The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 30th July 2003
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Part 2
In this week's Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter:
1) Editorial
2) News
Radio Gutenberg Update
3) Notes and Queries
4) Mailing list information
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1) Editorial
Hello,
After all my moaning last week about not getting any mail, someone
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controversial. Well, pass me the tin-opener I have some worms to set
loose*. In the second of today's news stories, you will read that we
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New York Times, 21 July 2003 (registration req'd)
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3) Notes and Queries
Request for sponsorship
From Ted Garvin
There are some books of historical/literary significance that I would
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Interesting Books this week
Charles O'Malley, Vol. 1, by Charles Lever Jul 2005 [#2][?mly1xxx.xxx] 8577
The excerpt from the Preface is an example of the lovely style of the
author of "Harry Lorrequer".
Notes:
Charles O'Malley: the Irish Dragoon (1841): the best of Lever's early works
and a superb example of a fast-paced, humorous, adventure-bestrewn Victorian
military novel. In its lack of disciplined structure the novel has been
compared, by some eminent critics, with the tradition of oral story-telling
in Ireland.
Excerpt from the Preface:
The success of Harry Lorrequer was the reason for writing Charles O'Malley.
That I myself was in no wise prepared for the favor the public bestowed on,
my first attempt is easily enough understood. The ease with which I strung
my stories together,--and in reality the Confessions of Harry Lorrequer are
little other than a note-book of absurd and laughable incidents,--led me
to believe that I could draw on this vein of composition without any limit
whatever. I felt, or thought I felt, an inexhaustible store of fun and
buoyancy within me, and I began to have a misty, half-confused impression
that Englishmen generally labored under a sad-colored temperament, took
depressing views of life, and were proportionately grateful to any one who
would rally them even passingly out of their despondency, and give them a
laugh without much trouble for going in search of it.
With many thanks to David Widger for bringing this to my attention.
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The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 23rd July 2003
eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Since 1971
Part 3
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Jun 2005 Scientific American Sup. No. 288, by Various [?0288xxx.xxx] 8391
[Full title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881]
Jun 2005 Scientific American Sup. No. 286, by Various [?0286xxx.xxx] 8297
[Full Title: Scientific American, Supplement 286, June 25, 1881]
Jun 2005 Scientific American Sup. No. 303, by Various [?0303xxx.xxx] 8296
[Full title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881]
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May 2005 Reize naar Surinamen, by John Gabril Stedman [#4][?rns4xxx.xxx] 8099
[Full title: Reize naar Surinamen en door de binnenste gedeelten van Guiana]
[Language: Dutch]
May 2005 Reize naar Surinamen, by John Gabriel Stedman [#3][?rns3xxx.xxx] 8098
[Full title: Reize naar Surinamen, en door de binnenste gedeelten van Guiana]
[Language: Dutch]
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Jan 2005 Monsieur Bergeret a Paris, by Anatole France [mnsrbxxx.xxx] 7268
[Subtitle: Histoire Contemporaine][Author AKA: Jacques Anatole Thibault]
[Language: French]
[HTML in mnsrb10h.htm/.zip]
Nov 1998 As You Like It, by William Shakespeare [2ws25xxx.xxx] 1523
[HTML in 2ws2510h.htm and 2ws2510h.zip]
The following has been re-posted in an improved 12th Edition:
Dec 2003 Pecheur d'Islande, by Pierre Loti [?pchsxxx.xxx] 4785
[Plain text in ?pchs12.txt/.zip; HTML version in 8pchs12h.htm/.zip]
[Language: French]
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Jul 2005 Travels in Africa, by Mungo Park [?trafxxx.xxx] 8564
[Full title: Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa]
Jul 2005 La Terre, by Emile Zola [?terrxxx.xxx] 8563
[Subtitle: Les Rougon-Macquart. Histoire Naturelle et Sociale d'une Famille
sous le Second Empire - vol. 15] [Language: French]
Jul 2005 Seaboard Parish, Complete,by George MacDonald[#32][?spr4xxx.xxx] 8562
[Includes etexts #8551, 8552 and 8553]
Jul 2005 Une Page d'Amour, by Emile Zola [?pdamxxx.xxx] 8561
[Subtitle: Les Rougon-Macquart. Histoire Naturelle et Sociale d'une Famille
sous le Second Empire - vol. 8] [Language: French]
(Note: The zip files contain an image of the genealogical tree of the family]
Jul 2005 Le Docteur Pascal, by Emile Zola [?dpasxxx.xxx] 8560
[Subtitle: Les Rougon-Macquart. Histoire Naturelle et Sociale d'une Famille
sous le Second Empire (vol. 20)] [Language: French]
(Note: The file contains, at the end, a Genealogical Tree that required very
long lines (400 characters).
Jul 2005 Scientific American Sup. No. 360, by Various [?0360xxx.xxx] 8559
[Full title: Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882]
[Also posted: HTML in 8036010h.htm, and illustrated HTML in 8036010h.zip]
Jul 2005 L'Assommoir, by Emile Zola [#23][?asmrxxx.xxx] 8558
[Also posted HTML - 8asmr10h.zip and 8asmr10h.htm]
[See also: #6497 in French]
Jul 2005 Synge And The Ireland Of His Time, by W. B. Yeats [syngyxxx.xxx] 8557
[Subtitle: With a Note Concerning a Walk through Connemara with Him by Jack
Butler Yeats]
[Author's Full Name: William Butler Yeats]
Jul 2005 History of England (1066-1216), by Adams [?hengxxx.xxx] 8556
[Full title: The History of England From the Norman Conquest to the Death
of John (1066-1216)]
[Full author: George Burton Adams]
Jul 2005 Initiation into Literature, by Emile Faguet [?ilitxxx.xxx] 8555
Jul 2005 Why Worry?, by George Lincoln Walton, M.D. [?whwrxxx.xxx] 8554
Jul 2005 Seaboard Parish Vol. 3, by George MacDonald[GM#31][?spr3xxx.xxx] 8553
Jul 2005 Seaboard Parish Vol. 2, by George MacDonald[GM#30][spar2xxx.xxx] 8552
Jul 2005 Seaboard Parish Vol. 1, by George MacDonald[GM#29][spar1xxx.xxx] 8551
Jul 2005 T. Haviland Hicks Senior, by J. Raymond Elderdice [?hickxxx.xxx] 8550
[HTML version in 8hick10h.htm and illustrated HTML in 8hick10h.zip]
Jul 2005 The Woman With The Fan, by Robert Hichens [#7][wmfanxxx.xxx] 8549
Jul 2005 Pirke Avot, Traditional Text without footnotes[#2][prav2xxx.xxx] 8548
[Subtitle: The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers]
[Translated by Joseph I. Gorfinkle, PhD.]
Jul 2005 Pirke Avot, Traditional Text [prav1xxx.xxx] 8547
[Subtitle: Sayings of the Jewish Fathers]
[Tr. and comments by Joseph I. Gorfinkle]
[The original Hebrew text translated into English, with numerous comments
and footnotes]
Jul 2005 Two Summers in Guyenne, by Edward Harrison Barker [?guynxxx.xxx] 8546
Jul 2005 Amiel's Journal, by Henri Frederic Amiel, Tr. Ward[?ajrnxxx.xxx] 8545
[Tr.: Mrs. Humphrey Ward]
Jul 2005 Trivia, by Logan Pearsall Smith [?trivxxx.xxx] 8544
Jul 2005 Great North-Western Conspiracy,by I. Windslow Ayer[?gnwcxxx.xxx] 8543
[Full title: The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details]
Jul 2005 Things Mother Used To Make, by Lydia Maria Gurney [tmutmxxx.xxx] 8542
[Subtitle: A Collection of Old Time Recipes, Some Nearly One Hundred Years
Old and Never Published Before]
Jul 2005 Les mains pleines de rose, par Arsène Houssaye [?lmpdxxx.xxx] 8541
[Full title: Les mains pleines de rose, pleines dor et pleines de sang]
[Language: French]
Jul 2005 Life of Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2,Stephen Gwynn[#2][?dlk2xxx.xxx] 8540
[Full title: The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2]
Jul 2005 In Those Days, by Jehudah Steinberg [oldmnxxx.xxx] 8539
Jul 2005 A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories, by M. Foote [?tchsxxx.xxx] 8538
[Author's Full Name: Mary Hallock Foote]
Jul 2005 Lonesome Land, by B. M. Bower [lnsmlxxx.xxx] 8537
Jul 2005 Philip Gilbert Hamerton,byPhilip Gilbert Hamerton [?hmrtxxx.xxx] 8536
[Subtitle: An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894]
[Author: E. Hamerton]
Jul 2005 The Sisters-In-Law, by Gertrude Atherton [#5][?sistxxx.xxx] 8535
Jul 2005 Daily Strength for Daily Needs,by Mary W. Tileston[?dsdnxxx.xxx] 8534
Jul 2005 Literary Remains, Vol. 2, by Coleridge [#9][?rem2xxx.xxx] 8533
Jul 2005 Andivius Hedulio, by Edward Lucas White [?ahedxxx.xxx] 8532
Jul 2005 Helen, by Maria Edgeworth [#5][?helnxxx.xxx] 8531
[Note: from Tales And Novels, Vol. X of Ten]
Jul 2005 A Study Of Hawthorne, by George Parsons Lathrop [?sthwxxx.xxx] 8530
Jul 2005 The World Decision, by Robert Herrick [?wdcsxxx.xxx] 8529
Jul 2005 Eve's Diary, by Mark Twain Part 3 [#145][eve04xxx.xxx] 8528
Jul 2005 Eve's Diary, by Mark Twain Part 2 [#144][eve03xxx.xxx] 8527
Jul 2005 Eve's Diary, by Mark Twain Part 1 [#143][eve02xxx.xxx] 8526
Jul 2005 Eve's Diary, by Mark Twain Complete [#142][eve01xxx.xxx] 8525
[Illustrated by Lester Ralph] [Illustrated HTML zip only in eve0?10h.zip]
[Complete file: 4.5 mb, Parts 1-3 average 1.8 mb]
Jul 2005 L'Ile des Pingouins, par Anatole France [?ilepxxx.xxx] 8524
Jul 2005 Val d'Arno, by John Ruskin [#6][?arnoxxx.xxx] 8523
Jul 2005 The Puritans, by Arlo Bates [?prtnxxx.xxx] 8522
Jul 2005 Maintaining Health, by R. L. Alsaker [mntnnxxx.xxx] 8521
[Subtitle: Formerly Health and Efficiency]
Jul 2005 Voyage d'un Habitant de la Lune Paris, P.Gallet [?vhlpxxx.xxx] 8520
[Full title: Voyage d'un Habitant de la Lune a Paris a la fin du XVIIIe Siecle]
[Full author: Pierre Gallet]
[Language: French]
Jul 2005 Fritofs Saga, by Esaias Tegner [?ftfsxxx.xxx] 8518
[Language: Swedish with English notes]
Jul 2005 Hormones and Heredity, by J. T. Cunningham [?hormxxx.xxx] 8517
Jul 2005 Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete, Zola[#22][lour6xxx.xxx] 8516
Jul 2005 Three Cities: Lourdes, Vol. 5, by Emile Zola [#21][lour5xxx.xxx] 8515
Jul 2005 Three Cities: Lourdes, Vol. 4, by Emile Zola [#20][lour4xxx.xxx] 8514
Jul 2005 Three Cities: Lourdes, Vol. 3, by Emile Zola [#19][lour3xxx.xxx] 8513
Jul 2005 Three Cities: Lourdes, Vol. 2, by Emile Zola [#18][lour2xxx.xxx] 8512
Jul 2005 Three Cities: Lourdes, Vol. 1, by Emile Zola [#17][lour1xxx.xxx] 8511
[Full title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes]
Jul 2005 Lucky Pehr, by August Strindberg [#7][?pehrxxx.xxx] 8510
Jul 2005 Among My Books, by James Russell Lowell [?mbk2xxx.xxx] 8509
[Subtitle: Second Series]
Jul 2005 Evolution Of Man Scientifically Disproved,Williams[?evdsxxx.xxx] 8508
[Full title: The Evolution Of Man Scientifically Disproved]
[Subtitle: In 50 Arguments]
[Author's Full Name: William A. Williams]
[Also posted: HTML 8evds10h.htm/8evds10h.zip]
(Note: All three zip versions include one graphic image.)
Jul 2005 Ten Great Events in History, by James Johonnot [?tgehxxx.xxx] 8507
Jul 2005 In Exile and Other Stories, by Mary Hallock Foote [?exilxxx.xxx] 8506
Jul 2005 Normandy, by Gordon Home [?normxxx.xxx] 8505
Jul 2005 Scientific American Sup. No. 358, by Various [?0358xxx.xxx] 8504
[Full title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882]
[Also posted HTML - 8035810h.zip and 8035810h.htm]
Jul 2005 Among My Books, by James Russell Lowell [#6][?ambkxxx.xxx] 8503
[Full Title: Among My Books, First Series]
Jul 2005 Common Diseases of Farm Animals, by R. A. Craig [dfarmxxx.xxx] 8502
[Full author: R. A. Craig, D. V. M.]
Jul 2005 Ice Creams and Other, by Mrs. S. T. Rorer [#3][?iccrxxx.xxx] 8501
[Full title: Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings Together with
[ Refreshments for all Social Affairs]
Jul 2005 Plays: incl. Comrades, etc., by August Strindberg [?p2asxxx.xxx] 8500
[Full title: Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter]
[Tr.: Edith and Warner Oland]
[zip versions include two illustrations]
Jul 2005 Plays: incl. The Father, etc., August Strindberg [?p1asxxx.xxx] 8499
[Full Title: Plays: The Father; Countess Julie; The Outlaw; The Stronger]
[Tr.: Edith and Warner Oland]
(Illustrations in zip files.)
Jul 2005 Scientific American Sup. No. 363, by Various [?0363xxx.xxx] 8452
[Full title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882]
[Also posted HTML - 8036310h.zip and 8036310h.htm]
Nov 2004 Rime,Tullia d'Aragona [?tldaxxx.xxx] 6938
[Subtitle: Le Rime di Tullia d'Aragona, cortigiana del Secolo XVI]
[Editor: Enrico Celani] [Language: Italian]
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Jan 2000 Dickory Cronke, by Daniel Defoe [Daniel Defoe #7][dckcrxxx.xxx] 2051
Jan 2000 Old John Brown, by Walter Hawkins [ojbrnxxx.xxx] 2050
Jan 2000 Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion, by Wm Hazlitt[nwpygxxx.xxx] 2049
Jan 2000 The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by W. Irving #5[sbogcxxx.xxx] 2048
Jan 2000 Stories of Modern French Novels: Scribners Ed. [sbmfaxxx.xxx] 2047
(This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library)
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(Apr 1995 Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine, Wm Wells Brown[clotlxxx.xxx] 241)
Jan 2000 My Memories of Eighty Years, by Chauncey M. Depew [depewxxx.xxx] 2045
Jan 2000 The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams [eduhaxxx.xxx] 2044
Jan 2000 Stories by Modern American Authors: Scribners Ed.[sbmaaxxx.xxx] 2043
(This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library)
Jan 2000 Something New, by P.G. Wodehouse [P.G.Wodehouse#2][smtnwxxx.xxx] 2042
Jan 2000 The House of the Wolf, by Stanley Weyman[Weyman#3][hwolfxxx.xxx] 2041
Jan 2000 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, de Quincey [opiumxxx.xxx] 2040
[Author: Thomas de Quincey]
Jan 2000 Evangeline, by Henry W. Longfellow [Longfellow #6][vnglnxxx.xxx] 2039
[Also posted accented text in vnglnxxi.xxx] (Also see #1365)
Jan 2000 Stories by Modern English Authors: Scribners Ed. [sbmeaxxx.xxx] 2038
[This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library]
Jan 2000 Novel Notes, by Jerome K. Jerome[JeromeKJerome#19][nvlntxxx.xxx] 2037
Jan 2000 Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, by Samuel Baker[8yearxxx.xxx] 2036
Jan 2000 Stories by English Authors: Orient, Scribners Ed.[sbeaoxxx.xxx] 2035
Jan 2000 Waverley, by Walter Scott [Walter Scott #10][wvrlyxxx.xxx] 2034
[Title: Waverly, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since]
Jan 2000 The Unknown Guest, by Maurice Maeterlinck [ungstxxx.xxx] 2033
[Author: Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck]
Jan 2000 Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard/Eleanor Farjeon[mpnaoxxx.xxx] 2032
Jan 2000 Lock and Key Library, Magic & Real Detectives [#2][2lckyxxx.xxx] 2031
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Jan 2000 Legends of Babylon and Egypt, by Leonard W. King [behebxxx.xxx] 2030
Jan 2000 Lahoma, by John Breckinridge Ellis [lahomxxx.xxx] 2029
Jan 2000 The Yellow Claw, by Sax Rohmer [Sax Rohmer #5][yclawxxx.xxx] 2028
Jan 2000 Tartuffe, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere [#1] [trtffxxx.xxx] 2027
Jan 2000 The Coming Conquest of England, by August Niemann [tccoexxx.xxx] 2026
Jan 2000 My Lady Caprice, by Jeffrey Farnol [lcprcxxx.xxx] 2025
Jan 2000 Diary of a Pilgrimage, by Jerome K. Jerome[JKJ#17][dypgmxxx.xxx] 2024
Jan 2000 Malvina of Brittany, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #16][mlvbtxxx.xxx] 2023
Jan 2000 Angling Sketches, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #21][angskxxx.xxx] 2022
Jan 2000 Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #24][nstrmxxx.xxx] 2021
Jan 2000 Tarzan the Terrible,Edgar R. Burroughs [Tarzan #8][tzntrxxx.xxx] 2020
Jan 2000 The Bat, by M. R. Rinehart & Avery Hopwood [MRR13][thbatxxx.xxx] 2019
Dec 1999 The Library, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #20][lbrryxxx.xxx] 2018
Dec 1999 The Dhammapada, Translated by F. Max Muller [dhmpdxxx.xxx] 2017
Dec 1999 The 1998 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook #8][No#7][world98x.xxx] 2016
Dec 1999 A Miscellany of Men, by G. K. Chesterton [GKC #13][miscyxxx.xxx] 2015
Dec 1999 The Lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes [tldgrxxx.xxx] 2014
Dec 1999 The Pit Prop Syndicate, by Freeman Wills Croft [ptprpxxx.xxx] 2013
Dec 1999 The Children, by Alice Meynell [Alice Meynell #8][chldnxxx.xxx] 2012
Dec 1999 Rudder Grange, by Frank R. Stockton [Stockton #4][rgrngxxx.xxx] 2011
Dec 1999 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin [Darwin #6][adrwnxxx.xxx] 2010
Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos6xx.xxx] 2009
Dec 1999 Mazelli, and Other Poems, by George W. Sands[GS#1][mzllixxx.xxx] 2008
Dec 1999 We Two, by Edna Lyall [wetwoxxx.xxx] 2007
Dec 1999 A Fair Penitent, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #23][frpntxxx.xxx] 2006
Dec 1999 Piccadilly Jim, by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse [#1][pccjmxxx.xxx] 2005
Dec 1999 "Pigs is Pigs," by Ellis Parker Butler [pgpgsxxx.xxx] 2004
Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], by C. S. Lewis [spbndxxx.xxx] 2003
Dec 1999 Sonnets from the Portuguese, by E. B. Browning[#1][snprgxxx.xxx] 2002
Dec 1999 [Reserved for 2001, by Arthur C. Clarke] [ xxx.xxx] 2001*
Dec 1999 Don Quijote, by Cervantes in Spanish .txt & .htm [2donqxxx.xxx] 2000
Dec 1999 Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley [Aldous Huxley #1] [crmylxxx.xxx] 1999
Dec 1999 Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche #1 [spzarxxx.xxx] 1998
Dec 1999 Paradise, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [3ddcnxxx.xxx] 1997
Dec 1999 Purgatory, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [2ddcnxxx.xxx] 1996
Dec 1999 Hell/Inferno, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [1ddcnxxx.xxx] 1995
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U-TEXAS PUTS GUTENBERG BIBLE ON THE WEB
The University of Texas has digitized its entire two-volume Gutenberg Bible
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viewers 7,000 images of the unique manuscript. (AP 23 Jul 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030723/D7SF4NEG0.html
["Total Information Awareness" Was Vetoed In the US, Exported To Mexico]
IMPLANTABLE MICROCHIP STRIKES A CHORD IN MEXICO
Palm Beach, Fla.-based Applied Digital Solutions, maker of the implantable
VeriChip, is targeting consumers south of the border, where people see the
tiny devices as a possible new way to thwart crime. The microchips, which
are available in the U.S. as well, are implanted under the skin and can be
used to link to information on identity, blood type and other information
housed on a central computer. In Mexico, citizens hope the tiny devices
could prove one more weapon in the arsenal needed to combat a rising wave
of kidnappings, robberies and other crimes. The Mexican company in charge
of distribution says it hopes to implant 10,000 chips in the first year and
ensure that 70% of all hospitals contain the technology necessary to read
the chips. Company officials say they are working on developing a similar
technology that would use satellites to locate people who've been
kidnapped, an application that is popular with Mexicans, but has raised
privacy concerns in the U.S. (AP 18 Jul 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030718/D7SBU7D00.html
[More Total Awareness]
SKY-HIGH SURVEILLANCE HITS AIRLINE INDUSTRY
Southeast Airlines is pioneering an in-flight surveillance program that
will use digital videocameras installed through the cabins of its planes to
record passengers' activities throughout the flight as a precaution against
terrorism and other threats. The charter airline, based in Largo, Fla.,
says it may use face recognition software to match faces to names and
personal records, and plans to store the digital data for up to 10 years.
"From a security standpoint, this provides a great advantage to assure that
there is a safe environment at all times," says Southeast's VP of planning.
The airline says that while such security measures are not required by the
FAA, it expects other airlines will adopt similar systems soon. That
prediction alarms privacy advocates who especially question the need for
retaining the video after the flight is over. "What's the point of keeping
track of everyone when nothing happens on the flight?" asks Lee Tien,
senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who points
out that the video system could record conversations between passengers as
well as capture the titles of passengers' reading material.
(Wired.com 18 Jul 2003)
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59652,00.html
MICROSOFT FLAW: A NEW STAGE OF DELIRIUM
Microsoft has acknowledged a critical vulnerability in most versions of its
Windows operating system software, including its latest Windows Server 2003
software. The vulnerability (first pointed out by researchers in Poland
known as the "Last Stage of Delirium Research Group") could be used by
network vandals to seize control of a victim's Windows computer over the
Internet, stealing data, deleting files or eavesdropping on e-mail
messages. The Server 2003 software was sold under the highly promoted
"Trustworthy Computing" initiative launched last year by Microsoft founder
Bill Gates. The company urged customers to immediately apply a free
software patch available from Microsoft's Web site. Internet Security
Systems, an Atlanta-based computer firm, characterized the Windows flaw as
"an enormous threat." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 17 Jul 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6318125.htm
YESTERDAY A MICROSOFT FLAW, TODAY A CISCO FLAW
Cisco, which makes communications routers and switches, has found a flaw
in its software that could be used by network vandals to cause widespread
outages; the company has released a free patch to fix the flaw in its
Internetworking Operating System. No vandals have exploited the
vulnerability up to this point, and Cisco says: "We literally have people
working around the clock right now to get this situation taken care of."
According to the company, the vulnerability could only be exploited by
sending a "rare sequence" of data packets to a device running IOS, the
equivalent of Windows for routers and switches. (AP/San Jose Mercury News
17 Jul 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6324946.htm
WHY ARE SPAMMERS BACKING SPAM-CONTROL LAWS?
Bigtime spam-mongers and junk-mail proponents like the Direct Marketing
Association are backing proposed antispam legislation, while consumer and
public-interest groups, almost without exception, oppose the bills. What's
going on? "It's a sign of who benefits from these bills and who doesn't,"
says a spokesman for the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email.
"When you see some of the biggest spammers in the country backing
legislation that is allegedly antispam, you really need to wonder about
what these bills actually do." The answer is that rather than banning all
unsolicited e-mail outright, as many consumer groups wish, they legitimize
spam, as long as the perpetrators adhere to certain rules, such as using
accurate subject lines and valid return addresses, and allowing recipients
to opt out of future mailings. Two bills are currently making their way
through Congress and a variant of thereof is expected to pass
overwhelmingly and be signed into law later this year.
(Wall Street Journal 18 Jul 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105848273351539900,00.html (sub req'd)
[I Think He's Shooting Himself In The Foot With Such A Quick Draw McGraw]
[Wouldn't They Sell MORE Of These Magazines At The Stores If They Were On
The Shelves When People Read Them Online And Decided They Wanted A Copy!]
WEBVAN FOUNDER LAUNCHES ONLINE MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Webvan founder Louis Borders is launching an online newsstand that makes
back issues of 140+ magazines available for browsing and downloading for a
flat fee of $4.95 a month. KeepMedia, as the new venture's called, will
post issues only after they expire on the newsstand in order to avoid
cannibalizing print sales. Borders, who also co-founded Borders Books, says
he believes that online users are finally changing their "information must
be free" attitude: "We feel we're right on the cusp" of a mass audience
willing to pay for digital content, he says. In 2000, media entrepreneur
Steven Brill launched a similar effort called Contentville, which charged
users a couple of dollars to download articles from more than 600
magazines. Brill's operation burned through $6 million to $8 million before
shutting its doors in 2001, but he says the concept is still valid. "The
Internet and electronic delivery is far and away the best way to do it.
Someone will get this right." (Wall Street Journal 21 Jul 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105873917397247200,00.html (sub req'd)
SMILE, YOU'RE ON CLOSED CIRCUIT TV
In Cambridge, England, RFID technology will cause a CCTV camera to take a
photo of anyone taking a package of Gillette Mach3 razorblades from the
shelves of supermarket chain Tesco Ltd.; a second camera then takes a
picture at the checkout and security staff then compare the two images.
"Customers know that there are CCTV cameras in the store," said a spokesman
for Tesco, and says that the purpose of the pilot project is to provide
stock information rather than provide security. However, the manager of the
Cambridge store says he has shown the police photos of a shoplifter. Civil
libertarians says that the so-called "spy chips" are an invasion of
consumers' privacy, but manufacturers point out that the chips can be
disabled simply by having the data erased at checkout when a consumer
leaves the store. (The Guardian (UK) 19 Jul 2003)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1001211,00.html
WOZNET: APPLE COFOUNDER COMES BLAZING BACK
Beginning with an interest in finding a way to track his lost dogs, Apple
co-founder Steve Wozniak developed location-monitoring technology using
electronic tags and designed to help people keep track of their animals,
children or property. The new company, Wheels of Zeus, is touting WozNet as
a simple and inexpensive wireless network that uses radio signals and
global positioning satellite data to keep track of a cluster of inexpensive
tags within a one- or two-mile radius of each base station. Its low-power
network will complement rather than compete with other wireless
technologies such as radio-frequency I.D. tags used in stores and factories
and higher speed Wi-Fi and cellular data networks. WozNet, with data rates
of no more than 20,000 bps, will be able to transmit a very small amount of
digital information even through environments subject to radio
interference, and will be able to location information from global
positioning system (GPS) satellites. (New York Times 21 Jul 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/07/21/technology/21ZEUS.html
ADIEU TO 'E-MAIL'?
France's Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of the word
"e-mail" in all government ministries, publications or Web sites and is
encouraging French Internet users to adopt the term "courriel" when
referring to electronic mail. Courriel is derived from "courrier
electronique" -- electronic mail -- and, according to the General
Commission on Terminology and Neology, the term is "broadly used in the
press and competes advantageously with the borrowed 'mail' in English."
However, some Internet industry experts disagree with that assessment: "The
word 'courriel' is not at all actively used^E Protecting the language is
normal, but e-mail's so assimilated now that no one thinks of it as
American," says Marie-Christine Levet, president of French ISP Club
Internet, who adds that her company has no plans to switch its terminology.
(AP 19 Jul 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030719/D7SCS9201.html
OUTSOURCING: IT'S 11 PM, DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE SUN IS?
Debashish Sinha of Gartner Inc., a research and consulting firm, calls the
outsourcing of high-tech jobs "a very important, fundamental transition in
the IT service industry that's taking place today," and characterizes it as
a "megatrend in the IT services industry." But Phil Friedman, a software
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these jobs, our schools will stop producing the computer engineers and
programmers we need for the future." But the immediate problem faced by
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less expense?" On the other hand, many executives insist that the goal is
not to cut costs as much as it is to provide more and better services.
Oracle executive David Samson says: "Our aim here is not cost-driven. It's
to build a 24/7 follow-the-sun model for development and support. When a
software engineer goes to bed at night in the U.S., his or her colleague in
India picks up development when they get into work. They're able to
continually develop products."
(New York Times 22 Jul 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/07/22/technology/22JOBS.html
AMAZON'S TRIBUTARIES: SOFTWARE, SEARCHING, MUSIC, AND ...
Revenue for Amazon, the Internet's largest retailer, reached $1.1 billion
this quarter (up 36%). Although books and other media account for more than
78% of that revenue, the company is rapidly expanding into areas far beyond
its bookseller origins, with new projects in software, searching, music,
and international markets (where it's 2nd quarter results showed a 81%
year-over-year gain to $397 million). With regard to searching, Amazon has
been developing a search engine that will allow consumers to search the
entire text of books (rather than just the titles or summaries).
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BBC, 15 July 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3065063.stm
GROUP AT SYRACUSE TRYING TO SAVE RESEARCH TOOL
Researchers at Syracuse University are working to preserve the popular
research tool AskERIC after the Department of Education decided to stop
funding for the tool. AskERIC is a Web site that provides online access
to educational resources and to experts who can help users sift through
the range of available resources. Syracuse already operates the AskERIC
site, which is run by the Clearinghouse on Information and Technology
of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). ERIC now
comprises 16 clearinghouses, though the Department of Education is
working to combine them into a single database. Officials at the
Department of Education said the new structure will make a service such
as AskERIC unnecessary. Many long-time users and operators of AskERIC
disagree, however, and are working to secure funding from Syracuse and
other sources to maintain AskERIC in its current form.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 July 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/07/2003071701t.htm
MICROSOFT SETTLEMENT APPROVED
A California judge has accepted the terms of a settlement with
Microsoft under which the software maker will offer vouchers to
individuals and businesses who bought certain Microsoft products
between early 1995 and the end of 2001. Microsoft had been accused of
overcharging for its products. The vouchers range in value from $5 to
$29 and will be good for hardware or software purchases from most
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could be less depending on how many vouchers are claimed. Two-thirds of
unclaimed money will go to California schools; if all the vouchers are
claimed, however, the schools will get nothing. The claim period, which
will begin in two months, will last 60 days and will feature
advertisements and various other measures to notify potentially
eligible consumers.
CNET, 21 July 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1027598.html
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though they are concerned about exposing too much of their material.
Users who were able to see just a few pages of reference books and cookbooks,
for example, might see all they need to see and not buy the book.
New York Times, 21 July 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/21/technology/21AMAZ.html
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(Includes: The Stories of the Cat and the Mouse; Fire! Fire! Burn Stick!)
Dec 1999 The Outlet, by Andy Adams [outltxxx.xxx] 1987
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Dec 1999 Men's Wives, by William Makepeace Thackeray[WMT10][mnwvsxxx.xxx] 1985
Dec 1999 [Reserved: George Orwell's 1984/Did it come true?][o1984xxx.xxx] 1984*
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Nov 1999 Rashomon, by Akutagawa Ryunosuke [in Japanese] [rshmnxxx.xxx] 1982
Nov 1999 The Right to Read, by Richard M. Stallman [of GNU][tychoxxx.xxx] 1981C
Nov 1999 Stories by English Authors in Africa, Scribners Ed[sbeaaxxx.xxx] 1980
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Nov 1999 The Perdue Chicken Cookbook, by Mitzi Perdue [mitzixxx.xxx] 1979C
Nov 1999 Buttercup Gold, et. al., by Ellen Robena Field [btrcpxxx.xxx] 1978
Nov 1999 Phaedra, by Jean Baptiste Racine, RB Boswell, Tr. [phrdrxxx.xxx] 1977
Nov 1999 Peter Ruff and the Double Four, by Oppenheim[EPO8][rff44xxx.xxx] 1976
Nov 1999 The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins [Collins#22][lcainxxx.xxx] 1975
Nov 1999 Poetics, by Aristotle, Tr. SH Butcher[Aristotle#1][poetcxxx.xxx] 1974
Nov 1999 Tales of Troy, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #17][tltryxxx.xxx] 1973
Nov 1999 History Of The Britons, by Nennius [brtnsxxx.xxx] 1972
Nov 1999 Erewhon Revisited, by Samuel Butler [S. Butler #2][ervstxxx.xxx] 1971
Nov 1999 A Poor Wise Man, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[MRR #12][pwsmnxxx.xxx] 1970
Nov 1999 Catherine: A Story, by William Thackeray[W.M.T.#9][cthrnxxx.xxx] 1969
Nov 1999 The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix[#91][hciaaxxx.xxx] 1968
Nov 1999 The Brotherhood of Consolation, by Balzac[HdB #90][brcnsxxx.xxx] 1967
Nov 1999 The Path of the King, by John Buchan [Buchan #6][tpotkxxx.xxx] 1966
Nov 1999 Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini [R. Sabatini #3][cpbldxxx.xxx] 1965
Nov 1999 [Reserved for Pietro di Miceli, PG Webmaster] [ xxx.xxx] 1964*
Nov 1999 The Confession, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [MRR #11][cnfsnxxx.xxx] 1963
Nov 1999 A Defence of Poesie and Poems, by Philip Sidney [dfncpxxx.xxx] 1962
Nov 1999 Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang[Andrew Lang #16][bkbkmxxx.xxx] 1961
Nov 1999 Sight Unseen, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[Rinehart10][stnsnxxx.xxx] 1960
Nov 1999 The Crown of Thorns, by E. H. Chapin [thrnsxxx.xxx] 1959
Nov 1999 Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[handdxxx.xxx] 1958
Nov 1999 Beatrix, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac #89][btrixxxx.xxx] 1957
Nov 1999 And Even Now, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #7][evnowxxx.xxx] 1956
Nov 1999 The Darrow Enigma, by Melvin L. Severy [dngmaxxx.xxx] 1955
Nov 1999 Colonel Chabert, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac#88][chbrtxxx.xxx] 1954
Nov 1999 The Diary of an Old Soul, by George MacDonald [#6][doaosxxx.xxx] 1953
Nov 1999 The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman2[ylwlpxxx.xxx] 1952
Nov 1999 The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer Lytton[Lytton#5][cmgrcxxx.xxx] 1951
Nov 1999 A Woman of Thirty, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #87][thrtyxxx.xxx] 1950
Nov 1999 On The Ruin of Britain, by Gildas Sapiens [otrobxxx.xxx] 1949
Nov 1999 The Story of a Bad Boy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 7[soabbxxx.xxx] 1948
Nov 1999 Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini[Rafael Sabatini#2][scmshxxx.xxx] 1947
Oct 1999 On War, by Carl von Clausewitz [Volume 1] [CvC #1][1onwrxxx.xxx] 1946
Oct 1999 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe [Goethe #2][egmntxxx.xxx] 1945
Oct 1999 The Witch, et. al, by Anton Chekhov[Chekhov#14-28][witchxxx.xxx] 1944
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FREE SPAM BUSTER TOPS CONSUMER REPORTS LIST
Consumer Reports has rated a free program distributed by an obscure
California startup as its top pick among the spam-blocking software it
recently tested. SAProxy, developed by Stata Labs, earned a near-perfect
score in correctly identifying nonspam messages and directing them to
users' in-boxes. But the software was slightly less accurate in blocking
unsolicited junk e-mail, earning an 80% accuracy rate. Some of the other
software tested edged toward 90% accuracy in that category. The magazine
looked at nine add-on programs and two e-mail programs with built-in
spam-blocking features, and devised tests using 500 spam messages and 225
nonspam messages. The runners-up were SpamCatcher Universal, Spam Sleuth
and Symantec's Spam Alert. The testing methodology didn't allow testing of
the spam-blocking features in AOL, MSN and Yahoo. In general, the winning
feature in the best spam-blocking programs tested was "the ability to rate
messages based on a variety of criteria rather than narrow criteria," said
Dean Gallea, who led the tests. (Wall Street Journal 9 Jul 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105769656497487500,00.html
SENATE PUTS THE SQUEEZE ON TIA FUNDING
U.S. senators deliberating over next year's defense budget have proposed
eliminating all funding the Defense Department's Terrorism Information
Awareness project. The TIA project, under the supervision of retired Adm.
John Poindexter, seeks to develop computer software capable of scanning
vast public and private databases of commercial transactions and personal
data around the world to ferret out possible terrorist activities. The
committee's proposal "reflects deep, deep skepticism in Congress of the
Pentagon's assurances about this system," says a spokesman for the Center
for Democracy and Technology. "There appears to be some spillover
skepticism from Iraq where they voted to go to war and now are questioning
whether that was based on clever use of words or selective use of
intelligence." (AP 15 Jul 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030715/D7SA90880.html
BUY.COM'S NEW MUSIC DOWNLOAD SERVICE
Buy.com, a mainstream Internet shopping site, will soon be offering a new
music download service that (like the Apple iTunes Music Store) will sell
individual music tracks without collecting an up-front monthly subscription
fee. Since Apple has not yet developed a Windows version of its service,
the PC music market offers a broad target for a company such as Buy.com,
which will try to surpass its much larger rival, Amazon.com, which has 34.5
million monthly visitors compared to Buy.com's 3.1 million, according to
Nielsen/NetRatings. (San Jose Mercury News 16 Jul 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6306486.htm
TALKING CLOTHES: HARMLESS CHIT-CHAT OR VICIOUS GOSSIP?
RFID technology (the acronym stands for "radio frequency identification"),
which embeds tiny computer chips and radio antennae into products and
transmits inventory and supply-chain data to manufacturers and retailers,
is being criticized by Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information
Center: "Simply stated, I don't think most people want their clothes spying
on them. It's also clear that there could be some very invasive uses of
these techniques if merchants use the tracking technology to spy on their
customers after purchase." In rebuttal, Ron Margulis of the National
Grocers Association says that privacy concerns are far outweighed by the
benefits of RFID, which could help retailers respond much more quickly to
product recalls and prevent people from becoming ill from tainted products:
"You do give up a bit of privacy but the benefit could be that you live."
(AP/USA TODAY 9 Jul 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-07-08-rfid-chip_x.htm
WAL-MART CANCELS 'SMART-SHELF' TRIAL
Bowing to criticism from consumer privacy groups, Wal-Mart has canceled
what was billed as the biggest trial yet of a so-called smart-shelf system
that would use RFID sensors to pick up data transmitted by microchips in
partner Gillette's product packaging. The system would then alert store
managers via computer when stock was running low or when items may have
been stolen. A Gillette representative declined to comment on Wal-Mart's
decision, but said it plans to focus on helping UK supermarket chain Tesco
and German retailer Metro conduct similar trials in Europe. Meanwhile,
Wireless Data Research Group analyst Ian McPherson says privacy advocates'
concerns were likely overblown: "Consumers that are aware of RFID and
privacy feel it is very significant, and they are probably more concerned
than they should be. The likelihood that people can be tracked beyond the
check stand is very low." A recent Gartner poll showed 55% of the consumers
polled said they would shop in stores using RFID technology if it meant
faster checkouts, and only about 16% said they would probably or definitely
stop shopping at such a store. Twenty-eight percent were undecided. (CNet
News.com 9 Jul 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1019_3-1023934.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed
"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."
(Professor Irwin Corey)
DELL REVAMPS RECYCLING PROGRAM
Bowing to criticism by environmentalists and workers rights groups, Dell
Computer has overhauled its PC recycling program, and is now charging as
little as $49 to dispose of computers safely, without dumping hazardous
materials in U.S. or developing countries' landfills and without using
prison labor. Up until last week, Dell shipped used computers to UNICOR,
which uses prison laborers to disassemble the machines. As part of the
recycling process, Dell will also strip the hard drives of confidential
data in a process called "three times data override." Customers who need
further protection -- such as hospitals or banks -- may pay extra for the
hard drives to be destroyed. (AP 10 Jul 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030710/D7S6RBT00.html
"You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible."
Anton Checkov
[Does Anyone Have the URL To Try This Out???]
A SEARCH ENGINE FOR THE WORLD'S POOR
Researchers at MIT are designing a search engine geared to the needs of
computer users in the world's disadvantaged countries, most of whom have
only sporadic access to the Web at what are often less-than-optimal
bandwidths. "Let us assume you are in Malawi," says professor Saman
Amarasinghe of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, "and the computer lab
does not have access to the telephone line all the time. If you want to
find some new information about malaria, you are prompted with a message
that says 'we are going to send a query through e-mail, is it OK?'. At
night, when the phone line is available, the teacher can dial out and send
the queries." The request is routed to computers at MIT, which then perform
the search and filter the results, choosing the most relevant. These
results are then sent back to the computer in Malawi. "Next morning the
teacher can connect, download that e-mail and when the students arrive,
they can browse through those pages the way they would if they had full
Internet connectivity." Amarasinghe says most search engines are geared
toward Western users who are cash-rich but time-poor. "The idea is
that developing countries are willing to pay in time for knowledge.
In the West when we surf we want the information in the next two seconds.
We are not willing to wait."
(BBC News 15 Jul 2003)
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ISPS, MARKETERS OPPOSE ANTI-SPAM LEGISLATION
Some Internet service providers (ISPs), including Microsoft and America
Online, have lobbied against passage of tough anti-spam laws, while
direct marketers have threatened court challenges of such legislation.
Despite the pressure, members of Congress say they are determined to
pass an anti-spam bill this year, although some bill sponsors admit
they wish their bills had stronger provisions. Of the dozen or so bills
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Critics object to this approach, preferring an opt-in provision. ISPs
and direct marketers also oppose creation of a Do Not Spam list, which
would allow e-mail users to opt out of receiving any unsolicited e-mail.
Washington Times, 11 July 2003
http://www.washtimes.com/business/20030710-102818-4601r.htm
SENATE ALLOWS NO FUNDS FOR TIA
The U.S. Senate may effectively kill the controversial Terrorism
Information Awareness (TIA) program (formerly the Total Information
Awareness program) through a budget that forbids funding the program.
Republican Senator Ted Stevens spearheaded the addition of language to
the Senate's defense appropriations bill that explicitly disallows any
money to be used for the program, which has been criticized from
privacy groups as well as legislators on both sides of the aisle. The
bill is likely to pass a Senate vote, at which time a committee will
attempt to reconcile the Senate's appropriations bill with that of the
House, whose version does not include the ban on spending for TIA.
Observers expect that opponents of TIA will succeed in killing the program.
Wired News, 14 July 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59606,00.html
SENATE PUTS THE BRAKES ON CAPPS II
The Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to restrict all funding
for the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II)
until the General Accounting Office provides evidence of the program's
impact on privacy. The CAPPS II program was designed to perform
background checks on all airline passengers, including looking at
criminal records and credit reports, and to assign each passenger a
threat level. Depending on the level assigned, some passengers would
undergo increased screening at the airport, while others would not be
allowed to fly. Opponents of the program argue that it opens to door to
violations of individuals' civil liberties and their personal privacy.
In March, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation requiring
government officials to investigate those concerns. The Department of
Homeland Security has reportedly stopped its testing of the CAPPS II
program pending an internal review of privacy policy.
Internet News, 14 July 2003
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Jul 2005 Life on The Mississippi, Mark Twain, Vol.12[#141][mis12xxx.xxx] 8482
Jul 2005 Life on The Mississippi, Mark Twain, Vol.11[#140][mis11xxx.xxx] 8481
Jul 2005 Life on The Mississippi, Mark Twain, Vol.10[#139][mis10xxx.xxx] 8480
Jul 2005 Life on The Mississippi, Mark Twain, Vol. 9[#138][mis09xxx.xxx] 8479
Jul 2005 Life on The Mississippi, Mark Twain, Vol. 8[#137][mis08xxx.xxx] 8478
Jul 2005 Life on The Mississippi, Mark Twain, Vol. 7[#136][mis07xxx.xxx] 8477
Jul 2005 Life on The Mississippi, Mark Twain, Vol. 6[#135][mis06xxx.xxx] 8476
Jul 2005 Life on The Mississippi, Mark Twain, Vol. 5[#134][mis05xxx.xxx] 8475
Jul 2005 Life on The Mississippi, Mark Twain, Vol. 4[#133][mis04xxx.xxx] 8474
Jul 2005 Life on The Mississippi, Mark Twain, Vol. 3[#132][mis03xxx.xxx] 8473
Jul 2005 Life on The Mississippi, Mark Twain, Vol. 2[#131][mis02xxx.xxx] 8472
Jul 2005 Life on The Mississippi, Mark Twain, Vol. 1[#130][mis01xxx.xxx] 8471
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(Note: This series contains all the original illustrations scanned from a
first edition.)
Jul 2005 The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin [?jclrxxx.xxx] 8470
Jul 2005 Harlequinade, D. C. Calthrop and Granville Barker [?harqxxx.xxx] 8469
[Full author: Dion Clayton Calthrop and Granville Barker]
[Also posted HTML - 8harq10h.zip and 8harq10h.htm]
Jul 2005 De ondergang der Eerste Wareld, Willem Bilderdijk [?erstxxx.xxx] 8468
[Language: Dutch]
Jul 2005 Frost's Laws, by Sarah Annie Frost [frlawxxx.xxx] 8467
[Full title: Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society]
Jul 2005 Musa Pedestris, by John S. Farmer [?mpedxxx.xxx] 8466
[Full title: Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang
Rhymes (1536 - 1896)]
Jul 2005 Russian Revolution, by Petrunkevitch and others [?rrjsxxx.xxx] 8465
[Full title: The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement]
[Full author: Alexander Petrunkevitch, Samuel Northrup Harper, Frank
Alfred Golder, Robert Joseph Kerner]
Jul 2005 Rest Harrow, By Maurice Hewlett [#2][Rharrxxx.Xxx] 8464
[Subtitle: A Comedy Of Resolution]
Jul 2005 Memoirs of Henry Hunt, V3, by Henry Hunt [#2][?hnt3xxx.xxx] 8463
[Full title: Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3]
Jul 2005 The Man in Gray, by Thomas Dixon [#3][mgrayxxx.xxx] 8462
Jul 2005 Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 2,by Henry Hunt[?hnt2xxx.xxx] 8461
Jul 2005 Marse Henry, Complete, by Henry Watterson [?hnr3xxx.xxx] 8460
[Also posted: HTML in 8hnr310h.htm, illustrated HTML in 8hnr310h.zip]
Jul 2005 Marse Henry (Vol. 2), by Henry Watterson [?hnr2xxx.xxx] 8459
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Jul 2005 Marse Henry (Vol. 1), by Henry Watterson [?hnr1xxx.xxx] 8458
[Also posted: HTML in 8hnr110h.htm, illustrated HTML in 8hnr110h.zip]
Jul 2005 Frenzied Fiction, by Stephen Leacock [#10][frzfcxxx.xxx] 8457
Jul 2005 Patty Fairfield, by Carolyn Wells [?pfldxxx.xxx] 8456
Jul 2005 The Saint, by Antonio Fogazzaro [#2][?santxxx.xxx] 8455
Jul 2005 Actes et Paroles, vol. III, by Victor Hugo [#10][?act3xxx.xxx] 8454
[Language: French]
Jul 2005 Actes et Paroles vol. II, by Victor Hugo [#9][?act2xxx.xxx] 8453
[Language: French]
Jul 2005 Aarniometsaen Sydaen, by Charles G. D. Roberts [?aarnxxx.xxx] 8451
[Tr.: I.K. Inha] [Language: Finnish]
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Jul 2005 The Elements of Character, by Mary G. Chandler [?charxxx.xxx] 8450
Jul 2005 Traveler from Altruria: Romance,W. D. Howells[#67][?altrxxx.xxx] 8449
Jul 2005 Honor Edgeworth, by Vera [?hedgxxx.xxx] 8448
[Subtitle: Ottawa's Present Tense]
Jul 2005 The Romance of Morien, by Jessie L. Weston [#2][?mrinxxx.xxx] 8447
[Arthurian Romance--Unrepresented in Malory's "Morte d'Arthur"]
Jul 2005 The Enormous Room, by Edward Estlin Cummings [?enrmxxx.xxx] 8446
[Author AKA: e.e. cummings]
Jul 2005 Look Back on Happiness, by Knut Hamsun [?lbhpxxx.xxx] 8445
[Tr.: Paula Wiking]
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Jul 2005 Caesar or Nothing, by Pio Baroja [?csarxxx.xxx] 8444
[Tr.: Louis How]
Jul 2005 The Mysteries of Montreal, by Charlotte Fuhrer [?mystxxx.xxx] 8443
[Subtitle: Being Recollections of a Female Physician]
Jul 2005 Europe and the Faith, by Hilaire Belloc [#5][rpnftxxx.xxx] 8442
Jul 2005 Between Friends, by Robert W. Chambers [#5][btwfrxxx.xxx] 8441
Jul 2005 Men in War, by Andreas Latzko [?mwarxxx.xxx] 8440
Jul 2005 Games for Everybody, by May C. Hofmann [gamesxxx.xxx] 8439
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Jul 2005 Ethics, by Aristotle [#5][?ethcxxx.xxx] 8438
Jul 2005 The Path of Life, by Stijn Streuvels [?lifexxx.xxx] 8437
Jul 2005 Speculations from Political Economy, C. B. Clarke [?specxxx.xxx] 8436
Jul 2005 The Sturdy Oak, by Samuel Merwin et al [?soakxxx.xxx] 8435
[Subtitle: A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors]
[Other Authors: Harry Leon Wilson, Fannie Hurst, Dorothy Canfield, Kathleen
Norris, Henry Kitchell Webster, Anne O'Hagan, Mary Heaton Vorse, Alice Duer
Miller, Ethel Watts Mumford, Marjorie Benton Cooke, William Allen White,
Mary Austin, Leroy Scott ]
Jul 2005 The Ladies, by E. Barrington [?tldsxxx.xxx] 8434
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Jul 2005 Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch, R. C. Lehmann[?vagbxxx.xxx] 8433
Jul 2005 Black Rebellion, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson[#5][?brebxxx.xxx] 8432
Jul 2005 Liesilauluja, by L. Onerva [?lsjaxxx.xxx] 8431
[Language: Finnish]
Jul 2005 The Mountebank, by William J. Locke [?mbnkxxx.xxx] 8430
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Jul 2005 Ancestral Footstep, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [NH#27][?ancfxxx.xxx] 8429
Jul 2005 Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, Archibald Forbes [?afghxxx.xxx] 8428
Jul 2005 Home Missions In Action, by Edith H. Allen [missnxxx.xxx] 8427
Jul 2005 Poems of Paul Verlaine, by Paul Verlaine [?pvrlxxx.xxx] 8426
[Tr.: Gertrude Hall]
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Jul 2005 Caesar: A Sketch, by James Anthony Froude [?cesrxxx.xxx] 8425
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May 2005 Reize naar Surinamen, by John Gabriel Stedman [#4][?rsn4xxx.xxx] 8099
[Full title: Reize naar Surinamen, en door de binnenste gedeelten van Guiana]
[Language: Dutch]
May 2005 Reize naar Surinamen, by John Gabriel Stedman [#3][?rsn3xxx.xxx] 8098
[Full title: Reize naar Surinamen, en door de binnenste gedeelten van Guiana
(deel 3)] [Language: Dutch]
May 2005 Reize naar Surinamen, by John Gabriel Stedman [#2][?rns2xxx.xxx] 8097
[Full title: Reize naar Surinamen, en door de binnenste gedeelten van Guiana
(vol. II of IV)] [Language: Dutch]
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* After many surveys, we believe this to be the equivalent of taking a
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Adelaide, Australia
Etal, Germany (summer only)
Hanover, Germany
Northampton, UK
Waterloo, Ontario
Sackville, New Brunswick
St. Johns, Newfoundland
Enid, Oklahoma
Boring, Oregon
Rockford, Illinois
Newark, New Jersey (the UK version also counts)
Springflake, New Jersey
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PG mention in NY Times:
We reproduce here a story run in the New York Times on
Monday. Normally, we would give the link, but as this involves either
subscribing or hunting through Google it seems far easier to put in
the whole article*.
Harry Potter and the Internet Pirates
By AMY HARMON
JC, a 36-year-old Harry Potter fan in Kansas City, Mo., decided he was too
old to go chasing after the fifth book in the popular series when it came
out last month. Instead, he downloaded the book, "Harry Potter and the Order
of the Phoenix" from the Internet, conveniently avoiding both bookstore
crowds and the $29.99 cover price.
"I thought it was a little slow until the second half, then it got much
better," said JC, who insisted on being identified only by the online
nickname because he thinks that what he did was illegal. He said he still
intended to buy the book to read to his 8-year-old son.
So far, authors and publishers have mainly stood on the sidelines of the
Internet file-swapping frenzy that has shaken the music industry and aroused
fear among makers of motion pictures. But the publishing phenomenon around
the young wizard appears to be forging a new chapter in the digital
copyright wars: Harry Potter and the Internet pirates.
A growing number of Potter devotees around the world seem to be embracing
the prospect of reading the voluminous new book (766 pages in the British
edition; 870 in the American version) on the screen. And at least some of
them are assisting in the cumbersome process of scanning, typing in or
translating the book, which its author, J. K. Rowling, has not authorized
for publication in any of the existing commercial e-book formats.
Last week, enthusiastic readers put unofficially translated portions of
"Order of the Phoenix" on the Web in German and Czech, only to remove them
after the publishers that own the rights in their respective countries
threatened legal action.
English-language copies of the book - along with fan-written stories
masquerading as the real thing - are available on all the major file-sharing
networks in a variety of file formats.
The choices include Adobe's ubiquitous PDF and text files that can be opened
in a word-processing program. There is also Microsoft's fancier LIT format -
which requires use of its free e-book reader software and opens in a narrow
window that looks a lot like a book, although with hyperlinks to each
chapter and the ability to search for terms like Quidditch.
"What is unusual for us as people who deal with piracy of books is that
these are people who are not directly making money for having put them on
the Internet," said Ian Taylor, international director of the Publishers
Association in Britain. "That is obviously what's been happening with
peer-to-peer music, but it's not something we've had to deal with before."
Neil Blair, business manager at Christopher Little, Ms. Rowling's literary
agency, said the firm was aware of several unauthorized copies of the book
on the Web and was contacting Internet service providers to ask that they be
removed.
"E-book rights are reserved to J. K. Rowling," Mr. Blair said. "so any Harry
Potter novels on the Net are unauthorized. We also have an obligation to
protect the children who might believe they are reading the official work."
Mr. Blair said he did not expect the illicit e-books to have an impact on
sales of the printed book. More than 200 million copies of the first four
books have been sold in 55 languages. And the fifth book, released at
midnight on June 20 and published in Britain by Bloomsbury and in this
country by Scholastic, is ranked No. 1 on children's books best-seller
lists.
A spokeswoman for Scholastic said no one was available to comment. A
spokeswoman at Bloomsbury did not return calls last week.
Some publishing industry officials say the electronic Potter piracy may be a
perverse sign that the public is finally acquiring a taste for e-books.
"I used to joke in my speeches that e-books had not arrived because none of
the pirate sites were dedicated to books," said Michael Hart, founder of
Project Gutenberg, which began putting books whose copyrights had expired
online 32 years ago and has made nearly 9,000 books freely available. "It is
obvious that the infrastructure to make legal e-books is now so strongly
entrenched that people feel empowered to make their own, even when the
publishing industry refuses."
That is partly because fast scanners that cost hundreds of dollars a few
years ago now come free with many new personal computers. And free software
tools distributed by commercial e-book publishers like Microsoft and Adobe
also make it easy to format and correct errors.
If the heightened interest in e-books proves more enduring than the Potter
phenomenon, it may also reflect that people are increasingly accustomed to
thinking of the Internet as a vast library. Project Gutenberg's free books
are available from hundreds of Web sites. Roughly seven copies a minute are
downloaded from the 1,600 e-books available free on the University of
Virginia's Electronic Text Center, with "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
the leading title.
But ultimately, file-sharing software may be the most powerful force in
shaping the online distribution of books, as it has for other media.
Technical books and science fiction have long been available on newsgroups
like alt.binaries.ebooks, but many Internet providers refuse to carry such
forums. File-sharing software like KaZaA - which allows individual users to
make any kind of file available on their computers for others to copy - has
trained a generation of media consumers to turn to the Internet for movies,
music and games.
A 22-year-old university student in Britain, who calls himself Comrade Dave
and downloaded "Phoenix" recently using software called BitTorrent, said he
acquired the first four books the traditional way. But the student, who had
also downloaded a copy of the latest "Terminator" movie, said he saw the
book on a regular check of his favorite file-sharing site, SuprNova.
"When I saw HP I had to get it straight away because I've read all the other
books," wrote Comrade Dave, who switches over to reading "Phoenix" on his
desktop computer when he needs a break from his other work.
Particularly for experienced file-swappers, e-books have an obvious appeal:
they are smaller and therefore faster to download than most music or movie
files. Hundreds of e-books can be stored on a CD or in a hand-held device
like a Palm Pilot.
Wayne Chang, an American college student and computer systems administrator
who is in Tokyo for the summer, said it took him about three minutes to
download "Phoenix" to his laptop computer after searching local bookstores
in vain when the book came out.
Still, the same drawbacks that have thwarted the market for commercial
e-books for years afflict even the most eager electronic Potter fans: Mr.
Chang said he has stopped on Page 90 and is waiting for a colleague in the
United States to send him a hard copy because he wants "the real thing."
"It's like `Matrix Reloaded,' " Mr. Chang explained in an instant message,
with the hard-earned wisdom of a consumer of unauthorized digital media.
"You want to see it so bad that when they released it on the Internet two
days before it came out, you didn't download it," he said, because seeing it
on a large screen in a theater was an experience to be savored.
Yet for some fans in countries where the "real thing" is not due out for
months, an alternate experience looks just fine. The 15-year-old Web master
of a Harry Potter fan site, HP News (http://www.x.unas.cz) said he
downloaded and read a partial Czech translation of the book published by
another group of teenage fans before the Prague-based publisher, Albatros,
insisted that they remove it from the Internet.
A spokesman for Albatros said there had been a slight delay in the Czech
translation because the translator has been ill. It is scheduled to be
published on Feb. 1.
"Yes, I read the illegal translation," a correspondent named Hustey wrote in
an e-mail message. "I keep it in my PC. And I still waiting for next
translation, cause I don't want wait to next year for legal translation."
A group of German fans who formed a kind of Internet translating collective
also removed portions of their translation from the site
www.harry-auf-deutsch.de last week when Carlsen Verlag, the Hamburg-based
publisher, asserted that it was a breach of copyright. The project
continues, but the 800 or so participants now exchange the text only over
e-mail.
"We do not do anything against private initiatives," said Katrine Hogrebe,
Carlsen's press manager. "But at the moment when translated texts are
published, pieces of texts or whole texts, this is an infringement of
copyright."
Bernd Koelemann, a computer engineer in Berlin who organized the project,
said the intention was to foster communication and education among Potter
fans. Mr. Koelemann had organized a smaller-scale electronic effort after
his daughter Anna, then 14, asked him in 2000 to translate the fourth book,
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.".
This time, hundreds of people had signed up to translate before the English
version of "Phoenix" went on sale. Under the rules of the collective, only
those who contribute by translating or proofreading may see the final
version. The portions of translation on the Web site were merely meant to
attract more readers to the project, Mr. Koelemann said.
Still, under an agreement with Carlsen, the Web site remains open along with
an active discussion about the book and the best way to translate it.
(Disagreements with "Fritz," as Carlsen's official translator, Klaus Fritz,
is referred to, abound.) It also includes a section called "cucumber salad,"
which highlights errors and omissions the translating group has identified
in the official published translations of the first four books
Britta Sander, 16, of Kaarst, Germany, who translated pages 709-711, the
part where a much-loved character dies, said she wished the unofficial
translation could be more widely distributed as an alternative to the
Carlsen version.
"I think it's unfair to the German fans, just because some people can't read
English and have to read the German book," said Ms. Sander, who did not have
that problem herself: having preordered the book in English from Amazon's
British Web site, she had finished it 31 hours after it was delivered on the
night of June 20.
Many of those reading unauthorized electronic versions of "Phoenix" last
week said they were doing so for the convenience and immediacy, not because
they were free.
"This shows that if authors and publishers choose not to make books
available legally, people are going to go out and steal them," said Mike
Seagroves, director of business development for Palm Digital Media, the
largest commercial distributor of e-books.
Mr. Seagroves said that when his company approached Scholastic, the American
publisher of the Harry Potter books, about an e-book version for the fourth
book, it was given the impression that Ms. Rowling wanted a $1 million
advance.
Since Mr. Seagroves estimates that only about $8 million to $10 million
worth of e-books will be sold this year, that seemed like a lot. Mr. Blair,
from Ms. Rowling's literary agency, said that the figure was incorrect but
that there were no plans to publish an e-book.
At least one fan of both Harry Potter and e-books is holding out, though.
Byron Collins, 42, of Oak Grove, Ky., is circulating a petition addressed to
Ms. Rowling asking her to consider publishing her books in e-book format.
Mr. Collins, a factory worker who has read Tom Swift novels, Shakespeare and
"Moby Dick" on his Handspring Visor, remarked, "I would just like the author
to consider the pros and cons."
*Given the subject matter, this does strike us as ironic.
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Feb 2000 Journey Scotland's Western Isles, Samuel Johnson [jwsctxxx.xxx] 2064
The following has been re-posted in an updated 12th Edition:
Dec 2003 Russian Roulette, by Sam Vaknin [Vaknin#6][rroulxxx.xxx] 4779C
[Subtitle: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era]
[Also posted: RTF in rroul12r.zip - zip only]
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Jul 2005 Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee, John Esten Cooke [?dleexxx.xxx] 8424
Jul 2005 Blood Brothers, by Colonel Eugene C. Jacobs [blbroxxx.xxx] 8423C
[Subtitle: A Medic's Sketch Book] [Ed.: Sam Rohlfing]
Jul 2005 Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema, S Vaknin[17][mfilmxxx.xxx] 8422C
[Author's Full Name: Sam Vaknin]
[Also posted: RTF in mfilm10r.zip]
Jul 2005 The First Book of Factoids, by Sam Vaknin [#16][ffactxxx.xxx] 8421C
[Also posted: RTF in ffact10r.zip]
Jul 2005 Issues in Population and Bioethics, Sam Vaknin[15][isbioxxx.xxx] 8420C
[Also posted: RTF in isbio10r.zip]
Jul 2005 The Journals of Lewis and Clarke 1804-1806 [lcjnlxxx.xxx] 8419
[Authors: Meriwether Lewis & William Clark]
[Also posted: RTF in lcjnl10r.zip, Word .doc in lcnjl10w.zip]
Jul 2005 Hippolytus/The Bacchae, by Euripides [?uripxxx.xxx] 8418
Jul 2005 Discovery of the Source Of The Nile, John Speke [?wlsnxxx.xxx] 8417
[Full Title: What Led To The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile]
[Full Author: John Hanning Speke]
[Also posted: 8-bit version maps in 8wlsn10m.zip only]
(See also: #3284)
Jul 2005 Nouveaux Contes a Ninon, by Emile Zola [nvxcnxxx.xxx] 8416
[Language: French]
Jul 2005 The Magician's Show, by Lydia Maria Child [?magcxxx.xxx] 8415
[Full title: The Magician's Show Bos and Other Stories]
Jul 2005 Freedom Talks No. II, by Julia Seton, M.D [ftalkxxx.xxx] 8414
[Also posted: HTML in ftalk10h.zip and ftalk10h.htm]
Jul 2005 The Bishop's Shadow, by I. T. Thurston [thbshxxx.xxx] 8413
[HTML version in thbsh10h.htm and thbsh10h.zip]
[HTML zip contains 6 .png files which were not included on first copy
of thbsh10h.zip to etext05 but were included on second copy]
Jul 2005 Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 [?eur3xxx.xxx] 8412
[Subtitle: France and The Netherlands]
[Author: Various] [Ed.: Francis W. Halsey]
[Also posted: HTML with accented characters in 8eur310h.htm/.zip]
Jul 2005 Forest & Frontiers, by G. A. Henty [#18][?frfrxxx.xxx] 8411
Jul 2005 Jack of the Pony Express, by Frank V. Webster [jpexpxxx.xxx] 8410
Jul 2005 Love-Letters, by Aphra Behn [?lvlrxxx.xxx] 8409
[Full title: Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister]
[Also posted HTML - 8lvlr10h.zip and 8lvlr10h.htm]
Jul 2005 Scientific American Suppl. No. 299,Various [?0299xxx.xxx] 8408
[Subtitle: September 24, 1881]
[Also posted: HTML with accented characters in 8029910h.htm/.zip]
[Illustrated HTML in 8029910h.zip only]
Jul 2005 The Christian, by Hall Caine [#2][?chrsxxx.xxx] 8407
Jul 2005 Subterranean Brotherhood, by Julian Hawthorn[JH#8][?sbbrxxx.xxx] 8406
Jul 2005 Journalism for Women, by E.A. Bennett [?jrnwxxx.xxx] 8405
[Also posted HTML - 8jrnw10h.zip and 8jrnw10h.htm]
Jul 2005 Jane Talbot, by Charles Brockden Brown [jntlbxxx.xxx] 8404
[Also posted: HTML in jntlb10h.htm and jntlb10h.zip]
Jul 2005 Young People's Pride, by Stephen Vincent Benet[#2][?ypprxxx.xxx] 8403
Jul 2005 East and West, by Bret Harte [?eswsxxx.xxx] 8402
[Also posted: HTML in 8esws10h.zip and 8esws10h.htm]
Jul 2005 Germany History, V4, by Wolfgang Menzel [?grm4xxx.xxx] 8401
[Full title: Germany from the Earliest Period Vol. 4]
[Full author: Wolfgang Menzel, Trans. Mrs. George Horrocks]
Jun 2005 Selections from Erasmus, by Erasmus Roterodamus [?erasxxx.xxx] 8400
[Edited by P.S. Allen][Language: English and Latin]
Jun 2005 Manners and Social Usages, Mrs. J.M.E.W. Sherwood [?msusxxx.xxx] 8399
[Full author: Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood]
Jun 2005 The Sign at Six, by Stewart Edward White [#6][sign6xxx.xxx] 8398
Jun 2005 Expositions of Holy Scripture, Alex. Maclaren [#9][exp09xxx.xxx] 8397
[Full title: Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts]
[Full author: Alexander Maclaren]
Jun 2005 The Gods of Pegana, by E.J.M.D. Plunkett [#5][?gpegxxx.xxx] 8395
[Full author: Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]]
Jun 2005 The Doings Of Raffles Haw,bySir Arthur Conan Doyle[rafflxxx.xxx] 8394
Jun 2005 Life in the Backwoods, by Susanna Moodie [#4][?bkwdxxx.xxx] 8393
Jun 2005 Hin Und Her, by H. H. Fick [?hnhrxxx.xxx] 8392
[Subtitle: Ein Buch fuer die Kinder]
[Language: German]
Jun 2005 Scientific American Sup. No. 288, by Various [?sa04xxx.xxx] 8391
[Full title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881]
[Also posted HTML - 8sa0410h.zip and 8sa0410h.htm]
Jun 2005 Buddhism and Buddhists in China, by Lewis Hodus [?bdsmxxx.xxx] 8390
Jun 2005 Lectures Of Col. Ingersoll, V2,R. G. Ingersoll[#2][ingr2xxx.xxx] 8389
[Full title: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll - Latest]
[Full author: Col. Robert Green Ingersoll]
Jun 2005 Poems By Walt Whitman, by Walt Whitman [?pwwtxxx.xxx] 8388
[Editor: William Rossetti]
Jun 2005 Hunger, by Knut Hamsun [?hngrxxx.xxx] 8387
[Author: with introduction by Edwin Bjorkman]
[Tr. from Norwegian: George Egerton]
[Also posted: accented HTML in 8hngr10h.htm/.zip]
Jun 2005 Ptomaine Street, by Carolyn Wells [#8][?ptomxxx.xxx] 8386
Jun 2005 The Short Line War, by Merwin and Webster [shwarxxx.xxx] 8385
[Full Author: Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster]
Jun 2005 Pauline's Passion and Punishment,L. M. Alcott[#16][?ppauxxx.xxx] 8384
[Full author: Louisa May Alcott]
Jun 2005 Monsieur Maurice, by Amelia B. Edwards [#2][?maurxxx.xxx] 8383
Jun 2005 Canadian Crusoes, by Catherine Parr Traill [#3][?cacrxxx.xxx] 8382
Jun 2005 Expositions of Holy Scripture, Alex. Maclaren [#8][exp08xxx.xxx] 8381
[Full title: Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI]
[Full author: Alexander Maclaren]
Jun 2005 Cuba in War Time, by Richard Harding Davis [#37][?cubaxxx.xxx] 8380
Jun 2005 Shakespeare's Bones, by C. M. Ingleby [shbnxxxx.xxx] 8379
[Subtitle: The proposal to disinter them, considered in relation to their
possible bearing on his portraiture]
[Text in shbn10.txt/.zip, XHTML in shbn10h.htm/.zip]
Jun 2005 Selected Polish Tales, by Various [?pltlxxx.xxx] 8378
[Tr.: Else C. M. Benecke and Marie Busch]
Jun 2005 Water Ghost and Others, by John K. Bangs [JKB#9][wghstxxx.xxx] 8377
Jun 2005 Correspondence of Lafayette, by Lafayette [#2][?laftxxx.xxx] 8376
[Full title: Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette]
Jun 2005 Der Streit Ueber Die Tragoedie, by Theodor Lipps [?sttrxxx.xxx] 8375
[Language: German]
Jun 2005 Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet,Rev. Charles Kingsley[?allkxxx.xxx] 8374
[Subtitle: An Autobiography]
[Author Note: with a Prefatory Memoir by Thomas Hughes, Esq., Q.C.]
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Apocalypse Book 73 [drb73xxx.xxx] 8373
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Jude Book 72 [drb72xxx.xxx] 8372
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 3 John Book 71 [drb71xxx.xxx] 8371
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 2 John Book 70 [drb70xxx.xxx] 8370
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 1 John Book 69 [drb69xxx.xxx] 8369
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 2 Peter Book 68 [drb68xxx.xxx] 8368
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 1 Peter Book 67 [drb67xxx.xxx] 8367
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, James Book 66 [drb66xxx.xxx] 8366
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Hebrews Book 65 [drb65xxx.xxx] 8365
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Philemon Book 64 [drb64xxx.xxx] 8364
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Titus Book 63 [drb63xxx.xxx] 8363
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 2 Timothy Book 62 [drb62xxx.xxx] 8362
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 1 Timothy Book 61 [drb61xxx.xxx] 8361
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 2 Thessalonians Book 60 [drb60xxx.xxx] 8360
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 1 Thessalonians Book 59 [drb59xxx.xxx] 8359
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Colossians Book 58 [drb58xxx.xxx] 8358
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Philippians Book 57 [drb57xxx.xxx] 8357
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Ephesians Book 56 [drb56xxx.xxx] 8356
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Galatians Book 55 [drb55xxx.xxx] 8355
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 2 Corinthians Book 54 [drb54xxx.xxx] 8354
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 1 Corinthians Book 53 [drb53xxx.xxx] 8353
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Romans Book 52 [drb52xxx.xxx] 8352
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Acts Book 51 [drb51xxx.xxx] 8351
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, John Book 50 [drb50xxx.xxx] 8350
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Luke Book 49 [drb49xxx.xxx] 8349
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Mark Book 48 [drb48xxx.xxx] 8348
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Matthew Book 47 [drb47xxx.xxx] 8347
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 2 Machabees Book 46 [drb46xxx.xxx] 8346
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 1 Machabees Book 45 [drb45xxx.xxx] 8345
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Malachias Book 44 [drb44xxx.xxx] 8344
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Zacharias Book 43 [drb43xxx.xxx] 8343
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Aggeus Book 42 [drb42xxx.xxx] 8342
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Sophonias Book 41 [drb41xxx.xxx] 8341
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Habacuc Book 40 [drb40xxx.xxx] 8340
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Nahum Book 39 [drb39xxx.xxx] 8339
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Micheas Book 38 [drb38xxx.xxx] 8338
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Jonas Book 37 [drb37xxx.xxx] 8337
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Abdias Book 36 [drb36xxx.xxx] 8336
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Amos Book 35 [drb35xxx.xxx] 8335
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Joel Book 34 [drb34xxx.xxx] 8334
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Osee Book 33 [drb33xxx.xxx] 8333
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Daniel Book 32 [drb32xxx.xxx] 8332
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Ezechiel Book 31 [drb31xxx.xxx] 8331
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Barruch Book 30 [drb30xxx.xxx] 8330
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Lament. Jeramias Book 29 [drb29xxx.xxx] 8329
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Jeramias Book 28 [drb28xxx.xxx] 8328
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Isaias Book 27 [drb27xxx.xxx] 8327
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rh., Ecclesiasticus Book 26 [drb26xxx.xxx] 8326
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book of Wisdom Book 25 [drb25xxx.xxx] 8325
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Solomon's Cant. Book 24 [drb24xxx.xxx] 8324
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Ecclesiastes Book 23 [drb23xxx.xxx] 8323
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Proverbs Book 22 [drb22xxx.xxx] 8322
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Psalms Book 21 [drb21xxx.xxx] 8321
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Job Book 20 [drb20xxx.xxx] 8320
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Esther Book 19 [drb19xxx.xxx] 8319
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Judith Book 18 [drb18xxx.xxx] 8318
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Tobias Book 17 [drb17xxx.xxx] 8317
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 2 Esdras Book 16 [drb16xxx.xxx] 8316
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 1 Esdras Book 15 [drb15xxx.xxx] 8315
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 2 Paralipomenon Book 14 [drb14xxx.xxx] 8314
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 1 Paralipomenon Book 13 [drb13xxx.xxx] 8313
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 4 Kings Book 12 [drb12xxx.xxx] 8312
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 3 Kings Book 11 [drb11xxx.xxx] 8311
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 2 Kings Book 10 [drb10xxx.xxx] 8310
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, 1 Kings Book 9 [drb09xxx.xxx] 8309
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Ruth Book 8 [drb08xxx.xxx] 8308
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Judges Book 7 [drb07xxx.xxx] 8307
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Josue Book 6 [drb06xxx.xxx] 8306
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Deuteronomy Book 5 [drb05xxx.xxx] 8305
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Numbers Book 4 [drb04xxx.xxx] 8304
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Leviticus Book 3 [drb03xxx.xxx] 8303
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Exodus Book 2 [drb02xxx.xxx] 8302
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Genesis Book 1 [drb01xxx.xxx] 8301
Jun 2005 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete [drb00xxx.xxx] 8300
[Plain text in drb??10.txt/.zip; HTM version in drb??10h.htm/.zip]
[drb0010h.htm contains an active index to all the htm files]
Jun 2005 Filipino Popular Tales, by Dean S. Fansler [?filpxxx.xxx] 8299
Jun 2005 Komik und Humor, by Theodor Lipps [?kmikxxx.xxx] 8298
[Subtitle: Eine Psychologische-Aesthetische Untersuchung]
[Language: German]
Jun 2005 Scientific American Sup. No. 286, by Various [?sa02xxx.xxx] 8297
[Full Title: Scientific American, Supplement 286, June 25, 1881]
[Also posted HTML - 8sa0210h.zip and 8sa0210h.htm]
Jun 2005 Scientific American Sup. No. 303, by Various [?sa03xxx.xxx] 8296
[Full title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881]
[Also posted HTML - 8sa0310h.zip and 8sa0310h.htm]
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Complete [web67xxx.xxx] 8294
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Revelation [web66xxx.xxx] 8293
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Jude [web65xxx.xxx] 8292
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 3 John [web64xxx.xxx] 8291
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 John [web63xxx.xxx] 8290
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 John [web62xxx.xxx] 8289
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Peter [web61xxx.xxx] 8288
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Peter [web60xxx.xxx] 8287
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): James [web59xxx.xxx] 8286
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Hebrews [web58xxx.xxx] 8285
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Philemon [web57xxx.xxx] 8284
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Titus [web56xxx.xxx] 8283
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Timothy [web55xxx.xxx] 8282
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Timothy [web54xxx.xxx] 8281
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Thessalonians [web53xxx.xxx] 8280
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Thessalonians [web52xxx.xxx] 8279
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Colossians [web51xxx.xxx] 8278
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Philippians [web50xxx.xxx] 8277
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Ephesians [web49xxx.xxx] 8276
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Galatians [web48xxx.xxx] 8275
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Corinthians [web47xxx.xxx] 8274
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Corinthians [web46xxx.xxx] 8273
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Romans [web45xxx.xxx] 8272
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Acts [web44xxx.xxx] 8271
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): John [web43xxx.xxx] 8270
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Luke [web42xxx.xxx] 8269
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Mark [web41xxx.xxx] 8268
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Matthew [web40xxx.xxx] 8267
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Malachi [web39xxx.xxx] 8266
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Zechariah [web38xxx.xxx] 8265
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Haggai [web37xxx.xxx] 8264
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Zephaniah [web36xxx.xxx] 8263
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Habakkuk [web35xxx.xxx] 8262
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Nahum [web34xxx.xxx] 8261
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Micah [web33xxx.xxx] 8260
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Jonah [web32xxx.xxx] 8259
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Obadiah [web31xxx.xxx] 8258
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Amos [web30xxx.xxx] 8257
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Joel [web29xxx.xxx] 8256
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Hosea [web28xxx.xxx] 8255
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Daniel [web27xxx.xxx] 8254
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Ezekiel [web26xxx.xxx] 8253
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Lamentations [web25xxx.xxx] 8252
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Jeremiah [web24xxx.xxx] 8251
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Isaiah [web23xxx.xxx] 8250
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Song of Solomon [web22xxx.xxx] 8249
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Ecclesiastes [web21xxx.xxx] 8248
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Proverbs [web20xxx.xxx] 8247
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Psalms [web19xxx.xxx] 8246
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Job [web18xxx.xxx] 8245
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Esther [web17xxx.xxx] 8244
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Nehemiah [web16xxx.xxx] 8243
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Ezra [web15xxx.xxx] 8242
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Chronicles [web14xxx.xxx] 8241
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Chronicles [web13xxx.xxx] 8240
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Kings [web12xxx.xxx] 8239
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Kings [web11xxx.xxx] 8238
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Samuel [web10xxx.xxx] 8237
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Samuel [web09xxx.xxx] 8236
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Ruth [web08xxx.xxx] 8235
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Judges [web07xxx.xxx] 8234
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Joshua [web06xxx.xxx] 8233
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Deuteronomy [web05xxx.xxx] 8232
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Numbers [web04xxx.xxx] 8231
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Leviticus [web03xxx.xxx] 8230
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Exodus [web02xxx.xxx] 8229
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Genesis [web01xxx.xxx] 8228
Jun 2005 Audio: Middlemarch, by George Eliot [mdmarxx3.xxx] 8227C
[Computer-generated audio files in MP3 format]
[87 mp3 files: mdmar003.mp3-mdmar863.mp3; mdmar3-readme.txt, mdmar3-index.htm]
(Note: individual files only, no .zip)
Jun 2005 Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning, by J. Bunce[frtomxxx.xxx] 8226
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Sep 1999 The Old Peabody Pew by Kate Douglas Wiggin[KDW#13][oldpwxxx.xxx] 1902
Sep 1999 Secret of the Woods, by William J. Long [sctwdxxx.xxx] 1901
Sep 1999 Typee, by Herman Melville [Herman Melville #2][typeexxx.xxx] 1900
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Sep 1999 Albert Savarus, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac #78][svrusxxx.xxx] 1898
Sep 1999 The Seventh Man, by Max Brand [Max Brand #1][7thmnxxx.xxx] 1897
Sep 1999 Under the Red Robe, by Stanley Weyman [Weyman #1][rdrobxxx.xxx] 1896
Sep 1999 Armadale, by Wilkie Collins [Wilkie Collins #20][armdlxxx.xxx] 1895
Sep 1999 Visit to Iceland, by Madame Ida Pfeiffer [IP #1] [vstilxxx.xxx] 1894
Sep 1999 Song & Legend From the Middle Ages, by McClintocks[slfmaxxx.xxx] 1893
Sep 1999 Extracts From Adam's Diary, by Mark Twain [MT#15][xadamxxx.xxx] 1892
Sep 1999 A Plea for Old Cap Collier by Irvin S. Cobb[Cobb4][pfoccxxx.xxx] 1891
Sep 1999 Speaking of Operations, by Irvin S. Cobb [Cobb #3][spoprxxx.xxx] 1890
Sep 1999 Bird Neighbors, by Neltje Blanchan [bdnbrxxx.xxx] 1889
Sep 1999 The Bittermeads Mystery, by E. R. Punshon [btrmmxxx.xxx] 1888
Sep 1999 The Life of the Spider, by J. Henri Fabre [lfspdxxx.xxx] 1887
Sep 1999 Bunyan Characters (2nd Series), by Alex. Whyte #2 [2bnchxxx.xxx] 1886
Sep 1999 Bunyan Characters (1st Series), by Alex. Whyte #1 [1bnchxxx.xxx] 1885
Sep 1999 The Exiles, by Honore de Balzac [H de Balzac #77][xilesxxx.xxx] 1884
Sep 1999 The Wife, et al, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #14][twifexxx.xxx] 1883
Also contains:
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The Grasshopper, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #12]
A Dreary Story, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #11]
The Privy Councillor, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #10]
The Man in Case, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #9]
Gooseberries, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #8]
About Love, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #7]
The Lottery Ticket, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #6]
Sep 1999 The Young Forester, by Zane Grey [Zane Grey #9][yn4stxxx.xxx] 1882
Sep 1999 The Call of the Canyon, by Zane Grey[Zane Grey #8][tcotcxxx.xxx] 1881
Sep 1999 The Pathfinder, by James Fenimore Cooper[Cooper#2][pthfnxxx.xxx] 1880
Sep 1999 Royalty Restored, by J. Fitzgerald Molloy [rruc2xxx.xxx] 1879
[Title: Royalty Restored, or London under Charles II]
Sep 1999 A Millionaire of Yesterday, E. Phillips Oppenheim [mlystxxx.xxx] 1878
Sep 1999 A Mountain Woman, by Elia W. Peattie [Peattie #3][mtwmnxxx.xxx] 1877
Sep 1999 The Shape of Fear, by Elia W. Peattie [Peattie #2][tshfrxxx.xxx] 1876
Sep 1999 Painted Windows by Elia W. Peattie [Peattie #1][pwndsxxx.xxx] 1875
Aug 1999 The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit [E. Nesbit #7][rlwycxxx.xxx] 1874
Aug 1999 Gambara, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac #76][gmbraxxx.xxx] 1873
Aug 1999 The Red House Mystery, by A. A. Milne [Milne #1][rdhsmxxx.xxx] 1872
Aug 1999 The Deputy of Arcis, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac75][arcisxxx.xxx] 1871
Aug 1999 Reginald in Russia, etc., by Saki (H.H.Munro) [#4][rgrusxxx.xxx] 1870
Aug 1999 The Man in Lower Ten, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[#9][tmiltxxx.xxx] 1869
Aug 1999 Penelope's Postscripts, by Kate Douglas Wiggin #12[pnlpsxxx.xxx] 1868
Aug 1999 The Diary of a Goose Girl, by Wiggin [Wiggin #11][gsgrlxxx.xxx] 1867
[Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin]
Aug 1999 North America, Vol. 2, by Anthony Trollope [AT #4][2noamxxx.xxx] 1866
Aug 1999 North America, Vol. 1, by Anthony Trollope [AT #3][1noamxxx.xxx] 1865
Aug 1999 Hero Tales From American History, Lodge/Roosevelt [htfahxxx.xxx] 1864
Aug 1999 From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Thackeray [WMT #6][crhcrxxx.xxx] 1863
Aug 1999 Tartarin of Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet [trtrnxxx.xxx] 1862
Aug 1999 An Old Town By The Sea by Thomas Bailey Aldrich #6[ldtwnxxx.xxx] 1861
Aug 1999 Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley[Chas Kingsley #8][wsthoxxx.xxx] 1860
Aug 1999 The Works of Max Beerbohm, by Max Beerbohm[Max #6][twombxxx.xxx] 1859
Aug 1999 Plain Tales from the Hills, by Rudyard Kipling[#6][ptfthxxx.xxx] 1858
Aug 1999 Initials Only, by Anna Katharine Green [Green #3][ionlyxxx.xxx] 1857
Aug 1999 Cousin Pons, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #74][cspnsxxx.xxx] 1856
Aug 1999 Ban and Arriere Ban, by Andrew Lang[Andr. Lang#15][bnabnxxx.xxx] 1855
Aug 1999 Catherine de Medici, by Honore de Balzac/Balzac#73[ctdmdxxx.xxx] 1854
Aug 1999 The Ninth Vibration, et. al., by L. Adams Beck #8 [9thvbxxx.xxx] 1853
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The Round-Faced Beauty [LAB #1]
Aug 1999 Lucile, by Owen Meredith [lucilxxx.xxx] 1852
Aug 1999 The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green #2[wintaxxx.xxx] 1851
Aug 1999 Old Christmas, by Washington Irving [Irving #5][oxmasxxx.xxx] 1850
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[The Times They Are A'Changin' !!!]
LAPTOPS OUTSELL DESKTOPS FOR FIRST TIME
Sales of laptop computers accounted for more than 54% of the total retail
computer sales in May, with laptop outpacing desktop sales for the first
time ever, according to NPD Group. In comparison, laptops represented less
than 25% of total sales as recently as January 2000. May also marked the
first time that sales of LCD screens surpassed traditional CRT monitors.
Analysts contribute the shift to consumers' desire for laptops'
"portability, appealing form factors and attractive design" as well as more
competitive pricing, says NPD analyst Stephen Baker. In addition, "LCDs'
slim profile and sleek looks are more appealing." (AP 2 Jul 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030702/D7S1HP5G1.html
MICROSOFT'S E-BOOK GIVEAWAY
In an effort to boost adoption of its Microsoft Reader software, the
software leader is offering free e-book downloads over a 20-week period.
Microsoft Reader has received 6 million downloads since its debut in August
2000, but it faces an uphill battle against e-book market leader Adobe.
Over the five-month promotion period, Microsoft Reader users will be able
to download three e-book bestsellers a week from the company's Web site via
a Pocket PC, a Tablet PC, a laptop or a desktop. (CNet News.com 2 Jul 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1046_3-1023134.html?tag=fd_top
LINUX: THE MAGICIAN AND THE MAGIC
Talking with the San Jose Mercury News, Linux creator Linus Torvalds gave
this explanation of the evolution of the Linux operating system since it
origination (when he spent six months personally writing the original
code): "It all boils down to hundreds of different groups. A group can be a
huge company that has an agenda. Or it can mean one person at a university
working on a research project. They have their own thing they want to fix.
All of these people make their modifications, and not all of them are
accepted. I see it as a kind of ecosystem. You have survival of the
fittest. Some changes work better. Sometimes it is for purely technical
reasons. It's just the right thing to do. Sometimes it is for personality
reasons. Some people who push their changes are more likely to get things
done because they are nicer about it. It's not really centralized. I am at
the center, but I don't direct any teams. All these people are trying to
pull me in different directions. Some groups pull together in the same
direction. It's a very dynamic situation." (San Jose Mercury News 4 Jul 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6237239.htm
OUT-OF-STATE TELECOMMUTER IS OUT OF LUCK
A telecommuter living in Florida and doing work for a company in New York
has been told by the highest court in New York that she's ineligible for
New York State unemployment benefits. The court ruled unanimously that the
eligibility for benefits depends not on where the employer is but on where
the worker is. Since about 28 million Americans telecommute, this decision
is likely to have implications for workers throughout the country. (AP/San
Jose Mercury News 3 Jul 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6226207.htm
[Interesting That This Never Seems To Happen To Embezzlers, Enron, etc.]
NETWORK EXTORTION
Oleg Zezev, a Kazakh man who hacked into the computer of the Bloomberg
media company in attempt to extort $200,000 from billionaire media mogul
(and now New York City major) Michael Bloomberg has been sentenced by a
Manhattan court to four years in prison and fined $950,000, or almost five
times the amount he hoped to extort. Judge Kimba Wood told Zezev: "Your
crime was a very serious one because of its threat to international
commerce and the integrity of data that the financial community relies upon
to do its business." (Australian IT News 3 Jul 2003)
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6692859%5E15331%5E%5Enbv%5E1
5306-15318,00.html
COURT SAYS THUMBNAIL IMAGE LINKING IS FAIR USE
A federal appeals court ruled that a search engine's display of miniature
images of copyrighted works is allowed under fair use, upholding a similar
ruling in February 2002. The plaintiff in the case, photographer Leslie
Kelly, had sued image search engine firm Arriba Soft over thumbnail images
of her works that were accessible via Arriba's Ditto.com search engine.
Yesterday's decision, however, failed to confirm the legality of displaying
full-size images in search results -- a practice known as in-line linking
or framing -- and that case is now ordered to go to trial. "As to the first
action (on thumbnails), the district court correctly found that Arriba's
use was fair. However, as to the second action, we conclude that the
district court should not have reached the issue because neither party
moved for summary judgment as to the full-size images," according to the
opinion. The framing technique is used by a number of visual search
engines, including Google, Lycos and AltaVista. Nevertheless, the ruling
was viewed as a victory by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which had
filed a brief in favor of Arriba. "Web site owners can rest a bit easier
about linking to copyrighted materials online," said an EFF staff attorney.
"By revising its ruling, the court removed a copyright iceberg from the
main shipping lanes of the World Wide Web." (CNet News.com 7 Jul 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-1023629.html?tag=lh
COMING TO A COMPUTER SCREEN NEAR YOU -- TV COMMERCIALS
Advertisers are putting their TV spots online, spurred by a combination of
better technology, the spread of broadband and the failure of other online
advertising formats. And while ad agencies are enthusiastic about the
trend, analysts note that advertisers risk sparking a backlash among Web
surfers already irritated by intrusive pop-up ads. "In the television world
we've seen consumers become more and more frustrated with commercials. If
you're going to start providing that kind of advertising technology on the
Web, it's going to result in the same response from consumers," says a
Yankee Group analyst. Currently, "rich media" ads make up a small portion
of the $6-billion online advertising market, but the category grew last
year to 5% from 2% in 2001 and further growth is expected this year. "It's
minute compared to television. But, given the trends we're seeing, it won't
be minute two or three years from now." (Wall Street Journal 8 Jul 2003)
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EFF BACKS FILE SWAPPERS, ATTACKS RIAA
Responding to the recent announcement from the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) about plans for lawsuits against
individuals, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a
campaign to mobilize the estimated 60 million Americans who use
file-sharing services. The goal of the "Let the Music Play" campaign is
to make changes in current copyright law to legalize file sharing while
guaranteeing that artists will be compensated for their work. According
to Shari Steele of the EFF, "copyright law is out of step with the
views of the American public and the reality of music distribution
online." The EFF has suggested instituting licensing fees, paid by
manufacturers of MP3s and CD-ROMs. The fees would be doled out to
artists based on usage. The RIAA dismissed the idea as one that would
favor retransmission services and stifle innovation.
Internet News, 1 July 2003
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/2230301
RIAA WARNING BOOSTS SWAPPING
Representatives of Grokster and Morpheus said file-trading activity on
their services has increased by about 10 percent in recent days, not
long after the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
announced it would begin locating and prosecuting individual file
sharers. Some speculated the increase is a response to what many file
traders consider unreasonable action by the recording industry, while
others thought the rise suggests that many users see the RIAA's threat
as the "last call" to get music for free. Michael Weiss of Streamcast,
the company that developed Morpheus, said, "Any time you get media
attention, you get people interested to try it out." A spokesperson from
the RIAA declined to discuss the recent increase in file-trading activity.
Washington Post, 6 July 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7359-2003Jul3.html
KAZAA'S ANTITRUST SUIT THROWN OUT
A federal judge has thrown out a suit brought by Sharman Networks,
which distributes the Kazaa file-trading software, against recording
and film companies for what it said were antitrust violations. Sharman
argued that the entertainment industry was using its position to
prevent authorized copies from being traded on Kazaa. Judge Stephen V.
Wilson threw out the suit, however, saying that even if record and film
companies were guilty of using collective power unfairly, Sharman would
not be hurt because it is not in competition with them. Wilson had
previously ruled that developers of file-sharing technologies are not
responsible for illegal uses of those networks.
Wall Street Journal, 6 July 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105752430215663300,00.html
MICROSOFT CHANGES LICENSING TERMS
To comply with parts of the government's antitrust settlement against
Microsoft, the company has changed the terms under which other
companies can license technology that allows Windows applications to
communicate with servers. Formerly, companies that wanted to license
the technology were required to sign a nondisclosure agreement even to
read the licensing terms, and licensees were prohibited from suing
Microsoft. Another aspect of the old terms discouraged prospective
licensees involved with Linux. These restrictions have been dropped in
what a Microsoft spokesman described as a "unique and unprecedented"
licensing program. Despite the new licensing terms, a recent court
filing indicates that some states remain concerned about some of
Microsoft's actions. Those issues will be discussed at a judicial
hearing later this month.
New York Times, 4 July 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/04/technology/04SOFT.html
PLANNED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM RAISES EYEBROWS
A new surveillance system being developed by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency has some scientists and civil libertarians
concerned about potential civilian uses of the system. The Combat Zones
That See project is intended to use software to analyze images from
many thousands of cameras in an urban setting to identify cars, license
plates, and even passengers. The goal is to protect U.S. forces in
urban settings by spotting license plates on watch lists or discerning
suspicious behavior. Despite assurances from the Pentagon that the
technology is intended only for military uses, some observers have
expressed concern that it could be used by civilian law enforcement
agencies in a manner that intrudes on personal privacy. John Pike of
GlobalSecurity.org said, "Government would have a reasonably good idea
of where everyone is most of the time."
Washington Post, 2 July 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61389-2003Jul2.html
[Of Course, It's Not What We Usually Call Spam. . . .]
COURT RULES AGAINST INTEL IN E-MAIL TRESPASS CASE
The California Supreme Court ruled that a former Intel employee did not
violate trespassing laws when he sent e-mail messages to current Intel
employees. From 1996 to 1998, Kenneth Hamidi, a former Intel engineer
who was fired after a workers' compensation dispute, sent six e-mail
messages to Intel employees, directing them to a Web site he created
that criticized Intel. In 1998, Intel received an injunction that
barred Hamidi from sending messages to Intel employees. The California
court overturned the lower court's injunction and rejected Intel's
argument that the messages represented illegal trespassing to its
computer systems. The trespass argument has been used by Internet
service providers and companies to stop spam. Jeffrey D. Neuburger, a
New York-based technology lawyer, said, "Everyone is trying to figure
out ways to solve the spam problem, and this ruling doesn't help."
Although the case attracted attention regarding free-speech and
employee rights, the California court ruled only on the trespass issue.
New York Times, 1 July 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/technology/01SPAM.html
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William Shakespeare. The Bard. A fanciful play, mostly pure fun,
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story line. Still, however, this idea is rarely undertaken by science
fiction authors (although it may be the bread and butter of the
romance heroine) and is grist for the sexist mill.
Brett Fishburne
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Credits
Thanks this time go to Brett and George for the numbers and
the booklists. Mike Eschman for the RG updates, Mark for the beer,
Greg for keeping quiet, Michael, and Larry Wall. Entertainment for the
workers provided by BBC 6music as always.