini #12][shmotxxx.xxx] 3408
Sep 2002 The Spell of Egypt, by Robert Hichens [Hichens #3][sgyptxxx.xxx] 3407
Sep 2002 Ragged Lady, by William Dean Howells Vol 2 [WH#52][wh2rlxxx.xxx] 3406
Sep 2002 Ragged Lady, by William Dean Howells Vol 1 [WH#51][wh1rlxxx.xxx] 3405
Sep 2002 April Hopes, by William Dean Howells [WH#50][whahpxxx.xxx] 3404
Sep 2002 The Register, by William Dean Howells [WH#49][whregxxx.xxx] 3403
Sep 2002 The Parlor Car, by William Dean Howells [WH#48][whplrxxx.xxx] 3402
Sep 2002 The Elevator, by William Dean Howells [WH#47][whelvxxx.xxx] 3401
Aug 2002 Entire PG Edition of William Dean Howells [WH#47][whewkxxx.xxx] 3400
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***Headline News***
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From Newsscan:
[The Enemy Within. . .Oscar Voters Are The New Enemy Of The MPAA???]
[It Just Makes You Wonder If The Jack Valenti's Are Really in Control]
SCREENERS CODED TO PREVENT MOVIE PIRACY
A compromise has been reached that will make possible a carefully controlled
distribution of free cassettes to Oscar voters for private screening during
the upcoming awards season. The movies will be numbered VHS cassettes rather
than easily copied DVDs, and they will be coded for tracing if they are sold
or pirated. Academy members will sign contracts taking responsibility for
any "screeners" they accept, and making them subject to possible banishment
from the Academy if the screeners are later found on the black market.
(Washington Post 24 Oct 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9524-2003Oct23.html
EXTENDING THE MUSIC LIBRARY
Two students at MIT have developed an electronic music library that allows
anyone on campus to access 3,500 CDs. Called the Library Access to Music
Project (LAMP), the system lets a student go to its Web site to select a CD
and have it delivered through the campus closed-circuit cable TV to the
student's dorm room or other campus site. One of the students who conceived
of LAMP explains: "We had a library in school that closed at 7 p.m. The
school had this great music in the library, but you couldn't get there. I
was thinking, how could we get students better access to this library?" In
2001, the two creators of LAMP received a grant from iCampus, a
Microsoft-backed alliance with MIT. (San Jose Mercury News 27 Oct 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7113917.htm
ELECTRONIC CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AT SWARTHMORE
Students at Swarthmore College unhappy with a maker of electronic
voting machines have begun an "electronic civil disobedience" campaign.
Diebold Election Systems has been criticized for voting systems that
have been described as full of security vulnerabilities. In March,
15,000 internal Diebold memos leaked to the press indicated that the
company knew of the problems but continued to sell the systems to
states. The memos have been posted on a number of Web sites, both
inside and outside the United States, and Diebold has been issuing
cease and desist letters to sites that post the memos. The students at
Swarthmore involved in the protest believe Diebold is improperly using
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to keep the public from seeing the
memos and have pledged to move the memos from computer to computer as
Diebold tracks them down. Luke Smith, a sophomore at the college, said,
"They're using copyright law as a means of suppressing information
that needs to be public."
Wired News, 21 October 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60927,00.html
APPLE iTUNES DOES WINDOWS
Apple is expanding its popular iTunes music download service into Windows
territory, promising a wider selection of songs and some new features to
maintain its lead in an increasingly competitive market. The launch was
accompanied by the usual Apple glitz -- CEO Steve Jobs chatted via remote
link-up with U2 lead man Bono and the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger in a
prelude to a live performance by singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. "It's
like the pope of software meeting up with the Dali Lama of integration,"
gushed Bono -- referring to the iTunes software and Apple's integrated
online music store. Analysts say that iTunes faces stiff competition in the
Windows space, but that its flexibility to download tunes onto multiple
devices gives it an edge. "There's going to be a lot of jockeying for
position in the next 12 months," says a Forrester Research analyst. "But I
think iTunes is a real winner because it has the portable player, the
jukebox and the store all together." (Reuters 16 Oct 2003)
news.excite.com/tech/article/id/329433|technology|10-16-2003::17:32|reuters.
html
CHALLENGE TO THE WEB WEAVED BY MICROSOFT
The U.S. Justice Department and 19 states have complained to U.S. District
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly about a design feature of Windows that compels
consumers who buy music online to use only Microsoft's Internet Explorer
browser and guides them to a Microsoft Web site. The dispute may become the
first test of the Microsoft antitrust settlement approved by a federal
court in October 2002. In response, a Microsoft executive said, "We believe
that the use of Internet Explorer by the Shop-for-Music-Online link in
Windows is consistent with the design rules established by the consent
decree, and we will continue to work with the government to address any
concerns. At issue is a design feature in Windows XP called "Shop for Music
Online," which lets consumers purchase compact discs from retailers over
the Internet, but when consumers click the link to buy music, Windows opens
Microsoft's browser software even if consumers have indicated that they
prefer using rival browser software. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 20 Oct 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7060791.htm
MICROSOFT TOUTS SELF-DESTRUCTING E-MAIL
Microsoft's new Office 2003 software, set to debut on Tuesday, will include
an e-mail feature that can be used to time-stamp messages, directing them
to delete themselves on a certain date. In addition, senders will be able
to restrict forwarding and printing of messages by the recipient. The new
Information Rights Management software could run into opposition from U.S.
regulators, who view destroying e-mail as on a par with shredding
documents. Earlier this year, Morgan Stanley was fined $1.65 million for
failing to keep e-mail records, despite the company's claim that it due to
oversight rather than a deliberate attempt to evade financial
investigation. (BBC News 19 Oct 2003)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3205080.stm
INTERCEPTING E-MAIL IS A CRIME
An Arizona woman was sentenced to 60 days of home detention for
intercepting at least 215 e-mail messages directed to her husband's
ex-wife. Law enforcement officials said Angel Lee fraudulently obtained the
ex-wife's user name and password, allowing her to log in and read mail.
Ex-wife Duongladde Ramsey said Lee's actions were comparable to breaking
into her house and reading her diary, and the judge agreed, saying Lee's
penalty is a warning to others who might be tempted to spy on others'
e-mail accounts. "Privacy is still a cherished value," said U.S. District
Judge Richard P. Matsch. (AP 19 Oct 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20031019/D7U97UCG0.html
INFO TECHNOLOGY HELPS WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
The overall number of microbusinesses (companies with no paid employees)
increased by 9% between 1997 and 2001, and the number of those owned by
women increased by 14% over the same few years. By exploiting such
technology as PCs, fax machines, and color printers to start
information-based companies, women are changing the face of traditional
mom-and-pop ventures. "This is definitely not your father's small
business," says consultant Terri Lonier. Information technology has
liberated many women who want to leave corporate jobs for self-employment
in the same field. One example of the trend: Jennifer Lawson, who started a
TV production consulting firm in her Washington home, equipped with
video-screening equipment. Another: Jaime Caris of Las Vegas, who has
become a virtual administrative assistant, offering clients across the U.S.
assistance with word processing, accounting and other services from her
home office. (AP/USA Today 19 Oct 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/2003-10-19-momndad_x.htm
VERISIGN SHEDS NETWORK SOLUTIONS
VeriSign is selling its Network Solutions domain registrar business to
Pivotal Private Equity for about $100 million, but plans to retain control
over the .com and .net database that Network Solutions operates. The domain
registration business has essentially become a commodity service as more
registrars have entered the field. VeriSign has been in the news recently
for its controversial Site Finder service, which redirects all mistyped
URLs to a search page that it operates. It suspended the service under
pressure from ICANN, which expressed concern over the technical
ramifications of the Site Finder service, but VeriSign said Wednesday that
it plans to restart the service after having found "no identified security
or stability problems" in the system. (CNet News.com 16 Oct 2003)
http://news.com.com/2102-1025_3-5092316.html?tag=st_util_print
TEXT-SEARCHING OR TEXT-MINING?
Whereas Google and other Web search engines retrieve information and
display links to documents that contain certain keywords, text-mining
programs dig deeper in order to categorize information, make links between
seemingly unconnected documents, and provide visual maps that lead down new
pathways of exploratory learning. Unlike data mining, text mining works on
unstructured data -- such as e-mail messages, news articles, internal
reports, phone call transcripts, and so on. A good example of the problem
it seeks to solve is suggested by the comment of researcher Randall S.
Murch, who says: "I was an FBI agent for 20 years. And I have yet to see
anyone who is able to model the way an agent thinks and works through an
investigation." And a good example of the solution offered by text-mining
is its use in the 1980s University of Chicago information scientist Don R.
Swanson in studying the medical literature on migraines. Starting with the
word "migraine," he downloaded abstracts from 2,500 articles from Medline
and noticed a reference to a neural phenomenon called "spreading
depression" -- which prompted him to look for articles with that term in
their titles, which in turn led him to the discovery that magnesium was
often mentioned as preventing this spreading depression. Thus, as a result
of text-mining he was able to hypothesize a link between headaches and
magnesium deficiency -- a link that was later confirmed by actual
experiments. (New York Times 16 Oct 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/technology/circuits/16mine.html
[TeraBYTES Compared To GigaBITS. . .Didn't Those People Learn UNITS???]
[That's .5+ GigaBYTES per second. . .meaning it took ~2 kiloseconds, or
over half an hour. . .no WONDER they didn't want to be specific. . . ;-)]
RESEARCH CENTERS SET NEW RECORD FOR SPEEDY DATA TRANSFER
Two of the world's top research centers -- CERN (the European Organization
for Nuclear Research) and the California Institute of Technology -- say
they've set a new world record for speed in sending data across the
Internet: 1.1 terabytes at 5.44 gigbits per second. That's more than 20,000
times as fast as a typical home broadband connection and would be
equivalent to sending a full-length DVD in seven seconds. The previous top
speed -- 2.38 gigabits per second -- was achieved last February by a joint
team from CERN, Caltech, Los Alamos and Stanford. (Wired.com 15 Oct 2003)
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60833,00.html?tw=wn_techhead_4
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From Edupage
APPLE EXPANDS INTO WINDOWS MUSIC
Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Thursday unveiled his company's
expansion of its iTunes music service to include Windows computers.
Jobs also announced deals Apple has struck with America Online (AOL)
and PepsiCo. Under the first arrangement, AOL will direct users of its
music site to Apple's iTunes store, where they can purchase music with
their AOL memberships. Jobs and AOL CEO Jonathan Miller said the deal
was "exclusive." PepsiCo and Apple will launch a marketing campaign
that features 100 million free iTunes songs, given away through special
caps on PepsiCo bottles. Apple's iTunes has been extremely successful
as a Macintosh-based service, and Jobs said the company has sold 1.4
million of its iPod music players. With the Windows-based version of
its service, Apple will compete with online music services including
RealNetworks, MusicNet, and BuyMusic.com.
New York Times, 17 October 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/technology/17APPL.html
QUICK START FOR WINDOWS ITUNES
Early reports from Apple Computer's foray into Windows-based online
music indicate exuberance among consumers for the company's iTunes
service. Apple has sold more than one million songs to iTunes for
Windows customers since the service was launched last week, and
computer users have reportedly downloaded more than one million copies
of the Windows version of iTunes software in the past three days. Apple
launched iTunes for Macintosh-based computers in April of this year,
and since then the company has sold 14 million songs at 99 cents each.
The company said it hopes to have sold 100 million songs by the first
anniversary of the service next April.
BBC, 20 October 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3207984.stm
[Of Course, No Mention That There Was No Evidence That HE Did It, Either]
HACKER'S ACQUITTAL RAISES CONCERNS OVER TROJAN HORSE DEFENSE
Some security experts fear that a British teen's acquittal on charges
of hacking into the computer system of the port of Houston will weaken
future prosecutions of computer crimes. Aaron Caffrey was charged with
a 2001 attack that left the port's computer system crippled. Although
Caffrey acknowledged that the attack originated from his computer, he
argued in court that a trojan horse program had been installed on his
computer without his knowledge. That application, Caffrey insisted,
allowed someone to remotely launch the attack from his computer.
Although no evidence of such an application was found on Caffrey's
computer, the jury ruled in his favor. Graham Cluley, senior technology
consultant for Sophos, said of the jury's decision that even without
evidence of a trojan horse application, defendants in similar cases
"might still be able to successfully claim that they were not
responsible for what their computer does."
BBC, 17 October 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3202116.stm
[It's OK For Academics To Look At This Information, Just Not OK For YOU]
COMPROMISE REACHED ON DATABASE-PROTECTION BILL
A House of Representatives subcommittee has passed a bill that would
extend strong intellectual-property protections to databases after
opposition from three academic groups was withdrawn. The Database and
Collections of Information Misappropriation Act, introduced last week
by Howard Coble (R-N.C.), had stirred objections from academic groups,
which saw it as a threat to researchers. The original version of the
bill included a vague exception for academics, but the version that
passed the subcommittee this week has a much stronger exception.
According to the revised bill, "no liability shall be imposed under
this act" on higher education and research institutions or their
employees. With that language, the Association of American
Universities, the American Council on Education, and the National
Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges have ended
their opposition to the bill and assumed a neutral position. Other
groups, including the National Academies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
and academic-library organizations, continue to oppose the bill.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 October 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2003/10/2003101701t.htm
FEDS SEEK REVERSAL OF COMPUTER ADMINISTRATOR'S CONVICTION
Federal prosecutors have asked an appeals court to overturn the
conviction of Bret McDanel on charges that he intentionally caused
damage to the computer system of his former employer, Tornado
Development Inc. While an employee of Tornado, McDanel discovered a
flaw that could have compromised customer accounts. He notified the
company, but it refused to fix the flaw. After leaving the company,
McDanel sent several e-mails to customers, warning them of the flaw.
Because the e-mails caused Tornado's computer system to crash and
resulted in monetary losses, McDanel was tried and convicted to 16
months in federal prison. McDanel argued that he did not intend to
cause damage to Tornado's system, and federal prosecutors conceded
they had no evidence that the damage caused was intentional.
Prosecutors have admitted the error and requested that the conviction
be overturned, though McDanel has already served his sentence.
San Jose Mercury News, 15 October 2003
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7020049.htm
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BAY AREA LEADS REVOLT AGAINST SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
from The San Francisco Chronicle
More than five centuries after Gutenberg's printing press revolutionized the
transmission of scientific information, the multibillion- dollar scientific
publishing industry is quaking to two Bay Area-led revolts.
This month, a nonprofit venture founded by Nobel laureates with the help of
a $9 million startup grant launched the first of two new scientific journals
that will make all content freely available online. Print versions of the
journals will be available for a subscription fee.
The goal of the initiative, called the Public Library of Science, is to
force a new standard of "open public access" to scientific research, which,
after all, is largely funded by taxpayer dollars. As it is now, scientific
journals demand a hefty subscriber fee and limit online access to only those
who pay. In another move, two prominent UCSF scientists called last week for
a global boycott of six molecular biology journals, accusing the publisher,
Reed Elsevier, the Goliath of science publishing, of charging exorbitant new
subscription fees for online access.
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AUTHORS GUILD EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER AMAZON SEARCH TOOL
The Authors Guild has expressed concern over the remarkable
new Amazon search that conducts full text searches of
120,000 books. The group says that the book publishers did
not have the right to make the contents of the books
available without the authors' permission.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/business/media/27amazon.html
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THE WARMING IS GLOBAL BUT THE LEGISLATING, IN THE U.S., IS ALL LOCAL
from The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 - Motivated by environmental and economic concerns,
states have become the driving force in efforts to combat global warming
even as mandatory programs on the federal level have largely stalled.
At least half of the states are addressing global warming, whether through
legislation, lawsuits against the Bush administration or programs initiated
by governors.
In the last three years, state legislatures have passed at least 29 bills,
usually with bipartisan support. The most contentious is California's 2002
law to set strict limits for new cars on emissions of carbon dioxide, the
gas that scientists say has the greatest role in global warming.
http://snurl.com/2rjr
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SPYWARE AND THE LIKE
Most operating systems send information about what you are doing
back to the makers of the operating systems, as do places such as
Google, even to the point of making these reports invisible to
both the user and to SpyWare and AdWare programs specifically
designed to help you stop such activities.
Not only are most or all of people web surfing blogged in manners
only accessible by THEM and not my YOU, but even your SEARCH info
is blogged, and you can't get rid of it.
Suppose you are concerned that files containing the dread "xyzzy"
are on your computer and you run a search for "xyzzy" and it comes
back without finding any dread "xyzzy" on your computer.
Actually, this is a lie. . . .
Because the search program wrote down that you searched for "xyzzy"
and if you run the search again, you will see it. . .but it is in a
file you can't edit, delete, overwrite, or anything else. . .!!!
It's kind of like the government "Freedom of Information" file. . .
If you ask for it, and you don't have one, they will tell you that
you don't have one. . .but it's a lie. . .they just made one saying
that you are the very suspicious kind of person who wants to know.
***
Pre-Eminent Re-Domain
Apparently the new tactic of the property tax man to Eminent Domain
privately owned residences and then sell them to large corporations
who will tear them down and building something priced, and taxed!,
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the upper middle class, well kept up, and whose residents had lived in
them for decades.
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facilities had not been "updated" to include at least two bathrooms and
storage space for two cars. . .even when there were only two residents
who had a need for only one car and one bathroom.
When push came to shove, it turned out that the major's house was also
included in the "blighted" description, but that the neighborhoods in
question simply were in better locations with a better view. . .which
would then be ruined by the new high priced developments.
Then today I heard an NPR report that the same thing was happening in
Singapore, and that the person defending the residents against these
eminent domain attacts had been arrested for telling state secrets to
the media. Under Chinese laws this apparently means talking to the
media about anything the government doesn't want known, including the
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Feb 2006 Observations Geologiques, by Charles Darwin [?geolxxx.xxx] 9824
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Jan 2006 Superfluous Man and Others, by Ivan Turgenev [?spmnxxx.xxx] 9615
[Full title: The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories]
[Tr.: Constance Garnett]
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Jul 2002 Variation of Animals and Plants, by Charles Darwin[vartnxxx.xxx] 3332
[Full Title: The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication]
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Jan 2006 Miscellany of Poetry, 1919, by Various [?msptxxx.xxx] 9652
[Ed.: W. Kean Seymour] [Decorations: Doris Palmer, Cecil Palmer and Hayward]
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[English Translation by Henri Pene du Bois]
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Oct 1997 Life of Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne [shndyxxx.xxx] 1079
[Illustrated HTML in shndy10h.zip only]
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Oct 2004 Favorite Dishes, by Carrie V. Shuman [fvdshxxx.xxx] 6703
Feb 2003 The Trial, by Charlotte M. Yonge [C. M. Yonge #13][trialxxx.xxx] 3744
Jan 2003 The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Yonge[tdcoaxxx.xxx] 3610
Sep 2002 Rebecca Mary, by Annie Hamilton Donnell [rbmryxxx.xxx] 3419
May 1999 Laws, by Plato [#29][plawsxxx.xxx] 1750
Dec 1996 The Moon Pool, by A. Merritt [mpoolxxx.xxx] 765
Missing paragraphs have been restored to the following (no change in
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Feb 2004 The Treasure, by Selma Lagerlof [thtrsxxx.xxx] 5161
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Feb 2006 Way of the Lawless, by Max Brand [wylawxxx.xxx] 9903
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Feb 2006 The Middle of Things, by J. S Fletcher [?mdthxxx.xxx] 9902
Feb 2006 Grace Harlowe's Return, by Jessie Graham Flower [ghrocxxx.xxx] 9901
[Full title: Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus]
Feb 2006 Bob Cook and the German Spy,Tomlinson, Paul Greene[bcgspxxx.xxx] 9899
Feb 2006 Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 4, April 23, 1870, Various[?p104xxx.xxx] 9898
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - 8p10410h.zip; and 8p10410h.htm]
Feb 2006 Introductory American History,by Bourne and Benton[?iahsxxx.xxx] 9897
[Full author: Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton]
[Also posted: HTML in 8iahs10h.htm, Illustrated HTML in 8iahs10h.zip]
Feb 2006 My Days of Adventure, by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly [?mdadxxx.xxx] 9896
[Subtitle: The Fall of France, 1870-71]
Feb 2006 Novelas de Voltaire Tomo Primero, by Voltaire [?vnovxxx.xxx] 9895
[Language: Spanish]
Contents:
Como Anda el Mundo, Vision de Babuco
Memnon, o La Cordura Humana
Micromegas,
Historia Filosofica
Historia de un Buen Brama,
Los Dos Consolados
Feb 2006 Revolution Francaise, Vol. II, by Adolphe Thiers [?lrf2xxx.xxx] 9894
[Full title: Histoire de la Revolution Francaise, Vol. II]
[Language: French]
Feb 2006 Le Comte Ory, by Eugene Scribe et Delestre-Poirson[?coryxxx.xxx] 9893
[Subtitle: Opera en deux actes] [Language: French]
[Full author: Eugene Scribe et Delestre-Poirson (Charles-Gaspard)]
Feb 2006 La Muette de Portici,Eugene Scribe et G. Delavigne[?muetxxx.xxx] 9892
[Subtitle: Opera en cinq actes] [Language: French]
Feb 2006 Conversations d'une petite fille,Mme de Renneville[?cptfxxx.xxx] 9891
[Full title: Conversations d'une petite fille avec sa poupee]
[Subtitle: Suivies de l'histoire de la poupee] [Language: French]
Feb 2006 Biografia del libertador Simon Bolivar, by L.C. [?blsbxxx.xxx] 9890
[Full title: Biografia del libertador Simon Bolivar, o La independencia
de la America del sud]
[Subtitle: Resena historico-biografica] [Language: Spanish]
Feb 2006 Songs and Other Verse, by Eugene Field [?sgvrxxx.xxx] 9889
Feb 2006 Spread Eagle and Other Stories, Gouverneur Morris [?gmegxxx.xxx] 9888
Contents:
The Spread Eagle
Targets
The Boot
The Despoiler
One More Martyr
"Ma'am?"
Mr. Holiday
White Muscats of Alexandria
Without a Lawyer
The "Monitor" and the "Merrimac"
The McTavish
The Parrot
On the Spot; or, The Idler's House-Party
Feb 2006 Essays in War-Time, by Havelock Ellis [#2][?eswrxxx.xxx] 9887
[Subtitle: Further Studies In The Task Of Social Hygiene]
Feb 2006 The Book of Delight, by Israel Abrahams [#2][?dlitxxx.xxx] 9886
[Full title: The Book of Delight and Other Papers]
Feb 2006 Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870,Various[?p117xxx.xxx] 9885
[Also posted: HTML in 8p11710h.htm, illustrated HTML in 8p11710h.zip]
Feb 2006 Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, [?m264xxx.xxx] 9884
[Full Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,
Issue 264, July 14, 1827] [Author: Various]
[Also posted: HTML in 8m26410h.htm; illustrated HTML in 8m26410h.zip]
Feb 2006 Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, [?m263xxx.xxx] 9883
[Full Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,
Supplementary Number, Issue 263, 1827] [Author: Various]
[Also posted: HTML in 8m26310h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2006 Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, [?m262xxx.xxx] 9882
[Full Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,
Issue 262, July 7, 1827] [Author: Various]
[Also posted: HTML in 8m26210h.htm, illustrated HTML in 8m26210h.zip]
Feb 2006 Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9),by Samuel Richardson[#5][clar3xxx.xxx] 9881
Feb 2006 The Woman's Bible, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton [wbiblxxx.xxx] 9880
[Part I. Comments on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy]
[Part II. Comments on the Old and New Testaments from Joshua to Revelation]
Feb 2006 The Amateur Gentleman, by Jeffery Farnol [?amgnxxx.xxx] 9879
[Illustrations by Herman Pfeifer]
Feb 2006 The Survey of Cornwall, by Richard Carew [srvcrxxx.xxx] 9878
[Subtitle: And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue]
[With a life of the author by H**** C***** Esq.]
[It is thought that H**** C***** is probably Hobye Carew]
Feb 2006 Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870,Various[?p116xxx.xxx] 9877
[Also posted: HTML in 8p11610h, Illustrated HTML in 8p11610h.zip]
Feb 2006 Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 [?10a2xxx.xxx] 9876
[Full Title: The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862]
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] [Author: Various]
[This is the 2nd issue of Vol 10.]
[Also posted: HTML in 810a210h.htm and 810a210h.zip]
Feb 2006 Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare [?gs24xxx.xxx] 9875
[Tr.: August Wilhelm von Schlegel] [Language: German]
Feb 2006 A Visit to Three Fronts, by Arthur Conan Doyle [?v3frxxx.xxx] 9874
[Subtitle: June 1916]
Feb 2006 Till the Clock Stops, by John Joy Bell [?ttcsxxx.xxx] 9873
Feb 2006 The Great Secret , by E. Phillips Oppenheim [?grtsxxx.xxx] 9872
Feb 2006 The Avenger , by E. Phillips Oppenheim [?vngrxxx.xxx] 9871
Feb 2006 War is Kind, by Stephen Crane [scwarxxx.xxx] 9870
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - scwar10h.zip; and scwar10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Child of The Century, by Alfred de Musset [im29bxxa.xxx] 9869
[Full title: The Confession of a Child of The Century] [Tr.: Kendall Warren]
(See also: #3939-3942)
Feb 2006 U.S. Since The Civil War, Charles Ramsdell Lingley[?uscwxxx.xxx] 9868
[Full title: The United States Since The Civil War]
Feb 2006 Riders of the Silences, by Max Brand [ridslxxx.xxx] 9867
Feb 2006 Freeland, by Theodor Hertzka [?freexxx.xxx] 9866
[Translated by Arthur Ransom]
[Also posted: HTML in 8free10h.zip and 8free10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Java Head, by Joseph Hergesheimer [#5][?javaxxx.xxx] 9865
Feb 2006 Humoresque, by Fannie Hurst [?humrxxx.xxx] 9864
Contents:
Humoresque
Oats For The Woman
A Petal On The Current
White Goods
"Heads"
A Boob Spelled Backward
Even As You And I
The Wrong Pew
Feb 2006 The Letters of Robert Burns, by Robert Burns [?burnxxx.xxx] 9863
[Selected And Arranged, With An Introduction, By J. Logie Robertson]
[Also posted: HTML in 8burn10h.zip and 8burn10h.htm]
Feb 2006 City of Endless Night, by Milo Hastings [?cndnxxx.xxx] 9862
[Also posted: HTML in 8cndn10h.htm /.zip]
Feb 2006 Was die Grossmutter gelehrt hat, by Johanna Spyri [?wgsmxxx.xxx] 9861
[Subtitle: Erzaehlung] [Language: German]
Feb 2006 Moni der Geissbub: Erzaehlung, by Johanna Spyri [?mongxxx.xxx] 9860
[Language: German]
Feb 2006 Vom This, der doch etwas wird, by Johanna Spyri [?vomtxxx.xxx] 9859
[Subtitle: Erzaehlung] [Language: German]
Feb 2006 Star-Dust, by Fannie Hurst [?starxxx.xxx] 9858
Feb 2006 The Long Labrador Trail, by Dillon Wallace [llbtrxxh.xxx] 9857
[Note: HTML only format, in llbtr10h.htm, and illustrated HTML in
llbtr10h.zip which includes numerous well-done illustrations and maps.]
Feb 2006 The Inn at the Red Oak, by Latta Griswold [?roakxxx.xxx] 9856
[Also posted HTML - 8roak10h.zip and 8roak10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Classic Myths, by Retold by Mary Catherine Judd [mythsxxx.xxx] 9855
[Illustrated By Angus Mac Donall]
[Also posted: HTML in myths10h.zip and myths10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Frank Roscoe's Secret , by Allen Chapman [fkrssxxx.xxx] 9854
[Subtitle: Or, The Darewell Chums in the Woods]
Feb 2006 The Mystery of the Four Fingers, by Fred M. White [my4fnxxx.xxx] 9853
Feb 2006 The Man From the Clouds , by J. Storer Clouston [?mfclxxx.xxx] 9852
Feb 2006 Love at Second Sight, by Ada Leverson [?lv2dxxx.xxx] 9851
[This is Book Three of the author's trilogy, The Little Ottleys]
Feb 2006 The Lyric, by John Drinkwater [?tlyrxxx.xxx] 9850
[Also posted HTML - 8tlyr10h.zip and 8tlyr10h.htm]
Feb 2006 The Brown Mask, by Percy J. Brebner [#2][?bmskxxx.xxx] 9849
Feb 2006 Old English Plays, Vol. VI, by Robert Dodsley [?oep6xxx.xxx] 9848
[Full title: A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI]
Contents:
The Conflict Of Conscience
The Rare Triumphs Of Love And Fortune
The Three Ladies Of London
The Three Ladies And Three Lords Of London
A Knack To Know A Knave
Feb 2006 Bacon is Shake-Speare, Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence [?bshkxxx.xxx] 9847
[Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies.]
[Collated, with the Original MS. by the late F.B. Bickley, and revised
by F.A. Herbert, of the British Museum.]
Feb 2006 Excursions, by Henry D. Thoreau [#6][?excrxxx.xxx] 9846
[With a Biographical Sketch By R.W. Emerson]
Feb 2006 The Spy, by James Fenimore Cooper [#19][?tspyxxx.xxx] 9845
Feb 2006 W. A. G.'s Tale, by Margaret Turnbull [wagtlxxx.xxx] 9844
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - wagtl10h.zip; and wagtl10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Fra det moderne Frankrig, by Richard Kaufmann [?fdmfxxx.xxx] 9843
[Language: Danish]
Feb 2006 Y Gododin, Aneurin [gddnxxxx.xxx] 9842
[Subtitle: A Poem of The Battle of Cattraeth] [Tr.: John Williams]
[Author Alt. Spelling: Aneirin, Neirin) [Language: Welsh and English]
[Also posted: XHTML in gddn10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2006 Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther [tlhrxxxx.xxx] 9841
[Author's Full Name: Martin Luther] [Tr.: Captain Henry Bell]
[Also posted: XHTML in tlhr10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2006 Vivian Grey, by The Earl of Beaconsfield [?vvgrxxx.xxx] 9840
[Author: AKA Benjamin Disraeli]
Feb 2006 The Cavalier, by George Washington Cable [?cavlxxx.xxx] 9839
[Also posted HTML - 8cavl10h.zip and 8cavl10h.htm]
Feb 2006 Strong Hearts, by George W. Cable [sthrtxxx.xxx] 9838
Contents:
The Solitary
The Taxidermist
The Entomologist]
Feb 2006 Albert Durer, by T. Sturge Moore [?durrxxx.xxx] 9837
[Also posted HTML - 8durr10h.zip and 8durr10h.htm]
Feb 2006 The Pawns Count, by E. Phillips Oppenheim [?pawnxxx.xxx] 9836
Feb 2006 Martin Conisby's Vengeance, by Jeffery Farnol [#6][?mvngxxx.xxx] 9835
Feb 2006 The Talleyrand Maxim, by J. S. Fletcher [#3][?tlrnxxx.xxx] 9834
Feb 2006 Pee-Wee Harris, by Percy Keese Fitzhugh [#2][peweexxx.xxx] 9833
Note: The below posting finishes the posting of the Complete Works of Whittier:
Jan 2006 The Complete Works of John Greenleaf Whittier[#45][wit41xxx.xxx] 9600
[Includes Etexts #9560 to 9599][Note: wit4110.txt is 3.3 mb]
Dec 2005 Whittier's Conflict, Reform, Vol. 7, Complete[#44][wit40xxx.xxx] 9599
Dec 2005 Criticism, by Whittier, V7, Part 4[#43][wit39xxx.xxx] 9598
Dec 2005 The Inner Life, by Whittier, V7, Part 3[#42][wit38xxx.xxx] 9597
Dec 2005 Reform and Politics, Whittier, V7, Part 2[#41][wit37xxx.xxx] 9596
Dec 2005 Conflict With Slavery, Whittier, V7, Part 1[#40][wit36xxx.xxx] 9595
Dec 2005 Whittier's Personal Sketches Vol. 6, Complete[#39][wit35xxx.xxx] 9594
[Includes eBooks #9591-9593]
Dec 2005 Historical Papers, by Whittier, V6, Part 3[#38][wit34xxx.xxx] 9593
Dec 2005 Personal Sketches, by Whittier, V6, Part 2[#37][wit33xxx.xxx] 9592
Dec 2005 Old Portraits, by Whittier, V6, Part 1[#36][wit32xxx.xxx] 9591
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APPLE iTUNES DOES WINDOWS
Apple is expanding its popular iTunes music download service into Windows
territory, promising a wider selection of songs and some new features to
maintain its lead in an increasingly competitive market. The launch was
accompanied by the usual Apple glitz -- CEO Steve Jobs chatted via remote
link-up with U2 lead man Bono and the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger in a
prelude to a live performance by singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. "It's
like the pope of software meeting up with the Dali Lama of integration,"
gushed Bono -- referring to the iTunes software and Apple's integrated
online music store. Analysts say that iTunes faces stiff competition in the
Windows space, but that its flexibility to download tunes onto multiple
devices gives it an edge. "There's going to be a lot of jockeying for
position in the next 12 months," says a Forrester Research analyst. "But I
think iTunes is a real winner because it has the portable player, the
jukebox and the store all together." (Reuters 16 Oct 2003)
news.excite.com/tech/article/id/329433|technology|10-16-2003::17:32|reuters.
html
INTEL TO CALIFORNIA: WE'RE OUTTA HERE
Intel chief executive Craig Barnett says his company -- one of the biggest
success stories of California's Silicon Valley -- has ruled out any plans
to expand in that state, because of what he characterized as 20 years of
political mismanagement of the California economy. "California has to treat
business as something it has to attract and nurture." Over the past decade,
Oregon has displaced California as the state with the largest number of
Intel employees, and Arizona now has more Intel employees than Silicon
Valley, where the company's headquarters remain. Barrett notes that, while
much of the world seeks to lure high-tech businesses, California is focused
on providing support to such "19th century" industries as agriculture,
steel and shrimp farming. He also pointed out that India, China and Russia
alone now have somewhere between 250 million and 500 million highly
educated knowledge workers between them, a number that surpasses not just
the population of California but that of the entire U.S. (Reuters/21 Oct 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techcorporatenews/2003-10-21-intel
-rips-cali_x.htm
CHALLENGE TO THE WEB WEAVED BY MICROSOFT
The U.S. Justice Department and 19 states have complained to U.S. District
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly about a design feature of Windows that compels
consumers who buy music online to use only Microsoft's Internet Explorer
browser and guides them to a Microsoft Web site. The dispute may become the
first test of the Microsoft antitrust settlement approved by a federal
court in October 2002. In response, a Microsoft executive said, "We believe
that the use of Internet Explorer by the Shop-for-Music-Online link in
Windows is consistent with the design rules established by the consent
decree, and we will continue to work with the government to address any
concerns. At issue is a design feature in Windows XP called "Shop for Music
Online," which lets consumers purchase compact discs from retailers over
the Internet, but when consumers click the link to buy music, Windows opens
Microsoft's browser software even if consumers have indicated that they
prefer using rival browser software. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 20 Oct 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7060791.htm
MICROSOFT TOUTS SELF-DESTRUCTING E-MAIL
Microsoft's new Office 2003 software, set to debut on Tuesday, will include
an e-mail feature that can be used to time-stamp messages, directing them
to delete themselves on a certain date. In addition, senders will be able
to restrict forwarding and printing of messages by the recipient. The new
Information Rights Management software could run into opposition from U.S.
regulators, who view destroying e-mail as on a par with shredding
documents. Earlier this year, Morgan Stanley was fined $1.65 million for
failing to keep e-mail records, despite the company's claim that it due to
oversight rather than a deliberate attempt to evade financial
investigation. (BBC News 19 Oct 2003)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3205080.stm
INTERCEPTING E-MAIL IS A CRIME
An Arizona woman was sentenced to 60 days of home detention for
intercepting at least 215 e-mail messages directed to her husband's
ex-wife. Law enforcement officials said Angel Lee fraudulently obtained the
ex-wife's user name and password, allowing her to log in and read mail.
Ex-wife Duongladde Ramsey said Lee's actions were comparable to breaking
into her house and reading her diary, and the judge agreed, saying Lee's
penalty is a warning to others who might be tempted to spy on others'
e-mail accounts. "Privacy is still a cherished value," said U.S. District
Judge Richard P. Matsch. (AP 19 Oct 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20031019/D7U97UCG0.html
INFO TECHNOLOGY HELPS WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
The overall number of microbusinesses (companies with no paid employees)
increased by 9% between 1997 and 2001, and the number of those owned by
women increased by 14% over the same few years. By exploiting such
technology as PCs, fax machines, and color printers to start
information-based companies, women are changing the face of traditional
mom-and-pop ventures. "This is definitely not your father's small
business," says consultant Terri Lonier. Information technology has
liberated many women who want to leave corporate jobs for self-employment
in the same field. One example of the trend: Jennifer Lawson, who started a
TV production consulting firm in her Washington home, equipped with
video-screening equipment. Another: Jaime Caris of Las Vegas, who has
become a virtual administrative assistant, offering clients across the U.S.
assistance with word processing, accounting and other services from her
home office. (AP/USA Today 19 Oct 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/2003-10-19-momndad_x.htm
VERISIGN SHEDS NETWORK SOLUTIONS
VeriSign is selling its Network Solutions domain registrar business to
Pivotal Private Equity for about $100 million, but plans to retain control
over the .com and .net database that Network Solutions operates. The domain
registration business has essentially become a commodity service as more
registrars have entered the field. VeriSign has been in the news recently
for its controversial Site Finder service, which redirects all mistyped
URLs to a search page that it operates. It suspended the service under
pressure from ICANN, which expressed concern over the technical
ramifications of the Site Finder service, but VeriSign said Wednesday that
it plans to restart the service after having found "no identified security
or stability problems" in the system. (CNet News.com 16 Oct 2003)
http://news.com.com/2102-1025_3-5092316.html?tag=st_util_print
TEXT-SEARCHING OR TEXT-MINING?
Whereas Google and other Web search engines retrieve information and
display links to documents that contain certain keywords, text-mining
programs dig deeper in order to categorize information, make links between
seemingly unconnected documents, and provide visual maps that lead down new
pathways of exploratory learning. Unlike data mining, text mining works on
unstructured data -- such as e-mail messages, news articles, internal
reports, phone call transcripts, and so on. A good example of the problem
it seeks to solve is suggested by the comment of researcher Randall S.
Murch, who says: "I was an FBI agent for 20 years. And I have yet to see
anyone who is able to model the way an agent thinks and works through an
investigation." And a good example of the solution offered by text-mining
is its use in the 1980s University of Chicago information scientist Don R.
Swanson in studying the medical literature on migraines. Starting with the
word "migraine," he downloaded abstracts from 2,500 articles from Medline
and noticed a reference to a neural phenomenon called "spreading
depression" -- which prompted him to look for articles with that term in
their titles, which in turn led him to the discovery that magnesium was
often mentioned as preventing this spreading depression. Thus, as a result
of text-mining he was able to hypothesize a link between headaches and
magnesium deficiency -- a link that was later confirmed by actual
experiments. (New York Times 16 Oct 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/technology/circuits/16mine.html
[TeraBYTES Compared To GigaBITS. . .Didn't Those People Learn UNITS???]
[That's .5+ GigaBYTES per second. . .meaning it took ~2 kiloseconds, or
over half an hour. . .no WONDER they didn't want to be specific. . . ;-)]
RESEARCH CENTERS SET NEW RECORD FOR SPEEDY DATA TRANSFER
Two of the world's top research centers -- CERN (the European Organization
for Nuclear Research) and the California Institute of Technology -- say
they've set a new world record for speed in sending data across the
Internet: 1.1 terabytes at 5.44 gigbits per second. That's more than 20,000
times as fast as a typical home broadband connection and would be
equivalent to sending a full-length DVD in seven seconds. The previous top
speed -- 2.38 gigabits per second -- was achieved last February by a joint
team from CERN, Caltech, Los Alamos and Stanford. (Wired.com 15 Oct 2003)
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60833,00.html?tw=wn_techhead_4
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From Edupage
APPLE EXPANDS INTO WINDOWS MUSIC
Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Thursday unveiled his company's
expansion of its iTunes music service to include Windows computers.
Jobs also announced deals Apple has struck with America Online (AOL)
and PepsiCo. Under the first arrangement, AOL will direct users of its
music site to Apple's iTunes store, where they can purchase music with
their AOL memberships. Jobs and AOL CEO Jonathan Miller said the deal
was "exclusive." PepsiCo and Apple will launch a marketing campaign
that features 100 million free iTunes songs, given away through special
caps on PepsiCo bottles. Apple's iTunes has been extremely successful
as a Macintosh-based service, and Jobs said the company has sold 1.4
million of its iPod music players. With the Windows-based version of
its service, Apple will compete with online music services including
RealNetworks, MusicNet, and BuyMusic.com.
New York Times, 17 October 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/technology/17APPL.html
QUICK START FOR WINDOWS ITUNES
Early reports from Apple Computer's foray into Windows-based online
music indicate exuberance among consumers for the company's iTunes
service. Apple has sold more than one million songs to iTunes for
Windows customers since the service was launched last week, and
computer users have reportedly downloaded more than one million copies
of the Windows version of iTunes software in the past three days. Apple
launched iTunes for Macintosh-based computers in April of this year,
and since then the company has sold 14 million songs at 99 cents each.
The company said it hopes to have sold 100 million songs by the first
anniversary of the service next April.
BBC, 20 October 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3207984.stm
[Of Course, No Mention That There Was No Evidence That HE Did It, Either]
HACKER'S ACQUITTAL RAISES CONCERNS OVER TROJAN HORSE DEFENSE
Some security experts fear that a British teen's acquittal on charges
of hacking into the computer system of the port of Houston will weaken
future prosecutions of computer crimes. Aaron Caffrey was charged with
a 2001 attack that left the port's computer system crippled. Although
Caffrey acknowledged that the attack originated from his computer, he
argued in court that a trojan horse program had been installed on his
computer without his knowledge. That application, Caffrey insisted,
allowed someone to remotely launch the attack from his computer.
Although no evidence of such an application was found on Caffrey's
computer, the jury ruled in his favor. Graham Cluley, senior technology
consultant for Sophos, said of the jury's decision that even without
evidence of a trojan horse application, defendants in similar cases
"might still be able to successfully claim that they were not
responsible for what their computer does."
BBC, 17 October 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3202116.stm
[It's OK For Academics To Look At This Information, Just Not OK For YOU]
COMPROMISE REACHED ON DATABASE-PROTECTION BILL
A House of Representatives subcommittee has passed a bill that would
extend strong intellectual-property protections to databases after
opposition from three academic groups was withdrawn. The Database and
Collections of Information Misappropriation Act, introduced last week
by Howard Coble (R-N.C.), had stirred objections from academic groups,
which saw it as a threat to researchers. The original version of the
bill included a vague exception for academics, but the version that
passed the subcommittee this week has a much stronger exception.
According to the revised bill, "no liability shall be imposed under
this act" on higher education and research institutions or their
employees. With that language, the Association of American
Universities, the American Council on Education, and the National
Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges have ended
their opposition to the bill and assumed a neutral position. Other
groups, including the National Academies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
and academic-library organizations, continue to oppose the bill.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 October 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2003/10/2003101701t.htm
FEDS SEEK REVERSAL OF COMPUTER ADMINISTRATOR'S CONVICTION
Federal prosecutors have asked an appeals court to overturn the
conviction of Bret McDanel on charges that he intentionally caused
damage to the computer system of his former employer, Tornado
Development Inc. While an employee of Tornado, McDanel discovered a
flaw that could have compromised customer accounts. He notified the
company, but it refused to fix the flaw. After leaving the company,
McDanel sent several e-mails to customers, warning them of the flaw.
Because the e-mails caused Tornado's computer system to crash and
resulted in monetary losses, McDanel was tried and convicted to 16
months in federal prison. McDanel argued that he did not intend to
cause damage to Tornado's system, and federal prosecutors conceded
they had no evidence that the damage caused was intentional.
Prosecutors have admitted the error and requested that the conviction
be overturned, though McDanel has already served his sentence.
San Jose Mercury News, 15 October 2003
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7020049.htm
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We are again looking for people to exist in these states. Just to
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can please contact me and I will pass you over to Anne.
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
What's Cooking? Part 2
The cooking of one hundred years ago and more does not always appeal
to the modern palate. Sometimes the instructions alone are enough to
put one off; those who are accustomed to buy cut-up meat at the
grocery and transfer it to the pan without ever touching it might not
be attracted by the sometimes endless descriptions of the parts of the
cow, lamb, etc., the various cuts of meat, and the proper color of
flesh and fat. Or, how about this recipe:
Mock-Turtle Soup:
This soup should be prepared the day before it is to be served up. One
calf's head, well cleaned and washed. Lay the head in the bottom of a
large pot. One onion; six cloves; ten allspice; one bunch parsley; one
carrot; salt to taste; cover with four quarts of water. Boil three
hours, or until the flesh will slip easily from the bones; take out
the head; chop the meat and tongue very fine; set aside the brains;
remove the soup from the fire; strain carefully and set away until the
next day. An hour before dinner take off all fat and set on as much of
the stock to warm as you need. When it boils drop in a few squares of
the meat you have reserved, as well as the force balls. To prepare
these, rub the yolk of three hard boiled eggs to a paste in a wooden
bowl, adding gradually the brains to moisten them;[...] --From
_Favorite Recipes_ (whose favorite, we wonder...)
And here is a classic breakfast dish which Mother Used to Make:
Take stale brown bread, no matter how dry, and boil until it is soft
like pudding
Serve hot.
As unexciting as this sounds, it might be preferable to Brain Cakes:
When the head is cloven, take out the brains and clear them of
strings, beat them up with the yelks[*] of two eggs, some crumbs of
bread, pepper, salt, fine parsley, a spoonful of cream, and a spoonful
of flour; when they are well mixed, drop them with a spoon into a
frying-pan with a little hot butter, and fry them of a light-brown
color. [* This book, _Domestic Cookery_, uses "yelks" instead of
"yolks" throughout.]
Cookbooks making their way through Distributed Proofreaders have been
the source of a number of contributions to the famous General Forum
thread, "Most amusing (or astonishing) text you've come across."
Besides marveling over brains and stale brown bread, DPers post the
amusing errors introduced by OCR software (and which it is DP's
mission to correct), for example:
[...] you may make a sauce by flavouring your melted butler with a
glass of port wine, and an anchovy boned and minced.
Or:
[...] have your pot boiling, scald the hag, flour it, and put in the
pudding,--it will boil in two hours. Eat with sugar and cream,
molasses, or any kind of pudding sauce.
Instructions are lacking, however, on how to make the butler and the
hag stand still for such treatment.
On the other hand, there are quite a number of recipes in these ebooks
that sound perfectly delicious, for instance:
A TRIFLE.
A quart of cream.
A quarter of a pound of loaf sugar, powdered.
Half a pint of white wine and Half a gill of brandy mixed.
Eight maccaroons, or more if you choose.
Four small sponge-cakes or Naples biscuit.
Two ounces of blanched sweet almonds, pounded in a mortar.
One ounce of blanched bitter almonds or peach-kernels.
The juice and grated peel of two lemons.
A nutmeg, grated.
A glass of noyau.
A pint of rich baked custard, made of the yolks of eggs.
[...] a little rose-water
--From _Seventy-Five Receipts_, by Miss Leslie
Obviously trifles were rather more interesting in the olden
days.... Although I'm not sure what a gill is, or Naples biscuit, or
noyau, but I'm willing to do some research so that I can concoct this
monstrously rich dessert.
Here I will leave you to your own investigations into PG's collection
of cookery books. For a full listing, please see part 1 of this
article which appeared in last week's newsletter. Bon appetit!
Tonya Allen
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Notes from Posted
Fat weeks and skinny weeks... This week was definitely fat in
'Posted', probably thanks to euphoria about our 10,000th book. Wow -
everyday it was getting more and more interesting: Eloquent mail of
M.Hart about formats of future PG collection distribution, stories
in Slashdot*, next target plank, something about audio books - I still
am not sure about what actually happened over there - but it seems
that there is now a program that converts audio books to acceptable in
visual impaired community and it will be opened for trial on Slashdot
(the mystical line "this slashdotter diary is baseline #1." is
probably the key one...), and that the goal is to have all books in
multiple format- texts or audio.
Knowledge and Technology! Indeed all computers are coming now with
DVD and moreover, all companies finally came to agreement that they
are recognizing the formats of each other, even RAM is now supported
by many of DVD-writers and most of the readers. What a peaceful
solution in the world of competition! However, the world can not
refrain from changes. Double-side, double layer DVD is already
definitely not enough (it is only about 16 Gb as far as I remember...)
and big sharks are heading long time towards new horizons - IBMs
punched card (back to root so to speak...) based on nanotechnology
will be in the market in 3 years time. The new punchcard will be able
to store more than 25 million pages of information on the surface the
size of a postage stamp. They still do not know which products they
will make based on it, but this is only matter of time. Panasonic has
already selling the video cameras that do not require tape- the
information is written directly to the chip that can be played on any
computer. So one can easily extrapolate and see the small punch card
that will include whole set of audio/texts/images of free e-library
together with the corresponding movies (what is the copyright time for
movies ?) that can be inserted to the handheld with expandable
screen...
Also the electronic paper is not at all given up. In 2001 Technology
Review wrote "Gutenberg's printing press needed paper to make a
revolution. The clunky e-book needs e-paper. And it's on the way." It
is still on its way, however it looks more promising now when finally
the healthy competition came to the market. Now, according to
Scientific American the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory are going head
by head towards the first commercial release. "Both firms base their
core technologies on tiny, electrically charged beads, with the
imaging capability controlled electronically. And they are not only
racing each other to commercialize their efforts but are also
anticipating competition from the organic light-emitting diodes that
are beginning to emerge from laboratories." The people in the journal
are hoping that the release of 2010 will be printed on the e-paper
already.
Future targets, long-term goals and all-out technology attempts- the
common base for them is an explicit belief that the world or perhaps
it is more correct to say, our part of it will go on in the same
direction as the last 200 years. It is kind of like trying to dig deep
with a kids toy-scoop, but I feel kind of concerned from time to
time, probably since I am from a part of the world where the worries
about how to publish the free electronic library look as real as
worries about how to build nice summer-house on the moon when the
earth-moon shuttles will be available,... some annoying features but
in general inevitable.
The educated PhD in Saudi Arabia wrote an article where he
scientifically proved that women can not drive a car. It is not about
the fact that millions and millions have never touched the keyboard
and there is still very little chance they will do it in the near
future. This is about a different world format. So different, that you
can not even get close to grasp it. When I was young and extremely
moneyless, I worked on the archeological sites side by side with many
others and with local Arabs as well. We drank real Bedouins coffee
(strong and sweet with a lot of cardamom in it) together and spoke
about the world's problems. And they told me and other "whites" very
calmly "Sure we are drinking coffee now and it is nice. But one day my
son will come to the street and will kill you and I will not say a
word to him. There is no place in this world for both of us". There
was nothing hostile in his tone, just merely an ascertaining of the
facts.
What reformatting program should be applied that his grand-grandson
will order a small piece of hardware (whatever it will be in the
future... a tiny Universal E-Book or a chip that youll plug in your
head!) with the title - "Anniversary PG edition - Celebrate the 1M
free book with us!" and cry over the suffering of young Hamlet or
enjoy the sophistication of Carrolls dialogs? I like the ways of our
civilization (as strange as they are sometimes) and prefer to believe
that we can defend it not with the weapons in our hands, but by calm
and quiet expansion through education, education and education, in
which process the books and media are certainly one of the key
players... after good teachers, of course.
So I honestly wish to Project Gutenberg the next target of 6 digits,
long life and relationships of friendship and cooperation with other
projects that hopefully will make this world better. According to my
understanding of this word of course. The sky is the only limit, and
the ultimate goal is little bio-electronic information storage device
with whole set of past, present and future literature in all possible
formats, automatically updated with every new book released in the
world and small sign of PG will float around its virtual upper right
corner. I hope that there will be somebody to read it on this small
planet, which looks so cute from the skies.
Gali Sirkis
* For those readers who are not familiar with the web's cool places
(if any?), Slashdot is the site where everybody can write/read/
comment the news that s/he think are interesting about technology,
science and related areas of the human world. The motto is 'News for
nerds. Stuff that matters', the stories are moderated and user
comments are sometimes very interesting.
ibm :
http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,71913,00.html
electronic paper:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58765,00.html
or
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0004C2D2-B938-1CD6-B4A8809EC588EEDF
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Preparations for next week's quiz.
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This week we added 65 new.(incl. 2 at PG of Australia).
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Feb 2006 The Beautiful and the Damned,byF. Scott Fitzgerald[?batdxxx.xxx] 9830
Feb 2006 The Jewel Merchants, by James Branch Cabell [#7][?jmchxxx.xxx] 9829
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Feb 2006 Barnen ifran Frostmofjaellet, by Laura Fitinghoff [?bifrxxx.xxx] 9828
[Language: Swedish]
Feb 2006 De vandrande djaeknarne, by Viktor Rydberg [?djakxxx.xxx] 9827
[Language: Swedish]
Feb 2006 Homeward Bound, by James Fenimore Cooper [?hmbdxxx.xxx] 9826
[Subtitle: The Chase] [Also posted HTML - 8hmbd10h.zip and 8hmbd10h.htm]
Feb 2006 A Calendar of Sonnets, by Helen Hunt Jackson [calsnxxx.xxx] 9825
[Also posted: HTML in calsn10h.htm, Illustrated HTML in calsn10h.zip]
Feb 2006 Observations Geologiques, by Charles Darwin [?geolxxx.xxx] 9824
[Full title: Observations Geologiques sur les Iles Volcaniques]
[Language: French]
Feb 2006 Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1, by Samuel Johnson [?jpt1xxx.xxx] 9823
Feb 2006 Beaux and Belles of England, by Mary Robinson [?bebexxx.xxx] 9822
[With the Lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire by Grace and
Philip Wharton]
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Feb 2006 A Writer's Recollections, V2, Mrs. Humphry Ward [?wrr2xxx.xxx] 9821
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[Author AKA: Mrs. Humphrey Ward; Mary Augusta Arnold Ward]
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Feb 2006 A Writer's Recollections, V1, Mrs. Humphry Ward [?wrr1xxx.xxx] 9820
[Full Title: A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I]
[Author AKA: Mrs. Humphrey Ward; Mary Augusta Arnold Ward]
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Feb 2006 Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870, Various[?p114xxx.xxx] 9819
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Feb 2006 Journees de la Constituante, by Albert Mathiez [?cnstxxx.xxx] 9818
[Full title: Les grandes journees de la Constituante] [Language: French]
Feb 2006 Peter Ibbetson, by George du Marier [?pibbxxx.xxx] 9817
[With an Introduction by His Cousin Lady "Madge Plunkett"]
[Illustrated by George du Maurier]
Feb 2006 Lo, Michael!, by Grace Livingston Hill [?lmchxxx.xxx] 9816
Feb 2006 Principal Navigations, V8, by Richard Hakluyt[#11][?hk08xxx.xxx] 9815
[Full title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries
of the English Nation. v. 8--Asia, Part I.]
Feb 2006 Poetical Works of Akenside, by Mark Akenside [?akenxxx.xxx] 9814
[Edited by George Gilfillan]
Feb 2006 Santo Domingo, by Otto Schoenrich [?stdmxxx.xxx] 9813
[Subtitle: A Country With A Future]
Feb 2006 I Spy, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln [?ispyxxx.xxx] 9812
Feb 2006 The Adventures of Hugh Trevor, by Thomas Holcroft [?htrvxxx.xxx] 9811
Feb 2006 Man Kann Nie Wissen, by George Bernard Shaw [?mknwxxx.xxx] 9810
[Subtitle: Komoedie in vier Akten] [Tr.: Siegfried Trabisch]
[Language: German]
Feb 2006 The Price of Things, by Elinor Glyn [#4][?prthxxx.xxx] 9809
Feb 2006 The Loudwater Mystery, by Edgar Jepson [?loudxxx.xxx] 9808
Feb 2006 Scarhaven Keep, by J. S. Fletcher [?sckpxxx.xxx] 9807
Feb 2006 Mr. Justice Raffles, by E. W. Hornung [#5][?raffxxx.xxx] 9806
Feb 2006 The Second William Penn, by William H. Ryus [wpen2xxx.xxx] 9805
[Subtitle: A true account of incidents that happened along the old
Santa Fe Trail]
Feb 2006 Stones of Venice [introductions], John Ruskin [#7][?stvnxxx.xxx] 9804
[Introductory Chapters And Local Indices For The Use Of Travellers While
Staying In Venice And Verona]
Feb 2006 Life of Henry Reeve, by John Knox Laughton, Vol. 2[?rev2xxx.xxx] 9803
[Title: Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L.]
[In Two Volumes. Vol. 2]
Feb 2006 Der Mann des Schicksals, by George Bernard Shaw [?dmdsxxx.xxx] 9802
[Subtitle: Komoedie in einem Akt] [Tr.: Siegfried Trabitsch]
[Language: German]
Feb 2006 The Habitant and Others, by William Henry Drummond[?hbtnxxx.xxx] 9801
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Jan 2006 Rape of the Lock and Other Poems,by Alexander Pope[?rplkxxx.xxx] 9800
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Jan 2006 Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9),by Samuel Richardson[#4][clar2xxx.xxx] 9798
Jan 2006 Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870,Various[?p115xxx.xxx] 9797
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Jan 2006 The Master Detective, by Percy James Brebner [#2][?msdtxxx.xxx] 9796
[Subtitle: Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles]
Jan 2006 The Four Faces, by William le Queux [#2][?fourxxx.xxx] 9795
Jan 2006 Calvary Alley, by Alice Hegan Rice [?calvxxx.xxx] 9794
Jan 2006 Josephus, by Norman Bentwich [?jsphxxx.xxx] 9793
Jan 2006 Redemption and Two Other Plays, by Leo Tolstoy [?rdptxxx.xxx] 9792
[Author AKA: Leo Tolstoi] [Introduction by Arthur Hopkins]
Contents:
Redemption
The Power of Darkness
Fruits of Culture]
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Jan 2006 Harrigan, by Max Brand [hrrgnxxx.xxx] 9791
Jan 2006 Traffics and Discoveries, by Rudyard Kipling [#26][?tdscxxx.xxx] 9790
Contents:
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The Bonds Of Discipline
A Sahibs' War
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Jan 2006 Woodstock; or, The Cavalier, by Sir Walter Scott [?wstkxxx.xxx] 9785
Jan 2006 Thomas Carlyle, A Biography, by John Nichol [?carlxxx.xxx] 9784
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Jan 2006 Fair Margaret, by H. Rider Haggard [?frmgxxx.xxx] 9780
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Dec 2005 Whittier's Tales, Sketches, Vol. 5, Complete[#35][wit31xxx.xxx] 9590
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Dec 2005 Sketches, by Whittier, V5, Part 3[#34][wit30xxx.xxx] 9589
Dec 2005 Doctor Singletary, by Whittier, V5, Part 2[#33][wit29xxx.xxx] 9588
Dec 2005 Margaret Smith Journal, Whittier, V5, Part 1[#32][wit28xxx.xxx] 9587
Dec 2005 Whittier's Personal Poems, Vol. 4, Complete[#31][wit27xxx.xxx] 9586
Dec 2005 At Sundown, by Whittier, V4, Part 5[#30][wit26xxx.xxx] 9585
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Dec 2005 The Tent on the Beach, Whittier, V4, Part 4[#29][wit25xxx.xxx] 9584
Dec 2005 Occasional Poems, by Whittier, V4, Part 3[#28][wit24xxx.xxx] 9583
Dec 2005 Personal Poems II, by Whittier, V4, Part 2[#27][wit23xxx.xxx] 9582
Dec 2005 Personal Poems I, by Whittier, V4, Part 1[#26][wit22xxx.xxx] 9581
May 2005 Reize naar Surinamen, Complete, by J. Stedman [#5][?rns5xxx.xxx] 8100
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Jun 2002 Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith [Adam Smith #1] [wltntxxx.xxx] 3300
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Jun 2002 The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper [JFC #7][dslyrxxx.xxx] 3285
Jun 2002 The Discovery of the Source of the Nile, by Speke [disnlxxx.xxx] 3284
Jun 2002 The Upanishads, translated by Swami Paramananda [upanixxx.xxx] 3283
Jun 2002 The Brown Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang, Ed.[Lang#32][brfryxxx.xxx] 3282
Jun 2002 Cy Whittaker's Place, by J. C. Lincoln[Lincoln #9][cywhtxxx.xxx] 3281
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Jun 2002 Canterbury Pieces, by Samuel Butler [S. Butler #8][cantpxxx.xxx] 3279
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Jun 2002 The Complete Works of Artemus Ward [Browne] Part 7[7wardxxx.xxx] 3277
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Jun 2002 The Jerusalem Sinner Saved, by John Bunyan [JB #4][jrsnsxxx.xxx] 3270
Jun 2002 The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Rutherford [mrkrtxxx.xxx] 3269
Jun 2002 The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe [udolfxxx.xxx] 3268
Jun 2002 Old Love Stories Retold, by Richard Le Gallienne [hnmtlxxx.xxx] 3267
Jun 2002 Miss Billy, by Eleanor H. Porter[Eleanor Porter#5][msblyxxx.xxx] 3266
Jun 2002 The Re-Creation of Brian Kent, Harold Bell Wright [trcbkxxx.xxx] 3265
Jun 2002 Dennison Grant, by Robert Stead [dnsngxxx.xxx] 3264
Jun 2002 The Portygee, by Joseph C. Lincoln[J.C. Lincoln#7][prtgexxx.xxx] 3263
Jun 2002 The Pilgrims of Hope, by William Morris[Morris #9][plghpxxx.xxx] 3262
Jun 2002 News from Nowhere, by William Morris[Wm Morris #8][nwsnwxxx.xxx] 3261
Jun 2002 Short History of Wales, by Owen M. Edwards [hstwlxxx.xxx] 3260
Jun 2002 Countess Kate, by Charlotte M. Yonge [CM Yonge #8][cntktxxx.xxx] 3259
Jun 2002 A Laodicean, by Thomas Hardy [Thomas Hardy #21][laodcxxx.xxx] 3258
Jun 2002 New Thought Pastels, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox[EWW#3][nwthpxxx.xxx] 3257
Jun 2002 Books and Bookmen, by Ian Maclaren[IanMaclaren #1][bkbmnxxx.xxx] 3256
Jun 2002 Moments of Vision, by Thomas Hardy[ThomasHardy#20][mntvsxxx.xxx] 3255
Jun 2002 Entire PG Galsworthy Files, by Galsworthy [GL#34][glentxxx.xxx] 3254
Jun 2002 The Entire Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln files [AL #8][lcentxxx.xxx] 3253
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May 2002 How Tell a Story and Others, by Mark Twain [MT#22][mthtsxxx.xxx] 3250
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MICROSOFT VOWS TO FIX WINDOWS SECURITY PROBLEMS
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted the inadequacy the company's
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have complained that the company's system of frequently issuing new patches
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INTEL'S ANDY GROVE WORRIED ABOUT U.S. LEAD IN HIGH TECH
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problem. He also said the U.S. lags dangerously behind in popular use of
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TEXT-MESSAGING MARKET OPPORTUNITIES IN CHINA
Text-messaging services in China have become wildly popular, to the extent
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MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES REVISED PATCHING STRATEGY
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this week announced major changes to the
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SunnComm Technologies said it will likely sue John "Alex" Halderman, a
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Halderman had damaged the company's name and might be subject to
prosecution under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which
forbids circumventing copy-protection technologies. Some observers
believe that Halderman's actions fall outside the purview of the DMCA
because the paper was an academic publication, it uses features of all
Windows computers, and it was not distributed for profit.
CNET, 9 October 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5089168.html
SUNNCOMM BACKS AWAY FROM LAWSUIT THREAT
One day after security firm SunnComm Technologies threatened to sue a
Princeton University graduate student for revealing how to defeat the
company's CD copy-protection technology, CEO Peter Jacobs withdrew the
threat. When Princeton student John Halderman published a paper earlier
in the week with details about sidestepping SunnComm's technology,
Jacobs accused Halderman of defaming the company and threatened him
with civil and criminal prosecution. Jacobs on Friday conceded that
filing lawsuits would have been a mistake, saying, "It wasn't our
intention to strike a blow against research."
BBC, 13 October 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3186592.stm
WEB SITE ABOUT DIPLOMA MILLS CAUSES CONTROVERSY
A physics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
has taken down a Web site with research on diploma mills after meeting
with university administrators. According to George Gollin, officials
from the university ordered him to remove the Web site from university
servers after some of the institutions profiled threatened to sue the
university. A spokesperson from the university denied that Gollin was
ordered to shut down the site, saying, "We were trying to help him find
a more appropriate place for his Web site." She noted that because
Gollin is a professor of physics, the issue of diploma mills and
accreditation falls outside his area of expertise and does not meet the
university's public-service requirement. Gollin's work will now be
available on the State of Oregon's Office of Degree Authorization
site. Alan Contreras, administrator of that site, called the research
"superb" and said it is "a very helpful consumer-protection tool."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 October 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/10/2003101301t.htm
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Dr. Raymond V. Damadian, president of the Fonar Corporation in Melville,
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was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1997, in which case General Electric
was ordered to pay $129 million for their patent infringment, has been
overlooked in this week's Nobel Prize's, which were instead offered to
Paul Lauterbur of the University of Illinois and Sir Peter Mansfield
of the University of Nottingham, England.
Damidian has received the other major awards for MRI, and no reason
has been given by the Nobel Committee for excluding Dr. Damidian.
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Jan 2006 Vane of the Timberlands, by Harold Bindloss [?vanexxx.xxx] 9778
Jan 2006 Riley Child-Rhymes, by James Whitcomb Riley [#4][chrlyxxx.xxx] 9777
Jan 2006 Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators [?cbhoxxx.xxx] 9776
[Full Title: Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator,
or Accomplished Speaker]
[Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero] [Tr.: E. Jones]
Jan 2006 Treasure and Trouble Therewith,by Geraldine Bonner[?ttrbxxx.xxx] 9775
Jan 2006 Alice, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#214][b214wxxx.xxx] 9774
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #9763-9773]
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Jan 2006 Alice, by E. B. Lytton, Book 10 [BL#212][b212wxxx.xxx] 9772
Jan 2006 Alice, by E. B. Lytton, Book 9 [BL#211][b211wxxx.xxx] 9771
Jan 2006 Alice, by E. B. Lytton, Book 8 [BL#210][b210wxxx.xxx] 9770
Jan 2006 Alice, by E. B. Lytton, Book 7 [BL#209][b209wxxx.xxx] 9769
Jan 2006 Alice, by E. B. Lytton, Book 6 [BL#208][b208wxxx.xxx] 9768
Jan 2006 Alice, by E. B. Lytton, Book 5 [BL#207][b207wxxx.xxx] 9767
Jan 2006 Alice, by E. B. Lytton, Book 4 [BL#206][b206wxxx.xxx] 9766
Jan 2006 Alice, by E. B. Lytton, Book 3 [BL#205][b205wxxx.xxx] 9765
Jan 2006 Alice, by E. B. Lytton, Book 2 [BL#204][b204wxxx.xxx] 9764
Jan 2006 Alice, by E. B. Lytton, Book 1 [BL#203][b203wxxx.xxx] 9763
Jan 2006 Calderon, by E. B. Lytton, [BL#202][b202wxxx.xxx] 9762
Jan 2006 Leila, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#201][b201wxxx.xxx] 9761
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #9756-9760]
Jan 2006 Leila, by E. B. Lytton, Book 5 [BL#200][b200wxxx.xxx] 9760
Jan 2006 Leila, by E. B. Lytton, Book 4 [BL#199][b199wxxx.xxx] 9759
Jan 2006 Leila, by E. B. Lytton, Book 3 [BL#198][b198wxxx.xxx] 9758
Jan 2006 Leila, by E. B. Lytton, Book 2 [BL#197][b197wxxx.xxx] 9757
Jan 2006 Leila, by E. B. Lytton, Book 1 [BL#196][b196wxxx.xxx] 9756
Jan 2006 Night & Morning, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#195][b195wxxx.xxx] 9755
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #9750-9754]
Jan 2006 Night & Morning, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 5 [BL#194][b194wxxx.xxx] 9754
Jan 2006 Night & Morning, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 4 [BL#193][b193wxxx.xxx] 9753
Jan 2006 Night & Morning, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 3 [BL#192][b192wxxx.xxx] 9752
Jan 2006 Night & Morning, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 2 [BL#191][b191wxxx.xxx] 9751
Jan 2006 Night & Morning, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 1 [BL#190][b190wxxx.xxx] 9750
Jan 2006 The Highwayman, by H.C. Bailey [?highxxx.xxx] 9749
Jan 2006 The Old Gray Homestead, by Frances Parkinson Keyes[?grayxxx.xxx] 9748
Jan 2006 The Fortune Hunter, by Louis Joseph Vance [?fortxxx.xxx] 9747
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - 8fort10h.zip; and 8fort10h.htm]
Jan 2006 The Ashiel mystery, by Mrs. Charles Bryce [?ashlxxx.xxx] 9746
Jan 2006 The Rock of Chickamauga, by Joseph A. Altsheler [trochxxx.xxx] 9745
[The following (#9703-#9744) are Computer-generated audio eBooks; each are
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Jan 2006 Audio: David Copperfield, Charles Dickens [cprfdxxx.mp3] 9744C
Jan 2006 Audio: Sketches of Young Couples, Charles Dickens [yngcpxxx.mp3] 9743C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Wreck of the Golden Mary, C. Dickens [wrkgmxxx.mp3] 9742C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Uncommercial Traveller, Charles Dickens[unctrxxx.mp3] 9741C
Jan 2006 Audio: Tom Tiddler's Ground, Charles Dickens [ttgndxxx.mp3] 9740C
Jan 2006 Audio: Cricket on the Hearth, Charles Dickens [tcothxxx.mp3] 9739C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Chimes, Charles Dickens [tchmsxxx.mp3] 9738C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Seven Poor Travellers, Charles Dickens [svprtxxx.mp3] 9737C
Jan 2006 Audio: Sunday Under Three Heads, Charles Dickens [suthsxxx.mp3] 9736C
Jan 2006 Audio: Somebody's Luggage, Charles Dickens [smlggxxx.mp3] 9735C
Jan 2006 Audio: Sketches of Young Gentlemen,Charles Dickens[skygmxxx.mp3] 9734C
Jan 2006 Audio: Sketches by Boz, Charles Dickens [sbbozxxx.mp3] 9733C
Jan 2006 Audio: Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens [rudgexxx.mp3] 9732C
Jan 2006 Audio: To Be Read At Dusk, Charles Dickens [rddskxxx.mp3] 9731C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens [pwprsxxx.mp3] 9730C
Jan 2006 Audio: Perils of Certain English Prisoners, CD [pocepxxx.mp3] 9729C
Jan 2006 Audio: Pictures from Italy, Charles Dickens [picitxxx.mp3] 9728C
Jan 2006 Audio: Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens [olivrxxx.mp3] 9727C
Jan 2006 Audio: No Thoroughfare, Charles Dickens [nothoxxx.mp3] 9726C
Jan 2006 Audio: Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens [ncklbxxx.mp3] 9725C
Jan 2006 Audio: Miscellaneous Papers, Charles Dickens [mspcdxxx.mp3] 9724C
Jan 2006 Audio: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Charles Dickens [mlrlgxxx.mp3] 9723C
Jan 2006 Audio: Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Charles Dickens [mlldgxxx.mp3] 9722C
Jan 2006 Audio: Master Humphrey's Clock, Charles Dickens [mhmphxxx.mp3] 9721C
Jan 2006 Audio: Mugby Junction, Charles Dickens [mgjncxxx.mp3] 9720C
Jan 2006 Audio: Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens [mfrndxxx.mp3] 9719C
Jan 2006 Audio: Mudfog and Other Sketches, Charles Dickens [mdfogxxx.mp3] 9718C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices [lttiaxxx.mp3] 9717C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Lamplighter, Charles Dickens [lmpltxxx.mp3] 9716C
Jan 2006 Audio: Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens [ldortxxx.mp3] 9715C
Jan 2006 Audio: A House to Let, Charles Dickens [hsletxxx.mp3] 9714C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargin, CD [hntmnxxx.mp3] 9713C
Jan 2006 Audio: Hunted Down, Charles Dickens [hntdnxxx.mp3] 9712C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Holly-Tree, Charles Dickens [hlytrxxx.mp3] 9711C
Jan 2006 Audio: Holiday Romance, Charles Dickens [hldrmxxx.mp3] 9710C
Jan 2006 Audio: Hard Times, Charles Dickens [hardtxxx.mp3] 9709C
Jan 2006 Audio: George Silverman's Explanation, C. Dickens [gsilxxxx.mp3] 9708C
Jan 2006 Audio: Going into Society, Charles Dickens [gisocxxx.mp3] 9707C
Jan 2006 Audio: Speeches: Literary and Social, C. Dickens [dslasxxx.mp3] 9706C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens[droodxxx.mp3] 9705C
Jan 2006 Audio: Doctor Marigold, Charles Dickens [drmrgxxx.mp3] 9704C
Jan 2006 Audio: Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens [dombyxxx.mp3] 9703C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens [curioxxx.mp3] 9702C
Jan 2006 Beowulf, Ed. by James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp[8bwlfxxx.xxx] 9701
[8-bit Unicode in 8bwlf10ua.txt and 8egs410ua.zip, no Plain Text version]
[Also posted HTML - 8bwlf10ha.zip and 8bwlf10ha.htm, ISO-8859-1]
Jan 2006 Beowulf, Ed. by James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp[8bwlfxxx.xxx] 9700
[8-bit in 8bwlf10.txt/.zip; HTML in 8bwlf10h.htm/.zip; no Plain Text format]
[This version is the direct reproduction of the source text]
[The following (#9671-#9699) are Computer-generated audio eBooks; each are
comprised of multiple .mp3 files, and have corresponding *index.html and
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Jan 2006 Audio: Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens [chuzzxxx.mp3] 9699C
Jan 2006 Audio: Some Christmas Stories, Charles Dickens [cdscsxxx.mp3] 9698C
Jan 2006 Audio: Reprinted Pieces, Charles Dickens [cdrprxxx.mp3] 9697C
Jan 2006 Audio: A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens [carolxxx.mp3] 9696C
Jan 2006 Audio: Bleak House, Charles Dickens [blkhsxxx.mp3] 9695C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Battle of Life, Charles Dickens [batlfxxx.mp3] 9694C
Jan 2006 Audio: American Notes, Charles Dickens [amntsxxx.mp3] 9693C
Jan 2006 Audio: A Message From the Sea, Charles Dickens [amftsxxx.mp3] 9692C
Jan 2006 Audio: All The Year Round, Charles Dickens [allyrxxx.mp3] 9691C
Jan 2006 Audio: A Child's History of England, C. Dickens [achoexxx.mp3] 9690C
Jan 2006 Audio: Three Ghost Stories, Charles Dickens [3ghstxxx.mp3] 9689C
Jan 2006 Audio: Tour through through England, Daniel Defoe [ttecexxx.mp3] 9688C
[Full title: Tour through the Eastern Counties of England]
Jan 2006 Audio: Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe [rbcruxxx.mp3] 9687C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [rbcr2xxx.mp3] 9686C
[Author: Daniel Defoe]
Jan 2006 Audio: Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe [mollfxxx.mp3] 9685C
Jan 2006 Audio: From London to Land's End, Daniel Defoe [lndlexxx.mp3] 9684C
Jan 2006 Audio: A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe [jplagxxx.mp3] 9683C
Jan 2006 Audio: Essay Upon Projects, Daniel Defoe [esprjxxx.mp3] 9682C
Jan 2006 Audio: Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business [ebdybxxx.mp3] 9681C
[Author: Daniel Defoe]
Jan 2006 Audio: Dickory Cronke, Daniel Defoe [dckcrxxx.mp3] 9680C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Famous Captain Singleton, Daniel Defoe [cpsngxxx.mp3] 9679C
[Full title: The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton]
Jan 2006 Audio: The Consolidator, Daniel Defoe [consoxxx.mp3] 9678C
Jan 2006 Audio: Captain Mission, Daniel Defoe [7cmisxxx.mp3] 9677C
Jan 2006 Audio: Silas Marner, George Eliot [smarnxxx.mp3] 9676C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot [mlflsxxx.mp3] 9675C
Jan 2006 Audio: The Lifted Veil, George Eliot [lftvlxxx.mp3] 9674C
Jan 2006 Audio: Brother Jacob, George Eliot [brjcbxxx.mp3] 9673C
Jan 2006 Audio: Adam Bede, George Eliot [adambxxx.mp3] 9672C
Jan 2006 Audio: Daniel Deronda, George Eliot [7drdaxxx.mp3] 9671C
Jan 2006 Less-known British Poets, Complete, Gilfillan [#5][?lbp4xxx.xxx] 9670
Jan 2006 Less-known British Poets, Vol. 3, by Gilfillan[#4][?lbp3xxx.xxx] 9669
Jan 2006 Less-known British Poets, Vol. 2, by Gilfillan[#3][?lbp2xxx.xxx] 9668
Jan 2006 Less-known British Poets, Vol. 1, by Gilfillan[#2][?lbp1xxx.xxx] 9667
[Full title: Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets]
[Edited by George Gilfillan] [Introductory Essays By George Gilfillan]
Jan 2006 Scientific American Supplement, No. 497 [?0497xxx.xxx] 9666
[Full title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885]
[Full author: Various]
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - 8049710h.zip; and 8049710h.htm]
Jan 2006 Delia Blanchflower, by Mrs. Humphry Ward [?dlblxxx.xxx] 9665
Jan 2006 Amiable Charlatan, by E. P. Oppenheim [EPO#16] [?achrxxx.xxx] 9664
[Full Title: An Amiable Charlatan]
[Full Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim]
Jan 2006 Domnei, by James Branch Cabell [?domnxxx.xxx] 9663
[Subtitle: A Comedy of Woman-Worship]
[Preface by Joseph Hergesheimer; Critical comments by E. Noel Codman and
Paul Verville]
Jan 2006 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, D. Hume[?echuxxx.xxx] 9662
[Author: David Hume]
[Introduction, Comparative Table of Contents, and Analytical Index by
by L. A. Selby-Bigge] [Ed.: L. A. Selby-Bigge]
[Also posted: HTML version in 8echu10h.htm and 8echu10h.zip]
Jan 2006 Mormon Settlement in Arizona,byJames H. McClintock[mrmsaxxx.xxx] 9661
[Subtitle: A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert]
Jan 2006 First Blast of the Trumpet, by John Knox, 1558 [?trmpxxx.xxx] 9660
[Full title: The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment
of Women] [Ed.: Edward Arber]
[Also posted HTML - 8trmp10h.zip and 8trmp10h.htm]
Jan 2006 Gentleman From Indiana, by Booth Tarkington[BT#21][gfindxxx.xxx] 9659
[Full Title: The Gentleman From Indiana]
Jan 2006 Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 13 , June 25,1870, Various[?p113xxx.xxx] 9658
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - 8p11310h.zip; and 8p11310h.htm]
Jan 2006 The Mutineers, by Charles Boardman Hawes [?mutnxxx.xxx] 9657
Jan 2006 Alarms and Discursions, by G. K. Chesterton [aldscxxx.xxx] 9656
[Author AKA: Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
Jan 2006 Stello, by Alfred De Vigny [?stelxxx.xxx] 9655
[Language: French]
Jan 2006 Lendas e Narrativas (Tomo I), Alexandre Herculano [?ldnrxxx.xxx] 9654
[Transcribed from the 1858 2nd edition of Lendas e Narrativas (Tomo I)]
[Language: Portugese]
Jan 2006 A Wreath of Virginia Bay Leaves, James Barron Hope[?wvblxxx.xxx] 9653
[Subtitle: Poems of James Barron Hope] [Editor: Janey Hope Marr]
Jan 2006 Miscellany of Poetry, by Various [?msptxxx.xxx] 9652
[Ed.: W. Kean Seymour] [Decorations: Doris Palmer, Cecil Palmer and Hayward]
[Also posted HTML - 8mspt10h.zip and 8mspt10h.htm]
Jan 2006 A Child-World, by James Whitcomb Riley [#4][?cwldxxx.xxx] 9651
[Poetry]
Jan 2006 Independent Bohemia, by Vladimir Nosek [?ibohxxx.xxx] 9650
[Subtitle: An Account Of The Czecho-Slovak Struggle For Liberty]
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - 8iboh10h.zip; and 8iboh10h.htm]
Jan 2006 With Trapper Jim in the North Woods, L. J. Leslie [tjnwdxxx.xxx] 9649
[Full author: Lawrence J. Leslie]
[Also posted HTML - tjnwd10h.zip and tjnwd10h.htm]
Jan 2006 Tip Lewis and His Lamp, Pansy (aka Isabella Alden [llampxxx.xxx] 9648
[Also posted HTML - llamp10h.zip and llamp10h.htm]
Jan 2006 Landscape Gardening of the Exposition,by Mullgardt[algexxxx.xxx] 9647
[Full title: The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition]
[Subtitle: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions
of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition]
[Intro: Louis Christian Mullgardt]
(Also see the other Project Gutenberg eBooks about the 1915 Panama Pacific
Exposition in San Francisco, eBook #'s 7411, 6631, 5771, 5712, 5620, 4672,
3151)
Jan 2006 Odes and Epodes, by Horace [?hodexxx.xxx] 9646
[Language: Latin]
Jan 2006 Quatrevingt-Treize, by Victor Hugo [#14][?quatxxx.xxx] 9645
[Language: French]
Jan 2006 Litterature et Philosophie melees,Victor Hugo[#13][?ltphxxx.xxx] 9644
[Language: French]
Jan 2006 Histoire des Montagnards, by Alphonse Esquiros [?hmntxxx.xxx] 9643
[Language: French]
Jan 2006 Poesie e novelle in versi, by Ferdinando Fontana [?psnvxxx.xxx] 9642
[Language: Italian]
Jan 2006 Ugo: Scene del secolo X, by Ambrogio Bazzero [?ugoxxxx.xxx] 9641
[Language: Italian]
Jan 2006 Georgian Poetry 1920-22, by Various [?gp05xxx.xxx] 9640
[Ed.: Sir Edward Howard Marsh]
[Also posted HTML - 8gp0510h.htm and 8gp0510h.zip]
Jan 2006 La dame de Monsoreau v.3, by Alexandre Dumas [?ddm3xxx.xxx] 9639
[Language: French]
Jan 2006 La dame de Monsoreau v.2, by Alexandre Dumas [?ddm2xxx.xxx] 9638
[Language: French]
Jan 2006 La dame de Monsoreau v.1, by Alexandre Dumas [?ddm1xxx.xxx] 9637
[Language: French]
Jan 2006 Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 12 , June 18,1870, Various[?p112xxx.xxx] 9636
[Also posted Illustrated HTML - 8p11210h.zip]
Jan 2006 The End of Her Honeymoon, by Marie Belloc Lowndes [?nhmnxxx.xxx] 9635
Jan 2006 Sir George Tressady, Vol. II, by Mrs. Humphry Ward[?sgt2xxx.xxx] 9634
[Author AKA: Mrs. Humphrey Ward; Mary Augusta Arnold Ward]
Jan 2006 Sir George Tressady, Vol. I, by Mrs. Humphry Ward [?sgt1xxx.xxx] 9633
[Author AKA: Mrs. Humphrey Ward; Mary Augusta Arnold Ward]
Jan 2006 Die Richterin: Novelle, by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer[?drctxxx.xxx] 9632
[Language: German]
Jan 2006 Waltoniana, by Isaak Walton [#4][?waltxxx.xxx] 9631
[Subtitle: Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton]
[With Notes And Preface By Richard Herne Shepherd]
Jan 2006 Proportional Representation, by John H. Humphreys [?prepxxx.xxx] 9630
[Subtitle: A Study in Methods of Election]
[With an introduction by the Rt. Hon. Lord Courtney of Penwith]
Jan 2006 Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by M. R. James [#2][?jgs2xxx.xxx] 9629
[Subtitle: Part 2: More Ghost Stories] [Author: Montague Rhodes James]
Jan 2006 Buried Cities, Complete, by Jennie Hall [?bct4xxx.xxx] 9628
Jan 2006 Buried Cities, Volume 3, Mycenae, by Jennie Hall [?bct3xxx.xxx] 9627
Jan 2006 Buried Cities, Volume 2, Olympia, by Jennie Hall [?bct2xxx.xxx] 9626
Jan 2006 Buried Cities, Volume 1, Pompeii, by Jennie Hall [?bct1xxx.xxx] 9625
[Also posted: HTML in 8bct410h.htm; Illustrated HTML in 8bct410h.zip (6.5mb)]
Jan 2006 Directions for Cookery, by Eliza Leslie [?cookxxx.xxx] 9624
[Full title: Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches]
[Also posted HTML - 8cook10h.zip and 8cook10h.htm]
Jan 2006 Wir Fanden Einen Pfad, by Christian Morgenstern [?wfpfxxx.xxx] 9623
[Subtitle: Neue Gedichte] [Language: German]
Jan 2006 Lyrical Ballads 1798, by Wordsworth and Coleridge [?lbalxxx.xxx] 9622
[Full Title: Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems]
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Jan 2006 Georgian Poetry 1918-19, by Various [?gp04xxx.xxx] 9621
[Ed.: Sir Edward Marsh]
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Jan 2006 Tales and Novels, Vol. 6, by Maria Edgeworth [?tal6xxx.xxx] 9620
[Subtitle: The Absentee; Madame de Fleury; Emilie de Coulanges; The Modern
Griselda]
Jan 2006 Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia?, by Nekrassov[?whrsxxx.xxx] 9619
[Full author: Nicholas Nekrassov]
[Tr.: Juliet M. Soskice] [Introduction by Dr. David Soskice]
Jan 2006 The Field of Ice, by Jules Verne [8ficexxh.xxx] 9618
[HTML only - 8fice10h.zip and 8fice10h.htm]
Jan 2006 Echoes of the War, by J. M. Barrie [wechoxxx.xxx] 9617
Contents:
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
The New Word
Barbara's Wedding
A Well-Remembered Voice
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Jan 2006 Ramuntcho, by Pierre Loti [#12][ramunxxx.xxx] 9616
Jan 2006 Superfluous Man and Others, by Ivan Turgenev [?spmnxxx.xxx] 9615
[Full title: The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories]
Contents:
The Diary Of A Superfluous Man
A Tour In The Forest
Yakov Pasinkov
Andrei Kolosov
A Correspondence
Jan 2006 The Case of Richard Meynell, by Mrs. Humphry Ward [?rmeyxxx.xxx] 9614
Jan 2006 The Young Buglers, by G.A. Henty [?ybugxxx.xxx] 9613
Jan 2006 The Botanic Garden, Part 1, by Erasmus Darwin [?bot1xxx.xxx] 9612
[Subtitle: A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation]
Jan 2006 Joseph Andrews, Vol 1, by Henry Fielding [?jan1xxx.xxx] 9611
[From The Works Of Henry Fielding Edited By George Saintsbury In Twelve
Volumes, Vol. I.]
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Jan 2006 The Elegies of Tibullus, by Tibullus [eltibxxx.xxx] 9610
[Subtitle: Being The Consolations Of A Roman Lover Done In English Verse]
[Tr.: Theodore C. Williams]
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Jan 2006 Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2, by Henry Fielding [?jan2xxx.xxx] 9609
[From The Works Of Henry Fielding, Edited By George Saintsbury In Twelve
Volumes, Vol. II.]
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Jan 2006 The Cords of Vanity, by James Branch Cabell [?cvanxxx.xxx] 9608
[Author: Introduction by Wilson Follett]
[Subtitle: A Comedy of Shirking]
Jan 2006 From Boyhood to Manhood, by William M. Thayer [bhmhdxxx.xxx] 9607
[Subtitle: Life of Benjamin Franklin]
Jan 2006 A Little Book of Western Verse, by Eugene Field [?lbwvxxx.xxx] 9606
Jan 2006 Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon, L. Blanchard [chicoxxx.xxx] 9605
[Author's Full Name: Lucy M. Blanchard]
Jan 2006 Hung Lou Meng, Book II, by Cao Xueqin [?hlm2xxx.xxx] 9604
[Subtitle: Or, The Dream of the Red Chamber, A Chinese Novel in Two Books]
[Tr.: H. Bencraft Joly]
Jan 2006 Hung Lou Meng, Book I, by Cao Xueqin [?hlm1xxx.xxx] 9603
[Subtitle: Or, The Dream of the Red Chamber, A Chinese Novel in Two Books]
[Tr.: H. Bencraft Joly]
Jan 2006 History of the French Revolution, by F.A.M Mignet [?hfrrxxx.xxx] 9602
[Title: History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814]
Jan 2006 Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II, by Alexander Pope[?pop2xxx.xxx] 9601
[With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan]
[Ed.: Rev. George Gilfillan]
Dec 2005 Whittier's Poems of Slavery, Vol. 3, Complete[#25][wit21xxx.xxx] 9580
Dec 2005 Labor and Reform, by Whittier, V3, Part 5[#24][wit20xxx.xxx] 9579
Dec 2005 Poems in War Time, by Whittier, V3, Part 4[#23][wit19xxx.xxx] 9578
Dec 2005 Anti Slavery Poems III, Whittier, V3, Part 3[#22][wit18xxx.xxx] 9577
Dec 2005 Anti Slavery Poems II, Whittier, V3, Part 2[#21][wit17xxx.xxx] 9576
Dec 2005 Anti Slavery Poems I, Whittier, V3, Part 1[#20][wit16xxx.xxx] 9575
Dec 2005 Ride to the Lady, by Helen Gray Cone [?ridlxxx.xxx] 9559
[Subtitle: And Other Poems]
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Dec 2005 Audio: The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle [shsofxxx.mp3] 9558C
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Dec 2005 Audio: The Valley of Fear, Arthur Conan Doyle [shvofxxx.mp3] 9557C
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Dec 2005 Audio: A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle [shscaxxx.mp3] 9556C
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Dec 2005 Audio: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, AC Doyle [shmemxxx.mp3] 9555C
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Dec 2005 Audio: The Last Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle [shlasxxx.mp3] 9554C
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Dec 2005 Audio: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, AC Doyle [rholmxxx.mp3] 9553C
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Dec 2005 Manual of Gardening (Second Edition), L. H. Bailey[?mgrdxxx.xxx] 9550
[Subtitle: A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the Growing
of Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for Home Use]
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