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Requests For Assistance:
We are seeking a physical copy of the book RUR in Czeck by Karel
Capek, published in 1920-1922. These copies are hard to find, but
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Public Library & Waseda University. If you are near these and can
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Greg Newby <gbnewby@ils.unc.edu>.
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dictionaries that can be added to the archive. He is especially interested
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acceptable. If you have any of these lying about, or if you know where
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Jan 2004 String Quarted No. 17, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[#3][wm458xxx.xxx]4951
(MusicXML in wm45810x.zip, zipped file only)
Sep 2001 Dubliners, by James Joyce [James Joyce #1] [dblnrxxx.xxx]2814
(HTML in dblnr11h.htm/.zip)
Aug 1999 North America, Vol. 1, by Anthony Trollope [AT #3][1noamxxx.xxx]1865
(PDF in 1noam10p.zip/.zip, PDF Folio in 1noam10pf.pdf/.zip)
(TeX in 1noam10t.tex/.zip)
Sep 1998 Some Christmas Stories, by Charles Dickens[CD #50][cdscsxxx.xxx]1467
(PDF in cdscs10p.pdf/.zip, PDF Folio in cdscs10pf.pdf/.zip)
(TeX in cdscs10t.tex/.zip)
Apr 1996 The Art of Writing, Robert Louis Stevenson [RLS22][artowxxx.xxx] 492
(HTML in artow10h.htm/.zip)
Mar 1996 In the South Seas, by Robert Louis Stevenson [#20][sseasxxx.xxx] 464
(HTML in sseas10h.htm/.zip)
Mar 1996 Lavengro, by George Borrow [George Borrow #3] [lvgroxxx.xxx] 452
(HTML in lvgro10h.htm/.zip)
Feb 1996 The Romany Rye, by George Borrow [Borrow #2] [trryexxx.xxx] 422
(HTML in trrye10h.htm/.zip)
Jan 1996 Ballads, by Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson #16][rlsbaxxx.xxx] 413
(HTML in rlsba10h.htm/.zip)
Jan 1996 The Holy War, by John Bunyan [Bunyan #2] [hlywrxxx.xxx] 395
(HTML in hlywr10h.htm/.zip)
Jan 1996 Cranford, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [crnfdxxx.xxx] 394
(HTML in crnfd10h.htm/.zip)
Dec 1995 Lay Morals, by Robert Louis Stevenson [RLS #10] [lamorxxx.xxx] 373
(HTML in lamor10h.htm/.zip)
Aug 1995 The Ways of Men, by Eliot Gregory [waymnxxx.xxx] 319
(HTML in waymn10h.htm/.zip)
Jan 1994 A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens [CD#1] [2cityxxx.xxx] 98
(PDF in 2city12p.pdf/.zip, PDF Folio in 2city12pf.pdf/.zip)
(Tex in 2city12t.tex/.zip)
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May 2004 The Evil Shepherd, by E. Phillips Oppenheim [#13][vlshpxxx.xxx]5743
May 2004 The Bird-Woman, by Katherine Chandler [bwmnlxxx.xxx]5742
[Title: The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition]
May 2004 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein[tlophxxx.xxx]5740
May 2004 A Korean--English Dictionary, Leon Kuperman [kedctxxx.xxx]5739C
(Plain text in kedct10.txt/.zip, HTML in kedct10h.htm/.zip)
(PDF in kedct10p.pdf/.zip, encapsulated PostScript in kedct10ps.eps/.zip)
(TeX in kedct10t.tex/.zip)
May 2004 Cappy Ricks, by Peter B. Kyne [cpyrkxxx.xxx]5738
May 2004 Smoke Bellew, by Jack London [Jack London #50][smkblxxa.xxx]5737
(See also previous version:
(Jan 1999 Smoke Bellew, by Jack London [Jack London #50][smkblxxx.xxx]1596)
May 2004 The Professional Aunt, by Mary C.E. Wemyss [pauntxxx.xxx]5736
May 2004 The Valley of the Giants, by Peter B. Kyne [vlgntxxx.xxx]5735
May 2004 Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal,S. Richardson[lfgnnxxx.xxx]5734
[Author: Sarah J Richardson]
May 2004 Autobiography, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [#36][?tbgtxxx.xxx]5733
[Translated by John Oxenford]
May 2004 Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue, Laura Lee Hope[#6][bnnbrxxx.xxx]5732
May 2004 Patty in Paris, by Carolyn Wells [Wells#5][pttypxxx.xxx]5731
May 2004 Friends and Helpers, by Sarah J. Eddy [frhlpxxx.xxx]5730
May 2004 Navy Girl at Home, by Gabrielle E. Jackson [nvghmxxx.xxx]5729
[Title: Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home]
May 2004 The Tale of Freddie Firefly, by Arthur Bailey [#2][tlfflxxx.xxx]5727
[Author's Full Name: Arthur Scott Bailey]
May 2004 The Fairy-Land Of Science, by Arabella B. Buckley [frlscxxx.xxx]5726
May 2004 English Literature For Boys and Girls,[Marshall#2][?ngltxxx.xxx]5725
[Author: H.E. Marshall]
May 2004 A Book Of Operas, by Henry Edward Krehbiel [Hek#3][?opraxxx.xxx]5724
May 2004 Press Cuttings, by George Bernard Shaw [Shaw#35][prsctxxx.xxx]5723
May 2004 The Shewing-Up Of Blanco Posnet, by Shaw [Gbs#34][shwbpxxx.xxx]5722
May 2004 A House Of Gentlefolk, by Ivan Turgenev [hsgtfxxx.xxx]5721
May 2004 A Shropshire Lad, by A. E. Housman [shrpsxxx.xxx]5720
Apr 2004 Complete Short Works by Georg Ebers, [Ge#153][g153vxxx.xxx]5592
[Contains Ebooks #5587-5591]
Apr 2004 The Nuts, by Georg Ebers, [Ge#152][g152vxxx.xxx]5591
Apr 2004 The Greylock, by Georg Ebers, [Ge#151][g151vxxx.xxx]5590
Apr 2004 The Elixir, by Georg Ebers, [Ge#150][g150vxxx.xxx]5589
Apr 2004 A Question, by Georg Ebers, [Ge#149][g149vxxx.xxx]5588
Apr 2004 In The Blue Pike, by Ebers, Complete [Ge#148][g148vxxx.xxx]5587
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains Ebooks #5584-5586]
Apr 2004 In The Blue Pike, by Georg Ebers, V3 [Ge#147][g147vxxx.xxx]5586
Apr 2004 In The Blue Pike, by Georg Ebers, V2 [Ge#146][g146vxxx.xxx]5585
Apr 2004 In The Blue Pike, by Georg Ebers, V1 [Ge#145][g145vxxx.xxx]5584
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Statistical Review
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In the first 33 weeks of the new year, we have produced 1,490 new eBooks.
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At 5790 eBooks in 31 Years We Averaged
At 1490 eBooks Done In 2002 We Averaged
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GROUP WARNS OF EU SURVEILLANCE
Statewatch, a U.K. group dedicated to protecting civil liberties on the
Internet, is warning that European governments are planning changes to the
1997 EU Directive on privacy in telecommunications that would require phone
companies, mobile network operators and ISPs to store details of their
customers' Web use, e-mails and phone calls for between one to two years.
Current law states that traffic data may be retained for billing purposes
only and then must be deleted. "EU governments claimed that changes to 1997
EC Directive on privacy in telecommunications to allow for data retention
and access by the law enforcement agencies would not be binding on member
states -- each national parliament would have to decide. Now we know that
all along they were intending to make it binding, compulsory across
Europe," says Tony Bunyan, editor of Statewatch. The changes may include
the provision that police would need a judicial order before accessing
traffic data, but Statewatch warns that such conditions have been
sidestepped before. (CNet News.com 20 Aug 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954487.html
THE EVER-EVOLVING LAPTOP
Laptop computers are making significant inroads in the computer market,
with notebook growth pegged at 6% in the second quarter, despite a decline
in overall sales. And while desktop machines are not likely to change much
in style over the next few years, the laptop of the future will be smaller,
lighter, and may even run on methane. PolyFuel, a spinoff of SRI
International, is developing fuel cells that break down methane molecules
into protons, electrons and carbon dioxide. While the protons pass through
a special membrane, the electrons are maneuvered into a wire that powers
the laptop. The replacement fuel cartridges initially will last two to
three times longer than conventional batteries but eventually will last 10
times longer. Other companies are seeking to expand battery life by
supplementing them with supercapacitators, which store energy at the chip
level. "Supercapacitators hold more electricity than capacitators and
transfer and recharge faster than batteries," says Anthony Kongats, CEO of
supercapacitator startup Cap-XX. Batteries can be completely removed and
the notebook will continue to run for about five minutes.
Supercapacitator-enhanced notebooks could begin hitting the shelves in 2004
and notebooks powered by fuel cells could be available by late 2004 to
2005. Other likely laptop improvements include wireless capability that can
switch effortlessly between WiFi and cellular networks, as well as
low-power screens and new types of heat-dissipation techniques.
(CNet News.com 19 Aug 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-951449.html?tag=fd_lede
A study funded by the Pew Internet and American Life Projects has found
that students are increasingly comfortable with the World Wide Web, and
frustrated that more of their classroom work isn't built around it. The
schools, we're not all that well prepared to use it. The kids really do
know how to use the Internet and they want it to be exploited in the ways
they know it can be exploited. Outside the classroom and outside of any
formal instruction, the Internet is a key part of their educational
instruction." (Washington Post 15 Aug 2002)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19910-2002Aug14.html
THE UNFIXED LIFE
subscribers nationwide at the end of 2001, and industry analyst Keith
Mallinson predicts that number will grow to 200 million by 2006. That's
about 70% of the total U.S. population. Mallinson also expects that the
number of people who rely completely on a wireless phone will rise from the
current 3% of the population to somewhere between 5% and 10% in the next
five years. (San Jose Mercury News 15 Aug 2002)
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STUDENTS, FACULTY UPSET AT NEW COURSE REQUIREMENT
The Canadian subsidiary of Microsoft this week launched the Microsoft
Canada Academic Innovation Alliance to support technology research at
Canadian universities. Its first grant, however, has some students and
faculty upset about apparent influence from Microsoft. The $2.3 million
grant went to the University of Waterloo, which agreed to institute a
new class on Microsoft's C# programming language and make the course a
requirement for entering students in the electrical and computer
engineering departments. Many at the university, including the
Federation of Students, object to what they perceive as Microsoft's
buying influence. The vice president of education for the Federation of
Students said it "sets a dangerous precedent." One graduate of the
university said it shows that the administration "will do just about
anything for money."
CNET, 15 August 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949945.html
ELECTRONIC GRE DRAWS HEAVY CRITICISM
Despite predictions that migrating from pencil-and-paper testing to
computer-based tests would result in more efficiency and convenience,
evidence of significantly increased cheating has prompted officials to
return to a pencil-and-paper version of the GRE in some countries. An
investigation discovered Web sites in China, Taiwan, and Korea that
posted answers to GRE questions. Officials from the GRE Board and the
Educational Testing Service (ETS) said that for now, the only way to
administer the test in these countries with adequate expectations for
security is with pencil and paper. Critics of computer-based testing
said this is simply the latest in a series of problems that have
plagued the system since computer testing began. Officials from GRE and
ETS remain committed to electronic testing, though, saying that its
promise can be realized when the bugs are worked out.
Wired News, 15 August 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54459,00.html
[What Did I Say About More and More Becoming Pay-Per-View?]
GOVERNMENT WANTS TO SHUT DOWN PUBSCIENCE
The U.S. Department of Energy runs a Web site called PubScience that
allows users to simultaneously search more than 1,000 scientific
journals for abstracts and citations. But the department wants to close
the Web site, saying that two commercial operations, Scirus and
Infotrieve, offer almost the same services. A notice at the PubScience
site (http://pubsci.osti.gov/) says that 90 percent of PubScience's
content is covered by these other sites and that their offerings are
expected to increase. A 30-day public comment period will end on
September 30, after which a final decision will be made on the future
of PubScience. Publishers of some small scientific journals argue that
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journals are not covered by either Scirus or Infotrieve.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 August 2002
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Sep 1998 Some Christmas Stories, by Charles Dickens[CD #50][cdscsxxx.xxx]1467
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Sep 1998 An Episode Under the Terror, by Balzac[Balzac #41][aeuttxxx.xxx]1456
Sep 1998 The Hated Son, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #40][htdsnxxx.xxx]1455
Sep 1998 Maitre Cornelius, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #39][crnlsxxx.xxx]1454
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Sep 1998 The Art of Lawn Tennis, by William T. Tilden, 2D [tenisxxx.xxx]1451
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Sep 1998 Heidi, by Johanna Spyri [The Popular Kid's Story][heidixxx.xxx]1448
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CONSUMER SUIT SIDETRACKED IN HOLLYWOOD-VS.-REPLAYTV
A federal judge has brushed to the side legal efforts by the Electronic
Frontier Foundation on behalf of five owners of ReplayTV systems who claim
they are threatened by a lawsuit against SonicBlue, the Santa Clara company
that makes that device. The ReplayTV 4000 system is an advanced recording
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resolved by the trial without their direct input.
(San Jose Mercury Times 12 Aug 2002)
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JUNK FAXES
The Federal Communications Commission wants to levy a $5.4 million fine on
Fax.com, a company that uses a fax-number database to distribute faxed ads
for its customers (restaurants, auto repair shops, and so forth). The FCC
said that Fax.com has "engaged in a pattern of deception to conceal its
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the passage of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. Fax.com's
attorney, Mary Ann Wymore, regards the ban as "a clear infringement on
commercial speech rights," and predicts it ultimately will be overturned by
the U.S. Supreme Court. (Wall Street Journal 8 Aug 2002)
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MCNEALY PREDICTS 30% ANNUAL GROWTH IN LINUX USERS
Addressing participants at the Linux World Conference and Expo, Sun
Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy predicted Tuesday that the number of Linux
users will grow by 30% a year for the next several years, and urged
companies to embrace the open-source software movement. Documenting his own
company's commitment, McNealy noted that Sun has at least 400 full-time
employees dedicated to Linux and pledged to abide by the ethical standards
of the Linux community, which is made up of thousands of grassroots
enthusiasts worldwide who collaborate on software projects. "We're going to
share in the lifestyle and be a capitalist," said McNealy. "We'll share our
thoughts but we don't think it's broken so we're not going to try to fix
it," he said, referring to fears that companies could take the open source
code and factionalize it by creating competing proprietary versions.
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BLAME THE ECONOMY, NOT PIRACY, FOR WEAK CD SALES
A Forrester Research report released Tuesday says that the true threat to
record labels' profits is the sagging economy, and that downloadable music
could actually prove to be the industry's salvation rather than its
scourge. According to the report's findings, people who download music from
the Internet more than nine times a month -- a relatively small percentage
of the overall market -- say they'll decrease their album purchases by 2%.
At the same time, 39% of downloading enthusiasts said they bought more CDs,
because they found new music that they wanted to purchase through their
file-swapping activities. Meanwhile, it turns out that consumers who rarely
or never download music account for more than two-thirds of CD sales in the
U.S. With music sales slumping nearly 10% this year so far, report author
Josh Bernoff says the true culprits are limited radio playlists,
high-priced CDs and a general economic recession. The Forrester report
suggests that record labels should offer more flexible pricing and online
access to their entire music back-catalogues in order to make online
music-buying more consumer-friendly. The predicted payoff (which some view
as excessively optimistic) could amount to a boost of $937 million in album
downloads, $805 million in singles downloads and $313 million in
subscription fees by 2007. (Los Angeles Times 14 Aug 2002)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-music14aug14.story?coll=la%2Dheadlin
es%2Dtechnology
MOBILE PHONE REPLACES PHOTO ALBUM FOR PICTURE STORAGE
Proud parents in Japan are just as likely to whip out their mobile phones
to show you pictures of their children as fumble through their wallets for
school photos. The latest generation of cell phones feature tiny cameras
and full-color screens, in addition to digital zoom lenses,
higher-resolution displays and enough memory to store hundreds of photos,
and analysts predict that these new features will prove irresistible to
American and European consumers as the 3G handsets hit the global market.
"It's often said that Japanese love cameras, but Europeans and Americans in
particular see family photos as something special, even putting them up in
their cubicles at work," says Gartner analyst Nahoko Mitsuyama. "Theirs is
a culture that puts a high value on photos, and if that can be tapped into,
I think there'll be demand for these products outside Japan as well."
(Reuters 13 Aug 2002)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=581&ncid=581&e=5&u=/nm/20020813
/tc_nm/column_pluggedin_dc_1
NEW ELECTRON MICROSOCOPE
IBM and the Nion Corporation have created an electron microscope optics
system that sets the direction for a new generation of microscopes capable
of resolving subatomic images using an electron beam one three-billionth of
an inch in diameter. One likely application of the new microscopes will be
the analysis of advanced semiconductor transistors, in which the tolerances
are so fine that a transistor will fail if a single atom falls out of
place. (New York Times 7 Aug 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/technology/08BLUE.html
When it took over the Internet services of bankrupt Excite@Home, AT&T
didn't raise the fees of Excite customers, it just reduced their download
speeds (by as much as 80%). It told them that their "lightning-fast"
connection to the Internet had been "optimized for all users through a
maximum network setting of 1.5 Mbps downstream." Responding to charges that
his company had essentially played a trick on consumers, AT&T's vice
advertising and other economics that didn't pan out the way people had
hoped." (USA Today 8 Aug 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/2002-08-08-att-broadband_x.htm
Various academic institutions now use antiplagiarism software to catch
student cheaters -- but some critics say such software tramples on student
Turnitin.com expands its database by keeping copies of scanned student
papers without getting the permission from the student; the papers can then
be used for comparison with new submissions as they are received in the
future. Is this a permissible practice? Sure, says Turnitin -- this use of
the papers doesn't threaten any potential commercial value of the papers
and is well within "Fair Use" rules. [Antiplagiarism aficionados will enjoy
Bernard Malamud's 1961 novel "A New Life," in which faculty members work
frantically but unsuccessfully to expose a student.] (IEEE Computer Aug 2002)
http://www.computer.org/computer/
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SPAM ON THE RISE
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the increase. According to Brightmail Inc., which monitors junk e-mail,
June of 2001 saw 879,000 spam attacks; June of this year saw 4.8
million. The company also reports that the percentage all e-mail that
is spam has risen from 7 percent a year ago to between 12 and 15
percent today. Some speculate that the weak economy encourages spam as
a marketing vehicle because it is relatively inexpensive. Others cite
the ongoing battle between those who want to get unsolicited e-mails
delivered to users and those who want to filter it out. All acknowledge
that the increase of spam means it is not simply a nuisance but a daily
problem. Much time is wasted dealing with spam, and many legitimate
messages, for example, are deleted when users suspect them of being spam.
NewsFactor Network, 8 August 2002
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18939.html
RIAA TO APPEAL WEB RADIO ROYALTY
The decision by Librarian of Congress James Billington to charge Web
radio stations .07 cents per song/per listener has apparently pleased
no one. Immediately after the ruling, small Webcasters, including many
college-owned radio stations and other nonprofit stations, said the
rate was too high and would put them out of business. Now the Recording
Industry Association of America (RIAA) has said it will appeal the
rate, saying it is too low and does not adequately compensate artists
or record labels. The RIAA charges that Billington's decision rested
on a misinterpretation of testimony from Yahoo and on ignoring certain
licensing deals. If these factors had been considered appropriately,
said the RIAA, the rate would have been "significantly higher."
Washington Post, 7 August 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56215-2002Aug7.html
[For Those Who Believe The Internet Was Not Founded By The Military,
just look up references to the time when it was called DARPANet.]
GOVERNMENT WANTS TO REINVENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
A new project from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) has as its goal the "total reinvention of technologies for
storing and accessing information." The Total Information Awareness
(TIA) system, which will be funded by grants from DARPA, is an attempt
by the federal government to construct a highly data-intensive system
that can spot clues to terrorist plans long before they come to
fruition. Grant applicants are warned that no money will be invested in
"research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to
existing technology"; officials are committed to a fundamental redesign
of technology. TIA plans call for unprecedented amounts of data,
measured in petabytes, to be stored and accessed. Civil liberties
groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation find the prospect
of such a system very worrisome without strict rules to prevent it from
becoming a powerful secret spy machine.
Wired News, 7 August 2002
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DIGITAL ALTERATIONS IN 'SPIDER-MAN' OKAYED AS FREE SPEECH
A federal judge in New York has thrown out a lawsuit filed by billboard and
building owners against Sony and other companies involved in making and
distributing the movie "Spider-Man," saying that digital alterations of the
billboards in Times Square for the movie are protected free speech. "What
exists here is for artistic purposes a mixture of fictionally and actually
depicted Times Square, this has First Amendment protection," ruled Judge
Richard Owen. In the "Spider-Man" movie and trailers, ads for companies
such as Cingular Wireless and USA Today were superimposed over those of
Samsung and NBC. The judge also rejected claims that Sony's use of lasers
bounce off the plaintiff's three buildings day and night in the city that
never sleeps," said Owen. The practice of altering real-life scenes for the
purpose of film artistry or to satisfy marketing deals is becoming more
common as digital technology makes it easy to do so. USA Today said it
didn't pay for the advertising, but Cingular said it has a marketing deal
with Sony tied to the film. (CNet News.com 6 Aug 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-948441.html?tag=fd_top
JAPANESE SAY THEY DON'T WANT TO BECOME NUMBERS
Japan's creation of a new citizen database has caused widespread concern
that there has not been enough attention paid to privacy issues. Every
citizen, starting at birth, will be assigned a unique 11-digit number. At
present it will be used only to retrieve basic information (name, address,
sex, and birth date), but many people think the system will be expanded to
include other personal data. The new system has prompted widespread
disobedience in the country, and half a dozen cities have refused to have
any part of it. Nobuo Hoshino, mayor of Yokubunji, presiding over a
e-mail, fax and various other ways, and almost all of them support us." One
critic says that the project will grow and grow into "a bigger project,
named 'E-Government,' that will have 16,000 administrative uses." (New York
Times 5 Aug 2002)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/06/international/asia/06JAPA.html
[More On Pay-Per-Everything]
FOUR FLORIDA NEWSPAPERS TO CHARGE FOR WEB ACCESS
Four newspapers in the Florida Panhandle, all four owned by Freedom
Communications, have decided to start charging for access to their Web
and we should get something for the value of the content." The editor of one
deliver information or they deliver pizzas." The newspapers have received a
barrage of complaints from their readers for the move they've taken.
(AP/New York Times 4 Aug 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Online-Newspapers.html
IN CHINA, MAN GETS 11 YEARS FOR USING NET "SUBVERSIVELY"
In Beijing, a man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for posting
"reactionary" material on the Web; he was accused of "subverting the power
of the State." The man was arrested last April and brought to trial the
following month. Human rights groups are supporting the man's appeal to a
higher court, but a court date has not yet been set for that appeal.
(AP/San Jose Mercury News 5 Aug 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3803143.htm
NOTES FROM THE ACCOUNTING WORLD
In an informal survey of its readers, CFO magazine found that 83% of 180
corporate financial officers said that, during the past five years, they
never felt pressure from their company's CEO to misrepresent the
corporation's financial results. Of the remaining number, 11% said they had
felt such pressure more than three times. (CFO Magazine 1 Aug 2002)
http://www.cfo.com/article/1,5309,7502,00.html
LINUX, IN DAVID VS. GOLIATH BATTLES, CONTINUES TO MAKE HEADWAY
Little Linux, the home-grown, fast-growing, open-source operating system
that invites code-enhancements from programmers all over the world,
Hollywood, and government. Industry analyst Bill Claybrook of the Aberdeen
Group says the operating systems wars will come down to two players, with
long-term, is going to be between Linux and Windows." [Yes, we've mixed some
metaphors here. Be quiet.] Microsoft, unsurprisingly, thinks that victory is
theirs, but Linux supporters believe that the bigger they are the harder
they'll fall. Surprisingly, money may be the ultimate deciding factor, and
one information services executive who just opted for Linux in his company
launch. Plus, it was a fraction of the cost of a Microsoft license."
(USA Today 5 Aug 2002)
http:
//www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/software/2002-08-04-linux_x.htm
WALL STREET BANKS DISCARDED E-MAIL MESSAGES PREMATURELY
(Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, and U.S. Bancorp
Piper jaffraye) may be fined for as much as $10 million for not keeping
e-mail messages sent both within and outside the companies for three years.
The penalties would come from the SEC, NASD, and the New Stock Exchange.
(New York Times 2 Aug 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/business/02WALL.html
HACKERS ARE GOOD, CRACKERS ARE BAD
Richard Clarke, President Bush's cybersecurity czar, sees a big difference
between online vandals (also called "crackers") who hack into systems for
malicious purposes, and true hackers and security professionals who explore
security holes that weren't found by the software maker. In fact, Clarke
here in this room, have an obligation to find the vulnerabilities." (AP/USA
Today 31 Aug 2002)
http://
www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2002-07-31-security-hacking_x.htm
Privacy advocates have said, and said, and said again, that companies
shouldn't use Social Security numbers as identification numbers or passwords
-- yet colleges and banks and all kinds of other companies have turned a
deaf ear to that plea, because they've been trying to balance security
concerns with customer convenience. But Simson Garfinkel, author of Database
epidemic of identity theft right now. The problem here is that people treat
the Social Security number as if it is a secret, when in fact it is not."
fact that the Social Security number is a universal identifier, and we
should treat it as a public record. Businesses should not use a Social
Security number as a password any more than they should use a name."
(USA Today 31 Jul 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2002-07-31-privacy_x.htm
[I have called the Social Security offices several time to confirm that NO
ONE OTHER THAN THEIR OFFICIALS HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY #]
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Headlines From Edupage:
JAPANESE ID SYSTEM HAS BUMPY LAUNCH
Japanese authorities launched a computer identification system, but
technical problems and protests resulted in a difficult beginning for
it. The former system was criticized for being slow and difficult,
often requiring citizens to visit several agencies to accomplish a task
as simple as changing one's address. The new system assigns ID
numbers, similar to Social Security Numbers, and shares personal
information across branches of government. Many Japanese protested the
system, however, citing privacy concerns. Several municipalities
refused to submit data for their citizens, and the city of Yokohama,
where 3.4 million people live, said it will only submit information for
people who have given their consent. In addition, when the new system
was launched, several municipalities could not access it due to
technical problems.
Associated Press, 5 August 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/489123p-3904411c.html
NEC OFFERS ALL-IN-ONE, ECO-FRIENDLY COMPUTER
Computer maker NEC will produce an all-in-one computer that the company
says is very environmentally friendly. The PowerMate, which is expected
to cost $1,599, employs a 15-inch flat-panel monitor and a Transmeta
processor, with all of the primary components housed behind the
monitor. Because the screen is a flat-panel model, it does not contain
the several pounds of lead that a CRT monitor has. NEC also said the
motherboard is made with lead-free solder and that the plastic case is
completely recyclable. The machine runs on relatively little
electricity, requiring no internal fan, and has an extremely quiet hard
drive. The other selling point of the PowerMate, its all-in-one design,
has a mixed history in the market. Despite Apple Computer's success
with the first-generation iMac, sales of newer iMacs as well as
all-in-one computers from IBM and Gateway have been slow.
CNET, 4 August 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-948287.html
H-P WITHDRAWS WARNING
Hewlett-Packard has backed down after a strong and vocal reaction
against the company's threat to use the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA) against programmers who disclose flaws in H-P's software.
The company had sent a letter to SnoSoft, invoking the copyright
legislation as grounds for potential legal action against the
researchers for disclosing security flaws in its Unix software. Many
took the letter as an attempt to stifle independent research into
system security. According to an official at H-P, the reaction was
"significant." H-P would not comment on whether it would pursue action
against SnoSoft outside the DMCA, but the company said it would not
rely on the DMCA and that researchers who follow "industry standard
security practice" have no reason to fear legal warnings from H-P.
CNET, 1 August 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947745.html
UTAH MAN SUES UNDER STATE'S NEW SPAM LAW
A Utah man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Sprint under the
state's recently enacted legislation concerning unsolicited e-mail.
Utah's law requires that companies sending unsolicited e-mail must
provide their legal name and address, put "ADV:" in the subject, and
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prevent such alleged violations." An attorney for Gillman said the
request is an intimidation tactic and that it would be "ridiculous" for
all of the 1.4 million potential plaintiffs to submit hard drives.
Wired News, 1 August 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54250,00.html
CLARKE URGES HACKERS TO FIND AND REPORT BUGS
Richard Clarke, the cybersecurity advisor to President Bush, told
attendees of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas that they should
find and report software bugs that compromise computer security. Clarke
said that some of those listening "have an obligation to find the
vulnerabilities." According to Clarke, hackers should be responsible in
their disclosures of bugs, letting the software company know first and
allowing the company time to fix the bug before the weakness is made
public. If someone finds a bug and acts in good faith to see that it is
addressed, that person should not be prosecuted, Clarke said, saying
that legal protections may need to be installed for hackers disclosing
security flaws.
Associated Press, 31 July 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/484376p-3867743c.html
[See related article above]
H-P USES DMCA AGAINST BUG FINDERS
In an apparent first, Hewlett-Packard has invoked the controversial
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to stop researchers from
releasing information about software bugs. Until now, the DMCA has been
used by copyright holders to prevent, for example, release of programs
that allow for the circumvention of copyright protections. But H-P sent
a letter to SnoSoft, a group of researchers, saying that the group
faces fines of $500,000 and jail time for releasing information about a
bug in an H-P Unix application. SnoSoft said that they notified H-P of
the flaw early enough that a patch should have been available before
public disclosure of the bug. An attorney at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation said he expects more companies to try to use the DMCA in
this way because the very broad terms and interpretation of the law
allow for such prosecution. Even in circumstances unrelated to
protecting copyright, he said, such actions "will trigger DMCA penalties."
CNET, 30 July 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947325.html
STIFF SENTENCES FOR ONLINE FRAUD
Two Missouri men convicted of committing online fraud have been given
12-year prison sentences, highlighting a trend toward tougher
prosecution and longer sentences for such crimes. The men were
convicted of offering items for sale on Internet auction sites but not
delivering the goods after they were paid for. An official at the
Federal Trade Commission said he thought that five or six years ago,
prosecutors might not have pursued these cases or argued for such long
sentences. The sweep that caught the two men in Missouri will lead to
at least 19 other prosecutions, according to the FTC. Records show that
online auction fraud is the leading source of Internet complaints to the FTC.
Washington Post, 30 July 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21647-2002Jul30.html
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May 2004 Mary Louise, by Edith van Dyne [marylxxx.xxx]5660
May 2004 Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Various [s4fapxxx.xxx]5659
Contents
The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Plain Sister by Demetrios Bikelas
The Massacre of the Innocents by Maurice Maeterlinck
Saint Nicholas Eve by Camille Memonnier
In Love with the Czarina by Maurice Jokai
May 2004 Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad#26][lrdjmxxx.xxx]5658
May 2004 The Practice of the Presence of God, Bro. Lawrence[brolaxxx.xxx]5657C
[Edited by Lightheart]
May 2004 The Gospel of John for Readers, by Lightheart [gjohnxxx.xxx]5656C
May 2004 Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America [EB#3][burkexxx.xxx]5655
[Subtitle: Edited with introduction and notes by Sidney Carleton Newson]
[Author's Full Name: Edmund Burke]
May 2004 What Every Woman Knows, James M. Barrie [Barrie#8][ewknoxxx.xxx]5654
May 2004 Die Mitschuldigen, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe [#35][?diemxxx.xxx]5653
[English title: The Fellow-Culprits] [Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7diem10.txt and 7diem10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8diem10.txt and 8diem10.zip]
May 2004 Thoughts out of Season Part One, F. Nietzsche [#8][fnos1xxx.xxx]5652
[Author: Friedrich Nietzsche]
[Plain text in fnos110.txt/.zip; HTML in fnos110h.htm only; individual
HTML files by chapter in fnos110hp.zip]
May 2004 Dreams and Dream Stories, Anna (Bonus) Kingsford [dstorxxx.xxx]5651
May 2004 Sketches by Seymour, (Illust.), Complete [SEY#6][sey6wxxx.zip]5650
[Author: Robert Seymour, 1800?-1836]
[Contains: eBooks #5645 to #5649]
May 2004 Sketches by Seymour, (Illustrated), v5 [SEY#5][sey5wxxh.zip]5649
May 2004 Sketches by Seymour, (Illustrated), v4 [SEY#4][sey4wxxh.zip]5648
May 2004 Sketches by Seymour, (Illustrated), v3 [SEY#3][sey3wxxh.zip]5647
May 2004 Sketches by Seymour, (Illustrated), v2 [SEY#2][sey2wxxh.zip]5646
May 2004 Sketches by Seymour, (Illustrated), v1 [SEY#1][sey1wxxh.zip]5645
[HTML, with jpeg images, in zipped files only, in sey*w10h.zip]
May 2004 Sganarelle, by Moliere [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin][#8][?sganxx.xxx]5644
May 2004 Ranson's Folly, by Richard Harding Davis[Davis#32][ranfoxxx.xxx]5643
May 2004 Harry Heathcote of Gangoil, Anthony Trollope [#37][hhganxxx.xxx]5642
[Subtitle: A Tale of Australian Bush-Life]
May 2004 Man or Matter, by Ernst Lehrs [elmomxxx.xxx]5641
[Subtitle: Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature on the Basis
of Goethe's Method of Training Observation and Thought]
[Plain text in elmom10.txt/.zip; HTML in elmom10h.zip; PDF in elmom10p.zip]
May 2004 Baron Pal Podmaniczky and the Norwegian Bible [bbliaxxx.xxx]5640C
[Author: Martinovitsn_ Kutas Ilona]
[Language: 77 languages in bblia10p.zip (PDF)]
[English only in bblia10.txt/.zip]
May 2004 The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox, Morris [pdcoxxxx.xxx]5639
[Author's Full Name: Charles E. Morris]
May 2004 An Adventure With A Genius, by Alleyne Ireland [aawagxxx.xxx]5638
[Subtitle: Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer]
May 2004 Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Various [ldnnhxxx.xxx]5637
[Authors: Montaigne, Michel; Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin; Renan,]
Ernest; Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim; Von Schiller, J.C.;]
Kant, Immanuel; Mazzini, Giuseppe]
Contents:
That We Should not Judge of our Happiness Until After Our Death
That to Philosophise is to Learne How to Die
Of The Institution of Education of Children
Of Friendship of Books
What is a Classic?
The Poetry of the Celtic Races
The Education of the Human Race
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysics of Morals
Byron and Goethe
May 2004 Winding Paths, by Gertrude Page [windpxxx.xxx]5636
[Plain text version in windp10.txt/.zip, HTML in windp10h.htm/.zip]
May 2004 String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, K. 156 [wm156xxx.xxx]5635
[Musical score. Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, WM#6]
[Zipped file only wm15610.zip]
May 2004 Grosse Fuge (for String Quartet), op. 133 [LVB #5][lv133xxx.xxx]5634
[Musical score. Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven]
[Zipped file only lv13310.zip]
May 2004 The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me,by W. White[tmahmxxx.xxx]5633
[Author's Full Name: William Allen White]
May 2004 Five Little Peppers Midway, by M. Sidney[Sidney#2][flttpxxx.xxx]5632
[Author's Full Name: Margaret Sidney]
May 2004 Patty's Suitors, by Carolyn Wells [C. Wells#4][pttysxxx.xxx]5631
May 2004 The Story of "Mormonism", by James E. Talmage [smormxxx.xxx]5630
[Full title: The Story of "Mormonism" and the Philosophy of "Mormonism"]
May 2004 Dorothy Dale, by Margaret Penrose [Penrose#3][drthyxxx.xxx]5629
[Subtitle: A Girl of To-Day]
May 2004 Preludes 1921-1922, by John Drinkwater [p1921xxx.xxx]5628
May 2004 String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Schubert[1][s1251xxx.xxx]5627
[Opus 125, no. 1 (1817), this is a musical score]
[Author's Full Name: Franz Peter Schubert]
[Zipped file only s125110.zip]
May 2004 The Motormaniacs, by Lloyd Osbourne [Osbourne#5][mtmncxxx.xxx]5626
Contents:
The Motormaniacs
The Great Bubble Syndicate
Coal Oil Johnny
Jones
May 2004 Flint and Feather, by E. Pauline Johnson [EPJ#2][fltfrxxx.xxx]5625
May 2004 The Inhumanity of Socialism, by Edward F. Adams [insocxxx.xxx]5624
[Subtitle: The Case Against Socialism & A Critique of Socialism]
May 2004 The Young Explorer, by Horatio Alger [Alger#13][yexplxxx.xxx]5623
May 2004 At Last, by Marion Harland [alastxxx.xxx]5622
May 2004 Baron d'Holbach, by Max Pearson Cushing [?bdhoxxx.xxx]5621
[Subtitle: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7bdho10.txt and 7bdho10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8bdho10.txt and 8bdho10.zip]
May 2004 Palaces and Courts of the Exposition, Juliet James[palcoxxx.xxx]5620
[Subtitle: A Handbook of the Architecture Sculpture and Mural Paintings with
Special Reference to the Symbolism][About the 1915 San Fransciso Exposition.]
May 2004 Mankind and Political Arithmetic, Sir Wm Petty[#1][mkpaxxxx.xxx]5619
[Author's Full Name: Sir William Petty]
[Plain text version in mkpaxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in mkpaxxh.htm and .zip]
May 2004 Six Plays, by Florence Henrietta Darwin [#1][sxfdxxxx.xxx]5618
Plain text version in sxfdxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in sxfdxxh.htm and .zip]
(For those wishing to know: Florence was the wife of Sir Francis Darwin,
(who was a famous scientist and the son of a certain Charles Darwin, of
(evolution fame. The plays are all in English dialect and the last one,
(The New Year, is by far the best.)
May 2004 Bobbsey Twins in Washington, by L. Hope[BTwins#12][tbtiwxxx.xxx]5617
[Author's Full Name: Laura Lee Hope]
May 2004 The Madman, by Kahlil Gibran [thmdmxxx.xxx]5616
[Subtitle: His Parables and Poems]
[Plain text version in thmdm10.txt/.zip, HTML in thmdm10h.htm/.zip]
[XML version in thmdm10x.txt/.zip]
May 2004 The Pink Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang, Ed. [pinkfxxx.xxx]5615
May 2004 Chess Strategy, by Edward Lasker [Lasker#2][chsstxxx.xxx]5614
May 2004 The Arabian Nights Entertainments Volume 2, Anon. [arne2xxx.xxx]5613*
[Reserved]
May 2004 The Arabian Nights Entertainments Volume 1, Anon. [arne1xxx.xxx]5612
May 2004 The Satyricon, by Petronius Arbiter [?paswxxx.xxx]5611
[Translated by William Burnaby]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7pasw10a.txt and 7pasw10a.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8pasw10a.txt and 8pasw10a.zip]
[See also eBook #s 5218-5225]
May 2004 The Cardinal's Snuff-Box, by Henry Harland [cdsfxxxx.xxx]5610
May 2004 The Corporation of London, William Ferneley Allen [clrapxxx.xxx]5609
[Full Title: The Corporation of London: Its Rights and Privileges]
May 2004 Trial of Witnessses of the Resurrection of Jesus [trijcxxx.xxx]5608
[Full Title: The Trial of the Witnessses of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ]
[Author's Full Name: Thomas Sherlock]
May 2004 Romanzero, by Heinrich Heine [Heine#5][?rmnzxxx.xxx]5607
[AKA: Romancero]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7rmnz10.txt and 7rmnz10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8rmnz10.txt and 8rmnz10.zip]
[Language: German]
May 2004 Guns of the Gods, by Talbot Mundy [Mundy#6][gungdxxx.xxx]5606
May 2004 The Power Of Movement In Plants, by C. Darwin[#22][pwmvpxxx.xxx]5605
May 2004 Getting Married, by George Bernard Shaw [Shaw#32][gtgmdxxx.xxx]5604
May 2004 Seven Icelandic Short Stories,Various [svnclxxx.xxx]5603
[This file is in 8-bit format only to suppport Icelandic characters]
[Authors: Anonymous; Kvaran, Einar H.; Fridjonsson, Gudmundur; Trausti,]
[Jon; Gunnarsson, Gunnar; Hagalin, Gudmundur G.; Laxness, Halldor Kiljan]
Contains:
The Story of Audunn and the Bear
A Dry Spell
The Old Hay
When I Was on The Frigate
Father and Son
The Fox Skin
New Iceland
May 2004 The Boy Scouts Patrol, by Ralph Victor [thbysxxx.xxx]5602
May 2004 Jan of the Windmill,Juliana Horatia Ewing[Ewing#1][janwxxxx.xxx]5601
[Plain text version in janw10.txt/.zip, HTML in janw10h.htm/.zip]
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Ebers, Complete [GE#132][g132vxxx.xxx]5571
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5561-5570]
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v10[GE#131][g131vxxx.xxx]5570
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v9 [GE#130][g130vxxx.xxx]5569
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v8 [GE#129][g129vxxx.xxx]5568
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#128][g128vxxx.xxx]5567
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#127][g127vxxx.xxx]5566
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#126][g126vxxx.xxx]5565
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#125][g125vxxx.xxx]5564
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#124][g124vxxx.xxx]5563
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#123][g123vxxx.xxx]5562
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#122][g122vxxx.xxx]5561
Apr 2004 Margery, by Ebers, Complete [GE#121][g121vxxx.xxx]5560
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Subtitle: Gred] [Contains eBooks #5552-5559]
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v8 [GE#120][g120vxxx.xxx]5559
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#119][g119vxxx.xxx]5558
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#118][g118vxxx.xxx]5557
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#117][g117vxxx.xxx]5556
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#116][g116vxxx.xxx]5555
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#115][g115vxxx.xxx]5554
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#114][g114vxxx.xxx]5553
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#113][g113vxxx.xxx]5552
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Ebers, Complete [GE#112][g112vxxx.xxx]5551
[Subtitle: A Romance of Old Nuremberg]
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5543-5550]
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v8 [GE#111][g111vxxx.xxx]5550
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#110][g110vxxx.xxx]5549
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#109][g109vxxx.xxx]5548
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#108][g108vxxx.xxx]5547
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#107][g107vxxx.xxx]5546
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#106][g106vxxx.xxx]5545
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#105][g105vxxx.xxx]5544
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#104][g104vxxx.xxx]5543
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Ebers, Complete [GE#103][g103vxxx.xxx]5542
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5530-5541]
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v12[GE#102][g102vxxx.xxx]5541
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v11[GE#101][g101vxxx.xxx]5540
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v10[GE#100][g100vxxx.xxx]5539
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v9 [GE#99][ge99vxxx.xxx]5538
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v8 [GE#98][ge98vxxx.xxx]5537
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#97][ge97vxxx.xxx]5536
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#96][ge96vxxx.xxx]5535
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#95][ge95vxxx.xxx]5534
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#94][ge94vxxx.xxx]5533
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#93][ge93vxxx.xxx]5532
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#92][ge92vxxx.xxx]5531
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#91][ge91vxxx.xxx]5530
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Ebers, Complete [GE#90][ge90vxxx.xxx]5529
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains #5517-5528]
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v12 [GE#89][ge89vxxx.xxx]5528
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v11 [GE#88][ge88vxxx.xxx]5527
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v10 [GE#87][ge87vxxx.xxx]5526
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v9 [GE#86][ge86vxxx.xxx]5525
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v8 [GE#85][ge85vxxx.xxx]5524
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#84][ge84vxxx.xxx]5523
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#83][ge83vxxx.xxx]5522
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#82][ge82vxxx.xxx]5521
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#81][ge81vxxx.xxx]5520
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#80][ge80vxxx.xxx]5519
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#79][ge79vxxx.xxx]5518
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#78][ge78vxxx.xxx]5517
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Apr 2004 The Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon[Bacon#4][adlrxxx.xxx]5500
*
Apr 2004 Glenloch Girls, by Grace M. Remick [glnlcxxx.xxx]5438
Apr 2004 An Original Belle, by E. P. Roe [Roe#7][aobllxxx.xxx]5437
Apr 2004 Hyperion, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[Longfellow#7][?hyprxxx.xxx]5436
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7hypr10.txt/.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8hypr10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2004 The Stillwater Tragedy, by T. Aldrich [Aldrich#8][?tsllxxx.xxx]5435
[Author's Full Name: Thomas Bailey Aldrich]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7tsll10.txt/.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8tsll10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2004 The Physiology of Taste, by Brillat Savarin [thphyxxx.xxx]5434
[Subtitle: Or, Transcendental Gastronomy]
Apr 2004 Without a Home, by E. P. Roe [Roe#6][wththxxx.xxx]5433
Apr 2004 Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace, Horace [dsndcxxx.xxx]5432
Apr 2004 Stories by Foreign Authors: German, Various [s4fagxxx.xxx]5431
[Authors: Heyse, Paul; Lindau, Rudolph; Von Sacher-Masoch, Leopold;]
[Baumbach, Rudolph; Hoffman, E.T.; Zschokke, Heinrich]
Contains:
The Fury
The Philosopher's Pendulum
The Bookbinder of Hort
The Egyptian Fire-Eater
The Cremona Violin
Adventures of a New-Year's Eve
Apr 2004 Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language[9][penglxxx.xxx]5430
[Author's Full Name: Samuel Johnson]
Apr 2004 Preface to Shakespeare,bySamuel Johnson[Johnson#8][prfctxxx.xxx]5429
Apr 2004 A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays,P. Shelley[8][adpoexxx.xxx]5428
[Author's Full Name: Percy Bysshe Shelley]
Apr 2004 Emile, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau [JJ#14][emilexxx.xxx]5427
Apr 2004 Princess Polly's Playmates, by Amy Brooks[Polly#2][2ppolxxx.xxx]5426
Apr 2004 The Five Books of Youth, by Robert Hillyer [tfbooxxx.xxx]5425
Apr 2004 An Icelandic Primer, by Henry Sweet [clprmxxx.xxx]5424
[Note: This is in Unicode UTF-8 only, since the Icelandic characters that
comprise the core of the book cannot reasonably be expressed in ASCII]
[Files in etext04: clprm10u.txt and .zip; clprm10h.html and .zip]
Apr 2004 L'homme Qui Rit, by Victor Hugo [Hugo#4][?lhmqxxx.xxx]5423
Apr 2004 The Masquerader, by Katherine Cecil Thurston [tmsqdxxx.xxx]5422
Apr 2004 The Metropolis, by Upton Sinclair [Sinclair#10][tmtrpxxx.xxx]5421
Apr 2004 Rab and His Friends, by John Brown, M. D [rbhfrxxx.xxx]5420
Apr 2004 Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry, by Horace [hrcstxxx.xxx]5419
Apr 2004 The Home Acre, by E. P. Roe [Roe#6][thhmcxxx.xxx]5418
Apr 2004 Struggling Upward, by Horatio Alger, Jr.[Alger#13][strgpxxx.xxx]5417
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, All [CG#8][mcg8wxxx.xxx]5416
[Author: Anthony Hamilton (Edited by Sir Walter Scott)]
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v7 [CG#7][mcg7wxxx.xxx]5415
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v6 [CG#6][mcg6wxxx.xxx]5414
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v5 [CG#5][mcg5wxxx.xxx]5413
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v4 [CG#4][mcg4wxxx.xxx]5412
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v3 [CG#3][mcg3wxxx.xxx]5411
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v2 [CG#2][mcg2wxxx.xxx]5410
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v1 [CG#1][mcg1wxxx.xxx]5409
Apr 2004 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.,Wallace Irwin[#3][rubwixxx.xxx]5408
[Title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.]
(See also eBook #246, translated by Edward Fitzgerald)
Apr 2004 The Recreations of A Country Parson, A. K. H. Boyd[tracpxxx.xxx]5407
Apr 2004 Afoot in England, by W.H. Hudson [Hudson#3][ftnngxxx.xxx]5406
Apr 2004 The Ne'er-Do-Well, by Rex Beach [Beach#7][nrdwlxxx.xxx]5405
Apr 2004 Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders, J. G. Flower [#2][grhvrxxx.xxx]5404
[Full title: Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert]
[Full author: Jessie Graham Flower]
Apr 2004 Short Stories for English Courses, Rosa Mikels ed.[stngcxxx.xxx]5403
[Edited by Rosa M. R. Mikels]
Contents:
The First Christmas-Tree, by Henry Van Dyke
A French Tar-Baby, by Joel Chandler Harris
Sonny's Christenin', by Ruth McEnery Stuart
Christmas Night With Satan, by John Fox, Jr.
A Nest-Egg, by James Whitcomb Riley
Wee Willie Winkle, by Rudyard Kipling
The Gold Bug, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Ransom Of Red Chief, by O. Henry
The Freshman Full-Back Ralph, by D. Paine
Gallegher, by Richard Harding Davis
The Jumping Frog, by Mark Twain
The Lady Or The Tiger?, by Frank R. Stockton
The Outcasts Of Poker Flat, by Francis Bret Harte
The Revolt Of Mother, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Marse Chan, by Thomas Nelson Page
"Posson Jone'", by George W. Cable
Our Aromatic Uncle, by Henry Cuyler Bunner
Quality, by John Galsworthy
The Triumph Of Night, by Edith Wharton
A Messenger, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Markheim, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Apr 2004 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue,by Cpt. Grose[dcvgrxxx.xxx]5402
[Full author: Captain Grose et al.]
Apr 2004 Old Rose and Silver, by Myrtle Reed [Reed#2][ldrssxxx.xxx]5401
Mar 2004 Guy Mannering (Complete), by Sir Walter Scott[#22][gmnngxxx.xxx]5355
Mar 2004 Guy Mannering, Vol. II, by Sir Walter Scott [#21][gmnn2xxx.xxx]5354
Mar 2004 Guy Mannering, Vol. I, by Sir Walter Scott[SWS#20][gmnn1xxx.xxx]5353
Mar 2004 Marjorie's Three Gifts, by Louisa May Alcott [#13][mjrtgxxx.xxx]5352
Mar 2004 If I Were King, by Justin Huntly McCarthy [fwrkgxxx.xxx]5351
Mar 2004 Farmers of Forty Centuries, by F. H. King [frftcxxx.xxx]5350
Mar 2004 Castle Craneycrow, by George Barr McCutcheon [#3][cscrwxxx.xxx]5349
Mar 2004 Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger [Alger#12][rgddkxxx.xxx]5348
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Jun 1998 Chronicles of Avonlea, by Lucy Maud Montgomery #6][avnlexxx.xxx]1354
Jun 1998 Off on a Comet, by Jules Verne [Jules Verne #7][cometxxx.xxx]1353
Jun 1998 An Old Maid, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #18][omaidxxx.xxx]1352
Jun 1998 Chignecto Isthmus; First Settlers, Howard Trueman [chgntxxx.xxx]1351
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YALE ACCUSES PRINCETON OF HACKING INTO ADMISSIONS RECORDS
Princeton University has admitted that its admissions personnel hacked into
rival Yale's computer system to check on the applications status of 11
students who also had applied to Princeton. The university has suspended
with pay its associate dean and director of admissions, and a spokeswoman
expressed deep regret "that information provided by students in good faith
to the university was used inappropriately by at least one official in our
admissions office." The perpetrator(s) apparently were easily able to
access the students' records via the publicly available Yale.edu Web site
because they already had the students' passwords -- the names, Social
Security numbers and dates of birth they had provided on their Princeton
applications. The site had been set up with a feature that enabled students
to check on the status of their applications themselves. The founder of one
electronic-rights group noted that while Princeton's actions clearly were
wrong, it was foolish of Yale to rely on Social Security numbers and birth
dates to secure student data. "It's not enough to have a weak Web site and
depend on the good ethical behavior of others not to penetrate it," he
said. "Similarly, it is not adequate to say that just because you found the
weak Web site you should go ahead and penetrate it."
(Wall Street Journal 26 July 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1027628736531063280.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
WHAT WAS A DOT-COM LAND GRAB, DADDY?
Cybersquatting is virtually (no pun intended) a thing of the past -- and
cyber "real estate" is definitely losing value. The number of dot-com,
dot-net, and dot-org names has declined by more than 11% in the first five
months of this year, and industry analysts are saying that the dot-com land
grab is over. This is quite a change from those heady days, not so long ago,
when desirable dot-com names could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars
from companies eager to project just the right image to customers. Now,
already registered as many domain names to protect our trademarks as we
need. We haven't needed to buy any more this year." So what will
cybersquatters do now? One knowledgeable observer of the scene says,
"Speculation is gone. The days of hunting out a real business opportunity
are here." Maybe the cybersquatters will actually get a real job. That would
be nice. (Los Angeles Times 29 Jul 2002)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-netnames29jul29002049.story?coll=la%
2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
VIRTUAL REAL ESTATE MARKET SLUMP
The number of Internet addresses ending in .com, .net and .org has declined
nearly 11% since its peak of 30.7 million in September 2001. The trend
means that cybersquatters, who once pounced on popular names like
business.com and wine.com, and then resold them for millions, are now
earning a pittance for their efforts. Domain name resellers report names
such as PopeOnline.net and Sex247.net can be had for just a few hundred
dollars. "The dot-com land grab is done," says a senior research analyst at
U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. In addition to a lackluster market, the
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which was signed into law in
1999, provides an additional deterrent by mandating fines of up to $100,000
for people convicted of registering Internet names that infringe either a
registered trademark or a person's name. Meanwhile, the market for
addresses with newly available suffixes, such as .us, .name and .info, is
starting to pick up, and domain name registrars say they are encouraged by
signs that some corporations are beginning to carve out addresses that are
specific to foreign countries. "The market's getting smarter, and this
industry needs to reinvent itself," says a marketing VP for BulkRegister.
"Speculation is gone. The days of hunting out a real business opportunity
are here." (Los Angeles Times 29 Jul 2002)
The research firm In-Stat/MDR predicts is predicting that the number of
broadband subscribers worldwide will increase by 50% this year, reaching
about 46 million). That's quite a change from the period 1999 to 2001, when
the growth rate exceeded 100% annually. The company also says that in the
U.S. there were 7.12 million cable modem subscribers at the beginning of
2002, compared with 4.6 million subscribers for DSL; and it predicts that
DSL will take the lead in the U.S. market by 2004. (New York Times 30 Jul
2002) http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html
CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUR CAR
Automobile onboard "telematics" (voice recognition and other wireless
communication-based aids for the driver) have been used for some time by
companies such as DaimlerChrysler AG, Ford and General Motors, and now IBM
and Honda are linking up so that Honda's 2003 Accord will have a navigation
system integrated with voice recognition and a small touch screen. The
driver touches a button on the steering wheel, then speaks aloud to IBM's
ViaVoice recognition software, which understands speech accents. IBM
executive Raj Desai says, "It's closer to the natural ability to have a
dialogue, rather than just remembering keywords, which is what the
previous-generation systems had." (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 28 Jul 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3755134.htm
[Did you know that the major manufacturers are withholding the computer
access codes to their cars, so they can only be serviced by their dealers?
Just another way of killing off all the local access to mechanics.]
[As per our local NBC affiliate last night and the night before.]
HOTMAIL CLEAN-UP POLICY ANGERS USERS
Microsoft's Hotmail system has instituted a new storage policy that limits
the time span for saved mail to 30 days. After that, it's automatically
deleted from a user's Sent file -- an action that has left many users
steaming. Desperate users who've pleaded for their mail back have been told
it's irretrievable, and company officials say they warned users in mid-June
of the change in policy. MSN product manager Parul Shah said users could
avoid the problem by creating special folders and moving important messages
out of the Sent file. The company is hoping the change in policy will
prompt people to sign up for a fee-based version of the service that costs
$19.95 a month for an additional 8MB of storage on top of the 2MB they get
for free. Microsoft says it has more than 110 million Hotmail users, but
that so far fewer than 300,000 have signed up for the extra storage
feature. (CNet News.com 25 Jul 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946430.html?tag=fd_top
[We thinks perhaps they mean GB instead of MB]
As AOL Time Warner's stock dove more than 15% yesterday after investors
heard it being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission on
suspicion of having inflated revenues, new AOL head Jimmy de Castro offered
put the sizzle back in the brand. We need to go back to a member focus." De
years, the company has focused on deals. It's been, 'Let's do pop-up
advertising, and I don't care what (members want), I've got to sell you
merchandise.' We've totally changed that process. We're focused on member
satisfaction." (USA Today 25 Jul 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techcorporatenews/2002-07-25-aol_x.htm
TEXT MESSAGES COULD REVEAL CAREER APTITUDE
A survey conducted on behalf of Woolworths in the UK indicates that the
style people use to type text messages on their mobile phones reveals
categories that relate to specific vocations. Researchers divided the
messaging styles into four groups -- creatives, jugglers, controllers and
facilitators. Creatives (actors, designers, advertising execs and landscape
gardeners) used the latest text abbreviations and slang, mixed upper and
lower case letters, used customized ring tones and screen settings, and
lost their phones frequently. Jugglers (teachers, office workers and
emergency service personnel) used capital and lower case letters and
punctuation correctly, never lost their phones, and tended to nestle them
between their chin and shoulder while talking, leaving their hands free.
Controllers (military, lawyers and sales reps) favored brief, all-cap
messages, never abbreviated, and tended to have loud ring tones and to
speak loudly on public transportation. Facilitators (nurses, nannies,
personal assistants) always used lower case and peppered their messages
with emoticons like smiley faces. They tended to embellish their phones
with colorful cases and were more likely to set their phones to vibrate in
order not to disturb others. Psychologist Sidney Crown notes that messaging
style is as revealing as handwriting, and suggested it could be used to
written word nowadays, there is some validity in looking to other ways of
determining the type of person they are, particularly with regards to what
kind of job they are likely to be best suited to." (Ananova 26 Jul 2002)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_637803.html?menu=news.technology
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BILL COULD ALLOW COPYRIGHT HOLDERS ACCESS TO INDIVIDUAL COMPUTERS
A new bill introduced by California Congressman Howard Berman could
give extensive authority to copyright holders to employ technological
means to protect their intellectual property. Observers worry that the
Peer-to-Peer Piracy Prevention Act would allow media companies to
release viruses and other malicious code, though Berman denied that
such measures would be included. Berman said the bill is narrowly drawn
to allow actions such as flooding networks with bogus files or
overwhelming networks with fake requests for particular files. Security
experts said the language of the bill is vague and would open the door
to media companies hacking into individuals' computers and networks.
Wired News, 27 July 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54153,00.html
HOUSE BILL WOULD SHIELD MANY SMALL WEBCASTERS
A new bill introduced by Representatives Jay Inslee, Rick Boucher, and
George Nethercutt would exempt businesses with annual revenues of less
than $6 million from the recently approved music royalty of $.07 per
song, per listener. Webcasters, including many radio stations
affiliated with colleges and universities, had protested the royalties,
saying they would put the stations out of business. The Internet Radio
Fairness Act would shield most stations without connections to larger
companies from those royalties. Since the royalties were approved, many
small stations have stopped streaming music or have significantly
changed their programming to minimize their liability for the
royalties, which begin in October. Supporters of the royalties said the
bill is unfair to recording companies, which they said should be
compensated by all broadcasters, not just large ones.
CNET, 26 July 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946642.html
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS TO CREATE PUBLIC DIGITAL ARCHIVE
The University of Texas at Austin has begun a project to make digital
copies of its resources publicly available on the Internet. The Digital
Knowledge Gateway will include digital images of dinosaur bones, the
university's Gutenberg Bible, and other artifacts. A prototype of the
system is expected next year and will be finalized about a year after
that. The first content to be digitized will be UT's research data,
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will give people easy access to a wide variety of resources, as well as
to items, such as the Gutenberg Bible, that are too valuable to allow
extensive access otherwise.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 July 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002072501t.htm
ACLU FILES SUIT AGAINST DMCA
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit to reverse parts of
the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act as unconstitutional. The suit
asks a federal judge to rule that the DMCA is so sweeping that it
interferes with researchers' ability to evaluate the effectiveness of
Internet filtering software. The ACLU is acting on behalf of Ben
Edelman, a 22-year-old programmer researching Internet filters. Edelman
served as an expert witness in the ACLU filing against library
filtering requirements.
CNET, 25 July 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946266.html
GERMAN COURT DECIDES AGAINST DEEP LINKING
A ruling by Munich's Upper Court determined that using a search engine
to find stories on a newspaper's Web site violates European Union law.
The decision is the latest ruling in a two-year court battle between
German newspaper Mainpost and German search service NewsClub. Mainpost
claims that searching through and linking directly to Mainpost content
flouts the EU "Database Directive," which grants copyright protection
to database creators for selecting and arranging the information in a
database even when they do not hold the copyright on the information.
The law also protects against unfair extraction of items in a database,
specifically downloading or hyperlinking. NewsClub faces more legal
hearings, but without any expectation that the Upper Court decision
will be reversed.
Wired News, 25 July 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54083,00.html
YALE ACCUSES PRINCETON OF HACKING
Yale University told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that it found
18 unauthorized log-ins to its prospective-student Web site that were
traced to computers at Princeton, including in the admissions office.
Princeton gained access by looking up students who had applied to both
schools, for whom it had Social Security numbers. Stephen LeMenager,
Princeton's dean of admissions, said that his university was concerned
about the security of online acceptance systems and wanted to check
potential security issues. Yale said Princeton's actions violated
student privacy. The Web site included a notice that only students, not
parents or others, may access the site and warned that Yale would
investigate and act on any unauthorized use.
Associated Press, 25 July 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/478341p-3820436c.html
REGISTRAR'S AUDIT RESULTS IN EXPULSIONS
Florida Memorial College in Miami fired two employees and expelled
three students after a May audit in the registrar's office uncovered
evidence that employees changed students' grades as far back as 1992.
Most changes were made during the spring 2002 semester, however,
according to registrar Lourdes Silva. Initial disciplinary hearings
targeted 12 students who had "major" changes (five or more grades) to
their transcripts. At least 60 others had "minor" changes. College
officials said that they have notified the state attorney's office in
Miami-Dade County and that a criminal investigation is under way.
President Albert E. Smith appointed a committee of seven administrators
to revise security procedures at the registrar's office.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 July 2002 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/07/2002072604n.htm
[Earlier Stories Said AOL Made The Incompatibilies Intentionally]
AOL INSTANT MESSENGER WILL NOT WORK WITH RIVALS
America Online has said that making its popular instant messaging
application compatible with rivals' products is too expensive. The
company will instead focus on establishing contracts with other vendors
allowing AOL to operate instant messaging systems for them. AOL and
other providers of instant messaging, including Microsoft and Yahoo,
have said for several years that they support interoperability, which
would allow their systems to work similar to phone lines, across
various providers. AOL conducted a test of interoperability last
summer. Although the test was successful, AOL said implementing the
system and addressing security would incur significant expense. Some
observers criticized AOL for apparently turning its back on
compatibility, saying AOL is choosing instead to guard its large base
of users.
Associated Press, 24 July 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/476814p-3810077c.html
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REALNETWORKS EMBRACES OPEN-SOURCE PHILOSOPHY
In an strategy to recover market share from Microsoft, RealNetworks will
release for open-source development its new code for delivering
("streaming") audio and video over the Internet. The company invented
streaming media eight years ago with the Real Audio player, but has been
losing market share to Microsoft, which integrates its own Media Player
integrated into the Microsoft's Windows operating system. Called Helix, the
new software will be offered as "open source" code, allowing companies like
Sun, Lindows and PalmSource to create applications for the new platform,
and setting the stage for an extension of that platform to the next
generation of smart phones, personal digital assistants, and other
intelligent devices. (San Jose Mercury News 22 Jul 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3715210.htm
[Automating "Nice People". . .?"]
PLEASANT VOICES ARE A HOT COMMODITY
The proliferation of speech-automated systems to handle routine tasks in
financial services, airline companies, and other businesses is generating a
demand for voice actors, who nowadays include telephone greetings and
message prompts in their demo tapes. Companies increasingly are looking for
a friendly, conversational approach to automated systems that represent the
front line of customer relations, and are striving to find just the right
tone. After months of market research, Wells Fargo's credit card division
opted on a young, hip but serious voice that sounds something like a
30-something male banker. "We thought our customers might like some fun in
the system, but they told us, 'No.' They just wanted someone professional,"
says division head Tom LaCentra. According to research by Datamonitor, at
least 25% of Fortune 500 companies invested in voice-automated systems in
2001, up from 12% in 2000, and the voice technology market is predicted to
rise to nearly $3 billion by 2007. (AP/CNN.com 18 Jul 2002)
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/07/18/voice.automation.ap/index.html
LAWYERS GO TO EBAY TO BID FOR EVIDENCE
"Wow," said Stanford University law professor Deborah Hensler when told that
competing lawyers are now competing not just in the courtroom but on eBay
auctions -- to obtain evidence useful for trial. Personal injury cases
involving the need for collectible-quality artifacts (such as 30-year-old
asbestos product manuals or 1950s-era advertisements glorifying cigarettes)
are especially sought-after now in eBay auctions. After Professor Hensler
litigation." And personal injury lawyer Al Brayton sums it up like this:
"Today, you get not only the plaintiffs' bar bidding, but you have the
defense bar bidding. The prices have gone up a lot in the last year. A lot."
(Los Angeles Times/SJMN 21 Jul 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3710149.htm
The New York Times was a very harsh critic of Enron's accounting
manipulations, and yet the Times company itself had no qualms about
striking a "newsprint swap agreement" with Enron that involved absolutely
no exchange of physical assets and was disclosed only in the small print of
SEC filings. As for the Washington Post, its editorial pages came out
swinging against rules that "made a mockery of corporate accounting" by
allowing companies to grant employee stock options "without recording a
dime of expenses" -- yet The Post Co. was doing exactly the same thing at
the same time. Asked about these double standards, the Times takes the
high-minded position that its reporters were completely clueless about the
relationship more -- had our journalists even been conscious of it -- but
it's inconceivable that anyone will think our journalism was influenced by
such a development." At the Post, chairman and chief executive Donald
Graham has taken a more nuanced position, essentially maintaining that
knows, the editorial page writes what it thinks is good policy, and if it
varies with newspaper policy or corporate policy, that's fine."
(Washington Post 18 Jul 2002)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22440-2002Jul17.html
[Can You Trust Any Search Engines Tomorrow?]
ASK JEEVES TEAMS UP WITH GOOGLE
Search engine Ask Jeeves says it will begin listing the ad-driven results
provided by its more popular rival, Google, in a deal expected to generate
sales of at least $100 million over the next three years. The move is
intended to stem the flow of Jeeves' red ink, with losses totaling $694
million since its inception. The move comes as a blow to Overture, which
pioneered the concept of ad-driven search results and has been supplying
them to Jeeves for the past year. Overture downplayed the loss, with CEO
Ted Meisel saying, "We are still winning more deals than we are losing and
I think we are winning the right ones." Earlier this year Google supplanted
Overture in high-profile contracts with AOL and EarthLink. "We would like
to have everyone as a customer," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
(AP 19 Jul 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020719/D7KRTOD02.html
AOL PUFFED ITS AD REVENUES; THE POST IS SHOCKED, SHOCKED
In October of 2000, AOL's then-president Robert W. Pittman and other AOL
executives were told the company faced the risk of losing more than $140
million in ad revenue the following year, but two weeks later -- when asked
it, and I don't buy it." A new Washington Post review of AOL documents now
shows that the company made a wide variety of questionable deals and
bookkeeping adjustments to keep their ad revenue figures looking good. An
AOL executive who is no longer with the company says his former colleagues
was not of the highest quality. I don't know if they're still in denial, but
there were some pretty big business issues they were not willing to face.
For nine months, I tried to get these guys out of denial. I tried to take
the perfume off the pig." AOL has issued a statement insisting that all
their bookkeeping adjustments and deals were completely appropriate.
(Washington Post 18 Jul 2002)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21983-2002Jul17.html
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SENATE FINALLY UPGRADES E-MAIL APPLICATION
The U.S. Senate has begun upgrading its offices to Microsoft Outlook,
replacing its 12-year-old system. The House of Representatives began
replacing its aging e-mail system in 1996, but the Senate until now
continued to use "cc:Mail," a program developed in 1985 and in service
at the Senate office since 1990. According to Senate staffers, the old
system took at least 15 minutes to transmit a message and sometimes up
to several days. The old system also did not allow sending Web pages.
One staffer who asked not to be named said if a message needed to get
there quickly, he would use his Yahoo account. The Senate conversion is
expected to be finished by November, though some Senators have said
they don't want the upgrade until after election day, fearing problems
with the transition.
Washington Post, 19 July 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33809-2002Jul19.html
[When I testified at the Senate in 1995, only ONE of the senators
present [perhaps 25] had ever even done a single email. . . .]
SENATE COPYRIGHT BILL MOVES THROUGH COMMITTEE
On Wednesday the House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the
Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act. The
bill, which is identical to a Senate bill approved last year, would
expand the copyright exceptions available to schools for using
protected content in instructional activities. Under the terms of the
bill, distance educators may transmit nondramatic literary and musical
works digitally, and show selected portions of dramatic works. F. James
Sensenbrenner Jr., the chair of the Judiciary Committee, had held up
the legislation, hoping to create new protections for databases at the
same time. Under pressure to pass the TEACH Act, and in light of the
difficulty in passing a database bill, Sensenbrenner allowed the bill
to pass to the full House of Representatives.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 18 July 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002071801t.htm
ASK JEEVES TO GET SPONSORED LINKS FROM GOOGLE
Google has won another round in the battle of search engine
advertising. Ask Jeeves announced it will soon include paid search
results provided by Google. Overture Services, the company that
originated the idea of selling real estate on a search engine's
results pages, had been providing Ask Jeeves with paid results since
last year. According to a company spokesman, Ask Jeeves hopes to double
its revenue from paid listings in the second half of the year with the
new arrangement with Google. An official from Google said his company
"would like to have everyone as a customer."
Associated Press, 19 July 2002 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Ask-Jeeves-Google.html
PORTABLE CELL PHONE NUMBERS DELAYED, AGAIN
The Federal Communications Commission gave cell phone companies until
November 2003 to offer cell phone customers the choice of keeping their
cell phone numbers after switching from one wireless company to
another. This is the third extension granted by the FCC. Most wireless
companies oppose the concept because of cost. Verizon Wireless,
Cingular Wireless, Sprint PCS, and AT&T Wireless oppose the portable
number requirement, while others, such as Nextel Communications and
Leap Wireless, support the option as a way to gain customers.
Associated Press, 16 July 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/468145p-3742541c.html
WEBCASTING ROYALTIES CHALLENGED IN APPEALS COURT
A group of radio stations filed a motion before a federal appeals court
to set aside the rule that they must pay musicians and recording
companies when they stream songs over the Internet. Their argument
relies on the historical practice of not paying royalties for regular
broadcasts. The motion is in response to a 0.07 cent per listener per
song rate for Internet radio established by the Copyright Office in
June. Webcasters did not participate in the appeal of the August 2001
decision. The appeal was filed by the National Association of
Broadcasters along with radio companies Bonneville International, Clear
Channel Communications, Cox Radio, Emmis Communications, Entercom
Communications, and Susquehanna Radio.
CNET, 16 July 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-944209.html
[What did I say about "per-per-everything?]
APPLE TO START CHARGING FOR WEB SERVICES
In a move reminiscent of Microsoft's .NET strategy, Apple Computer
will begin charging for its iTools Web services, which will be renamed
".Mac." The service will cost $99.95 per year; users of iTools who sign
up for the new service by September 30 will get an introductory rate of
$49.95 for the first year. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said at the Macworld
show in New York that the "world is changing" and Apple needs to
reflect that change. Apple will reportedly increase the storage
capacity for users and add anti-virus software and Web-based e-mail.
Reaction from iTools users was generally positive. Some said they would
definitely pay for the service, while others said the charge would be
reasonable if the improvements to the service are made.
ZDNet, 17 July 2002
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-944357.html
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It's not just your imagination -- planned obsolescence has become a firmly
entrenched marketing strategy for most makers of electronic equipment. "We
joke that we design landfills," says a senior industrial engineer at
Pentagram Design, which builds portable devices and computers for companies
like Hewlett-Packard. In the past year Dell Computer has slashed warranty
periods from three years to one, and Apple's iPod digital-music player
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questionnaire in order to qualify for a full year of support on a Clie
organizer -- otherwise they get only 90 days. At the same time, companies
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WEB RADIO STATIONS OBJECT TO PAYING ROYALTIES
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one-hundredths of a cent in royalties to record companies every time one of
its listeners hears a copyrighted song transmitted over the Web, a group of
radio stations led by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and
Clear Channel Communications is appealing that ruling to a higher court.
The appeal challenges the right presumed right of the Copyright Office to
set the royalty rates. (Bloomberg/New York Times 17 Jul 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/technology/17RADI.html
THE NEW LANGUAGE OF THE WEB
An e-mail security filter used by Yahoo has spawned a bizarre revision of
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could be used by hackers and replacing them with innocuous words. For
example, "eval" has been converted to "review", so that the word "medieval"
now appears as "medireview" on many sites. A recent search conducted by
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the word "medireview" in place of "medieval." The offending words, which
also include "mocha" (changed to "espresso") and "expression" (replaced by
"statement"), are blacklisted because they could be used for cross-site
scripting -- embedding potentially dangerous code into a Web page or an
e-mail message written in HTML. (New Scientist 15 Jul 2002)
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SHA-MAIL
Cell phone photos ("sha-mail," from the Japanese word shashin for
photography) are all the rage in Japan, and the Sharp Corporation, a
pioneer in camera-equipped cell phones, is leading the industry. ING
analyst Hitoshi Hayakawa says, "Whether or not a handset has a camera
attached is a major factor in purchasing decisions. Choosing camera phones
over non-camera phones is becoming the leading trend in the industry." The
expectation is that by March 2003 one in every three handsets in Japan will
have a camera attached. (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 16 Jul 2002)
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A trade association for the video software industry has released the
billion; DVD sales passed VHS tape sales, which fell 9% to $4.9 billion;
renters spent $7 billion on tapes, down 26%, and $1.4 billion on discs, up
100%; and just 25% of homes have players, with that figure expected to
reach 35% expected by year's end. (USA Today 16 Jul 2002)
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FTC 'TEASER' SITES TAKE AIM AT UNWARY CONSUMERS
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the results on search engines when users type in requests for everything
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attempt to reach consumers before they are victims of fraud. "We want to
try to reach out to them and give them information that they can use to
critically evaluate offers that they are receiving. And allow them to
recognize and avoid deception before falling victim to it." He says the
sites are designed to educate and empower consumers, not to make them feel
silly or like they've been "had." The sites also provide links to complaint
forms and tips provided by the FTC at www.ftc.gov. (CNN.com 11 Jul 2002)
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PRETTY POOR PRIVACY FROM NETWORK ASSOCIATES
A computer security company has uncovered a flaw in PGP (Pretty Good
Privacy) -- a freely distributed, public key encryption system that's used
to scramble e-mail messages -- that could allow malicious users to
unscramble sensitive messages. The flaw is found only in PGP plug-ins for
Microsoft Outlook users distributed by Network Associates. "The PGP
vulnerability enables an attacker to send a specially crafted e-mail to any
Outlook address enabled with the PGP plug-in, which will in turn give them
access to that system," says eEye Digital Security, which discovered the
problem. EEye chief hacking officer Marc Maiffret says the flaw allows an
attacker to do "anything a user of that machine could do -- copy files,
delete files, install a backdoor." Gartner research director for Internet
security John Pescatore says, "This vulnerability means people using [the
affected] version of PGP actually are less secure than if they weren't
using security at all. It's always a really, really bad thing when a
security product has a bug." (NewsFactor Network 11 Jul 2002)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/18560.html
["Greed Is Good". . .Michael Douglas, in Wall Street]
CONFLICT OF INTEREST IS GOOD, NOT BAD
Defending well-connected Stanford University president John Hennessy from
critics who charge him with having conflicts of interests, venture
'greasing' metaphor, but that's the way the world works. Conflict of
interest is good, it is not bad." Tight connections are in fact what have
allowed Silicon Valley to achieve the level of success envied throughout
the world. Hennessy stresses that there's an important distinction between
merely "perceived" or "possible" conflicts and actual actions that conflict
with the interests of his employer. "University policies require you to
disclose possible conflicts. That is exactly the method I use." Ethicist
encourages the careers of people they know. And if they're doing well, they
invest in them... I don't see any conflict of interest of significant
concern here." (San Jose Mercury News 11 Jul 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3647476.htm
SEARCH ENGINES SLOW TO IDENTIFY SPONSOR-DRIVEN RESULTS
A new survey by the Associated Press has found that most search engines,
with the prominent exception of Google, have not met the Federal Trade
Commission's guidelines for building "clear and conspicuous" distinctions
between fee-based results and those produced by objective formulas. Only
Google met all the FTC criteria for clarity and openness. Search engines
that failed to meet one or more of the criteria included Alltheweb, AOL,
AltaVista, AskJeeves, Hotbot, Looksmart, Lycos, MSN, Overture, Netscape,
and Yahoo. Gary Ruskin, the executive director of the consumer watchdog
not their search results are being bought by big business."
(AP/USA Today 12 Jul 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/07/12/online-search-engines.htm
In our postmodern world we have, it seems, exchanged knowledge
of history and science (a knowledge of production) for knowledge
of products and how such products interlock to form coherent
social patterns (a knowledge of consumption). James B. Twitchell
[This is what happens in a world driven by MBAs. Michael Hart]
***
RECYCLING LAW COULD MEAN PRICEY PCs IN EUROPE
The price of computers in Europe could rise by $50 apiece once new
environmental laws are enacted that mandate the recycling of old machines.
"IT directors should be warning the board that they will be expected to pay
for this in their acquisition costs," says Gartner researcher Brian
Gammage. "People will start looking at leasing options and per seat
options, especially in larger companies, as a way to overcome these costs."
Meanwhile, a director of one recycling firm says problems could emerge
because manufacturers aren't yet ready to deal with the huge numbers of old
computers they'll have to handle when they sell new ones to large
companies. "What will happen to the equipment that corporations are getting
rid of? Because they will be getting rid of thousands of machines at a
time." (BBC News 11 Jul 2002)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2121000/2121954.stm
[Gee, they couldn't possibly try to break down the Digital Divide, eh?]
***
[There are 80 million online users in the US alone, out of about 100
million households, of which just over 50 million have computers.
I wonder what percentage have computers that are not online? I have
friends who have two computers, one of which they keep offline to get
more protection from the Net problems such as virii, spam, etc....]
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COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION WOULD LIMIT RIGHTS
Reps. Howard Coble of North Carolina and Howard Berman of California
have drafted a bill that could potentially put severe limits on fair
use while giving Webcasters something of a reprieve. Currently, the
doctrine of fair use allows consumers to make copies of copyrighted
content for specific purposes, including educational and other
nonprofit activities. The bill, as currently drafted, would end the
exemption that allows this copying. But the bill would make legal the
temporary copies that Webcasters must use to broadcast files over the
Internet. Some groups have complained that these temporary copies
violate copyright. Civil rights and academic groups oppose the
restrictions on fair use in the bill, and some noted that the exemption
for Webcasters would be moot if Congress enacts a royalty schedule,
which could force many Webcasters out of business.
CNET, 11 July 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-943134.html
FLAW EXPOSED IN PGP
Researchers at eEye Digital Security Inc. have revealed a critical flaw
in the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) plug-in for Outlook. Marc Maiffret of
eEye said the flaw is fairly inconspicuous, but it could allow a hacker
total access to a user's system. The problem is that PGP mishandles
certain types of e-mails. By sending an e-mail with the necessary
malicious code to Outlook users with the plug-in, hackers could execute
harmful programs, read victims' e-mail, access encryption keys for
other data, or, as Maiffret said, "do whatever you want." Maiffret
taken extra steps to be secure. Network Associates, which until
recently distributed PGP, has posted a free patch on its Web site
(http://www.nai.com/).
Wall Street Journal, 10 July 2002 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1026341465826689040,00.html
STANFORD PRESIDENT LINKS STUDENTS WITH INVESTORS
John Hennessy has a long history of involvement with technology
start-ups and venture capitalists. As the current president of Stanford
University, situated in the heart of Silicon Valley, Hennessy uses his
connections and influence to connect student and faculty projects with
potential investors when he sees a project he considers promising. But
because Hennessy invests his own money in some of the venture capital
firms involved with student and faculty projects, some have complained
of potential conflicts of interest. According to critics, even the
perception that Hennessy might profit from his position casts a shadow
on his credibility. Hennessy and the chairman of Stanford's Board of
Trustees dismiss the complaints, saying that Hennessy complies with all
of the disclosure regulations. They also said that the potential for
conflict is quite small, given that Hennessy's investments are with a
diverse portfolio of clients, not tied directly to any specific project.
San Jose Mercury News, 11 July 2002
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INTERNET WILL SURVIVE WORLDCOM COLLAPSE
With many analysts predicting that WorldCom is on the verge of declaring
bankruptcy, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has asked FCC Chairman Michael Powell
to take steps to ensure that thousands of WorldCom customers in more than
100 countries will retain their access to e-mail accounts. According to
WorldCom CEO John Sidgmore, the company's UUNet subsidiary handles more
than 50% of the U.S. Internet traffic, including 70% of all e-mails sent
within the U.S. and half of all the e-mails sent in the world. Sidgmore
says UUNet will continue to operate, regardless of what happens to
WorldCom. "There's just a recognition that you can't let that go down given
how much traffic rolls over it," says a Yankee Group analyst. Analysts did
express concern, however, that WorldCom layoffs could lead to fewer
engineers available to maintain the network. (AP 3 Jul 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020703/D7KHBCOG0.html
NEC, IBM TO SELL SECOND-HAND PCs
NEC and IBM Japan are planning to encourage corporate customers to return
their used PCs so they can resell them in an effort to tap growing demand
for cheaper second-hand models. IBM Japan plans to collect some 60,000 used
PCs per year and resell about 5% of those, complete with a three-month
warranty. It must first obtain a license from Japan's environment ministry
to collect and recycle the machines. NEC says it intends to start reselling
used PCs later this fiscal year through an affiliate, although it must
still finalize plans for doing so. According to MultiMedia Research
Institute, the second-hand PC market is forecast to expand about 20% a
year, eventually cannibalizing up to 10% of new model sales.
(Reuters 2 Jul 2002)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=7&u=/nm/20020
702/tc_nm/tech_japan_nec_dc_1
TERRORIST COMPUTER GAMES FOR THE NEW "ARMY OF ONE"
The U.S. Army is releasing the first installment of a new computer game
series called "America's Army," offering teenagers an opportunity to fight
videogame terrorists and offering Army recruitment officers a chance to
present those potential recruits with "a realistic, engaging view of
today's modern Army." Game players will be able to undergo basic training
and fight in ten multiplayer missions, including one to defend the Alaskan
pipeline. Does the game show blood? Army official Paul Boyce says, "We're
very careful on the blood thing. The team even debated about whether or not
the military is a very carefully sanctioned and organized approach in a
time of threat. You must use it as the last resort." (AP/USA Today 2 Jul 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2002/7/03/americas-army.htm
STARTUP SPINS TUNES ON GAMEBOYS
Santa Monica, Calif. startup SongPro is launching a device this fall that
plays digital music in various formats on GameBoy consoles. In addition to
the standard MP3 and Windows Media Audio formats, the SongPro device will
also accommodate a proprietary SongPro Audio, or SPA, format that will use
the GameBoy's screen to display lyrics and pictures. The GameBoy screen
will also be used to display advertising, which will enable some of the
content to be offered free through an ad-supported model. "Certainly the
record companies, the artists and their management have responded very
favorably to this," says SongPro CEO Jon Richmond. Future SongPro plans
call for branching out into other kinds of digital media, such as slide
shows, and other technology platforms, including PDAs and cell phones.
(Reuters/CNet 1 Jul 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-941105.html
[For Those Who Keep Telling Me Exobyte Drive Systems Won't Happen]
SPINTRONICS SHRINKS DATA STORAGE TO NANOSCALE
Researchers at the University at Buffalo in New York have developed a
nickel-based, magnetic sensor, measuring only a few atoms in diameter, that
could increase data storage capacity 1,000 times through the use of
spintronics -- a field that takes advantage of electron spin as well as
charge. Current technology used in data-reading sensors is based on giant
magnetoresistance (GMR), where sensor resistance changes in a magnetic
field. The new sensor developed at UB creates an effect called ballistic
magnetoresistance (BMR), which uses an electrical conductor only a few
atoms in size. Researchers say the technology could ultimately make it
possible to store 50 or more DVDs on a hard drive the size of a credit
card, or enable military personnel to carry supercomputers the size of a
wristwatch into the field. (NewsFactor 1 Jul 2002)
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18446.html
FTC WARNS SEARCH ENGINE SITES TO IDENTIFY PAYING CUSTOMERS
The Federal Trade Commission is sending letters to various Web search
engine operators (such as AltaVista, AOL Time Warner, iWon.com, Looksmart,
Microsoft, Terra Lycos, and Direct Hit) warning them to make it clear to
consumers when search results yield sites that have paid for inclusion in
those results. Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert, an organization that had
engines disclose when ads are ads, then search engine users will flee those
engines that have no editorial integrity." One corporate executive who is
believe that the paid listings that we display on our site are delineated
from our search results, and that the disclosure is not misleading." (New
York Times 2 Jul 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/technology/02SEAR.html
[The Return Of "Time Share" Computing???]
IBM PUTS A METER ON SOFTWARE USE
IBM is introducing a new service called Linux Virtual Services that enables
customers to run a wide variety of software applications on IBM mainframes
located in company data centers, and pay rates based largely on the amount
of computing power they use. This metered payment system marks a major
shift from the more conventional outsourcing and Web hosting arrangements
typical today. IBM executive James Corgel touted the new service, saying
"we see a huge opportunity going forward. Our best estimate is that in five
years, 10% to 15% of the $1 trillion IT market will be in the form of
on-demand computing," with utility computing a significant part. Industry
analysts remain a little more cautious about the prospects for metered
computing. "We know customers are interested in doing this, but we don't
know how many will," says one market researcher. Another added that "the
pricing is still very complicated. It's not like electricity or even phone
service." (Wall Street Journal 1 Jul 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1025472035492706880.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
MUSIC INDUSTRY WAGES GUERRILLA WARFARE AGAINST P2P SERVICES
In a practice called "spoofing," the music industry has been swamping
online music-swapping services like Morpheus, Kazaa, and Grokster with
thousands of phony or mangled music files rather than the sought-after
any of this with any kind of promotion or marketing in mind. We're doing
this simply because we believe people are stealing our stuff and we want to
stymie the stealing." And Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry
one of the only ways -- as a practical matter -- to deal with the
peer-to-peer problem is by means of technological measures. There are
certainly mechanisms that are available -- that are completely lawful, such
as spoofing.'' (San Jose Mercury-News 27 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560365.htm
ERGONOMICS FOR THE VERY YOUNG
An elementary school in Washington state is one of the few to offer an
ergonomics program for children that teaches them how to avoid repetitive
stress injuries while working on the computer. The "Get TechFit!" program
touts the benefits of taking frequent breaks, using correct posture, and
exercising fatigued muscles. Ergonomics experts say that just as women are
injured in the workplace more often than men because they must extend their
wrists and arms unnaturally to type and use the mouse, children are also
undersized for most workstation setups. "If you're a small-wristed child,
you will be in greater extension," says Peter Johnson, a professor at the
University of Washington who's studied workplace injury. Johnson says
computers generally are better designed for men, who have broader shoulders
and thicker wrists. (AP 28 Jun 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020628/D7KE5T280.html
ICANN PROPOSES RULES TO FIGHT CYBERSQUATTING
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) says it's
close to adopting new procedures that would make it easier for individuals
and businesses to avoid extortion by cybersquatters, and would establish a
waiting list for coveted domains that become newly available to the public.
The first measure would establish a 30-day grace period for domain name
owners to renew their contracts -- a move intended to prevent speculators
from swooping in and registering an expiring domain name before the owner
has time to renew. "ICANN receives a large number of complaints for
inadvertently deleted domains. It affects churches, schools, businesses,"
says an ICANN spokesman. "We get a lot of complaints from people who wake
up to find their domain has expired and now has porn on it, or it's linked
to a casino site. Then, they'll ask for a ransom to get it back." The
waiting-list proposal would allow a bidder to pay a fee to get first dibs
on any newly available domain names. That proposal has run into opposition
from registrars who say the $28 that VeriSign has proposed charging them
for the service is too high. (Reuters/Wired 27 Jun 2002)
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53518,00.html
LEGISLATION WOULD SANCTION STUDIO HACK ATTACKS
Proposed legislation crafted by California congressman Howard Berman, whose
district includes Hollywood, would provide a shield against legal liability
for copyright owners, such as record labels and movie studios, that used
high-tech attacks against peer-to-peer Web sites to stop them from enabling
illegal file-sharing. "While P2P technology is free to innovate new and
more efficient methods of distribution that further exacerbate the piracy
problem, copyright owners are not equally free to craft technological
responses," says Berman. "This is not fair." Included in the actions a
copyright holder swamps a P2P file server with false requests so that
downloads can't get through; redirection, in which would-be file swappers
are pointed to a site that doesn't contain the files they're seeking; and
spoofing, in which a corrupt or otherwise undesirable file masquerades as
the song or movie file being sought by a file swapper. File-swapping
companies criticized the bill, saying it opens the door for copyright
holders to conduct "cyber warfare" against consumers.
(CNet News.com 25 Jun 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939333.html?tag=fd_top
HOME WIRELESS NETWORKS GO MAINSTREAM
The price of wireless networks has dropped so dramatically -- they're now
in the $200 range -- that homeowners are snapping them up as a less messy
alternative to traditional wiring. The number of home network devices
shipped is expected to nearly double this year, as wireless gear based on
newer, faster technologies such as the AirPlus products introduced earlier
this month by D-Link, hit the market. Although some consumers report
hassles in installing the networks, the technology is well suited to the
networking needs of the increasing number of broadband-equipped households
with multiple computers. (Wall Street Journal 26 Jun 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1025039743158381200.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
WEB SITES USED BY AMERICANS TO GET CHEAPER DRUGS FROM CANADA
A number of Web sites (including canadianmedsusa.com, canadadrugs.com,
canadameds.com, and pharmacy-online.ca) are now offering a way for U.S.
citizens to buy prescription drugs more cheaply through Canadian sources.
U.S. law actually prohibits the practice, but the Federal Drug
Administration has, for reasons of compassion, refrained from actively
enforcing the law. To order from Canada, customers must have a prescription
signed by an American physician, submit a detailed medical questionnaire,
and have undergone a physical exam within the past year. However, the
Canadian Medical Association is questioning the ethics of Canadian doctors
writing Canadian prescriptions based solely on a written questionnaire and
medications, you have a professional responsibility to do a history, a
physical and then discuss with the patient the risks and benefits of the
medication. This is something Canadian physicians should not be doing."
(AP/San Jose Mercury-News 26 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3546354.htm
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SOME LIBRARIES MOVING AWAY FROM BOOKS
Many libraries, particularly those on college campuses, increasingly
face the question of whether technology will replace books as their
primary means of distributing information. Some institutions such as
the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities have thoroughly renovated their
libraries, moving stacks to the basement and installing computer labs
and other technology resources in the main areas of the building. Many
colleges and universities similarly are updating their libraries with
network access, multimedia facilities, and wireless technology. Critics
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genuine learning. Many defend books as being as useful and relevant as
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Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 July 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i44/44a03101.htm
MICROSOFT TO INVEST IN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY IN CHINA
On Thursday, at the end of a two-day visit to China, Microsoft chief
executive Steve Ballmer announced that his company would invest roughly
$750 million over the next three years in the Chinese software
industry. The money will support education, manufacturing, and a number
of local Chinese software companies. The move is seen as partly a
response to widespread software piracy in China. According to that
argument, if there is a strong Chinese software industry that has a
stake in protecting its intellectual property, the incidence of
software piracy will significantly diminish. Ballmer's announcement
also included plans to establish a software college in Shanghai.
Wall Street Journal, 27 June 2002 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1025200584265700160,00.html
FTC SAYS PAID ADS NOT CLEARLY IDENTIFIED
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sent letters to operators of
some search engines requesting clearer distinctions between results
that are not paid for and those that are. The action is in response to
a complaint filed last July by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert
organization. The FTC hopes that the letter will urge search engines to
address the issue voluntarily and quickly, so the commission will not
have to take action to force compliance. Letters were sent to AOL Time
Warner Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ask Jeeves Inc.'s Direct Hit
Technologies, iWon Inc., AltaVista Co., LookSmart Ltd., and Terra
Lycos.
Wall Street Journal, 28 June 2002 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1025301112186101960,00.html
TIME WARNER UPSET AT PROVIDERS OF FREE NETWORKS
Groups promoting free wireless networks argue that if enough users
establish Wi-Fi networks, the resulting overlap of wireless coverage
can provide a free, high-speed network covering, for example, a
metropolitan area. Subscribers to Time Warner Cable, however, are
reportedly in violation of the company's subscription agreement if
they set up such a network, and Time Warner last week sent letters to
some of its customers pointing out this violation. According to an
official at Time Warner, "We're trying to keep people from
redistributing the service we sell them." Some other broadband Internet
providers do allow such wireless networks using their service. An
official from New York-based ISP Acecape said the extra customers they
earned by allowing such usage of its service offset the revenues lost
through the free networks.
New York Times, 1 July 2002 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/technology/01WIFI.html
WEB PUBLISHERS SUE OVER POP-UP ADS
Operators of several Web sites, including Washington Post Company, Dow
Jones & Company, and The New York Times Company, have sued Gator, a
company that makes software that helps users enter passwords and other
information online. The password software, however, includes features
that deliver pop-up advertisements. Those ads, according to the group
of publishers, violate trademark because there is an implication that
the operator of the Web site being viewed has authorized the ad that
pops up. Officials at Gator have called the suit ridiculous, saying
that many other applications that display information in separate
windows, such as instant messaging programs, would have to be
considered illegal if the publishers' argument is valid. A survey of
users conducted by the plaintiffs showed that 16 percent of people who
use Gator's password software do not know that it puts pop-up ads on
their computers.
New York Times, 28 June 2002 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/business/28GATO.html
ICANN VOTES TO LIMIT BOARD MEMBERSHIP
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted
on Friday at its meeting in Romania not to allow its Board of Directors
to include members elected from the pool of Internet users at large.
Instead, Board membership will be limited to representatives of
technical, business, government, and nonprofit organizations, according
to the unanimous vote. Critics said the move amounts to a lack of
representation for many of the 425 million global Internet users. ICANN
chief executive Stuart Lynn said the new system will still allow users
to be represented by various constituencies on the Board, including
government and other groups. ICANN has also been criticized for having
a U.S. bias, and Friday's vote did little to mollify those complaints.
CNET, 28 June 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-940291.html
NEW CHIP-MAKING PROCESS MAY OUTPACE MOORE'S LAW
Stephen Chou, a researcher at Princeton University, said he has
developed a procedure for making computer chips that could increase
their capacity 100-fold. The process, called laser assisted direct
input (LADI), involves pressing a quartz mold onto a piece of silicon
and shooting it with a laser for a very short time. The silicon melts
and quickly rehardens into the new shape. The result is imprinting
silicon with features as small as 10 nanometers, significantly smaller
than current methods allow. The process is also claimed to produce
chips much more cheaply, more quickly, and without the environmentally
unfriendly chemicals required of traditional chip-making methods. Some
observers noted that the process is in the very early stages of
development and is probably not "inherently useful in the near term."
NewsFactor Network, 28 June 2002
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18432.html
MUSIC INDUSTRY TRIES SPOOFING FILE SWAPPERS
In the latest effort to try to discourage the illegal trading of files,
some in the music industry have begun a campaign of "spoofing," or
sending decoy files to file-swapping networks. The decoys seem to be
legitimate songs, for example, but might only be a small portion that
loops or may have long stretches of silence. Industry officials hope
that by making it more difficult to find and trade functional copies of
their copyrighted material, some users will be persuaded to buy the CD
they want. Industry experts pointed out that seasoned file traders and
those with higher levels of technical expertise are not likely to be
fooled by the spoofs, but many more novice users potentially will be.
The practice of spoofing is not illegal, but some say it will do little
to stem the tide of piracy.
San Jose Mercury News, 27 June 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560365.htm
STUDY PUTS A NUMBER TO LOSSES FROM BUGGY SOFTWARE
A new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) says that the U.S. economy loses almost $60 billion annually as
a result of buggy software. According to the study, better testing
could eliminate about one third of that loss, but much of the rest will
remain. The study addressed the problem as it affects three major
industries, automotive, aerospace, and financial services, and
extrapolated those results to the nation as a whole. Authors of the
study did not present specific actions to resolve the problem, but they
did suggest that current methods for testing software are "fairly
primitive" and that significant improvements could be made in that area.
ComputerWorld, 25 June 2002
http://www.idg.net/ic_878966_1794_9-10000.html
LINDOWS CLAIMS LOW-COST ALTERNATIVE TO WINDOWS
Lindows, maker of a Linux-based operating system that is claimed to
allow users to run Windows applications, has announced a new program
that could potentially save significant amounts of money for software
on new computer systems. The program offers computer makers a
subscription service, including technical support, testing tools,
certification eligibility, and a software library, that allows them to
install the operating system on an unlimited number of machines for the
same monthly fee. The program is targeted at computer makers who sell
unbranded PCs and lower-end systems such as those available from
Wal-Mart. Critics noted that the Lindows operating system does not run
many Windows programs and that the way the system works opens users up
to potentially serious security risks.
CNET, 25 June 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-939149.html
[As if Windows doesn't have those same problems. . . .]
AUSTRALIA LEGALIZES MUSIC PIRACY
The Australian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) has agreed
to allow CD-copying kiosks in exchange for a royalty payment. The deal,
the first of its kind, will allow consumers to go to one of the kiosks,
to be located in stores or in public places, and pay $5 each to copy a
music CD. AMCOS, which represents songwriters and music publishers,
agreed to the deal with Little Ripper, a CD-copying company, reportedly
for a flat royalty of about six percent. Observers said that this deal,
which seems to indicate acceptance among copyright owners that piracy
is here to stay, will force the Australian Record Industry Association
(ARIA) into a similar arrangement. Officially ARIA still says that the
kiosks are illegal.
News Interactive, 24 June 2002
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4567037%255E421,00.html
RUSSIA TO SET LIMITS ON WEB
In a vote last week, the Russian Duma supported new restrictions on
anti-government and extremist uses of the Internet. The measure still
needs final approval, which could come this week. The terms of the
legislation forbid using computer networks for "extremism" and allow
the government to shut down without a court order any organization it
deems "extremist." Civil liberties groups in Russia complained that the
law would restrict rights of citizens and would threaten the
"constitutional order in Russia." Victor Naumov, a lecturer at St.
Petersburg State University's law school, said the language of the
measure is vague in many places, leaving some questions about how
exactly it could be applied.
CNET, 24 June 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-938810.html
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June 2002 The Journal of Gregory Blaxland--1813 [GB#01][020041xx.xxx]0075A
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[Editor: Frank Walker (1861-1948)]
June 2002 The Crowned Skull, by Fergus Hume [FH#01][020040xx.xxx]0074A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/0200401.txt or .ZIP]
June 2002 The Road to Wigan Pier, by George Orwell [GO#10][020039xx.xxx]0073A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/0200391.txt or .ZIP]
June 2002 Queen of the Dawn, by H Rider Haggard [HH#04][020038xx.xxx]0072A
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Apr 2004 Arachne, by Ebers, Complete [GE#77][ge77vxxx.xxx]5516
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5508-5515]
Apr 2004 Arachne, by Georg Ebers, v8 [GE#76][ge76vxxx.xxx]5515
Apr 2004 Arachne, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#75][ge75vxxx.xxx]5514
Apr 2004 Arachne, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#74][ge74vxxx.xxx]5513
Apr 2004 Arachne, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#73][ge73vxxx.xxx]5512
Apr 2004 Arachne, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#72][ge72vxxx.xxx]5511
Apr 2004 Arachne, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#71][ge71vxxx.xxx]5510
Apr 2004 Arachne, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#70][ge70vxxx.xxx]5509
Apr 2004 Arachne, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#69][ge69vxxx.xxx]5508
Apr 2004 Complete PG Edition of Winston Churchill [WC#63][wc63wxxx.xxx]5400
Contents:
The Crossing
The Dwelling Place of Light
Mr. Crewe's Career
A Far Country
Coniston
The Inside of the Cup
Richard Carvel
A Modern Chronicle
The Celebrity
The Crisis
Dr. Jonathan (Play)
A Traveller in Wartime
An Essay on the American Contribution and the Democratic Idea]
(Note: the text file is 9.16mb, and the zip file is 3.59mb)
Mar 2004 Essay On American Contribution, Churchill [WC#62][wc62wxxx.xxx]5399
[Title: Essay On The American Contribution And The Democratic Idea]
[Author' full name: Winston Churchill]
Mar 2004 A Traveller in War-Time, by W. Churchill [WC#61][wc61wxxx.xxx]5398
[Author's full name: Winston Churchill
Mar 2004 Dr. Jonathan, (Play) by Winston Churchill [WC#60][wc60wxxx.xxx]5397
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Mar 2004 The Crisis, by Winston Churchill, Complete [WC#59][wc59wxxx.xxx]5396
[Contains: eBooks #5388 to 5395]
Mar 2004 The Crisis, by Winston Churchill, V8 [WC#58][wc58wxxx.xxx]5395
Mar 2004 The Crisis, by Winston Churchill, V7 [WC#57][wc57wxxx.xxx]5394
Mar 2004 The Crisis, by Winston Churchill, V6 [WC#56][wc56wxxx.xxx]5393
Mar 2004 The Crisis, by Winston Churchill, V5 [WC#55][wc55wxxx.xxx]5392
Mar 2004 The Crisis, by Winston Churchill, V4 [WC#54][wc54wxxx.xxx]5391
Mar 2004 The Crisis, by Winston Churchill, V3 [WC#53][wc53wxxx.xxx]5390
Mar 2004 The Crisis, by Winston Churchill, V2 [WC#52][wc52wxxx.xxx]5389
Mar 2004 The Crisis, by Winston Churchill, V1 [WC#51][wc51wxxx.xxx]5388
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Mar 2004 The Celebrity, by W. Churchill, Complete [WC#50][wc50wxxx.xxx]5387
[Author's full name: Winston Churchill]
[Contains: eBooks #5383 to 5386]
Mar 2004 The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill, V4 [WC#49][wc49wxxx.xxx]5386
Mar 2004 The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill, V3 [WC#48][wc48wxxx.xxx]5385
Mar 2004 The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill, V2 [WC#47][wc47wxxx.xxx]5384
Mar 2004 The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill, V1 [WC#46][wc46wxxx.xxx]5383
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by Churchill, Complete [WC#45][wc45wxxx.xxx]5382
[Contains: eBooks #5374 to 5381]
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V8 [WC#44][wc44wxxx.xxx]5381
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V7 [WC#43][wc43wxxx.xxx]5380
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V6 [WC#42][wc42wxxx.xxx]5379
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V5 [WC#41][wc41wxxx.xxx]5378
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V4 [WC#40][wc40wxxx.xxx]5377
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V3 [WC#39][wc39wxxx.xxx]5376
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V2 [WC#38][wc38wxxx.xxx]5375
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V1 [WC#37][wc37wxxx.xxx]5374
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Mar 2004 Richard Carvel, by W. Churchill, Complete [WC#36][wc36wxxx.xxx]5373
[Contains: eBooks #5365 to 5372]
Mar 2004 Richard Carvel, by Winston Churchill, V8 [WC#35][wc35wxxx.xxx]5372
Mar 2004 Richard Carvel, by Winston Churchill, V7 [WC#34][wc34wxxx.xxx]5371
Mar 2004 Richard Carvel, by Winston Churchill, V6 [WC#33][wc33wxxx.xxx]5370
Mar 2004 Richard Carvel, by Winston Churchill, V5 [WC#32][wc32wxxx.xxx]5369
Mar 2004 Richard Carvel, by Winston Churchill, V4 [WC#31][wc31wxxx.xxx]5368
Mar 2004 Richard Carvel, by Winston Churchill, V3 [WC#30][wc30wxxx.xxx]5367
Mar 2004 Richard Carvel, by Winston Churchill, V2 [WC#29][wc29wxxx.xxx]5366
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Mar 2004 Richard Carvel, by Winston Churchill, V1 [WC#28][wc28wxxx.xxx]5365
Mar 2004 Inside Of The Cup, by Churchill, Complete [WC#27][wc27wxxx.xxx]5364
[Title: The Inside Of The Cup]
Mar 2004 Inside Of The Cup, by W. Churchill, V8 [WC#26][wc26wxxx.xxx]5363
Mar 2004 Inside Of The Cup, by W. Churchill, V7 [WC#25][wc25wxxx.xxx]5362
Mar 2004 Inside Of The Cup, by W. Churchill, V6 [WC#24][wc24wxxx.xxx]5361
Mar 2004 Inside Of The Cup, by W. Churchill, V5 [WC#23][wc23wxxx.xxx]5360
Mar 2004 Inside Of The Cup, by W. Churchill, V4 [WC#22][wc22wxxx.xxx]5359
Mar 2004 Inside Of The Cup, by W. Churchill, V3 [WC#21][wc21wxxx.xxx]5358
Mar 2004 Inside Of The Cup, by W. Churchill, V2 [WC#20][wc20wxxx.xxx]5357
Mar 2004 Inside Of The Cup, by W. Churchill, V1 [WC#19][wc19wxxx.xxx]5356
[Author's Full Name: Winston Churchill]
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Mar 2004 Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield [ndrbtxxx.xxx]5347
Mar 2004 Expeditions into Central Australia, by E. J. Eyre [xpcscxxx.xxx]5346
Mar 2004 Expeditions into Central Australia V2, by E.J.Eyre[xpcscxxx.xxx]5345
Mar 2004 Expeditions into Central Australia V1, by E.J.Eyre[xpcscxxx.xxx]5344
[Full title: Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia]
[And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound In The Years 1840-1]
[Full author: Edward John Eyre]
Mar 2004 Rainbow Valley, by Lucy Maud Montgomery [LMM#11][rnbvlxxx.xxx]5343
Mar 2004 The Story Girl, by Lucy Maud Montgomery [LMM#10][strglxxx.xxx]5342
Mar 2004 Kilmeny of the Orchard,by Lucy Maud Montgomery[#9][klmnrxxx.xxx]5341
Mar 2004 Further Chronicles of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery[#8][fcrvnxxx.xxx]5340
Mar 2004 Peter Schlemihl etc.,Chamisso et. al. [ptscxxx.xxx]5339
[Plain text version in ptscxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in ptscxxh.htm/.zip]
Contains:
Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert Chamisso
The Story Without An End by Carode translated by Sarah Austin
Hymns To Night by Novalis translated by Henry Morley
Mar 2004 Mark Rutherford's Deliverance,by M. Rutherford [#2][mkrdxxx.xxx]5338
[Real name: White, William Hayle]
[Plain text version in mkrdxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in mkrdxxh.htm and .zip]
Mar 2004 31 Yrs on the Plains and In the Mountains, Drannan[toypixxx.xxx]5337
[Full Title: Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains]
[Author's Full Name: William F. Drannan]
[Subtitle: Or, the Last Voice From the Plains. An Authentic Record of]
[a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the]
[Far West.]
Mar 2004 Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian,Various [strsbxxx.xxx]5336
[Authors: Bjornson, Bjornstjerne; Aho, Juhani; Goldschmidt, M; Kielland,]
[Alexander; Bremer, Fredrika]
Contains:
The Father
When Father Brought Home the Lamp
The Flying Mail
The Railroad and the Churchyard
Two Friends
Hopes
Mar 2004 Raspberry Jam, by Carolyn Wells [C. Wells#3][rspbjxxx.xxx]5335
Mar 2004 Expeditions into New South Wales, by John Oxley [xpnswxxx.xxx]5334
[Full title: Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales]
Mar 2004 Every Man In His Humor, by Ben Jonson [Jonson#10][emihhxxa.xxx]5333
(Note: This is acompletely different VERSION from our earlier posting:
(Jan 2003 Every Man In His Humour, Ben Jonson [Jonson #1][emihhxxx.xxx]3694)
Mar 2004 The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor, W. Irwin [#2][tlsccxxx.xxx]5332
[Author's Full Name: Wallace Irwin]
Mar 2004 NATURAE, by Dom [Dom #3][domnaxxx.xxx]5331C
[Plain text in domna10.txt/.zip, RTF in domna10r.rtf/.zip]
Mar 2004 Rhyme and Reason, by Dom [Dom #2][domrhxxx.xxx]5330C
[Full title: Rhyme And Reason - A Compilation Of Verses, Rhymes And Senses]
[Plain text in domrh10.txt/.zip, RFT in domrh10r.rtf/.zip]
Mar 2004 PoPHILO, by Dom [Dom #1][dompoxxx.xxx]5329C
[Plain text in dompo10.txt/.zip, RTF in dompo10r.rtf/.zip]
[Note: Dom is a pen name for L.M. Wong]
Mar 2004 Writing for Vaudeville, by Brett Page [vaudexxx.xxx]5328
Mar 2004 Pinocchio in Africa, Cherubini [pnocaxxx.xxx]5327
[Plain text in pnoca10.txt/.zip; HTML WITH images and links in pnoca10hw.zip]
[HTML without images/links in pnocal10h.htm/.zip]
Mar 2004 Venetianische Epigramme, by J. Goethe [Goethe#34][?vepixxx.xxx]5326
[Author's Full Name: Johann Wolfgang Goethe]
[Subtitle: Venetian Epigrams] [Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7vepi10.txt/.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8vepi10.txt/.zip]
Mar 2004 Roemische Elegien, by J. Goethe [Goethe#33][?rmelxxx.xxx]5325
[Author's Full Name: Johann Wolfgang Goethe]
[English title: Roman Elegies] [Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7rmel10.txt/.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8rmel10.txt/.zip]
Mar 2004 The Book of Were-Wolves, by Sabine Baring-Gould [bofwwxxx.xxx]5324
[Plain text in bofww10.txt/.zip, HTML in bofww10h.htm/.zip]
Mar 2004 Effi Briest, by Theodor Fontane [?effixxx.xxx]5323
[Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7effi10.txt/.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8effi10.txt/.zip]
Mar 2004 Woyzeck, by Georg B|chner (Buchner) [Buchner#2][?woyzxxx.xxx]5322
[Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7woyz10.txt/.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8woyz10.txt/.zip]
Mar 2004 Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky[cnsprxxx.xxx]5321
Mar 2004 Taken Alive, by E. P. Roe [Roe#5][tknlvxxx.xxx]5320
Mar 2004 Pagan Papers, by Kenneth Grahame [paganxxx.xxx]5319
[Plain text in pagan10.txt/.zip, HTML in pagan10h.htm/.zip]
Mar 2004 Les Precieuses Ridicules, by Moliere [Moliere #7][?precxxx.xxx]5318
[Author AKA Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] [Language: French]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7prec10.txt/.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8prec10.txt/.zip]
Mar 2004 Through the Magic Door, by Arthur Conan Doyle[#32][ttmgdxxx.xxx]5317
Mar 2004 Krasavitse, Kotoraya Niuhala Tabak, A. Pushkin[#3][kkntaxxx.xxx]5316
[Author's Full Name: Alexander Pushkin]
[Language: Russian]
[Plain text in kknta10.txt/.zip, PDF in kknta10p.zip, tex in kknta10t.zip]
[HTML in kknta10h.htm/.zip]
Mar 2004 Told in the East, by Talbot Mundy [Mundy#5][tintexxx.xxx]5315
Mar 2004 Household Tales by Brothers Grimm, Grimm Brothers [grimmxxa.xxx]5314
[Subtitle: Also known as Grimm's Fairy Tales. 200 tales and 10 legends]
[Note: See also eBook #2591]
[Plain text in grimm10a.txt/.zip, PDF in grimm10ap.pdf, TeX in grimm10at.zip]
Mar 2004 The Herd Boy and His Hermit, by C. M. Yonge [#32][hrdbhxxx.xxx]5313
[Both plain-text and HTML files posted.]
Mar 2004 Mother Goose in Prose, by L. Frank Baum [Baum#21][mtgspxxx.xxx]5312
Mar 2004 Parnassus on Wheels, by Christopher Morley [CM#4][prnswxxx.xxx]5311
Mar 2004 The Point of View, by Elinor Glyn [tpntvxxx.xxx]5310
Mar 2004 Miss Lou, by E. P. Roe [Roe#4][mssluxxx.xxx]5309
Mar 2004 The Paradise Mystery, by J. S. Fletcher [tprdmxxx.xxx]5308
Mar 2004 The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, V.1. [#4][lwam1xxx.xxx]5307
[Translated by Lady Wallace]
Mar 2004 Down the Ravine, Charles Egbert Craddock [#1][dnrvxxxx.xxx]5306
[Author's real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles]
[Plain text version in dnrvxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in dnrvxxh.htm and .zip]
Mar 2004 Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol.2, M. Park [mng2xxxx.xxx]5305
[Author's name: Mungo Park]
[Plain text version in mng2xxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in mng2xxh.htm and .zip]
Mar 2004 My Robin, by Frances Hodgson Burnett [Burnett#13][myrbnxxx.xxx]5304
Mar 2004 Little Hunchback Zia, Frances Hodgson Burnett[#12][lthbzxxx.xxx]5303
[Full title: The Little Hunchback Zia]
Mar 2004 The Land of the Blue Flower, by F. H. Burnett[#11][blfldxxx.xxx]5302
Mar 2004 The Imperialist, by Sara Jeannette Duncan [SJD#4][mprlsxxx.xxx]5301
[Author AKA: Mrs. Everard Cotes]
Mar 2004 Tales and Novels of J. De La Fontaine, All [LF#26][lf26wxxx.xxx]5300
Mar 2004 The Nightingale &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#25][lf25wxxx.xxx]5299
Contains
The Dress-maker
The Gascon
The Pitcher
To Promise is One Thing, to Keep it, Another
The Nightengale
Epitaph of Fontaine
Mar 2004 The Quid Pro Quo &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#24][lf24wxxx.xxx]5298
Contains
The Indiscreet Confession
The Contract
The Quid Pro Quo, or The Mistakes
Mar 2004 The River Scamander &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#23][lf23wxxx.xxx]5297
Contains
The River Scamander
The Confidant Without Knowing It, or The Strategem
The Clyster
Mar 2004 The Picture &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#22][lf22wxxx.xxx]5296
Contains
The Picture
The Pack-Saddle
The Ear-maker, and The Mould-Mender
Mar 2004 The Spectacles &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#21][lf21wxxx.xxx]5295
Contains
The Spectacles
The Bucking Tub
The Impossible Thing
Mar 2004 Neighbor Peter's Mare &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#20][lf20wxxx.xxx]5294
Contains
The Devil in Hell
Neighbor Peter's Mare
Mar 2004 King Candaules &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#19][lf19wxxx.xxx]5293
Contains
The Psalter
King Candaules and the Doctor of Laws
Mar 2004 Feronde &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#18][lf18wxxx.xxx]5292
Contains
The Case of Conscience
The Devil of Pope-fig Island
Feronde
Mar 2004 The Progress of Wit &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#17][lf17wxxx.xxx]5291
Contains
The Progress of Wit
The Sick Abbess
The Truckers
Mar 2004 The Amorous Courtesan & Nicaise, Fontaine[LF#16][lf16wxxx.xxx]5290
Mar 2004 The Mandrake & The Rhemese, by La Fontaine[LF#15][lf15wxxx.xxx]5289
Mar 2004 The Hermit &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#14][lf14wxxx.xxx]5288
Contains
The Countryman Who Sought His Calf
Hans Carvel's Ring
The Hermit
The Convent Gardener of Lamporechio
Mar 2004 St. Julian's Prayer, by De La Fontaine[LF#13][lf13wxxx.xxx]5287
Mar 2004 Monks of Catalonia & The Cradle, Fontaine[LF#12][lf12wxxx.xxx]5286
Contains
The Monks of Catalonia
The Cradle
Mar 2004 Friar Philip's Geese & Minutolo, Fontaine[LF#11][lf11wxxx.xxx]5285
Contains
Preface to The Second Book
Friar Philips Geese
Richard Minutolo
Mar 2004 Imitation of Anacreon &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#10][lf10wxxx.xxx]5284
Contains
The Two Friends
The Country Justice
Alice Sick
The Kiss Returned
Sister Jane
An Imitation of Anacreon
Another Imitation of Anacreon
Mar 2004 Belphegor & Little Bell &c, De La Fontaine[LF#09][lf09wxxx.xxx]5283
Contains
Belphegor
The Little Bell
The Glutton
Mar 2004 The Ephesian Matron &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#08][lf08wxxx.xxx]5282
Contains
The Eel Pie
The Magnificent
The Ephesian Matron
Mar 2004 The Falcon & Little Dog, by De La Fontaine[LF#07][lf07wxxx.xxx]5281
Contains
The Falcon
The Little Dog
Mar 2004 The Magick Cup, by De La Fontaine[LF#06][lf06wxxx.xxx]5280
Mar 2004 Princess Bethrothed to Garba, La Fontaine[LF#05][lf05wxxx.xxx]5279
[Title: The Princess Bethrothed to the King of Garba
Mar 2004 Old Man's Calendar &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#04][lf04wxxx.xxx]5278
Contains
The Old Man's Calendar
The Avaricious Wife and Tricking Galant
The Jealous Husband
The Gascon Unpunished
Mar 2004 Muleteer & Three Gossips, by De La Fontaine[LF#03][lf03wxxx.xxx]5277
Contains
The Muleteer
The Servant Girl Justified
The Three Gossips' Wager
Mar 2004 Contented Cuckold &c, by De La Fontaine[LF#02][lf02wxxx.xxx]5276
Contains
The Cudgelled and Contented Cuckold
The Husband Confessor
The Cobbler
The Peasant and His Angry Lord
Mar 2004 Joconde, by De La Fontaine[LF#01][lf01wxxx.xxx]5275
Contains
La Fontaine's Life
Preface
Jaconde
Mar 2004 The Chaplet of Pearls, by Charlotte M Yonge [#31][chpltxxx.xxx]5274
[Plain text version in chpltxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in chpltxxh.htm/.zip]
Mar 2004 Darwiniana, by Asa Gray [drwnaxxx.xxx]5273
Mar 2004 The Sea Fogs, by Robert Louis Stevenson [RLS#40][seafoxxx.xxx]5272
Mar 2004 Marjorie's Vacation, by Carolyn Wells [Wells#2][mrjrexxx.xxx]5271
Mar 2004 The Film Mystery, by Arthur B. Reeve [Reeve#12][flmmsxxx.xxx]5270
Mar 2004 Driven Back to Eden, by E. P. Roe [Roe#3][drvbkxxx.xxx]5269
Mar 2004 Courts and Criminals, by Arthur Train [crtcrxxx.xxx]5268
Mar 2004 Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser [Dreiser #1] [scarrxxa.xxx]5267
(See also #233 from a different source)
Mar 2004 Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol.1, M. Park [mng1xxxx.xxx]5266
[Author's name: Mungo Park]
[Plain text version in mng1xxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in mng1xxh.htm and .zip]
Mar 2004 The Ball and The Cross, by G.K. Chesterton [GC#15][bllcrxxx.xxx]5265
Mar 2004 Patty's Butterfly Days, by Carolyn Wells [ptbfdxxx.xxx]5264
Mar 2004 The Girl Scout Pioneers, by Lillian C Garis [gspnrxxx.xxx]5263
Mar 2004 Curly and Floppy Twistytail,by Howard R. Garis[#2][crfltxxx.xxx]5262
Mar 2004 Constance Dunlap, by Arthur B. Reeve [Reeve#11][cnsdpxxx.xxx]5261
Mar 2004 A Duet, by Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle#32][duetxxx.xxx]5260
[Subtitle: with an occasional chorus]
[Plain text version in duetxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in duetxxh.htm and .zip]
Mar 2004 Hildegarde's Neighbors, by Laura E. Richards [#4][4hldgxxx.xxx]5259
Mar 2004 Ainsi Parlait Zarathoustra, Frederic Nietzsche[#3][?nszrxxx.xxx]5258
Also posted: HTML version in 8nszr10h.htm and 8nszr10h.zip
Mar 2004 The Broad Highway, by Jeffery Farnol [Farnol#3][brhgwxxx.xxx]5257
Mar 2004 Jonathan Wild, by Henry Fielding [Fielding#3][thllmxxx.xxx]5256
[Full title: The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great]
Mar 2004 The Book of Good Manners, by W. C. Green [tbkgmxxx.xxx]5255
Mar 2004 Apple Tree Island, by Mabel C. Hawley [flbatxxx.xxx]5254
[Full title: Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island]
Mar 2004 The Maid of the Whispering Hills, by Vingie E. Roe[tmwhlxxx.xxx]5253
Mar 2004 The Voyage of Verrazzano, by Henry C. Murphy [verraxxx.xxx]5252
[Subtitle: A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America]
Mar 2004 The Long Vacation, by Charlotte M. Yonge[Yonge#30][lvacaxxx.xxx]5251
Mar 2004 Nana, by Emile Zola [Zola#7][7zolaxxx.xxx]5250
[Language: French]
Mar 2004 Travels in England in 1782, by Charles P. Moritz [tengxxxx.xxx]5249
[Author AKA: Karl Philipp Moritz]
[Plain text version in tengxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in tengxxh.htm and .zip]
Mar 2004 The Dock Rats of New York, by "Old Sleuth" [dckrtxxx.xxx]5248
[Author's real name: Harlan Page Halsey]
Mar 2004 The Old Wives' Tale, by Arnold Bennett [Bennett#5][thldwxxx.xxx]5247
Mar 2004 Modern French Philosophy, J. Alexander Gunn [mfphixxx.xxx]5246
[Subtitle: A Study of the Development Since Comte]
[Plain text version in mfphi10.txt/.zip, HTML in mfphi10h.htm/.zip]
Mar 2004 Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3, John Payne [#5][tftaaxxx.xxx]5245
Mar 2004 Tales from the Arabic Volume 3, by John Payne [#4][tfta3xxx.xxx]5244
Mar 2004 Tales from the Arabic Volume 2, by John Payne [#3][tfta2xxx.xxx]5243
Mar 2004 Tales from the Arabic Volume 1, by John Payne [#2][tfta1xxx.xxx]5242
Mar 2004 The Eye of Zeitoon, by Talbot Mundy [Mundy#3][zeitoxxx.xxx]5241
Mar 2004 Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete [HL#7][chl7wxxx.xxx]5240
[Author:Charles James Lever (1806-1872)][Includes: EBook #5234 to 5239]
Mar 2004 Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, v6, Ch.42-55[HL#6][chl6wxxx.xxx]5239
Mar 2004 Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, v5, Ch.29-41[HL#5][chl5wxxx.xxx]5238
Mar 2004 Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, v4, Ch.24-28[HL#4][chl4wxxx.xxx]5237
Mar 2004 Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, v3, Ch.18-23[HL#3][chl3wxxx.xxx]5236
Mar 2004 Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, v2, Ch.11-17[HL#2][chl2wxxx.xxx]5235
Mar 2004 Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, v1, Ch. 1-10[HL#1][chl1wxxx.xxx]5234
Mar 2004 The Iron Trail, by Rex Beach [Beach#6][rntrlxxx.xxx]5233
Mar 2004 Sejanus: His Fall, by Ben Jonson [Jonson#9][sjnsfxxx.xxx]5232
Mar 2004 The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope [AT#36][wwlvnxxx.xxx]5231
Mar 2004 The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells [Wells#23][nvsblxxx.xxx]5230
Mar 2004 Felix O'Day, by F. Hopkinson Smith [Smith#7][flxdyxxx.xxx]5229
Mar 2004 Ayesha, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard#38][ayshaxxx.xxx]5228
Mar 2004 Sant' Ilario, by F. Marion Crawford [Crawford#2][silarxxx.xxx]5227
Mar 2004 Thomas Henry Huxley Vol. 2, by Leonard Huxley [#2][llth2xxx.xxx]5226
[Full title: The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2]
Mar 2004 The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, Complete[PA#8][pas8wxxx.xxx]5225
[Translator: W. C. Firebaugh][Includes Etexts #5218 to 5224]
Mar 2004 Satyricon of Petronius, v7, Marchena Notes [PA#7][pas7wxxx.xxx]5224
Mar 2004 Satyricon of Petronius, v6, Editor's Notes [PA#6][pas6wxxx.xxx]5223
Mar 2004 Satyricon of Petronius, v5, Crotona Affairs [PA#5][pas5wxxx.xxx]5222
Mar 2004 Satyricon of Petronius, v4, Escape by Sea [PA#4][pas4wxxx.xxx]5221
Mar 2004 Satyricon of Petronius, v3, Encolpius et al [PA#3][pas3wxxx.xxx]5220
Mar 2004 Satyricon of Petronius, v2, Trimalchio [PA#2][pas2wxxx.xxx]5219
Mar 2004 Satyricon of Petronius, v1, Introduction [PA#1][pas1wxxx.xxx]5218
Mar 2004 Tales, by George Crabbe [Crabbe#7][gcrgxxxx.xxx]5217
[Plain text version in gcrgxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in gcrgxxh.htm and .zip]
Mar 2003 Film: Set of 4 Atomic Bomb Test Films [atom4xxx.xxx]5216
[Posted as atom410m.mpg and .zip]
Mar 2003 Film: Several Different Atomic Detonations [atomixxx.xxx]5215
[Posted as atomi10m.mpg and .zip]
Mar 2003 Film: The Bikini Island BAKER Atomic Test [bbakexxx.xxx]5214
[Posted as bbake10m.mpg and .zip]
Mar 2003 Film: The Bikini Island ABLE Atomic Test [bablexxx.xxx]5213
[Posted as bable10m.mpg and .zip]
Mar 2003 Film: The Trinity Shot (first US Atomic Test) [tshotxxx.xxx]5212
[Posted as tshot10m.mpg and .zip]
[The films above are in MPEG format and are short (9-60 seconds).
(See "atomi10m-readme.txt", also in the .zip files, for further information)
[See also eBooks #277, 279, 279 and 548]
Mar 2004 The Famous Missions of California, by W. Hudson[2][fmcalxxx.xxx]5211
[Author's Full Name: William Henry Hudson]
Mar 2004 The Borough, by George Crabbe [Crabbe#6][gcrfxxxx.xxx]5210
[Plain text version in gcrfxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in gcrfxxh.htm and .zip]
Mar 2004 Miscellaneous Poems, by George Crabbe [Crabbe#5][gcrexxxx.xxx]5209
[Plain text version in gcrexxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in gcrexxh.htm and .zip]
Nov 2003 Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah 2, R Burton[#18][pnpa2xxx.xxx]4658
[Full title and author name: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to
Al-Madinah and Meccah, Volumes 1 and 2, by Sir Richard Francis Burton]
May 2002 Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes [lvthnxxx.xxx]3207
[Subtitle: Or, the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Eclesiastical]
[and Civill]
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