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Jun 1996 Baron Trigault's Vengeance, by Emile Gaboriau [trvngxxx.xxx] 547
Jun 1996 Under the Andes, by Rex Stout [andesxxx.xxx] 546
Jun 1996 At the Earth's Core, Edgar Rice Burroughs[Pell #1][atcorxxx.xxx] 545
May 1996 Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery[#5][annhdxxx.xxx] 544
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis 543
May 1996 The Life of Me, by Clarence Johnson, Autobiography[lfomexxx.xxx] 542C
May 1996 The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton [Wharton#8][aginoxxx.xxx] 541
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May 1996 Biog Study of A. W. Kinglake, by Rev. W. Tuckwell [awkbixxx.xxx] 539
May 1996 Jean of the Lazy A, by B. M. Bower [lazyaxxx.xxx] 538
May 1996 Tales of Terror & Mystery, Arthur Conan Doyle[#10][totamxxx.xxx] 537
A Footnote to History, by Robert Louis Stevenson 536
[Subtitle: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa]
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson 535
May 1996 An Inland Voyage, by Robert Louis Stevenson [#23] [nvoygxxx.xxx] 534
May 1996 The Song of the Cardinal/Gene Stratton-Porter [#6][scardxxx.xxx] 533
May 1996 At the Foot of the Rainbow/Gene Stratton-Porter #5[frainxxx.xxx] 532
May 1996 The Gaming Table, by Andrew Steinmetz Volume #2 [tgamt2xx.xxx] 531
Driven From Home, by Horatio Alger 530
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May 1996 Knights of the Art, by Amy Steedman [painters] [knartxxx.xxx] 529
May 1996 Joe The Hotel Boy, by Horatio Alger Jr. [Alger#5] [jothbxxx.xxx] 528
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Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad 526
(Also see: #219, a different version)
Youth, by Joseph Conrad 525
May 1996 Ann Veronica, by H. G. Wells [Herbert George #5] [anverxxx.xxx] 524
May 1996 Court Life in China, by Isaac Taylor Headland [#2][clchixxx.xxx] 523
May 1996 The Chinese Boy and Girl, by Isaac Taylor Headland[chnbgxxx.xxx] 522
May 1996 Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe [Defoe #3] [rbcruxxx.xxx] 521
May 1996 Life/Adventures of Santa Claus, L. Frank Baum[#11][lfstaxxx.xxx] 520
May 1996 A Kidnapped Santa Claus, by L. Frank Baum[Baum#10][kdstaxxx.xxx] 519
May 1996 The Enchanted Island of Yew, by L. Frank Baum [#9][enyewxxx.xxx] 518
May 1996 The Emerald City of Oz, L. Frank Baum[Oz#7/Baum#8][emctyxxx.xxx] 517
May 1996 The Silverado Squatters/Robert Louis Stevenson #23[silvsxxx.xxx] 516
May 1996 A Story of To-day, by Margret Howth [mhdayxxx.xxx] 515
May 1996 Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott [Alcott #2] [lwmenxxx.xxx] 514
May 1996 From The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#5] [snowixxx.xxx] 513
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From: hart at pglaf.org (Michael Hart)
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Subject: [gweekly] PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
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225 This Week
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MICHIGAN PRESIDENT DEFENDS GOOGLE'S BOOK SCANNING
Speaking at the annual conference of the Professional/Scholarly
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president of the University of Michigan defended her institution's
participation in Google's Book Search program. The program has upset
many publishers and other copyright owners, who contend that the
project violates their intellectual property rights. Mary Sue Coleman
told conference attendees that the program "is about the social good of
promoting and sharing knowledge" and argued that Thomas Jefferson would
have loved it. Insisting that vast numbers of cultural artifacts are at
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rights of copyright holders. Her institution would not "ignore the law
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CNET, 6 February 2006
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EFF RAISES CONCERNS OVER GOOGLE DESKTOP
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is warning users about what it
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search that content from other machines. According to the EFF, this
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desktop software can index." If federal authorities obtain Google's
records, he said, they would have access to all of those files.
Officials from Google conceded that the new tool does represent a
trade-off of some measure of privacy, but said such a compromise is one
that many users will be willing to make. The company also said it would
encrypt those files, would place strong limits on who can access the
information, and would not store it for more than 30 days.
BBC, 10 February 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4700002.stm
TSA CALLS FOR AUDIT OF SECURE FLIGHT PROGRAM
The federal government's Secure Flight program has suffered another
setback, this time from Kip Hawley, head of the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA). Hawley told Congress that he has ordered a
"comprehensive audit" of the program, though he did not say what
prompted his decision. The program is intended to increase airline
security by checking the names of all passengers against watch lists,
a task currently carried out by airlines. Under the Secure Flight
program, the federal government would assume that responsibility.
Critics of the program point to its cost--$200 million over four
years--noting that even last month Hawley said the TSA still was not
entirely sure how it would work. They also have complained about
privacy concerns of the program and routine mistakes that airlines
reportedly make in checking passenger names against watch lists.
Wired News, 9 February 2006
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70198-0.html
GROUP SAYS YAHOO AIDED CHINESE AUTHORITIES
For the second time recently, Yahoo has been accused of helping the
Chinese government identify and prosecute individuals accused of
political crimes. In 2005, Yahoo was criticized for providing
information that helped Chinese authorities prosecute journalist Shi
Tao, who was convicted of revealing state secrets. Reporters Without
Borders said that another case has surfaced in which the ISP provided
information to the Chinese government that led to the conviction of Li Zhi.
According to the group, Li was found guilty of "inciting subversion"
after he posted comments online critical of local officials and was sentenced
to eight years in prison. Mary Osaka, a spokesperson from Yahoo, said that at
the time the company was unaware of the nature of the investigation.
In addition, she reiterated the company's position that it is better
for Yahoo to have a presence in the country, "providing services we
know benefit China's citizens," even if that requires compliance with
local laws that run counter to U.S. beliefs and values.
Internet News, 9 February 2006
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3584191
BILL WOULD FORBID UNNECESSARY STORING OF DATA
A bill introduced by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) would require operators
of Web sites to delete information about the site's users unless the
site had a "legitimate" need to preserve that data. Information covered
by the bill includes names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses,
and other data, and all Web sites would be subject to the legislation,
including those operated by individuals and nonprofits. According to
Markey, the Eliminate Warehousing of Consumer Internet Data Act of 2006
is intended to address two issues: identity theft and government
subpoenas of Internet data from Web sites including Google and Yahoo.
Markey said personal information about Internet users "should not be
needlessly stored to await compromise by data thieves or fraudsters, or
disclosure through judicial fishing expeditions."
ZDNet, 8 February 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6036951.html
THAILAND BLOCKS YALE PRESS WEB SITE
Internet users in Thailand will not be able to access the Yale
University Press Web site following the government's response to a
biography that presents an unflattering image of the country's king,
Bhumibol Adulyadej. Thai officials in the Ministry of Information and
Communications Technology frequently block access to online materials
that include adult or violent content, criticism of the Thai royal
family, information about the country's national security, or
allegedly false advertising. The book, written by journalist Paul M.
Handley, who reported from Thailand for 13 years, will be released by
the Yale University Press in July. It is also expected to be banned in
the country. Although Handley refused to comment specifically on the
government's decision to censor the press's Web site, saying that the
book will speak for itself, Yale issued a statement defending the book
and the author.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 February 2006 (sub. req'd)
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Remember, the subject is not the article's subject,
the subject is the manipulation of the world news.]
Not even going to really include much about VP Cheney
shooting of Harry Whittington other than to mention
that his name wasn't included in many reports, nor was
Cheney's name, and apparently not even White House
Press Secretary McClellan was notified at the time.
However, local authorities, who said their report is
already completed, would open an investigation which
would include a grand jury if Whittington dies.
Detail: Cheney didn't have the proper hunting license.
Detail: Whittington apparently still has birdshot in him,
and not only the one that worked its way into his heart
causing a heart attack.
Question: What if Whittington had shot Cheney?
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK [All combined this week.]
[From last week]
The Valerie Plame scandal will be swept under the carpet
until after the November US elections, as will most of a
host of related WMD issues, etc., mentioned below.
[OK, I was quite wrong about this one, details below.
My guess is that this information came out resulting
from the efforts to remove this as an election issue
by moving Libby's trial to after the election. I am
as surprised as anyone.]
Reports surfaced this week from various sources in the
CIA, State Dept., NSA and Scooter Libby's testimonies,
all concerning the dis-information campaign concerning
the rumored Iraq-Niger uranium sale that was publicly,
and privately, denied by Ambassador Joe Wilson, but it
still managed to get into the President's State of the
Union Message, 2003.
These reports from various senior officials indicate a
campaign began in March, 2003, to discredit Ambassador
Wilson and to deter any other future whisteblowers and
that the campaign was started in conferences called by
Vice President Cheney in his office, immediately after
Wilson's appearances in CNN interviews in which Wilson
said that there was no such Iraq-Niger uranium deal to
the public, views shared by State Department's reports
on the subject, the IEAE Chief, and weapons' inspector
Albright, as reported below.
Here is the timeline:
March 7
International Atomic Energy Association chief Mohammed
El Baradei addressed the U.N. Security Council, saying
the documents indicating the yellowcake deal were just
forgeries, and provided no evidence against Iraq.
March 8
CNN, Ambassador Joe Wilson appears supporting the word
of the IAEA Chief through his personal experience, but
the details can't be told, they were classified. This
is supported on CNN by U.N weapons' inspector Albright
in his own comments.
[See Wilson's conversation with the New York Times'
Kristoff in May, 2003]
March 9
Vice President Cheney calls a meeting in his office to
discredit Ambassador Wilson, attended by Scooter Libby
who was his Chief of Staff along with Karl Rove, White
House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Hadley, and Deputy
National Security Adviser John Hannah.
[This meeting was reported by senior officals, at both
the CIA and State Department who attended, who gave an
anonymous report to public sources. At first they had
no comment, claiming fear of losing their jobs, having
family members endangered as with Joe Wilson's wife on
the occasion she was "outed" as a covert CIA agent and
other fears not named. However, as more and more came
to light about the situation, they decided they had to
speak out about the campaign of disinformation. These
reports have lots more to offer, possibly reference to
the above mentioned "outing" of Valerie Plame Wilson.]
March 18
Invasion of Iraq
The basic disinformation, Weapons of Mass Destruction,
supposedly indicated by documents pointing to an Iraq-
Niger deal for now infamous "yellowcake uranium," then
already refuted by Ambassador Wilson internally by his
2002 mission to Niger at the request of Vice President
Cheney through the CIA.
The IAEA Chief, Ambassador Wilson, a weapons inspector
named Albright, who also appeared with Wilson on a CNN
interview, all said these documents were forgeries.
Additional information, previous released, was also in
serious doubt, having been challenged by our experts--
such as information obtained through "aggressive means
of interrogation."
There are way too many details to go into here, but it
should be noted that many of these challenges had been
made officially before The State of the Union Message,
in which President Bush included "yellowcake uranium."
[As mentioned immediately after the most recent of The
State of the Union Messages, it's hard to believe that
President Bush is still referring to a Weapons of Mass
Destruction scenario. Not to mention an Al Quada link
to Iraq.]
These reports also indicate that Vice President Cheney
and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Hadley visited a CIA
headquarters location immediately after Wilson did the
CNN interview, and other reports indicate the repeated
visits by Vice President Cheney. This reported by CIA
official[s]. [Now former]
Excerpts from Wilson's CNN comments of March 8:
"Well, this particular case is outrageous. We know
a lot about the uranium business in Niger, and for
something like this to go unchallenged by us, the
US government, is just simply stupid. It would have
taken a couple of phone calls. We have had an embassy
there since the early '60s. All this stuff is open.
It's a restricted market of buyers and sellers. For this
to have gotten to the IAEA is on the face of it dumb,
but more to the point, it taints the whole rest of the case
that the government is trying to build against Iraq."
Excerpts from Wilson's CNN comments of March 2:
"The underlying objective, as I see it, the more I look at this,
is less and less disarmament, and it really has little to do with
terrorism, because everybody knows that a war to invade and conquer
and occupy Iraq is going to spawn a new generation of terrorists,"
[This is getting way too much to follow here, so I am going
to end by pointing out an 02.16.03 article Stephen Hadley,
White House Deputy Chief of Staff, had written for the
Chicago Tribune, that was reused en masse by the State
Department in re-release to major media on March 10:
"Two Potent Iraqi Weapons: Denial and Deception"
This publication continued the Bush administration
position still relying on the "yellowcake uranium"
deal that had now been discredited multiple times.]
[I'm just suprised at how much of this has been kept
out of the press for three years now.
I have gone out of my way not to include personality
clashes, name calling, expletives, etc.]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
After the multiple fatal coal mine accidents recently,
the feds are going after millions of dollars in unpaid
fines from coal mines, but they say is has nothing to
do with recent events, citing plans they made last year
to make collection efforts.
*
96% of all clothing sold in the US is made in other countries.
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
"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 America
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 think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
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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MIT PLANS WIRELESS NETWORK IN CAMBRIDGE
MIT has announced plans to deploy a wireless network covering
Cambridge, Mass., where the university is located. Working with Harvard
University and Boston's Museum of Science, MIT will set up the network
using mesh technology, which, although not as fast as commercial
service, is significantly less expensive. With a traditional wireless
network, wireless access points are installed to cover the desired
area, and every access point is hardwired to the network. Mesh
technology eliminates much of the wiring by relying on a small number
of wired antennae and many other antennae that relay signals to the
wired ones. Jerrold M. Grochow, vice president for information services
and technology at MIT, described it as "hopping from antenna to antenna
to antenna." Mary P. Hart, CIO for Cambridge, commented that the
proposed network will allow the city to determine the demand for
wireless access. Other cities have spent large sums developing wireless
coverage without knowing if residents want it, she said. Grochow noted
that unlike the situation in other municipalities, MIT's project has
not run into opposition from commercial Internet providers.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 February 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/02/2006020601t.htm
AOL AND YAHOO EXPERIMENT WITH E-MAIL POSTAGE
In an effort to limit unwanted and fraudulent e-mail, AOL and Yahoo
have announced plans to begin charging "postage" for delivering some
e-mail to their customers. Under the system, companies that pay to have
their e-mail delivered--between 1/4 and 1 cent per message--will
receive preferential service. A third party, Goodmail, will collect the
fees and verify the source of messages. E-mail from nonpaying senders
will still be delivered, but it will be routed through spam filters and
other mechanisms, which could prevent it from reaching its target. The
hope is that the fees will discourage spammers from sending billions of
unsolicited messages every day. A spokesperson from AOL compared the
plan to the current functioning of the postal system. Certified mail,
for example, is guaranteed to be delivered "in a way that is different
from other mail," he said. Some analysts said e-mail postage will only
lead to disagreements between senders and ISPs. Many e-mail marketers
also rejected the idea, saying that there are already mechanisms in
place, such as a service called Bonded Sender, that verify the legitimacy
of e-mail and that cost significantly less than the proposed charges.
New York Times, 5 February 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/05AOL.html
PUBLISHER LAUNCHES AD-SUPPORTED ONLINE TEXT
HarperCollins has announced a new program that will make book content
available free online, supported by advertiser links that share the
page with the text. Officials from the publisher said the Harper
program will focus on nonfiction and reference books, noting that
advertisers are likely not as interested in paying to support literary
fiction. The first book offered in the program, "Go It Alone! The
Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own" by Bruce Judson,
was published in 2004 and later released in paperback. One test of the
program will be whether ad sales offset lost sales, according to
Murray, group president of HarperCollins. Despite the ongoing squabbles
over online access to books, supporters of the idea still believe it
has potential. Author M.J. Rose said that no one wants to read an
entire book online but that if they have easy access to a text on the
Web and they like it, they will be encouraged to buy a copy.
Associated Press, 6 February 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060206/ap_en_bu/publishing_free_text
["One test of the program will be whether ad sales offset lost sales"
Of course this assumption flies in the face of all the studies, each
of which indicated that free eBook editions caused increased sales
rather than "lost sales."]
CELL PHONES AS TRACKING TOOLS
Companies that use cell phones to track people have seen significant
increases in business in the past few years. In Britain, firms such as
Followus and Verilocation frequently work with employers who want to
keep tabs on staff, despite concerns that the service infringes on
individuals' civil rights. Kevin Brown of Followus noted that his
company's service requires the consent of those being tracked. Users
must agree to having their cell phones tracked, and periodic messages
are sent randomly to users reminding them that their movements are
being followed. Officials at Verilocation pointed to such events as the
bombings in London last summer as times when being able to locate all
of your employees is highly valuable. Experts on business processes
said being able to track employees can allow companies to provide
better service to customers by, for example, letting them know exactly
where a technician is and when he will arrive at a customer's home.
Officials from Liberty, a civil rights group, were unconvinced, saying
that employees' rights in the workplace have been eroded and that
there is a significant risk that businesses will misuse tracking data.
CNET, 5 February 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6035317.html
EFF SUES AT&T OVER COOPERATION WITH NSA
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed suit against AT&T
for allegedly cooperating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in
eavesdropping on individuals without a warrant. President Bush ordered
the wiretaps following the terrorist attacks of 2001 and has vigorously
defended them, saying the Constitution and Congressional resolutions
allow them. Civil liberties groups and others reject that, saying that
the wiretaps violate existing laws on surveillance. The EFF said it
identified AT&T as one company involved in the activities and has filed
suit "to stop this invasion of privacy, prevent it from occurring
again, and make sure AT&T and all the other carriers understand there
are going to be legal and economic consequences when they fail to
follow the law." The EFF alleges that AT&T provided the NSA with access
to its network, which carries both voice and data, and to its vast
databases that store information on phone calls and Internet activity.
AT&T refused to comment on the litigation.
Yahoo, 31 January 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_hi_te/domestic_spying_lawsuit
CONGRESS HOLDS HEARINGS ON CELL-PHONE CUSTOMER PRIVACY
A Congressional hearing this week will address cell phone companies'
efforts to protect the privacy of their customers. The hearing comes
after recent revelations that a number of data brokers have been able
to con cell phone companies into disclosing data about customers and
their calling habits, which was then sold to third parties. The premise
is that certain individuals, such as attorneys, might want details of
cell phone calls, and data brokers supply that data. Cell phone
companies and some members of Congress, however, object to the methods
that data brokers use to obtain that information, including posing as
people they are not and using information such as Social Security
numbers without authorization. Some critics have pointed to weak
policies and practices among cell phone companies for protecting such
data as the root of the problem. Rep. Joe L. Barton (R-Tex.), chairman of
the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in a statement that he intends
to make the practice of fraudulently obtaining such data "very illegal."
ZDNet, 1 February 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6033688.html
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Bill Gates Says It Will Take 10 Years To Stop Piracy In China/India
"In India and China it will be a decade before we get that level,"
meaning the current protection level achieved in the United States,
as is currently in progress in Taiwan and South Korea.
Mr. Gates was addressing the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
[However, what I think he really means is that it will take 10 years
or so, for China and India to grow economically to the point where a
person of their average means can really afford MicroSoft programs.]
[By the way, I got the first clues to this story from the BBC, but a
recent search shows the story is already missing after a short time,
so the follow up was through The Express, of India.]
[In my own personal experiences outside the Asia major urbana center
locations, there is no place you can find legal copies of anything--
the manufacturers are just not interested in making them available.]
If the product is not made available, how can we buy The Real Thing?
Source:
BBC
Express India
Reply from Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk>
Turning a blind eye to piracy in the developing world is Microsoft's policy:
few people can afford to buy their products (at the moment), so enforcing
copyright would just push customers into using Linux.
Instead, allow rampant piracy, until everyone uses MS products,
and becomes locked into MS products, *then* start enforcing
copyright, when it becomes harder to switch.
As the drug pushers say "The first one is always free".
Martin
martin@gkc.org.uk http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/ Erdos number: 4
G.K.Chesterton web site: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/
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*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
[See below]
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
The Valerie Plame scandal will be swept under the carpet
until after the November US elections, as will most of a
host of related WMD issues, etc., mentioned below.
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
and
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK [combined this week]
[Continued from last week's report from the previews]
"I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international
community, and the United Nations Security Council."
Sec. State Powell's Former Chief of Staff Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
concerning the famous speech to the United Nations on "Weapons of
Mass Destruction," two years ago this very week, to which he was
a major contributor.
"I recall vividly the Secretary of State walking into my office,
and saying `I wonder what will happen if we put half a million
troops on the ground in Iraq and comb the country from one end
to the other and don't find a single weapon of mass destruction?'"
Wilkerson says that CIA Director George Tenent and others reported
no reliability or validity problems with the intelligence reported,
even though the majority of sources were suspect or compromised,
a charge that was extended to the DIA reports of Sheik Al Libbi.
He stated that Vice President Cheney's multiple CIA visits at the
time should be characterized as "undue influence" and also should
be compared the undue influence Cheney pressed on Congress during
the various recent dissussions of the "torture issue."
Wilkerson has repeatedly characterized the creation of a cartel of
Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney to override
U.S. allegiance to the Geneva Convention and "inept and incompetent"
operations in Iraq.
"I'm worried, and I would rather have the discussion and debate in
the process we've designed, than I would a dictat from a dumb strongman.
I'd prefer to see the squabble of democracy to the efficiency of dictators."
There's way too much more to include here, but you can find the
entire report via:
"Powell's Former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson Calls Pre-War
Intelligence a 'Hoax on the American People'"
Mathaba.Net, UK - Feb 6, 2006
*
"The politicians have hijacked our democracy by redistricting."
Boston Legal, 02/07/06
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
"The British Library spends #2m of its #16m annual acquisitions
budget on digital material, mainly reference books and journals."
Already 1/8 of their money is being spent on digitial materials,
and presuming those digital materials are less expensive than a
paper counterpart, we should possibly consider that 1/4 of their
acquisitions are digital.
"By 2020, 90% of newly published work will be available digitally,"
"according to British Library predictions published last year."
Source: BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4675280.stm
*
The Nazis used the guillotine to behead far more people than the French.
*
Windfall Gasoline Profits in 2005
$36.1B Exxon +43% to +46% [various sources] [on $371B gross, +20%]
$25.3B Shell +26% to 30% [^more than the $340B GDP of Saudi Arabia^]
$22.34B BP
$14.1B Chevron [Chevron does more business overseas, hard to get figures]
[ChevronTexaco]
$13.53B ConocoPhillips
$111.37 Billion Total Profit For Those Five Companies in 2005
By comparison, the rumored merger of Mittal Steel and Arcelor
in Europe would have done $69B in 2005, run by Lakshmi Mittal,
listed by Forbes as the #3 richest person in the world.
The basic claims are that merger-mania MUST continue or else
they can't compete with those who have already done mergers.
And most of them are still complaining they didn't make enough.
Example:
BP still complained that they lost money in the 4th quarter
compared to last year, even though profits were up 26%. [BBC]
Home heating oil jas nearly doubled from the $1.16 of winter 2001-2002.
First column figures from articles:
"Resource Investor - Energy - Canada's Top Integrated Oil Firm"
"Hurricane Damage Limits Chevron's Profit"
"`conocophillips profits" - Google News'"
Also see Charlie Rose, 02/07/06
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
"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 America
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 think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
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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Ars grammaticae Iaponicae linguae, by Diego Collado 17713
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The Moon, by Thomas Gwyn Elger 17712
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Hindustani Lyrics, by Various 17711
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The Devil's Own, by Randall Parrish 17710
[Subtitle: A Romance of the Black Hawk War]
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La philosophie sociale dans le theatre d'Ibsen, by Ossip-Lourie 17709
[Language: French]
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[Files: 17709-8.txt; 17709-h.htm]
Gaspard de la nuit, by Louis Bertrand 17708
[Subtitle: Fantaisies a la maniere de Rembrandt et de Callot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17708 ]
[Files: 17708-8.txt; 17708-h.htm]
Ferdinand Huyck, by J. Van Lennep 17706
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17706 ]
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Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. V. (of V.), by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre 17705
[Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker]
[Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text]
[Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17705 ]
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Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.),by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre 17704
[Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker]
[Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text]
[Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17704 ]
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Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.), Margaret, Queen Of Navarre 17703
[Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker]
[Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text]
[Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17703 ]
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Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.),by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre 17702
[Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker]
[Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text]
[Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator]
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Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.), by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre 17701
[Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker]
[Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text]
[Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17701 ]
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Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the US, by W. E. B. Du Bois 17700
[Title: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States
of America; 1638-1870]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17700/ ]
[Files: 17700.txt; 17700-8.txt; 17700-h.htm]
The Evolution of Love, by Emil Lucka 17699
[Translator: Ellie Schleussner]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/9/17699 ]
[Files: 17699.txt; 17699-8.txt; 17699-h.htm]
Bella Donna, by Robert Hichens 17698
[Subtitle: A Novel]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/9/17698 ]
[Files: 17698.txt; 17698-8.txt; 17698-0.txt; 17698-h.htm]
The Trumpeter Swan, by Temple Bailey 17697
[Illustrator: Alice Barber Stephens]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/9/17697 ]
[Files: 17697.txt; 17697-8.txt; 17697-h.htm]
Simone, by Victor Tissot 17696
[Subtitle: Histoire d'une jeune fille moderne]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/9/17696 ]
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A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.], by Wolfram Eberhard 17695
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Adventures in New Guinea, by James Chalmers 17694
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La San-Felice, Tome I, by Alexandre Dumas 17693
[Language: French]
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L'elixir de vie, by Jules Lermina 17692
[Subtitle: Conte magique]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/9/17692 ]
[Files: 17692-8.txt]
Le tour de France en aeroplane, by Henry de Graffigny 17691
[Illustrator: Ferdinand Raffin]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/9/17691 ]
[Files: 17691-8.txt; 17691-h.htm]
The Master of Appleby, by Francis Lynde 17690
[Subtitle: A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great
Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein
of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady]
[Illus.: T. de Thulstrup]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/9/17690 ]
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Sea Warfare, by Rudyard Kipling 17689
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Morphine, by Jean-Louis Dubut de Laforest 17688
[Language: French]
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Il libro delle figurazioni ideali, by Gianpietro Lucini 17687
[Language: Italian]
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Troilus ja Cressida, by William Shakespeare 17686
[Translator: Paavo Cajander]
[Language: Finnish]
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[Files: 17686-8.txt]
Wandelingen door Elzas-Lotharingen, by Anonymous 17685
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1886]
[Language: Dutch]
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[Files: 17685-8.txt; 17685-h.htm]
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I. (of VI.), by Thomas Moore 17684
[Subtitle: With his Letters and Journals.]
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[Files: 17684.txt; 17684-8.txt; 17684-0.txt; 17684-h.htm]
The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884, by Various 17683
[Subtitle: A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside]
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[Files: 17683.txt; 17683-8.txt; 17683-h.htm]
The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28, ed. by Charles William Daniel 17682
[Subtitle: The Independent Health Magazine]
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[Files: 17682.txt; 17682-8.txt; 17682-h.htm]
Lippa, by Beatrice Egerton 17681
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The Title Market, by Emily Post 17680
[Illustrator: J. H. Gardner Soper]
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[Files: 17680.txt; 17680-8.txt; 17680-h.htm]
The Story of a Nodding Donkey, by Laura Lee Hope 17679
[Illustrator: Harry L. Smith]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/7/17679 ]
[Files: 17679.txt; 17679-h.htm]
The Apology of the Church of England, by John Jewel 17678
[Ed.: Henry Morley and Matthew Parker]
[Translator: Ann Bacon]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/7/17678 ]
[Files: 17678.txt; 17678-h.htm]
The Tree of Appomattox, by Joseph A. Altsheler 17677
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/7/6/7/17677 ]
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Le magasin d'antiquites, Tome II, by Charles Dickens 17676
[Translator: A. des Essarts]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/7/17676 ]
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Le magasin d'antiquites, Tome I, by Charles Dickens 17675
[Translator: A. des Essarts]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/7/17675 ]
[Files: 17675-8.txt; 17675-r.rtf]
Nora, by Henrik Ibsen 17674
[Subtitle: Nytelm kolmessa nytksess]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/7/17674 ]
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Eric le Mendiant, by Pierre Zaccone 17673
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/7/17673 ]
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The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 3, by William Curtis 17672
[Subtitle: Or, Flower-Garden Displayed]
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[Files: 17672.txt; 17672-8.txt; 17672-h.htm]
Poesie scelte, by Silvio Pellico 17671
[Language: Italian]
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[Files: 17671-8.txt; 17671-h.htm]
Les petits vagabonds, by Jeanne Marcel 17670
[Illustrator: E. Bayard]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/7/17670 ]
[Files: 17670-8.txt; 17670-h.htm]
Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales,by Francis A. Durivage 17669
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Plus fort que la haine, by Leon de Tinseau 17668
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/6/17668 ]
[Files: 17668-8.txt; 17668-0.txt]
Dialogues of the Dead, by Lord Lyttelton 17667
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/6/17667 ]
[Files: 17667.txt; 17667-h.htm]
Lucia Rudini, by Martha Trent 17666
[Subtitle: Somewhere in Italy]
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[Files: 17666.txt; 17666-8.txt; 17666-h.htm; ]
Mia Kontrabandulo, by Louisa May Alcott 17665
[Subtitle: My Contraband]
[Translator: Edwin Grobe]
[Language: Esperanto]
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[Files: 17665.txt; 17665-8.txt; 17665-0.txt; 17665-h.htm]
Kampagne in Frankreich, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 17664
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/6/17664 ]
[Files: 17664-8.txt]
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908, by Various 17663
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/6/17663 ]
[Files: 17663.txt; 17663-8.txt; 17663-h.htm]
L'Illustration, Samedi le 15 Aout 1914, 72e Annee, No. 3729, by Various 17662
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The History of Sir Richard Whittington, by T. H. 17652
[Editor: Henry B. Wheatley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/5/17652 ]
[Files: 17652.txt; 17652-8.txt; 17652-h.htm]
Helgelannin sankarit, by Henrik Ibsen 17651
[Subtitle: Nytelm neljss nytksess]
[Translator: C. Edv. Trmnen]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/5/17651 ]
[Files: 17651-8.txt]
The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch, by Petrarch 17650
[Editor: Thomas Campbell]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/5/17650 ]
[Files: 17650.txt; 17650-8.txt; 17650-h.htm]
The Germ, by Various 17649
[Subtitle: Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art]
[Commentator: William Michael Rossetti]
[Editor: Dante Gabriel Rossetti]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17649 ]
[Files: 17649.txt; 17649-8.txt; 17649-h.htm]
The Land of Contrasts, by James Fullarton Muirhead 17648
[Subtitle: A Briton's View of His American Kin]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17648 ]
[Files: 17648.txt; 17648-8.txt; 17648-h.htm]
The Strange Case of Cavendish, by Randall Parrish 17647
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17647 ]
[Files: 17647.txt; 17647-8.txt; ]
Sixtine, by Remy de Gourmont 17646
[Subtitle: roman de la vie crbrale]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17646 ]
[Files: 17646-8.txt; 17646-0.txt]
Arbor Day Leaves, by N.H. Egleston 17645
[Subtitle: A Complete Programme For Arbor Day Observance, Including
Readings, Recitations, Music, and General Information]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17645 ]
[Files: 17645.txt; 17645-8.txt; 17645-h.htm]
Een abel spel van Esmoreit, by Various 17644
[Subtitle: Sconics sone van Cecilien]
[Editor: R. J. Spitz]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17644 ]
[Files: 17644-8.txt; 17644-h.htm]
La confession d'un abb, by Louis Ulbach 17643
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17643 ]
[Files: 17643-8.txt; 17643-0.txt]
Romance, by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer 17642
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17642 ]
[Files: 17642.txt; 17642-8.txt; 17642-h.htm]
La monadologie (1909), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 17641
[Subtitle: avec tude et notes de Clodius Piat]
[Annotator: Clodius Piat]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17641 ]
[Files: 17641-8.txt; 17641-0.txt]
Les Voyages de Gulliver, by Jonathan Swift 17640
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17640 ]
[Files: 17640-8.txt; 17640-r.rtf]
A Alma Nova, by Guilherme d'Azevedo 17639
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17639 ]
[Files: 17639-8.txt]
Hattu, by Alfhild Agrell 17638
[Subtitle: Yksinytksinen huvinytelm]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17638 ]
[Files: 17638-8.txt]
De Muis, by Wilhelm Busch 17637
[Subtitle: of de gestoorde nachtrust]
[Illustrator: P van Geldrop]
[Translator: Braga Jr.]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17637 ]
[Files: 17637-8.txt; 17637-h.htm]
The Mystery at Putnam Hall, by Arthur M. Winfield 17636
[Subtitle: The School Chums' Strange Discovery]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17636 ]
[Files: 17636.txt; 17636-8.txt; 17636-h.htm]
Repertory The Comedie Humaine, A -- Z, by Cerfberr and Christophe 17635
[Title: Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z]
[Author: Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe]
[Translator: Joseph Walker McSpadden]
(See also: #2468 & #2469)
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17635 ]
[Files: 17635.txt; 17635-h.htm]
Punch, Vol. 152, May 30, 1917, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 17634
[Editor: Owen Seaman]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17634 ]
[Files: 17634.txt; 17634-8.txt; 17634-h.htm]
Saratoga and How to See It, by R. F. Dearborn 17633
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17633 ]
[Files: 17633.txt; 17633-8.txt; 17633-h.htm]
Compte de L'Oeuvre, by M. L. Merlet 17632
[Title: Compte de L'Oeuvre de la Cathdrale de Chartres en 1415-1416]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17632 ]
[Files: 17632-8.txt]
Histoire d'un baiser, by Albert Cim 17631
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17631 ]
[Files: 17631-8.txt]
Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse, by Eugene Field 17630
[Illustrator: Florence Storer]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17630 ]
[Files: 17630.txt; 17630-h.htm]
Punch, Vol. 152, June 20, 1917, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 17629
[Editor: Owen Seaman]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17629 ]
[Files: 17629.txt; 17629-8.txt; 17629-h.htm]
Genoveeva Brabantin kreivitr, by Johann Christoph von Schmid 17628
[Subtitle: Hurskas kertomus suurista krsimyksist ja viattomuuden
lopullisesta voitosta]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17628 ]
[Files: 17628-8.txt]
None Other Gods, by Robert Hugh Benson 17627
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17627 ]
[Files: 17627.txt; 17627-8.txt; 17627-h.htm]
The Lost Gospel and Its Contents, by Michael F. Sadler 17626
[Subtitle: Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17626 ]
[Files: 17626.txt; 17626-8.txt]
Artificial Light, by M. Luckiesh 17625
[Subtitle: Its Influence upon Civilization]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17625 ]
[Files: 17625.txt; 17625-8.txt; 17625-h.htm]
A Tour in France and Germany, Vol. 3, by Thomas Frognall Dibdin 17624
[Title: A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France
and Germany, Volume Three]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17624 ]
[Files: 17624.txt; 17624-8.txt; 17624-h.htm]
Le secret de l'chaufaud (1888), by Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam 17623
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17623 ]
[Files: 17623-8.txt; 17623-0.txt; 17623-h.htm]
Knulp, by Hermann Hesse 17622
[Subtitle: Drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17622 ]
[Files: 17622-8.txt; 17622-0.txt; 17622-h.htm]
One Day More, by Joseph Conrad 17621
[Subtitle: A Play In One Act]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17621 ]
[Files: 17621.txt; 17621-h.htm]
The Point Of Honor, by Joseph Conrad 17620
[Subtitle: A Military Tale]
[Illustrator: Dan Sayre Groesbeck]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17620 ]
[Files: 17620.txt; 17620-8.txt; 17620-h.htm]
A Jongleur Strayed, by Richard Le Gallienne 17619
[Subtitle: Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17619 ]
[Files: 17619.txt; 17619-8.txt; ]
Jethou, by E. R. Suffling 17618
[Subtitle: or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17618 ]
[Files: 17618.txt; 17618-8.txt; 17618-h.htm; ]
David Harum, by Edward Noyes Westcott 17617
[Subtitle: A Story of American Life]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17617 ]
[Files: 17617.txt; 17617-8.txt; 17617-h.htm; ]
Little Sky-High, by Hezekiah Butterworth 17616
[Subtitle: The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17616 ]
[Files: 17616.txt; 17616-8.txt; 17616-h.htm; ]
In Search of the Okapi, by Ernest Glanville 17615
[Subtitle: A Story of Adventure in Central Africa]
[Ernest Glanville (1855-1925)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17615 ]
[Files: 17615.txt; ]
Bob Hampton of Placer, by Randall Parrish 17614
[Illus.: Arthur I. Keller]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17614 ]
[Files: 17614.txt; 17614-8.txt; 17614-h.htm; ]
The Land of the Black Mountain, by Reginald Wyon and Gerald Prance 17613
[Subtitle: The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17613 ]
[Files: 17613.txt; 17613-8.txt; 17613-0.txt; 17613-h.htm]
Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway, by J. Randall 17612
[Subtitle: Illustrative and Descriptive of Places along the Line from
Worcester to Shrewsbury]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17612 ]
[Files: 17612.txt; 17612-h.htm]
Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars), by Thomas Aquinas 17611
[Subtitle: From the Complete American Edition]
[Translator: Fathers of the English Dominican Province]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17611 ]
[Files: 17611.txt]
Livro de Mguas, by Florbela Espanca 17610
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17610 ]
[Files: 17610-8.txt]
Our Deportment, by John H. Young 17609
[Subtitle: Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/0/17609 ]
[Files: 17609.txt; 17609-8.txt; 17609-h.htm; ]
An Introduction to the Study of Browning, by Arthur Symons 17608
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/0/17608 ]
[Files: 17608.txt; 17608-8.txt; 17608-h.htm; ]
Superstition In All Ages (1732), by Jean Meslier 17607
[Subtitle: Common Sense]
[Commentator: Voltaire ("Life of Jean Meslier")]
[Translator: Anna Knoop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/0/17607 ]
[Files: 17607.txt; 17607-8.txt; 17607-h.htm]
Von Tripolis nach Alexandrien - 2. Band, by Gerhard Rohlfs 17600
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/0/17600 ]
[Files: 17600-8.txt; 17600-h.htm]
Von Tripolis nach Alexandrien - 1. Band, by Gerhard Rohlfs 17599
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/9/17599 ]
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DEBATING THE BEST WAY TO SPREAD TECHNOLOGY
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, has sparked
an ongoing debate about how best to bring technology to the developing
world. Negroponte has created a nonprofit organization called One
Laptop Per Child to develop a $100 laptop to be marketed to countries
with limited access to technology. His vision is reportedly taking
shape, with a manufacturer lined up and project organizers close to
signing deals for seven million of the units. Negroponte reportedly
talked with both Microsoft and Apple about supplying operating systems
for his $100 laptops, but he ultimately settled on Linux, a decision
that is said to have riled Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Speaking at
the recent Consumer Electronics show, Gates suggested that instead of
an inexpensive laptop, modified cell phones are a better way to spread
technology. Gates showed a mockup of such a phone, which would connect
to a TV and a keyboard. Negroponte said his group considered a similar
approach but dismissed it as too impractical compared to the laptop idea.
New York Times, 30 January 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/technology/30gates.html
[and the best way to provide information, via your friendly censors]
GOOGLE TO CENSOR SEARCH RESULTS IN CHINA
Google will launch search and news sites in China this week that will
block access to information the Chinese government considers
objectionable. Chinese officials have a long track record of censoring
speech and ideas, and, according to Andrew McLaughlin, senior policy
counsel for Google, the new sites "will comply with local Chinese laws
and regulations." Search results from which content has been excluded
will notify users that not all results are being displayed. Google said
that the decision to offer its services even if they are censored
reflects the belief that limited access to Internet resources is better
than no access, which would be the alternative if Google did not comply
with local legislation. "We must balance our commitments," said
McLaughlin, "to satisfy the interest of users, expand access to
information, and respond to local conditions." Reporters Without
Borders, an organization that advocates for freedom of the press, was
highly critical of the decision, saying, "The new Google version means
that even if a human rights publication is not blocked by local
firewalls, it has no chance of being read in China."
CNET, 24 January 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6030784.html
[and the best way to store articles out of the public's reach]
KEEPING ONLINE ARTICLES AVAILABLE
A group of libraries and publishers are cooperating on a pilot project
to ensure access to online journals. Libraries at five universities, as
well as the New York Public Library, will work with nine publishers on
an archive that will consist of copies of journal articles from
participating publishers stored on 10 servers at the universities.
Those archived copies will be unavailable to the public, but the system
will monitor the Web sites of the journals that published those
articles. When the system detects that the publisher's online version
of an article is unavailable for an extended period of time, the
system's governing board will decide whether to make the archived copy
available. The goal is to ensure long-term access to journal articles,
even when publishers go out of business or computer systems suffer
severe outages or losses of data. The effort is important because
libraries and publishers are frequently at odds over how and when to
provide online access to copyrighted material. Those involved hope the
effort will help the groups work together toward a common goal.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 January 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/01/2006012502t.htm
[and a not so legal way of keeping competitors out of the loop]
MICROSOFT TO LICENSE SOURCE CODE
In an effort to avoid a stiff fine issued by the European Commission,
Microsoft has agreed to license some of its source code. European
antitrust regulators have found Microsoft guilty of abusing its
monopoly power and have insisted on changes to the company's practices
to address the violations, including offering a version of its
operating system without the Microsoft Media Player and providing
access to its source code to rivals so they can develop software that
will properly interoperate with Windows computers. Microsoft met the
first condition, but commissioners last month said that if the company
continued to deny access to competitors, it would face a fine of nearly
$2.5 million per day, retroactive to December 15 of last year.
Microsoft is appealing the rulings against it but has said that while
those appeals are pending, it will license the source code for its
Windows Server System. The European Commission will review Microsoft's
proposal before deciding whether to fine the company.
ZDNet, 25 January 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6030879.html
LAWSUITS TARGET MAKER OF BOGUS SYPWARE TOOLS
The State of Washington and Microsoft have filed separate lawsuits
against Secure Computer, a company they accuse of running a bogus
antispyware racket. According to the complaints, Secure Computer used
pop-up ads and other tools to tell computer users that their computers
were infected with spyware and to offer a service, Spyware Cleaner,
that would remove the unwanted software for $49.95. Microsoft and
Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna said that the scan that
supposedly revealed spyware was bogus and that the removal service in
fact left computers more vulnerable to spyware. Moreover, the
complaints contend that Secure Computer's messages implied that the
service was in some way connected to or endorsed by Microsoft. The
lawsuits allege that Secure Computer violated a recently enacted
Washington Computer Spyware Act and three other laws. An attorney
representing Secure Computer said the company was shocked at the legal
action and would respond shortly.
ZDNet, 25 January 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6031108.html
AMERIPRISE LAPTOP WITH PERSONAL DATA STOLEN
A laptop containing information on 230,000 individuals was stolen from
the car of an employee of Ameriprise Financial in December, according
to the company. The computer included names and Social Security numbers
for more than 70,000 financial advisors, and names and Ameriprise
account numbers for 158,000 customers of the firm, which was spun off
of American Express last year. Andy MacMillan, a spokesperson from the
company, said that although access to the data is protected by a password,
the data were not encrypted, which is a violation of written company policies.
MacMillan said the company does not believe that the thief knew about the
information contained on the laptop and thinks that it is unlikely any
of the information will be accessed or used fraudulently.
New York Times, 25 January 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/business/25cnd-data.html
NEW SITE AIMS TO IDENTIFY MAKERS OF MALICIOUS PROGRAMS
Researchers at Harvard Law School and Oxford University are launching a
Web site that will identify organizations that distribute spyware,
adware, and other unwanted computer programs, as well as the tactics
they employ to intall their applications. StopBadware.org was financed
initially by companies including Google, Lenovo, and Sun Microsystems.
The site will also include an area where consumers can submit
testimonials about their experiences with different software they have
downloaded. John G. Palfrey Jr., executive director of the Berkman
Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, said, "We want to turn the
spotlight on the bad actors, but also give ordinary users a place to go
and get an early warning before they download something that might harm
their computer." According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project,
59 million U.S. adults said their computers were infected with spyware
last year. Data from Consumer Reports indicate that despite consumer
spending of $2.6 billion over the past two years on antivirus and
antispyware tools, users still spent $3.5 billion in damages over the
same period due to unwanted software.
New York Times, 25 January 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/technology/25spy.html
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
[As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.
Remember, the subject is not the article's subject,
the subject is the manipulation of the world news.]
(AP) "The White House is crippling a Senate inquiry into the
government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina by barring
administration officials from answering questions and failing to
hand over documents, senators leading the investigation said Tuesday."
Thus read the opening statement in an article by the (AP) Associated
Press, entitled: "Senators: White House Stalls Katrina Probe"
01/25/06
This article was referenced only by CBS, as per my sources, and some
Google searches on various keywork combinations yielded few results,
so few as to actually be zero for some of the searches, and only TWO
per the search that yielded this hit, which included "Lieberman" as:
"No one believes that the government responded adequately,
and we can't put that story together if people feel they're
under a gag order from the White House."
Senator Joe Lieberman, of Connecticut
Even the Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the committee's
Republican chair, had some harsh words for the White House:
"We are entitled to know if someone from the Department of Homeland
Security calls someone at the White House during this whole crisis
period, so I think the White House has gone too far in restricting
basic information about who called whom on what day."
She said the White House gag order is "completely inappropriate."
Source: CBS, AP, Frankfort Times [IN]
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Bill Gates Says It Will Take 10 Years To Stop Piracy In China/India
"In India and China it will be a decade before we get that level,"
meaning the current protection level achieved in the United States,
as is currently in progress in Taiwan and South Korea.
Mr. Gates was addressing the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
[However, what I think he really means is that it will take 10 years
or so, for China and India to grow economically to the point where a
person of their average means can really afford MicroSoft programs.]
[By the way, I got the first clues to this story from the BBC, but a
recent search shows the story is already missing after a short time,
so the follow up was through The Express, of India.]
[In my own personal experiences outside the Asia major urbana center
locations, there is no place you can find legal copies of anything--
the manufacturers are just not interested in making them available.]
If the product is not made available, how can we buy The Real Thing?
Source:
BBC
Express India
*
James Hansen, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies Director is
trying to tell the world about Global Warming, and says censoring of
his comments, screening of his interviews. . .is being done by those
officials of the Bush administration who are trying to cover up this
ongoing issue on a permanent basis.
Other Bush officials have been fired for even saying there is such a
thing as Global Warming.
Dean Acosta, Deputy Chief of Public Affairs at NASA, has denied such
by saying "That's not the way we operate here."
Hansen says NASA had ordered all of his speaking engagements, notes,
papers, and web postings to undergo review before publication, after
his attempts to call attention to greenhouse gas emissions.
The New York Times quotes him as saying, "They feel their job is to
be this censor of information going out to the public."
This is in addition to similar efforts on 06/13/05 as Philip Cooney
left his White House post as Chief of Staff of their new Council on
Environmental Quality after documents revealed he had long been the
White House's lead censor on Global Warming and had deleted warning
after warning concering Global Warming written for this White House
as part of commissioned reports.
Hansen has said this in no uncertain terms to Congress:
"It is time to stop waffling. . .the greenhouse effect is here."
Later he added that because of the added effect of methane and
chlorofluorocarbons it is "more practical to slow global warming
than is sometimes assumed."
In his report to National Academy of Sciences he said:
Sciences: "We suggest that a strategy to slow global warming focus on
reducing air pollution, especially tropospheric [ground level] ozone,
methane and black carbon particles.
"Human health and ecological costs of these pollutants are counted in
billions of dollars in the United States, and impacts are reaching
devastating levels in the developing world. A strategy focused on
reducing these pollutants, which are not essential to energy. . . ."
Source: New York Times, Telegraph News [UK]
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
"Freedom Of Speech" Limited By The Bush Administration This Week
Supposedly the above NASA comments in the Global Warming study
should be enough.
However, the arrest of Cindy Sheehan some 20 hours ago at the
President's State Of The Union speech challenges that.
Mrs. Sheehan, mother Casey Sheehan, killed in Baghdad's Sadr
City, on April 4, 2004, was the invited guest of Representative
Lynn Woolsey of California, but was ejected from the proceedings
when she revealed a t-shirt that did not support the Iraq war.
Source: CBS News
*
It would also appear that government employees are attempting
some kind of "1984" rewrite of history as per the Wikipedia.
Apparently the Wikipedia biographies of over 1,000 government
officials have been altered by government employees in events
tagged variously as "Wikigate" or "Meehangate."
http://digg.com/technology/More_than_1000_wikipedia_alterations_by_US_Repres
entative_Staffers
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
The icecaps will continue to melt.
The glaciers will continue to shrink.
Icebergs will continue at record numbers and sizes.
Mosquitos will continue moving into the arctic tundra,
and caribou herds etc., will continue dying as a result.
Etc.
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"I participated in a hoax. . . ."
"Now" on PBS, with David Brancaccio.
[This was part of a preview, and I didn't get the whole quote
or who said it. . .does anyone have it? Thanks! Michael]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
65% of all new US job searches are due to "inadequate compensation"
at the previous job. [All those "new jobs" that required workers
to say things such as, "Would you like fries with that?"]
*
The used car market is being "flooded" with thousands of used cars
that have gont through "title washing" to remove evidence of flood
damage from last year's hurricanes.
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
"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 America
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 think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
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.
*
POEM OF THE WEEK
Relight
My reality is that of domesticated people
on their well masticated lunches
who have every right to remain silent
in between morsels heated up in the microwave oven
and yet they don't
they keep on thinking
their minds talk with the speed of their fingers
abusing the keyboards while doing reports
Today we've been good. We behaved and we obeyed.
We cheated and we lied. We reached our targets.
Every pedestrian agent has a way of convincing
they are doing a great job
every day of their lives.
You can tell by the way they cross the street
their briefcases swaying gently in their wedding ring
adorned hands
with whom their open up the mail
and touch the shoulder of a freshly cooked meal
small kids smelling housewife.
The boulevard is broad
every corner is an option
We cross the street when they say Walk,
my briefcase swinging gently in my hand.
Copyright 2006 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
Please send comments to: simona_s75 AT yahoo.com & hart AT pobox.com
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
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Nov 1994 The Europeans, by Henry James [James #4] [theeuxxx.xxx] 179
Nov 1994 Confidence, by Henry James [James #3] [confixxx.xxx] 178
Nov 1994 The American, by Henry James [James #2] [theamxxx.xxx] 177
Nov 1994 Roderick Hudson, by Henry James [James #1] [rhudsxxx.xxx] 176
Oct 1994 The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux [phantxxx.xxx] 175
Oct 1994 The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde [#1] [dgrayxxx.xxx] 174
Oct 1994 The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, by Sax Rohmer [fumanxxx.xxx] 173
Oct 1994 The Haunted Bookshop, by Christopher Morley [hbookxxx.xxx] 172
Oct 1994 Charlotte Temple, by Susanna Rowson [chtemxxx.xxx] 171
Oct 1994 The Haunted Hotel, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #2] [hhotlxxx.xxx] 170
Oct 1994 The Well At The World's End, by William Morris #1 [wwendxxx.xxx] 169
Oct 1994 History and Practice of the Art of Photography [hiphoxxx.xxx] 168
Sep 1994 Handbook of American Daguerrotype, by Humphrey [amdagxxx.xxx] 167
(Illustrations in:) [amdgf10.zip]
Sep 1994 Summer, by Edith Wharton [Wharton #1] [summrxxx.xxx] 166
Sep 1994 McTeague, by Frank Norris [#1 by Frank Norris] [mctegxxx.xxx] 165
Sep 1994 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne [Verne3][20000xxx.xxx] 164
Sep 1994 Flower Fables, by Louisa May Alcott [Alcott #1] [ffablxxx.xxx] 163
Sep 1994 Take Me For A Ride, by Mark E. Laxer [tridexxx.xxx] 162C
Sep 1994 Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen [Austen #5] [sensexxx.xxx] 161
Sep 1994 The Awakening & Other Short Stories by Kate Chopin[awaknxxx.xxx] 160
The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells 159
Aug 1994 Emma, by Jane Austen [Fourth Jane Austen eBook] [emmaxxxx.xxx] 158
Aug 1994 Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster [Twain Grandniece][dllegxxx.xxx] 157
Aug 1994 Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, New Stereo Version[#2][lvb5sxxx.zip] 156C
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The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins 155
Aug 1994 Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells [#1] [silapxxx.xxx] 154
Aug 1994 Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy [Hardy #5] [judexxxx.xxx] 153
Aug 1994 Wild Justice, by Ruth M. Sprague [wildjxxx.xxx] 152C
Jul 1994 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Coleridge [rimexxxx.xxx] 151
Jul 1994 The Republic by Plato, Tr. by Benjamin Jowett [repubxxx.xxx] 150
Jul 1994 The Lost Continent, by Edgar Rice Burroughs[ERB#2][lcontxxx.xxx] 149
Jul 1994 The Autobiography of Ben Franklin [bfautxxx.xxx] 148
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44.5 Per Month
1.46 Per Day
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239 Per Month
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