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Statistical Review
(This number includes the etexts posted at the PG Australia web site)
In the first 11 weeks of the new year, we have produced 666 new eBooks.
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.
With 7409 eTexts online as of March 19, 2003 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.35 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 1.6 percent of the world's population!
This "cost" is down from $2.08 when we had 4815 eBooks A Year Ago
Can you imagine 7409 books each costing $0.73 less a year later???
Or. . .would this say it better?
Can you imagine 7409 books each costing 35% less a year later???
At 7409 eBooks in 31 Years We Averaged 19.92 eBooks per month
At 666 eBooks Done in 2003 We Averaged 131.00 eBooks per month
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***Headline News***
[My Comments In Brackets]
Headlines From Newsscan:
THE IETF APPROACH TO SPAM
The Internet Research Task Force -- loosely affiliated with the Internet
Engineering Task Force standards group -- has formed an Anti-Spam Research
Group, which will focus on the problem of spam proliferation and make
suggestions on ways to change basic e-mail technology to foil the bulk
e-mailers. "Once considered a nuisance, spam has grown to account for a
large percentage of the mail volume on the Internet," says the group's Web
site. "The purpose of the [research group] is to understand the problem and
collectively propose and evaluate solutions to the problem." First steps
will include classifying different kinds of spam and antispam proposals,
and studying ways to track down spammers, who are often difficult to
identify. A first meeting is set for March 20 at the IETF's San Francisco
gathering. (CNet News.com 6 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1032-991305.html?tag=3Dfd_top
THE AOL APPROACH TO SPAM
America Online, which says it blocks an average of 28 junk e-mail messages
per account per day, trashed a billion (presumably unsolicited) messages in
a two-day period this week, without letting them arrive at customers'
in-boxes. AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham asserts that only "an extremely
small fraction" of the messages trapped in AOL's spam filters are
legitimate communications. [We hope he's right. See the last message in
today's mailbag, which concerns NewsScan's experience with spam filters --
though not in this case AOL's.] (AP/San Jose Mercury News 6 Mar 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5329381.htm
THE AUSTRALIAN APPROACH TO SPAM
Clive Hamilton, the head of an Australian public think tank, thinks that
Australia's method of Internet regulation, managed by the Australian
Broadcasting Authority, is essentially useless. Referring to a survey
finding that 84% of boys ages 16-17 are exposed to pornography on the
Internet, Hamilton complained: "The Internet industry has convinced the
government that there is little that can be done to prevent pornography
coming in from overseas. But this is false. Mandatory filtering by Internet
service providers (ISPs) would severely restrict the availability of
pornography." Labor information technology spokeswoman Kate Luncy
disagrees: "The cost this would place on ISPs would be prohibitive and
Internet speeds would be significantly reduced. The end result for
consumers would be a slower, more expensive Internet." (The Age 4 Mar 2003)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/04/1046540179539.html
WHY IS THIS NEWS? DOESN'T IT HAPPEN EVERY DAY?
A Colorado businessman was arrested earlier this week at his Sportsman's
Bar & Restaurant for firing four bullets into his laptop, which had crashed
just one too many times. After spending a night in jail, the man was
temporarily released but may face charges of felony menacing, reckless
endangerment, and the prohibited use of weapons. (AP/USA Today 5 Mar 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-03-05-laptop-rage_x.htm
SUSPECTS STEAL MONEY VIA KEYSTROKE MONITORING SOFTWARE
Two Japanese men were arrested for allegedly hacking into people's bank
accounts and stealing $136,000. The men are accused of downloading software
that detects the keystrokes made by a computer user and installed it on PCs
at Tokyo cybercaf=E9s. They then figured out the passwords that five=
previous
customers had used to access their bank accounts online, and transferred a
total of $141,000 from those accounts to another bank. One of the men,
27-year-old Goro Nakahashi, then used an alias to withdraw $136,000. If
charged with theft, the two could face up to 10 years in prison. According
to the Asahi newspaper, the men allegedly tried to use about 100 computers
at 13 different Internet cafes around Tokyo. (AP 7 Mar 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030307/D7PKA2180.html
TWO JUDGES REJECT FBI TESTIMONY IN INTERNET PORN CASES
Federal district judges Denny Chin in New York and Catherine D. Perry in
St. Louis have rejected evidence obtained by FBI agents who claimed falsely
that anyone signing up with the child porn site "Candyman" would
automatically receive child porn images from other site members. Later, the
agents admitted that people signing up for the group had the ability to opt
out of the member mailing list and therefore did not necessarily receive
pornography through that list. Judge Chin wrote: "If the government is
correct in its position that membership in the Candyman group alone was
sufficient to support a finding of probable cause, then probable cause
existed to intrude into the homes" of thousands of people who had merely
logged onto that Web site. "Here, the intrusion is potentially enormous.
Thousands of individuals would be subject to search, their homes invaded
and their property seized, in one fell swoop, even though their only
activity consisted of entering an e-mail address into a Web site from a
computer located in the confines of their homes." (New York Times 7 Mar=
2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/nyregion/07PORN.html
STARTUP LOADS MP3 TUNES ONTO CELL PHONES
A small startup called Xingtone has developed technology that enables
people to load MP3 files onto their cell phones. The user would take an
audio clip of a recording they already own, load it through the conversion
filter and deliver it to their phone. "It's a simple choice: Do people want
their phone to sound like an old arcade game or a radio playing their
favorite songs?" says Xingtone's Brad Zutaut, who currently has a snippet
of the Rolling Stones' "Get Off of My Cloud" on his phone. About 3,000
people have already used the service, which launched a few weeks ago.
Currently, wireless carriers limit clips to 30 seconds, but Xingtone says
as soon as the operators relax these restrictions, it has the capability to
send entire songs to users' cell phones. As an added twist, users can send
their audio clips from the Xingtone Web site to their friends' phones.
Zutaut acknowledges that the new service may raise the ire of the music
industry. "I know that we'll have licensing issues. But if people take
their own music and put it on their phone, it's not my responsibility." He
sees potential revenue streams from eventually moving toward a pay-per-use
model and from co-branding. (Reuters/CNet 7 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1039-991513.html?tag=3Dfd_top
INTEL BETS BIG ON WI-FI
Intel is investing in four Wi-Fi firms in an effort to boost the wireless
technology and build demand for its Centrino chipset, which offers Wi-Fi
connectivity and improved notebook battery life. Financial terms were not
disclosed, but last October Intel had announced plans to invest $150
million in companies pursuing Wi-Fi technology and so far has funded seven
ventures. The latest recipients of Intel's largess are rovingIP.net,
Vivato, Broadreach Networks and Pronto Networks. In December, Intel teamed
up with AT&T and IBM to form Cometa Networks, which will create a
nationwide network of wireless broadband hotspots in stores, restaurants,
hotels, gas stations and other public venues. (Reuters/CNet 9 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1036-991696.html?tag=3Dfd_top
THE FUTURE OF WEBLOGS
Blogging, which a few years ago was viewed as a lot of inconsequential
chatter, is morphing into a cutting-edge phenomenon that may provide a
platform for the Internet's next wave of innovation and moneymaking
opportunities. "Just like the Internet was 10 years ago, blogging is
popular with an underground culture that is doing it for the love and
passion," says Tony Perkins, editor of the recently folded Red Herring
magazine. "Now there are people like me coming along and trying to figure
out how to package it. It's time to take it to the next level." Other heavy
hitters hoping to cash in on the Web's so-called "Blogosphere" include
Terra Lycos, AOL and Google. Last month, Terra introduced publishing tools
to help users launch their own blogs, and AOL plans a similar move later
this year. Meanwhile, Google just snapped up Pyra Labs, which runs
Blogger.com, a network of Weblogs boasting more than 1 million members and
more than 200,000 active blogs. "We want to take what has been an
underground phenomenon and introduce it to the masses," says Charles Kilby,
Terra Lycos' director of product marketing. "This is the 'eBayization' of
the media," says Perkins. "You create a compelling arena and then let the
real entertainment come from the participants themselves." (AP 9 Mar 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030309/D7PLQS200.html
AOL'S ANSWER TO TIVO TO BE LIKE TIVO, SORT OF
Recognizing the threat TiVo and similar personal video recording technology
is posing to TV networks and Hollywood studios, AOL Time Warner has been
secretly developing its own version of the technology, called Mystro TV.
Mystro uses the cable system itself to let viewers watch programs on their
own schedules (just as TiVo does), but it lets networks retain a level of
control (dictating which shows users can reschedule) and offers them a way
to insert commercials, which TiVo allows its set-owners to avoid. (New York
Times 10 Mar 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/03/10/technology/10AOL.html
LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH DIGITAL COPYING RIGHTS
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D, CA) is reintroducing legislation called the Balance
Act, intended to give people the right to make back-up copies of copyrighted
digital works for use on other devices (such as car CD players) and to
protect consumers who break technological locks in order to view DVD movies
on their computers. Lofgren says, "Most people -- at least, most adults --
don't expect to get content as a freebie. But when people pay good money to
buy something and then can't use it in the way they've become accustomed to,
it makes them mad." The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the
Business Software Alliance (BSA) strongly oppose the proposed legislation,
which is thought to have just a long-shot chance of being passed. Arguing
that such legislation "would provide safe harbor for pirates," Jack Valenti
of the MPAA said, "As drafted, this legislation essentially legalizes
hacking." (San Jose Mercury News 11 Mar 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5365373.htm
DELOADER WORM ATTACKS EASY-TO-GUESS PASSWORDS
A new software worm called W32/Deloader-A tries to guess passwords on
machines running many of the Microsoft Windows operating systems: it
attempts to log on to a machine's administrator account by trying likely
passwords such as 'admin', 'password,' '12345', and 'administrator', and so
forth. The worm is thought to have originated in China. Although Deloader is
considered a low risk for infection, many home computers without firewalls
may be vulnerable to its attacks. (IDG/Computerworld 11 Mar 2003) Shorl:
http://shorl.com/bidribatovumu
AT THE BEND IT'S ORACLE, THEN IBM, MICROSOFT, AND NOBODY
Looking at the relational database market, industry analyst Carl Olofson
describes the current situation by noting that "the gap between Oracle and
IBM is narrowing, Microsoft continues to grow, and the three of them are
increasingly well ahead of the rest of the field." Market shares now are
Oracle 39.4%, IBM 33.6%, and Microsoft 11.1%. Compared to market shares a
year ago, Oracle is down 2.3% while IBM is up 2.6% and Microsoft is up by
1.4%. Olofson says that IBM's gain is due largely because many of its
corporate customers (unlike Oracle's customers) are required to renew their
licenses each year. Another factor in the equation is that IBM seems to be
expanding its share of Windows, Unix and Linux environments more rapidly
than Oracle. (San Francisco Chronicle 11 Mar 2003)
http://shorl.com/fyvujygudrotra
AOL DELIVERS USERS FROM 'POP-UP PURGATORY'
America Online is giving its subscribers some relief from the annoying
pop-up ads that seem to be proliferating at an alarming pace across the
Web. In response to complaints from users, AOL will automatically install
its Web Pop-Up Controls onto the desktops of its 33 million subscribers
during the next two weeks. Many AOL users had listed pop-up advertising as
one the most annoying features of surfing the Web. "AOL's new Pop-Up
Controls will allow our members to explore the Web without being trapped in
pop-up purgatory," says an AOL spokesman. The latest move mirrors one made
by rival Earthlink several months ago, and comes as the world's largest
Internet provider is struggling with stagnant subscriber growth over the
past year. (CNet News.com 11 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1024-992142.html?tag=3Dfd_top
ABC NEWS TO OFFER 24-HOUR BROADBAND NEWS SERVICE
As the drumbeat of war escalates TV-news coverage and competition among
networks, ABC News has announced plans to launch a 24-hour Web-based
service available to broadband users. The service, to be called ABC News
Live, in its initial stage will resemble C-SPAN more closely than CNN,
mixing live feeds of breaking news with some anchored coverage, news
summaries every half hour and rebroadcasts of programs such as "World News
Tonight" and "Nightline." There will also be live coverage of UN debates
and White House news briefings, as well as feature segments by ABC News
correspondents that won't be shown on regular ABC news broadcasts. Senior
VP Bernard Gershon called ABC News Live programming "baby steps toward the
first Internet news network" and said he could "see a situation in two or
three years where the broadband space will be competitive to the cable-news
space." The new channel will be available to subscribers of the existing
ABC News On Demand broadband service and RealNetworks' RealOne SuperPass
service. ABC owner Walt Disney says it may entertain future deals that
would make the service available through other broadband providers, such as
cable systems and telephone companies. (Wall Street Journal 12 Mar 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB104743895949865100.djm,00.html (sub=
req'd)
EU SAYS MICROSOFT VIOLATED ANTITRUST RULES
The European Commission has determined that Microsoft violated EU antitrust
rules, and experts on the EC have proposed two major remedies: requiring
Microsoft to share more proprietary information with its rivals and to
unbundle its Media Player software from the Windows operating system. Both
remedies would go beyond the changes agreed to last year by Microsoft and
the Justice Department after courts found Microsoft had abused its monopoly
position in the U.S. operating systems market. The EU's case is still
months from a conclusion, but insiders say an internal commission is
reviewing the recommendations to ensure they will stand up in court and be
technically enforceable. (Wired.com 11 Mar 2003)
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57998,00.html
INTERNET BOOKENDS: #1, KAHN ON COPYRIGHT
Internet co-founder (with Vint Cerf) Bob Kahn is head of the Corporation for
National Research Initiatives (CNRI), which he founded in 1986. In an
interview with John Gehl for the ACM online publication Ubiquity, Kahn
talks about the state of the Internet, including the need for more education
about copyright law: "We [at CNRI] have been promoting copyright and, more
generally, intellectual property protection in the network probably as much
as anybody in the research world. CNRI built a system for the U.S. Copyright
Office to manage the registration of copyright claims and the attendant
submission of copyright information and digital objects online; the system
is called CORDS (cords.loc.gov). In my view, one of the problems that has
not been satisfactorily dealt with in this country is the widespread lack of
respect for the value of intellectual property. People think that they can
do anything they want with intellectual property just because they
themselves don't happen to see any cost associated with accessing it on the
net and, perhaps sending it to others or otherwise using it. I think this is
clearly an educational issue as much as it is a constitutional issue."
(Ubiquity 13 Mar 2003) http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/r_kahn_1.html
IRAQ WAR WILL BOOST ONLINE NEWS
"What the first Gulf war was to CNN, this one will be to CNN.com and its
peers," says Josh Macht, editor of Time.com. Taking a cue from media
experts who point to traffic spikes after the September 11 attacks and the
space shuttle Columbia disaster, online news operations are gearing up for
higher visitor volume and expanded news coverage capabilities. News sites
like MSNBC.com and FT.com have spent months building special pages
dedicated to the conflict, complete with interactive maps, exclusive
features and downloadable video. "It is a time to show people we can do
amazing things with graphics and pictures," says Macht. "That is going to
build an audience for the future." In the end, however, it may all come
down to timing. One of the recurring stories about the first Gulf war
suggests that the U.S. timed its bombing raids to fit in with CNN's evening
broadcast schedule. The Internet has a very different audience -- people
who catch the news online during the day at work. With Iraq nine hours
ahead of the U.S. East Coast, it remains to be seen whether the military
will adjust their campaigns to fit in with the daytime viewers' schedules.
(Financial Times 12 Mar 2003)
http://www.ft.com (sub req'd)
YAHOO LAUNCHES VIDEO SERVICE
Yahoo, expanding its push into fee-based services, has launched a Yahoo
Platinum video subscription service that offers entertainment, sports, news
video and programs. The service is similar to one offered by RealNetworks,
but Yahoo is trying to differentiate its Platinum service with exclusive
content, such as outtakes from TV programs like "Survivor" and "American
Idol." Yahoo will charge $9.95 a month for a mix of its exclusive and
non-exclusive content, such as the TV outtakes, Nascar coverage, news and
some NCAA games. A special sports package, which includes exclusive Web
coverage of the NCAA playoffs, will cost $16.95 per month. Yahoo is hoping
that its March Madness coverage will lure workers who might have access to
broadband at work but not a TV, as many of the basketball games are
scheduled during daytime hours. Subscribers to the sports package will get
live webcasts of the first 56 games. (Wall Street Journal 17 Mar 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB104768734043719900.djm,00.html (sub=
req'd)
PAYPHONES SEEK NEW LIFE AS INTERNET TERMINALS
Bell Canada is in the midst of a pilot program that offers customers in
Toronto, Montreal and Kingston free Wi-Fi Internet access through hotspots
originating in 16 former payphone booths located in airports, hotels,
libraries, train stations and other public transit locales. As with regular
Wi-Fi access, customers must be within 100 feet of the booth to use the
signal. Bell Canada spokesman Don Blair says the company has received
positive feedback so far: "We've received phone calls and e-mails from
people using the service. The are very positive responses from users, as
well as a lot of calls from location providers -- people wanting to offer
(wireless Internet) hotspots to their customers." Meanwhile, in Singapore,
InfiniTech has a different idea for resuscitating the payphone booth. The
company is looking for U.S. partners to help roll out booths where people
could recharge their cell phones when their batteries run down. Users would
deposit coins and then recharge their phones. (Wired.com 17 Mar 2003)
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,58050,00.html
BEWARE THE SPELLCHECKER
A study at the University of Pittsburgh reveals that the ubiquitous
spellchecker software may be doing as much harm as good, when it comes to
writing. In the study, 33 undergraduate students were asked to proofread a
one-page business letter -- half of them using Microsoft Word, with its
spell- and grammar-checking features and the other half using only their
brains. Without the software, students with higher SAT verbal scores made,
on average, five errors, compared with 12.3 errors made by students with
lower scores. However, using the software, the two groups made about the
same number of errors -- 16 vs. 17. Dennis Galletta, a professor of
information systems at the Katz Business School, says people have come to
rely on spellchecking software too completely. "It's not a software
problem, it's a behavior problem." (AP 14 Mar 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030314/D7POQ7R80.html
RECORD LABELS WARN COMPANIES OF 'SIGNIFICANT LEGAL DAMAGES'
The Recording Industry Association of America has sent letters to about 300
companies, informing them that their computers were being used by workers
for illegal file-swapping and threatening "significant legal damages" for
employers and employees alike. The new tactic is the RIAA's first
systematic effort to tackle digital music piracy that occurs using
corporate networks, following a similar effort to enlist universities in
the fight against illegal file-sharing. Copyright law experts said
companies might be liable for piracy on their networks if they know about
it and don't intervene, but it's unclear whether companies have an
obligation to police their networks and remove unauthorized copies of songs
without being asked to. "I think what they're trying to do is get people
thinking 'Gee, I'm in this gray area, and I don't want to be the guy who
gets fingered for the test case,'" says one intellectual property attorney.
"As a corporation, do you really want to be in the news defending the right
of your employees to have pirated music on your network?" About 35% of the
letters went to information technology companies, 20% to healthcare firms,
20% to manufacturers, and the rest to miscellaneous industries. (Los
Angeles Times 18 Mar 2003)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-riaa18mar18001438,1,4897793.story?co
ll=3Dla%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
PROFILE OF A VIRUS WRITER
According to the UK's Sophos, one of the world's largest antivirus
companies, about 1,000 viruses are created every month, and in almost all
cases the perpetrators are computer-obsessed males between the ages of 14
and 34. "They have a chronic lack of girlfriends, are usually socially
inadequate and are drawn compulsively to write self-replicating codes. It's
a form of original graffiti to them," says Sophos CEO Jan Hruska. Virus
writers tend to explore known bugs in existing software or look for
vulnerabilities in new versions in order to create and spread their
infections, and Hruska notes that the next target for the virus writing
community could be Microsoft's .Net platform for Web services. To boost the
impact of their creations, virus writers also tend to share information to
create variants of the same infection, such as the infamous Klez worm,
which has been among the world's most prolific viruses in the last year.
(Reuters/CNet News.com 18 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1002-993023.html?tag=3Dfd_top
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Headlines From Edupage:
BOSTON BUSINESSMAN OFFERS FREE WIRELESS NETWORK
Michael Oh, CEO of Apple reseller Tech Superpowers in Boston, has
launched a free Wi-Fi network along the city's Newbury Street,
described as Boston's Rodeo Drive. NewburyOpen.net is a free,
high-speed wireless network that uses access points in eight cafes,
restaurants, and bookstores along the street. Users who take advantage
of the free network to browse the Internet are shown pop-up ads every
three to four hours. Oh said the network cost about $3,000 to set up
and offers his business a means of reaching consumers that otherwise
would be unavailable. Wi-Fi expert Glenn Fleishman said the Boston
network is the first he knows of that is wholly run by an individual,
commercial company. He said that many companies, however, are beginning
to understand that offering such network access typically does not cost
much and is a way for them to "give something back to the community."
Wired News, 12 March 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,58011,00.html
CALIFORNIA BILL WOULD BAN ALL SPAM
A bill before the California legislature would ban all unsolicited
messages sent to e-mail addresses in that state. Consumers who received
spam would be able to sue the sender for at least $500 per violation.
Critics of the measure said that it will do little to stem the flow of
spam because many spammers use hijacked systems to send e-mail or are
outside of the country. An analyst with Jupiter Research said that a
spammer in China is not going to care what the laws are in California.
Debra Bowen, the state senator who wrote the bill, acknowledged that
the measure would not end spam, but she said something needs to be
done. Her bill, she said, would give individual consumers the authority
to tackle spam without having to depend on technology or on a district
attorney. In 1998, Bowen wrote the state's first bill to limit spam,
which requires unsolicited mail to include "ADV" in the subject line.
Louis Mastria of the Direct Marketing Association said that law is
generally ignored and counterproductive.
Los Angeles Times, 11 March 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/801135p-5710829c.html
FACIAL-RECOGNITION SOFTWARE TESTS RELEASED
According to test data released by the federal government,
facial-recognition systems have become significantly more accurate and
reliable since 2000. The tests, which were overseen by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology and covered products from 10
companies, also showed, however, that in certain conditions the
accuracy of the systems dropped to 50 percent. In "reasonable,
controlled indoor lighting," the best of the systems was able to
correctly match facial images with those in a database 90 percent of
the time. The results are expected to support efforts to add
facial-recognition systems, as well as other biometric identification
technologies, in situations where security is vital, such as at
airports.
New York Times, 14 March 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/14/technolo
MARKETERS AND CONSUMERS PREPARE FOR NATIONAL NO-CALL LIST
President Bush this week signed a bill that will establish a national
do-not-call list, similar to lists already enacted in 32 states. The
lists are designed to limit unwanted calls from telephone solicitors.
Under the federal statute, companies that do not comply with the list
can be fined up to $11,000 per call they make to someone who is on the
list. Certain calls are excepted from the regulation, including those
concerning surveys, charities, and calls on behalf of politicians. The
Federal Trade Commission will collect fees to pay for creating and
maintaining the list. VeriSign and a company called Call Compliance
have developed a call-blocking application called TeleBlock, which was
recently sold to PaeTec. Gryphon Networks also markets a product for
the burgeoning call-blocking industry. Some have speculated that a
similar approach could be an effective way to tackle the growing
problem of unwanted e-mail.
Internet News, 13 March 2003
http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/2109271
TECHNOLOGY GRANTS FOR MINORITY INSTITUTIONS APPROVED
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
approved a bill to create a $250 million grant program to help
minority-serving institutions develop digital and wireless
technologies. The full Senate is expected to consider the bill. If the
bill passes, Congress will be challenged to figure out how to fund the
program. The bill, S.196, was sponsored by Sen. George Allen (R-Va.).
The National Science Foundation would be authorized to oversee the
grants for five years. Recipients must match a minimum of a quarter of
the grant money with their own funds, a requirement that would be
waived for institutions with endowments of less than $50 million.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 March 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/03/2003031401t.htm
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1) Editorial
Hello,
Things are tense here at PG, if I were nearer to my colleagues I would hear fingernails being bitten down as we reach the 7500 milestone. Only 93 to go, so get your appropriate tipple on ice, and lets get those books proofread and get ready to celebrate next week.
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2) Weekly eBook update
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= [ Here Are The Updated Listings For This Past Week ] =
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RESERVED count: 39
Last week the Total Count was 7,345, including 177 at PG of Australia.
This week we added 62 new (incl. 9 Aus.).
TOTAL COUNT as of today, Wed 03/12/03: 7,407 (incl. 186 Aus.).
=-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, xxxxx11.txt, and
prior to 1998, occasionally a new eBook number.
VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, xxxxx10a.txt, as
well as a new eBook number.
--Please note the following changes, corrections and improvements:
Last week we announced the posting of Illustrated HTML versions of
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, eBooks #7100 - #7107; it should
be noted that each of those files are approximately 2.2MB in size.
One more time: the following was corrected last week for the
author's last name; this week we're correcting the author's
first name ("Benjamin", not "Benjamim":
Feb 2003 Sybil, or the Two Nations, by Benjamin Disraeli [sybilxxx.xxx]3760
{Please no more on this!!!}
The following is being re-indexed to correct author's last
name ("Henty", not "Henry"):
Nov 2004 By Pike and Dyke, Dutch Republic, by Henty [#11][bpikexxx.xxx]6952
The following has be re-posted in new formats as indicated:
Oct 1999 Penguin Island, by Anatole France [pngwnxxx.xxx]1930
[HTM in pngwn10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 When a Man Comes to Himself, by Woodrow Wilson[#3][mnhslxxx.xxx]5078
[HTM in mnhsl10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 On Being Human, by Woodrow Wilson [Wilson#2][nbhmnxxx.xxx]5068
[HTM in nbhmn10h.htm/.zip]
The following have been posted in an updated edition 11, and new
format as indicated:
Feb 2004 State of the Union, John F. Kennedy [sukenxxx.xxx]5041
[HTM in suken11h.htm/.zip]
Jul 1997 Beowulf, Anonymous, Translated by Gummere [bwulfxxx.xxx] 981
[XHTML in bwulf11h.txt/.zip]
The following has also been posted in an updated edition 11, and also
a new format as indicated:
Jul 1999 The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain [MT#14][prpprxxx.xxx]1837
[Illustrated HTM in prppr11h.zip]
(Note: The illustrated HTML file, zipped only, is 20mb in size. It
includes all of the 192 original drawings from a first edition of "The
Prince and The Pauper". This file has also been split into nine parts
in today's new postings of #7154-7162 for easier downloading.)
=-=-=-=[ ?? NEW U.S. POSTS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Feb 2005 Images from Saint Simon's Louis XIV, by D. Widger [dw49wxxh.zip]7565
Feb 2005 Images from Memoirs Cardinal de Retz, by D. Widger[dw48wxxh.zip]7564
Feb 2005 Images from Duch. d'Orleans' Louis XIV, by Widger [dw47wxxh.zip]7563
Feb 2005 Images from Memoirs Madame de Montespan, by Widger[dw46wxxh.zip]7562
Feb 2005 Images from Hausset's Louis XIV and XV, by Widger [dw45wxxh.zip]7561
[Author: David Widger][Illustrated HTML files in zipped format only]
Dec 2004 Guide to Reading, by Abbott and Dickenson [?readxxx.xxx]7167
[Full title: The Guide to Reading The Pocket University Volume XXIII]
[Full author: Edited by Dr. Lyman Abbott, Asa Don Dickenson, and Others]
Dec 2004 Home and the World, by Rabindranath Tagore [RT#12][?wrldxxx.xxx]7166
Dec 2004 The Legends of Saint Patrick, by Aubrey de Vere [lgspxxx.xxx]7165
[Plain text in lgsp10.txt/.zip, XHTML in lgsp10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 Gitanjali, by Rabindranath Tagore [#11][gitnjxxx.xxx]7164
Dec 2004 History of Australian Exploration,by Ernest Favenc[?hstrxxx.xxx]7163
[Full title: The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v9, by Mark Twain[#104][hfin9xxx.xxx]7162
[Chapters 32 - Conclusion]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v8, by Mark Twain[#103][hfin8xxx.xxx]7161
[Chapters 27 - 31]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v7, by Mark Twain[#102][hfin7xxx.xxx]7160
[Chapters 22 - 26]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v6, by Mark Twain[#101][hfin6xxx.xxx]7159
[Chapters 18 - 21]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v5, by Mark Twain[#100][hfin5xxx.xxx]7158
[Chapters 15 - 17]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v4, by Mark Twain [#99][hfin4xxx.xxx]7157
[Chapters 12 - 14]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v3, by Mark Twain [#98][hfin3xxx.xxx]7156
[Chapters 8 - 11]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v2, by Mark Twain [#97][hfin2xxx.xxx]7155
[Chapters 5 - 7]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v1, by Mark Twain [#96][hfin1xxx.xxx]7154
[Chapters 1 - 4]
[The above nine files are Illustrated HTML, zipped only, in hfin?10h.zip]
[Note: The files average 2.5mb each]
{See note above for updated eBook #1837)
Dec 2004 Elder Conklin and Other Stories, by Frank Harris [?conkxxx.xxx]7153
Dec 2004 Cecilia Vol. 3, by Frances Burney [?cec3xxx.xxx]7152
[Full title: Cecilia vol. 3 Memoirs of an Heiress]
[Full author: Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)]
Dec 2004 Clelia, by Giuseppe Garibaldi [?clelxxx.xxx]7151
[Subtitle: Il governo dei preti - Romanzo storico politico]
[Language: Italian]
[Plain text in 7clel10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8clel10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 Science & Education, by Thomas H. Huxley [?scedxxx.xxx]7150
[Subtitle: Collected Essays Volume III]
[Plain text in 7sced10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8sced10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version in 8sced10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 Poetical Works, by Henry Kirk White [?pwhwxxx.xxx]7149
[Full title: The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White With a Memoir
by Sir Harris Nicolas]
[Also posted HTM version in 8pwhw10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 Lectures on Dramatic Art, by A. W. Schlegel [?ldalxxx.xxx]7148
[Full title: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature]
[Full author: August Wilhelm Schlegel, trans: John Black]
Dec 2004 The French in the Heart of America, by John Finley[?fhamxxx.xxx]7147
Dec 2004 Memoirs of an Heiress, by Frances Burney [?ceclxxx.xxx]7146
[Full title: Cecilia vol. 2 Memoirs of an Heiress]
[Full author: Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)]
Dec 2004 The Book of the Dead, by E. A. Wallis Budge [#2][?bkddxxx.xxx]7145
[Also posted: HTML in 8bkdd10h.htm/.zip; XML in 8bkdd10x.zip only]
Dec 2004 While the Billy Boils, by Henry Lawson [#5][wtblbxxx.xxx]7144
Dec 2004 Cabin on Catamount Island, Lawrence J. Leslie [#2][stcabxxx.xxx]7143
[Full title: The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island]
[Plain text in stcab10.txt/.zip; Illustrated HTML in stcab10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides [plpwrxxx.xxx]7142
Dec 2004 Suburban Sketches, by W.D. Howells [#58][?sbrbxxx.xxx]7141
[Plain text in 7sbrb10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8sbrb10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by J. Logan, Complete [JL#8][jl08wxxx.xxx]7140
[Author: John A. Logan] (Note: Illustrated HTML jl08w10h.zip is 3.5mb)
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V7 [JL#7][jl07wxxx.xxx]7139
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V6 [JL#6][jl06wxxx.xxx]7138
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V5 [JL#5][jl05wxxx.xxx]7137
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V4 [JL#4][jl04wxxx.xxx]7136
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V3 [JL#3][jl03wxxx.xxx]7135
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V2 [JL#2][jl02wxxx.xxx]7134
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V1 [JL#1][jl01wxxx.xxx]7133
[Above eight plain text files in j1??w10.txt/.zip]
(Note: above eight eBooks in HTML only, with images, zip format.)
Dec 2004 The Purple Land, by W. H. Hudson [#5][?purpxxx.xxx]7132
[Plain text in 7purp10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8purp10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 U.S. History, V1, by Julian Hawthorne [#5][?ushxxxx.xxx]7131
[Full Title: The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1]
[Subtitle: From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of
Lexington April 19, 1775]
[Plain text in 7ushx10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8ushx10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 London Films, by W.D. Howells [#58][?lonfxxx.xxx]7130
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7lonf10.txt and 7lonf10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8lonf10.txt and 8lonf10.zip]
Dec 2004 The Prospective Mother, by J. Morris Slemons [pmothxxx.xxx]7129
[Subtitle: A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy]
Dec 2004 Indian Fairy Tales, by Collected by Joseph Jacobs [?iftlxxx.xxx]7128
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7iftl10.txt and 7iftl10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8iftl10.txt and 8iftl10.zip]
Dec 2004 Malcolm, by George MacDonald [#27][malcmxxx.xxx]7127
[Plain text in malcm10.txt/.zip; HTM in malcm10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 Treaties of Canada with Indians, Alexander Morris [tcnndxxx.xxx]7126
[Full title: The Treaties of Canada with The Indians of Manitoba and the
North-West Territories]
[Also posted HTML in tcnnd10h.zip and tcnnd10h.htm]
Dec 2004 Catherine Booth, by Colonel Mildred Duff [?cbthxxx.xxx]7125
[Plain text in 7cbth10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8cbth10.txt/.zip]
[XHTM version with accented characters in 8cbth10h.htm and 8cbth10h.zip]
Dec 2004 The Coral Island, by R. M. Ballantyne [#3][corilxxa.xxx]7124
[Subtitle: A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean] [See also #0646]
Dec 2004 Home Vegetable Gardening, by F. P. Rockwell [?hmvgxxx.xxx]7123
Dec 2004 The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Verse, by Cowherd [emgrtxxx.xxx]7122
[Full Title: The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse]
[Full Author: Thomas Cowherd]
Dec 2004 Da Firenze a Digione, by Ettore Socci [dfrnzxxx.xxx]7121
[Subtitle: Impressioni di un reduce Garidaldino]
[Language: Italian]
Dec 2004 Knock, Knock and Others, by Ivan Turgenev [7knckxxx.xxx]7120
[Full title: Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories]
[Plain text in 7knck10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8knck10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8knck10h.htm and 8knck10h.zip]
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Mar 2003 The Old Maid, by Edith Wharton [EW#09][030037xx.xxx]0186A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300371.txt or .ZIP]
Mar 2003 The Abbess of Castro, by Stendahl [ST#04][030036xx.xxx]0185A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300361.txt or .ZIP]
[Full title: The Abbess of Castro and Other Shorter Novels]
[Author's real name: Henri Beyle]
Mar 2003 Armance, by Stendahl [ST#03][030035xx.xxx]0184A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300351.txt or .ZIP]
[Author's real name: Henri Beyle]
Mar 2003 Descent into Hell, by Charles Williams [CW#01][030034xx.xxx]0183A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300341.txt or .ZIP]
Mar 2003 Jimgrim, by Talbot Mundy [TM#01][030033xx.xxx]0182A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300331.txt or .ZIP]
Mar 2003 The Old and the Young, by L Pirandello [LP#01][030032xx.xxx]0181A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300321.txt or .ZIP]
[Author's full name: Luigi Pirandello]
Mar 2003 Experiments, by Norman Douglas [ND#03][030031xx.xxx]0180A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300311.txt or .ZIP]
Mar 2003 The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendahl [ST#02][030030xx.xxx]0179A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300301.txt or .ZIP]
[Author's real name: Henri Beyle]
Mar 2003 Good-bye to Western Culture, by N Douglas [ND#02][030029xx.xxx]0178A
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[Author's full name: Norman Douglas]
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3) News
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That's how close it is to the great 200 for life +50 etext countries this week. So send in those contributions please, and let's get them through 200 by next week.
A huge THANK YOU to all those contributing and WELL DONE.
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Coming to our attention this week, with thanks to Alev Akman.
Author Uzanne predicted "The End Of Books" back in '94...
1894, that is. A scholar at the University of Iowa's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies has digitized an article from the July-December 1894 issue of Scribner's Magazine Illustrated. It's actually a broad set of predictions of what life will be like in the 21st Century, but the author's predictions about books and reading are of most interest to us: "My friend James Whittemore interrupted me. "And what will become of the libraries, dear friend, and of the books?" "Librarieswill be transformed into phonographotecks, or rather, phonostereoteks; they will contain the works of human genius on properly labelled cylinders, methodically arranged in little cases, rows upon rows, on shelves.
This is a fascinating site, beautifully put together, and the ideas are fabulous, a must read for any PGer. You can find out more at http://www.uiowa.edu/~obermann
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4) Readers letters
Favourite Book
From: Tonya Allen
The Haunted Bookshop, a book-lover's book
I love discovering books and authors in a serendipitous and random way. If a book I'm reading mentions another book, you can be sure I'll try to track it down. A book about the Titanic led me to Project Gutenberg, mentioning that among the passengers of that ill-fated ship was John Jacob Astor IV, the builder of New York's Astoria hotel, and also the author of a science fiction novel, A Journey In Other Worlds. I started off on the trail of this 1894 book, and my search led me to PG and the world of etexts.
One of my favorite PG etexts is Christopher Morley's The Haunted Bookshop. Steeped in the immediate post-World War I mood of uncertainty and intrigue, the plot revolves around a copy of Carlyle's Oliver Cromwell which appears and disappears mysteriously from its place on the shelf. By the time the mystery is resolved, the bookshop's proprietor has strolled among many yards of shelves and pointed out many of his favorite books, which he regards more as living forces than inanimate objects:
"Did you ever notice how books track you down and hunt you out?
They follow you like the hound in Francis Thompson's poem.
They know their quarry! Look at that book The Education of Henry Adams!
Just watch the way it's hounding out thinking people this winter.
And The Four Horsemen--you can see it racing in the veins
of the reading people. It's one of the uncanniest things I know
to watch a real book on its career--it follows you and follows
you and drives you into a corner and MAKES you read it.
There's a queer old book that's been chasing me for years:
The Life and Opinions of John Buncle, Esq., it's called.
I've tried to escape it, but every now and then it sticks up
its head somewhere. It'll get me some day, and I'll be compelled
to read it. Ten Thousand a Year trailed me the same way until
I surrendered. Words can't describe the cunning of some books.
You'll think you've shaken them off your trail, and then one day
some innocent-looking customer will pop in and begin to talk,
and you'll know he's an unconscious agent of book-destiny."
The list of books mentioned in The Haunted Bookshop is wonderfully random and includes many genres and topics--mysteries, romances, social history, a study of tea. Many have intriguing titles ("Confessions of a Thug", "Whispers about Women", "Somebody's Luggage", "The Story of My Heart"). The power of the written word in shaping history is expressed in a dramatic catalog of World War I writing:
"In regard to the War, think what books have accomplished.
What was the first thing all the governments started to do--
publish books! Blue Books, Yellow Books, White Books, Red Books--
everything but Black Books, which would have been appropriate in Berlin.
They knew that guns and troops were helpless unless they could get the books
on their side, too. Books did as much as anything else
to bring America into the war. Some German books helped to wipe
the Kaiser off his throne--_I_ Accuse, and Dr. Muehlon's magnificent
outburst The Vandal of Europe, and Lichnowsky's private memorandum,
that shook Germany to her foundations, simply because he told the truth.
Here's that book Men in War, written I believe by a Hungarian officer, with
its noble dedication "To Friend and Foe." Here are some of
the French books--books in which the clear, passionate intellect
of that race, with its savage irony, burns like a flame.
Romain Rolland's Au-Dessus de la Melee, written in exile in Switzerland;
Barbusse's terrible Le Feu; Duhamel's bitter Civilization;
Bourget's strangely fascinating novel The Meaning of Death.
And the noble books that have come out of England: A Student in Arms;
The Tree of Heaven; Why Men Fight, by Bertrand Russell--I'm hoping
he'll write one on Why Men Are Imprisoned: you know he was locked
up for his sentiments! And here's one of the most moving of all--
The Letters of Arthur Heath, a gentle, sensitive young Oxford tutor
who was killed on the Western front. You ought to read that book.
It shows the entire lack of hatred on the part of the English.
Heath and his friends, the night before they enlisted, sat up singing
the German music they had loved, as a kind of farewell to the old,
friendly joyous life. Yes, that's the kind of thing War does--
wipes out spirits like Arthur Heath. Please read it.
Then you'll have to read Philip Gibbs, and Lowes Dickinson
and all the young poets. Of course you've read Wells already.
Everybody has."
This was the perfect book for me, and for any book-lover. I followed the example of the bookshop's proprietor, who during one journey along the shelves "took out a memorandum book and began jotting down the books that intrigued him." I opened a computer file and made my own list. I've been following it up ever since, and have found many of the titles at PG. All of the books mentioned qualify for PG at least as far as publication date goes, so anyone looking for ideas for new etexts might drop by.... The Haunted Bookshop.
Tonya Allen
{Thank you to Tonya for a wonderful piece. If you have a favourite you would like people to know about please get in touch with us at the address above.}
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The first in our 'Please explain this...' series.
We start with everyone's favourite question.
Hey, Alice,
Just to let you know I like the letters section -- it's always nice to hear about books...
This may sound stupid, but maybe someone, sometime, could explain how the numbering system works, and why books being processed now have dates two years heance, what reserved numbers are, etc.
I've only been doing this for about a year, so maybe I've overlooked some info somewhere...
Regards from "wrong snow" UK
Delphine
So, thanks to Brett for the following:
Why do books have numbers 2 years hence?
Simple answer: We didn't expect to do so well. At some point or other, Michael set up 100 books/month as the standard PG production month {We have to start somewhere}. Well, production picked up and soon we were over a year ahead, then two years. The theory was that there was a delay between posting and release to allow the readers of the newsletter to read these new books and find any mistakes. The practice is that so few people offer corrections it doesn't matter. As time went on, we were soon rushing ahead and anticipated being three years ahead. It was proposed that we increase the number per month to 150 with the thinking that we would soon catch up. I think that we are now within a year and in about two more years should catch these numbers.
What are reserved numbers?
Simple answer: Reserved numbers are book numbers grabbed in advance. We have some "special numbers" usually the numbers ending in "000" that are "reserved" for special books. In addition, we have some volunteers who do tens of books a month. They do this consistently and usually work on a group of books by the same author. Thus, we offer them a block of numbers which are reserved for their use. There are also some numbers reserved for books Michael anticipated getting but hasn't gotten yet.
I hope this helps, Alice
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And yet more in 'How to read your etext', an email that may be of interest to our readers.
To: ebook-community@yahoogroups.com
Cc: xml-ebook@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ebook-community] Web based eBook Reading interface
For those whom are interested:
I have recently completed a web-based eBook reading GUI using CSS and
XHTML. Naturally, how well it works will depend on your particular browser,
but I have gotten workable results using the following browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Opera 7.0
Mozilla 1.0
Netscape 7.0
This interface is the type of thing can could be easily implemented on a
floppy or CD for distribution, providing the user with a nice workable
reading environment, without the need for an application install (assuming
they have the appropriate browser).
Feel free to try the GUI out at http://www.raptorbook.org/.
When you view a book, you will see a link labeled "Read using the
RaptorBook Reader web interface". Click that, and you are off. :-)
Quick examples:
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn ->
http://www.raptorbook.org/book.php?r=89
Gettysburg Address -> http://www.raptorbook.org/book.php?r=90
The Wisdom Of Father Brown ->
http://www.raptorbook.org/book.php?r=103
If you try it, and find that it works in other browsers, feel free to
let me know -- any other comments are appreciated as well.
Sincerely,
James Linden
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Another related to our series of 'Reading ebooks' with a development from Literature Emporter.
Dear Alice
In my last email I told you that I wanted to buy a Palm m130 computer and to
add ebooks to my site. This is now true, I upload ebooks every days :
- the Sherlock Holmes adventures will soon be finished
- 18 of the 20 books of Emile Zola Les Rougon-Marquart are done (the 2
last will soon be done)
- other titles from various authors are also readable in the PDB format
The Ebooks in the PDB format requires Palm Reader, this program is available
on
- on Palm computers : Palm Reader v1.2.2 (freeware)
- on Pocket PC : Palm Reader v1.2.3 (freeware)
- on Windows : Palm Reader for Windows v1.2.2 (freeware)
- on MAC : Palm Reader for MAC v 1.2.2 (freeware)
These programs can be found at this address :
http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/
Best wishes from Fred
{If you haven't taken a look yet, go on over to http://litteratureaemporter.free.fr}
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BEWARE THE SPELLCHECKER
A study at the University of Pittsburgh reveals that the ubiquitous
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writing. In the study, 33 undergraduate students were asked to proofread a
one-page business letter -- half of them using Microsoft Word, with its
spell- and grammar-checking features and the other half using only their
brains. Without the software, students with higher SAT verbal scores made,
on average, five errors, compared with 12.3 errors made by students with
lower scores. However, using the software, the two groups made about the
same number of errors -- 16 vs. 17. Dennis Galletta, a professor of
information systems at the Katz Business School, says people have come to
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problem, it's a behavior problem." (AP 14 Mar 2003)
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RECORD LABELS WARN COMPANIES OF 'SIGNIFICANT LEGAL DAMAGES'
The Recording Industry Association of America has sent letters to about 300
companies, informing them that their computers were being used by workers
for illegal file-swapping and threatening "significant legal damages" for
employers and employees alike. The new tactic is the RIAA's first
systematic effort to tackle digital music piracy that occurs using
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without being asked to. "I think what they're trying to do is get people
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of your employees to have pirated music on your network?" About 35% of the
letters went to information technology companies, 20% to healthcare firms,
20% to manufacturers, and the rest to miscellaneous industries. (Los
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Representatives from the Motion Picture Association of America and
Microsoft testified before Congress that organized gangs operating in
countries like Russia and Malaysia are stealing intellectual property
and profiting from making counterfeit software and DVDs. In addition to
counterfeit labels and discs covered under current federal
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SPELLING AND GRAMMAR CHECKERS ADD ERRORS
In a study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, computer spelling
and grammar checkers actually increased the number of errors for most
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software too much. Richard Stern, a speech-recognition technology
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Chesterton/GKC8[tcoqtxxx.xxx]1696
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[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7640-7648]
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[BL#76][b076wxxx.xxx]7648
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[BL#75][b075wxxx.xxx]7647
Mar 2005 Ernest Maltravers, E. B. Lytton, Book 7 =
[BL#74][b074wxxx.xxx]7646
Mar 2005 Ernest Maltravers, E. B. Lytton, Book 6 =
[BL#73][b073wxxx.xxx]7645
Mar 2005 Ernest Maltravers, E. B. Lytton, Book 5 =
[BL#72][b072wxxx.xxx]7644
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[BL#71][b071wxxx.xxx]7643
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[BL#70][b070wxxx.xxx]7642
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[BL#69][b069wxxx.xxx]7641
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[BL#68][b068wxxx.xxx]7640
Feb 2005 Images from Hamilton's Count Grammont, by Widger =
[dw44wxxh.xxx]7560
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[dw43wxxh.xxx]7559
Feb 2005 Images from Campan's Marie Antoinette, by Widger =
[dw42wxxh.xxx]7558
Feb 2005 Images from Works of Charles D. Warner, by Widger=
[dw41wxxh.xxx]7557
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[dw40wxxh.xxx]7556
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[#10][?dollxxx.xxx]7119
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Stidger[?ghppxxx.xxx]7115
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7ghpp10.txt and 7ghpp10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8ghpp10.txt and 8ghpp10.zip]
Dec 2004 Une Vie, by Guy de Maupassant =
[#22][?uviexxx.xxx]7114
[Full title: Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories]
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[8-bit version with accented characters in 8uvie10.txt and 8uvie10.zip]
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Burton[#24][?mid2xxx.xxx]7113
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[8-bit version with accented characters in 8mid210.txt and 8mid210.zip]
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[#3][beremxxx.xxx]7112
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Burton[#23][?mid1xxx.xxx]7111
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mid110.txt and 7mid110.zip]
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[?rosexxx.xxx]7110
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7rose10.txt and 7rose10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8rose10.txt and 8rose10.zip]
Dec 2004 Candido, o El Optimismo, by Voltaire =
[#14][?candxxx.xxx]7109
[Language: Spanish]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7cand10.txt and 7cand10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8cand10.txt and 8cand10.zip]
Dec 2004 Scarborough and the Critic, by Richard B.=
Sheridan[?scarxxx.xxx]7108
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7scar10.txt and 7scar10.zip]
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Dec 2004 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, v8, by Twain=
[#95][hfin8xxx.xxx]7107
[Chapters 36 - Last]
Dec 2004 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, v7, by Twain=
[#94][hfin7xxx.xxx]7106
[Chapters 31 - 35]
Dec 2004 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, v6, by Twain=
[#93][hfin6xxx.xxx]7105
[Chapters 26 - 30]
Dec 2004 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, v5, by Twain=
[#92][hfin5xxx.xxx]7104
[Chapters 21 - 25]
Dec 2004 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, v4, by Twain=
[#91][hfin4xxx.xxx]7103
[Chapters 16 - 20]
Dec 2004 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, v3, by Twain=
[#90][hfin3xxx.xxx]7102
[Chapters 11 - 15]
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[#89][hfin2xxx.xxx]7101
[Chapters 6 - 10]
Dec 2004 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, v1, by Twain=
[#88][hfin1xxx.xxx]7100
[Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]
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Dec 2004 A Trip to Manitoba, by Mary FitzGibbon =
[?tmtbxxx.xxx]7099
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7tmtb10.txt and 7tmtb10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8tmtb10.txt and 8tmtb10.zip]
Dec 2004 Enchanted Islands of Atlantic, T. W.=
Higginson[#4][?teiaxxx.xxx]7098
[Full title: Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic]
[Full author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7teia10.txt and 7teia10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8teia10.txt and 8teia10.zip]
Dec 2004 Autobiography of Black Hawk, by Black Hawk =
[bhawkxxx.xxx]7097
[Full title: Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk]
Dec 2004 Babylonian Story of the Deluge, E. A. Wallis=
Budge[8bbdlxxx.xxx]7096
[Also posted HTML as 8bbdl10h.zip - zipped only]
[Also posted XML as 8bbdl10x.zip - zipped only]
Dec 2004 Malayan Literature, by Various Authors =
[?malaxxx.xxx]7095
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mala10.txt and 7mala10.zip]
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Dec 2004 Audio: Don Quixote, by Migeul de Cervantes =
[1donqxxx.mp3]7094C
[Computer-generated audio files in MP3 format; 1 file per chapter]
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#5][lv592xxx.zip]7093
[String Quartet E Minor, Op. 59 no. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven]
Dec 2004 String Quart F Maj, Op. 59 no. 1 Beethoven[LVB=
#5][lv591xxx.zip]7092
[String Quartet F Major, Op. 59 no. 1, by Ludwig van Beethoven]
[These musical scores are offered in Finale's .MUS format and MusicXML]
Dec 2004 The Yosemite, by John Muir =
[Muir#2][yosemxxx.xxx]7091
[HTML version in yosem10h.htm and yosem10h.zip]
Dec 2004 The Little Immigrant, by Eva Stern =
[limmixxx.xxx]7090
Dec 2004 The Consolidator, by Daniel Defoe =
[Defoe#11][consoxxx.xxx]7089
[Subtitle: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon]
[HTML version in conso10h.htm and conso10h.zip]
Dec 2004 Pilgrims Progress/One Syllable, Mary=
Godolphin[#3][pilosxxx.xxx]7088
[Full title: The Pilgrim's Progess in Words of One Syllable]
Dec 2004 Gaut Gurley, by D. P. Thompson =
[#2][gtgrlxxx.xxx]7087
Dec 2004 Queen Victoria V2, by Sarah Tytler =
[#2][?qvc2xxx.xxx]7086
[Full title: Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Vol II]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7qvc210.txt and 7qvc210.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8qvc210.txt and 8qvc210.zip]
Dec 2004 Fanshawe, by Nathaniel Hawthorne =
[#10][?fansxxx.xxx]7085
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7fans10.txt and 7fans10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8fans10.txt and 8fans10.zip]
Dec 2004 A Girl Among the Anarchists, by Isabel Meredith =
[?gataxxx.xxx]7084
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gata10.txt and 7gata10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8gata10.txt and 8gata10.zip]
Dec 2004 Venetian Life, by W. D. Howells =
[#57][?venlxxx.xxx]7083
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7venl10.txt and 7venl10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8venl10.txt and 8venl10.zip]
Dec 2004 Lives of the Necromancers, by William Godwin =
[lvnecxxx.xxx]7082
[Author AKA: Edward Baldwin]
[Subtitle: An Account of the most eminent persons in successive ages who
Dec 2004 Motor Girls on Cedar Lake, by Margaret=
Penrose[#4][tmgolxxx.xxx]7081
Dec 2004 Speeches on Public Policy, V1, by John Bright =
[?qpp1xxx.xxx]7080
[Full title: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7qpp110.txt and 7qpp110.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8qpp110.txt and 8qpp110.zip]
Dec 2004 The Companions of Jehu, by Alexandre Dumas =
[#32][?tcojxxx.xxx]7079
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7tcoj10.txt and 7tcoj10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8tcoj10.txt and 8tcoj10.zip]
Dec 2004 Kanteletar, by Elias Lonnrot [compiler] =
[?kantxxx.xxx]7078
[Language: Finnish]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7kant10.txt and 7kant10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8kant10.txt and 8kant10.zip]
Dec 2004 We Can't Have Everything, by Rupert Hughes =
[?cantxxx.xxx]7077
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Dec 2004 Prisoner for Blasphemy, by G. W. Foote =
[blsphxxx.xxx]7076
[Full author: G. W. [George William] Foote]
Dec 2004 The Idol of Paris, by Sarah Bernhardt =
[?idolxxx.xxx]7075
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Dec 2004 Specimens of Greek Tragedy, by Goldwin Smith =
[?grtrxxx.xxx]7073
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7grtr10.txt and 7grtr10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8grtr10.txt and 8grtr10.zip]
Dec 2004 Beauty and the Beast, Marie Le Prince de Beaumont=
[btbstxxx.xxx]7073
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[#2][?mexcxxx.xxx]7072
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[#16][?perlxxx.xxx]7071
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7perl10.txt and 7perl10.zip]
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Dec 2004 The Treasure of the Incas, by G. A. Henty =
[#15][?incaxxx.xxx]7070
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7inca10.txt and 7inca10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8inca10.txt and 8inca10.zip]
Dec 2004 Expositions of Holy Scripture, Alexander Maclaren=
[?gensxxx.xxx]7069
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gens10.txt and 7gens10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8gens10.txt and 8gens10.zip]
Dec 2004 Das Haidedorf, by Adalbert Stifter =
[?haidxxx.xxx]7068
[Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7haid10.txt and 7haid10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8haid10.txt and 8haid10.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8haid10h.htm and 8haid10h.zip]
Dec 2004 The Magnificent Lovers, by Moliere (Poquelin =
[?amagxxx.xxx]7067
[Translated by Charles Heron Wall]
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Statistical Review
(This number includes the etexts posted at the PG Australia web site)
In the first 10 weeks of the new year, we have produced 604 new eBooks.
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.
With 7347 eTexts online as of March 12, 2003 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.36 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 1.6 percent of the world's population!
This "cost" is down from $2.10 when we had 4769 eBooks A Year Ago
Can you imagine 7347 books each costing $0.74 less a year later???
Or. . .would this say it better?
Can you imagine 7347 books each costing 35% less a year later???
At 7347 eBooks in 31 Years We Averaged 19.75 eBooks per month
At 604 eBooks Done in 2003 We Averaged 69.00 eBooks per month
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***Headline News***
[My Comments In Brackets]
Headlines From Newsscan:
THE IETF APPROACH TO SPAM
The Internet Research Task Force -- loosely affiliated with the Internet
Engineering Task Force standards group -- has formed an Anti-Spam Research
Group, which will focus on the problem of spam proliferation and make
suggestions on ways to change basic e-mail technology to foil the bulk
e-mailers. "Once considered a nuisance, spam has grown to account for a
large percentage of the mail volume on the Internet," says the group's Web
site. "The purpose of the [research group] is to understand the problem and
collectively propose and evaluate solutions to the problem." First steps
will include classifying different kinds of spam and antispam proposals,
and studying ways to track down spammers, who are often difficult to
identify. A first meeting is set for March 20 at the IETF's San Francisco
gathering. (CNet News.com 6 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1032-991305.html?tag=3Dfd_top
THE AOL APPROACH TO SPAM
America Online, which says it blocks an average of 28 junk e-mail messages
per account per day, trashed a billion (presumably unsolicited) messages in
a two-day period this week, without letting them arrive at customers'
in-boxes. AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham asserts that only "an extremely
small fraction" of the messages trapped in AOL's spam filters are
legitimate communications. [We hope he's right. See the last message in
today's mailbag, which concerns NewsScan's experience with spam filters --
though not in this case AOL's.] (AP/San Jose Mercury News 6 Mar 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5329381.htm
THE AUSTRALIAN APPROACH TO SPAM
Clive Hamilton, the head of an Australian public think tank, thinks that
Australia's method of Internet regulation, managed by the Australian
Broadcasting Authority, is essentially useless. Referring to a survey
finding that 84% of boys ages 16-17 are exposed to pornography on the
Internet, Hamilton complained: "The Internet industry has convinced the
government that there is little that can be done to prevent pornography
coming in from overseas. But this is false. Mandatory filtering by Internet
service providers (ISPs) would severely restrict the availability of
pornography." Labor information technology spokeswoman Kate Luncy
disagrees: "The cost this would place on ISPs would be prohibitive and
Internet speeds would be significantly reduced. The end result for
consumers would be a slower, more expensive Internet." (The Age 4 Mar 2003)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/04/1046540179539.html
WHY IS THIS NEWS? DOESN'T IT HAPPEN EVERY DAY?
A Colorado businessman was arrested earlier this week at his Sportsman's
Bar & Restaurant for firing four bullets into his laptop, which had crashed
just one too many times. After spending a night in jail, the man was
temporarily released but may face charges of felony menacing, reckless
endangerment, and the prohibited use of weapons. (AP/USA Today 5 Mar 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-03-05-laptop-rage_x.htm
SUSPECTS STEAL MONEY VIA KEYSTROKE MONITORING SOFTWARE
Two Japanese men were arrested for allegedly hacking into people's bank
accounts and stealing $136,000. The men are accused of downloading software
that detects the keystrokes made by a computer user and installed it on PCs
at Tokyo cybercaf=E9s. They then figured out the passwords that five=
previous
customers had used to access their bank accounts online, and transferred a
total of $141,000 from those accounts to another bank. One of the men,
27-year-old Goro Nakahashi, then used an alias to withdraw $136,000. If
charged with theft, the two could face up to 10 years in prison. According
to the Asahi newspaper, the men allegedly tried to use about 100 computers
at 13 different Internet cafes around Tokyo. (AP 7 Mar 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030307/D7PKA2180.html
TWO JUDGES REJECT FBI TESTIMONY IN INTERNET PORN CASES
Federal district judges Denny Chin in New York and Catherine D. Perry in
St. Louis have rejected evidence obtained by FBI agents who claimed falsely
that anyone signing up with the child porn site "Candyman" would
automatically receive child porn images from other site members. Later, the
agents admitted that people signing up for the group had the ability to opt
out of the member mailing list and therefore did not necessarily receive
pornography through that list. Judge Chin wrote: "If the government is
correct in its position that membership in the Candyman group alone was
sufficient to support a finding of probable cause, then probable cause
existed to intrude into the homes" of thousands of people who had merely
logged onto that Web site. "Here, the intrusion is potentially enormous.
Thousands of individuals would be subject to search, their homes invaded
and their property seized, in one fell swoop, even though their only
activity consisted of entering an e-mail address into a Web site from a
computer located in the confines of their homes." (New York Times 7 Mar=
2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/nyregion/07PORN.html
STARTUP LOADS MP3 TUNES ONTO CELL PHONES
A small startup called Xingtone has developed technology that enables
people to load MP3 files onto their cell phones. The user would take an
audio clip of a recording they already own, load it through the conversion
filter and deliver it to their phone. "It's a simple choice: Do people want
their phone to sound like an old arcade game or a radio playing their
favorite songs?" says Xingtone's Brad Zutaut, who currently has a snippet
of the Rolling Stones' "Get Off of My Cloud" on his phone. About 3,000
people have already used the service, which launched a few weeks ago.
Currently, wireless carriers limit clips to 30 seconds, but Xingtone says
as soon as the operators relax these restrictions, it has the capability to
send entire songs to users' cell phones. As an added twist, users can send
their audio clips from the Xingtone Web site to their friends' phones.
Zutaut acknowledges that the new service may raise the ire of the music
industry. "I know that we'll have licensing issues. But if people take
their own music and put it on their phone, it's not my responsibility." He
sees potential revenue streams from eventually moving toward a pay-per-use
model and from co-branding. (Reuters/CNet 7 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1039-991513.html?tag=3Dfd_top
INTEL BETS BIG ON WI-FI
Intel is investing in four Wi-Fi firms in an effort to boost the wireless
technology and build demand for its Centrino chipset, which offers Wi-Fi
connectivity and improved notebook battery life. Financial terms were not
disclosed, but last October Intel had announced plans to invest $150
million in companies pursuing Wi-Fi technology and so far has funded seven
ventures. The latest recipients of Intel's largess are rovingIP.net,
Vivato, Broadreach Networks and Pronto Networks. In December, Intel teamed
up with AT&T and IBM to form Cometa Networks, which will create a
nationwide network of wireless broadband hotspots in stores, restaurants,
hotels, gas stations and other public venues. (Reuters/CNet 9 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1036-991696.html?tag=3Dfd_top
THE FUTURE OF WEBLOGS
Blogging, which a few years ago was viewed as a lot of inconsequential
chatter, is morphing into a cutting-edge phenomenon that may provide a
platform for the Internet's next wave of innovation and moneymaking
opportunities. "Just like the Internet was 10 years ago, blogging is
popular with an underground culture that is doing it for the love and
passion," says Tony Perkins, editor of the recently folded Red Herring
magazine. "Now there are people like me coming along and trying to figure
out how to package it. It's time to take it to the next level." Other heavy
hitters hoping to cash in on the Web's so-called "Blogosphere" include
Terra Lycos, AOL and Google. Last month, Terra introduced publishing tools
to help users launch their own blogs, and AOL plans a similar move later
this year. Meanwhile, Google just snapped up Pyra Labs, which runs
Blogger.com, a network of Weblogs boasting more than 1 million members and
more than 200,000 active blogs. "We want to take what has been an
underground phenomenon and introduce it to the masses," says Charles Kilby,
Terra Lycos' director of product marketing. "This is the 'eBayization' of
the media," says Perkins. "You create a compelling arena and then let the
real entertainment come from the participants themselves." (AP 9 Mar 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030309/D7PLQS200.html
AOL'S ANSWER TO TIVO TO BE LIKE TIVO, SORT OF
Recognizing the threat TiVo and similar personal video recording technology
is posing to TV networks and Hollywood studios, AOL Time Warner has been
secretly developing its own version of the technology, called Mystro TV.
Mystro uses the cable system itself to let viewers watch programs on their
own schedules (just as TiVo does), but it lets networks retain a level of
control (dictating which shows users can reschedule) and offers them a way
to insert commercials, which TiVo allows its set-owners to avoid. (New York
Times 10 Mar 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/03/10/technology/10AOL.html
LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH DIGITAL COPYING RIGHTS
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D, CA) is reintroducing legislation called the Balance
Act, intended to give people the right to make back-up copies of copyrighted
digital works for use on other devices (such as car CD players) and to
protect consumers who break technological locks in order to view DVD movies
on their computers. Lofgren says, "Most people -- at least, most adults --
don't expect to get content as a freebie. But when people pay good money to
buy something and then can't use it in the way they've become accustomed to,
it makes them mad." The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the
Business Software Alliance (BSA) strongly oppose the proposed legislation,
which is thought to have just a long-shot chance of being passed. Arguing
that such legislation "would provide safe harbor for pirates," Jack Valenti
of the MPAA said, "As drafted, this legislation essentially legalizes
hacking." (San Jose Mercury News 11 Mar 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5365373.htm
DELOADER WORM ATTACKS EASY-TO-GUESS PASSWORDS
A new software worm called W32/Deloader-A tries to guess passwords on
machines running many of the Microsoft Windows operating systems: it
attempts to log on to a machine's administrator account by trying likely
passwords such as 'admin', 'password,' '12345', and 'administrator', and so
forth. The worm is thought to have originated in China. Although Deloader is
considered a low risk for infection, many home computers without firewalls
may be vulnerable to its attacks. (IDG/Computerworld 11 Mar 2003) Shorl:
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AT THE BEND IT'S ORACLE, THEN IBM, MICROSOFT, AND NOBODY
Looking at the relational database market, industry analyst Carl Olofson
describes the current situation by noting that "the gap between Oracle and
IBM is narrowing, Microsoft continues to grow, and the three of them are
increasingly well ahead of the rest of the field." Market shares now are
Oracle 39.4%, IBM 33.6%, and Microsoft 11.1%. Compared to market shares a
year ago, Oracle is down 2.3% while IBM is up 2.6% and Microsoft is up by
1.4%. Olofson says that IBM's gain is due largely because many of its
corporate customers (unlike Oracle's customers) are required to renew their
licenses each year. Another factor in the equation is that IBM seems to be
expanding its share of Windows, Unix and Linux environments more rapidly
than Oracle. (San Francisco Chronicle 11 Mar 2003)
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A freedom-of-information request by the Electronic Privacy Information
Center (EPIC) has uncovered information about 26 research grants
awarded for the Defense Department's controversial Total Information
Awareness (TIA) program. The Defense Department tried to block the
release of the grant information, but a federal district court ruled
that the information must be turned over. Future funding for the TIA
program has been blocked by Congress, pending an accounting of how the
program will deal with privacy issues. The grants described were
approved before Congress took action to limit funding. Grant applicants
included large and small corporations and large research universities.
According to EPIC, the grant program solicited proposals dealing with
repository technologies; collaboration, automation, and cognitive aids
technologies; and prototype system technologies.
Internet News, 27 February 2003
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1963191
NEW SPAM FILTER ONLY DELIVERS E-MAIL FROM APPROVED SOURCES
The co-founders of AvantGo this week unveiled a new spam filter called
Qurb that aims to provide users with strict restrictions on spam by
combining a "whitelist" of approved senders with a challenge/response
mechanism. E-mail coming from a source not included on the user's
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triggers a challenge e-mail to that sender, who can choose to respond,
thereby affirming that he or she is the real sender of that message.
The Qurb user can then add that sender to the whitelist. The makers of
Qurb say the tool is difficult for spammers to sidestep while being
relatively simple for legitimate correspondents to negotiate. Critics
said restrictions like those of Qurb are too strict and onerous for
most users to use easily. Spam consultant Steve Atkins said Qurb won't
save much time because most users will look through the quarantine
folder for legitimate mail. He said there are other systems already
available that function similarly and that no one uses them.
Wired News, 3 March 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57867,00.html
ALEXANDRIA LIBRARY PROJECT TO BUILD VAST ONLINE COLLECTION
A project at the new Alexandria Library in Egypt hopes to make
virtually every existing text available online. The Alexandria Library
Scholars Collective uses software called CyberBook Plus designed to
link archives of digital texts from around the world. In addition to
offering a single point of entry to access most of the world's texts,
the software includes virtual lecture halls, a hub for international
scholars, and a gateway for ordinary readers. David Wolff of
online-learning venture Fathom noted that doing any one of these
successfully would be challenging. The challenges confronting the
project include copyright, language barriers, and funding. The
project's primary sources of funding are currently the Egyptian
government and UNESCO.
New York Times, 1 March 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/01ALEX.html
EXPERTS FIND FAULT WITH CURRENT COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION
Experts speaking at a University of California at Berkeley conference
were in general agreement that copyright law is currently being applied
inappropriately. The event featured speakers from a range of companies
and institutions, representing a variety of perspectives on the issue
of copyright. Most speakers faulted the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA) and its application, saying the interests of the majority of
persons involved are not being served. Notable DMCA opponents Larry
Lessig and Edward Felten spoke out against the current state of
copyright enforcement. Alex Alben of RealNetworks also attended the
conference. He criticized a recent action by Lexmark, which has won a
preliminary injunction under the terms of the DMCA to prevent a
competitor from selling a chip that would allow Lexmark printers to
function with non-Lexmark toner cartridges. "This is a travesty," Alben
said. "This is not what we intended when we created the DMCA."
CNET, 1 March 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-990689.html
SENATOR OFFERS MARKET APPROACH TO COPYRIGHT
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has suggested that the answer to ongoing
wrangling over copyright is a policy of full disclosure. If content
producers are required to explain clearly to consumers how and under
what conditions a copyrighted work can be used or copied, users can
easily decide whether they will buy it. Wyden said his approach is a
market-based one; although the government would have to specify and
enforce disclosure provisions, market forces would compel action on the
part of media companies to keep consumers. Wyden argued that the
current influence of media companies on Congress will prevent any
legislative alteration of copyright law from passing any time soon.
San Jose Mercury News, 2 March 2003
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5298641.htm
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Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 8 [BL#66][b066wxxx.xxx]7638
Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 7 [BL#65][b065wxxx.xxx]7637
Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 6 [BL#64][b064wxxx.xxx]7636
Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 5 [BL#63][b063wxxx.xxx]7635
Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 4 [BL#62][b062wxxx.xxx]7634
Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 3 [BL#61][b061wxxx.xxx]7633
Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 2 [BL#60][b060wxxx.xxx]7632
Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 1 [BL#59][b059wxxx.xxx]7631
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
Feb 2005 Images from Works of George Meredith, by D. Widger[dw34wxxh.xxx]7550
Dec 2004 Prophet in Utah, by Cannon and O'Higgins [prutaxxx.xxx]7066
[Full title: Under the Prophet in Utah]
[Full author: Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins]
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 A March on London, by G. A. Henty [#15][?londxxx.xxx]7061
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Dec 2004 At Agincourt, by G. A. Henty [#14][?aginxxx.xxx]7060
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7agin10.txt and 7agin10.zip]
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Dec 2004 Peregrine's Progress, by Jeffery Farnol [#4][peregxxx.xxx]7059
Dec 2004 Mankind in the Making, by H. G. Wells [#26][?mimkxxx.xxx]7058
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mimk10.txt and 7mimk10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8mimk10.txt and 8mimk10.zip]
Dec 2004 Poindexter's Disappearance,by Julian Hawthorne[#2][?dpdpxxx.xxx]7057
[Full title: David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales]
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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]
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Dec 2004 Pages from a Journal with Other Papers,Rutherford [pgjrxxxx.xxx]7053
[Author's Full Name: Mark Rutherford]
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Dec 2004 Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, by Edward Bellamy [#3][heidnxxx.xxx]7052
Dec 2004 The Good News of God, by Charles Kingsley [gdngxxx.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 Ruckblicke, by Walter Grunfeld [?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]
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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.]
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Dec 2004 Der Kaufmann von Venedig, William Shakespeare[#18][?ws18xxx.xxx]7043
[Language: German]
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Dec 2004 Discipline and Other Sermons, by Charles Kingsley [dscpxxx.xxx]7042
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Dec 2004 Wie es euch gefallt, by William Shakespeare [?geftxxx.xxx]7041
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Dec 2004 Paula the Waldensian, by Eva Lecomte [?paulxxx.xxx]7040
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for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000
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Can you imagine 7278 books each costing $0.75 less a year later???
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At 7278 eBooks in 31 Years We Averaged 19.56 eBooks per month
At 535 eBooks Done in 2003 We Averaged 248.00 eBooks per month
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MARRIOTT, INTEL CUT DEAL FOR WI-FI ACCESS IN HOTELS
Marriott International and Intel are launching a joint marketing campaign
to promote the availability of Wi-Fi access at 400 Marriott, Renaissance,
Courtyard, Residence Inn and other hotels. "Customers are making decisions
about where they stay based on where this technology is available," says
Lou Paladeau, Marriott VP in charge of technology development. "If you
don't have it, you're not getting them in the door." Wi-Fi hotspots will be
located in lobbies, meeting rooms, and other public spaces. Guests will pay
$2.95 for the first 15 minutes of service, and 25 cents a minute
thereafter. Marriott estimates that 10% of its guests have Wi-Fi
capability. About 19% of laptops sold last year came with Wi-Fi circuitry
included, according to IDC, which estimates that percentage will grow to
91% by 2005. (Wall Street Journal 27 Feb 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1046311909953942903.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
FEDS SEIZE DOMAIN NAMES OF ALLEGED OFFENDERS
Attorney General John Ashcroft says federal agents have taken control of
several Web sites allegedly selling illegal "drug paraphernalia" and have
redirected them to servers at the Drug Enforcement Administration. A
federal judge in Pittsburgh ruled that the takeover was permitted until a
trial can take place. Meanwhile, the DOJ also reported it has seized the
iSoNews.com domain, whose owner pled guilty to using his site to sell "mod"
chips that enable Xbox and PlayStation owners to modify their game consoles
so they can play illegally copied games. Visitors to the iSoNews.com site
yesterday were greeted with a notice stating: "The domain and Web site were
surrendered to U.S. law enforcement pursuant to a federal prosecution and
felony plea agreement for conspiracy to violate criminal copyright laws."
The seizing of Internet domain names represents a new tactic in the DoJ's
arsenal against crime, with a spokesman for the Electronic Privacy
Information Center observing that the practice becomes a kind of
"electronic flypaper" that raises novel legal questions. (CNet News.com 26
Feb 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-986225.html?tag=fd_top
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
multitudes of online players to enjoy fast, realistic graphics with fewer
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)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/technology/27GRID.html
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)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/03/03/offbeat.text.essay.reut/index.html
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Oct 1997 1st PG Collection of Edgar Allan Poe[E. A. Poe #2][1epoexxx.xxx]=
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Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Complete [BL#67][b067wxxx.xxx]=
7639
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7631-7638]
Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 8 [BL#66][b066wxxx.xxx]=
7638
Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 7 [BL#65][b065wxxx.xxx]=
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Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 6 [BL#64][b064wxxx.xxx]=
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Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 4 [BL#62][b062wxxx.xxx]=
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Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 3 [BL#61][b061wxxx.xxx]=
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Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 2 [BL#60][b060wxxx.xxx]=
7632
Mar 2005 The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 1 [BL#59][b059wxxx.xxx]=
7631
Mar 2005 Devereux, by E. B. Lytton, Complete [BL#58][b058wxxx.xxx]=
7630
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7624-7629]
Mar 2005 Devereux, by E. B. Lytton, Book 6 [BL#57][b057wxxx.xxx]=
7629
Mar 2005 Devereux, by E. B. Lytton, Book 5 [BL#56][b056wxxx.xxx]=
7628
Mar 2005 Devereux, by E. B. Lytton, Book 4 [BL#55][b055wxxx.xxx]=
7627
Mar 2005 Devereux, by E. B. Lytton, Book 3 [BL#54][b054wxxx.xxx]=
7626
Mar 2005 Devereux, by E. B. Lytton, Book 2 [BL#53][b053wxxx.xxx]=
7625
Mar 2005 Devereux, by E. B. Lytton, Book 1 [BL#52][b052wxxx.xxx]=
7624
Mar 2005 Pelham, by E. B. Lytton, Complete [BL#51][b051wxxx.xxx]=
7623
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7615-7622]
Mar 2005 Pelham, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 8 [BL#50][b050wxxx.xxx]=
7622
Mar 2005 Pelham, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 7 [BL#49][b049wxxx.xxx]=
7621
Mar 2005 Pelham, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 6 [BL#48][b048wxxx.xxx]=
7620
Mar 2005 Pelham, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 5 [BL#47][b047wxxx.xxx]=
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Mar 2005 Pelham, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 4 [BL#46][b046wxxx.xxx]=
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Mar 2005 Pelham, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 3 [BL#45][b045wxxx.xxx]=
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Mar 2005 Pelham, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 2 [BL#44][b044wxxx.xxx]=
7616
Mar 2005 Pelham, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 1 [BL#43][b043wxxx.xxx]=
7615
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]=
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Feb 2005 Images from Harry Lorrequer, by David Widger [dw32wxxh.zip]=
7548
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Dec 2004 Under the Prophet in Utah, by Cannon and O'Higgins[prutaxxx.xxx]=
7066
[Full author Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins]
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
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7dgff10.txt and 7dgff10.zi=
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Dec 2004 A March on London, by G. A. Henty [#15][?londxxx.xxx]=
7061
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Dec 2004 At Agincourt, by G. A. Henty [#14][?aginxxx.xxx]=
7060
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Dec 2004 Peregrine's Progress, by Jeffery Farnol [#4][peregxxx.xxx]=
7059
Dec 2004 Mankind in the Making, by H. G. Wells [#26][?mimkxxx.xxx]=
7058
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mimk10.txt and 7mimk10.zi=
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[8-bit version with accented characters in 8mimk10.txt and 8mimk10.zip]
Dec 2004 Poindexter's Disappearance,by Julian Hawthorne[#2][?dpdpxxx.xxx]=
7057
[Full title: David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7dpdp10.txt and 7dpdp10.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8dpdp10.txt and 8dpdp10.zip]
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.=
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[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=
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[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.]
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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=
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[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=
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[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=
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[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=
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[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=
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[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]
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.zi=
p]
[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.zi=
p]
[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 In Camp on the Big Sunflower,by Lawrence J. Leslie[cbgsfxxx.xxx]=
6915
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 Aviators in Africa, Captain Wilbur Lawton [#2][tbvfrxxx.xxx]=
6905
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.zi=
p]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8inqt10.txt and 8inqt10.zip]
[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.zi=
p]
[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.zi=
p]
[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.zi=
p]
[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: Germ=
an]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7laok10.txt and 7laok10.zi=
p]
[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.zi=
p]
[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.zi=
p]
[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
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Wives and Daughters - A Review
What a gem! That's what I said to myself when I finished reading Elizabet=
h=20`
Cleghorn Gaskell's last novel, Wives and Daughters. I consider it a must =
for=20
anyone who enjoys Victorian literature or literature of any period in whi=
ch=20
characters are exquisitely drawn in minute detail and become real people.
Wives and Daughters has characterization in spades! At least a dozen=20
characters stand out. Foremost, of course, is the heroine, Molly Gibson -=
=20
intelligent, honest, proper, usually shy but bold when determined - all t=
hat=20
a Victorian heroine should be. The book opens with Molly not quite grown,=
=20
warmly attached to her widowed father, a diligent and warm-hearted countr=
y=20
doctor. During a prolonged visit to the nearby home of Squire Hamley, Mol=
ly=20
becomes attached to and beloved by the Hamley family, including the sons=20
Osborne and Roger.
Stubborn, outspoken Squire Hamley has breeding (his family has owned the=20
estate since before the Norman conquest) but no education and little mone=
y;=20
he expects his sons, especially Osborne, the elder, to marry for wealth a=
nd=20
social position (a theme often explored by Trollope). During Molly's stay=
at=20
Hamley Hall, her father decides she needs a stepmother, and he marries a=20
widow with a daughter Molly's age. The second Mrs. Gibson, one of the=20
memorable characters in literature, a born schemer and social climber=20
unencumbered by veracity, takes charge of Molly and, in trying to make he=
r=20
into a "lady," makes her life miserable.=20
Mrs. Gibson's daughter Cynthia is all that Molly is not - beautiful,=20
fashionable, flirtatious, and irresistibly attractive to young men. But b=
oth=20
Cynthia and Mr.Osborne Hamley have secrets which are about to blow up. Mo=
lly=20
unintentionally learns the secrets and does her best to put things right.=
The=20
action takes place in and about a placid country village whose inhabitant=
s=20
are wonderfully described, based on the author's personal experience.
Mrs. Gaskell (as she was called by Victorian readers) died before complet=
ing=20
the last one or two chapters. A modern reader would never know it, but=20
Victorians would have missed the final acknowledgment of love and uniting=
in=20
marriage required by their customs. Those who saw the magnificent Exxon-M=
obil=20
Masterpiece Theatre dramatization on PBS saw one possible ending, but not=
the=20
one planned by Mrs. Gaskell.
Elizabeth Gaskell was unusual in many ways by Victorian standards. She an=
d her=20
husband, a Unitarian minister, did not subscribe to the Victorian convict=
ion=20
that women should be subordinated to men. Her novels and short stories, w=
hile=20
portraying Victorian life in accurate detail, explored the relationships =
of=20
men and women, the worth of individuals accorded by character and achieve=
ment=20
as opposed to social rank, and the plight of workers in the new industria=
l=20
society. One of her novels, Ruth, shocked her contemporaries by dealing w=
ith=20
illegitimate pregnancy and its consequences in a society with a dual set =
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ALEXANDRIA LIBRARY PROJECT TO BUILD VAST ONLINE COLLECTION
A project at the new Alexandria Library in Egypt hopes to make
virtually every existing text available online. The Alexandria Library
Scholars Collective uses software called CyberBook Plus designed to
link archives of digital texts from around the world. In addition to
offering a single point of entry to access most of the world's texts,
the software includes virtual lecture halls, a hub for international
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successfully would be challenging. The challenges confronting the
project include copyright, language barriers, and funding. The
project's primary sources of funding are currently the Egyptian
government and UNESCO.
New York Times, 1 March 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/01ALEX.html
EXPERTS FIND FAULT WITH CURRENT COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION
Experts speaking at a University of California at Berkeley conference
were in general agreement that copyright law is currently being applied
inappropriately. The event featured speakers from a range of companies
and institutions, representing a variety of perspectives on the issue
of copyright. Most speakers faulted the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA) and its application, saying the interests of the majority of
persons involved are not being served. Notable DMCA opponents Larry
Lessig and Edward Felten spoke out against the current state of
copyright enforcement. Alex Alben of RealNetworks also attended the
conference. He criticized a recent action by Lexmark, which has won a
preliminary injunction under the terms of the DMCA to prevent a
competitor from selling a chip that would allow Lexmark printers to
function with non-Lexmark toner cartridges. "This is a travesty," Alben
said. "This is not what we intended when we created the DMCA."
CNET, 1 March 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-990689.html
SENATOR OFFERS MARKET APPROACH TO COPYRIGHT
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has suggested that the answer to ongoing
wrangling over copyright is a policy of full disclosure. If content
producers are required to explain clearly to consumers how and under
what conditions a copyrighted work can be used or copied, users can
easily decide whether they will buy it. Wyden said his approach is a
market-based one; although the government would have to specify and
enforce disclosure provisions, market forces would compel action on the
part of media companies to keep consumers. Wyden argued that the
current influence of media companies on Congress will prevent any
legislative alteration of copyright law from passing any time soon.
San Jose Mercury News, 2 March 2003
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5298641.htm
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NORWEGIAN TEEN FACES SECOND COPYRIGHT TRIAL
Jon Johansen of Norway was acquitted last month on charges of writing a
computer program that allowed copying of DVDs. The court ruled that
Johansen violated no laws because he used the program to make copies of
movies that were legally purchased. An appeals court has decided to
grant a new trial on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of
America, which had filed the original complaint against Johansen.
Johansen's attorney, Halvor Manshaus, said the appeal was not
unexpected and that he and his client are "confident with regard to the
final outcome," given that they won the case the first time it went to
trial. Rune Floisbonn, acting chief of the Economic Crime Unit's data
department, said, "This case is about important principles, and we are
very pleased that it will be tried again." The Motion Picture
Association of America estimates that the film industry loses $3
billion each year to piracy.
Washington Post, 28 February 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16015-2003Feb28.html
CHINA GETS LOOK AT MICROSOFT SOURCE CODE
China's Information Technology Security Certification Center will
participate in the Government Security Program (GSP), Microsoft's
initiative to share its Windows source code with international
governments to allay fears about the operating system's security.
During a two-day visit, Bill Gates met with President Jiang Zemin and
other Chinese dignitaries. Microsoft's promise to reveal any or all of
the Windows source code successfully wooed the Chinese government and
military, who were leaning towards open-source Linux as a more secure
option. Microsoft is promoting GSP to dozens of nations and
organizations and has announced agreements with Russia, NATO, and the
United Kingdom.
CNET, 28 February 2003
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a Victorian heroine should be. The book opens with Molly not quite grown,
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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
unencumbered by veracity, takes charge of Molly and, in trying to make her
into a "lady," makes her life miserable.
Mrs. Gibson's daughter Cynthia is all that Molly is not - beautiful,
fashionable, flirtatious, and irresistibly attractive to young men. But both
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
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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
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society. One of her novels, Ruth, shocked her contemporaries by dealing with
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behavioral standards.
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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
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bountiful output.
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writer Horace Walpole dies aged 79. In 1930 D.H.Lawrence, poet and writer of
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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
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businesses seem diametrically opposed: Google is used for finding
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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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copyrighted. That prospect has many up in arms about what critics call
censorship, particularly in a university setting. In a letter to
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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
Microsoft from distributing its own version of Java, a technology
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
offers Sun's Java as an optional download while its own Java is
included with operating systems. Microsoft argues that Sun's complaint
violates the 2001 settlement and that Sun's continued legal action is
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[Author's Full Name: William H. Prescott]
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Nov 2004 History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V2 [?rfi2xxx.xxx]6967
[Author's Full Name: William H. Prescott]
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Nov 2004 Traite' General de la Cuisine Maigre,Auguste Helie[?tgcmxxx.xxx]6966
[Subtitle: Potages, Entrees et Releves, Entremets de Legumes, Sauces,
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7tgcm10.txt and 7tgcm10.zip]
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[Language: French]
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]
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Nov 2004 Elson Grammar School Literature v4, by W. Elson [?egs4xxx.xxx]6963
[Author's Full Name: William H. Elson]
[Subtitle: Book Four]
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[Second Author: Christine Keck]
Nov 2004 Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2, J. Cox[?mcw2xxx.xxx]6962
[Author's Full Name: Jacob Dolson Cox]
[Subtitle: November 1863-June 1865]
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Nov 2004 Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1, J. Cox[?mcw1xxx.xxx]6961
[Author's Full Name: Jacob Dolson Cox]
[Subtitle: April 1861-November 1863]
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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]
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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 or The Freeing of the Netherl[12][enaidxxx.xxx]6953
[Full Title: By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604)]
[Author's Full Name: G.A. Henty]
[HTML version in enaid10h.htm and enaid10h.zip]
Nov 2004 By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the D[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]
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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
[Author's Full Name: Andrew Dickson White]
[Subtitle: How it Came, What it Brought, and How it Ended]
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]
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]
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
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 History of the Conflict Between Religion and Scien[hcbrsxxx.xxx]6938
[Full Title: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science]
[Author's Full Name: 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 Telegraphy
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corporations to curb illicit file-swapping by workers on company time. The
guide, titled "A Corporate Policy Guide to Copyright Use and Security on
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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..
New York Times, 8 February 2003 (registration req'd)
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[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 Telegraphy
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 Telegraphy
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.zip]
[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 In Camp on the Big Sunflower,by Lawrence J. Leslie[cbgsfxxx.xxx]6915
Nov 2004 Boy Aviators in Africa, Captain Wilbur Lawton [#2][tbvfrxxx.xxx]6905
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PACEMAKERS FOR THE BRAIN
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Answer to quiz question: Bjornstjerne Bjornson is from Norway.