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Erewhon Revisited, by Samuel Butler 1971
[Subtitle: Twenty Years Later. Both by the Original Discoverer of the
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The God of His Fathers, by Jack London 1655
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Chance, by Joseph Conrad 1476
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[ Book III: From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of]
[Carthage and the Greek States]
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De reis om de wereld in tachtig dagen, by Jules Verne 11318
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, October 1, 1892, by Various 15439
[Editor: F. C. Burnand]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/3/15439 ]
[Files: 15439.txt; 15439-8.txt; 15439-h.htm; ]
The Bells of San Juan, by Jackson Gregory 15438
[Ill.: Frank Tenney Johnson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/3/15438 ]
[Files: 15438.txt; 15438-8.txt; 15438-h.htm; ]
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II., by Horatio Nelson 15437
[Subtitle: With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters]
[By Distinguished Characters]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/3/15437 ]
[Files: 15437.txt; 15437-8.txt]
Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, 15436
[Title: Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to]
[Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh]
[Author: Benjamin Kohlmeister and George Kmoch]
[Subtitle: Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in]
[That Unknown Region]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/3/15436 ]
[Files: 15436.txt; 15436-8.txt; 15436-h.htm; ]
Object Lessons on the Human Body,Sarah F. Buckelew and Margaret W. Lewis 15435
[Subtitle: A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of]
[School No. 49, New York City]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/3/15435 ]
[Files: 15435.txt; 15435-h.htm; ]
En Kabylie, by J. Vilbort 15434
[Subtitle: Voyage d'une Parisienne au Djurjura]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/3/15434 ]
[Files: 15434-8.txt]
Memoires (Tome 3), by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot 15433
[Full title: Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 3)]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/3/15433 ]
[Files: 15433-8.txt]
Henry Brocken, by Walter J. de la Mare 15432
[Subtitle: His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange,]
[Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/3/15432 ]
[Files: 15432.txt; 15432-8.txt; 15432-h.htm; ]
Success, by Samuel Hopkins Adams 15431
[Subtitle: A Novel]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/3/15431 ]
[Files: 15431.txt; 15431-8.txt]
The Lever, by William Dana Orcutt 15430
[Subtitle: A Novel]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/3/15430 ]
[Files: 15430.txt; 15430-8.txt]
Thomas Henry Huxley, by Leonard Huxley 15429
[Subtitle: A Character Sketch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/2/15429 ]
[Files: 15429.txt; 15429-8.txt]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 20, by Various 15428
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 20, March]
[25, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/2/15428 ]
[Files: 15428.txt; 15428-8.txt; 15428-h.htm]
Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850, by Various 15427
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/2/15427 ]
[Files: 15427.txt; 15427-8.txt; 15427-h.htm]
Pixy's Holiday Journey, by George Lang 15426
[Tr.: Mary E. Ireland]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/2/15426 ]
[Files: 15426.txt; ]
General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17, Kerr 15425
[Full author: Robert Kerr]
[Subtitle: Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History]
[of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and]
[Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the]
[Present Time]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/2/15425 ]
[Files: 15425.txt; 15425-8.txt]
Ella Barnwell, by Emerson Bennett 15424
[Subtitle: A Historical Romance of Border Life]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/2/15424 ]
[Files: 15424.txt; 15424-8.txt; 15424-h.htm]
Samuel Cröell, by Arvid Järnefelt 15423
[Subtitle: Näytelmä neljässä näytöksessä]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/2/15423 ]
[Files: 15423-8.txt]
Israel Potter, by Herman Melville 15422
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/2/15422 ]
[Files: 15422.txt; 15422-8.txt]
Contribucion Para El Estudio de los Antiguos Alfabetos Filipinos, Tavera 15421
[Full author: Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera]
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/2/15421 ]
[Files: 15421-8.txt; 15421-h.htm]
Broken Homes, by Joanna C. Colcord 15420
[Subtitle: A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/2/15420 ]
[Files: 15420.txt; 15420-8.txt; 15420-h.htm]
Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls, by Starrett 15419
[Full author: Helen Ekin Starrett]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/1/15419 ]
[Files: 15419.txt; 15419-h.htm]
Ang Sintang Dalisay ni Julieta at Romeo, by G.D. Roke 15418
[Language: Tagalog]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/1/15418 ]
[Files: 15418-8.txt; 15418-h.htm]
Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883, Various 15417
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/1/15417 ]
[Files: 15417.txt; 15417-8.txt; 15417-h.htm]
The Spinners, by Eden Phillpotts 15416
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/1/15416 ]
[Files: 15416.txt]
Tramping on Life, by Harry Kemp 15415
[Subtitle: An Autobiographical Narrative]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/1/15415 ]
[Files: 15415.txt; 15415-8.txt; 15415-h.htm]
The Littlest Rebel, by Edward Peple 15414
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/1/15414 ]
[Files: 15414.txt; 15414-8.txt; 15414-h.htm]
The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes, by Various 15413
[Subtitle: Historical, Literary, and Humorous--A New Selection]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/1/15413 ]
[Files: 15413.txt; 15413-8.txt; 15413-h.htm]
The Virgin-Birth of Our Lord, by B. W. Randolph 15412
[Subtitle: A paper read (in substance) before the]
[Confraternity of the Holy Trinity at Cambridge]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/1/15412 ]
[Files: 15412.txt; 15412-8.txt]
A Voyage to the South Sea, by William Bligh 15411
[Subtitle: For The Purpose Of Conveying]
[The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies,]
[Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/1/15411 ]
[Files: 15411.txt; 15411-h.htm]
A Little Pilgrim , by Mrs. Oliphant 15410
[Author AKA: Margaret O. Wilson Oliphant (1828-1897)]
[Subtitle: In the Unseen]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/1/15410 ]
[Files: 15410.txt; 15410-h.htm; ]
An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard, by Thomas Gray 15409
[Full title: An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton]
[ College Manuscript]
[Introduction by George Sherburn]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/0/15409 ]
[Files: 15409.txt; 15409-8.txt; 15409-h.htm]
Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein 15408
[Subtitle: Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/0/15408 ]
[Files: 15408.txt]
The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, by Thomas Chapman 15407
[Full title: The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, and]
[ Victualler's and Housekeeper's Director]
[Subtitle: In Three Parts]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/0/15407 ]
[Files: 15407.txt]
The Little Red Chimney, by Mary Finley Leonard 15406
[Subtitle: Being the Love Story of a Candy Man]
[Illustrator: Katharine Gassaway]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/0/15406 ]
[Files: 15406.txt; 15406-8.txt; 15406-h.htm]
Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850, by Various 15405
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/0/15405 ]
[Files: 15405.txt; 15405-8.txt; 15405-h.htm]
The Great Round World Vol. 1 No. 19, by Various 15404
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,]
[ No. 19, March 18, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/0/15404 ]
[Files: 15404.txt; 15404-8.txt; 15404-h.htm]
Wandelingen door Belgie, by Anonymous 15403
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar volken, 1886]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/0/15403 ]
[Files: 15403.txt; 15403-8.txt; 15403-h.htm]
What Answer?, by Anna E. Dickinson 15402
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/0/15402 ]
[Files: 15402.txt; 15402-8.txt; 15402-h.htm]
The Great Lone Land, by W. F. Butler 15401
[Subtitle: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure]
[in the North-West of America]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/0/15401 ]
[Files: 15401.txt; 15401-8.txt]
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7), by John Addington Symonds 15400
[Subtitle: The Age of the Despots]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/0/15400 ]
[Files: 15400.txt; 15400-8.txt; 15400-h.htm; ]
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, by Olaudah Equiano 15399
[Full title: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, ]
[ Or Gustavus Vassa, The African]
[Subtitle: Written By Himself]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/9/15399 ]
[Files: 15399.txt; 15399-8.txt; 15399-h.htm]
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, by Henry Bibb 15398
[Full title: Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an]
[ American Slave, Written by Himself]
[Introduction by Lucius C. Matlack]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/9/15398 ]
[Files: 15398.txt; 15398-h.htm]
Francia; Un bienfait n'est jamais perdu, by George Sand 15397
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/9/15397 ]
[Files: 15397-8.txt; 15397-h.htm]
Tender Buttons, by Gertrude Stein 15396
[Subtitle: Objects--Food--Rooms]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/9/15396 ]
[Files: 15396.txt; 15396-8.txt; 15396-h.htm]
Unelmiensa uhri, by Marja Salmela 15395
[Subtitle: Romaani]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/9/15395 ]
[Files: 15395-8.txt]
American Eloquence, Volume IV. (of 4), by Various 15394
[Subtitle: Studies In American Political History (1897)]
[Edited with Introduction by Alexander Johnston]
[Reedited by James Albert Woodburn]
[Authors:]
[Abraham Lincoln,]
[Jefferson Davis,]
[Alexander Hamilton Stephens,]
[John C. Breckenridge]
[Edward D. Baker]
[Clement L. Vallandigham,]
[Henry Ward Beecher,]
[Henry Winter Davis,]
[George H. Pendleton,]
[Thaddeus Stevens,]
[Henry J. Raymond,]
[Thaddeus Stevens,]
[Henry Clay,]
[Frank H. Hurd,]
[Justin S. Morrill,]
[James G. Blaine,]
[John Sherman,]
[John P. Jones,]
[George William Curtis,]
[Carl Schurz]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/9/15394 ]
[Files: 15394.txt; 15394-h.htm]
American Eloquence, Volume III. (of 4), by Various 15393
[Subtitle: Studies In American Political History (1897)]
[Edited with Introduction by Alexander Johnston]
[Reedited by James Albert Woodburn]
[Authors:]
[Salmon Portland Chase]
[Edward Everett]
[Stephen Arnold Douglas]
[Charles Sumner]
[Preston S. Brooks]
[Judah P. Benjamin]
[Abraham Lincoln]
[William H. Seward]
[John Parker Hale]
[Alfred Iverson]
[Benjamin Wade]
[John Jordon Crittenden]
[Robert Toombs]
[Samuel Sullivan Cox]
[Jefferson Davis]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/9/15393 ]
[Files: 15393.txt; 15393-8.txt; 15393-h.htm]
American Eloquence, Volume II. (of 4), by Various 15392
[Subtitle: Studies In American Political History (1896)]
[Edited with Introduction by Alexander Johnston]
[Reedited by James Albert Woodburn]
[Authors:]
[Rufus King]
[William Pinkney]
[Wendell Phillips]
[John Quincy Adams]
[John C. Calhoun]
[Daniel Webster]
[Henry Clay]
[Wendell Phillips]
[Charles Sumner]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/9/15392 ]
[Files: 15392.txt; 15392-8.txt; 15392-h.htm]
American Eloquence, Volume I. (of 4), by Various 15391
[Subtitle: Studies In American Political History (1896)]
[Edited with Introduction by Alexander Johnston]
[Authors:]
[James Otis]
[Patrick Henry]
[Samuel Adams]
[Alexander Hamilton]
[James Madison]
[Albert Gallatin]
[Fisher Ames]
[John Nicholas]
[Thomas Jefferson]
[John Randolph]
[Josiah Quincy]
[Henry Clay]
[Robert Y. Hayne]
[Daniel Webster]
[John C. Calhoun]
[Thomas H. Benton]
[Reedited by James Albert Woodburn]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/9/15391 ]
[Files: 15391.txt; 15391-h.htm]
Evangeline, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 15390
[Subtitle: with Notes and Plan of Study]
[Annotator: W. F. Conover]
[Editor: W. F. Conover]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/9/15390 ]
[Files: 15390.txt; 15390-8.txt]
True Riches, by T.S. Arthur 15389
[Subtitle: Or, Wealth Without Wings]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/8/15389 ]
[Files: 15389.txt; 15389-8.txt]
Leone Leoni, by George Sand 15388
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/8/15388 ]
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Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities, by Robert Smith Surtees 15387
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/8/15387 ]
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The Great Round World Vol. 1 No. 18, by Various 15386
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,]
[ No. 18, March 11, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/8/15386 ]
[Files: 15386.txt; 15386-8.txt; 15386-h.htm]
A Cathedral Singer, by James Lane Allen 15385
[Illustrator: Sigismond de Ivanowski]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/8/15385 ]
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
May 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon, Folio[dfre310f.xxx] 900
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May 1997 The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James[James#13][tlotmxxx.xxx] 898
May 1997 The Rose and the Ring, by Thackeray [Thackeray #2][rsrngxxx.xxx] 897
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Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V6 htm[dfre6xxh.xxx] 895
Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V5 htm[dfre5xxh.xxx] 894
Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V4 htm[dfre4xxh.xxx] 893
Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V3 htm[dfre3xxx.xxx] 892
[This vol only also available as plain text in dfre3xx.txt/.zip]
Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V2 htm[dfre2xxh.xxx] 891
Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V1 htm[dfre1xxh.xxx] 890
[Author: Edward Gibbon]
(Note: The above 6 files are HTML conversions of ebook #'s 731-736)
Apr 1997 Two Years in the Forbidden City, Princess Der Ling[tyifcxxx.xxx] 889
Apr 1997 Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Dickens [#23][lttiaxxx.xxx] 888
Apr 1997 Intentions, by Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #11][ntntnxxx.xxx] 887
Apr 1997 Letters from the Cape, by Lady Duff Gordon [lddfgxxx.xxx] 886
Apr 1997 An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #10][ihsbnxxx.xxx] 885
Apr 1997 Memoirs of Popular Delusions V3, by Charles MacKay[3ppdlxxx.xxx] 884
Apr 1997 Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens [Dickens#22][mfrndxxx.xxx] 883
Apr 1997 Sketches by Boz, pseudonym of Charles [Dickens#21][sbbozxxx.xxx] 882
Apr 1997 Lemorne Versus Huell, by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard [lvsshxxx.xxx] 881
Apr 1997 My Garden Acquaintance, James Russell Lowell [#1] [mgacqxxx.xxx] 880
Apr 1997 The Boy Captives, by John Greenleaf Whittier [#2] [bcptvxxx.xxx] 879
Apr 1997 Yankee Gypsies, by John Greenleaf Whittier [#1] [ynkgpxxx.xxx] 878
Apr 1997 Little Britain, by Washington Irving [Irving #2] [lbritxxx.xxx] 877
Apr 1997 Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis #2[lironxxx.xxx] 876
Apr 1997 The Duchess of Padua, by Oscar Wilde [Wilde #9] [dpduaxxx.xxx] 875
Apr 1997 A History of Aeronautics, by E. Charles Vivian [haeroxxx.xxx] 874
Apr 1997 A House of Pomegranates, by Oscar Wilde [Wilde #8][hpomgxxx.xxx] 873
Apr 1997 Reprinted Pieces, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #20][cdrprxxx.xxx] 872
Apr 1997 The Golden Sayings of Epictetus [epictxxx.xxx] 871
Apr 1997 The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl, Jerome K. Jerome[12][jjulrxxx.xxx] 870
Apr 1997 The Soul of Nicholas Snyders, Jerome K. Jerome[11][jjsnyxxx.xxx] 869 *
Apr 1997 The Philosopher's Joke, Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ#10] [jjphjxxx.xxx] 868
Apr 1997 Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies, by JK Jerome [JKJ#9][jjkorxxx.xxx] 867
Apr 1997 The Cost of Kindness, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ#8] [jjkndxxx.xxx] 866
Apr 1997 Passing of the Third Floor Back, by JK Jerome [#7][jjp3bxxx.xxx] 865
Mar 1997 Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson #38[blntrxxx.xxx] 864
Mar 1997 The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie[masacxxx.xxx] 863
Mar 1997 [Harvard] Philosophy 4, by Owen Wister [phil4xxx.xxx] 862
Mar 1997 The Dominion of the Air, by J. M. Bacon [dmairxxx.xxx] 861
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This "cost" is down from about $.83 when we had 11,912 eBooks a year ago.
100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!
At 15,822 eBooks in 33 Years and 08.75 Months We Averaged
~469 Per Year
39.0 Per Month
1.28 Per Day
At 866 eBooks Done In The 77 Days Of 2005 We Averaged
11.25 Per Day
79 Per Week
315 Per Month
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FRANCE CALLS GOOGLE'S ANTE
High-level officials in France have put their support behind an
initiative to digitize European works of literature and make them
available free online. President Jacques Chirac, as well as Jean-Noel
Jeanneney, president of the National Library of France, and Renaud
Donnedieu de Vabres, minister of culture and communication, met
recently to discuss efforts to digitize the "cultural patrimony" of
France and Europe, a discussion evidently prompted by recently
announced plans by Google to digitize vast amounts of English-language
literature. Following the meeting, Donnedieu de Vabres published an
essay called "Google Is Not the End of History," in which he commented
that "we probably have a lot to learn from Google" and said the Google
announcement "comes in an intellectual and cultural climate in which
the digitization of documents and works seems to be the key to all
problems." French officials rejected the notion that their actions are
merely a reaction to Google or that their project should be seen as
antithetical to or in competition with Google.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 March 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/03/2005032101t.htm
CHINA BLOCKS ACCESS TO CAMPUS WEB PAGES
Chinese officials have blocked outside access to a number of online
bulletin boards operated by universities. Such bulletin boards have
become popular vehicles for discussion about topics including politics,
pop culture, and pornography, subjects which Chinese authorities have
not been shy about censoring. Tsinghua University's Shuimu Tsinghua
bulletin board was one of those restricted recently, joining bulletin
boards at Wuhan University and Nankai University, as well as one at
Peking University that was shut down entirely. According to a student
from Tsinghua University who asked not to be named, the Ministry of
Education's reasoning for blocking outside access was "because the
bulletin board was only supposed to be a platform for internal exchange
within the university." He added, "Students are calm about it, but it seems
that non-student users are angry because they can no longer get access."
Reuters, 21 March 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7958355
APPLYING OLD SCAMS TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES
The emergence of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phone service has
opened a new door for hackers and others to fool users. Using the
Internet to transmit phone calls allows callers to spoof Caller ID
systems, something that isn't possible with traditional phone service.
Although telemarketers are required by the Federal Communications
Commission to properly identify themselves, Caller ID spoofing is
otherwise not prohibited. As a result, someone can, for example, call
Western Union, which requires customers to call from their home phones
to initiate money transfers, using a faked source number, and make a
fraudulent transfer. In other instances, debt collectors and private
investigators use Caller ID spoofing to trick people into answering
their phones and possibly divulging information they otherwise would
not. Scams similar to e-mail phishing rackets also take advantage of
Caller ID spoofing, deceiving people into believing that a caller is at
a bank or a financial institution and helping persuade them to reveal
personal information to the caller.
Wired News, 20 March 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66954,00.html
REPORT OFFERS RENEWED CRITICISM FOR E-RATE PROGRAM
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) puts forth
renewed charges of fraud and mismanagement in the federal government's
E-rate Program, designed to subsidize technology to connect U.S.
schools and libraries to the Internet. The report was prepared for the
House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is conducting its own
investigation. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), chairman of the committee,
blamed the Federal Communications Commission, unscrupulous vendors, and
certain schools for the problems in the program, which he said was a
"disgrace." Although investigations have led to a handful of penalties
for abuse in the program, the report advises increased efforts to clean
it up. Among the report's recommendations are calls to
"comprehensively determine which federal accountability requirements
apply to E-rate; establish meaningful E-rate performance goals and
measures; and take steps to reduce its backlog of appeals."
Internet News, 17 March 2005
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3490806
U.S. CONSIDERS RESTRICTIONS ON SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS
[Did you know that your Social Security Numbers is supposed to be
used ONLY for Social Security purposes? You have a right to refuse
to give it to anyone else who asks for it. I called the Social
Security Administration to verify this.]
Following recent incidents that exposed personal information on more
than 175,000 individuals, U.S. lawmakers are considering placing new
restrictions on companies that gather and sell such information.
Relatively few regulations apply to companies such as ChoicePoint and
LexisNexis that collect data about driving records, financial records,
and other sensitive information. Social Security numbers appear to be
at the crux of the issue: because they are unique, data companies rely
on Social Security numbers to distinguish individuals, but the numbers
are also a powerful weapon in the hands of identity thieves, who can
use them to access confidential records, open new accounts, and wreak
havoc with a person's privacy. At separate hearings in the House and
the Senate, legislators discussed laws that would require data
companies to notify any individual before they sell that person's
Social Security number. Other suggestions included requiring disclosure
of any incident that exposes sensitive information. Don McGuffey, vice
president of ChoicePoint, which recently sold 145,000 records to
identity thieves, told a Senate hearing that personal information had
been compromised by his company in "a handful" of other incidents that
were not made public.
Reuters, 15 March 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7911154
MICROSOFT AND STUDENT SETTLE OVER SOFTWARE RESALE
Microsoft and David Zamos have reached a settlement in their dispute
over Zamos's sale on eBay of Microsoft software he purchased while a
student at the University of Akron. After Zamos bought Windows XP Pro
and Microsoft Office from the university bookstore, he found he was not
permitted to return it, though it was unopened. Zamos, who paid about
$50 for both products because of deep educational discounts, decided to
sell the software on eBay, where he sold each for about $100. The sale
prompted Microsoft to file a lawsuit alleging that Zamos improperly
benefited from academic pricing, in violation of company policies.
Zamos argued that such policies were not explained on the packaging,
and he countersued the company, alleging that because of Microsoft's
actions and policies, obtaining a refund for software is virtually
impossible. Although both parties expressed their satisfaction with the
resolution, a confidentiality agreement covering the settlement
prevents disclosure of any details. A statement from Microsoft did
note, however, that the company will "continue its commitment to
protecting those intended to benefit from its academic program,"
suggesting it will continue to look unfavorably on anyone reselling
academic purchases.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 March 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/03/2005031606n.htm
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
No Weapons Of Mass Destruction
It turns out that the US used technologies in Iraq that
could have even detected a penny that had been stored in
proximity to an atomic bomb or chemical warfare elements.
Such a penny could easily be detected in a huge stack of
otherwise identical pennies.
A person who recently received anti-cancer radiation therapy
set of the alarms in the Holland Tunnel when returning to
New York from New Jersey.
*
Iraq still has no president and no prime minister.
*
The Ukraine shipped nuclear-capable missiles to Iran and
to China. These put Turkey and Israel in Iran's range.
*
New Alaskan oil could barely reach the pump in 10 years.
*
The Vatican vehemently and repeatedly denies that Jesus
could have been married, yet no reference is made to an
assortment of evidence that Jesus was a rabbi, and then
to the fact that rabbis must be married.
This issue recently resurfaced in relation to Da Vinci
Code plot elements that Jesus was married.
The Vatican has requested The Da Vinci Code be deleted
from Christian bookstores, but apparently this isn't a
big issue with the booksellers who ignored the order.
The Da Vinci Code has sold 25 million copies.
*
$9 billion dollars the US sent to Iraq is missing.
*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Radio Frequency ID Tags
Speaking about RFID tags for his kids, Harry Hamlin said:
"I can't wait until the chips are ready," referring to the
implantable GPS ID tags that are already in use in animals.
He wants to know where his kids are every minute every day.
[This is a miniaturized internal version of what is on the
ankle bracelet Martha Stewart is wearing the next 5 months]
*
"Disarming Iraq and The War On Terror are not related."
Don Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz just 50 days before
"Shock And Awe."
Paul Wolfowitz is the heir apparent to lead the World Bank,
which is nearly always headed by someone from the U.S., but
there is some concern about a resume as the major architect
of the Iraq invasion be accepted as a World Banker resume.
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE DAY
The Doublespeak Committee awarded the 1989 Doublespeak Award to:
EXXON
"For calling some 35 miles of Alaskan beaches `environmentally clean'
and "environmentally stabilized." In his announcement speech,
Doublespeak Committee Chair William Lutz noted that various major
news media subsequently reported the visible presence of oil along
the coast in the area where the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground
March 24, 1989. . .just about exactly 16 years ago.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
RFIDs will be transferred from keeping track of animals in
the wild and in agriculture to keeping track of people.
Entire schools will inist on the "electronic hall passes."
Big Brother won't have to watch you, he will know where you
are at all times. . ."The Computer Never Blinks."
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
The United States Military Academies Report Hundreds Of Sex
Oriented Assaults On Their Female Cadets By The Male Cadets
Every Year. [West Point, Annapolis, and Air Force Academy]
*
6,000 Coal miners are officially reported killed every year as
China goes ballistic in its effort to keep energy supplies up.
Unofficial reports say the figure 2 to 3 times as high.
*
60% of Afganistan's GDP is opium poppies. For each dollar in
poppy acreage a farmer would only receive 8.3 cents in wheat.
*
According to "Testosterone Dreams" more police officers in
are using drugs than athletes.
*
Anti-depressants are the 3rd most prescribed drugs in the US
and have many of the same ingredients that are railed against
in public announcements.
Prediction: we will find we have millions addicted to them.
*
90% of the prisoners at the US base at Guantanamo, Cuba are
there for unspecified reasons.
*
1/2 the population of Tehran, Iran is under 20 years old.
Tehran is the capital of Iran.
*
Gas prices would be $3 if they had kept up with the rising
prices of everything else.
*
For those who keep up with such things, the US Trade Deficit
reached 2/3 of a trillion dollars last year, and this figure
must be subtracted from the GDP to equal the GNP.
The Gross Domestic Product was created to make things look a
bit better by not subtracting our debt from our profits, as
was done with GNP figures.
Thus all current GDP figures are 2/3 of a trillion too high.
Of course, the National Debt is much higher.
*
In an interesting coincidence, chess champion Bobby Fischer
was granted citizenship by Iceland after years of searching
for a home where he could just be left alone, the same day
Gary Kasparov, the last great champion, retired. Was Gary's
retirement a gambit to unpin his fianchettoed knight?
*
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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Victorian Short Stories, by Various 15381
[Subtitle: Trials of Love]
[Contents: Angela, an Inverted Love Story, by William Schwenk Gilbert]]
[ The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne, by Anthony Trollope]
[ Anthony Garstin's Courtship, by Hubert Crackanthorpe]
[ A Little Grey Glove, by George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne]
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Robert Moffat, by David J. Deane 15379
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Atalanta in Calydon, by Algernon Charles Swinburne 15378
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Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 11, by Robert Kerr 15376
[Full title: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels,]
[Volume 11]
[Subtitle: Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History]
[of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and]
[Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the]
[Present Time]
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Voyage dans l'Aures, by Dorothee Chellier 15375
[Subtitle: Notes d'un m�decin envoy� en mission chez les femmes arabes]
[Language: French]
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St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878, by Various 15374
[Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge]
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St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877, by Various 15373
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Le portrait de monsieur W.H., by Oscar Wilde 15372
[Translator: Albert Savine]
[Language: French]
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Les mille et une nuits - Tome premier, by Anonymous 15371
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[Language: French]
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Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs, by W. S. Gilbert 15370
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[This is the fourth book of Bab Ballads in the PG library. It appears to]
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Old Scores and New Readings, by John F. Runciman 15369
[Subtitle: Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians]
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Fugitive Pieces, by George Gordon Noel Byron 15368
[With A Bibliographical Note By Marcel Kessel]
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The Magic Speech Flower, by Melvin Hix 15367
[Subtitle: or Little Luke and His Animal Friends]
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Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, Sep. 24, 1892, by Various 15366
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A Psychiatric Milestone, by Various 15365
[Editor: Howard Townsend]
[Editor: Bronson Winthrop]
[Editor: R. Horace Gallatin]
[Subtitle: Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921]
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Society for Pure English Tract 4, by John Sargeaunt 15364
[Subtitle: The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin]
[Annotator: H. Bradley]
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The American Missionary - Vol. 44, No. 3, March, 1890, by Various 15362
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Felix Poutre, by Louis H. Frechette 15361
[Subtitle: Drame historique en quatre actes]
[Language: French]
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The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking, by Helen Campbell 15360
[Subtitle: Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes]
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The Negro, by W.E.B. Du Bois 15359
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The Great Round World Vol. 1 No. 17, by Various 15358
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, ]
[ No. 17, March 4, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
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Nautilus, by Laura E. Richards 15355
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Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850, by Various 15354
[Subtitle: A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men,]
[Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.]
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Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922), by Board of Health 15352
[Full author: Committee Of The Board Of Health]
[Subtitle: Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health]
[appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health]
[Committee Members: W. H. Triggs; J. S. Elliott; Murdoch Fraser;]
[J. P. Frengley; Lady Luke; Donald McGavin]
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A History of English Prose Fiction, by Bayard Tuckerman 15350
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The Works Of John Dryden, Volume 4 (of 18), by John Dryden 15349
[Subtitle: Almanzor And Almahide, Marriage-a-la-Mode, The Assignation]
[Commentator: Walter Scott]
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Blown to Bits, by Robert Michael Ballantyne 15348
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[Editor: Rossiter Johnson]
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Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School, by Jessie Graham Flower 15344
[Author AKA: Josephine Chase]
[Subtitle: The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics]
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Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory, by John M'lean 15342
[Full title: Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service]
[in the Hudson's Bay Territory]
[Subtitle: Volume I.]
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Jouluaattona juomarin kodissa, by Evald Ferdinand Jahnsson 15341
[Subtitle: 1-n�yt�ksinen n�ytelm]
[Language: Finnish]
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Joululahjat, by Theodolinda Hahnsson 15340
[Language: Finnish]
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Vieraita odottaessa, by Robert Kiljander 15339
[Subtitle: Huvin�ytelm� yhdess� n�yt�ksess]
[Language: Finnish]
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More Toasts, by Various 15338
[Subtitle: Jokes, Stories and Quotations]
[Editor: Marion Dix Mosher ]
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Source Book Of Australian History, Compiled by Gwendolen H. Swinburne 15337
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The Life of Columbus, by Arthur Helps 15336
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Madame Chrysantheme, by Pierre Loti 15335
[Translated by Laura Ensor]
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Mindanao: Su Historia y Geografia, by Jose Nieto Aguilar 15334
[Language: Spanish]
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The Confessions Of Nat Turner, by Nat Turner 15333
[Subtitle: The Leader Of The Late Insurrections In Southampton, Va.]
[As Fully And Voluntarily Made To Thomas R. Gray, In The Prison]
[Where He Was Confined, And Acknowledged By Him To Be Such When]
[Read Before The Court Of Southampton; With The Certificate, Under]
[Seal Of The Court Convened At Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, For His Trial.]
[Also, An Authentic Account Of The Whole Insurrection,]
[Compiled by Thomas R. Gray]
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 17, 1892, by Various 15332
[Editor: F. C. Burnand]
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[Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge]
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 9, 1917, by Various 15330
[Editor: Owen Seaman]
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An Apology For The Study of Northern Antiquities, by Elizabeth Elstob 15329
[Introduction by Charles Peake]
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The Lost Hunter, by John Turvill Adams 15328
[Subtitle: A Tale of Early Times]
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A Library Primer, by John Cotton Dana 15327
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The Great Round World Vol. 1 No. 16, by Various 15326
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,]
[ No. 16, February 25, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
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The Great Round World Vol. 1 No. 15, by Various 15325
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,]
[ No. 15, February 18, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
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Promenades et interieurs, by Francois Coppee 15324
[Language: French]
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The Green Eyes of Bast, by Sax Rohmer 15323
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The American Architect and Building News, by Various 15322
[Full title: The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733,]
[ January 11, 1890]
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Tracy Park, by Mary Jane Holmes 15321
[Author AKA: Mary Jane Hawes Holmes (1825-1907)]
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The Romance of the Milky Way, by Lafcadio Hearn 15320
[Subtitle: And Other Studies & Stories]
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The Government Class Book, by Andrew W. Young 15319
[Subtitle: Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles]
[of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of]
[Citizens.]
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Pilven hattaroita I, by Matti Kurikka 15318
[Subtitle: Pieni� kyh�elmi�]
[Language: Finnish]
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The Baronet's Bride, by May Agnes Fleming 15317
[Author AKA: Miss M. A. Earlie]
[Author AKA: Cousin May Carlton]
[Author AKA: May Agnes Earlie Fleming (1840-1880)]
[Subtitle: A Woman's Vengeance]
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Jutelmia lahelta ja kaukaa II, by Pietari Hannikainen 15316
[Full title: Jutelmia lahelta ja kaukaa II: Salojarwen kukkanen]
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Gladys, the Reaper, by Anne Beale 15315
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Rakastunut rampa eli Sakris Kukkelman, by Joel Lehtonen 15314
[Full title: Rakastunut rampa eli Sakris Kukkelman, koyha polseviikki]
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A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717), by Thomas Purney 15313
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Memoires (Tome 2), by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot 15312
[Full title: Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 2)]
[Language: French]
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Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough, by William Morris 15311
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Dictionnaire Fran�ois--Onontagu�, by John Gilmary Shea 15310
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Rabinal-Achi 15309
[Subtitle: vepu Xahoh-tun u bi xahoh rech vae tinamit Rabinal]
[Editor: �tienne-Charles Brasseur de Bourbourg]
[Language: Quiche]
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Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise, by P. Gerald Sanford 15308
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The Narrative of Gordon Sellar, by Gordon Sellar 15307
[Full title: The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in]
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The Mirrors of Downing Street, by Harold Begbie 15306
[Subtitle: Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster]
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L'influence d'un livre, by Philippe Aubert de Gaspe 15305
[Subtitle: Roman historique]
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Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy: between 1793 and 1849, Gilly 15301
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
Feb 1997 Speeches: Literary & Social by Charles Dickens[20][dslasxxx.xxx] 824
Feb 1997 The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore [stdecxxx.xxx] 823
Feb 1997 The Tarn of Eternity, by Frank Tymon [etarnxxx.xxx] 822C
Feb 1997 Dombey and Son, by Charles Dickens [Dickens # 19] [dombyxxx.xxx] 821
Feb 1997 Edison, His Life and Inventions, by Dyer & Martin [ehlaixxx.xxx] 820
Feb 1997 The History of the Telephone, by Herbert N. Casson[thottxxx.xxx] 819
Feb 1997 The Aeroplane Speaks, by H. Barber [R.F. Corps] [arspkxxx.xxx] 818
Feb 1997 The Jargon File, 4.0.0, by various editors [jarg400x.xxx] 817
Feb 1997 Democracy In America, Alexis de Toqueville Vol 2 [2dinaxxx.xxx] 816
Feb 1997 Democracy In America, Alexis de Toqueville Vol 1 [1dinaxxx.xxx] 815
Feb 1997 Hunting Sketches, by Anthony Trollope [Trollope#2][hntskxxx.xxx] 814
Feb 1997 Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by Ilya Tolstoy[his son][rtlstxxx.xxx] 813
Feb 1997 Catalan's Constant to 1.5M Places [see#15][math18][ctcstxxa.xxx] 812
Feb 1997 Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe, Newer Edition[drfstaxx.xxx] 811
[Title: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; From the Quarto of 1616]
[Ed: Alexander Dyce]
Feb 1997 George Silverman's Explanation/Charles Dickens[18][gsilxxxx.xxx] 810
Feb 1997 Holiday Romance, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #17] [hldrmxxx.xxx] 809
Feb 1997 The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan [G#2] [cpogsxxx.xxx] 808
Feb 1997 Hunted Down, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #16] [hntdnxxx.xxx] 807
Feb 1997 Philoktetes, by Sophocles, Trans. Gregory McNamee [phlokxxx.xxx] 806
Feb 1997 This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald [#1][tsparxxx.xxx] 805
Feb 1997 A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne [senjrxxx.xxx] 804
[The Following eBooks Were The First Project Gutebnerg eBooks In French]
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Feb 1997 Vittoria Accoramboni, by Stendhal [in French] #5][8vtraxxx.xxx] 802
Feb 1997 Les Cenci by Stendhal[Marie-Henri Beyle][French#4][8cncixxx.xxx] 801
Jan 1997 Tour Du Mond 80 Jours [in French] by Jules Verne#5[?80jrxxx.xxx] 800
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Jan 1997 Le Rouge et Le Noir, by Stendhal [in French] #3[8rougxxx.xxx] 798
Jan 1997 L'Abbesse de Castro etc, by Stendhal[in French] #2[8castxxx.xxx] 797
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100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!
At 15,767 eBooks in 33 Years and 08.50 Months We Averaged
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39.0 Per Month
1.28 Per Day
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81 Per Week
322 Per Month
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
CHICAGO LOOKS AT CITY-WIDE WI-FI
Officials in Chicago have authorized a study of the feasibility of a
city-wide wireless network, despite a bill in the state legislature
that would ban municipalities from acting as utilities for such
services. Reportedly at the urging of commercial broadband providers,
State Sen. Steven Rauschenberger introduced a bill that would forbid
cities from either offering broadband service or "reselling" such
service to a company that would then manage it. Alderman Edward Burke
said he would introduce legislation that would give the city the right
to install a broadband wireless network before the state could pass the
law that would prevent it. Christopher O'Brien, chief information
officer for Chicago, said a city-wide network would likely consist of
about 7,500 antennas on light poles and would cost more than $18
million. One option, said O'Brien, would be to enter into an agreement
with a company that would install and maintain the network and would
pay the city rent for the use of the light poles.
Federal Computer Week, 14 March 2005
http://www.fcw.com/article88275
SCHOOLS CRITICIZED OVER REJECTION OF NOSY APPLICANTS
A number of business-school applicants who were rejected due to their
looking at university admissions records online without authorization
have spoken out against the universities' decision to exclude them.
Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, and MIT have rejected
the applications of 153 individuals who used a hacker's instructions
to try to find out if they had been accepted. Although some applicants
involved acknowledged that accessing the records was wrong, they
contended that the actions do not constitute hacking and that the
institutions have overreacted. One rejected applicant wrote a letter to
Harvard, admitting a "lapse in judgment" but noting that he "wasn't
trying to harm anyone and wasn't trying to get an advantage over
anyone." Len Metheny, CEO and president of ApplyYourself, the software
that all the affected schools used for applications, said the procedure
to access the records was sufficiently complicated that anyone doing so
would have to have known it was unauthorized.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 March 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/03/2005031104n.htm
APPLE WINS RIGHT TO SUBPOENA E-MAIL RECORDS
New iPod, etc., outed before official announcement]
A judge in California has ruled that Apple Computer has the right to
subpoena records of an e-mail provider to determine the source of leaks
of confidential company information on upcoming products. In his
ruling, Judge James P. Kleinberg was careful to sidestep the question
of protection for journalists and to note that his ruling does not
concern the merits of Apple's underlying case. Rather, he found that
under California law, the information published on Mac enthusiast sites
constitutes stolen property, as would physical property that had been
stolen. While the law does not allow prevention of such publications,
those responsible--regardless of the definition of "journalist"--must
bear the consequences of doing so, said Kleinberg. Apple hopes through
the proceedings to identify those individuals who leaked the
information that was posted on the enthusiast sites. The operators of
those sites are not the target of Apple's efforts. Kleinberg delayed
enforcement of his ruling for seven days to provide an opportunity for
the defendants to appeal.
CNET, 11 March 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1047_3-5611285.html
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
Malaria Drastically Underreported
It turns out that the media have been giving false reports
on malaria these past years, with half a billion people on
file as having malaria in 2002, but probably less than one
half that many were acknowledged.
The possible reason behind this is that most media outlets
are not particularly concerned with Africa, other than the
portion bordering the Middle Eastern oil/conflict region.
At least half of the world's malaria cases are located out
of the regions the media concentrates on, in a sub-Saharan
region of Africa.
However, about one quarter of malaria cases are located in
Asia and the Western Pacific.
And this is only counting the most deadly form of Malaria,
plasmodium falciparum malaria; 515 million cases per year.
As the World Wide Web brings us closer together, the media
can no longer continue to keep us apart.
*
In a related story, it would appear that "The Plague" your
history books mentioned in Europe, actually more like some
world series of plagues, conferred upon its survivors, and
their descendants, resistance to AIDS.
*
In yet another related story, having one gene for "sickle-
cell anemia" gives resistance to malaria, which explains a
confounding persistence of sickle-cell anemia in Africa.
*
FOUL UP CAUSES ANTHRAX SCARE, STOCK MARKET FALLS
[Official Pentagon Spokesman Remains Anonymous]
Apparently a test sample either was not cleaned out of
the anthrax testing machines or such a sample was placed
close or on the air filter from the Pentagon Remote Delivery
Facility to cause the recent anthrax scare this past week.
As a result, 100's of government employees were placed on
a three day regimen of antibiotics at an undisclosed cost
in terms of medical support, paid work leave, lost work, etc.,
not to mention the substantial loss to our finanical markets.
"Quality Control Problems" were officially announced as the
cause of the scare by a senior Pentagon official who has
insisted on remaining nameless.
*
In Juxaposition, However, It Appears The Bird Flu Has Been
Undercounted To A Major Degree In A Different Kind Of Error
*
*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"That which does not kill you makes you stronger."
That's why our cockroaches and rats are so tough.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Pharacological [drug] companies will spend well over half their
entire budgets this year on their marketing divisions and stock
dividends while only spending 3% on developing new drugs and 9%
on revamping old drugs to renew patents or to develop new drugs
that do not out perform old drugs.
Figures are from the US SEC [Securities Exchange Commission]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
A few years ago the average citizen of the world had not ever
made a single phone call. Today even the average citizen of
Africa has made a phone call. [Figures from Reuters]
*
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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