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3952 New eBooks So Far in 2003
It took us 31 years for the first 3952 !
That's the 49 WEEKS of 2003 as Compared to ~31 YEARS!!!
Here Is A Sample Of What Books Were Being Done Around #3952
Apr 2003 Entire PG Edition of The French Immortals [IM#87][imewkxxx.xxx] 4000
Apr 2003 Entire An "Attic" Philosopher by Souvestre [IM#86][im86bxxx.xxx] 3999
Apr 2003 An "Attic" Philosopher by E. Souvestre, v3 [IM#85][im85bxxx.xxx] 3998
Apr 2003 An "Attic" Philosopher by E. Souvestre, v2 [IM#84][im84bxxx.xxx] 3997
Apr 2003 An "Attic" Philosopher by E. Souvestre, v1 [IM#83][im83bxxx.xxx] 3996
Apr 2003 The Entire Madame Chrysantheme by Loti [IM#82][im82bxxx.xxx] 3995
Apr 2003 Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti, v4 [IM#81][im81bxxx.xxx] 3994
Apr 2003 Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti, v3 [IM#80][im80bxxx.xxx] 3993
Apr 2003 Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti, v2 [IM#79][im79bxxx.xxx] 3992
Apr 2003 Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti, v1 [IM#78][im78bxxx.xxx] 3991
Apr 2003 The Entire Conscience by Hector Malot [IM#77][im77bxxx.xxx] 3990
Apr 2003 Conscience by Hector Malot, v4 [IM#76][im76bxxx.xxx] 3989
Apr 2003 Conscience by Hector Malot, v3 [IM#75][im75bxxx.xxx] 3988
Apr 2003 Conscience by Hector Malot, v2 [IM#74][im74bxxx.xxx] 3987
Apr 2003 Conscience by Hector Malot, v1 [IM#73][im73bxxx.xxx] 3986
Apr 2003 The Entire Gerfaut by Charles de Bernard [IM#72][im72bxxx.xxx] 3985
Apr 2003 Gerfaut by Charles de Bernard, v4 [IM#71][im71bxxx.xxx] 3984
Apr 2003 Gerfaut by Charles de Bernard, v3 [IM#70][im70bxxx.xxx] 3983
Apr 2003 Gerfaut by Charles de Bernard, v2 [IM#69][im69bxxx.xxx] 3982
Apr 2003 Gerfaut by Charles de Bernard, v1 [IM#68][im68bxxx.xxx] 3981
Apr 2003 The Entire Fromont and Risler, by Daudet [IM#67][im67bxxx.xxx] 3980
Apr 2003 Fromont and Risler by Alphonse Daudet, v4 [IM#66][im66bxxx.xxx] 3979
. . .
Apr 2003 Fromont and Risler by Alphonse Daudet, v1 [IM#63][im63bxxx.xxx] 3976
Apr 2003 Entire The Ink-Stain by Rene Bazin [IM#62][im62bxxx.xxx] 3975
Apr 2003 The Ink-Stain by Rene Bazin, v3 [IM#61][im61bxxx.xxx] 3974
. . .
Apr 2003 The Ink-Stain by Rene Bazin, v1 [IM#59][im59bxxx.xxx] 3972
Apr 2003 Entire Jacqueline by Bentzon (Mme. Blanc) [IM#58][im58bxxx.xxx] 3971
Apr 2003 Jacqueline by Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc), v3 [IM#57][im57bxxx.xxx] 3970
. . .
Apr 2003 Jacqueline by Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc), v1 [IM#55][im55bxxx.xxx] 3968
Apr 2003 Entire Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget [IM#54][im54bxxx.xxx] 3967
Apr 2003 Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget, v4 [IM#53][im53bxxx.xxx] 3966
Apr 2003 Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget, v3 [IM#52][im52bxxx.xxx] 3965
. . .
Apr 2003 Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget, v1 [IM#50][im50bxxx.xxx] 3963
Apr 2003 Entire Romance of Youth by Francois Coppee [IM#49][im49bxxx.xxx] 3962
Apr 2003 A Romance of Youth by Francois Coppee, v4 [IM#48][im48bxxx.xxx] 3961
. . .
Apr 2003 A Romance of Youth by Francois Coppee, v1 [IM#45][im45bxxx.xxx] 3958
Apr 2003 Entire L'Abbe Constantin by Ludovic Halevy [IM#44][im44bxxx.xxx] 3957
Apr 2003 L'Abbe Constantin by Ludovic Halevy, v3 [IM#43][im43bxxx.xxx] 3956
Apr 2003 L'Abbe Constantin by Ludovic Halevy, v2 [IM#42][im42bxxx.xxx] 3955
Apr 2003 L'Abbe Constantin by Ludovic Halevy, v1 [IM#41][im41bxxx.xxx] 3954
Apr 2003 The Entire Cinq Mars, by Alfred de Vigny [IM#40][im40bxxx.xxx] 3953
Apr 2003 Cinq Mars, by Alfred de Vigny, v6 [IM#39][im39bxxx.xxx] 3952
Apr 2003 Cinq Mars, by Alfred de Vigny, v5 [IM#38][im38bxxx.xxx] 3951
Apr 2003 Cinq Mars, by Alfred de Vigny, v4 [IM#37][im37bxxx.xxx] 3950
. . .
Apr 2003 Cinq Mars, by Alfred de Vigny, v1 [IM#34][im34bxxx.xxx] 3947
Apr 2003 Entire Monsieur de Camors by Oct. Feuillet [IM#33][im33bxxx.xxx] 3946
Apr 2003 Monsieur de Camors by Octave Feuillet, v3 [IM#32][im32bxxx.xxx] 3945
. . .
Apr 2003 Monsieur de Camors by Octave Feuillet, v1 [IM#30][im30bxxx.xxx] 3943
Apr 2003 Entire Child of a Century, Alfred de Musset[IM#29][im29bxxx.xxx] 3942
Apr 2003 Child of a Century, Alfred de Musset, v3 [IM#28][im28bxxx.xxx] 3941
. . .
Apr 2003 Child of a Century, Alfred de Musset, v1 [IM#26][im26bxxx.xxx] 3939
Apr 2003 Entire A Woodland Queen, by Andre Theuriet [IM#25][im25bxxx.xxx] 3938
Apr 2003 A Woodland Queen, by Andre Theuriet, v3 [IM#24][im24bxxx.xxx] 3937
. . .
Apr 2003 A Woodland Queen, by Andre Theuriet, v1 [IM#22][im22bxxx.xxx] 3935
Apr 2003 The Entire Zebiline by Phillipe de Masa [IM#21][im21bxxx.xxx] 3934
Apr 2003 Zebiline by Phillipe de Masa, v3 [IM#20][im20bxxx.xxx] 3933
. . .
Apr 2003 Zebiline by Phillipe de Masa, v1 [IM#18][im18bxxx.xxx] 3931
Apr 2003 The Entire Prince Zilah by Jules Claretie [IM#17][im17bxxx.xxx] 3930
Apr 2003 Prince Zilah, by Jules Claretie, v3 [IM#16][im16bxxx.xxx] 3929
. . .
Apr 2003 Prince Zilah, by Jules Claretie, v1 [IM#14][im14bxxx.xxx] 3927
Apr 2003 The Entire M, Mme and Bebe, by Gustave Droz[IM#13][im13bxxx.xxx] 3926
Apr 2003 Monsieur, Mme, and Bebe, by Gustave Droz v3[IM#12][im12bxxx.xxx] 3925
. . .
Apr 2003 Monsieur, Mme, and Bebe, by Gustave Droz v1[IM#10][im10bxxx.xxx] 3923
[Title of the above: Monsieur, Madame, and Bebe]
Apr 2003 Entire The Red Lily, by Anatole France [IM#09][im09bxxx.xxx] 3922
Apr 2003 The Red Lily, by Anatole France, v3 [IM#08][im08bxxx.xxx] 3921
. . .
Apr 2003 The Red Lily, by Anatole France, v1 [IM#06][im06bxxx.xxx] 3919
Apr 2003 The Entire Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet [IM#05][im05bxxx.xxx] 3918
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v4 [IM#04][im04bxxx.xxx] 3917
. . .
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v1 [IM#01][im01bxxx.xxx] 3914
Apr 2003 Entire Confessions of J.J.Rousseau/Book 13 [JJ#13][jj13bxxx.xxx] 3913
. . .
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 1 [JJ#01][jj01bxxx.xxx] 3901
[Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau]
Mar 2003 The Entire Court Memoirs of France Series [CM#63][cm63bxxx.xxx] 3900
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THE NEW ECONOMY IS BACK -- BUT NOT THE JOBS
The latest economic indicators -- rising productivity, fewer jobs -- could
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technology improvements in the last decade, says Fortune columnist David
Kirkpatrick: "We may be entering the second great technology boom. The
first one, of the late '90s, was a boom in expectations, which pushed up
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technologies born of the Internet would fundamentally transform the
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million eliminated in the last two years in the U.S. as companies
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in this new world, you'd better be doing something that benefits from a
digitized economy." (Fortune.com 4 Dec 2003)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/04/fortune.ff.real.boom/index.html
NEGOTIATORS DRAFT GLOBAL INTERNET GROUND RULES
Participants from 192 countries have succeeded in narrowing their
differences on the issue of how best to expand the Internet, but remain
undecided as to whether rich nations should foot the entire bill.
"Unfortunately, we didn't settle everything, but one has to be realistic.
We're probably at 98%," says Marc Furrer, the Swiss official who brokered
the negotiations prior to the start of the three-day World Summit on the
Information Society on Wednesday. More than 60 heads of state will attend
the U.N.-sponsored meeting and the hope has been to have draft agreements
prepared ahead of time for approval. African nations are advocating the
creation of a special "digital solidarity fund" to pay for expanding
Internet access to remote villages, but the U.S., Japan and European
countries have suggested that existing development aid should be used to
accomplish that. Meanwhile, negotiators have agreed to include in their
proposals wording supporting the commitment to press freedom taken from the
U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and to maintain the status
quo on Internet governance, with the core systems based in the U.S. and
managed by ICANN. The declaration also calls on governments to work
together to combat spam and improve Internet security. (AP 8 Dec 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20031208/D7VA8D480.html
SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS FACE 500-FOOT-HIGH VIRTUAL BILLBOARD
Participants at this week's World Summit on the Information Society will be
greeted by a 500-foot-high laser-light display that will beam thousands of
SMS messages onto a wall of water formed by the shooting jets of Lake
Geneva's Jet d'Eau, the world's tallest fountain. Internet users will be
able to post their messages almost instantly onto the fountain display, or
onto the northern fagade of the U.N. building in New York, a mountain face
in Rio de Janiero, or the front of a Bombay skyscraper. It's all part of
the Helloworld Project, the brainchild of Swiss Web designer Johannes Gees,
and is similar to a smaller version he debuted at the 2001 World Economic
Forum in Davos. "The idea is to use the media to allow people to get their
message across to powerful people," says Gees. "With this project's
intervention into public space, I give people who don't have money the
power to be present in a big, visible way." Requests from governments to
edit the messages have been refused, although Gees says his 12 multilingual
editors will screen out messages with personal insults, commercial content,
racism or sexism. He's also discouraging people from sending "Hi,
Mom!"-type messages. (Wired.com 8 Dec 2003)
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FEDERAL AID RULES WAIVED FOR FIVE DISTANCE-ED PROVIDERS
The Department of Education has expanded the list of institutions
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of programs that teach more than half their courses at a distance or
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was designed to discourage distance education programs that were not
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Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 December 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i16/16a03102.htm
TASK FORCE URGES BETTER FEDERAL INFORMATION SHARING
A report issued by the Markle Foundation calls on the federal
government to move away from the "Cold War" mentality of its current
approach to national security and open networks to a range of law
enforcement officials. The report, "Creating A Trusted Information
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to protect civil liberties.
InformationWeek, 5 December 2003
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Mar 2003 Entire Memoirs Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans[CM#22][cm22bxxx.xxx] 3859
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v4[CM#21][cm21bxxx.xxx] 3858
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v3[CM#20][cm20bxxx.xxx] 3857
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Madame de Montespan [CM#17][cm17bxxx.xxx] 3854
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v7 [CM#16][cm16bxxx.xxx] 3853
. . .
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v1 [CM#10][cm10bxxx.xxx] 3847
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz [CM#09][cm09bxxx.xxx] 3846
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v4 [CM#08][cm08bxxx.xxx] 3845
. . .
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v1 [CM#05][cm05bxxx.xxx] 3842
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois [CM#04][cm04bxxx.xxx] 3841
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v3 [CM#03][cm03bxxx.xxx] 3840
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v2 [CM#02][cm02bxxx.xxx] 3839
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v1 [CM#01][cm01bxxx.xxx] 3838
[From: The Entire Court Memoirs of France Series]
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TALKING NEWSPAPERS SOUND ALMOST HUMAN
The British Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) is teaming up with
Rhetorical Systems to provide partially sighted and blind people with
timely access to newspapers and magazines, using technology that "reads"
the stories in a very human-sounding voice. Rhetorical's rVoice
text-to-speech software is based on the voice files of real people and
sounds, and produces much more natural speech than traditional speech
synthesizers. Subscribers to the new service will receive a portable
AudioRead device that they can use to retrieve information from wherever
they happen to be. Unlike audiotapes used to deliver newspapers to the
visually impaired, AudioRead users can navigate the sections, skipping
between articles and sections as they choose. "We'll be able to produce 400
hours of audio in one hour," says RNIB technology expert Steve Tyler.
"The mainstay of our users who listen to books have never liked the idea of
synthetic speech, they've always wanted a real reader."
(BBC News 25 Nov 2003)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3233340.stm
THIS NUMBER'S READY FOR PRIME TIME
Michigan State University grad student Michael Shafer has succeeded in
identifying the largest known prime number to date, using a distributed
computer network of more than 200,000 computers located around the world.
The new number is 6,320,430 digits long and is only the 40th Mersenne prime
to have ever been discovered (Mersenne primes are an especially rare breed
that take the form of 2-to-the-power-of-P, where P is also a prime number).
Shafer was taking part in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)
project, when the new number popped up. "I had just finished meeting with
my advisor when I saw the computer had found a new prime. After a short
victory dance, I called up my wife and friends involved with GIMPS to share
the great news," said Shafer. (New Scientist 2 Dec 2003)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994438
[We All Just Know Inside That RFIDs Are Going To Be Inserted In Our Pets,
Put In Our Vehicles, And Even In All Of Our Shoes: No Shoes, No Service]
[Of Course, They Won't Be Put In THEIR Shoes. . . . Heaven Forbid That
Anyone Could Find A Rogue Government Agent. . .There Are Too Darn Many]
[Lifted from an anonymous source and paraphrased]
Sun Microsystems is opening a new center in Scotland to test
radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, in a move that signals the
company's desire to expand beyond the back office. Up until now, Sun has
best been known as a maker of servers used to power corporate networks and
Web sites. Now the company is branching out, selling software designed for
office desktops, for tracking retail sales in stores, and for downloading
games and tunes to mobile phones. "This allows Sun to sell the whole
ecosystem whereas previously we played into only one portion,"
says John Loiacono, VP of Sun's operating platforms group.
(International Herald Tribune 3 Dec 20030
http://www.iht.com/articles/120022.html
[Napster Is Dead! Long Live The New Napsters!]
HP JOINS INTERNET MUSIC FRENZY
Hewlett-Packard is diving into the online music fray with a branded
Internet music store and a portable digital music player that will compete
with similar offerings from Apple and Dell. HP, which ranks No. 2 in PC
sales and No. 1 in printers, is the latest computer maker to aggressively
expand their consumer electronics business in the face of stagnant PC sales
and weakened corporate spending. In addition to the music venture, HP
recently indicated it would soon start selling flat screen TVs, following
in the footsteps of Gateway and Dell. (Financial Times 3 Dec 2003)
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=Sto
ryFT&cid=1069493676868
SPAMMERS TARGET ANTI-SPAM GROUPS WITH E-MAIL WORM
Virus experts say a new worm, dubbed W32/Mimail-L, has been unleashed by a
vengeful spammonger intent on paralyzing anti-spam groups via a crippling
barrage of data -- a so-called denial of service attack. "It's the third
Mimail variation to come after us, except this one is trying to do more,"
says Steve Linford, founder of the Spamhaus Project. The nasty worm comes
as an attachment to an e-mail from "Wendy" who describes an erotic
encounter and then offers photos. Clicking on the attachment launches the
worm. In a new twist, a follow-up e-mail is sent to the infected user
announcing that an order for a CD containing child pornography images will
be sent to their mailing address. Virus experts say the impact of this
latest worm has been minimal, compared with the problems caused by last
summer's plague of viruses, "but what this shows is that there is more
evidence that virus writers and spammers are now colluding," says Sophos
senior technology consultant Graham Cluley. (Reuters 2 Dec 2003)
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Headline News Mostly Avoided By The Major U.S. Media
Those of you who watch the evening news undoubtedly saw
a video tape made by some rebels in Iraq shooting a DHL
cargo plane with a shoulder fired SAM [Surface to Air Missle].
A U.S. helicopter can be seen cruising nearby in the tape.
The moment of the hit was edited out of all the American
media and they were sure to say that there was no evidence
that THIS missle was the cause of the damage to THAT plane.
The tape was received by a French journalist and then
relayed to the rest of the media. The entire length is
some 6 minutes, and even the BBC didn't show all of it,
but it didn't appear as if they edited it internally,
as did their U.S. counterparts.
[For those of you unfamiliar with DHL shipping, think of
"Airborne" in the U.S., a competitor to Fed-X, UPS, etc.
DHL is larger than any of them, and even owns Airborne.
There is a date stamp on the videtape, but not a time stamp,
so we can't easily tell over how many minutes it was taken.
I'm sure someone will analyze the sun's position and should
be able to say over how many minutes the video was taken.
[Apparently someone already thought of this, and confirmed
that the sun's angle is consistent with the time of day:
"At approximately 6:30 GMT this morning, a DHL aircraft,
an Airbus A300 freighter, departing from Baghdad to Bahrain,
had to return to Baghdad and effect an emergency landing,"
company spokeswoman Patricia Thomson said in Brussels."
I saw what appeared to be the entire segment of tape on the
BBC World News including the moment when the missle hit.
You can find copies of this online:
KEYWORDS: ATTACK; BAGHDAD; DHL; FRANCE; JAPAN; SAM; SHOULDER;
MISSILE; TERROR; TERRORISTS; VIDEO
I just used "dhl, missle, videotape"
Here are some URLs:
56k Stream:
http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20031125-00000019-jn
n-int-movie-001&media=wm300k
300k Stream:
http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20031125-00000019-jn
n-int-movie-001&media=wm56k
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ANTI-FREE TRADE AND GLOBALIZATION. . .ECONOMIC HOME FRONT WARFARE!!!
In a "Think Globally, Act Locally" sort of response to Globalization,
some counties started advertising campaigns to encourage residents to
"Think Locally, Buy Locally," to keep revenues inside their counties.
This was a response to the building of large "Mega-Malls" that traded
in the retail arena with residents of multiple surrounding counties.
Since then, the "Mega-Mall" counties have retorted with the very same
campaign ads, encouraging their own resident to shop at home, rather
than supporting the non-local economies, and tax bases, of any of the
nearby counties.
If this trend continues, perhaps neighborhood stores will return, and
put the malls out of business, eh?
***
MORE ECONOMIC WARFARE, ON AN EVEN MORE LOCAL FRONT
Recent reports show that 60% of American workers are
planning to quit their jobs and go elsewhere to work
in the next two years. [Source NPR]
Indeed, other reports show that when employers snoop
on employees' email, most of their spying effort is
searching for keywords such as: resume, job-search,
and other items that would indicate workers are not
satisfied with their current positions.
The reason for this may be that while only 25% are
willing to say they are dissatisfied with the job,
60% are searching for something else.
With this kind of transitional labor force, the U.S.
worker could easily become labeled as "part time,"
or "migrant". . .with most workers planning on the
move to a new job in two years. . . .
But isn't this exactly what U.S. businesses WANTED
to create?. . .a totally mobile workforce that will
move to a new location at the drop of a hat?
Of course, they ONLY wanted those workers to move
when and where they were told to, within the same
multi-national corporations, such as IBM, but it
was only a matter of time before such mobility
went outside the corporate walls with the advent
of a cannibalistic "headhunter" mentality. . . .
Just out:
(San Jose Mercury News 2 Dec, 2002)
About half the workers would switch jobs just to
get a signing bonus of $1,000 in stock! Or even
just a better chance at earning a yearly bonus.
Apparently employees are also now willing to
consider that having their company get to know them
is of increasing importance, as companies are now
being bought and sold left and right. . . .
An engineer who quit when his company was bought out
confirmed this was a growing issue:
"You've got to know your employees. If you don't have a
personal relationship with them, somebody else will."
***
CORRECTION:
Only 40 minutes of TV programming per hour?
I mentioned that TV shows have 6 commercial breaks per hour,
but a recent show I logged showed 7 commercial breaks:
at 8, 15, 23, 33, 43, 52 and 58 minutes. This seems opposite
to what I recall, as all 4 middle ones had about 10 minutes
between them, with only the first 2 and last 2 being shorter.
I recall that they used to get more often as the show went on,
with the first segment being the longest. . .I'll do more testing.
During the 7 breaks there were some 25 full length commericals,
3 or 4 to a break, along with about half as many promotional ads
for upcoming shows [some are as long as full length commericals].
The last break was an exception, as it contained only 2 full length
commercials, 2 promos, and the credits. My old statistics probably
need to be updated, as it appears commercials are now taking nearly
20 minutes out of each hour, leaving only 40 for programming. The
networks like to say that the shows have 45 minutes per hour, but I
think that may have changed recently, that's why I was checking.
By the way, the study that said we were generating half a million
Libraries of Congress worth of information yearly also said that:
Only 31 television hours out of every 123 are original, and thus
92 hours are reruns of something that has been seen before, either
on television or some other medium [including movies, I presume].
That's about 3/4 of everything on television has been shown before,
and only about 1/4 is actually something prepared for current showing.
***
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Have you seen this report:
"MPAA, RIAA seek permanent antitrust exemption"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34191.html
Their latest solution to all those pesky antitrust suits:
buy a law which makes them exempt!
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NPR'S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BLUNDER
It seems that in a recent debate in which college students were
supposed to be asking the candidates questions, that some of the
questions were actually being fed to the students against their will.
It was basically a case of "Ask this question, or you don't get to
ask anything," at least in the case of the now infamous "Mac or PC"
question asked of the candidates. Only one used a Mac, but that
was higher than the national average of some 1 out of 20.
So far it would appear that NPR is keeping the name of the producer
who did this a secret.
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Yeast: A Problem, by Charles Kingsley 10364
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[Files: 10364.txt; 10364.zip; 10364-h.htm; 10364-h.zip ]
The Bravo, by J. Fenimore Cooper 10363
[Files: 10363.txt; 10363-8.txt; 10363-h.htm]
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign, by Robert Valentine Dolbey 10362
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/6/10362 ]
[Files: 10362.txt; 10362.zip; 10362-8.txt; 10362-8.zip; 10362-h.htm;
10362-h.zip; ]
The Creative Process in the Individual, by Thomas Troward 10361
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/6/10361 ]
[Files: 10361.txt; 10361.zip; 10361-8.txt; 10361-8.zip; 10361-h.htm;
10361-h.zip; ]
Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories, by Louisa M. Alcott 10360
[Author AKA: Louisa May Alcott]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/6/10360 ]
[Files: 10360.txt; 10360.zip; 10360-8.txt; 10360-8.zip; ]
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville, by Edith Van Dyne 10359
[Author AKA: L. Frank Baum]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/5/10359 ]
[Files: 10359.txt; 10359.zip; ]
The Boss of Little Arcady, by Harry Leon Wilson 10358
[Files: 10358.txt; 10358-8.txt; 10358-h.htm]
Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6), by Boswell 10357
[Files: 10357.txt; 10357-8.txt; 10357-h.htm]
Travels in Morocco, Vol. 2., by James Richardson 10356
[Files: 10356.txt; 10356-8.txt]
Travels in Morocco, Vol. 1., by James Richardson 10355
[Files: 10355.txt; 10355-8.txt]
Die Laune des Verliebten, by J.W. Goethe 10354
[Language: German]
[Files: 10354.txt; 10354-8.txt]
Satyros oder Der Vergoetterte Waldteufel, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 10353
[Title AKA English: Goethe's Satyros and Prometheus]
[Language: German]
[Files: 10353.txt, 10353-8.txt, 10353.zip, 10353-8.zip]
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 11., by Samuel Johnson 10352
[Subtitle: Parliamentary Debates II.]
[Files: 10352.txt; 10352-8.txt; 10352-h.htm]
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 10., by Samuel Johnson 10351
[Subtitle: Parliamentary Debates I.]
[Files: 10351.txt; 10351-8.txt; 10351-h.htm]
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6, by Samuel Johnson 10350
[Subtitle: Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons]
[Files: 10350.txt; 10350-8.txt; 10350-h.htm]
Naar het middelpunt der Aarde, by Jules Gabriel Verne 10349
[Language: Dutch]
[Files: 10349.txt; 10349-8.txt]
Audio: Bad Medicine, by Robert Sheckley 10347C
[Also see eBook #9055]
C'Etait ainsi..., by Cyriel Buysse 10346
[Language: French]
[Files: 10346.txt; 10346-8.txt]
Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Fanny Trollope 10345
[Author AKA: Frances Milton Trollope 1780-1863]
[Note: Mother of Anthony Trollope]
Autumn Anthem, by Joel A. Erickson (Musical score) 10344C
[Musical score in Sibelius' .sib format]
[Files: 10344-readme.txt 10344-h.htm 10344-sib.sib]
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2, by Charles Lamb 10343
[Subtitle: Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia]
[Editor: E. V. Lucas]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/4/10343 ]
[Files: 10343.txt; 10343.zip; 10343-8.txt; 10343-8.zip; ]
The Velvet Glove, by Henry Seton Merriman 10342
[Author AKA: Hugh Stowell Scott]
[Files: 10342.txt; 10342-8.txt; 10342-h.htm]
Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21, Editor: Charles F. Horne 10341
[Subtitle: The Recent Days (1910-1914)]
[Files: 10341.txt; 10341-8.txt]
Dab Kinzer, by William O. Stoddard 10340
[Subtitle: A Story of a Growing Boy]
[Files: 10340.txt]
An Antarctic Mystery, by Jules Verne 10339
[Translator: Mrs. Cashel Hoey]
[Files: 10339-h.htm]
With the Turks in Palestine, by Alexander Aaronsohn 10338
[Files: 10338.txt; 10338-8.txt; 10338-h.htm]
Lady Into Fox, by David Garnett 10337
[HTML files include images.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/3/10337 ]
[Files: 10337.txt; 10337.zip; 10337-h.htm; 10337-h.zip; ]
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edn.), Various 10336
[Subtitle: Originally published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744, Now
first chronologically arranged, revised and enlarged with the Notes of
all the Commentators, and new Notes; 1876.]
[Editor: Robert Dodsley]
[Contents:
Tancred and Gismunda, by Gentlemen of the Inner Temple
The Wounds of Civil War, by Thomas Lodge, Gent.
Mucedorus, by author unknown
The Two Angry Women of Abington, by Henry Porter, Gent.
Look about You, by unknown]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/3/10336 ]
[Files: 10336.txt; 10336.zip; 10336-8.txt; 10336-8.zip; ]
Children's Rights, by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith 10335
[Ed.: Kate Douglas Wiggin]
[Contents:
The Rights Of The Child
Children's Plays
Children's Playthings
What Shall Children Read?
Children's Stories, by Nora A. Smith
The Relation Of The Kindergarten To Social Reform
How Shall We Govern Our Children?, by Nora A. Smith
The Magic Of "Together.", by Nora A. Smith
The Relation Of The Kindergarten To The Public School
Other People's Children]
[Files: 10335.txt; 10335-8.txt]
Van 't viooltje dat weten wilde, by Maria Catherina Metz-Koning 10334
[Files: 10334.txt; 10334-8.txt]
[Language: Dutch]
The European Anarchy, by G. Lowes Dickinson 10333
[Files: 10333.txt; 10333-8.txt]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 10332
[Subtitle: Volume XII. F, No. 325, August 2, 1828.]
[Files: 10332.txt; 10332-8.txt; 10332-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 10331
[Subtitle: Volume XII., No. 324, July 26, 1828]
[Files: 10331.txt; 10331-8.txt; 10331-h.htm]
Fruitfulness, by Emile Zola 10330
[Original title: Fecondite]
[Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly]
[Files: 10330.txt]
Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes, by Laura Rountree Smith 10329
[Files: 10329.txt]
Poems, by Walter R. Cassels 10328
[Files: 10328.txt; 10328-8.txt]
Alias The Lone Wolf, by Louis Joseph Vance 10327
[Files: 10327.txt; 10327-8.txt; 10327-h.htm]
David, by Charles Kingsley 10326
[Subtitle: Five Sermons]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/2/10326 ]
[Files: 10326.txt; 10326.zip; 10326-h.htm; 10326-h.zip]
The Gospel of the Pentateuch, by Charles Kingsley 10325
[Subtitle: A Set of Parish Sermons]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/2/10325 ]
[Files: 10325.txt; 10325.zip; 10325-h.htm; 10325-h.htm]
Bull Hunter, by Max Brand 10324
[Author AKA: Frederick Faust]
[Files: 10324.txt]
The Rover Boys at College, by Edward Stratemeyer 10323
[Files: 10323.txt]
Miss Prudence, by Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin 10322
[Subtitle: A Story of Two Girls' Lives.]
[Files: 10322.txt; 10322-8.txt]
Dragon's blood, by Henry Milner Rideout 10321
[Files: 10321.txt; 10321-8.txt; 10321-h.htm]
Dotty Dimple at Play, by Sophie May 10320
[Files: 10320.txt]
Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis, by H. Irving Hancock 10319
[Subtitle: Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen]
[Files: 10319.txt]
Damon and Delia, by William Godwin 10318
[Subtitle: A Tale]
[Files: 10318.txt; 10318-8.txt; 10318-h.htm]
Betty Gordon at Boarding School, by Alice Emerson 10317
[Subtitle: The Treasure of Indian Chasm]
[Files: 10317.txt; 10317-8.txt]
Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp, by Percy Keese Fitzhugh 10316
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10316 ]
[Files: 10316.txt; 10316.zip; ]
Persian Literature, V1, The Shah Nameh, Rubaiyat, Divan, Gulistan 10315
[Title: Persian Literature, Volume 1, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The
Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan]
[Author: Anonymous; special introduction by Richard J. H. Gottheil]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10315 ]
[Files: 10315.txt; 10315.zip; 10315-8.txt; 10315-8.zip; ]
Sonnets, by Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella 10314
[Translator: John Addington Symonds]
[Files: 10314.txt; 10314-8.txt]
Audio: The Fifth Regiment March, by Issler's Orchestra 10313
[Author: Walter H. Miller (technician)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. March 1889 in West Orange, New Jersey or local vicinity]
[NPS: EDIS 564]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10313 ]
[Files: 10313-m-readme.txt; 10313-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: The Pattison Waltz, by Effie Stewart (vocal) 10312
[Author: Theo Wangemann (piano)]
[Author: Theo Wangemann (technician)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded Feb 25, 1889 at The Edison Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey]
[NPS: EDIS 565]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10312 ]
[Files: 10312-m-readme.txt; 10312-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Around the World on the Phonograph, by Thomas A. Edison 10311
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: believed to be the earliest existing recording of Thomas Edison's
voice.]
[Recorded c. late Oct 1888 at West Organge, New Jersey or local vicinity]
[NPS: EDIS 566]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10311 ]
[Files: 10311-m-readme.txt; 10311-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: After Dinner Toast at Little Menlo, by Arthur Sullivan 10310
[Author: Col. George Gouraud (Introduction)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded October 5, 1888 at Little Menlo, London, England]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/1/10310 ]
[Files: 10310-m-readme.txt; 10310-m-001.mp3; 10310.txt; 10310.zip; ]
Audio: The Lost Chord, by Arthur Sullivan (Composer) 10309
[Author: Performers Unknown]
[Author: Col. George Gouraud (technician)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. August 1888 at London, England]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10309 ]
[Files: 10309-m-readme.txt; 10309-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Handel Festival, by August Manns (conductor) 10308
[Subtitle: Israel in Egypt (excerpt)]
[Author: George Frideric Handel (composer)]
[Author: Col. George Gouraud (technician)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: earliest known recorded music in existence; A chorus of 4000
voices recorded with phonograph over 100 yards away.]
[Recorded June 29, 1888 at the Crystal Palace, London, England]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10308 ]
[Files: 10308-m-readme.txt; 10308-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: At the Moving Picture Ball, by Maurice Burkhart 10307
[Author: Joseph H. Santly (composer)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Recorded c. 1920]
[NPS: EDIS 75987]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10307 ]
[Files: 10307-m-readme.txt; 10307-m-001.mp3; ]
Audio: Moonlight Bay, by The Premier Quartet 10306
[Author AKA: The American Quartet]
[Author: Percy Wenrich (Composer); Edward Madden (Lyricist)]
[Editor: Thomas A. Edison]
[Note: Recorded c. 1915]
[Note: Robert D. Amour or John Young (first tenor); Billy Murray (second
tenor); Steve Porter (baritone); William F. Hooley (bass)]
[NPS: EDIS 40555]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/3/0/10306 ]
[Files: 10306-m-readme.txt; 10306-m-001.mp3; ]
Sermons on Evil-Speaking, by Isaac Barrow 10274
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/2/7/10274 ]
[Files: 10274.txt; 10274.zip; 10274-h.htm, 10274-h.zip]
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