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Correction:
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 09        [09hgpxxa.xxx]3509
The above was previously listed incorrectly as 19hgp. . .
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 09        [19hgpxxa.xxx]3509
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Nov 2002 The Blue Moon, by Laurence Housman                [tblmnxxx.xxx]3539
Nov 2002 The Americanization of Edward Bok, by Edward Bok  [ewbokxxx.xxx]3538
[The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After, by Edward William Bok]
Nov 2002 Frederick The Great And His Family, by L. Muhlbach[ftghfxxx.xxx]3537
[Variant spellings: Louise Muhlbach, Luise Muhlbach and Luise von Muhlbach]
Nov 2002 The Enchanted Castle, by E. Nesbit [E. Nesbit #9] [nchtlxxx.xxx]3536

Nov 2002 The Expedition to Botany Bay, by Watkin Tench [#2][tetbbxxx.xxx]3535
[Full Title:  A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay]
Nov 2002 The Settlement at Port Jackson, by Watkin Tench #1[tsapjxxx.xxx]3534
[Full Title:  A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson]
Nov 2002 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town/Stephen Leacock[sskltxxx.xxx]3533
Nov 2002 My Discovery of England, by Stephen Leacock[SL #1][mdscvxxx.xxx]3532
Nov 2002 Quotations of Lord Chesterfield by David Widger #6[dwqlcxxx.xxx]3531
Nov 2002 Love-at-Arms, by Rafael Sabatini    [Sabatini #16][laarmxxx.xxx]3530

Nov 2002 Sweden, Norway and Denmark, by Mary Wollstonecraft[ltswdxxx.xxx]3529
[Full Title: Letters on  Sweden, Norway and Denmark]
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Sep 2002 Vindication of Rights of Woman/Mary Wollstonecraft[vorowxxx.xxx]3420
May 1994 Maria or the Wrongs of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft [maria10x.xxx] 134

Nov 2002 Beethoven: The Man And The Artist/Kerst & Krehbiel[lvbmaxxx.xxx]3528
[Full Title: Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words]
[Authors' Full Names:]
[Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel]
Nov 2002 The Blue Moon, by Laurence Housman                [tblmnxxx.xxx]3527
Nov 2002 Five Weeks in a Balloon, by Jules Verne[Verne #16][5wiabxxx.xxx]3526


Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V5, 1877, Cotton  [MN#05][mn05vxxx.xxx]3585
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V4, 1877, Cotton  [MN#04][mn04vxxx.xxx]3584
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V3, 1877, Cotton  [MN#03][mn03vxxx.xxx]3583
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V2, 1877, Cotton  [MN#02][mn02vxxx.xxx]3582
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V1, 1877, Cotton  [MN#01][mn01vxxx.xxx]3581

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We posted a new and significantly improved 11th edition of:
Nov 2000 Briefe aus der Schweiz, by Goethe       [Goethe21][7schwxxx.xxx]2402
Nov 2000 Briefe aus der Schweiz, by Goethe       [Goethe21][8schwxxx.xxx]2402
[This is a German Etext, the 7 bit file is without accents 8-bit is accented]


Comments About Our New Files

We still need some help with the Arabian Nights, please email me!

We have started Lucy Fitch Perkins' "Twins" series, and if you can
help us find more of these, we would certainly appreciate it.  The
series is a graduated set of readers used in schools a century ago.

Index Listings for the New Files

16 new releases:   [16 per week would make 832 per year]

Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V3, by Richard Burton[31001xxx.xxx]3437
[These are in 7 and 8 bit unaccented and accented versions]
[Filenames are x1001xx7.txt and .zip and x1001xx8.txt and .zip]
[X will be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f and g]
[Full Title:  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night, Volumes 1 - 16]
[Also listed under:
[The Arabian Nights
[A Thousand and One Nights. . .and. . .A Thousand and One Arabian Nights]

Oct 2002 The Swiss Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins    [LFP #2][swtwnxxx.xxx]3497
Oct 2002 The Japanese Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins [LFP #1][jptwnxxx.xxx]3496
Oct 2002 The King of Ireland's Son, by Padraic Colum       [kisonxxx.xxx]3495
Oct 2002 Bluebeard, by Kate Douglas Wiggin[Kate Wiggin #20][blbrdxxx.xxx]3494
Oct 2002 Widger's Quotations from Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.[W5][dwqohxxx.xxx]3493
[Full Title:  Widger's Quotations from the Works of Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.]
Oct 2002 Homespun Tales, by Kate Douglas Wiggin[Wiggin #18][hspunxxx.xxx]3492
Oct 2002 Missy, by Dana Gatlin                             [missyxxx.xxx]3491

Oct 2002 The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie [Barrie #5][theacxxx.xxx]3490
Oct 2002  Fabre, Poet of Science, by G. V. (C. V.) Legros  [fbrpsxxx.xxx]3489

Nov 2002 Music and Other Poems, by Henry van Dyke [HVD #6] [mscopxxx.xxx]3525

Dec 2002 Complete Life of Napoleon, V13, by Constant[NB#30][nc13vxxx.xxx]3580
Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V12, by Constant [NB#29][nc12vxxx.xxx]3579
Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V11, by Constant [NB#28][nc11vxxx.xxx]3578
Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V10, by Constant [NB#27][nc10vxxx.xxx]3577
Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V9, by Constant  [NB#26][nc09vxxx.xxx]3576

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IBM BREAKS DISK DENSITY BARRIER
IBM disk technology researchers have broken what had been regarded as a
fundamental limit in disk density, and the company's Travelstar product
line of notebook hard disks can now be produced with densities up 25.7
billion bits a square inch; by 2003 IBM will be able to achieve disk
density on the Travelstar line to 100 billion bits per square inch. With
disk drive density doubling every 12 months, the technology is advancing
even faster than the rate of Gordon Moore's celebrated "Moore's Law," which
predicted a doubling of transistor density (and computer power) every 18
months.(New York Times 21 May 2001)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/21/technology/21DISK.html


EUROPE: POLICE WANT TO MONITOR ALL NET TRAFFIC
The European Home Office has proposed that ISPs and other network
operators retain data on telecommunications usage, such as
records of e-mail and Internet use, for seven years. The proposal
would grant the police much greater power to intercept and study
data communications. However, the proposal is meeting with stiff
opposition from numerous groups across Europe. Opponents charge
that the proposal places an undue responsibility on ISPs and
other telecom companies. Moreover, opponents say the proposal
challenges the privacy of citizens. "Europe has been at the
forefront of protecting individual privacy--it would be tragic to
turn it into a law enforcement directive," said David Banisar,
deputy director of Privacy International. The United Kingdom's
e-minister Patricia Hewitt has also voiced opposition to the
proposal. To be implemented, the proposal must have the approval
of both he European Council of Ministers and the full European
Parliament.  (ZDNet, 17 May 2001)

NEW STUDY REPEATS ANTI-PRIVACY LEGISLATION MANTRA
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has released a report
criticizing Congressional efforts to legislate privacy as an
unnecessary task better left to the private sector. "Federal
privacy regulations or legislation are unnecessary and...the
private sector is more effective than government in this
increasingly important area," concluded the report, "Keeping
Big Brother From Watching You." Noting that the 107th Congress
has already introduced 40 privacy bills, CAGW president Thomas
A. Schatz blasted the federal government for its "technological
ineptitude" and inability to protect the personal data it
collects from its own citizens. The CAGW report includes
examples of what CAGW considers good, industry-led initiatives
to safeguard online privacy.  (Newsbytes, 16 May 2001)

SOFTWARE TO HELP PROTECT SURFERS
The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) software, which
instantly judges Web site privacy policies so consumers can make
strict choices about privacy levels, will be hitting the market
bundled with Microsoft products this summer. Microsoft will ship
a limited P3P program embedded in its new Web browser. P3P
software itself is already available from various vendors.
Various Web sites, including those of the U.S. Office of National
Drug Control Policy, Hewlett-Packard, America Online, and
Microsoft, have incorporated P3P grading, which warns P3P-enabled
consumers if sites fall below pre-programmed acceptable levels.
Of course, it is likely that the vast majority of Web sites have
not incorporated this mechanism. The World Wide Web Consortium,
which has worked on P3P since 1997, says it will release its P3P
version within six months and will pressure the world's 100 top
Web sites to adopt P3P, building momentum for large-scale adoption.
(Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 May 2001)

SUNY ONLINE EDUCATION ENROLLMENT DOUBLES
Second only to the University of Maryland in its number of online
students, the State University of New York (SUNY) Learning
Network boasts an array of more than 2,000 Internet-delivered
courses for the fall. Last year, 25,814 students were enrolled
in the classes, bankrolled by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and
SUNY. Students pay $3,400 per year for the online classes, the
same as a SUNY campus student minus campus fees. Students can
also enroll through community and other colleges, often at
lower prices. The Learning Network program began in 1995 and
links learners to teachers at 53 educational institutions that
combined will offer over 2,000 courses by this fall.
(Associated Press, 18 May 2001)

EUROPE GAINING GROUND ON INTERNET DOMINANCE
European Internet growth is still steadily on the rise at the same time
that growth in the U.S. online population seems to have leveled off,
according to international research firm Ipsos-Reid. "Though the U.S. still
by far has the largest single user base, non-Americans now outnumber
Americans on the Internet by a clear margin," says the report. "Europe is
poised to become the leader of the next Internet generation. With southern
Europe finally catching up with Northern Europe in terms of Internet usage
and Europe's greater acceptance of wireless applications, you have a
potential Internet market that promises to be as, if not more important
than America's." The U.S. share of global users shrank from 40% to 36% over
the last year, and will continue to drop as the Internet grows far faster
in other parts of the world. (InternetWeek 16 May 2001)
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010516S0006


GATEWAY AND JUNO TO STOP PROMISING "FREE" INTERNET ACCESS
Gateway and Juno Online Services have agreed with a Federal Trade
Commission demand that the two companies make it clearer to customers and
prospective customers that their offers of "free" Internet connections
actually are not free at all. An FTC official said: "These so-called free
Internet access offers were anything but. Information about fees was hidden
in the fine print. The relevant conditions of any offer should be disclosed
clearly and conspicuously so that consumers can make their purchases based
on the facts." (Washington Post 15 May 2001)
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If we are going to continue on past our first goal of 10,000 Etexts,
we are going to need some Big Time public relations help, and some
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We should undoubtedly also try the other talk shows, and "magazine"
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for those who have the knack. . .it's just not MY knack. . .help!!!

2.  Running group of 1,500 volunteers to generate 10,000 Etexts has
been something that IS a knack I have. . .and it hasn't cost a very
large amount of money to do it. . .otherwise you wouldn't know that
we exist. . .but running a group of 10,000 volunteers to create the
1,000,000 Etext that are possible in the NEXT 10 years, is NOT easy
. . .even for someone such as myself. . .it will require more phone
lines and calls than I can afford. . .and more email than I can do,
on my own, so we either need volunteers to help coordinate, or, the
possibility looms that we should actually HIRE people. . . .

When I first started Project Gutenberg in 1971, I was sure I should
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money or take real time to run. . .but for the last 10 years it has
taken just about all the time I have, including what I would need a
lot more of to have a personal life. . .and I would LIKE to have an
expectation that Project Gutenberg would survive at least 10 years,
after I am gone, and hopefully 100, and if I really dream, 1,000!!!

So. . .if you are willing and able to help us with these or in some
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Contents


Overview

0.
Etexts in Various Languages

1.
Copyright

2.
Scanning and Typing

3.
Proofreading

4.
FTP and WWW Sites

5.
Donations

6.
Raiders of the Lost Archives

7.
Special Requests

8.
Programming

9.
New Etexts Needing Proofreading



Followed By More Detailed Information On Most Of These Subjects


*******

0.
Etexts in Various Languages

As you may be aware, this last year we have greatly expanded our
output of Etexts in languages other than English, including:


1.  English
2.  Latin
3.  French
4.  Italian
5.  German
6.  Spanish
7.  Chinese
8.  Japanese
9.  Swedish
10. Danish
11. DNA/ATGC
12. Welsh
13. Portuguese
14. Old Dutch [pre 1949]
15. Bulgarian
16. Dutch/Flemish
17. Greek*  Almost ready!
18. Hebrew*
19. Old French*
20. Polish*
21  Russian*
22. Romanian*
[Those with an * are still in need of work]



1.
Copyright

Project Gutenberg will do copyright research for you if you send us
xeroxes of the title page [both sides, even if one side is blank.]

We need people to hunt through libraries or bookstores for editions
that we can use to legally prepare our Electronic Texts [Etexts.]

Germany, Italy and Great Britain have each extended their copyright
to "life + 70 years," as opposed to the "life +50 years" of "Berne"
copyright conventions.  Residents of those areas will have to be an
extra bit careful, as a million items that used to be Public Domain
in those countries reverted to copyright status, even though a vast
majority of them are no longer for sale.  This is now true for some
other countries, including France and perhaps Brazil and Portugal.

More on the United States Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 in a
"More Detailed Information" section below.


2.
Scanning and Typing

Once we have located some proper edition[s], then our volunteers do
the books by scanning or typing them into the computer.  Usually it
is the same person who does the proofreading, but not necessarily.


If you have a scanner, or have access to one, or plan to get one in
the future, please contact our Director of Production, Dianne Bean,
beandp@primenet.com, with a cc: to me at hart@pobox.com


2.
Proofreading

Often the only way for many of our volunteers to work on Etexts for
us is if they can ship their book to one of you, have it scanned in
and then returned to them for proofreading.

If you could do the scanning for them, it would help us immensely.


4.
FTP and WWW Sites

We would very much like to provide better access to Etext for sites
in Africa and South America, and other locales.  If you know anyone
who might be able to help with this, please read this:

We are always in search of more FTP and World Wide Web sites, so an
increasing number of people can download our books without unusual,
even often fatal, delays and glitches in transmission.

If you, or someone you know, can spare a gigabyte on their servers,
please have them contact us about creating more mirror sites.  This
is a particular need for countries south of the equator, where text
files are only available on one server that we know of.  If you can
help us get our books into South America, Africa, and further, this
would be a great help.  We have something restarted in New Zealand,
with extensions into Australia, but the load this server can handle
is probably going to be easily exhausted.


5.
Donations

Project Gutenberg is almost completely dependent on your donations.

Presently, contributions are only being solicited from people in:
Texas, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota,
Iowa, Indiana, and Vermont. As the requirements for other states
are met, additions to this list will be made and fund raising will
begin in the additional states. These donations should be made to
the "Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation" and mailed to:

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Anything you can do in this are would be greatly appreciated, even,
since we are at this juncture, helping us get more Public Relations
coverage of our 4,000th Etext.

Project Gutenberg sites up updated more than once a day on average,
since we are presenting 600 Etexts per year, and plan to move to at
least 1,000 per year after the "official" listing of 2002.

As I said, anything would be greatly appreciated.  This SHOULD BE a
great time to get some PR. . .but it still appears, even though the
project has been written up probably about 200 times, that they are
going to write us up when THEY have a reason to rather than when WE
have a reason, and we feel it is now time to try to break out of an
entirely too limiting niche in the computer oriented media, and get
some more general publicity out there to the millions of people who
aren't computer oriented at all, but will would like to receive the
Etexts for education or entertainment.  This is a majority of world
population centers, and we should do more to reach them.

If you have any "ins" in the press or with the corporate world, this
would be a good time to use them.


6.
Raiders of the Lost Archives

As you may be aware from several events of a month ago, and earlier,
there is a downside to having Etext archives in limited distribution
modalities, simply because if one site, or one person, or even whole
countries, change their minds about what they are going to archive--
then the whole world loses access to those files.

A good example was the loss of The Oxford Book of English Verse from
Project Bartleby.  We have taken great pains to get this book, which
is undoubtedly important, back on the Net.  If you want to see which
sites have lost this file, just do a Yahoo search for the book, then
count the vast number of sites that have blank entries for the book,
once it was deleted from a multiplicity of links; this is an example
of how important it is for Etexts to be posted on many sites, rather
than just one site will many links to it!!!

We need volunteers who will search the world for every possible book
and help us preserve it.

Project Gutenberg will not release any of this material until we can
do the copyright research and prove it belongs in the Public Domain.

We realize that many of our volunteers sometimes get frustrated that
we do this research, which possibly takes half our time, but it will
become more and more apparent why this is a good policy as copyright
laws become stiffer and stiffer, and world intellectual property can
be limited in greater and great ways.  It is quite likely that it is
going to be some time in the next calendar year that a United States
law killing off another 20 years of public domain in the US will get
passed, to join the countries listed above, in eliminating a million
books from potentially being posted as Etexts, even though 99% are a
dead issue, out of print for decades. . . .


7.
Special Requests

We occasionally receive scanned material which could have benefitted from
more cleanup before it was sent to us. What we need is proofers with
patience to read through an etext and take out stray letters, clean up the
punctuation, and send a list of questionable lines to the person who
scanned it so they can send corrections to be inserted. This usually takes
a couple of weeks, and is a good short-term project for folks who want to
get their feet wet with Project Gutenberg.  Dianne Bean <beandp@primenet.com>


8.
Programming

Due to the various formats in which we receive many of our Etexts,
we need some assistance in writing PERL scripts, vi scripts, or an
assortment of other scripts that will assist our proofreaders, and
our editors, in dealing with page numbers, markups, italics and an
assortment of other formatting issue that come up time to time.

Most of these are fairly trivial and can be solved with a one line
script for each of the particular situations and we just need some
people to either run the scripts we already have, or to write some
new ones from time to time when a particularly rough Etext version
arrives at our doorstep.  These scripts, which take minutes to set
up, and seconds to run, can save HOURS of proofreaders' time.  You
can be a BIG help just running some of these scripts for us, or in
writing or rewriting some of them on occasion.



***


More Detailed Information

1.
Copyright

Copyright Extension Is Also Happening in the United States

Since Project Gutenberg began in 1971, millions of copyrights in
the US should have expired, but are being prevented from expiring
by various political action groups.



2.
Scanning and Typing

We don't really want to get into a public recommendation about what
scanners and OCR [Optical Character Recognition] programs word best
. . .it is really the case that some do better on some books, while
other do better on others.

However, we ARE willing to share our experience if you ask.


3.
Proofreading

Our official accuracy level that we try to maintain has been 99.9%,
for our first release, which is usually raised to 99.95% before the
vast majority of people ever see them, and this standard has been a
standard that has been adopted by most Etext providers, including a
new effort toward Etext by the Library of Congress and the national
libraries of Great Britain and other countries.

What we hope you realize is that any serious effort to get an Etext
to 100% accuracy should take MORE effort than to create an entirely
new Etext with an accuracy level of 99.9% to 99.95%.

While many, even most, of the Project Gutenberg Etexts are accurate
to an amazing degree, even more amazing when you compare then to an
entire world of Etexts prepared by both the scholarly or commercial
Etext enterprises, we do not feel that the additional doubling of a
more than massive effort, to possibly reduce the errors, by another
.02% perhaps, would have anywhere near the value of the preparation
of an entirely new Etext with the same amount of effort.

Nevertheless, even the most famous universities of the world have a
collection of Etexts, many of which have vastly more errors that in
our collection.  This is also true of the commercial Etexts.  Don't
be afraid that your efforts won't be as good as all the others, the
process of improving Project Gutenberg Etexts is never ending.

In addition, there are many volunteers who would prefer to have an
Etext or at least an author selected for them to work on.  As some
of you already know, _I_ have been reluctant to choose for anyone,
not wanting to bias the formation of our collection with my choice
of what are the great books of human history.

I have promised to do several things once we reached Etext #2,000,
one of which is to provide more guidance to those who seek it, and
that guidance will be coming from Dianne Bean, true librarian, who
is also working on the cataloguing project I also promised will be
forthcoming once we reach Etext #2,000.


More on:
Proofreading:  We could also use people who know how to use DIFF or
similar programs that point out differences between two files, even
programmers that might only be able to search our files for matched
and unmatched quotes.  [Remember that when quoting many paragraphs,
each internal paragraph gets only an opening quote.]

Our proofreading is a never-ending story. . .we run spell-checkers,
and other varieties of programs, on our Etexts, and have real human
proofreaders go over them in pretty incredible detail, but we would
be remiss if we did not tell you that over 99% of the books we work
from have their own errors, and that while we catch some of those--
we undoubtedly introduce errors of our own, and even though we will
gladly keep updating our editions, ad infinitum, the odds that this
will catch ALL the errors in the near future are virtually 0%.

Therefore. . .we need you to email us when you have suggestion, and
comments, and when you find possible errors that need correction.


4.
FTP and WWW Sites

We are willing to adjust the bandwidth on various sites by adjusting
the publicity various sites receive, and also by asking our users to
only use certain sites at certain times of the day or night.  So the
drain on sites volunteering to mirror Etexts should not suffer any.


5.
Donations

We have never received any local, regional or national grants; your
donations, and the support of people I would hope to count as my
friends are the backbone of our support.

We could barely survive otherwise.


6.
Raiders of the Lost Archives  [This needs a rewrite]

This is going to be particularly evident if the raggedy performances
that are destroying 99% of the Public Domain continue by raiding the
Public Domain, taking a million works out of the Public Domain, over
a period of 20 years, and putting perhaps 1% of 1% of them back in a
print version so that those who owned the copyrights for the past 75
years and made millions from them, can make another million per year
while 99.99% of those works disappear from public access altogether.

*

Hopefully it has been worth your while to read this far. . .and you will take
a moment to consider making a tax-deductible donation to Project Gutenberg as
we are, as once before, without any financial income, including myself. . .mh


If you would like to volunteer, please contact one of our Directors:

Greg Newby <gbnewby@ils.unc.edu>,  United States
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John Bickers <jbickers@ihug.co.nz> New Zealand
Sue Asscher <asschers@dingoblue.net.au> Australia
David Price <ccx074@coventry.ac.uk> England

We also have have a Director for those interested
in German Etexts, and a current special project of
translating the 1922 German edition of Siddhartha.
Please contact:
Mike Pullen <globaltraveler5565@yahoo.com>

We are VERY interested in adding other languages,
making more translations, etc.  Let me know if you
are interested!!!


Thanks!


Michael S. Hart
<hart@pobox.com>
Project Gutenberg
"Ask Dr. Internet"
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Oct 2002 Buch Der Lieder, by Heinrich Heine   [H. Heine #4][xliedxxx.xxx]3498
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Oct 2002 Great Catherine, by George Bernard Shaw [Shaw #15][gratcxxx.xxx]3488
Oct 2002 Augustus Does His Bit, by George Bernard Shaw[#14][acdhbxxx.xxx]3487
Oct 2002 The Inca of Perusalem by George Bernard Shaw [#13][incapxxx.xxx]3486
Oct 2002 Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, by Shaw   [#12][annajxxx.xxx]3485
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Oct 2002 O'Flaherty V.C., by George Bernard Shaw [Shaw #11][oflvcxxx.xxx]3484
Oct 2002 Quotations of William Dean Howells by David Widger[dwqwhxxx.xxx]3483
Oct 2002 The North-West Passage, by Richard Hakluyt        [nwpasxxx.xxx]3482
Oct 2002 The Life of George Borrow, by Herbert Jenkins     [lfgbrxxx.xxx]3481
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Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V8, by Constant  [NB#25][nc08vxxx.xxx]3575
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Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V6, by Constant  [NB#23][nc06vxxx.xxx]3573
Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V5, by Constant  [NB#22][nc05vxxx.xxx]3572
Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V4, by Constant  [NB#21][nc04vxxx.xxx]3571
Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V3, by Constant  [NB#20][nc03vxxx.xxx]3570
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U.S. NET POPULATION DECLINES FOR FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS
The overall number of U.S. household Internet accounts declined 0.29 percent
during the first quarter of 2001 to 68.5 million, according to a survey by
Telecommunications Reports International. Previous studies had pegged growth
averaging about 20 percent per quarter. "The study indicates that this drop
was due to subscriber accounts lost when the free ISP market saw several
companies cease operation," says TRI. "The number of subscribers in that
sector plummeted more than 19 percent during the first quarter." Free ISPs
such as NetZero, AltaVista and Kmart's Bluelight.com recently were forced to
shut down or move to fee-based services when online advertising revenues
dried up. Meanwhile, growth for paid dial-up access was up more than 7
percent to nearly 50 million subscribers during the first quarter of 2001,
although a TRI managing editor warned that there were signs of maturation in
the market: "[The free ISPs] were a factor, but not the whole story. We
think it's a maturation in that the universe of people who are going online
have done so already." (E-Commerce Times 9 May 2001)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/9578.html

ANTI-SPAM LEGISLATION IN U.S. HOUSE
The House Judiciary Committee is blocking an anti-spam bill that previously
passed the House Energy and Commerce Commission. The bill would impose a
$500 penalty for each piece of unsolicited e-mail a company distributes.
Judiciary Committee member Bob Goodlatte (R., VA) said: "Legislation should
be narrowly targeted to provide law enforcement with the tools they need to
combat abuses without opening the floodgates to frivolous litigation or
interfering with legitimate uses of e-mail for marketing purposes." The
Committee favors an alternative bill, sponsored by Goodlatte, that penalize
senders of unsolicited commercial messages only if the they used a bogus
return address. (AP/USA Today 10 May 2001)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-05-10-anti-spam-opposition.htm

OXFORD TARGETS THE INTERNET'S IMPACT ON SOCIETY
Oxford University has announced plans to create the Oxford Internet
Institute, a multidisciplinary center focused on the societal and ethical
impact of the Internet. According to UK Secretary of State for Education
David Blunkett, one of the center's top priorities will be research issues
surrounding cryptography, intellectual property and security. Research
programs will target the fundamental shifts in human behavior and
interactions as a result of technology, comparative media law and policy,
and creating new educational software. (InformationWeek 10 May 2001)
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010510S0012

RAMBUS FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD
In a back-and-forth legal battle with Infineon Technologies, memory chip
maker Rambus has been found guilty of fraud and slapped with punitive
damages of $3.5 million. The fine was later reduced to $350,000 because of
limitations in the local Virginia law. The verdict was a shocking
turnaround for Rambus, which had sued Infineon on 57 charges of patent
infringement. The jury agreed with Infineon's claim that Rambus had
committed fraud because it participated in a broad chip industry project to
develop fast memory chips, but did not reveal it had patents on similar
technology. The goal of the cooperative project was to develop chips that
would be royalty-free. (Financial Times 10 May 2001)

NEW DOMAIN NAMES COMING
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has entered
into contracts with the companies that will register two of the new Internet
domain names the organization recently approved. Ireland-based Afilias will
register names in the ".info" domain and Virginia-based NeuLevel will
register names in the ".biz" domain. The two companies plan to promote the
suffixes as alternatives to the U.S.-centric ".com" domain. (AP/San Jose
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Oct 2002 Ceiriog, by John Ceiriog Hughes [This is in Welsh][ceirgxxx.xxx]3500
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Oct 2002 The Metal Monster, by A. Merritt   [A. Merritt #2][memonxxx.xxx]3479
Oct 2002 Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson        [legvaxxx.xxx]3478
Oct 2002 The Verse-Book Of A Homely Woman, by Fay Inchfawn [vbohwxxx.xxx]3477
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Oct 2002 Henry VIII And His Court, by Louise Muhlbach[LM#5][h8ahcxxx.xxx]3476
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Oct 2002 The Efficiency Expert, by Edgar Rice Burroughs    [effncxxx.xxx]3475
Oct 2002 Jeremy, by Hugh Walpole          [Hugh Walpole #2][jremyxxx.xxx]3474
Oct 2002 Merton of the Movies, by Harry Leon Wilson        [mrtnmxxx.xxx]3472
Oct 2002 Widger's Quotations of Charles D. Warner    [DW#3][dwqcwxxx.xxx]3471
Oct 2002 Such is Life, by Tom Collins   [aka Joseph Furphy][slifexxx.xxx]3470
Oct 2002 The Hand of Ethelberta, by Thomas Hardy[Hardy #23][ethbrxxx.xxx]3469
Oct 2002 Poems by the Way, by William Morris[Wm Morris #11][pmbwyxxx.xxx]3468

Dec 2002 Complete Memoirs of Napoleon, by Bourrienne[NB#17][nb17vxxx.xxx]3567
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V16, by Bourrienne    [NB#16][nb16vxxx.xxx]3566
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V15, by Bourrienne    [NB#15][nb15vxxx.xxx]3565
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V14, by Bourrienne    [NB#14][nb14vxxx.xxx]3564
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COPYRIGHT BATTLE ERUPTS OVER E-BOOKS
Bertelsmann's Random House and startup Rosetta Books will square off this
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publishing as Napster had on the music industry. Random House is pursuing
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Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V16 by Richard Burton[g1001xxx.xxx]3450*
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Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V6, by Richard Burton[61001xxx.xxx]3440*
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V5, by Richard Burton[51001xxx.xxx]3439*
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V4, by Richard Burton[41001xxx.xxx]3438*
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V3, by Richard Burton[31001xxx.xxx]3437*
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V2, by Richard Burton[21001xxx.xxx]3436
35
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V1, by Richard Burton[11001xxx.xxx]3435
[These are in 7 and 8 bit unaccented and accented versions]
[Filenames are x1001xx7.txt and .zip and x1001xx8.txt and .zip]
[X will be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f and g]
[Full Titles:  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night, Volumes 1 - 16]
[Also listed under: The Arabian Nights, A Thousand and One Nights. . .
and. . .A Thousand and One Arabian Nights]

34
Sep 2002 The Koran/The Q'uran, by Mohammed/Mohammad . . .  [koranxxx.xxx]3434
Sep 2002 The Q'uran, by Muhamad/Muhammad/Mohomet    . . .  [koranxxx.xxx]3434
[This is version 10a from a completely different edition than our Etext 2800]
[We will be releasing another version with much more complete footnoting]
Sep 2002 Epical Songs, by Pencho Slaveykov[P. Slaveykov #2][epsngxxx.xxx]3433
[This Bulgarian Etext uses the Cyrillic Windows 1251 character set]
Sep 2002 Quotations From the Works of Mark Twain, by Widger[dwqmtxxx.xxx]3432
[Authors Full Name: David Widger. . .#1 in our series of Widger's Quotations]
[Your suggestions and comments on this are encouraged for future editions.]

Sep 2002 RESERVED                                          [     xxx.xxx]3431*
30
Sep 2002 The Suitors of Yvonne, by Rafael Sabatini    [#14][styvnxxx.xxx]3430
Sep 2002 Saint George for England, by G. A. Henty          [stgfexxx.xxx]3429
Sep 2002 The Two Vanrevels, by Booth Tarkington[Booth T#11][vnrvlxxx.xxx]3428
Sep 2002 Kilo, by Ellis Parker Butler                      [kilo1xxx.xxx]3427
Sep 2002 On Books and The Housing of Them by W.E. Gladstone[obhotxxx.xxx]3426
25
Sep 2002 Samantha at Saratoga, by Josiah Allen's Wife      [samanxxx.xxx]3425
[Authors Name is Marietta Holley]  [Also available in HTML as:  saman10h.zip]
Sep 2002 For the Term of His Natural Life, by Marcus Clarke[fthnlxxx.xxx]3424
Sep 2002 The Strolling Saint, by Rafael Sabatini[Rafael#13][strstxxx.xxx]3423
Sep 2002 The Life of the Fly, by J. Henri Fabre  [Fabre #4][tlflyxxx.xxx]3422
Sep 2002 Bramble-Bees and Others, by J. Henri Fabre [JHF#3][brmbbxxx.xxx]3421
20
Sep 2002 Vindication of Rights of Woman/Mary Wollstonecraft[vorowxxx.xxx]3420
[Full Title:  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft]
[Alternate:  Vindication of Rights of Women, by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin]
Sep 2002 Rebecca Mary, by Annie Hamilton Donnell           [rbmryxxx.xxx]3419

Sep 2002 Captain Brassbound's Conversion by G. Bernard Shaw[brscnxxx.xxx]3418
[Author's Full Name:  George Bernard Shaw:  he preferred just Bernard Shaw]
Sep 2002 The Fortunes of Oliver Horn, by F. Hopkinson Smith[tfoohxxx.xxx]3417
Sep 2002 William Ewart Gladstone, by James Bryce           [gladsxxx.xxx]3416
15
Sep 2002 The South Pole, Volume 2, by Roald Amundsen       [tspv2xxx.xxx]3415
Sep 2002 The South Pole, Volume 1, by Roald Amundsen       [tspv1xxx.xxx]3414
Sep 2002 The Blazed Trail, by Stewart Edward White         [blztrxxx.xxx]3413
Sep 2002 The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither, by Bird[gctwtxxx.xxx]3412
[Author's Full Name:  Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)]
Sep 2002 The Stokesley Secret, by Charlotte M. Yonge[CMY10][stkscxxx.xxx]3411
10
Sep 2002 The American Spirit in Literature, by Bliss Perry [aslitxxx.xxx]3410
[Full:  The American Spirit in Literature, A Chronicle of Great Interpreters]
Sep 2002 Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope[Trollope11][barchxxx.xxx]3409
Sep 2002 Shame of Motley, by Raphael Sabatini[Sabatini #12][shmotxxx.xxx]3408
Sep 2002 The Spell of Egypt, by Robert Hichens [Hichens #3][sgyptxxx.xxx]3407
Sep 2002 Ragged Lady, by William Dean Howells Vol 2 [WH#52][wh2rlxxx.xxx]3406
5
Sep 2002 Ragged Lady, by William Dean Howells Vol 1 [WH#51][wh1rlxxx.xxx]3405
Sep 2002 April Hopes, by William Dean Howells       [WH#50][whahpxxx.xxx]3404
Sep 2002 The Register, by William Dean Howells      [WH#49][whregxxx.xxx]3403
Sep 2002 The Parlor Car, by William Dean Howells    [WH#48][whplrxxx.xxx]3402
Sep 2002 The Elevator, by William Dean Howells      [WH#47][whelvxxx.xxx]3401







and 17 for October, 2002


Oct 2002 Ceiriog, by John Ceiriog Hughes [This is in Welsh][ceirgxxx.xxx]3500
Oct 2002 Jo's Boys, by Louisa M. Alcott[Louisa M. Alcott #8[jsbysxxx.xxx]3499
[Author's Full Name:  Louisa May Alcott]

[Skipping many numbers not yet posted]

15
Oct 2002 Under Two Flags, by Ouida [Louise de la Ramee][#3][u2flgxxx.xxx]3465
Author's Real Name:  Louise de la Ramee]
Oct 2002 Tish, by Mary Roberts Rinehart      [Rinehart #16][tishcxxx.xxx]3464
[Full Title:  Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions]
Oct 2002 The Boys' Life of Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine[mt8bgxxx.xxx]3463
Oct 2002 More Hunting Wasps, by Jean Henri Fabre [Fabre #5][mhtgwxxx.xxx]3462
[Often listed as J. H. Fabre or J. Henri Fabre or [J. H.] Henri Fabre]
Oct 2002 Essays on Life, Art and Science by Samuel Butler 9[esslfxxx.xxx]3461
10
Oct 2002 Old Fritz and the New Era, by Muhlbach[Muhlback#4][fritzxxx.xxx]3460
[Variant spellings: Louise Muhlbach, Luise Muhlbach and Luise von Muhlbach]
Oct 2002 Quotations of John Galsworthy, by David Widger[#2][dwqjgxxx.xxx]3459
Oct 2002 Science and Health/Key to The Scriptures, by Eddy [shktsxxx.xxx]3458
[Full Title:  Science and Health With Key to The Scriptures]
[Author's Full Name:  Mary Baker Eddy]   [Also index under Christian Science]
Oct 2002 The Man of the Forest, by Zane Grey[Zane Grey #xx][mnforxxx.xxx]3457
Oct 2002 Tour Du Mond 80 Jours[in French] by Jules Verne#15[tdm80xxx.xxx]3456
[This document is supplied in the ISO 8859/1 Latin-1 character set in French]
Also see:
Jan 1997 Tour Du Mond 80 Jours [in French] by Jules Verne#5[x80jrxxx.xxx] 800
and, in English:
Apr 2000 Around the World in 80 Days Jr. Ed. by Jules Verne[80dayxxa.xxx]2154
Jan 1994 Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne[Verne2][80day10x.xxx] 103
5
Oct 2002 Nederlandsche Sagen en Legenden, by Josef Cohen   [nsljcxxx.xxx]3455
Oct 2002 Netherlands Stories and Legends, by Josef Cohen   [nsljcxxx.xxx]3455
Oct 2002 Dutch Myths and Legends, by Josef Cohen           [nsljcxxx.xxx]3455
[Please note, this is in "Old Dutch". . .there were many changes around 1950]
Oct 2002 The Lilac Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang    [Lang #33][lifryxxx.xxx]3454
Oct 2002 The Royal Road to Health, by C.A. Tyrrell         [trrthxxx.xxx]3453
Jim Tinsley <jtinsley@pobox.com>,pumpkin@localline.com
Oct 2002 Tea Leaves, by Francis Leggett & Co.              [tealvxxx.xxx]3452
Oct 2002 Marie Antoinette And Her Son, by Louise Muhlbach 3[mariexxx.xxx]3451
[Variant spellings: Louise Muhlbach, Luise Muhlbach and Luise von Muhlbach]
[And there is an umlaut [ " ] over the u in Muhlbach]

and 24 for November, 2002


[The following 24 files contain the ATGC codes from the Human Genome Project]
[We will be updating these again as the Human Genome reaches 98-99% complete]
[This set of files appears to be approximately 90% complete]
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Y Chromosome    [#24]       [0yhgpxxa.xxx]3524
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, X Chromosome    [#23]       [0xhgpxxa.xxx]3523
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 22        [22hgpxxa.xxx]3522
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 21        [21hgpxxa.xxx]3521
20
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 20        [20hgpxxa.xxx]3520
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 19        [19hgpxxa.xxx]3519
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 18        [18hgpxxa.xxx]3518
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 17        [17hgpxxa.xxx]3517
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 16        [16hgpxxa.xxx]3516
15
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 15        [15hgpxxa.xxx]3515
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 14        [14hgpxxa.xxx]3514
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 13        [13hgpxxa.xxx]3513
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 12        [12hgpxxa.xxx]3512
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 11        [11hgpxxa.xxx]3511
10
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 10        [10hgpxxa.xxx]3510
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 09        [19hgpxxa.xxx]3509
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 08        [08hgpxxa.xxx]3508
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 07        [07hgpxxa.xxx]3507
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 06        [06hgpxxa.xxx]3506
5
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 05        [05hgpxxa.xxx]3505
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 04        [04hgpxxa.xxx]3504
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 03        [03hgpxxa.xxx]3503
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 02        [02hgpxxa.xxx]3502
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 01        [01hgpxxa.xxx]3501

and 12 for December, 2002

Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V12, by Bourrienne    [NB#12][nb11vxxx.xxx]3562
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V11, by Bourrienne    [NB#11][nb10vxxx.xxx]3561
10
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V10, by Bourrienne    [NB#10][nb09vxxx.xxx]3560
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V9, by Bourrienne     [NB#09][nb08vxxx.xxx]3559
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V8, by Bourrienne     [NB#08][nb08vxxx.xxx]3558
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V7, by Bourrienne     [NB#07][nb07vxxx.xxx]3557
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V6, by Bourrienne     [NB#06][nb06vxxx.xxx]3556
5
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V5, by Bourrienne     [NB#05][nb05vxxx.xxx]3555
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V4, by Bourrienne     [NB#04][nb04vxxx.xxx]3554
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V3, by Bourrienne     [NB#03][nb03vxxx.xxx]3553
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V2, by Bourrienne     [NB#02][nb02vxxx.xxx]3552
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V1, by Bourrienne     [NB#01][nb01vxxx.xxx]3551
[Author's Full Name:  Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne]

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May 2, 2001

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Here are the 39 more Etexts we have done since last Wednesday:

Sep 2002 Samantha at Saratoga, by Josiah Allen's Wife      [samanxxx.xxx]3425
[Authors Name is Marietta Holley]

Oct 2002 Under Two Flags, by Ouida [Louise de la Ramee][#3][u2flgxxx.xxx]3465
Author's Real Name:  Louise de la Ramee]
Oct 2002 Tish, by Mary Roberts Rinehart      [Rinehart #16][tishcxxx.xxx]3464
[Full Title:  Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions]
Oct 2002 The Boys' Life of Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine[mt8bgxxx.xxx]3463
Oct 2002 More Hunting Wasps, by Jean Henri Fabre [Fabre #5][mhtgwxxx.xxx]3462
[Often listed as J. H. Fabre or J. Henri Fabre or [J. H.] Henri Fabre]
Oct 2002 Essays on Life, Art and Science by Samuel Butler 9[esslfxxx.xxx]3461
10
Oct 2002 Old Fritz and the New Era, by Muhlbach[Muhlback#4][fritzxxx.xxx]3460
[Variant spellings: Louise Muhlbach, Luise Muhlbach and Luise von Muhlbach]
Oct 2002 Quotations of John Galsworthy, by David Widger[#2][dwqjgxxx.xxx]3459
Oct 2002 Science and Health/Key to The Scriptures, by Eddy [shktsxxx.xxx]3458
[Full Title:  Science and Health With Key to The Scriptures]
[Author's Full Name:  Mary Baker Eddy]   [Also index under Christian Science]
Oct 2002 The Man of the Forest, by Zane Grey[Zane Grey #xx][mnforxxx.xxx]3457

and

Oct 2002 The Royal Road to Health, by C.A. Tyrrell         [trrthxxx.xxx]3453

and


[The following 24 files contain the ATGC codes from the Human Genome Project]
[We will be updating these again as the Human Genome reaches 98-99% complete]
[This set of files appears to be approximately 90% complete]
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Y Chromosome    [#24]       [0yhgpxxa.xxx]3524
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, X Chromosome    [#23]       [0xhgpxxa.xxx]3523
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 22        [22hgpxxa.xxx]3522
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 21        [21hgpxxa.xxx]3521
20
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 20        [20hgpxxa.xxx]3520
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 19        [19hgpxxa.xxx]3519
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 18        [18hgpxxa.xxx]3518
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 17        [17hgpxxa.xxx]3517
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 16        [16hgpxxa.xxx]3516
15
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 15        [15hgpxxa.xxx]3515
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 14        [14hgpxxa.xxx]3514
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 13        [13hgpxxa.xxx]3513
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 12        [12hgpxxa.xxx]3512
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 11        [11hgpxxa.xxx]3511
10
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 10        [10hgpxxa.xxx]3510
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 09        [19hgpxxa.xxx]3509
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 08        [08hgpxxa.xxx]3508
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 07        [07hgpxxa.xxx]3507
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 06        [06hgpxxa.xxx]3506
5
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 05        [05hgpxxa.xxx]3505
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 04        [04hgpxxa.xxx]3504
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 03        [03hgpxxa.xxx]3503
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 02        [02hgpxxa.xxx]3502
Nov 2002 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 01        [01hgpxxa.xxx]3501

and

Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V12, by Bourrienne    [NB#12][nb11vxxx.xxx]3562
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V11, by Bourrienne    [NB#11][nb10vxxx.xxx]3561
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V10, by Bourrienne    [NB#10][nb09vxxx.xxx]3560
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V9, by Bourrienne     [NB#09][nb08vxxx.xxx]3559
[Author's Full Name:  Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne]

***


50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNIVAC
Computer aficionados are now celebrating the 50th anniversary of the
UNIVAC, the first computer designed for commercial use. The first UNIVAC
("Universal Automatic Computer") was sold to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Another early model of the machine was used in 1952 to predict Adlai
Stevenson's defeat by Dwight D. Eisenhower in that year's presidential
election. The accurate prediction made word "UNIVAC" synonymous in the
public mind with "computer." The typical UNIVAC cost at that time $1-1.5
million (almost $10 million in today's dollars) and took up 350 square feet
of floor space. (San Jose Mercury News 1 May 2001)
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April 25, 2001

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Here is a list of the Etexts posted since last Wednesday.


REreleased as version 11 with significant improvements.

Apr 1995 My Antonia, by Willa Cather [Cather #4]           [myantxxx.xxx] 242


And these are the 15 new Etexts we have posted in the last week.


Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V8, by Bourrienne     [NB#08][nb08vxxx.xxx]3558
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V7, by Bourrienne     [NB#07][nb07vxxx.xxx]3557
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V6, by Bourrienne     [NB#06][nb06vxxx.xxx]3556
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V5, by Bourrienne     [NB#05][nb05vxxx.xxx]3555
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V4, by Bourrienne     [NB#04][nb04vxxx.xxx]3554
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V3, by Bourrienne     [NB#03][nb03vxxx.xxx]3553
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V2, by Bourrienne     [NB#02][nb02vxxx.xxx]3552
Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V1, by Bourrienne     [NB#01][nb01vxxx.xxx]3551
[Author's Full Name:  Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne]

Much of November is reserved for a new edition of the Human Genome Project

Oct 2002 Tour Du Mond 80 Jours[in French] by Jules Verne#15[tdm80xxx.xxx]3456
[This document is supplied in the ISO 8859/1 Latin-1 character set in French]
Also see:
Jan 1997 Tour Du Mond 80 Jours [in French] by Jules Verne#5[x80jrxxx.xxx] 800
and, in English:
Apr 2000 Around the World in 80 Days Jr. Ed. by Jules Verne[80dayxxa.xxx]2154
Jan 1994 Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne[Verne2][80day10x.xxx] 103

Oct 2002 Nederlandsche Sagen en Legenden, by Josef Cohen   [nsljcxxx.xxx]3455
Oct 2002 Netherlands Stories and Legends, by Josef Cohen   [nsljcxxx.xxx]3455
Oct 2002 Dutch Myths and Legends, by Josef Cohen           [nsljcxxx.xxx]3455
[Please note, this is in "Old Dutch". . .there were many changes around 1950]
Oct 2002 The Lilac Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang    [Lang #33][lifryxxx.xxx]3454

RESERVED or already listed in previous Newsletter

Sep 2002 The Suitors of Yvonne, by Rafael Sabatini    [#14][styvnxxx.xxx]3430
Sep 2002 Saint George for England, by G. A. Henty          [stgfexxx.xxx]3429
Sep 2002 The Two Vanrevels, by Booth Tarkington[Booth T#11][vnrvlxxx.xxx]3428
Sep 2002 Kilo, by Ellis Parker Butler                      [kilo1xxx.xxx]3427


***


A federal appeals court has ruled that accessing restricted Web
sites or e-mail is a violation of the Wiretap Act. Under that
interpretation, law enforcement officials would have to apply
for a wiretap order instead of a search warrant. Police and
prosecutors say getting a wiretap order is out of the question
in many cases because of the restrictions placed on obtaining
one. However, privacy advocates say that the ruling is overdue,
because e-mails and information on restricted Web sites are no
different from other stored information such as messages in
voice mailboxes, which are already protected under wiretap law.
(Los Angeles Times, 23 April 2001)


KNOWLEDGE KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES
Brazil, Columbia, and Venezuela are collaborating on an
Internet-based education program to provide math and science
software to their secondary schools. The programs will be
developed in modules of curriculum by teams from each country,
posted on the Web, and critiqued by the other teams. The
International Virtual Education Network program is funded in part
by the Inter-American Development Bank and will be designed to
take advantage of the benefits of technology and the Internet.
Brazilian physics professor Cesar Nunes, an advisor for the
program, says the simulation focus of the curriculum will help
motivate students to learn. Because the Internet infrastructure
of these countries is somewhat underdeveloped, versions of
browser software and proxy servers will be installed in schools
without good Internet connections so that classrooms can run the
programs from CD-ROMs. Altogether, the trans-national curriculum
will cost the countries $5 million and has already caught the
interest of Argentina, Peru, and African nations.
(Wired News, 19 April 2001)


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April 18, 2001

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These have be REreleased as version 11 with significant improvements.


Jan 2001 Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad[Joseph Conrad25][wstysxxx.xxx]2480
Oct 1993 Frankenstein/Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley          [frank10x.xxx]  84


And these are new Etexts we have posted in the last week.

34
Sep 2002 The Koran/The Q'uran, by Mohammed/Mohammad . . .  [koranxxx.xxx]3434
Sep 2002 The Q'uran, by Muhamad/Muhammad/Mohomet    . . .  [koranxxx.xxx]3434
[This is version 10a from a completely different edition than our Etext 2800]
[We will be releasing another version with much more complete footnoting]
Sep 2002 Epical Songs, by Pencho Slaveykov[P. Slaveykov #2][epsngxxx.xxx]3433
[This Bulgarian Etext uses the Cyrillic Windows 1251 character set]
Sep 2002 Quotations From the Works of Mark Twain, by Widger[dwqmtxxx.xxx]3432
[Authors Full Name: David Widger. . .#1 in our series of Widger's Quotations]
[Your suggestions and comments on this are encouraged for future editions.]

Sep 2002                                                   [     xxx.xxx]3431
to                   RESERVED
Sep 2002                                                   [     xxx.xxx]3427

Sep 2002 On Books and The Housing of Them by W.E. Gladstone[obhotxxx.xxx]3426
25
Sep 2002 RESERVED FOR SAMANTHA AT SARATOGA                 [     xxx.xxx]3425
Sep 2002 For the Term of His Natural Life, by Marcus Clarke[fthnlxxx.xxx]3424
Sep 2002 The Strolling Saint, by Rafael Sabatini[Rafael#13][strstxxx.xxx]3423
Sep 2002 The Life of the Fly, by J. Henri Fabre  [Fabre #4][tlflyxxx.xxx]3422
Sep 2002 Bramble-Bees and Others, by J. Henri Fabre [JHF#3][brmbbxxx.xxx]3421
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Sep 2002 Vindication of Rights of Woman/Mary Wollstonecraft[vorowxxx.xxx]3420
[Full Title:  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft]
[Alternate:  Vindication of Rights of Women, by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin]
Sep 2002 Rebecca Mary, by Annie Hamilton Donnell           [rbmryxxx.xxx]3419



TRANSITION TO DIGITAL TV IS SLOW, SLOW, SLOW
Only 1.1 million digital TV sets (about 1% of all TV sets in U.S.
households) have been sold as of January 2001, far fewer than Congress
anticipated four years ago when it gave the nation's 1600 TV channels new
blocks of airwaves for digital programming. So far, only 186 of those
stations are broadcasting in digital format, covering 64 U.S. cities. To
speed up the process, President Bush's budget proposal includes a plan that
would levy a US$200 million yearly fee on broadcasters that continue to
broadcast in analog after 2006, thereby blocking the reassignment of radio
spectrum for uses, such as next-generation wireless phone services. (San
Jose Mercury News 13 Apr 2001)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/digtv041301.htm

INTEL CHIP CUTS MAY LEAD TO PRICE WAR WITH AMD
Intel thinks that economic factors have begun to stabilize, and is
reporting that the company has slightly beat its lowered earnings
forecasts. Intel is about to introduce its next-generation 1.7
gigahertz Pentium 4 chip, possibly for as low as $350, and research
analyst Eric M. Thomas says that "if it debuts at $350, that's a big,
big drop," likely to lead to a price war between Intel and Advanced
Micro Devices. (New York Times 18 Apr 2001)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/18/technology/18CHIP.html

LAPTOP PRICES FALLING
A number of computer laptop models are being priced close to the
$1,000 level, which is thought to be the magical number required to
cause significantly increased consumer purchases of low-end devices.
The lowest price so far is offered by Dell, with its Inspiron 2500
starting at $1,049. IDC industry analyst Alan Promisel is predicting
that Dell is "really going to hit a sweet spot in the consumer
market." (USA Today 17 Apr 2001)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/zd/zd8.htm

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April 11, 2001

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Subject: Project Gutenberg Test of Weekly Format
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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:16:49 -0500 (CDT)


*This is Project Gutenberg's Newsletter for Wednesday, April 11, 2001*

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Sep 2002 Captain Brassbound's Conversion by G. Bernard Shaw[brscnxxx.xxx]3418
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Sep 2002 The Fortunes of Oliver Horn, by F. Hopkinson Smith[tfoohxxx.xxx]3417
Sep 2002 William Ewart Gladstone, by James Bryce           [gladsxxx.xxx]3416
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Sep 2002 The South Pole, Volume 2, by Roald Amundsen       [tspv2xxx.xxx]3415
Sep 2002 The South Pole, Volume 1, by Roald Amundsen       [tspv1xxx.xxx]3414
Sep 2002 The Blazed Trail, by Stewart Edward White         [blztrxxx.xxx]3413
Sep 2002 The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither, by Bird[gctwtxxx.xxx]3412
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Sep 2002 The Stokesley Secret, by Charlotte M. Yonge[CMY10][stkscxxx.xxx]3411
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Sep 2002 The American Spirit in Literature, by Bliss Perry [aslitxxx.xxx]3410
[Full:  The American Spirit in Literature, A Chronicle of Great Interpreters]
Sep 2002 Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope[Trollope11][barchxxx.xxx]3409
Sep 2002 Shame of Motley, by Raphael Sabatini[Sabatini #12][shmotxxx.xxx]3408
Sep 2002 The Spell of Egypt, by Robert Hichens [Hichens #3][sgyptxxx.xxx]3407


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AOL INSTANT MESSENGER MAY HAVE SHOT ITSELF IN THE FOOT
AOL's decision to close off its instant messaging system may come back to
haunt it, as other service providers, including Microsoft, Excite@Home and
Yahoo, join forces to pursue an interoperable messaging network. IMUnified,
as it's called, provides members with the ability to send instant messages
to subscribers of other systems, and AOL could eventually find itself
isolated, say some industry analysts. "I think Microsoft is ultimately
going to win the instant messaging wars," says one telecom specialist.
"Microsoft thinks strategic, while AOL thinks tactical." (CNet News.com 5
Apr 2001)
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2001/13/ns-22090.html

TRACKING THE BOSTON MARATHON [This is already done with NASCAR]
Boston Marathon fans will be able to track a favorite runner's progress
through automatic e-mail updates sent during the race on April 16. Runners
can register up to two e-mail addresses to receive the updates, which will
be sent as they cross checkpoints at the 10K, half-marathon, and 30K marks
and the finish line. Race results will be available over the Internet and
the Boston Athletic Association Web site, where updates from 11 checkpoints
will be posted, searchable by name or bib number. In addition,
representatives from Compaq will be stationed along the 26.2-mile course,
armed with iPAQ handhelds to assist friends and fans in finding their
runners. The Marathon has used shoelace-mounted transponder chips to track
runners since 1995, but official times for the winners are still determined
by stopwatches. (AP 4 Apr 2001)
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010404/14/run-boston-marathon

MIT'S CATHEDRAL OF LEARNING: ONLINE AND FREE
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has committed up to $100 million
for a 10-year project to create public Web sites that offer, without
charge, learning materials used in almost all of its 2,000 courses. The
materials will include lecture notes, problem sets, syllabuses, exams,
simulations, and video lectures. Called OpenCourseWare, the program is not
intended for "audit" purposes and not as a means for students to earn
college credits. Computer science professor Hal Abelson explained: "In the
Middle Ages people built cathedrals, where the whole town would get
together and make a thing that's greater than any individual person could
do and the society would kind of revel in that. We don't do that as much
anymore, but in a sense this is kind of like building a cathedral." MIT
President Charles M. Vest is confident that the new program will in no way
detract from the value received by residential students who are paying
tuition of $26,000 for the on-campus experience of working directly with
faculty and other students." I don't think we are giving away the direct
value, by any means, that we give to students. But I think we will help
other institutions around the world... I also suspect in this country and
throughout the world, a lot of really bright, precocious high school
students will find this a great playground." (New York Times 4 Apr 2001)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/04/technology/04MIT.html



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