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HARPERCOLLINS TO DIGITIZE BOOKS
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those files available through search services, marking the latest
development in the rapidly changing landscape of electronic access to
books. Google is working on its hotly contested service to scan vast
numbers of texts and make them available online, while other companies
have begun their own programs to digitize books. The move by
HarperCollins is that company's attempt to be a part of new
technologies while retaining control over its content. The company will
pay to have an estimated 20,000 backlisted books digitized, as well as
about 3,500 new titles each year. Those electronic files will be open
to search engines to make indexes but not to download images of the
pages. According to Brian Murray, group president of HarperCollins,
"We'll own the file, and we'll control the terms of any sale." Jane
Friedman, chief executive of the publisher, said, "We want to be the
best collaborator, but we also want to take charge of our future." The
company said the effort would also allow it to keep certain titles
available long after they are out of print.
Wall Street Journal, 12 December 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113435527609919890.html
GEORGE MASON DEVELOPS ACADEMIC BROWSER ADD-ON
Researchers at George Mason University are developing a plug-in for the
Firefox browser that will help academics organize sources and properly
cite them. The tool is designed to harvest bibliographic information
from online sources and organize it for someone doing research on the
Web. Assuming the bibliographic elements are formatted in a way the
software can recognize, the application will parse title, author, and
other information and correlate it with the source. Daniel J. Cohen,
assistant professor of history and one of the developers, said it can
be thought of as "incredibly smart bookmarking.... You're not just
bookmarking the page, but you're automatically [capturing]...all that
info that scholars want to save." Unlike commercial products that
organize sources, the new application will tie directly into the
browser, eliminating the step of manually collecting citation details.
The open source application is expected to be completed next year and
will be available for no charge from George Mason's Web site. Cohen
said he believes the application will make unintentional plagiarism
less likely than if a researcher were keeping sources organized manually.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 December 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/12/2005120602t.htm
EU DOMAIN OPENS FOR BUSINESS
A new domain has been launched that supporters believe will help create
a sense of identity and strength among the nations of the European
Union (EU). The .eu domain is initially open to organizations that hold
trademarks or have offices in any of the 25 nations in the EU. The
domain will later be opened to other groups and eventually to
individuals. More than 400 registrars have been approved to handle
applications for the domain. Jean Pire, a senior partner in a Belgian
intellectual property law firm, said he expects the .eu domain to grow
to be second only to .com in the number of Web sites that use it.
Currently, .com is the domain for more than half of the world's Web
sites; Pire predicts .eu eventually to represent about 25 percent of
Web sites. The .eu extension will not replace existing country-specific
extensions, such as .de for Germany and .fr for France.
Wall Street Journal, 7 December 2005 (sub. req'd)
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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,
credibility gaps, ploys, mis- and dis-information.]
[Didn't believe the previous reports here? Try these.
And start getting used to the idea that China and India
are going to be driving the world's economy for decades]
China Is Now World's #1 Information Technology Producer
Laptops, cellphones, digital cameras, etc.
Not only is China the largest, but it is growing by nearly
50% per year in techno-sales, nearly 4 times faster than
US sales are growing, so the gap widens faster and faster.
Source:
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
See:
China overtakes US as biggest supplier of tech goods
Indian Express
China Overtakes US as Supplier of Information Technology Goods New
York Times
China overtakes the United States as the world's biggest supplier ...
FinFacts Ireland
*
EU Parliament to Investigate CIA Prisoner Transport
The European Parliament is meeting today to question
the actions of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency,
the CIA, in secretly removing 400 prisoners from U.S.
soil to former Iron Curtain countries Poland, Romania
and possibly others.
Following several more reports, including those of the
Council of Europe, that have created "credible reports"
concerning "inquiry into alleged American secret detention
centres and clandestine prison transport."
Franco Frattini, EU vice-commissioner, has requested
satellite images and flight logs from Eurocontrol to
confirm these reports, and has advised EU Parliament
of these proceedings.
The newly popularlized terms for such prisoner transfer
are "rendition", "black sites," and "torture flights."
Here follows the concluding paragraph of:
Times Online December 14, 2005 article
by Sam Knight and Philip Webster
"Growing unease about the CIA's rendition programme,
which is believed to have transported 3,000 terrorist
suspects for interrogation around the world since 2001,
has prompted investigations in Finland, Hungary, Iceland,
Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sweden."
Sources:
Times Online, UK
EUobserver.com
CNN International
NPR
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
"This careful research has been unable to identify any occasion since
September 11, 2001. . .or earlier in the Bush Administration when we
received a request for permission by the United States for a rendition
through United Kingdom territory or airspace."
As per "very detailed searches of all our records"
by the UK Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
However, this was followed by:
full circumstances of CIA flights in and out of the country.
"Military flights by other countries are not subject to
checking local authorities."
Quotes from Jack Straw
Britich Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
There will be a million eBooks online in two years, with or
without efforts by Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Library of Congress,
and now HarperCollins has thrown their hat into the ring.
[Story above in Edupage section]
*
By this time Chinese will be the most popular Internet language,
but, given the Chinese government's opinions on free information,
free as in free speech, I don't think they will be a major force
in building the world eBook libraries until/unless a significant
social or political change has taken place.
*
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
[Referring to investigating the CIA rendition flights]
"We don't know yet if this has become an EU issue,
but we cannot be the last ones to discover if
something serious happened. We are here to seek the
truth and not to wait for someone to provide it for us."
Jean-Marie Cavada
Chair of European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee
*
"Legal proceedings in progress in certain countries seemed to indicate
that individuals had been abducted and transferred to other countries
without respect for any legal standards."
Dick Marty
Swiss Senator
In a written summary of his investigation on "extraordinary rendition"
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
A Full Time Minimum Wage Worker Cannot Afford One Bedroom
According to the current Low Income Housing Coalition report
there is not a single county in the United States today where
full time minimum wage workers can afford one bedroom apartments.
This is the final straw, down from their report of December 20
of last year when only 4 of the 3066 U.S. counties could afford
the average one bedroom apartment.
The figures cannot fall any further, they have reached zero.
Source: CBS News, NPR News, Low Income Housing Coalition
*
[Commentary]
[Remember the recently publicized events in which Social Security
recipients were told:
"Social Security was never intended to meet all retirement needs."
"Social Security was never intended to do the whole job."
"Social Security was never intended or designed to be an
investment vehicle."
"Social Security was never intended to be a person's sole source
of income during retirement."
Now that there isn't a single county in the United States where
a full time minimum wage worker can rent a one bedroom apartment,
I wonder how long it is going to be before the official line is:
"Minimum wage was never intended to support a full time worker."
*
$2.4 million will buy you a 30 second ad in the Super Bowl.
*
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
[REprint. . .apparently this one got a bit mangled
in the process of getting it prepared, my apologies.]
a moment with you
laid back time's a blue octopus
embracing my ankles, my feet like birds
cut through airy waves of memory
polyphonic castles erected in the realm of newspeak
sounds upon sounds describe majestic towers
sweet melody of understanding playing over and over again
the abyssal voice: lonesome mariners befriending oysters
their old secrets revealed through long voyages initiation
a dialogue of alikeness opening up door after or after door
above a seagull: caresses came to resemble its dance
touch of feathers spreading wide in horizons of color
ethereal sensations, hear mermaids singing beloved songs
the rhythm of utter belonging
joyfully
contained in
a moment with you
Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
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It took us from 7/71 to 9/01 to produce our FIRST 2819 eBooks!!!
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Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2697
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
[Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format]
Oct 2001 The Wars of The Jews, by Flavius Josephus [warjexxx.xxx] 2850
[Title: The Wars of The Jews or the History of the Destruction of Jerusalem]
Oct 2001 Against Apion, by Flavius Josephus[Tr. Wm. Whiston[agaapxxx.xxx] 2849
Oct 2001 The Antiquities of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus [taofjxxx.xxx] 2848
Oct 2001 Josephus' Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades[hadesxxx.xxx] 2847
[Title: An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning Hades]
Oct 2001 The Life of Flavius Josephus, Tr. by Wm. Whiston [lfjosxxx.xxx] 2846
Oct 2001 Sir Nigel, by Arthur Conan Doyle [A. C. Doyle #24][nigelxxx.xxx] 2845
Oct 2001 Fatal Boots, by William Makepeace Thackeray [#25][fbootxxx.xxx] 2844
Oct 2001 Little Travels and Roadside Sketches, by Thackeray[ltarsxxx.xxx] 2843
Oct 2001 Black Heart and White Heart, by H. R. Haggard[#24][bwhrtxxx.xxx] 2842
Oct 2001 The Ivory Child, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard #23][ivoryxxx.xxx] 2841
(Note: These three are our first eBooks in Flemish/Dutch:)
Sep 2001 De Franse Pers, Heinrich Heine [#3/Flemish/Dutch][fpersxxx.xxx] 2840
Sep 2001 Franse Toestanden, Heinrich Heine[2/Flemish/Dutch][ftoesxxx.xxx] 2839
Sep 2001 De Beurs lacht, Heinrich Heine [#1/Flemish/Dutch][fbeurxxx.xxx] 2838
Sep 2001 Lendas do Sul, by J. Somoes Lopes Netto [lendaxxx.xxx] 2837
[Language: Portuguese] (Note: Our First eBook in Portuguese!)
Sep 2001 Abraham Lincoln and the Union, Nath'l W Stephenson[alatuxxx.xxx] 2836
Sep 2001 The Canadian Dominion, by Oscar D. Skelton [cndndxxx.xxx] 2835
Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 2, by Henry James[#37][2pldyxxx.xxx] 2834
Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 1, by Henry James[#36][1pldyxxx.xxx] 2833
Sep 2001 Myth, Ritual, and Religion, V1, by Andrew Lang #28[1mrarxxx.xxx] 2832
Sep 2001 A Bundle of Ballads, by Henry Morley [bndbaxxx.xxx] 2831
Sep 2001 Reginald, by Saki (H. H. Munro) [Saki HH Munro #5][rgnldxxx.xxx] 2830
Sep 2001 Fanny and the Servant Problem, by Jerome K. Jerome[fnyspxxx.xxx] 2829
Sep 2001 Under the Deodars, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling #19][undeoxxx.xxx] 2828
Sep 2001 Aslauga's Knight by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque 4[slkntxxx.xxx] 2827
Sep 2001 The Two Captains by Friedrich de la Motte-Fouque 3[2cpnsxxx.xxx] 2826
Sep 2001 Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque[Fouque #2][undinxxx.xxx] 2825
Sep 2001 Sintram and His Companions, by Friedrich Fouque #1[sntrmxxx.xxx] 2824
[Author: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouque]
Sep 2001 The Fitz-Boodle Papers/William Makepeace Thackeray[fitzbxxx.xxx] 2823
Sep 2001 London in 1731, Don Manoel Gonzales [londnxxx.xxx] 2822
Sep 2001 The Story of the Gadsby, by Rudyard Kipling[RK#18][tsotgxxx.xxx] 2821
Sep 2001 La Fin des Livres by Octave Uzanne & Albert Robida[endbkxxh.zip] 2820
[English Title: The End of Books]
Sep 2001 Barrack-Room Ballads, by Rudyard Kipling [RK #17][barbaxxx.xxx] 2819
Sep 2001 Beautiful Joe, by Marshall Saunders [beajoxxx.xxx] 2818
Sep 2001 Chamber Music, by James Joyce [James Joyce #2][chamuxxx.xxx] 2817
Sep 2001 The City of the Sun, by Tommaso Campanells [tcotsxxx.xxx] 2816
Sep 2001 Democracy An American Novel, by Henry Adams[HA #2][demamxxx.xxx] 2815
Sep 2001 Dubliners, by James Joyce [James Joyce #1] [dblnrxxx.xxx] 2814
Sep 2001 The Grand Babylon Hotel, by Arnold Bennett [grbahxxx.xxx] 2813
Sep 2001 Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero #2][letcixxx.xxx] 2812
[Tr. by E. S. Shuckburgh]
Sep 2001 Letters of Pliny the Younger, Tr. William Melmoth [ltplnxxx.xxx] 2811
[Revised by F. C. T. Bosanquet]
(Note: the filename ltplnxxx.xxx is also used for a totally different eBook,
#3234 in etext02)
Sep 2001 Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, by Plunkitt and Riordan [plnthxxx.xxx] 2810
Sep 2001 Main-Travelled Roads, by Hamlin Garland [matraxxx.xxx] 2809
Sep 2001 Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, by Cicero [tfroaxxx.xxx] 2808
Sep 2001 To Have and To Hold, by Mary Johnston [thathxxx.xxx] 2807
Sep 2001 Phantom 'Rickshaw & Other Ghost Stories by Kipling[phricxxx.xxx] 2806
Sep 2001 With Lee in Virginia [US Civil War], by G.A. Henty[leeivxxx.xxx] 2805
Sep 2001 Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott [Alcott #7] [rsblmxxx.xxx] 2804
[This is the sequel to Eight Cousins, #2726]
Sep 2001 The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan [lvnskxxx.xxx] 2803
Sep 2001 Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson [rmonaxxx.xxx] 2802
Sep 2001 The Commonwealth of Oceana, by James Harrington [oceanxxx.xxx] 2801
Sep 2001 The Koran, Translated by J.M. Rodwell [koranxxx.xxx] 2800
[Title AKA: Al-Qur'an; Q'uran; Quraan]
[Intro. by Rev. G. Margoliouth, M.A.]
(Note: previously incorrectly listed as The Koran, by Mohammed/Mohammad)
(See also: #3434, #7440)
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[1% world population x #eBooks] 64,850,560 x 17,775 x $.87 = ~$1 Trillion
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A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.57 Value Per Book
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Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers.
At 17,775 eBooks in 34 Years and 05.25 Months We Averaged
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If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S.
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are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope.
Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the
districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a
bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census"
is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more
people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source.
45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to
this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a
possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I
presume this is in addition to previous adjustments.
Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures,
perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time
between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth.
In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made
about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this
normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found
on the subject of the current Special Census.
If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide,
then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but
rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it
is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this
might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen
300 million go by some time ago.
For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm
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OPEN SOURCE LICENSE UP FOR REVISION
The Free Software Foundation has announced plans to revise the General
Public License (GPL), which covers many open source applications
including the Linux operating system. The license has not been revised
since 1991, long before Linux and other open source applications had
been implemented widely. Now, according to Eben Moglen, the
foundation's general counsel, "The big boys, corporations and
governments, have far more reason to be interested and concerned." The
GPL and the Free Software Foundation are the creations of Richard
Stallman, an unwavering critic of proprietary software and the author
of much of the source code that led to the Linux operating system.
Stallman has used the license and the foundation to foster what he says
are the four principles of software: the ability to use, study, copy,
and modify it. Stallman acknowledged that with the success of open
source applications in recent years, the task of revising the GPL is
complicated by patent issues, which must allow open source and
proprietary software to run on the same systems. A first draft of the
new GPL will be presented at MIT in mid-January. The revision process
is expected to be completed by the end of 2006, with the Free Software
Foundation making final decisions about changes.
New York Times, 30 November 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/technology/30license.html
THE RISING TIDE OF ONLINE COLLEGE APPLICATIONS
[Is This Perpetuating "The Digital Divide?"]
Motivated by a number of factors, growing numbers of college hopefuls
are turning to the Web to submit applications, though concerns about
the medium persist. For colleges and universities, online applications
generally mean easier processing with fewer mistakes. Many institutions
waive application fees--which can run as high as $75--for students who
apply online. As a result, most institutions are seeing higher
percentages of applications filed online, and many students are
applying at more institutions. According to the National Association
for College Admission Counseling, 57 percent of students applied to
college online in 2004, compared to 35 percent one year earlier. The
Higher Education Research Institute reported that in 2004, more than 16
percent of students applied to seven or more schools, up from less than
10 percent in 1994. Some schools do not waive fees for online
applications, however, among them Yale University and Harvard
University. And despite growing confidence in the Internet, some
students remain skeptical that their materials have been received.
William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions at Harvard, said, "Students
will send it electronically, then they will fax it to you, and then
they will send it snail mail."
Wall Street Journal, 30 November 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113331711186209812.html
NEW ORLEANS ANNOUNCES WI-FI NETWORK
City officials from New Orleans have announced plans to deploy a
wireless network covering the entire city by the end of 2006. The
network will provide improved communication for city services,
including fire and police departments, and--the city hopes--will draw
residents and businesses back to the city following this year's
disastrous hurricane season. When complete, the network will provide
free Internet access to anyone in the city. Unlike several other
municipal networks under development, the New Orleans network will be
installed and operated by the city itself. Still, city officials must
grapple with a state law that restricts Internet access speeds on
municipal networks. Unless the city is able to change the law or win an
exemption, it will only be allowed to offer transfer speeds of 144
Kbps. Representatives of cable and phone companies that offer Internet
access have argued that cities should not be allowed to offer services
that compete with services from private companies. City officials
reject that notion, arguing that commercial Internet access is too
expensive and inconvenient for many potential users.
Silicon.com, 30 November 2005
http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39154681,00.htm
INTERNATIONAL GROUP SUES OVER .COM MANAGEMENT
The World Association of Domain Name Developers has filed a lawsuit in
a California court against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN) and VeriSign over a deal recently reached between
the two organizations. After resolving a dispute over VeriSign's Site
Finder service, which directed users who mistyped URLs to VeriSign's
Web site, ICANN agreed to an extension of the contract that allows
VeriSign to manage the .com and .net domains. Although the extension
runs from 2007 to 2012, the lawsuit filed by the developers association
contends that the contract "provides for the automatic renewal of the
agreement and thereby precludes competitors from ever entering the .com
and .net domain name registration market," thereby establishing a
monopoly for the domains. The only means for another company to bid on
the work, according to the suit, is if VeriSign goes out of business or
fails to meet the terms of the contract. A statement from ICANN said
the lawsuit is intended to divert attention away from an ICANN meeting
currently being held in Vancouver.
BBC, 29 November 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4482292.stm
MICROSOFT TWEAKS IE TO SIDESTEP EOLAS PATENT
Microsoft has made a change to its Internet Explorer browser to avoid
infringing on a patent held by Eolas Technologies, though Microsoft
continues to dispute the validity of that patent. Eolas was granted a
patent in 1998 for a technology that allows certain programs, such as
applets or ActiveX controls, to be launched automatically from Web
pages. Eolas sued Microsoft in 1999 and in 2003 was awarded $521
million for infringement of its intellectual property. That case has
been working its way through appeals courts and is set for a retrial.
In the meantime, Microsoft has opted to modify its browser so that
users must manually accept the launching of ActiveX controls on Web
pages. Unlike an earlier proposal, the one implemented will not require
users to accept each such control on a Web page but simply to accept
them all at once. Microsoft's Michael Wallent said this solution is
less intrusive and that for most users, it will be "an almost invisible
change." Microsoft is working with developers to rewrite Web pages in a
way to minimize the effects of the change.
Internet News, 2 December 2005
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3568286
[Meanwhile The Rest of the World is in High Gear]
SINGAPORE TO INVEST IN ELECTRONIC SECTOR
The government of Singapore has announced plans to invest nearly $600
million over the next decade to foster growth in the digital sector of
the country's economy. Singapore's Economic Development Board will
manage the investments, which will support four areas: attracting
businesses from outside the country; fostering a climate that
encourages residents of the country to pursue careers in digital media;
funding research and development; and providing financial backing for
electronic projects involving local and overseas interests. Vivian
Balakrishnan, second minister for trade and industry, said the country
hopes that the investment will generate 30,000 new jobs in Singapore by
2018. The announcement coincided with the opening of a game development
facility by Electronic Arts. Officials in Singapore hope that the
country's digital industry will grow to nearly $6 billion by 2018.
CNET, 5 December 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5982727.html
INTEL UPS INVESTMENT IN INDIA
Intel has announced plans to invest $1 billion in India, where it
already operates the company's largest nonmanufacturing site outside
the United States. That site, in Bangalore, hosts development efforts
for software. The new investment, expected over the next five years,
will be split between the existing research and development efforts and
local firms. Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel, said, "We will grow our
local operations, boost venture capital investments, and work closely
with the government, industry, and educators." The company said it has
not made any decisions about opening manufacturing facilities in India,
though such an option remains open. The costs of doing business in
countries including India are significantly lower than in the United
States. Some estimates put the salary for an Indian software engineer
at one-sixth of what a comparably skilled engineer would earn in the
United States.
BBC, 5 December 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4499362.stm
[More Strange Microsoft Browser News]
RHAPSODY USERS CAN SKIP THE DOWNLOAD
RealNetworks has introduced a Web-based version of its Rhapsody online
music service, untethering existing users from their usual computers
and opening the service to users with non-Windows-based computers.
Until now, Rhapsody users had to download an application to their
computers to access the service. With the new offering, users can
access the service from any computer using their existing Rhapsody
names and passwords. The new feature also allows Mac users and those
with Linux-based computers to access Rhapsody. The catch is that the
Web-based service only permits music streaming--customers who want to
purchase tracks will still be required to use the downloaded
application. Rhapsody also allows users to listen to 25 songs per month
for free. Subscribers can listen to an unlimited number of songs. Rob
Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks, said he wouldn't be bothered if most
users of the Web-based service choose only to listen to free songs
because "the Internet advertising market is doing pretty well."
Wall Street Journal, 5 December 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113379130776613997.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,
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Florida Jury Acquits Professor of 8 Terror Charges
Professor Sami Al-Arian had been accused of being
part of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, along with
three others. Yesterday a jury acquitted him of
8 of those charges, but left at least as many of
the charges still on the table, and prosecutors
will have to decide if they want to proceed.
Source: Standard-Speaker, Tampa
Independent Florida Alligator, FL
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Former Capitol Hill Press Secretary Thomas C. Springer
was arrested yet again for bank robbery, after someone
tailed his blue Geo Metro from the scene calling 911.
[Could fiction writers do any better?]
A Montgomery County Police spokesman said Mr. Springer
was responsible for 7 or more such bank robberies, all
in Montgomery County in approximately the last year.
In addition, his bank robbery career dates back to his
initial arrest in 1989. He spent a year in prison and
was released, that time for 3 Maryland banks he hit.
He also served another year plus in North Carolina for
bank robbery after being arrested in October, 1995.
Source: The Washington Post
*
Giant C-130 Hercules Cargo Plane Crashes In Iran Capitol
Various reports indicate the original pilot walked away,
saying the plane was unsafe to fly, but after six hours,
and various technical difficulties and after stalling on
the runway a handful of times, the plane finally managed
to get off the runway only to crash into a building, and
the death toll is already well above 100, most of them a
group of journalists covering military units.
Source: ABC Asia Pacific TV / Radio Australia, BBC, PBS
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
United States Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice denies
she told Germen Chancellor Angela Merkel that it was "a
mistake" for the CIA to have flown a German man, Khaled
el-Masri, to one of the secret CIA prisons in Europe.
Secretary Rice did acknowledge that the CIA had created
such prisons, but not that the prisoners had been flown
to the for purposes of torture.
Apparently all the detainees in these secret prisons in
Europe have been flown across the Mediterranean to some
new secret locations in northern Africa from prisons in
Poland, Romania and other undisclosed locations.
el-Masri had been detained in an Afghan secret site and
is now suing the CIA for wrongful imprisonment. He was
originally taken into custody by three men, in civilian
clothing, but well armed, as he was crossing the border
between Serbia and Macedonia because his name is linked
to 9/11 because it is that same as a hijacker's name.
In at least one instance such a suit was foiled, by the
simple process of not allowing the plaintiff to board a
plane to the U.S.
Yesterday the lawsuit was finally filed, by the ACLU.
Source: BBC, Metro Toronto, Malaysia Star, The Age [of
Australia], Independent, UK.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Following Verizon's lead, more and more healthy companies
will get out from under their pension funds.
[See previous comments on bailing out of pension funds]
*
The New York Stock Exchange will be forced by competitors
to finally stop blocking the oncoming electronic age, and
will have to become more computer and network oriented.
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"But The Pension Fund Was Just Sitting There!"
Doonesbury, Collected Works, from 1978-1979
[Shouldn't someone be hiring Gary Trudeau as Chief Pundit?]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
Remember when Dan Rather was offered $5 million to replace
Walter Cronkite back in the 1980's?
Today the price is $25 million and offered to Katie Couric
to lure her away from NBC's Today Show to CBS Evening News.
[If you check the inflation figures during Rather's tenure
you'll find they were nowhere near 500% for the period, as
the rich continue to get richer and the poor get poorer.]
***
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
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a moment with you
laid back time's a blue octopus
embracing my ankles, my feet like birds
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the abyssal voice: lonesome mariners befriending oysters
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above a seagull: caresses came to resemble its dance
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In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made
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on the subject of the current Special Census.
If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide,
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rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it
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A Selection of Books Published by Methuen and Co. Ltd., by Anonymous 17247
[Title: A Selection of Books Published by Methuen and Co. Ltd., London,
36, Essex Street, W.C, September, 1911]
[Editor: Methuen and Co. Ltd.]
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The Quest of the Simple Life, by William J. Dawson 17246
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Vol. 17 No. 428 New Series, Mar. 13, 1852 17245
[Editor: Robert Chambers and William Chambers]
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French Art, by W. C. Brownell 17244
[Subtitle: Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture]
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Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher, by Ike Matthews 17243
[Subtitle: After 25 Years' Experience]
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La tombe de fer, by Hendrik Conscience 17242
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Atlantis, by Gerhart Hauptmann 17241
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The Destiny of Man, by John Fiske 17239
[Subtitle: Viewed in the Light of His Origin]
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Journal des Goncourt (Deuxime srie, premier volume), by Goncourt 17238
[Subtitle: Mmoires de la vie littraire]
[Author: Edmond de Goncourt]
[Language: French]
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A Man for the Ages, by Irving Bacheller 17237
[Subtitle: A Story of the Builders of Democracy]
[Illustrator: John Wolcott Adams]
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Antiquits d'Herculanum, Tome VI., (Vol. 6 of 6), by Piroli et al. 17236
[Author: Tommaso Piroli, Pietro Piranesi, and Francesco Piranesi]
[Language: French]
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[Author: Tommaso Piroli, Pietro Piranesi, and Francesco Piranesi]
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Antiquits d'Herculanum, Tome IV., (Vol. 4 of 6), by Piroli et al. 17234
[Author: Tommaso Piroli, Pietro Piranesi, and Francesco Piranesi]
[Language: French]
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Antiquits d'Herculanum, Tome III., (Vol. 3 of 6), by Piroli et al. 17233
[Author: Tommaso Piroli, Pietro Piranesi, and Francesco Piranesi]
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[Author: Tommaso Piroli, Pietro Piranesi, and Francesco Piranesi]
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Antiquits d'Herculanum, Tome I., (Vol. 1 of 6), by Piroli et al. 17231
[Author: Tommaso Piroli, Pietro Piranesi, and Francesco Piranesi]
[Language: French]
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Alsace, Lorraine et France rhnane, by Stphen Coub 17230
[Subtitle: Expos des droits historiques de la France sur toute la]
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[Language: French]
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The Haunted Hour, by Various 17229
[Subtitle: An Anthology]
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"Swingin Round the Cirkle.", by Petroleum V. Nasby 17228
[Subtitle: His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His
Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866.]
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Rod of the Lone Patrol, by H. A. Cody 17227
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Emily Fox-Seton, by Frances Hodgson Burnett 17226
[Subtitle: Being The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady
Walderhurst]
[Illustrator: C.D. Williams]
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La comtesse de Rudolstadt, by George Sand 17225
[Language: French]
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Chance and Luck, by Richard Proctor 17224
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Pepita Jimnez, by Juan Valera 17223
[Language: Spanish]
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Water Baptism, by James H. Moon 17222
[Subtitle: A Pagan and Jewish Rite but not Christian, Proven By
Scripture And History Confirmed By The Lives Of Saints Who Were
Never Baptized With Water]
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History of the Plague in England, by Daniel Defoe 17221
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Bohemian Society, by Lydia Leavitt 17220
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La creaci d'Eva i altres contes, by Josep Carner 17219
[Language: Catalan]
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The Black Cat, by John Todhunter 17218
[Subtitle: A Play in Three Acts]
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866, by Various 17217
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics]
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, Complete, ed. by Sir Mark Lemon 17216
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Rembrandt, by Mortimer Menpes 17215
[Commentator: C. Lewis Hind]
[Illustrator: Rembrandt]
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Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle,by Annie Fellows Johnston 17214
[Illustrator: Etheldred B. Barry]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/2/1/17214 ]
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The Future of Islam, by Wilfred Scawen Blunt 17213
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Michelangelo, by Estelle M. Hurll 17212
[Subtitle: A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The
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A School History of the Great War, by McKinley et al. 17211
[Author: Albert E. McKinley, Charles A. Coulomb, and Armand J. Gerson]
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The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth, by Timothy Templeton 17210
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A Treatise of Witchcraft, by Alexander Roberts 17209
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The Tales of Mother Goose, by Charles Perrault 17208
[Subtitle: As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696]
[Annotator: M. V. O'Shea]
[Illustrator: D. J. Munro]
[Translator: Charles Welsh]
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431, by Various 17207
[Subtitle: Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852]
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"Over There" with the Australians, by R. Hugh Knyvett 17206
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The Big-Town Round-Up, by William MacLeod Raine 17205
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Researches on curves of the second order, by George Whitehead Hearn 17204
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Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands, by John Linwood Pitts 17203
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Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours, ed. by Effie L. Power 17202
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Is Life Worth Living?, by William Hurrell Mallock 17201
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Angel Agnes, by Wesley Bradshaw 17200
[Subtitle: The Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport]
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Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891, by Various 17199
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The Botanical Magazine, Vol. I, by William Curtis 17198
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The Black Box, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 17197
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Life of Adam Smith, by John Rae 17196
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Relations Between Religion and Science,Frederick, Lord Bishop of Exeter 17194
[Subtitle: Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in
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S, by Antnio Nobre 17193
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The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe 17192
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Jul 2001 Colomba, by Prosper Merimee, Trans. by Mary Loyd [clmbaxxx.xxx] 2708
Jul 2001 The History of Herodotus V1 by Herodotus/ Macaulay[1hofhxxx.xxx] 2707
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Jul 2001 Washington and his Comrades in Arms, George Wrong [waciaxxx.xxx] 2704
Jul 2001 The Argonauts of North Liberty, by Bret Harte[#37][taonlxxx.xxx] 2703
Jul 2001 The Lion's Skin, by Rafael Sabatini [Sabatini #8] [lnsknxxx.xxx] 2702
Jul 2001 Moby Dick, by Herman Melville [new edition *.10b] [mobyxxxb.xxx] 2701
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Pages From an Old Volume of Life, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2699
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The Guardian Angel, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2697
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Over the Teacups, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2689
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The Professor at the Breakfast Table #2665
Autocrat of Breakfast Table #751)
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Jun 2001 The Way to Peace, by Margaret Deland [wy2pcxxx.xxx] 2685
Five Tales, by John Galsworthy 2684
Contents:
The First And Last
A Stoic
The Apple Tree
The Juryman
Indian Summer Of A Forsyte (See also Etext #2594)]
Saint's Progress, by John Galsworthy 2683
Jun 2001 Henri III et sa Cour by Alexandre Dumas Pere [#9][h3escxxx.xxx] 2682
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Jun 2001 Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius [medmaxxx.xxx] 2680
Jun 2001 Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series Two [Emily D. #2][2mlydxxx.xxx] 2679
Jun 2001 Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series One [Emily D. #1][1mlydxxx.xxx] 2678
Jun 2001 Epistles from Pap, Letters from Andrew E. Durham [efpapxxx.xxx] 2677C
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In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made
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normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found
on the subject of the current Special Census.
If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide,
then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but
rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it
is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this
might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen
300 million go by some time ago.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS BACKS WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY
The U.S. Library of Congress has launched an effort to create a vast
digital collection of artifacts representing the cultures of the world.
Librarian of Congress James Billington said the World Digital Library
would be "a documentary record of other great cultures of the world,"
dealing "with the culture of those people rather than with our contacts
as Americans with those cultures." The new initiative will use as
models the American Memory Project, which has digitized more than 10
million items representing "Americana," and the Global Gateway, a joint
project with five national libraries in Europe and Brazil that
highlights connections between those cultures and that of the United
States. Initial funding for the World Digital Library will come from
Google, which has pledged $3 million for the effort. Billington said he
hopes to attract other private funding for the project.
MSNBC, 22 November 2005
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10147556/
ICANN TO CONSIDER SINGLE-LETTER WEB ADDRESSES
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has
agreed to consider single-letter addresses such as a.com in response to
company requests. (Six companies with single-letter names were allowed
to keep their names when the existing system was established.) In
deciding whether to accept single-letter names, ICANN will also have to
determine how to sell the names and whether companies will have to seek
individual entries across all suffixes. Domain name brokers and others
expect intense demand for the names because of their rarity. There are
no plans to consider two-letter names because of possible confusion
with two-letter country code suffixes.
Yahoo, 28 November 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051128/ap_on_hi_te/single_letter_domains
DUTCH COMPANY DUMPS COMMON TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN NAMES
Amsterdam-based UnifiedRoot S&M BV has created an Internet addressing
system that eliminates top-level domains such as .com and .edu,
allowing organizations and individuals to register Internet addresses
ending with the name of their businesses or other words. The new system
can combine top-level domains with second-level domains for what the
company calls more intuitive addresses for different categories of
products and services, such as vegetables.supermarket. UnifiedRoot has
established 13 master root servers worldwide to run its domain name
system. To avoid conflicts, the company said, it will not register
top-level domain names already registered by the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Existing Internet service
providers will have to update their server directories to accommodate
the new system names.
ComputerWorld, 28 November 2005
http://www.computerworld.com/news/2005/story/0,11280,106559,00.html
U.S. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR E-BAY PATENT CASE
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a patent-infringement lawsuit
involving eBay and a patent holding company that eBay lost in 2003.
MercExchange holds a patent over sales and purchasing methods used in
online auctions. The appeal deals with whether the U.S. District Court
that handled the case should have issued a permanent injunction against
eBay. The Federal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which handles patent
lawsuits on appeal, ruled that the federal trial judge should have
issued a permanent injunction against eBay, which said they believe the
legal reasoning used will force district courts to issue more injunctions
in patent lawsuits. Meanwhile, Congress is considering legislation that
would change how patent injunctions are issued by federal courts.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is also exploring the issue.
Wall Street Journal, 28 November 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113319064690608067.html
BBC2 TO BROADCAST VIA BROADBAND
Controller Roly Keating intends to make BBC2 the first mainstream TV
station to broadcast via broadband. A broadband service pilot is
scheduled for 2006 to run concurrently with further trials of
MyBBCPlayer technology, which enables viewers to download and watch BBC
content on demand. The broadband version of BBC2 reportedly will
combine streamed media and downloads.
Silicon.com, 25 November 2005
http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39154583,00.htm
MPAA AND BITTORRENT MAKE NICE
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the creator of
BitTorrent technology have announced an agreement that will keep many
BitTorrent users from finding copyrighted movie files with the
technology. In May, Bram Cohen added a service to his site,
BitTorrent.com, that allowed users to search the Web for file downloads
that use the popular technology. Under the new agreement, Cohen will
remove copyrighted content from search results on his site. Although
his technology has become a favorite for many traders in copyrighted
material, Cohen does not offer services targeted at such users and has
previously discouraged using the technology for illegal file trading.
The entertainment industry has not targeted Cohen for prosecution for
copyright violations, but a number of individual BitTorrent users have
been sued for such violations. Despite the agreement, however, several
other sites that search the Web for BitTorrent downloads remain
operational.
CNET, 22 November 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5967750.html
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Music On A Stick
The first album is now available for purchase on a RAM stick.
$30 will buy you an entire CD of music, plus some holiday tunes,
video, and other DVDish inclusions on a 128M RAM stick. [If you
want only a 128M RAM stick, I just bought one at Fry's for $9.]
Source:
MICHELLE MEGNA and JIM FARBER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
"Plan B"
"Thanks to an investigation by the Government Accountability Office
released this fall, we now know that the FDA's decision went against
the advice of doctors and scientific experts. In fact, the decision was
made by top FDA officials even before the scientific review was complete."
Source: Lansing State Journal
This one is a little strange:
Berenstain Bears author Stan Berenstain died at 82,
which was reported in depth on the public networks,
Canadian Networks, and even in Italy, but I cannot
find reports from CBS, NBC, or ABC.
I wonder if there is some new bias on both sides,
due to the fact there was a public broadcasting
version of the Berenstain Bears.
[The New York Times seems to have given the Bears
some grief on this occasion for not being very
politically correct. Of course, you might want
to take into account that the Berenstain Bears
started long before Policially Correct was in
our Newspeak Dictionaries.]
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Global Warming will continue to wreak havoc the polar caps,
creating more record hurricanes, etc.
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"If junk food is banned by the government," in schools,
then why shouldn't we be able to ban military recruiters?"
"Politics demands we have access to those oil fields."
[Sorry, I must have written these down wrong, as I
haven't been able to find them in my online searches.]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
The hurricane season is finally ending, but not without new
tropical storms appearing. The grand total appears as if a
new record has been set at 26 named storms requiring letter
names from the Greek alphabet for the first time, and going
again into the record books with the most powerful storm of
all recorded weather. The storms also struck a wider range
geographically than ever before, in over 20 nations. Three
category 5 hurricanes were included, yet another record.
Katrina, Rita and Wilma each made the Top 5 of all time and
clocked winds over 175 miles per hour.
[So much for there being no evidence for Global Warming.]
***
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
dawn
we grow in the direction of the zenith
with sunrise rays revealing naked land
my skin is yours in the morning embrace
like pearly treasures buried in the sand
the skies are wide your eyes the deepest blue
transcend the mortal needs we feel today
we look and see above the highest clouds
the precious, secret dreams we've kept at bay
enjoy today, your fingers say to me
there's no return to yesterdays, you know
and only us will gather where we've been
and where to our hearts will want to go
we grow in the direction of the zenith
sometimes my moans embracing in a rhyme
you are in me, I have the richest heart
these sunrise rays abounding in your smile
don't rush as time awaits for lovers still
they live they die they are reborn again
in just a second as it takes the sun
to find the places where our hearts have been
rejoice! The moment welcomes you and me
into a land of pure reality; the fantasy belongs
to past attempts to get to where we are and what
we feel. A thousand years pass, I'll love you still.
Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
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The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax, by Harriet Parr (AKA Holme Lee) 17086
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/8/17086 ]
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Greek and Roman Ghost Stories, by Lacy Collison-Morley 17190
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/9/17190 ]
[Files: 17190.txt; 17190-8.txt; 17190-h.htm; ]
Autumn Leaves, by Various 17189
[Subtitle: Original Pieces in Prose and Verse]
[Editor: Anne Wales Abbot]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17189 ]
[Files: 17189.txt; 17189-h.htm; ]
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts, by Frank Richard Stockton 17188
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17188 ]
[Files: 17188.txt; 17188-8.txt; 17188-h.htm; ]
Three Plays, by Zora Neale Hurston 17187
[Subtitle: Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17187 ]
[Files: 17187.txt; ]
Noes elementares de archeologia, Joaquim Possidnio Narciso da Silva 17186
[Commentator: I. de Vilhena Barbosa]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17186 ]
[Files: 17186-8.txt; 17186-h.htm]
Instinct of Animals, by Thomas Bingley 17185
[Title: Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters,
and Habits]
[Illustrator: T. Landseer]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17185 ]
[Files: 17185.txt; 17185-h.htm]
Le lys noir, by Jules de Gastyne 17184
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17184 ]
[Files: 17184-8.txt]
Atm, by Caroline Augusta Frazer 17183
[Subtitle: A Romance]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17183 ]
[Files: 17183.txt; 17183-8.txt; 17183-h.htm]
Within the Temple of Isis, by Belle M. Wagner 17182
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17182 ]
[Files: 17182.txt; 17182-h.htm]
Rosalynde, by Thomas Lodge 17181
[Subtitle: or, Euphues' Golden Legacy]
[Editor: Edward Chauncey Baldwin]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17181 ]
[Files: 17181.txt; 17181-8.txt]
The Riddle of the Frozen Flame, by Mary E. Hanshew & Thomas W. Hanshew 17180
[Illustrator: Walter De Maris]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17180 ]
[Files: 17180.txt; 17180-8.txt; 17180-h.htm]
The Book Of Quinte Essence Or The Fifth Being (1889), by Unknown 17179
[Subtitle: Edited from British Museum MS. Sloane 73 about 1460-70 A.D.]
[Editor: Frederick James Furnivall]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17179 ]
[Files: 17179.txt; 17179-0.txt; 17179-h.htm]
Westerfelt, by Will N. Harben 17178
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17178 ]
[Files: 17178.txt; ]
Opsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo IV, by Alexandre Herculano 17177
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17177 ]
[Files: 17177-8.txt]
The Ghost, by Arnold Bennett 17176
[Subtitle: A Modern Fantasy]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17176 ]
[Files: 17176.txt; 17176-8.txt; 17176-h.htm]
The Tapestry Room, by Mrs. Molesworth 17175
[Subtitle: A Child's Romance]
[Illustrator: Walter Crane]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17175 ]
[Files: 17175.txt; 17175-8.txt; 17175-h.htm]
The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval, by A. Leblond de Brumath 17174
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17174 ]
[Files: 17174.txt; 17174-8.txt; 17174-h.htm]
The Bow of Orange Ribbon, by Amelia E. Barr 17173
[Subtitle: A Romance of New York]
[Illustrator: Theo. Hampe]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17173 ]
[Files: 17173.txt; 17173-8.txt; 17173-h.htm]
The Ethics of George Eliot's Works, by John Crombie Brown 17172
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17172 ]
[Files: 17172.txt; 17172-h.htm]
New England Salmon Hatcheries...Fisheries...Late 19th Century, Various 17171
[Title: New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late
19th Century]
[Subtitle: Consisting of articles compiled from the Bulletin of the
United States Fish Commission 1881-1894]
Contents:
Some Results of the Artificial Propagation of Maine and California
Salmon in New England & Canada, Recorded in the Years 1879 & 1880
Sketch of the Penobscot Salmon-Breeding Establishment (1883)
Penning of Salmon in Order to Secure Their Eggs (1884)
Memoranda Relative to Inclosures for the Confinement of Salmon Drawn
from Experience at Bucksport, Penobscot River, Maine (1884)
Report on the Schoodic Salmon Work of 1884-85
Methods Employed at Craig Brook Station in Rearing Young Salmonid
Fishes (1893)
Notes on the Capture of Atlantic Salmon at Sea and in the Coast Waters
of the Eastern States (1894
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17171 ]
[Files: 17171.txt; 17171-h.htm; ]
A Study of Pueblo Pottery...Zui, by Frank Hamilton Cushing 17170
[Title: A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zui Culture Growth]
[Subtitle: Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing
Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17170 ]
[Files: 17170.txt; 17170-8.txt; 17170-0.txt; 17170-h.htm]
Der Fall Deruga, by Ricarda Huch 17169
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17169 ]
[Files: 17169-8.txt; 17169-h.htm]
The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte 17168
[Illustrator: Kate Greenaway]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17168 ]
[Files: 17168.txt; 17168-8.txt; 17168-h.htm]
Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888, by Various 17167
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17167 ]
[Files: 17167.txt; 17167-8.txt; 17167-h.htm]
A Life of St. John for the Young, by George Ludington Weed 17166
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17166 ]
[Files: 17166.txt; 17166-8.txt; 17166-h.htm]
A Little Florida Lady, by Dorothy C. Paine 17165
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17165 ]
[Files: 17165.txt; 17165-8.txt; 17165-h.htm; ]
Mission to Central Africa in 1850-51, Volume 1, by James Richardson 17164
[Title: Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the
Years 1850-51, Volume 1]
[Subtitle: Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17164 ]
[Files: 17164.txt; 17164-8.txt; 17164-0.txt; 17164-h.htm]
Mother Stories from the New Testament, by Anonymous 17163
[Subtitle: A Book of the Best Stories from the New Testament that
Mothers can tell their Children]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17163 ]
[Files: 17163.txt; 17163-8.txt; 17163-h.htm]
Mother Stories from the Old Testament, by Anonymous 17162
[Subtitle: A Book of the Best Stories from the Old Testament that
Mothers can tell their Children]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17162 ]
[Files: 17162.txt; 17162-h.htm]
Max und Moritz, by Wilhelm Busch 17161
[Subtitle: Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17161 ]
[Files: 17161-8.txt; 17161-h.htm; 17161-pdf.pdf]
Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools, by Various 17160
[Subtitle: Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists]
[Editor: Margaret Ashmun]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17160 ]
[Files: 17160.txt; 17160-8.txt; 17160-0.txt; 17160-h.htm]
Women of Modern France, by Hugo P. Thieme 17159
[Subtitle: Woman In All Ages And In All Countries]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17159 ]
[Files: 17159.txt; 17159-8.txt; 17159-0.txt; 17159-h.htm]
Armageddon--And After, by W. L. Courtney 17158
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17158 ]
[Files: 17158.txt; 17158-8.txt; 17158-h.htm]
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift 17157
[Editor: Thomas M. Balliet]
[Subtitle: Into Several Remote Regions of the World]
[See also: #829; from a different source]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17157 ]
[Files: 17157.txt; 17157-8.txt; 17157-h.htm; ]
The Soldier of the Valley, by Nelson Lloyd 17156
[Illus.: A. B. Frost]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17156 ]
[Files: 17156.txt; 17156-h.htm; ]
About Orchids, by Frederick Boyle 17155
[Subtitle: A Chat]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17155 ]
[Files: 17155.txt; 17155-8.txt; 17155-h.htm]
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, ..., by Martin R. Delany 17154
[Title: The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the
Colored People of the United States]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17154 ]
[Files: 17154.txt; 17154-8.txt; 17154-h.htm]
Synthetische Geometrie der Kugeln, by Theodor Reye 17153
[Title: Synthetische Geometrie der Kugeln und linearen Kugelsysteme]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17153 ]
[Files: 17153-t.tex; 17153-pdf.pdf]
Rosa's Quest, by Anna Potter Wright 17152
[Subtitle: The Way to the Beautiful Land]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17152 ]
[Files: 17152.txt; 17152-h.htm; ]
Bob Chester's Grit, by Frank V. Webster 17151
[Subtitle: From Ranch to Riches]
[Frank V. Webster was a Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17151 ]
[Files: 17151.txt; 17151-8.txt; 17151-h.htm; ]
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World, by Hammurabi, King of Babylon 17150
[Subtitle: The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon,
B.C. 2285-2242]
[Tr.: C. H. W. Johns]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17150 ]
[Files: 17150.txt; 17150-h.htm]
Creative Chemistry, by Edwin E. Slosson 17149
[Subtitle: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17149 ]
[Files: 17149.txt; 17149-8.txt; 17149-h.htm; ]
Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States, by C.C. Royce 17148
[Title: Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States:
Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana]
[Subtitle: First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing
Office, Washington, 1881, pages 247-262]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17148 ]
[Files: 17148.txt; 17148-h.htm; ]
Theodicy, by G. W. Leibniz 17147
[Subtitle: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the
Origin of Evil]
[Ed. and Intro.: Austin Farrer]
[Translator: E.M. Huggard]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17147 ]
[Files: 17147.txt; 17147-8.txt; 17147-h.htm]
Diddie, Dumps & Tot, by Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle 17146
[Subtitle: or, Plantation child-life]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17146 ]
[Files: 17146.txt; 17146-h.htm]
Hallowe'en at Merryvale, by Alice Hale Burnett 17145
[Illus.: Charles F. Lester]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17145 ]
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The House of the Vampire, by George Sylvester Viereck 17144
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Die griechische Tnzerin, by Arthur Schnitzler 17142
[Subtitle: und andere Novellen]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17142 ]
[Files: 17142-8.txt; 17142-0.txt; 17142-h.htm]
Destiny, by Charles Neville Buck 17141
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LIBRARIES FOLLOWING RETAILERS' LEAD
Libraries increasingly find themselves in a quandary between growing
expectations among patrons for personalized services and libraries'
traditional stance as a strong advocate for personal privacy.
Commercial enterprises such as Amazon and Netflix typically make
suggestions to customers based on previous purchases and can notify
users when certain products are available. The library at North
Carolina State University is implementing a program that offers
students similar services based on past usage. To offer such services,
however, the library must keep more-detailed patron records than many
libraries keep, given the authority of government officials under the
USA PATRIOT Act to subpoena those records. Officials from the
university report that students are comfortable trading some measure of
privacy for the convenience of personalized services. Another program
at the University of Notre Dame offers similar suggestions to users,
which, according to its developer, should simplify research for many
students. Michael Golrick, the city librarian in Bridgeport, Conn.,
said that the large numbers of immigrants in his community would not be
so willing to trade privacy for convenience. Many of them, he said,
"came to this country to avoid the kinds of surveillance and
persecution we're seeing tinges of today."
New York Times, 20 November 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/weekinreview/20cowan.html
UNIVERSITY COMBINES EXERCISE AND TECHNOLOGY
The recreation center at Minnesota State University now includes
computers that can be used while people are exercising. Although many
fitness centers include individual TVs for treadmills and other pieces
of equipment, officials at Minnesota State wanted to offer something
more. They set up 40 adjustable stands, each of which has a computer,
monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Students using the rec center can surf
the Web, check e-mail, or perform other computer tasks while they
exercise. One professor at the university said he will incorporate the
new facilities into one of his fitness courses, where students will
exercise while taking quizzes and doing other activities on the
computers. Officials at other schools said they would consider adding
similar facilities to their rec centers, noting that more and more
students grew up multitasking and expecting to have access to a
computer all the time. Some disagree with the approach. Stephanie Maks,
who worked as a personal trainer for 20 years, said often the biggest
hurdle to an effective exercise program is letting go of technology.
"Don't bring the office with you to the gym," she said.
Wired News, 20 November 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69633,00.html
CITIES AND TOWNS ADDING WIRELESS NETWORKS
Cities and towns across the United States are launching, or announcing
plans to launch, wireless broadband networks. Wireless technologies are
evolving to allow increasingly secure, robust networks in city-wide
installations. Large cities, such as Philadelphia and San Francisco,
and smaller towns, such as Lebanon, Oregon, are establishing wireless
municipal networks for reasons ranging from economic development to
improved services for residents. In Tucson, Arizona, a wireless network
will allow communication between ambulances and one of the city's
hospitals, improving patient care. That network is expected to be
online in mid-2006, and the service could be extended to other medical
facilities in the city. Other municipalities see wireless Internet
access as a valuable step in narrowing the digital divide and bringing
the benefits of technology to lower-income residents. In Mountain View,
California, Google, which is headquartered there, will develop a
wireless broadband network at no cost to the city.
Federal Computer Week, 21 November 2005
http://www.fcw.com/article91475-11-18-05-Web
ONLINE EDUCATION EXPANDS IN AFRICA
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has announced a grant to fund
online education efforts in Africa. The $900,000 grant will support the
Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa consortium, which is working to
develop an online portal that will offer a broad array of educational
materials from institutions such as MIT, the Johns Hopkins School of
Public Health, and Chinese Open Resources for Education. According to
Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo, rector of the African Virtual University,
which is part of the consortium, Africa is in great need of math and
science teachers, and the new portal will be used in "teach the
teacher" programs to educate new instructors in sub-Saharan Africa. The
online resources will not be limited to teachers, however. Beginning in
Tanzania and South Africa and spreading to other African countries, the
portal will be openly available to anyone with Internet access. Dzvimbo
said he hopes that eventually teachers in Africa will join the online
efforts alongside the professors and students in the United States who
will be initially involved.
Inside Higher Ed, 17 November 2005
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/11/17/africa
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News from other sources:
The US "Patriot Act" has suffered several defeats of bills
attempting to extend its powers.
and
*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
The US "Patriot Act" has suffered several defeats of bills
attempting to extend its powers.
*
Iran's third proposed oil minister has been rejected due to
"strong ties to the US and the UK."
This third time around puts Iran in "uncharted constitutional
waters" that might end up with the elimination of the minister
of oil as a position.
The first two were eliminated as lacking expertise, and the
third was said to have strong ties to the US and the UK, as
his daughter is citizen of the UK, and that he, himself, is
the possessor of a US green card, both of which he denies.
Source: BBC
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Michael Scanlon, former aide to Congressional power Tom Delay,
and partner of famous lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pled guilty to a
conspiracy to bribe public officials stemming from investigations
into attempted fraud of his Indian tribe clients and corruption
of a Congressman.
Source: Washington Post, 11/21/05
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
The Russian government now requires registration of all "non-
governmental organizations." [NGO's]
This is expected to end all such organizations other then the
select few kept for display purposes.
This would include New York-based Human Rights Watch, who has
maintained their Moscow office for years, as well as a number
of other such organizations such as Amnesty International and
Greenpeace, etc.
The new law, just passed by the Duma, would ban those foreign
NGO's altogether, and also ban foreign workers and money from
being used in Russian NGO's.
NGO leaders have protested, saying this will end civil rights
in Russia.
The law was passed 380 to 18.
Source: Reuters
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Japan's landing of a spacecraft on an asteroid to take samples
and return them to Earth laboratories for scientific analysis,
will renew interest in the old science fiction idea of "meteor
mining" as a potential economic force.
Even a tiny gold, platinum, or iridium asteroid under 100 feet
in diameter could destroy the world's economic system, because
in spacefaring terms, our finanical institutions are based on,
still to this day, "beads and trinkets" that could still buy a
Manhattan Island for $24 worth of such beads and trickets from
the perspective of any spacefaring race that could simply pull
such an asteroid out of orbit and give it to us for Manhattan.
Think such asteroids don't exist?
Just ask any dinosaur expert what wiped out those dinosaurs.
It was an iridium asteroid, and a lot bigger than 100 feet.
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"Television exists to create advertizing."
"Politics demands we have access to those oil fields."
"Nobody on their death bed says,
I wish I'd spent more time at the office."
[Quoting Barbara Bush]
[_I_ might say that, if there aren't a million freely
downloadable eBooks by the time I am lying there.]
Charlie Rose and Ted Koppel, 11/22/05
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
German companies now occupy 0 of Europe's Top 10
20 years ago there were 7 in the Top 10
[Interestingly enough, in reporting this story, I could not find one
single online report, even from the BBC, from whose radio broadcasts
I first heard it. MSNBC *had* done a story on it, but it vanished.]
However, from another perspective, Germany's GDP is twice as much as
the United Kingdom's, so it may be that while the largest companies,
at least in Germany, aren't growing as fast, the economy is still an
awfully large factor in Europe.
Source: Global E-Commerce, Nov 21, 2005
In related news, since the year 2000, the list of the Top 100 Economic
World Powers names more than half of these as companies, not countries:
"Of the 100 largest economies in the world,
51 are now global corporations; only 49 are countries."
www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/top200.htm
***
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
sounds
my flute fills with sandalwood fragrance
the air is adorned with jewels of smoke
they tenderly encircle the heart of a cloud
the skies ablaze return caressing rain
my helpless lips have found delicious burden
a garland of melodies is my breath
Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
Please send comments to: simona_s75 AT yahoo.com & hart AT pobox.com
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A Woman of Thirty, by Honore de Balzac 1950
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Le roman de la rose, by Guillaume de Lorris-Jean de Meung 17140
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De Nederlandse kerken en de joden, by J.M. Snoek 17139C
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Home Again, Home Again, by Cory Doctorow 17138C
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Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design, by Edward Godfrey 17137
[Subtitle: American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper
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Documents of the South African Republic, ed. by Williams and Hicks 17136
[Title: Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and
Great Britain]
[Subtitle: A Documentary Perspective Of The Causes Of The War In
South Africa]
[Editor: Hugh Williams and Frederick Charles Hicks]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/3/17136 ]
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Twas the Night before Christmas, by Clement C. Moore 17135
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[Illustrator: Jessie Willcox Smith]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/3/17135 ]
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Taboo, by James Branch Cabell 17134
[Subtitle: A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Svius Nicanor, with
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[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/3/17134 ]
[Files: 17134.txt; 17134-8.txt; 17134-h.htm]
Mildred's Inheritance, by Annie Fellows Johnston 17133
[Subtitle: Just Her Way; Ann's Own Way]
[Illustrator: Diantha W. Horne]
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The Makers of Canada: Champlain, by N. E. Dionne 17132
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The Colonel of the Red Huzzars, by John Reed Scott 17131
[Illus.: Clarence F. Underwood]
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[Files: 17131.txt; 17131-8.txt; 17131-h.htm; ]
Das blaue Fenster, by Hugo Salus 17130
[Subtitle: Novellen]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/3/17130 ]
[Files: 17130-8.txt; 17130-0.txt; 17130-h.htm]
The Missing Link, by Edward Dyson 17129
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/2/17129 ]
[Files: 17129.txt; 17129-8.txt]
Noteworthy Families (Modern Science), Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster 17128
[Subtitle: An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose
Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/2/17128 ]
[Files: 17128.txt; 17128-8.txt; 17128-h.htm; ]
Niilo Klimin maanalainen matka, by Ludvig Holberg 17127
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/2/17127 ]
[Files: 17127-8.txt]
Five Happy Weeks, by Margaret E. Sangster 17126
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/2/17126 ]
[Files: 17126.txt; 17126-h.htm]
More William, by Richmal Crompton 17125
[Illus.: Thomas Henry]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/2/17125 ]
[Files: 17125.txt; 17125-8.txt; 17125-h.htm; ]
The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography, by Samuel Butler 17124
[Editor: Ernest Rhys]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/2/17124 ]
[Files: 17124.txt; 17124-8.txt; 17124-h.htm]
Journal des Goncourt (Troisime volume), by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt 17123
[Subtitle: Mmoires de la vie littraire]
[Author: Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/2/17123 ]
[Files: 17123-8.txt; 17123-0.txt]
Twenty-Four Short Sermons On Universal Salvation, by John Bovee Dods 17122
[Title: Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/2/17122 ]
[Files: 17122.txt]
De Aarde en haar Volken, Jaargang 1906, by Various 17121
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/2/17121 ]
[Files: 17121-8.txt; 17121-h.htm]
Fashionable Philosophy, by Laurence Oliphant 17120
[Subtitle: and Other Sketches]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/2/17120 ]
[Files: 17120.txt; 17120-h.htm]
The Vision of Sir Launfal, by James Russell Lowell 17119
[Subtitle: And Other Poems]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/1/17119 ]
[Files: 17119.txt; 17119-8.txt; 17119-h.htm]
The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms, by Laura Lee Hope 17118
[Subtitle: Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/1/17118 ]
[Files: 17118.txt; 17118-8.txt; 17118-h.htm]
An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, by Oliver Goldsmith 17117
[Subtitle: Mrs. Mary Blaize]
[Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/1/17117 ]
[Files: 17117.txt; 17117-h.htm]
Ang Liham, by Jose Rizal 17116
[Title: Ang Liham ni Dr. Jose Rizal sa mga Kadalagahan sa Malolos Bulakan]
[Language: Tagalog]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/1/17116 ]
[Files: 17116-8.txt; 17116-h.htm]
Fruits of Toil in the London Missionary Society, by Various 17115
[Editor: The London Missionary Society]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/1/17115 ]
[Files: 17115.txt; 17115-h.htm]
Tieni varrella tapaamia 2, by Maikki Friberg 17114
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/1/17114 ]
[Files: 17114-8.txt; 17114-0.txt; 17114-h.htm]
Indian Ghost Stories, by S. Mukerji 17113
[Subtitle: Second Edition]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/1/17113 ]
[Files: 17113.txt; 17113-8.txt; 17113-h.htm]
Many Thoughts of Many Minds, by Various 17112
[Subtitle: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land
and Every Age]
[Editor: Louis Klopsch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/1/17112 ]
[Files: 17112.txt; 17112-8.txt; 17112-h.htm]
The Meaning of the War, by Henri Bergson 17111
[Subtitle: Life & Matter in Conflict]
[Intro.: H. Wildon Carr]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/1/17111 ]
[Files: 17111.txt; 17111-8.txt; 17111-h.htm]
The Young Man and the World, by Albert J. Beveridge 17110
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/1/17110 ]
[Files: 17110.txt; 17110-8.txt; 17110-h.htm]
Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron, by Unknown 17109
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/0/17109 ]
[Files: 17109.txt; 17109-8.txt; 17109-h.htm]
The House of the Misty Star, by Fannie Caldwell Macaulay 17108
[Subtitle: A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/0/17108 ]
[Files: 17108.txt; 17108-8.txt; 17108-h.htm]
A Bibliographical Tour, Volume Two, by Thomas Frognall Dibdin 17107
[Title: A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France
and Germany, Volume Two]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/0/17107 ]
[Files: 17107.txt; 17107-8.txt; 17107-h.htm]
Histoire fantastique du clbre Pierrot, by Alfred Assollant 17106
[Subtitle: crite par le magicien Alcofribas; traduite du sogdien]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/0/17106 ]
[Files: 17106-8.txt; 17106-h.htm]
Les cotillons clbres, by mile Gaboriau 17105
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/0/17105 ]
[Files: 17105-8.txt; 17105-h.htm]
The Rocket Book, by Peter Newell 17104
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/0/17104 ]
[Files: 17104.txt; 17104-h.htm]
The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 17103
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/0/17103 ]
[Files: 17103.txt; 17103-8.txt]
An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog, by Oliver Goldsmith 17102
[Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/0/17102 ]
[Files: 17102.txt; 17102-h.htm]
Anglo-Saxon Literature, by John Earle 17101
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/0/17101 ]
[Files: 17101-8.txt; 17101-0.txt; 17101-h.htm]
Beatrix of Clare, by John Reed Scott 17100
[Illustrator: Clarence F. Underwood]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/0/17100 ]
[Files: 17100.txt; 17100-8.txt; 17100-h.htm]
The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea, by Janet Aldridge 17099
[Subtitle: Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/9/17099 ]
[Files: 17099.txt; 17099-h.htm]
Riquet la Houppe, by Charles Perrault 17098
[Subtitle: Conte]
[Illustrator: G. Ripart]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/9/17098 ]
[Files: 17098-8.txt; 17098-h.htm]
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods, by Laura Lee Hope 17097
[Illustrator: Florence England Nosworthy]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/9/17097 ]
[Files: 17097.txt; 17097-h.htm]
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While, by Laura Lee Hope 17096
[Illustrator: Florence England Nosworthy]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/9/17096 ]
[Files: 17096.txt; 17096-h.htm]
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on an Auto Tour, by Laura Lee Hope 17095
[Illustrator: Florence England Nosworthy]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/9/17095 ]
[Files: 17095.txt; 17095-h.htm]
Story of the Red Cross as told to The Little Colonel, Fellows-Johnston 17094
[Author: Annie Fellows-Johnston]
[Illustrator: John Goss]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/9/17094 ]
[Files: 17094.txt; 17094-8.txt; 17094-h.htm]
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping, by Gibson 17093
[Title: Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap
Making]
[Author: William Hamilton Gibson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/9/17093 ]
[Files: 17093.txt; 17093-8.txt; 17093-h.htm]
Inger, strtin rouva, by Henrik Ibsen 17092
[Subtitle: Viisinytksinen murhenytelm]
[Translator: Joel Lehtonen]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/9/17092 ]
[Files: 17092-8.txt]
Oliver Cromwell, by John Drinkwater 17091
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/9/17091 ]
[Files: 17091.txt; 17091-h.htm]
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events, by John D. Rockefeller 17090
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/9/17090 ]
[Files: 17090.txt; 17090-8.txt; 17090-h.htm]
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, by Beatrix Potter 17089
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/8/17089 ]
[Files: 17089.txt; 17089-8.txt; 17089-h.htm]
The Iron Furrow, by George C. Shedd 17088
[Illustrator: Henry A. Botkin]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/8/17088 ]
[Files: 17088.txt; 17088-8.txt; 17088-h.htm]
Ancient Art and Ritual, by Jane Ellen Harrison 17087
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/8/17087 ]
[Files: 17087.txt; 17087-8.txt; 17087-0.txt; 17087-h.htm]
The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax, by Holme Lee and Harriet Parr 17086
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/8/17086 ]
[Files: 17086.txt; 17086-8.txt; 17086-h.htm]
Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books, by Horatia K. F. Eden 17085
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/8/17085 ]
[Files: 17085.txt; 17085-8.txt; 17085-h.htm]
Guy Livingstone, by George A. Lawrence 17084
[Subtitle: or, 'Thorough']
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/8/17084 ]
[Files: 17084.txt; 17084-8.txt; 17084-h.htm]
Adventures of a Sixpence in Guernsey by A Native, Anonymous 17083
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/8/17083 ]
[Files: 17083.txt; 17083-8.txt; 17083-h.htm]
Wandelingen door Belgi, by Various 17082
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1886]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/8/17082 ]
[Files: 17082-8.txt; 17082-h.htm]
Cottage Poems, by Patrick Bronte 17081
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/8/17081 ]
[Files: 17081.txt; 17081-h.htm]
Proeve van Kleine Gedigten voor Kinderen, by Hieronymus van Alphen 17080
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/8/17080 ]
[Files: 17080-8.txt]
De Harmonie van het Dierlijke Leven, by F.C. Donders 17079
[Subtitle: De Openbaring van Wetten]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/7/17079 ]
[Files: 17079-8.txt; 17079-h.htm]
Over literatuur, by M.H. Van Campen 17078
[Subtitle: Critisch en didactisch, tweede bundel]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/7/17078 ]
[Files: 17078.txt; 17078-8.txt; 17078-h.htm]
Over literatuur, by M.H. Van Campen 17077
[Subtitle: Critisch en didactisch]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/7/17077 ]
[Files: 17077.txt; 17077-8.txt; 17077-h.htm]
Lucifer, by Joost van den Vondel 17076
[Subtitle: Treurspel]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/7/17076 ]
[Files: 17076.txt; 17076-8.tx]
Le roman de la rose, Tome II, by Guillaume de Lorris-Jean de Meung 17075
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/7/17075 ]
[Files: 17075-8.txt; 17075-h.htm]
De Nederlandse kerken en de joden, by J.M. Snoek 17074C
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/7/17074 ]
[Files: 17074.txt; 17074-8.txt]
Home Again, Home Again, by Cory Doctorow 17070C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/7/17073 ]
[Files: 17073.txt]
Illustration Of The Method Of Recording Indian Languages, Dorsey et al 17042
[Subtitle: From the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology,
Smithsonian Institution]
[Author: J.O. Dorsey, A.S. Gatschet, and S.R. Riggs]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/4/17042 ]
[Files: 17042.txt; 17042-8.txt; 17042-0.txt; 17042-h.htm]
Super Man and the Bug Out, by Cory Doctorow 17030C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/3/17030 ]
[Files: 17030.txt]
Shadow of the Mothaship, by Cory Doctorow 17029C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/2/17029 ]
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