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**The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, March 5, 2003**
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A Review of "Wives and Daughters"
Review by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D.
What a gem! That's what I said to myself when I finished reading Elizabeth
Cleghorn Gaskell's last novel, Wives and Daughters. I consider it a must
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father decides she needs a stepmother, and he marries a widow with a
daughter Molly's age. The second Mrs. Gibson, one of the memorable
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by veracity, takes charge of Molly and, in trying to make her into a
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Mrs. Gaskell (as she was called by Victorian readers) died before completing
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Feb 2005 Images from Confessions of Rousseau, by D. Widger [dw39wxxh.xxx]7555
Feb 2005 Images from Pepy's Diaries, by David Widger [dw38wxxh.xxx]7554
Feb 2005 Images from Works of Gilbert Parker, by D. Widger [dw37wxxh.xxx]7553
Feb 2005 Images from Motley's Netherlands, by David Widger [dw36wxxh.xxx]7552
Feb 2005 Images from The Essays of Montaigne, by D. Widger [dw35wxxh.xxx]7551
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Dec 2004 Prophet in Utah, by Cannon and O'Higgins [prutaxxx.xxx]7066
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Dec 2004 Children of the Bush, by Henry Lawson [chbshxxx.xxx]7065
Dec 2004 A Half-Century of Conflict V2, by F. Parkman[FP#5][?hcc2xxx.xxx]7064
Dec 2004 A Terrible Secret, by May Agnes Fleming [trsctxxx.xxx]7063
Dec 2004 A Daughter of Fife, by Amelia Edith Barr [?dgffxxx.xxx]7062
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Dec 2004 World's Histories, France V1, by Guizot De Witt [?wbhfxxx.xxx]7054
[Full title: Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7]
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Dec 2004 The Good News of God, by Charles Kingsley [gdngxxx.xxx]7051
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Dec 2004 Ruckblicke, by Walter Grunfeld [?rblkxxx.xxx]7049C
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[Full title: Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories]
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Dec 2004 Annals of Jamaica Plain, by Harriet M. Whitcomb [arjplxxx.xxx]7046
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Dec 2004 Courts of Memory, by L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone [?crtsxxx.xxx]7044
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Dec 2004 Wie es euch gefallt, by William Shakespeare [?geftxxx.xxx]7041
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FEDS SEIZE DOMAIN NAMES OF ALLEGED OFFENDERS
Attorney General John Ashcroft says federal agents have taken control of
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TWO DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR MAKERS OF ONLINE GAMES
In one corner of the ring is Microsoft; in the other, a partnership of
Sony, IBM, and grid-computing company Butterfly.net. Whereas Microsoft is
using its own technology exclusively for online games, the
Sony-IBM-Butterfly team uses a layer of software that was created by
Butterfly.net and is based on the open-source software standard known as
"Open Grid Services architecture." The Sony-IBM-Butterfly effort has
introduced grid computing to the consumer market, providing a way for
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glitches. In the judgment of Curt Benefield, the chief executive of the
company that makes the multiplayer science fiction game VibeForce, "This
will standardize the industry and put everyone on a more equal footing."
(New York Times 27 Feb 2003)
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HOORAY FOR NETFLIX, THAT SCREWY, BALLYHOOEY NETFLIX!
[With apologies to composer Johnny Mercer for our headline.] Just two days
ago NewsScan reported the soaring success of companies that have found a
niche in the online DVD rental service business. And now Netflix, the
largest such service, is saying that it has just surpassed 1 million
subscribers -- fresh evidence it and its rivals (companies such as
www.cafedvd.com, www.walmart.com, and www.filmcaddy.com) are on to
something. People seem increasingly to be interested in renting movies
online, receiving them through the U.S. mail, keeping them as long as they
like, and then returning them in order to replace them with new rentals.
[Is it too late for NewsScan to get into this business? Well, maybe we
should stick to our knitting.] (AP/San Jose Mercury News 27 Feb 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5275435.htm
MONSTER.COM WARNS JOB-SEEKERS ABOUT POTENTIAL ID THEFT
Monster.com, a job-seeker's Web service whose database holds a quarter of a
million resumes, has issued an e-mail message to its customers warning that
"regrettably, from time to time, false job postings are listed online and
used to illegally collect personal information from unsuspecting
job-seekers." What should job-seekers do to protect themselves? Monster.com
advises them not to give out their social security, credit card or bank
account numbers, not to disclose marital status or other information not
relevant to their job qualifications, and to be especially careful when
responding to job-postings from prospective employers outside the country.
(AP/San Jose Mercury News 28 Feb 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5285264.htm
MICROSOFT REVEALS ALL TO CHINA
Microsoft has agreed to reveal its Windows source code to the Chinese
government, making China the first country to benefit from Microsoft's new
efforts to dispel foreign governments' security fears. Without knowing the
inner workings of an operating system, governments may worry that backdoors
might be installed to leak sensitive information. "Microsoft's GSP
[Government Security Program] provides us with the controlled access to
source code and technical information in an appropriate way. It also
establishes cooperation between China and Microsoft. Microsoft has taken a
step forward to let us understand its product security," says Wu Shizhong,
director of the China Information Technology Security Certification Center.
In the past, China's government and its military have stated their
preference for the Linux operating system because its source code is
publicly available. (CNet News.com 28 Feb 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1007-990526.html?tag=fd_top
SEGA SURVEYS SUITORS
Sega, which last week announced its plan to merge with pinball-machine
maker Sammy, is now enjoying the attentions of Microsoft and Electronic
Arts, as the two separately explore the possibility of buying part or all
of the ailing videogame maker. For Microsoft, the acquisition would give
its Xbox console access to exclusive game titles, particularly high-quality
sports games, which are one of the most popular and fastest-growing game
categories. In addition, Sega's acquisition could open doors in Japan,
where a dearth of Xbox titles that appeal to Japanese gamers has left
Microsoft with stacks of unsold inventory. Meanwhile, from Electronic Arts'
perspective, a Sega acquisition would give EA a boost in Japan, and would
at the same time eliminate a competitor in the sports games category.
Spokespeople at both companies declined to comment. (Wall Street Journal 28
Feb 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1046381423691854663.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
NORWEGIAN DVD-PIRACY CASE TO BE RETRIED
What's going on, property theft or the exercise of intellectual freedom?
Norwegian teenage programmer Jon Johansen was acquitted last month of using
software he developed to steal DVD movies, but an appellate court in Oslo
has ruled that the case needs to be reexamined. The software involved is
known as DeCSS. What it does is unscramble manufacturers' security locks on
DVDs, much to the distress of the Hollywood movie studios. (Reuters/USA
Today 28 Feb 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-02-28-dvd-retrial_x.htm
RIGHT TO POSSESS OR RIGHT TO CREATE? WHICH CARD TRUMPS?
At the end of a recent mock trial sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law
and Technology to debate issues of copyright in the digital age, the judge
urged the participants: "Go back to work and clear up this mess for us. And
don't take too long to do it because we're losing ground fast." It's a case
of "digital rights management" (technology to place locks on DVDs and other
copyrighted material to prevent their being misappropriated) versus an
innovator's ability to make technological advances by taking a competitor's
products apart to understand how they work. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.),
who is introducing a bill to amend the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, says, "We have ceded too much power to copyright owners. People are
afraid to proceed on innovative measures." (New York Times 2 Mar 2003)
http://shorl.com/bapog
AOL SEEKS TO 'MONETIZE' INSTANT MESSAGING
About the only good news for AOL recently has been its spectacular success
with its instant messaging service, the world's most popular electronic
communications tool. Every day, about 2.3 billion instant messages are sent
via AOL, and about 40% of all Americans aged 14-24 use the AOL IM service.
The only problem is, it's free. And while AOL isn't considering charging
for its IM service or burdening it with advertising, company insiders are
putting together targeted pitches to capitalize on the demographics of the
AOL instant messaging community. At the same time, the company is pushing
IM into the workplace, where employees often use the service to exchange
messages without supervision from their company's computer administrators.
"This is really an enormous untapped audience online," says Stephen Kim,
research director of ComScore Media Matrix. "It is a big audience, and it
is really active, but it is really hard to turn that into dollars."
Nevertheless, AOL plans to keep on trying: "There is a very significant
effort to build new revenue streams and businesses over the next one to two
years," says a high-ranking AOL official. "If we have done nothing two
years from now, we will have a problem." (Washington Post 3 Mar 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30944-2003Mar2.html
THE NET IS ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF CASH REGISTERS
John Rose, an executive vice president of music company EMI, says there's
gold in the hills of the Internet, where unauthorized music downloads
constitute an enormous challenge to the music industry: "If all the
consumers who pirate tracks today bought them for a buck, that would be a
$5 billion a month business" -- or twice the size of the music business
today. So will people actually pay that much? Industry players seem to have
decided that they will. The major music download services, including
late-entry AOL, now charge about $9 or $10 a month, allowing a customer to
stream songs from a pool of a quarter of a million titles -- and charge
about 99 cents to download a song and copy it onto a CD. (USA Today 3 Mar
2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/technology/03TUNE.html
SOFTWARE FILTERING CASE GOES TO SUPREME COURT
Tomorrow the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case challenging
the constitutionality of the Children's Internet Protection Act of 2001,
which requires any library that receives federal money to block access to
online pornography and obscenity. In support of the Act, U.S. Solicitor
General Ted Olson says that libraries are being asked merely to use the
same kind of discretion they've always used in managing their print
collections: "Public libraries have broad discretion to decide what
material to add to their collections. The use of filtering software to
block access to online pornography falls well within the permissible limits
of that discretion.
(USA Today 3 Mar 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-03-03-library-porn-usat_x.htm
TEXT MESSAGE ESSAY BEWILDERS BRITISH TEACHER
A 13-year-old's "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" essay proved to be almost
indecipherable to her poor teacher. "I could not believe what I was seeing.
The page was riddled with hieroglyphics, many of which I simply could not
translate," the teacher told the Daily Telegraph newspaper. The girl's
essay began: "My summr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF
& thr 3 :- kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc." For those who had trouble
reading that, here's a translation: "My summer holidays were a complete
waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his
girlfriend and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York.
It's a great place." The text messaging craze is partially to blame for a
decline in grammar and written English abilities, says Judith Gillespie of
the Scottish Parent Teacher Council. "Pupils think orally and write
phonetically." (Reuters/CNN 3 Mar 2003)
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Dec 2004 Along the Shore, by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop [atshrxxx.xxx]=
7056
Dec 2004 Gone to Earth, by Mary Webb [gtrthxxx.xxx]=
7055
Dec 2004 World's Histories, France V1, by Guizot De Witt [?wbhfxxx.xxx]=
7054
[Full title: Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7]
[Full author: M. Guizot and Madame Guizot De Witt]
[Plain text in 7wbhf10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8wbhf10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 Pages from a Journal with Other Papers,Rutherford [pgjrxxxx.xxx]=
7053
[Author's Full Name: Mark Rutherford]
[Text in pgjr10.txt/.zip, XHTML in pgjr10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, by Edward Bellamy [#3][heidnxxx.xxx]=
7052
Dec 2004 The Good News of God, by Charles Kingsley [gdngxxxx.xxx]=
7051
[Text in gdng10.txt/.zip, XHTML in gdng10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 The Swoop, by P. G. Wodehouse [#22][swoopxxx.xxx]=
7050
Dec 2004 R=FCckblicke, by Walter Gr=FCnfeld [?rblkxxx.=
xxx]7049C
[Language: German]
Dec 2004 Triumph of the Egg, by Sherwood Anderson [#3][?teggxxx.xxx]=
7048
[Full title: Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7tegg10.txt and 7tegg10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8tegg10.txt and 8tegg10.zip]
Dec 2004 Back To Billabong, by Mary Grant Bruce [bkblbxxx.xxx]=
7047
Dec 2004 Annals of Jamaica Plain, by Harriet M. Whitcomb [arjplxxx.xxx]=
7046
[Full title: Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain]
[Full author: Harriet Manning Whitcomb]
Dec 2004 Marching Men, by Sherwood Anderson [#2][mgmenxxx.xxx]=
7045
Dec 2004 Courts of Memory, by L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone [?crtsxxx.xxx]=
7044
[Full title: In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875.]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7crts10.txt and 7crts10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8crts10.txt and 8crts10.zip]
Dec 2004 Der Kaufmann von Venedig, William Shakespeare[#18][?gs18xxx.xxx]=
7043
[Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gs1810.txt and 7gs1810.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8gs1810.txt and 8gs1810.zip]
(ubersetzt von August Wilhelm von Schlegel)
Dec 2004 Discipline and Other Sermons, by Charles Kingsley [dscpxxxx.xxx]=
7042
[Text in dscp10.txt/.zip, XHTML in dscp10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 Wie es euch gefallt, by William Shakespeare [?gs25xxx.xxx]=
7041
[Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gs2510.txt and 7gs2510.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8gs2510.txt and 8gs2510.zip]
Dec 2004 Paula the Waldensian, by Eva Lecomte [?paulxxx.xxx]=
7040
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7paul10.txt and 7paul10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8paul10.txt and 8paul10.zip]
Dec 2004 The Angel Adjutant, by Minnie L. Carpenter [adjutxxx.xxx]=
7039
[Full title: The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in adjut10.txt and adjut10.zi=
p]
[HTML version with accented characters in adjut10h.htm and adjut10h.zip]
Dec 2004 Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag, by Susag [pesosxxx.xxx]=
7038
Dec 2004 Beric the Briton, by G. A. Henty [#11][bbritxxx.xxx]=
7037
[Plain text in bbrit10.txt/.zip; HTML version in bbrit10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 Poorhouse Waif, by I. C. Byrum [pwaifxxx.xxx]=
7036
[Full title: The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher]
[Full author: Isabel C. Byrum]
Dec 2004 The Hero of Hill House, by Mable Hale [hhhsexxx.xxx]=
7035
Dec 2004 Fleurs de lys and Other Poems, by Arthur Weir [?flurxxx.xxx]=
7034
[Plain text in 7flur10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version 8flur10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 Picturesque Quebec, by James MacPherson Le Moine [?quebxxx.xxx]=
7033
[Plain text in 7queb10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8queb10.txt/.zip]
(Note: The unzipped text files are each 1.4mb)
Dec 2004 Prose Idylls, by Charles Kingsley [pridxxxx.xxx]=
7032
[XHTML in prid10h.htm/.zip, text in prid10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 The Sheik, by E. M. Hull [sheikxxx.xxx]=
7031
Dec 2004 Field and Hedgerow, by Richard Jefferies [#4][fhedgxxx.xxx]=
7030
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in fhedg10.txt and fhedg10.zi=
p]
[HTM version with accented characters in fhedg10h.htm and fhedg10h.zip]
Dec 2004 Book of Etiquette, by Lillian Eichler [betiqxxx.xxx]=
7029
Dec 2004 The Clicking of Cuthbert, by P. G. Wodehouse [#21][clickxxx.xxx]=
7028
Dec 2004 A Hive of Busy Bees, by Effie M. Williams [bbeesxxx.xxx]=
7027
Dec 2004 Children's Touching Incidents, by S. B. Shaw [ansprxxx.xxx]=
7026
[Full title: Children's Edition of Touching Incidents and Remarkable
Answers to Prayer]
Dec 2004 Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott, Complete [rob3wxxx.xxx]=
7025
Dec 2004 Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2 [rob2wxxx.xxx]=
7024
Dec 2004 Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 [rob1wxxx.xxx]=
7023
[Plain text in rob_w10.txt/.zip]
[Illustrated HTML version, zip file only with images, in rob_w10h.zip]
Dec 2004 Ein Sommernachtstraum,byWilliam Shakespeare[TS#17][?gs17xxx.xxx]=
7022
[Translator: Wilhelm von Schlegel] [Language: German]
[Plain text in 7gs1710.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8gs1710.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 Indian Frontier Policy, by General Sir John Ayde [indfrxxx.xxx]=
7021
[Note: Central Asia "Indian", not the American Indian]
Dec 2004 Louis Agassiz as a Teacher, by Lane Cooper [agaszxxx.xxx]=
7020
Dec 2004 For Auld Lang Syne, by Ray Woodward [auldlxxx.xxx]=
7019
Dec 2004 Collection of Scotch Proverbs, by Pappity Stampoy [scprvxxx.xxx]=
7018
Dec 2004 A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore, by Fay-Cooper Cole [?tnflxxx.xxx]=
7017
[Also posted TEI XML file 8tnfl10x.zip - zip only]
Dec 2004 Adventures in the Land of Canaan, Robert Lee Berry[dvlcnxxx.xxx]=
7016
[Also posted XML-ish file dvlcn10x.zip]
Dec 2004 Wisdom of the East, by Shinran Shonin [wsbdpxxx.xxx]=
7015
[Also posted Unicode - wsbdp10u.txt and wsbdp10u.zip]
Dec 2004 Equinoctial Regions of America V2,von Humboldt[#2][qnct2xxx.xxx]=
7014
[Full author: Alexander von Humboldt]
Dec 2004 Journeys Through Bookland V4, Charles H. Sylvester[?bld4xxx.xxx]=
7013
Dec 2004 Mes Origines. Memoires et Recits, Frederic Mistral[?momrxxx.xxx]=
7012
[Language: French]
[Plain text in 7momr10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8momr10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version in 8momr10h.htm and 8momr10h.zip]
Dec 2004 The Flood, by Emile Zola [#14][zofldxxx.xxx]=
7011
Dec 2004 Graded Lessons in English, by Reed and Kellog [ggramxxx.xxx]=
7010
[Full author: Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg]
[Subtitle: An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred
Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room]
Dec 2004 Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, by Poquelin (Moliere [?prncxxx.xxx]=
7009
[Plain text in 7prnc10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8prnc10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 The City of Fire, by Grace Livingston Hill [?cfirxxx.xxx]=
7008
[Plain text in 7cfir10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8cfir10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 True Story of My Life, by Hans Christian Andersen [7hcanxxx.xxx]=
7007
(Note: 1847 Edition.)
[Plain text in 7hcan10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8hcan10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 Bonnie Prince Charlie, by G. A. Henty [#11][bprchxxx.xxx]=
7006
[Plain text in bprch10.txt/.zip; HTM in bprch10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 The Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott, Complete [ant3wxxx.xxx]=
7005
Dec 2004 The Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2 [ant2wxxx.xxx]=
7004
Dec 2004 The Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 [ant1wxxx.xxx]=
7003
[Plain text in ant_w10.txt/.zip]
[Illustrated HTML, zipped files only, in ant_w10h.zip]
Dec 2004 Life of George Washington, V1, by W. Irving [#7][?wsh1xxx.xxx]=
7002
[Full title: The Life of George Washington, Volume I]
[Full author: Washington Irving]
[Plain text in 7wsh110.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8wsh110.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 History of the Philippines, by Antonio de Morga [?phipxxx.xxx]=
7001
[Full title: History of the Philippine Islands Vols 1 and 2]
[Plain text in 7phip10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8phip10.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 How to Live a Holy Life, by C. E. Orr [holywxxx.xxx]=
6999
Nov 2004 The Spanish Chest, by Edna A. Brown [?spchxxx.xxx]=
6998
[Plain text in 7spch10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version 8spch10.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 Winning of Barbara Worth, by Harold B Wrigh[HBW#5][wbworxxx.xxx]=
6997
Nov 2004 Romeo und Julia, by William Shakespeare [TS#16][?gs16xxx.xxx]=
6996
[Translator: August Wilhelm von Schlegel] [Language: German]
[Plain text in 7gs1610.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8gs1610.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 Ghosts I have Met and Some Others, by J. Bangs[#8][?gostxxx.xxx]=
6995
[Author's Full Name: John Kendrick Bangs]
[Plain text in 7gost10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8gost10.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 Han d'Islande, by Victor Hugo [handixxx.xxx]=
6994
[Language: French]
Nov 2004 The Lord of the Sea, by M. P. Shiel [?lrdsxxx.xxx]=
6993
[Plain text 7lrds10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8lrds10.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 Belinda, by A. A. Milne [#4][beldaxxx.xxx]=
6992
[Also posted HTM version with accented characters in belda10h.htm/.zip]
Nov 2004 Across the Years, by Eleanor H. Porter [#9][acrosxxx.xxx]=
6991
[Also posted HTM version with accented characters in acros10h.htm/.zip]
Nov 2004 Coriolanus, by William Shakespeare [ST#36][?gs36xxx.xxx]=
6990
[Translator: Dorothea Tieck][unter der Redaktion von Ludwig Tieck]
[Language: German]
[Plain text in 7gs3610.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8gs3610.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 History of Rome from 476 AD, by Robert F. Pennell [8romexxx.xxx]=
6989
[Full title: History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD]
Nov 2004 Ottawa and Chippewa, by Andrew J. Blackbird [miindxxx.xxx]=
6988
[Full title: History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan]
Nov 2004 Five Little Peppers Abroad, by Margaret Sidney[#4][pep5axxx.xxx]=
6987
Nov 2004 Hygienic Physiology, by Joel Dorman Steele [?hygnxxx.xxx]=
6986
[Subtitle: With Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and
Narcotics Being a Revised Edition of the Fourteen Weeks in Human Physio=
logy]
[Plain text in 7hygn10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8hygn10.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 A Prefect's Uncle, by P. G. Wodehouse [#20][pfectxxx.xxx]=
6985
Nov 2004 The Pothunters, by P. G. Wodehouse [#19][pothtxxx.xxx]=
6984
Nov 2004 Missionary Work Ojebway Indians, E. F. Wilson [ojebwxxx.xxx]=
6983
[Full title: Missionary Work Among The Ojebway Indians]
[Author: Edward Francis Wilson]
Nov 2004 Hawthorne and His Circle, by Julian Hawthorne [hcircxxx.xxx]=
6982
Nov 2004 The Open Air, by Richard Jefferies [thpnrxxx.xxx]=
6981
[HTML version in thpnr10h.htm and thpnr10h.zip]
Nov 2004 Tales of St. Austin's, by P. G. Wodehouse [#18][talewxxx.xxx]=
6980
Nov 2004 The Little Regiment, by Stephen Crane [#4][regmtxxx.xxx]=
6979
Nov 2004 Made-Over Dishes, by S. T. Rorer [?rmodxxx.xxx]=
6978
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7rmod10.txt and 7rmod10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8rmod10.txt and 8rmod10.zip]
Nov 2004 Flying for France, by James R. McConnell [?fffrxxx.xxx]=
6977
[Subtitle: With the American Escadrille at Verdun]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7fffr10.txt and 7fffr10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8fffr10.txt and 8fffr10.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8fffr10h.htm and 8fffr10h.zip]
[Photographs by Paul Rockwell]
[Images are in the HTML zip file only!]
Nov 2004 Metlakahtla and North Pacific Mission, E. Stock [metlaxxx.xxx]=
6976
[Full title: Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission]
[Author: Eugene Stock]
Nov 2004 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [ST#34][?gs34xxx.xxx]=
6975
[Translator: Dorothea Tieck]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gs3410.txt and 7gs3410.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8gs3410.txt and 8gs3410.zip]
[Language: German]
Nov 2004 Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories, by H. Merriman [tmfrxxx.xxx]=
6974
[Author's Full Name: Henry Seton Merriman]
[Text in tmfr10.txt/.zip, XHTML in tmfr10h.htm/.zip]
Nov 2004 Boy Aviators' Polar Dash,Captain Wilbur Lawton[#2][tbapdxxx.xxx]=
6973
Nov 2004 Lays from the West, by M. A. Nicholl [?laysxxx.xxx]=
6972
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7lays10.txt and 7lays10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8lays10.txt and 8lays10.zip]
Nov 2004 Judaism, by Israel Abrahams [judsmxxx.xxx]=
6971
Nov 2004 The History of a Mouthful of Bread, by Jean Mace [?brd1xxx.xxx]=
6970
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7brd110.txt and 7brd110.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8brd110.txt and 8brd110.zip]
Mar 2005 The Orations of Lysias, by Lysias [lysswxxx.xxx]=
6969
Nov 2004 History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V3 [?rfi3xxx.xxx]=
6968
[Author's Full Name: William H. Prescott]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7rfi310.txt and 7rfi310.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8rfi310.txt and 8rfi310.zip]
Nov 2004 History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V2 [?rfi2xxx.xxx]=
6967
[Author's Full Name: William H. Prescott]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7rfi210.txt and 7rfi210.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8rfi210.txt and 8rfi210.zip]
Nov 2004 Traite' General de la Cuisine Maigre,Auguste Helie[?tgcmxxx.xxx]=
6966
[Subtitle: Potages, Entrees et Releves, Entremets de Legumes, Sauces,
Entremets sucres; Traite' des Hors d'oeuvre et Savoureux] [Language: Fr=
ench]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7tgcm10.txt and 7tgcm10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8tgcm10.txt and 8tgcm10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters and images in 8tgcm10i.zip]
Nov 2004 Alice Sit-By-The-Fire, by J. M. Barrie [Barrie#9][asbtfxxx.xxx]=
6965
Nov 2004 Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves, by Cicely Kent [tfbtlxxx.xxx]=
6964
[Subtitle: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup]
[HTML version in tfbtl10h.htm/.zip; Images are in the HTML zip file only.=
]
Nov 2004 Elson Grammer School Literature, by Elson, Book 4 [?elswxxx.xxx]=
6963
[Authors: William H. Elson and Christine Keck]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7egs410.txt and 7egs410.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8egs410.txt and 8egs410.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8egs410h.htm and 8egs410h.zip]
Nov 2004 Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2, J. Cox[?mcw2xxx.xxx]=
6962
[Subtitle: November 1863-June 1865] [Author's Full Name: Jacob Dolson Cox=
]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mcw210.txt and 7mcw210.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8mcw210.txt and 8mcw210.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8mcw210h.htm and 8mcw210h.zip]
[Images are only in the HTML zip file!]
Nov 2004 Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1, J. Cox[?mcw1xxx.xxx]=
6961
[Subtitle: April 1861-November 1863] [Author's Full Name: Jacob Dolson Co=
x]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mcw110.txt and 7mcw110.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8mcw110.txt and 8mcw110.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8mcw110h.htm and 8mcw110h.zip]
[Images are in the zip version of the HTML only!]
Nov 2004 Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, by James E. Seaver [jemsnxxx.xxx]=
6960
[Full title: A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison]
Nov 2004 Myne eerste vlerken, by Eugeen Edward Stroobant [?mynrxxx.xxx]=
6959
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mynr10.txt and 7mynr10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8mynr10.txt and 8mynr10.zip]
[Language: Dutch]
Nov 2004 Frank on the Lower Mississippi, by Harry Castlemon[franwxxx.xxx]=
6958
[HTML also posted, zip only with images, in franw10h.zip]
Nov 2004 Canada and Other Poems, by T.F. Young [canpwxxx.xxx]=
6957
Nov 2004 In Divers Tones, by Charles G. D. Roberts [divrwxxx.xxx]=
6956
Nov 2004 The Prince and Betty, by P. G. Wodehouse [#18][tprbtxxx.xxx]=
6955
Nov 2004 Aikenside, by Mary J. Holmes [aikenxxx.xxx]=
6954
Nov 2004 By England's Aid, by G. A. Henty [#12][enaidxxx.xxx]=
6953
[Full Title: By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-160=
4)]
[HTML also posted in enaid10h.htm and enaid10h.zip]
Nov 2004 By Pike and Dyke, Dutch Republic, by Henry [#11][bpikexxx.xxx]=
6952
[Full Title: By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic]
[Author's Full Name: G.A. Henty]
[HTML version in bpike10h.htm and bpike10h.zip]
Nov 2004 Audio: The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin [vbglexx3.xxx]=
6951C
[Computer-generated speech audio performance]
Nov 2004 The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore, by L. Hope [#9][tbtssxxx.xxx]=
6950
[Author's Full Name: Laura Lee Hope]
Nov 2004 Fiat Money Inflation in France, by A. White [fiatmxxx.xxx]=
6949
[Subtitle: How it Came, What it Brought, and How it Ended]
[Author's Full Name: Andrew Dickson White]
Nov 2004 The Secrets of the German War Office, A.K. Graves[sgewoxxx.xxx]=
6948
[Author's Full Name: Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves]
[Note: With the collaboration of Edward Lyell Fox]
Nov 2004 The Rangers, By D. P. Thompson [rangrxxx.xxx]=
6947
[Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter][Two volumes combined into one]
Nov 2004 The Complete Works of Artemus Ward (HTML edition) [wardcxxh.zip]=
6946
[Artemus Ward was a pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne]
[Note: this is a multi-page illustrated edition, HTML zipped only, of
the earlier separate Artemus Ward volumes #3271-3277]
Nov 2004 Marguerite Verne, by Agatha Armour [vernexxx.xxx]=
6945
[Subtitle: Scenes from Canadian Life]
Nov 2004 The Heart of Mid-Lothian, by W. Scott, Complete [mid3wxxx.xxx]=
6944
[Author: Sir Walter Scott]
(Note: Tales of My Landlord, Second Series)
Nov 2004 The Heart of Mid-Lothian, by Walter Scott, Vol. 2 [mid2wxxx.xxx]=
6943
Nov 2004 The Heart of Mid-Lothian, by Walter Scott, Vol. 1 [mid1wxxx.xxx]=
6942
Nov 2004 Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott, Complete [mrt3wxxx.xxx]=
6941
[AKA: A Tale of Old Mortality]
(Note: Tales of My Landlord, First Series}
Nov 2004 Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2 [mrt2wxxx.xxx]=
6940
Nov 2004 Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 [mrt1wxxx.xxx]=
6939
Nov 2004 Conflict Between Religion and Science, by Draper [hcbrsxxx.xxx]=
6938
[Full Title: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science]
[Author: John William Draper]
Nov 2004 A Biography of Edmund Spenser, by John W. Hales [esbioxxx.xxx]=
6937
Nov 2004 Robinson Crusoe/One Syllable, by Mary Godolphin [rbcosxxx.xxx]=
6936
[Full Title: Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable]
Nov 2004 The Radio Amateur's Hand Book,A. Frederick Collins[thrdmxxx.xxx]=
6935
[Subtitle: A Complete, Authentic and Informative Work on Wireless Telegra=
phy
and Telephony]
[HTML, zip only with images, in thrdm10ah.htm and thrdm10ah.zip]
(See #6934 for text version, no images.)
Nov 2004 The Radio Amateur's Hand Book,A. Frederick Collins[thrdmxxx.xxx]=
6934
[Subtitle: A Complete, Authentic and Informative Work on Wireless Telegra=
phy
and Telephony]
(Text only, see #6935 for HTML with images)
[For a version with images, see thrdm10a]
(Note: This book is very difficult to read without the images!)
Nov 2004 Jesuits in North America, by Francis Parkman[FP#4][?tjnaxxx.xxx]=
6933
[Full title: The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century]
Nov 2004 Pictures Every Child Should Know, by Dolores Bacon[?picsxxx.xxx]=
6932
[Subtitle: A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7pics10.txt and 7pics10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8pics10.txt and 8pics10.zip]
[HTML, zip only with images, in 8pics10h.htm and 8pics10h.zip]
Nov 2004 Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2, by H. Stowe[4][?smflxxx.xxx]=
6931
[Author's Full Name: Harriet Beecher Stowe]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7smfl10.txt and 7smfl10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8smfl10.txt and 8smfl10.zip]
Nov 2004 The Faerie Queen Volume 1, by Edmund Spenser [faerixxx.xxx]=
6930C
[Subtitle: Books 1-3]
[Note, this eBook contains copyrighted sections and public domain section=
s]
Nov 2004 Poemata (William Cowper, trans.), by John Milton [poemaxxx.xxx]=
6929
[Subtitle: Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton]
Nov 2004 Who Wrote the Bible?, by Washington Gladden [?wwrtxxx.xxx]=
6928
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7wwrt10.txt and 7wwrt10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8wwrt10.txt and 8wwrt10.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8wwrt10h.htm and 8wwrt10h.zip]
Nov 2004 The White Feather,byP. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse#17][thwhtxxx.xxx]=
6927
Nov 2004 Memories of Hawthorne, by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop [memrhxxx.xxx]=
6926
Nov 2004 The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself [htelxxxx.xxx]=
6925
[Author's Full Name: Thomas Ellwood]
Nov 2004 Richard III, by William Shakespeare [ws#55][?r3wsxxx.xxx]=
6924
[Translator: August Wilhelm von Schlegel]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7r3ws10.txt and 7r3ws10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8r3ws10.txt and 8r3ws10.zip]
(See Also: #2257, #1768, #1503, and #1103)
Nov 2004 The Miser, by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin [Moliere#17][?misrxxx.xxx]=
6923
[Author AKA: Moliere] [Translator: Charles Heron Wall] [Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7misr10.txt and 7misr10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8misr10.txt and 8misr10.zip]
(See also: #6318 for the same play in French)
Nov 2004 De Liereman, by L. Schipper [?dlrmxxx.xxx]=
6922
[Language: Dutch]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7dlrm10.txt and 7dlrm10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8dlrm10.txt and 8dlrm10.zip]
Nov 2004 Temporal Power, by Marie Corelli [Corelli#11][?tmprxxx.xxx]=
6921
[Subtitle: A Study in Supremacy]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7tmpr10.txt and 7tmpr10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8tmpr10.txt and 8tmpr10.zip]
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Nov 2004 Darwiniana, by Thomas Henry Huxley [?thdrxxx.xxx]=
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6917
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Nov 2004 From Wealth to Poverty, by Austin Potter [wlpvrxxx.xxx]=
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6899
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[Full author: John Bach McMaster]
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6892
[Full Title: Complete Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan]
[Author's Full Name: Wilhelm Hauff] [Language: German]
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[Subtitle: With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition]
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6887
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6882
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6881
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6880
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6879
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6877
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6876
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NORWEGIAN TEEN FACES SECOND COPYRIGHT TRIAL
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[HTML version with accented characters in adjut10h.htm and adjut10h.zip]
Dec 2004 Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag, by Susag [pesosxxx.xxx]7038
Dec 2004 Beric the Briton, by G. A. Henty [#11][bbritxxx.xxx]7037
[Plain text in bbrit10.txt/.zip; HTML version in bbrit10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 Poorhouse Waif, by I. C. Byrum [pwaifxxx.xxx]7036
[Full title: The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher]
[Full author: Isabel C. Byrum]
Dec 2004 The Hero of Hill House, by Mable Hale [hhhsexxx.xxx]7035
Dec 2004 Fleurs de lys and Other Poems, by Arthur Weir [?flurxxx.xxx]7034
[Plain text in 7flur10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version 8flur10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 Picturesque Quebec, by James MacPherson Le Moine [?quebxxx.xxx]7033
[Plain text in 7queb10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8queb10.txt/.zip]
(Note: The unzipped text files are each 1.4mb)
Dec 2004 Prose Idylls, by Charles Kingsley [pridxxxx.xxx]7032
[XHTML in prid10h.htm/.zip, text in prid10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 The Sheik, by E. M. Hull [sheikxxx.xxx]7031
Dec 2004 Field and Hedgerow, by Richard Jefferies [#4][fhedgxxx.xxx]7030
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in fhedg10.txt and fhedg10.zip]
[HTM version with accented characters in fhedg10h.htm and fhedg10h.zip]
Dec 2004 Book of Etiquette, by Lillian Eichler [betiqxxx.xxx]7029
Dec 2004 The Clicking of Cuthbert, by P. G. Wodehouse [#21][clickxxx.xxx]7028
Dec 2004 A Hive of Busy Bees, by Effie M. Williams [bbeesxxx.xxx]7027
Dec 2004 Children's Touching Incidents, by S. B. Shaw [ansprxxx.xxx]7026
[Full title: Children's Edition of Touching Incidents and Remarkable
Answers to Prayer]
Dec 2004 Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott, Complete [rob3wxxx.xxx]7025
Dec 2004 Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2 [rob2wxxx.xxx]7024
Dec 2004 Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 [rob1wxxx.xxx]7023
[Plain text in rob_w10.txt/.zip]
[Illustrated HTML version, zip file only with images, in rob_w10h.zip]
Dec 2004 Ein Sommernachtstraum,by William Shakespeare[TS#17][?gs17xxx.xxx]7022
[Translator: Wilhelm von Schlegel] [Language: German]
[Plain text in 7gs1710.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8gs1710.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 Indian Frontier Policy, by General Sir John Ayde [indfrxxx.xxx]7021
[Note: Central Asia "Indian", not the American Indian]
Dec 2004 Louis Agassiz as a Teacher, by Lane Cooper [agaszxxx.xxx]7020
Dec 2004 For Auld Lang Syne, by Ray Woodward [auldlxxx.xxx]7019
Dec 2004 Collection of Scotch Proverbs, by Pappity Stampoy [scprvxxx.xxx]7018
Dec 2004 A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore, by Fay-Cooper Cole [?tnflxxx.xxx]7017
[Also posted TEI XML file 8tnfl10x.zip - zip only]
Dec 2004 Adventures in the Land of Canaan, Robert Lee Berry[dvlcnxxx.xxx]7016
[Also posted XML-ish file dvlcn10x.zip]
Dec 2004 Wisdom of the East, by Shinran Shonin [wsbdpxxx.xxx]7015
[Also posted Unicode - wsbdp10u.txt and wsbdp10u.zip]
Dec 2004 Equinoctial Regions of America V2,von Humboldt[#2][qnct2xxx.xxx]7014
[Full author: Alexander von Humboldt]
Dec 2004 Journeys Through Bookland V4, Charles H. Sylvester[?bld4xxx.xxx]7013
Dec 2004 Mes Origines. Memoires et Recits, Frederic Mistral[?momrxxx.xxx]7012
[Language: French]
[Plain text in 7momr10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8momr10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version in 8momr10h.htm and 8momr10h.zip]
Dec 2004 The Flood, by Emile Zola [#14][zofldxxx.xxx]7011
Dec 2004 Graded Lessons in English, by Reed and Kellog [ggramxxx.xxx]7010
[Full author: Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg]
[Subtitle: An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred
Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room]
Dec 2004 Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, by Poquelin (Moliere [?prncxxx.xxx]7009
[Plain text in 7prnc10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8prnc10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 The City of Fire, by Grace Livingston Hill [?cfirxxx.xxx]7008
[Plain text in 7cfir10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8cfir10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 True Story of My Life, by Hans Christian Andersen [7hcanxxx.xxx]7007
(Note: 1847 Edition.)
[Plain text in 7hcan10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8hcan10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 Bonnie Prince Charlie, by G. A. Henty [#11][bprchxxx.xxx]7006
[Plain text in bprch10.txt/.zip; HTM in bprch10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 The Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott, Complete [ant3wxxx.xxx]7005
Dec 2004 The Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2 [ant2wxxx.xxx]7004
Dec 2004 The Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 [ant1wxxx.xxx]7003
[Plain text in ant_w10.txt/.zip]
[Illustrated HTML, zipped files only, in ant_w10h.zip]
Dec 2004 Life of George Washington, V1, by W. Irving [#7][?wsh1xxx.xxx]7002
[Full title: The Life of George Washington, Volume I]
[Full author: Washington Irving]
[Plain text in 7wsh110.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8wsh110.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 History of the Philippines, by Antonio de Morga [?phipxxx.xxx]7001
[Full title: History of the Philippine Islands Vols 1 and 2]
[Plain text in 7phip10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8phip10.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 How to Live a Holy Life, by C. E. Orr [holywxxx.xxx]6999
Nov 2004 The Spanish Chest, by Edna A. Brown [?spchxxx.xxx]6998
[Plain text in 7spch10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version 8spch10.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 Winning of Barbara Worth, by Harold B Wrigh[HBW#5][wbworxxx.xxx]6997
Nov 2004 Romeo und Julia, by William Shakespeare [TS#16][?gs16xxx.xxx]6996
[Translator: August Wilhelm von Schlegel] [Language: German]
[Plain text in 7gs1610.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8gs1610.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 Ghosts I have Met and Some Others, by J. Bangs[#8][?gostxxx.xxx]6995
[Author's Full Name: John Kendrick Bangs]
[Plain text in 7gost10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8gost10.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 Han d'Islande, by Victor Hugo [handixxx.xxx]6994
[Language: French]
Nov 2004 The Lord of the Sea, by M. P. Shiel [?lrdsxxx.xxx]6993
[Plain text 7lrds10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8lrds10.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 Belinda, by A. A. Milne [#4][beldaxxx.xxx]6992
[Also posted HTM version with accented characters in belda10h.htm/.zip]
Nov 2004 Across the Years, by Eleanor H. Porter [#9][acrosxxx.xxx]6991
[Also posted HTM version with accented characters in acros10h.htm/.zip]
Nov 2004 Coriolanus, by William Shakespeare [ST#36][?gs36xxx.xxx]6990
[Translator: Dorothea Tieck][unter der Redaktion von Ludwig Tieck]
[Language: German]
[Plain text in 7gs3610.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8gs3610.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 History of Rome from 476 AD, by Robert F. Pennell [8romexxx.xxx]6989
[Full title: History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD]
Nov 2004 Ottawa and Chippewa, by Andrew J. Blackbird [miindxxx.xxx]6988
[Full title: History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan]
Nov 2004 Five Little Peppers Abroad, by Margaret Sidney[#4][pep5axxx.xxx]6987
Nov 2004 Hygienic Physiology, by Joel Dorman Steele [?hygnxxx.xxx]6986
[Subtitle: With Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and
Narcotics Being a Revised Edition of the Fourteen Weeks in Human Physiology]
[Plain text in 7hygn10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8hygn10.txt/.zip]
Nov 2004 A Prefect's Uncle, by P. G. Wodehouse [#20][pfectxxx.xxx]6985
Nov 2004 The Pothunters, by P. G. Wodehouse [#19][pothtxxx.xxx]6984
Nov 2004 Missionary Work Ojebway Indians, E. F. Wilson [ojebwxxx.xxx]6983
[Full title: Missionary Work Among The Ojebway Indians]
[Author: Edward Francis Wilson]
Nov 2004 Hawthorne and His Circle, by Julian Hawthorne [hcircxxx.xxx]6982
Nov 2004 The Open Air, by Richard Jefferies [thpnrxxx.xxx]6981
[HTML version in thpnr10h.htm and thpnr10h.zip]
Nov 2004 Tales of St. Austin's, by P. G. Wodehouse [#18][talewxxx.xxx]6980
Nov 2004 The Little Regiment, by Stephen Crane [#4][regmtxxx.xxx]6979
Mar 2005 The Orations of Lysias, by Lysias [lysswxxx.xxx]6978
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Wives and Daughters - A Review
What a gem! That's what I said to myself when I finished reading Elizabeth
Cleghorn Gaskell's last novel, Wives and Daughters. I consider it a must for
anyone who enjoys Victorian literature or literature of any period in which
characters are exquisitely drawn in minute detail and become real people.
Wives and Daughters has characterization in spades! At least a dozen
characters stand out. Foremost, of course, is the heroine, Molly Gibson -
intelligent, honest, proper, usually shy but bold when determined - all that
a Victorian heroine should be. The book opens with Molly not quite grown,
warmly attached to her widowed father, a diligent and warm-hearted country
doctor. During a prolonged visit to the nearby home of Squire Hamley, Molly
becomes attached to and beloved by the Hamley family, including the sons
Osborne and Roger.
Stubborn, outspoken Squire Hamley has breeding (his family has owned the
estate since before the Norman conquest) but no education and little money;
he expects his sons, especially Osborne, the elder, to marry for wealth and
social position (a theme often explored by Trollope). During Molly's stay at
Hamley Hall, her father decides she needs a stepmother, and he marries a
widow with a daughter Molly's age. The second Mrs. Gibson, one of the
memorable characters in literature, a born schemer and social climber
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into a "lady," makes her life miserable.
Mrs. Gibson's daughter Cynthia is all that Molly is not - beautiful,
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Cynthia and Mr.Osborne Hamley have secrets which are about to blow up. Molly
unintentionally learns the secrets and does her best to put things right. The
action takes place in and about a placid country village whose inhabitants
are wonderfully described, based on the author's personal experience.
Mrs. Gaskell (as she was called by Victorian readers) died before completing
the last one or two chapters. A modern reader would never know it, but
Victorians would have missed the final acknowledgment of love and uniting in
marriage required by their customs. Those who saw the magnificent Exxon-Mobil
Masterpiece Theatre dramatization on PBS saw one possible ending, but not the
one planned by Mrs. Gaskell.
Elizabeth Gaskell was unusual in many ways by Victorian standards. She and her
husband, a Unitarian minister, did not subscribe to the Victorian conviction
that women should be subordinated to men. Her novels and short stories, while
portraying Victorian life in accurate detail, explored the relationships of
men and women, the worth of individuals accorded by character and achievement
as opposed to social rank, and the plight of workers in the new industrial
society. One of her novels, Ruth, shocked her contemporaries by dealing with
illegitimate pregnancy and its consequences in a society with a dual set of
behavioral standards.
She left fewer than a dozen novels, by the mid-twentieth century largely
forgotten by all but scholars. She has, in modern parlance, been
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place among the acknowledged greats of Victorian literature. To me, Wives and
Daughters is far more skillfully written and has a better plot than
Thackeray's best-known novel, Vanity Fair, and rivals the best of Trollope's
bountiful output.
Trust me, and try it!
Joe Loewenstein
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5) This week in history
Literary Dates of Interest this week
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February
26th Victor Hugo
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28th Marcel Pagnol
March
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3rd Rabbe Enckell
4th Allan Sillitoe, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Also, this week
The first photo-engraving typesetting machine was used in 1954. Henry James
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1749. 'Native Son'by Richard Wright is published in 1940. British horror
writer Horace Walpole dies aged 79. In 1930 D.H.Lawrence, poet and writer of
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COPY PROTECTION EFFORTS MISGUIDED, SAYS LESSIG
Lawmakers will be making a big mistake if they bow to Hollywood pressure
and enact new copyright-protection legislation based on today's Internet
use patterns, says Stanford University professor Lawrence Lessig.
Currently, millions of consumers are downloading music to their PCs because
slow dialup connections make it impractical to stream content quickly to a
variety of devices. "In the future, it will be easier to pay for
subscription services than to be an amateur database administrator who
moves content from device to device. We're legislating against a background
of the Internet's current architecture of content distribution, and this is
a fundamental mistake," Lessig told participants at the Digital Rights
Management Summit held at Intel headquarters. (AP 20 Feb 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030220/D7PA785G0.html
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GOOGLE AND THE WORLD OF BLOGGING: YOU ARE WHAT YOU POINT TO
Google's purchase of Pyra, creator of the Blogger software for people who
want to publish their own Web logs ("blogs") has puzzled some, because the
businesses seem diametrically opposed: Google is used for finding
information whereas Blogger is used for producing it. So what's going on?
Meg Hourihan, one of the founders of Pyra, suggests that the acquisition of
Blogger will give Google a way of gaining faster access to links in the Web
logs. "I very much think it's about having the Blogger database, not so
much the words but what people are pointing to, and getting their finger on
that in real time." (New York Times 24 Feb 2003)
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UNIVERSITY TESTS CONTROVERSIAL MONITORING SOFTWARE
For several months the University of Wyoming has been testing software
from Audible Magic that allows network operators to see exactly what
files are passing through the university's routers. The software goes
beyond bandwidth-shaping applications, which allocate portions of a
network's capacity to certain types of traffic, and recreates files
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ZDNet, 20 February 2003
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MICROSOFT FILES UNFAIR COMPETITION BRIEF AGAINST SUN
In the latest chapter of the ongoing battle between Microsoft and Sun
Microsystems, Microsoft has filed a court brief accusing Sun of
anti-competitive practices and of violating an earlier agreement
between the two. Sun has tried to convince the courts to prevent
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originally developed by Sun. In July 2001, Microsoft settled a similar
case with Sun. That settlement, according to Microsoft, gives it the
right to use and distribute its own Java Virtual Machine until 2008.
Sun's current case attacks the method for that distribution--Microsoft
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included with operating systems. Microsoft argues that Sun's complaint
violates the 2001 settlement and that Sun's continued legal action is
designed "to cause competitive injury to Microsoft."
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{Ooh, pots and kettles I think}
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLANS CYBERSECURITY AGENCY
The European Commission proposed creating the European Network and
Information Security Agency to provide advice for the 15 EU members on
cybersecurity issues. The agency is scheduled to begin operating in
January 2004, at a site to be chosen by the governments of the 15
member states. The commission has set aside $26 million to fund the
agency over the next five years, with additional funds planned to
support the 10 new member states expected to join in 2004. The agency
will assist EU members' own cybercrime authorities, specifically
computer emergency response teams. The increased coordination among
member states is expected to benefit the EU as a whole in achieving a
high level of security for Internet use.
ITWorld, 10 February 2003
http://www.itworld.com/Sec/2199/030210eucybersecurity/
ADVISORY GROUPS TO OVERSEE TIA PROGRAM
The Pentagon formed an internal and an external committee to address
privacy concerns arising from the Total Information Awareness (TIA)
program in a move to prevent Congress from monitoring the program too
closely. Headed by John Poindexter, TIA aims to identify terrorists by
monitoring Internet usage and commercial and financial databases in the
U.S. and abroad. A Senate amendment last month banned deployment of the
program and curbed research for it. The Pentagon formed the advisory
panels to minimize the scope of the provision, now before a
House-Senate conference committee, by convincing Congress that the
committees will adequately address balancing security and privacy
concerns. Senator Ron Wyden, who sponsored the provision, noted that
the panels .did not get an election certificate. and that .Congress on
a bipartisan basis is going to continue to demand accountability,
oversight, and legally established safeguards..
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1953 - Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the USA.
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number for many different purposes, including cell phones, e-mail, instant
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coordinating the efforts. (CNet News.com 13 Feb 2003)
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PACEMAKERS FOR THE BRAIN
Researchers from Arizona State University have shown that they could
predict more than 80% of brain seizures using software that's based on
chaos theory to analyze brain waves. University of Pennsylvania neurologist
Brian Litt explains that such prediction is possible because "seizures
develop over time. They don't just strike you like lightning." Dr. Leon
Iasemidis of Arizona State says he and his colleagues envision an implanted
device that "would automatically release a very low dose of anti-epilepsy
drug or an electrical signal that would block the seizure." (New York Times
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Ethel Pedley's Preface to Dot and the Kangaroo
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1953 - Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the USA.
1986 - USSR launches MIR space station
1996 - Death of Horace Leonard Gold, sci-fi writer
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PACEMAKERS FOR THE BRAIN
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chaos theory to analyze brain waves. University of Pennsylvania neurologist
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Nov 2004 Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, (trans. Long) [#2][tmrcrxxx.xxx]6920
Nov 2004 Darwiniana, by Thomas Henry Huxley [?thdrxxx.xxx]6919
[Subtitle: Collected Essays vol. II]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7thdr10.txt and 7thdr10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8thdr10.txt and 8thdr10.zip]
Nov 2004 History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 [?rfi1xxx.xxx]6918
[Author's Full Name: William H. Prescott]
[Subtitle: The Catholic]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7rfi110.txt and 7rfi110.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8rfi110.txt and 8rfi110.zip]
Nov 2004 The Gerrard Street Mystery, by John Charles Dent [grrsmxxx.xxx]6917
[Full title: The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales]
Nov 2004 English Men of Letters: Coleridge, by H. D. Traill[clrdgxxx.xxx]6916
[Also posted HTML - clrdg10h.zip and clrdg10h.htm]
[Also posted Unicode - clrdg10u.txt and clrdg10u.zip]
Nov 2004 Last of the Huggermuggers, by Christopher Cranch [hggmgxxx.xxx]6914
Nov 2004 Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson,by Peter Radisson[vgrdnxxx.xxx]6913
Nov 2004 School and Home Cooking, by Carlotta C. Greer [scckgxxx.xxx]6912
Nov 2004 The Majesty of Calmness, by William George Jordan [mjcmnxxx.xxx]6911
[Also posted HTML - mjcmn10h.zip and mjcmn10h.htm]
Nov 2004 Queen Victoria V1, by Sarah Tytler [lqvc1xxx.xxx]6910
[Full title: Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen V.1.]
Nov 2004 Old Caravan Days, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood [crvndxxx.xxx]6909
Nov 2004 The Air Ship Boys, by H.L. Sayler [rsbysxxx.xxx]6908
Nov 2004 From Wealth to Poverty, by Austin Potter [wlpvrxxx.xxx]6907
Nov 2004 The Lost Trail, by Edward S. Ellis [#2][lstrlxxx.xxx]6906
Nov 2004 Boy Scouts in an Airship,by G. Harvey Ralphson[#3][bsarsxxx.xxx]6904
Nov 2004 Miss Ludington's Sister, by Edward Bellamy [#2][ldgtsxxx.xxx]6903
Nov 2004 On the Eve, by Ivan Turgenev (trans. Garnett) [#4][nthvexxx.xxx]6902
Nov 2004 The Happy Adventurers, by Lydia Miller Middleton [hppdvxxx.xxx]6901
Nov 2004 Rudin, by Ivan Turgenev (trans. Garnett) [#3][rudinxxx.xxx]6900
Nov 2004 The Children's Pilgrimage, by L. T. Meade [#3][chplgxxx.xxx]6899
Nov 2004 Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron,G. B. Forbes[bchgrxxx.xxx]6898
[Full author: Graham B. Forbes]
Nov 2004 The Little Savage, by Captain Marryat [#4][ltsvgxxx.xxx]6897
Nov 2004 Brief History of the United States, J. B. McMaster[bhntsxxx.xxx]6896
[Full author: John Bach McMaster]
Nov 2004 Campfire Girls Go Motoring, by Hildegard G. Frey [cfgmtxxx.xxx]6895
Nov 2004 Chimes of Mission Bells, by Maria Antonia Field [?cmsbxxx.xxx]6894
Nov 2004 In the Quarter, by Robert W. Chambers [?inqtxxx.xxx]6893
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7inqt10.txt and 7inqt10.zip]
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[HTML version with accented characters in 8inqt10h.htm and 8inqt10h.zip]
Nov 2004 Complete Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Sata[8][?msvcxxx.xxx]6892
[Full Title: Complete Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan]
[Author's Full Name: Wilhelm Hauff] [Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7msvc10.txt and 7msvc10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8msvc10.txt and 8msvc10.zip]
Nov 2004 Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan V2 [#7][?msv2xxx.xxx]6891
[Author's Full Name: Wilhelm Hauff] [Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7msv210.txt and 7msv210.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8msv210.txt and 8msv210.zip]
Nov 2004 Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan V1 [#6][?msv1xxx.xxx]6890
[Author's Full Name: Wilhelm Hauff] [Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7msv110.txt and 7msv110.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8msv110.txt and 8msv110.zip]
Nov 2004 Laokoon, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [?laokxxx.xxx]6889
[Subtitle: Oder, Ueber die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie][Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7laok10.txt and 7laok10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8laok10.txt and 8laok10.zip]
Nov 2004 The Gatlings at Santiago, by John H. Parker [thgtlxxx.xxx]6888
[Subtitle: With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition]
[Full Title: History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, At
Santiago]
Nov 2004 Il Sacro Macello di Valtellina, by Cesare Cantu' [?smacxxx.xxx]6887
[Subtitle: Episodio della riforma religiosa in Italia, 1832]
[Language: Italian]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7smac10.txt and 7smac10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8smac10.txt and 8smac10.zip]
Nov 2004 First footsteps in East Africa,byRichard F. Burton[?ffeaxxx.xxx]6886
[Subtitle: An Exploration of Harar]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7ffea10.txt and 7ffea10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8ffea10.txt and 8ffea10.zip]
Nov 2004 The Indolence of the Filipino, by Jose Rizal [#2][?indfxxx.xxx]6885
Nov 2004 Sleeping Fires: A Novel, by Gertrude Atherton [slpngxxx.xxx]6884
Nov 2004 Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois, Anon [lsmbgxxx.xxx]6883
Nov 2004 This Simian World, by Clarence Day Jr [tsmnwxxx.xxx]6882
Nov 2004 Notebook of an English Opium-Eater,de Quincey[#13][ntbpmxxx.xxx]6881
[Full author: Thomas de Quincey]
Nov 2004 The Coming of Bill, by P. G. Wodehouse [#16][cmbllxxx.xxx]6880
[Title AKA: The White Hope] [also AKA: Their Mutual Child]
Nov 2004 The Gold Bat, by P. G. Wodehouse [#15][gldbtxxx.xxx]6879
Nov 2004 The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes [lnpppxxx.xxx]6878
[Full author: Demosthenes, trans. with notes by Charles Rann Kennedy]]
Nov 2004 The Head of Kay's, by P. G. Wodehouse [#14][hdfksxxx.xxx]6877
Nov 2004 The British Association's visit, by Clara Kayleigh[bvsmtxxx.xxx]6876
[Full title: The British Association's visit to Montreal, 1884: Letters]
Nov 2004 Count Frontenac, by Francis Parkman [#3][?fcnfxxx.xxx]6875
[Full title: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV]
Nov 2004 Canada and the States, by Edward William Watkin [cnstrxxx.xxx]6874
***
Statistical Review
In the 6 weeks of this year, we have produced 358 new eBooks.
It took us from 1971 to 1995 to produce our FIRST 358 eBooks!!!
That's 6 WEEKS as Compared to 24 YEARS!!!
The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks of
production, each production-week starting/ending Wednesday noon,
starting with the first Wednesday in January. January 1st was
was the first Wednesday of 2003, and thus ended the production
year of 2002 and began the production year of 2003.
With 7,101 eBooks online as of February 12, 2003 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.41 from each book,
for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000
[One Trillion Dollars] in books.
100,000,000 readers is only about 1.59 percent of the world's population!
This "cost" is down from about $2.19 when we had 4559 eBooks A Year Ago
Can you imagine 7,000 books each costing $.78 less a year later???
Or. . .would this say it better?
Can you imagine 7,000 books each costing 1/3 less a year later???
At 7101 eBooks in 31 1/2 Years We Averaged
225 Per Year [About how many we do per month these days!]
19 Per Month
.6 Per Day
At 358 eBooks Done In 2003 We Averaged
9 Per Day
60 Per Week
286 Per Month
***Headline News***
[My Comments In Brackets]
MOORE'S LAW GOOD FOR ANOTHER 10 YEARS
Moore's Law -- the theory espoused by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that
the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every 18 months
or so -- is still valid, says Moore, who sees "no apparent roadblocks" for
at least another decade. "It gets complicated and expensive, but the
technological solutions seem to be there." Even if we get to the point where
we can't squeeze any more [transistors] in there, we'll be putting billions
of transistors on a chip. It's certainly not the end of creativity in the
industry." Moore predicted that growth in the semiconductor industry would
equal growth in the world's gross domestic product by 2017 if the industry
continues at its current pace. (AP 10 Feb 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030211/D7P4C9S81.html
[Something I Have Been Pushing For Years]
LAPTOP HANDOUT COULD FREE UP CLASSROOM SPACE
The president of Miami-Dade County's teacher's union has told Florida
Governor Jeb Bush that the state could save $30 million by giving laptop
computers to all high school students and teachers and converting 1,680
computer labs to classrooms. United Teachers of Dade president Pat Tornillo
says buying the 644,000 laptops would be much cheaper than building 1,680
classrooms, noting that the number of computer labs represents the
equivalent of 34 high school buildings. (AP/Miami Herald 11 Feb 2003)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/5154090.htm
LIGHTBULB IDEA
Incandescent lightbulbs, neon tubes and fluorescent lamps are expected to
go the way of the gas lamp: into the history books. The emerging
"solid-state lighting" industry, based on LED (light-emitting diode)
microchips is expected to make its presence felt in the general home and
office lighting market as early as 2007. Currently used mainly in
large-scale projects such as the Nasdaq sign in Times Square, Chicago's
Goodman Theatre, or the White House Christmas tree, offer huge performance
advantages. An example: an LED traffic light consumes 80% less electricity
and lasts ten times longer than a traditional light.
(New York Times 11 Feb 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/technology/11LIGH.html
[Of Course It's MBA's. . . .]
THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF ONLINE GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Tens of thousands of students are now obtaining MBA degrees using courses
taken over the Internet, and online programs through institutions such as
Phoenix University and Regis University produce more MBA graduates than
such schools as Harvard or Yale. The target market for such programs? The
traveling executive who completes the work on airplanes and in hotel rooms.
Degree programs offered by Regis or Phoenix might cost $25,000 or more;
institutions such as Duke University, which offers a Global Executive Program
which combines online learning and traditional classroom sessions meeting
every eight weeks, costs $100,500, which includes everything but airfare.
(USA Today 10 Feb 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-02-10-mba_x.htm
POWER COMPANIES TEST BROADBAND TECHNOLOGY
Energy utility Ameren Corp. and other power companies are testing
technology that would deliver high-speed Internet access over their power
lines, making every home electrical outlet an always-on Web connection. The
FCC has applauded the energy companies' efforts, with chairman Michael
Powell saying the technology "could simply blow the doors off the provision
of broadband." But existing broadband providers and others are skeptical,
saying that while they consider the technology intriguing, talk about it
has been around for years, with nothing to show for it. "I think they're a
long way from proving it, let's leave it there," says Larry Carmichael, a
project manager with the Electric Power Research Institute. "The tests to
date have been so small as far as looking at the financial and technical
viability. It's still at the very early stage of development."
(AP 10 Feb 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030210/D7P3R6801.html
AIRLINE TRAVEL DOWN, AIRLINE BOOKING SYSTEM UP
Profit margins for Sabre Holdings, the world's largest computer system, are
higher this year than airlines themselves ever achieve -- and certainly
better than in this year, when overall travel is down. An executive of
America West Airlines says: "They charge exorbitant rates relative to the
value they add. It is a cost that we don't find justified." But Sabre chief
executive William J. Hannigan brushes that accusation to the side: "I make
no apologies for our pricing structure. It is a structure that was created
by the airlines, and you always have to take it with a grain of salt when
they complain about it." A number of airlines are threatening to bypass the
reservation system and pull more of their best fares off of Sabre and its
rivals (Galileo, Worldspan, and Amadeus); if they follow through on their
threats, travel agents will find it harder than ever to find for their
customers the best itineraries at the best prices.
(New York Times 10 Feb 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/02/10/technology/10SABR.html
BUSH SIGNS ORDER AUTHORIZING CYBER-ATTACKS
President Bush has signed a secret order allowing the government to proceed
with developing guidelines on circumstances under which the U.S. could
launch cyber-attacks against foreign computer systems. The directive
signals Bush's desire to pursue new forms of potential warfare -- already
the Pentagon has moved ahead with development of cyber-weapons that could
by used by the military to invade foreign networks and shut down radar,
disable electrical facilities and disrupt phone service. (AP 7 Feb 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030207/D7P1UJDO0.html
REPORTER PERPETRATES WEB HOAX ON FELLOW JOURNALIST
Although it violates journalistic ethics for a reporter to misrepresent his
identity, freelance journalist Brian McWilliams (whose work has appeared
Salon and Wired News) used a fake Web site and phony [name] to deceive
Computerworld's Dan Verton into believing that he was a Pakistan-based
terrorist who unleashed the recent Slammer network worm on the world.
Computerworld published, then quickly retracted, Verton's story. McWilliams
says he wanted to teach reporters "to be more skeptical of people who claim
they're involved in cyber-terrorism." Computerworld editor-in-chief
Maryfran Johnson says, "I couldn't believe a journalist could do this to
another journalist," and Verton says, "I feel like I've been had, and
that's never an easy thing to swallow. So, I'm left here scratching fleas
as the price you sometimes pay for sleeping with dogs."
(AP/San Jose Mercury News 7 Feb 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5127584.htm
[Why? Floppy drives don't COST anything.]
DELL FLIPS THE OFF SWITCH ON FLOPPIES
Dell announced it will stop installing floppy drives in its desktop
computers next month, offering them only as an option. "What Dell has done,
I expect every major vendor to do in the next 12 months," says technology
consultant Tim Bajarin. "The utility of the floppy disk is just no longer
there for most users." Instead of the floppy, Dell brand 16-megabyte USB
flash memory drives will be offered in high-end models, and the company
will consider making them standard equipment on all desktops, depending on
customer response. (AP 6 Feb 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030206/D7P13FU00.html
[What Have I Been Saying About Pay-Per-Everything?]
STREAMING PATENT HAS NET RADIO SITES STEAMED
A company that says it owns patents on the process of transmitting
compressed audio or video online is flexing its muscle, demanding fees from
a host of Internet multimedia companies. Acacia Media Technologies says its
patents may even cover pay-per-view movies on cable TV and in hotel rooms.
And while Acacia's move has outraged Internet entrepreneurs, many of them
are reluctantly forking over the fees. "We did research on the claims and
found that they were pretty clear -- somewhat broad, but specific enough to
cover us," says Zack Zalon, general manager of the Radio Free Virgin Web
site. "We realized that they were tight enough that a license would be
substantially less expensive in the long run than litigation." Meanwhile,
the trend toward companies exercising ownership over what generally are
viewed as overly broad patents has drawn the ire of many experts, but
analysts admit it's a strategy that's likely to increase in popularity.
"With the economy the way it is, you see a lot more people trying to
leverage their intellectual property. It's one of the few ways left that
people can actually make money," says Rich Belgard, an independent patent
consultant. (CNet News.com 6 Feb 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-983552.html?tag=lh
MICROSOFT SAYS ITS BUSINESS MODEL IS THREATENED BY OPEN-SOURCE
In its quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
(SEC), Microsoft writes: "The popularization of the open-source movement
continues to pose a significant challenge to the company's business
model... The company's revenues would be unfavorably impacted if customers
reduce their purchases of new software products or upgrades to existing
products because new product offerings are not perceived as adding
significant new functionality or other value to prospective purchasers."
Not surprisingly, Microsoft also asserted its belief that "the commercial
software development model offers superior consumer value compared to the
open source model" because of its "powerful incentives to develop
innovative software that is useful, reliable, and compatible with other
software and hardware." (InfoWorld 5 Feb 2003)
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/05/HNmsthreat_1.html
HP OFFERS CONSUMER INCENTIVES FOR COMPUTER RECYCLING
Hewlett-Packard will offer e-coupons exchangeable for HP products when
users recycle old computer hardware through the company. The coupons will
range from $20 to $50 in value, depending on the amount a consumer spends
on recycling services, which cost from $17 to $30 depending on the size of
the equipment to be recycled. An HP executive said: "This is a way to learn
what our customers want. Do they even want an incentive? Or do they just
want to fill out a form and leave a box on their doorstep? We know that
waste is a growing problem in the industry, but no one has really studied
what consumers want to do to get rid of their computers.'' (AP/San Jose
Mercury News 6 Feb 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5119968.htm
PEOPLE WHO PLAY AT WORK, WORK AT HOME
What employers lose in productivity when workers goof off, bidding on eBay
and circulating jokes, is made up in the home, according to a survey by the
University of Maryland and Rockbridge Associates. The study found that
employees with Web access both at home and at work spend an average of 3.7
hours a week doing personal online chores in the office. Those same
employees, however, spend an average of 5.9 hours a week at home catching
up on work. "I think what this says is the Internet is actually helping
business productivity," says Roland Rust, director of the Center for
eService at the U. of Md.'s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Rust warns
that, based on his findings, employers should think twice about banning
personal online activities in the office. (Wall Street Journal 6 Feb 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1044486883322049333.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
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***
Mr. CARD: Every single day, the president gets a report on how we're doing
in the war against terror, and we're making
tremendous progress, I think unprecedented progress, thanks to the
assistance of allies around the world. We'd like to see
more of the leadership of al-Qaeda brought to justice, and we're working to
make that happen, but Osama bin Laden is clearly
not as great a threat as he was prior to September 11th, but his network and
he are still planning to do nasty things to us and
the president knows the challenges of being in a war on terrorism is
something that strains the country and the world, and yet it's
very important that we help to eliminate threats that would be compounded by
terrorists if they got access to weapons of mass
destruction. After all, the president's job is to make sure that that
ultimate fear of society, which would be anarchy, doesn't
happen, and terrorist acts are acts inviting anarchy, and this president's
going to do everything he can to make sure that we do
not have anarchy in this country.
***
***From Multiple Sources***
THE ULTIMATE FEAR OF AMERICANS IS ANARCHY [or is it???]
Andrew Card, President Bush's White House Chief of Staff, said,
in a trial-balloon just before The State of the Union Message:
"After all, the president's job is to make sure that that ultimate fear of
society, which would be anarchy, doesn't happen, and terrorist acts are acts
inviting anarchy, and this president's going to do everything he can to make
sure that we do not have anarchy in this country."
Apparently when they ran this up the flagpole to see who would salute it,
the hoped for support failed to materialize, and this was not included.
***
From Edupage
[Carivores To Be Leashed/Muzzled By Civilians?]
ADVISORY GROUPS TO OVERSEE TIA PROGRAM
The Pentagon formed an internal and an external committee to address
privacy concerns arising from the Total Information Awareness (TIA)
program in a move to prevent Congress from monitoring the program too
closely. Headed by John Poindexter, TIA aims to identify terrorists by
monitoring Internet usage and commercial and financial databases in the
U.S. and abroad. A Senate amendment last month banned deployment of the
program and curbed research for it. The Pentagon formed the advisory
panels to minimize the scope of the provision, now before a House-Senate
conference committee, by convincing Congress that the committees
will adequately address balancing security and privacy concerns.
Senator Ron Wyden, who sponsored the provision, noted that the panels
"did not get an election certificate" and that "Congress on a
bipartisan basis is going to continue to demand accountability,
oversight, and legally established safeguards."
New York Times, 8 February 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/national/08PRIV.html
["1984ism Still Remains A Fundamental Threat After All These Years]
ELSEVIER SCIENCE REVISITS DELETION POLICY
Elsevier Science has adopted new procedures for managing journal
articles in its databases that it considers tainted by plagiarism,
fraud, or other scholarly misconduct. Critics had charged that the
publisher's earlier approach of removing articles from its databases
with little explanation could damage scholarly endeavors. The new plan
specifies rules by which Elsevier will delete or replace articles in
its ScienceDirect database or flag them as having problems. A
retraction notice explaining why an article has been retracted will
link to the original article. Articles that pose a legal threat will be
removed completely, leaving only the title and author's name with a
note to that effect. The publisher did not explain whether the new
policy will be applied to articles already removed from ScienceDirect.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 February 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003021002t.htm
[RIAA Says Courts Too Slow To Protect Them, Can't Wait For Appeal]
RIAA OPPOSES VERIZON'S STAY
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) objected to
Verizon's motion for a stay of the court order that demanded the
company provide the name of a subscriber who allegedly downloaded in
excess of 600 copyrighted music files. Verizon filed the stay to avoid
providing the user's name until its appeal of the court order is
resolved. A hearing on the stay request will be held later this week.
Internet News, 10 February 2003
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1581771
ELECTRICAL OUTLETS OFFER POTENTIAL FOR INTERNET ACCESS
St. Louis-based Meren Corp. and other utilities are testing a
technology that would provide high-speed Web access through power
lines, potentially making every electrical outlet a connection to the
Internet. Federal regulators support the concept as a means of
bolstering broadband access, among other benefits, and tout the
advantage of employing an existing infrastructure of power lines.
Broadband providers, meanwhile, point out that the idea has been around
for years without concrete results. Network interference, transformers,
and surge arrestors have hindered broadband delivery, although improved
technology over the past few years has reduced many of these problems.
Tests to date have been small, and none of them has demonstrated the
concept's technical and financial viability.
Nando Times, 9 February 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/757525p-5471954c.html
BUSH ORDERS CYBERATTACK PLAN
Administration officials have confirmed that President Bush signed a
secret directive in July 2002 ordering the development of a national
plan to guide when and how the United States would launch cyberattacks
against enemy computer networks. The cyberwarfare plan would establish
rules under which the United States would penetrate and disrupt foreign
computer systems. Critics point out that the United States' dependence
on computer networks makes the country highly vulnerable to
counterattack and that collateral damage to civilians would almost
certainly result because of the interconnectedness of government,
military, and civilian computer networks around the world.
Washington Post, 7 February 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38110-2003Feb6.html
[I HAVE NO FLOPPY DRIVE!!!] [Anyone Remember Foxtrot?]
NO MORE FLOPPY DRIVES FROM DELL
Dell Computer Corporation announced that it plans to stop installing
floppy disk drives on its high-end Dimension computers in March,
offering them only as an option. The company has already stopped
providing floppy drives with its standard notebook computers. The
change comes in response to a move by consumers to newer, larger
capacity technology such as portable hard drives and rewritable CDs.
Dell will provide its 16-megabyte USB flash memory drives in the
high-end Dimension model first and then in all desktop computers if
customer response is favorable.
Associated Press, 5 February 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/751847p-5442465c.html
GEORGETOWN SHUTS DOWN E-MAIL SYSTEM
After learning of a mass e-mail message from the public-safety
department at Georgetown University that inadvertently contained
private student information, administrators at Georgetown shut down the
university's e-mail system and deleted the message from thousands of
student accounts. The system was down for more than 12 hours. The
technical staff used an automated program to replace the message with a
blank one, although messages automatically forwarded to private
accounts could not be deleted. A message to students, staff, and
faculty notified them that the message had been deleted and assured
them that e-mail messages and accounts were not otherwise touched.
Those who received the message were urged not to share its contents.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 February 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003020701t.htm
[So, If You Pay the $13, Does That Make Your Downloads All Legal?]
GERMAN TWIST ON COPYRIGHT COMPENSATION
A nonbinding recommendation from the German Patent Office calls for
makers of personal computers to pay copyright owners about $13 (U.S.
dollars) for every PC they sell. The fee is intended to reimburse
copyright owners for the digital copies of copyrighted works that PC
users are likely to make. This latest move in Germany is the first
attempt at levying a copyright fee on computers, though other levies
already exist in some countries on products such as blank compact
discs, recordable digital videodiscs, and CD writers. The new
recommendation comes on behalf of so-called "collecting societies,"
which have been formed to represent copyright owners in ongoing
disputes with hardware manufacturers. Collecting societies endeavor to
collect monies from users or device manufacturers to compensate content
owners for copies that computer users are likely to make but that
otherwise would be subject to royalties. A spokesman for the law firm
representing Fujitsu Siemens said that company, as well as the rest of
the industry, are likely to fight the PC levy in court.
Wall Street Journal, 5 February 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1044385225838491533,00.html
[Just The Opposite of the RIAA Commentary, Above]
MICROSOFT WINS STAY OF JAVA RULING
A federal appeals court has stayed a judge's ruling that Microsoft
must include Sun Microsystems's Java in new versions of its Windows XP
operating system and in Internet Explorer. Judge Frederick Motz, who is
overseeing several cases against Microsoft, including one by Sun, had
ordered Microsoft to begin shipping Sun's Java on Tuesday. Sun's
lawsuit argues that Microsoft attempted to undercut the Java platform,
developed by Sun, by building its own, incompatible with Sun's, and
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Australia's first literature
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The first fleet of ships which arrived in Botany Bay (Sydney) from England, in
January 1788, heralded the beginning of white settlement in Australia. Watkin
Tench (1759-1833), Captain of the Marines, was one of the four captains who
made the voyage. In his autobiographical "A Narrative of the Expedition to
Botany Bay" Tench states that "our number was...twelve sail: His Majesty's
ships 'Sirius', 'Hyena', and 'Supply', three Victuallers with two years
stores and provisions on board for the Settlement, and six Transports, with
troops and convicts. In the transports were embarked four captains, twelve
subalterns, twenty-four serjeants and corporals, eight drummers, and one
hundred and sixty private marines, making the whole of the military force,
including the Major Commandant and Staff on board the Sirius, to consist of
two hundred and twelve persons, of whom two hundred and ten were volunteers.
The number of convicts was five hundred and sixty-five men, one hundred and
ninety-two women, and eighteen children; the major part of the prisoners were
mechanics and husbandmen, selected on purpose by order of Government."
In "A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay" and his subsequent work "A
Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson", Tench provides a first
hand account of the voyage and then goes on to describe the subsequent
settlement in Sydney, New South Wales. He details the natural environment of
Port Jackson and its environs; the efforts to establish food production; the
exploratory trips into the hinterland; and, most interestingly, the first
interaction between Europeans and the Australian Aborigines.
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Nov 2004 Four Years, by William Butler Yeats [#6][fryrsxxx.xxx]6865
Nov 2004 Average Jones, by Samuel Hopkins Adams [#2][vrjnsxxx.xxx]6864
Nov 2004 The Passing of New France, by William Wood [#3][cca10xxx.xxx]6863
[Subtitle: A Chronicle of Montcalm] [Chronicles of Canada #10]
[Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton]
Nov 2004 The Belted Seas, by Arthur Colton [bltdsxxx.xxx]6862
Nov 2004 Vautrin, by Honore de Balzac [#102][vtrinxxx.xxx]6861
Nov 2004 Keineth, by Jane D. Abbott [knethxxx.xxx]6860
Nov 2004 Songs of Labor and Other Poems,by Morris Rosenfeld[slbpmxxx.xxx]6859
[Also posted HTML - slbpm10h.zip and slbpm10h.htm]
Nov 2004 Grace Harlowe's Second Year, by Jessie G Flower #3[ghlsdxxx.xxx]6858
[Full title: Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College]
Nov 2004 Indian Games, by Andrew McFarland Davis [ndgmsxxx.xxx]6857
Nov 2004 Great Riots of New York 1712 to 1873, J.T. Headley[grtrtxxx.xxx]6856
Nov 2004 Ideala, by Sarah Grand [dlshgxxx.xxx]6855
Nov 2004 Anne Bradstreet and Her Time, by Helen Campbell [nnbstxxx.xxx]6854
Nov 2004 Betty Gordon in Washington,by Alice B. Emerson[#3][bgwshxxx.xxx]6853
Nov 2004 Venus in Furs, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch [vnsfrxxx.xxx]6852
Nov 2004 Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, by Alice Emerson [#2][rfscpxxx.xxx]6851
Nov 2004 Esther, by Rosa Nouchette Carey [#2][sthrgxxx.xxx]6850
Nov 2004 The Prince of India, by Lew. Wallace, Vol. 2 [tpin2xxx.xxx]6849
Nov 2004 The Prince of India, by Lew. Wallace, Vol. 1 [tpin1xxx.xxx]6848
Nov 2004 Cytherea, by Joseph Hergesheimer [cthraxxx.xxx]6847
Nov 2004 My Lady of the North, by Randall Parrish [mldntxxx.xxx]6846
Nov 2004 The Whistling Mother, by Grace S. Richmond [#2][whlmrxxx.xxx]6845
Nov 2004 The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon [pwlphxxx.xxx]6844
[Full author: Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon (Mrs. R.E. Mullins)]
[Also posted HTML - pwlph10h.zip and pwlph10h.htm]
Nov 2004 Tecumseh: A Drama, by Charles Mair [tcmshxxx.xxx]6843
Nov 2004 Sadhana, by Rabindranath Tagore [#10][sdhnaxxx.xxx]6842
[Also posted Unicode - sdhna10u.txt and 684210u.zip]
Nov 2004 Mosaics of Grecian History, by Willson & Willson [?mgrhxxx.xxx]6841
[Full author: Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson]
Nov 2004 Queen Lucia, by E. F. Benson [#2][qnlcaxxx.xxx]6840
Nov 2004 The Old Roman World, by John Lord [#3][lrmnwxxx.xxx]6839
Nov 2004 Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamn_, by Victor Hugo [?ldrjxxx.xxx]6838
[Language: French]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7ldrj10.txt and 7ldrj10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8ldrj10.txt and 8ldrj10.zip]
Nov 2004 The Works of Frederich Schiller in English [fs40wxxx.xxx]6800
[Contains: Etext #6770-6799]
Oct 2004 Philosophical Letters of Frederich Schiller, [fs39wxxx.xxx]6799
Oct 2004 Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller, [fs38wxxx.xxx]6798
Oct 2004 Poems of Frederich Schiller, Suppressed Poems [fs37wxxx.xxx]6797
Oct 2004 Poems of Frederich Schiller, Third Period [fs36wxxx.xxx]6796
Oct 2004 Poems of Frederich Schiller, Second Period [fs35wxxx.xxx]6795
Oct 2004 Poems of Frederich Schiller, First Period [fs34wxxx.xxx]6794
(Note: #6794-6799 also posted as illustrated HTML, zipped files only)
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Statistical Review
In the 5 weeks of this year, we have produced 287 new eBooks.
It took us from 1971 to 1995 to produce our FIRST 287 eBooks!!!
That's 5 WEEKS as Compared to 24 YEARS!!!
The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks of
production, each production-week starting/ending Wednesday noon,
starting with the first Wednesday in January. January 1st was
was the first Wednesday of 2003, and thus ended the production
year of 2002 and began the production year of 2003.
With 7,055 eBooks online as of January 1, 2003 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.42 from each book,
for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000
[One Trillion Dollars] in books.
100,000,000 readers is only about 1.59 percent of the world's population!
This "cost" is down from about $2.23 when we had 4492 eBooks A Year Ago
Can you imagine 7,000 books each costing $.81 less a year later???
Or. . .would this say it better?
Can you imagine 7,000 books each costing 1/3 less a year later???
At 7030 eBooks in 31 1/2 Years We Averaged
223 Per Year [About how many we do per month these days!]
19 Per Month
.6 Per Day
At 287 eBooks Done In 2003 We Averaged
8 Per Day
57 Per Week
287 Per Month
***Headline News***
[My Comments In Brackets]
[From Project Gutenberg's Very Own Janis Ian, Recording Superstar]
"Janis Ian ... has written this editorial in the Los Angeles Times.
Janis says, "After I first posted downloadable music, my merchandise
sales went up 300%. They're still double what they were before the MP3s
went online." And the RIAA's stated goal in preventing this type of
activity with their lawsuit against Verizon is to increase sales..."
And don't miss the original at
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
Headlines From Newsscan
INTERNET WORM TOOK ONLY 10 MINUTES TO CAUSE GLOBAL HAVOC
The "SQL Slammer" worm that slowed Internet traffic significantly last week
managed to infect computer servers worldwide in about 10 minutes, making it
the fastest such virus seen, according to a University of California at San
Diego team. "At its peak, achieved approximately three minutes after it was
released, the worm scanned 55 million Internet hosts per second. It infect
ed at least 750,000 victims, and probably considerably more," says one team
member. The SQL Slammer worm was only the third of its type seen on the
Net, and managed to spread nearly 100 times faster than the Code Red
infection 18 months ago. (The Independent 4 Feb 2003)
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=375374
NEW $2.1B DEBT MAY LOWER AOL TIME WARNER'S CREDIT RATING
Standard & Poor analyst Heather M. Goodchild says that AOL Time Warner's
announcement of plans to add $2.1 billion to restructure finances of its
cable operations may result in a lower credit rating for the company:
"Deferral of a cable IPO, loss of momentum with other de-leveraging or a
weakening of the operating outlook could lead to a downgrade."
(Washington Post 4 Feb 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20897-2003Feb3.html
AOL TIME WARNER: "CAN ANYONE HERE RUN THIS COMPANY?
With AOL Time Warner humiliated by two years of failure (declining
revenues, subscribers and advertisers), one close observer remarks: "It's
sort of like Casey Stengel in his first year at the Mets. If you remember,
they were a bunch of boobs and Casey asked, 'Can anyone here play this
game?' With AOL, it's 'Can anyone run this company?'" Just about everyone
agrees that AOL Time Warner needs a new corporate vision -- and quick! Will
the company's chief executive and (soon-to-be) chairman Richard D. Parsons
be up to the task. Everyone hopes so, but one institutional investor who
sold his stock pointed out all the company's current problems "happened
under his watch." Parsons said the company is on track for meeting its
goals, which include substantial reduction of a $27 billion debt --
possibly by selling such assets as AOL itself, its half interests in the
Comedy Central and Court TV cable networks, or its money-losing Atlanta
sports teams, the Braves, Hawks, and Thrashers. (New York Times 2 Feb 2003)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/business/yourmoney/02AOLL.html
CHESS MOVES: HAVE COMPUTERS DUMBED-DOWN THE ANCIENT GAME?
The current closely-contested match between world chess champion Garry
Kasparov and a computer has been the occasion for some chess fans to
complain that computers are ruining the game. Chess master Evgeni Bareev
says, "We don't work at chess anymore. We just look at the stupid computer,
we follow the latest games and find small improvements. We have lost
depth." In agreement with Bareev are Maurice Ashley, a grandmaster from New
York, and Hans Berliner, a former world correspondence chess champion.
Ashley: "People don't experiment as much anymore. That's a loss." Berliner:
"What's happening with chess is it's gradually losing its place as the par
excellence intellectual activity. Chess is winding down." But Frederic
Freidel, the founder of the leading chess software company, strenuously
disagrees, and says that chess-play is now better than ever: "The
combination of man and computer is much more powerful than either on its
own." Freidel has been promoting "advance chess," in which human players
openly use computer software as they compete against each other in games.
(International Herald-Tribune 1 Feb 2003)
http://www.iht.com/articles/85343.html
AO-HELL
Will the bad news from AOL Time Warner ever stop? Hard on the heels of huge
new losses ($98.2 billion) and continuing high-level executive defections
(Ted Turner being the latest), the company now has the embarrassment of
revealing that in the last three months of 2002 the number of subscribers
to its America Online component dropped by 170,000. That's the first time
AOL's subscription numbers have ever fallen, and the fall has come despite
a recent $1 billion advertising and promotion campaign and on top of a
plunge in the company's advertising revenue. CNBC has referred to the
situation as AO-Hell, and the J.P. Morgan Chase investment firm warned its
clients that "the modest decline in AOL's subscription base will spark
renewed fears over AOL's long-term viability." But it concluded its
investment advisory on a more positive note: "We continue to believe that
the AOL business is fixable and that the core Time Warner businesses remain
valuable." (Washington Post 31 Jan 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3669-2003Jan30.html
VERIZON GOES TO COURT TO DEFEND CUSTOMER PRIVACY
Verizon Communications is asking a federal appeals court to declare
unconstitutional a lower-court decision that ordered it to reveal the
identity of a customer suspected of downloading copyrighted music files
over the Internet. Verizon deputy general counsel John Thorne says, "I see
a great jeopardy of privacy for people who are not doing anything wrong,"
and notes the lower court's ruling would make it possible for "strangers,
stalkers, telemarketers, pollsters, creditor and anybody else" to obtain
the identity of almost any Internet user. "No matter where you go, your
identity can be compelled to be revealed under this process." (Reuters/USA
Today 30 Jan 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-01-30-verizon-appeal_x.htm
WHAT'S GOING ON? AOL TIME WARNER LOSES $98.7B & ANOTHER BIG-WIG
Ever since the much-ballyhooed merger two years ago of "new media" America
Online with "old media" publishing, music, and movie empire Time Warner,
there's been nothing but corporate recriminations, infighting, and anguish
there. The two men who created the merger, Gerald Levin and Steve Case,
have already departed, as has Bob Pittman. And now vice-chairman Ted Turner
has resigned, following announcement that the company's taking a $98.7
billion loss for 2002, the worst annual loss ever. Turner says he will
devote more time to personal interests and to several "socially responsible
business efforts." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 30 Jan 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/01/30/business/30AOL.html
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From Edupage
MICROSOFT AGREES TO CHANGE PASSPORT FOR EU
Responding to concerns from the European Union (EU) over its .NET
Passport authentication system, Microsoft this week agreed to various
changes including "a radical change of the information flow." EU
members had expressed concern that Microsoft's system, which is
designed to share authentication information with affiliated sites so
users are not required to re-enter names and passwords, did not
adequately protect personal information, such as addresses, ages, phone
numbers, and credit card numbers. The changes agreed to will allow
users to see information that would be shared among systems and to
decide which of those pieces of personal data they will allow to be
shared. A spokesman for Microsoft said the company welcomes the changes
and that the process of deciding on the changes was an example of
"necessary collaboration between government and industry in order to
achieve a common goal."
New York Times, 30 January 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/business/worldbusiness/30CND-SOFT.html
[What Was That We Were Saying About Everything Becoming Pay-Per-Whatever?]
PAYING FOR RADIO?
Two start-up companies, Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio
Holdings, are heavily promoting radio-for-pay in private homes and
cars. XM Satellite launched a $100-million national campaign in August
of 2001 to sell the service to the public. Its partners, General
Motors, which offers cars with satellite receivers, and Delphi
Corporation, which sells a $200 portable car boombox, have also
promoted the service. Sirius lags far behind its rival in spending and
subscribers. With 30,000 members compared to XM Satellite's 360,000,
Sirius has hired a prestigious Miami-based advertising firm to launch a
late-night talk show TV campaign to build its customer base. In
addition to more than 100 music channels, Sirius offers news, sports,
religious, and comedy channels for $12.95 a month. Capitalizing on the
notion of music as "social currency," the ads promote Sirius as
anti-establishment by offering subscribers commercial-free, alternative
music. Still far from the two million subscribers needed to break even,
XM Satellite hopes the Sirius campaign will boost its membership as
well by raising consumer awareness.
New York Times, 3 February 2003 (registration req'd)
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