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The Lily of the Valley, by Honore de Balzac 1569
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Dec 1998 Poems, by T. S. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot [Eliot #3][tsepmxxx.xxx] 1567
Dec 1998 The Evolution of Modern Medicine, by William Osler[teommxxx.xxx] 1566
Dec 1998 Last Days of Pompeii, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton [tldopxxx.xxx] 1565
Dec 1998 Boswell's Life of Johnson, Ed. by Osgood [ljnsnxxx.xxx] 1564
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BRINGING THE INTERNET TO RURAL INDIA
As many as 5,000 villages in rural India may soon be connected to the
Internet, thanks to efforts of an international group of companies and
organizations, including the World Bank. Many rural Indians do not have
easy access to business or government functions, and the project is
designed to fill that gap for villages with more than 5,000 residents
in the Indian state of Karnataka. The computer centers or kiosks will
connect to the Internet either through wired networks or by satellite
and will have between 5 and 10 "thin client" computers. In addition to
the World Bank, partners in the project include Comat Technologies, an
Indian Internet service provider; ICICI Bank, a commercial bank in India;
and California-based Wyse Technology, maker of computer terminal equipment.
New York Times, 15 June 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/16/technology/16compute.html
DUKE EVALUATES IPOD PROGRAM
A study conducted at Duke University provided a mixed review of the
institution's iPod program, in which all incoming freshmen last fall
were given the devices to investigate their educational value.
According to the study, carried out by the Duke Center for
Instructional Technology, three quarters of the students in the program
used the devices for at least one course, primarily for recording
lectures or other content. Some students said they benefited from being
able to listen to lectures when it was convenient or to replay parts
that they might not have understood during class. Faculty commented
that the devices provided a significant level of convenience for
students, and the study said some faculty who had not previously
incorporated technology into their courses did so with the iPods.
Limitations of the devices, according to the study, include a fairly
small number of uses and the relatively low quality of recorded
material. Duke had previously announced it would narrow the scope of
the iPod program next year, giving the devices only to students
enrolled in courses that use them.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 June 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/06/2005061602t.htm
HOUSE VOTES TO LIMIT PATRIOT ACT
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted 238-187 to impose limits on
the powers of the Patriot Act. Sponsored by Rep. Bernard Sanders
(I-Vt.), the measure would eliminate federal authority granted by the
Patriot Act to compel libraries and bookstores to disclose information
about books their patrons have checked out or bought, without first
obtaining a search warrant; the measure would preserve the right for
government officials to obtain Internet search records from libraries.
Although Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recently told Congress that
federal authorities have never invoked the power, a number of libraries
have begun deleting patron records to preempt the possibility of having
to turn them over. Sanders called the vote "a tremendous victory that
restores important constitutional rights to the American people." Rep.
Tom Feeney (R-Fla.) defended the powers, saying that federal
authorities need tools to help them identify planned terrorist
activities and prevent attacks before they happen. The measure has not
been introduced by the Senate, and President Bush has promised to veto
the bill if it passes [without the no warrant search provision].
Wired News, 15 June 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67880,00.html
SOLARIS GOES OPEN SOURCE
This week Sun Microsystems began offering its Solaris 10 operating
system as a free, open source application, called OpenSolaris.
According to Sun, users can download many of the technologies of the
operating system--including the kernel and networking software--make
changes to the code, and create new commercial products. Tom Goguen,
vice president for platform software at Sun, said, "Our goal is to
increase and really drive up the ecosystem around Solaris." Goguen said
that with the release, Sun surpasses the University of California as
the single largest contributor to the open source community. Gordon
Haff, senior analyst at Illuminata, said the move is more likely to
help Sun retain existing customers than to draw new ones. OpenSolaris
is not likely a competitor for Linux in the near term, said Haff, and
Windows is sufficiently different from Solaris that current Windows
customers are unlikely to switch based on the new release. Haff said he
believes Sun's goal is to support "its customer base and developer
community that are still in the Solaris camp."
InfoWorld, 13 June 2005
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/13/HNopensolaris_1.html
SPYWARE CHARGES RESULT IN $7.5 MILLION SETTLEMENT
California-based Intermix Media will pay New York State $7.5 million
over three years to settle a spyware lawsuit. In the suit, New York
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer had charged the company with violating
state false-advertising and deceptive-practices laws. Intermix
acknowledged that it formerly distributed software that was
surreptitiously installed on users' computers, though as part of the
settlement the company admitted no wrongdoing. Intermix had previously
suspended the distribution of the software at issue; with the
settlement, the company will permanently discontinue the practice.
Intermix has also created a position of chief privacy officer since the
lawsuit was originally filed, and officials from the company said they
have cooperated with federal regulators.
Reuters, 15 June 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8798165
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
Philip A. Clooney, a White House lawyer with a BA in economics,
has apparently been altering many of the White House statements
concerning Global Warming [or Climate Change, as the spin medic
establishment is attempting to recoin the term].
Apparently Mr. Clooney, Esq., has no scientific training, other
than a stint as a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute,
where he was the "Climate Team Leader."
When The White House was asked for comment, Michele St. Martin,
a White House spokeswoman, said:
"We don't put Phil Cooney on the record.
"He's not a cleared spokesman."
However, his additions and editions of various adjectives and/or
adverbs seem to have been exactly what the spin-doctors at The
White House ordered, as he added the word "extremely" in this:
"The attribution of the causes of biological and ecological
changes to climate change or variability is extremely difficult."
Here is an even more obvious example:
"Many scientific observations indicate that the Earth is undergoing
a period of relatively rapid change."
became
"Many scientific observations point to the conclusion that the Earth
may be undergoing a period of relatively rapid change."
In yet more of this kind of doublespeak, Harlan L. Watson, the chief
climate negotiator for the State Department, said to the BBC last month:
"We are still not convinced of the need to move forward quite so quickly,"
"There is general agreement that there is a lot known, but also there is
a lot to be known."
I guess the environment is now a negotiable commodity, in the eyes of
The White House, at least.
However, try telling that to chemicals we have put there already.
Sources: The NY Times and the BBC
*STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK
When Mr. Evers, former head of MCI-Worldcom appeared in Congress
to answer questions, he refused to even answer the simple query,
as to whether he was the Mr. Evers who had headed MCI-Worlcom--
claiming his 5th Amendment rights again self-incrimination.
Or should that one go under doublespeak?
Source: The Congressional Record
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Recent news stories have reported various project to "harden"
various "Public Safety Building," but the stories were sparse.
1. "Harden" means to make them more resistant to attack.
2. "Public Safety Building" = "Police Station"
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
There will be no 6 month report from Google Print in the media.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
The Illinois state budget was very quietly signed into law by
the governor this week, as the pension fund was raided to do
the magic of budget balancing.
The Republicans, in a fit of fiscal responsibility, berated
the governor for taking money from the pension fund at 8.5%
when it could have been borrowed commercially for 3.5%.
I suppose calling this a balanced budget might place this in
the Doublespeak column.. . .
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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
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
*
POEM OF THE WEEK
collage
scattered wood shavings, fallen feathers
waves of sand tossed on a toasty beach
undulating pattern shows my heart and eyes ensemble
riding on the high tide of beauty without boundaries
Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
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[Aires y a las costas de Patagonia]
[Editor: Pedro de Angelis]
[Language: Spanish]
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American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 4, April, 1889, by Various 16104
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American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 3, March, 1889, by Various 16103
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Reis in Nepal, by Gustave Le Bon 16102
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar volken, 1887]
[Language: Dutch]
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Marietta, by F. Marion Crawford 16100
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Austin and His Friends, by Frederic H. Balfour 16099
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 281 16098
[Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,]
[Issue 281, November 3, 1827]
[Author: Various]
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The Northern Light, by E. Werner 16095
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Dorothy Dale's Camping Days, by Margaret Penrose 16091
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The Exiles and Other Stories, by Richard Harding Davis 16090
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On the Fever Ship
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The War on All Fronts: England's Effort, by Mrs. Humphry Ward 16089
[Subtitle: Letters to an American Friend]
[Preface: Joseph H. Choate]
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Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary, by Cyrus Pringle 16088
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Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864, by Various 16087
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. 19, Ed. by Blair & Robertson 16086
[Subtitle: Volume XIX, 1620-1621]
[Ed.: Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson]
[Intro. and Notes: Edward Gaylord Bourne]
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A Voyage in a Balloon, by Jules Verne 16085
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American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 2, February, 1889, by Various 16084
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American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 1, January, 1889, by Various 16083
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Angelina, by Rafael Delgado 16082
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[Language: Spanish]
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The Anti-Slavery Alphabet, by Anonymous 16081
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Uncle Max, by Rosa Nouchette Carey 16080
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Some Old Time Beauties, by Thomson Willing 16079
[Subtitle: After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment
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Children of the Wild, by Charles G. D. Roberts 16077
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Preaching and Paganism, by Albert Parker Fitch 16076
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Ratsumies Peter Halket Mashonamaasta, by Olive Schreiner 16075
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The Definite Object, by Jeffery Farnol 16074
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Wreaths of Friendship, by T. S. Arthur and F. C. Woodworth 16073
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Kuuluisia naisia 1, by Ellen Fries 16072
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Fredrika Runeberg, by Aleksandra Gripenberg 16071
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The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power, by John S. C. Abbott 16070
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Parisians in the Country, by Honore de Balzac 7929
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The Illustrious Gaudissart,
The Muse of the Department]
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The Lock And Key Library, by Various 2038
[Subtitle: Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English]
[Editor: Julian Hawthorne]
[Contents:
Rudyard Kipling
My Own True Ghost Story
The Sending of Dana Da
In the House of Suddhoo
His Wedded Wife
A. Conan Doyle
A Case of Identity
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
Egerton Castle
The Baron's Quarry
Stanley J. Weyman
The Fowl in the Pot
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Pavilion on the Links
Wilkie Collins
The Dream Woman
The First Narrative
The Second Narrative
The Third Narrative
Fourth (and Last) Narrative
Anonymous
The Lost Duchess
The Minor Canon
The Pipe
The Puzzle
The Great Valdez Sapphire]
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Paz, by Honore de Balzac 1369
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Phelim O'Toole's Courtship and Other Stories, by William Carleton 16019
[Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of
William Carleton, Volume Three]
[Contents:
Phelim O'Toole's Courtship
Wildgoose Lodge
Tubber Derg; Or, The Red Well.
Neal Malone
Art Maguire; Or, The Broken Pledge.]
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History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. III., by Robert Kerr 12325
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[Subtitle: Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of
the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea
and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time:
History Of The Discovery Of America, And Of Some Of The Early Conquests
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General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II, by Kerr 10803
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[Full title: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1]
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Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The
Earliest Ages To The Present Time.]
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Kuningasverta, by Helvi Herlevi 16069
[Subtitle: Kaksin�yt�ksinen kuvaus]
[Language: Finnish]
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Tehtaan tyt�t, by Maria Furuhjelm 16068
[Language: Finnish]
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Don Quichotte Tome II, by Miguel de Cervant�s Saavedra 16067
[Full title: L'ing�nieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche - Tome II]
[Translator: Louis Viardot]
[Language: French]
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Don Quichotte Tome I, by Miguel de Cervant�s Saavedra 16066
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[Language: French]
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Wise or Otherwise, by Lydia Leavitt and Thad. W.H. Leavitt 16065
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Carolina Chansons, by DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen 16064
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Jack Rustig, by Kapitein Marryat 16063
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[Translator: A. J. van Dragt]
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In het gebied van het Tsadmeer met de expeditie Tilho, by Melin 16062
[Full author: L. Roserot de Melin]
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar volken, 1910]
[Language: Dutch]
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Op de olifantenjacht in Oeganda, by Baron De Langsdorff 16061
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American Missionary, Vol. 45, No. 2, February, 1891, by Various 16060
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Modern Spanish Lyrics, by Various 16059
[Editor: Elijah Clarence Hills And S. Griswold Morley]
[Language: English and Spanish]
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Occult Chemistry, by Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater 16058
[Editor: A. P. Sinnett]
[Subtitle: Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16058 ]
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Atlantic Monthly,Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864, by Various 16057
[Subtitle: A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics]
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A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire, by Harold Harvey 16056
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Shakespeare and Precious Stones, by George Frederick Kunz 16055
[Subtitle: Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in]
[Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the]
[Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to]
[Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from]
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The Palace of Darkened Windows, by Mary Hastings Bradley 16054
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The Haunted Chamber, by "The Duchess" 16053
[Subtitle: A Novel]
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The Brownies and Other Tales, by Juliana Horatia Ewing 16052
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The Voice in the Fog, by Harold MacGrath 16051
[Ill.: A. B. Wenzell]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16051 ]
[Files: 16051.txt; 16051-8.txt; 16051-h.htm; ]
The Gold Hunters' Adventures, by William H. Thomes 16050
[Subtitle: Or, Life in Australia]
[Ill.: Champney]
[The illustrator is listed only as "Champney" in the LOC catalogue as]
[well as this text. He might have been James Wells Champney (1843-1903), a]
[well-known American artist who did some book illustrations in addition to]
[painting.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16050 ]
[Files: 16050.txt; 16050-8.txt; 16050-h.htm; ]
Humphrey Bold, by Herbert Strang 16049
[Subtitle: A Story of the Times of Benbow]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16049 ]
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Troop One of the Labrador, by Dillon Wallace 16048
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16048 ]
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The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons, by Ellice Hopkins 16047
[Subtitle: A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16047 ]
[Files: 16047.txt; 16047-8.txt; 16047-h.htm]
Boy Blue and His Friends, by Etta and Mary Blaisdell 16046
[Full author: Etta Austin Blaisdell and Mary Frances Blaisdell]
[Illustrator: Maud Touser]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16046 ]
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Op de jacht in Mozambique, by Guillaume Vasse 16045
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar volken, 1909]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16045 ]
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Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, Emanuel Swedenborg 16044
[Full title: Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets; and]
[Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, and]
[The Spirits And Angels There]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16044 ]
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Mythen & Legenden van Japan, by F. Hadland Davis 16043
[Illustrator: Evelyn Paul]
[Translator: B. C. Goudsmit]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16043 ]
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The Wonder Book of Bible Stories, Compiled by Logan Marshall 16042
[Editor: Logan Marshall]
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[Files: 16042.txt; 16042-8.txt; 16042-h.htm]
The Grey Cloak, by Harold MacGrath 16041
[Ill.: Thomas Mitchell Peirce]
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[Files: 16041.txt; 16041-8.txt; 16041-h.htm; ]
Kenny, by Leona Dalrymple 16040
[Ill.: Joseph Pierre Nuyttens]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16040 ]
[Files: 16040.txt; 16040-8.txt; 16040-h.htm; ]
The Lost Lady of Lone, by E.D.E.N. Southworth 16039
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16039 ]
[Files: 16039.txt; 16039-8.txt; 16039-h.htm]
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II, by Various 16038
[Subtitle: The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562-1733]
[Editor: Francis W. Halsey]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16038 ]
[Files: 16038.txt; 16038-8.txt; 16038-h.htm]
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I., by Various 16037
[Subtitle: Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682]
[Editor: Francis W. Halsey]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16037 ]
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American Missionary, Volume 44, No. 6, June, 1890, by Various 16036
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16036 ]
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The Food of the Gods, by Brandon Head 16035
[Subtitle: A Popular Account of Cocoa]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16035 ]
[Files: 16035.txt; 16035-8.txt; 16035-h.htm; ]
Jouluilta, by Johan Ludvig Runeberg 16034
[Subtitle: Kolmilauluinen runoelma]
[Translator: Valter Juva]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16034 ]
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Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, August, 1863, No. 70, by Various 16033
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16033 ]
[Files: 16033.txt; 16033-8.txt; 16033-h.htm]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 51, October 28, 1897, by Various 16032
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,]
[No. 51, October 28, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16032 ]
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The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 50, October 21, 1897, by Various 16031
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,]
[No. 50, October 21, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16031 ]
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The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 49, October 14, 1897, by Various 16030
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,]
[No. 49, October 14, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16030 ]
[Files: 16030.txt; 16030-8.txt; 16030-h.htm]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 48, October 7, 1897, by Various 16029
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1]
[No. 48, October 7, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16029 ]
[Files: 16029.txt; 16029-8.txt; 16029-h.htm]
Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863, by Various 16028
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16028 ]
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Expeditions In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2), by Grey 16027
[Full title: Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West]
[And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2)]
[Full author: George Grey]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16027 ]
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De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars, by Thomas De Quincey 16026
[Editor: William Edward Simonds]
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The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 47, by Various 16025
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.]
[1, No. 47, September 30, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16025 ]
[Files: 16025.txt; 16025-8.txt; 16025-h.htm]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 46, by Various 16024
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.]
[1, No. 46, September 23, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
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Nov 1998 The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare [2ws18xxx.xxx] 1515
Nov 1998 A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare [2ws17xxx.xxx] 1514
Nov 1998 Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare [2ws16xxx.xxx] 1513
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276 Per Month
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MICROSOFT TO RELEASE UNBUNDLED OPERATING SYSTEM
Microsoft has moved a step closer to compliance with stipulations of a
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March 2004. In addition to a $613 million fine, the EC ordered
Microsoft to offer versions of its operating systems that do not
include the company's Windows Media Player. After recent pressure from
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makers by June 15 and to retail customers by July 1. Still outstanding
is an EC demand that Microsoft loosen the licensing terms of its
software to promote development of competitive products that will
function with Microsoft's operating systems. Microsoft said it is
working to meet that condition.
Internet News, 8 June 2005
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
Philip A. Clooney, a White House lawyer with a BA in economics,
has apparently been altering many of the White House statements
concerning Global Warming [or Climate Change, as the spin medic
establishment is attempting to recoin the term].
Apparently Mr. Clooney, Esq., has no scientific training, other
than a stint as a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute,
where he was the "Climate Team Leader."
When The White House was asked for comment, Michele St. Martin,
a White House spokeswoman, said:
"We don't put Phil Cooney on the record.
"He's not a cleared spokesman."
However, his additions and editions of various adjectives and/or
adverbs seem to have been exactly what the spin-doctors at The
White House ordered, as he added the word "extremely" in this:
"The attribution of the causes of biological and ecological
changes to climate change or variability is extremely difficult."
Here is an even more obvious example:
"Many scientific observations indicate that the Earth is undergoing
a period of relatively rapid change."
became
"Many scientific observations point to the conclusion that the Earth
may be undergoing a period of relatively rapid change."
In yet more of this kind of doublespeak, Harlan L. Watson, the chief
climate negotiator for the State Department, said to the BBC last month:
"We are still not convinced of the need to move forward quite so quickly,"
"There is general agreement that there is a lot known, but also there is
a lot to be known."
I guess the environment is now a negotiable commodity, in the eyes of
The White House, at least.
However, try telling that to chemicals we have put there already.
Sources: The NY Times and the BBC
*STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK
When Mr. Evers, former head of MCI-Worldcom appeared in Congress
to answer questions, he refused to even answer the simple query,
as to whether he was the Mr. Evers who had headed MCI-Worlcom--
claiming his 5th Amendment rights again self-incrimination.
Or should that one go under doublespeak?
Source: The Congressional Record
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Recent news stories have reported various project to "harden"
various "Public Safety Building," but the stories were sparse.
1. "Harden" means to make them more resistant to attack.
2. "Public Safety Building" = "Police Station"
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
There will be no 6 month report from Google Print in the media
to follow up their huge media blitz from December 14, 2004.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
The Illinois state budget was very quietly signed into law by
the governor this week, as the pension fund was raided to do
the magic of budget balancing.
The Republicans, in a fit of fiscal responsibility, berated
the governor for taking money from the pension fund at 8.5%
when it could have been borrowed commercially for 3.5%.
I suppose calling this a balanced budget might place this in
the Doublespeak column.. . .
*
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
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
*
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
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[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
SPAM FIGHTERS FORM NEW COALITION
A new group tentatively called the Anti-Spyware Coalition plans to
publish guidelines to define spyware, best practices for software
development, and a lexicon of common terms by the end of the summer.
The guidelines will be open to public comment. The Center for Democracy
and Technology, a public advocacy group based in Washington, is running
the new initiative. The coalition formed two months after the collapse
of the Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology Vendors, which admitted a
company suspected of making adware. According to David Fewer, staff
counsel at the Ottawa-based Canadian Internet Policy and Public
Interest Clinic, which is affiliated with the new consortium, judging
whether software is spyware comes down to notice, consent, and control.
Many adware and spyware products fail to meet all three requirements.
Silicon.com, 3 June 2005
http://software.silicon.com/malware/0,3800003100,39130956,00.htm
APPLE TO SWITCH TO INTEL
Apple Computer reportedly plans to use Intel processors in Macintosh
computers, ending a multiyear relationship with IBM and Motorola.
Analysts speculate that a major factor behind the shift is the failure
of IBM to develop new Power PC chips that produce less heat. Low heat
generation is critical for notebook computers, which have less room for
heat-dissipating features than desktop systems. The move follows
Microsoft's decision to build its own computer hardware with
assistance from IBM--a shift from its previous Windows-Intel
alliance--and IBM's sale of its PC business to Lenovo. One key
challenge facing Apple is persuading software developers to rewrite
their code to work with Intel chips.
New York Times, 6 June 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/06/technology/06apple.html
UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING BROWSER TO FIGHT TERRORISM
Researchers at the University of Buffalo (UB) are developing browser
technology that endeavors to identify hidden connections in vast
collections of documents. Rather than simply looking for matches to
specified query terms, which is what typical search engines do, the UB
technology seeks to uncover connections between ideas. According to
John McCarthy, professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford
University, a tool that successfully links concepts could be an
important breakthrough. A number of federal agencies, including the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), are investing in the research,
which they hope can be used to find the sorts of connections that will
aid efforts to fight terrorism. The project has been used to search the
report from the 9/11 Commission as well as public Web pages, looking
for connections regarding the hijackers. The tool searches for concepts
such as names, dates, and places and maps the connections it finds,
potentially resulting in trails of evidence useful to investigators or
other authorities.
CNET, 2 June 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5730176.html
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
GM has "placed" this statistic all over the major media
for a few weeks now, presumably hoping people will feel
sorry for them, as per their high prices:
$1500 from every car sold goes to employee health cost,
and we heard it straight from the horses mouth in more
media coverage just yesterday.
However, GM made 5.2 million vehicles in North America
during 2004, and at $1500 each, that would have placed
$12.3 Billion into their health care plan while source
information from The Detroit News indicates only $5.6B.
"If General Motors was just selling a million more cars
per years, you wouldn't be hearing these complaints
about high health and pension costs."
Sources:
Detroit News, Sunday, May 8, 2005
www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/ 0505/08/A01-175048.htm
and
CSM
The AP also credits GM with only ~$5 billion in health care:
and
PBS
*
Google claims to now be the largest media company,
as per the value of its stock, which is now trading
at triple the original price at a total of ~$81 B,
thus surpassing AOL Time-Warner at ~78 B.
However, cash flow into the company was only $3.x B
last year, as compared with over 10 times as much at
AOL Time Warner at ~$42 B.
*
The Pentagon has apparently conspired to artificially
increases prices paid to Boeing for passenger planes
converted into tankers, with several officials having
already taken the fall for what has been termed as an
unofficial Boeing bailout effort that may now turn to
an effort to bail these parties out of trouble if not
out of jail.
Meanwhile, Airbus and Northrop have teamed up to make
an offer the Pentagon can't refuse under scrutiny.
Sources: Seattle Times and The Washington Post
*
When the whole MCI-Worldcom-Citigroup thing hit the fan,
one of the major players, a Mr. Grubman was fined $15 M
and fired. However, that fine was only half of what he
got from his diamond-encrusted-platinum-parachute clause,
not to mention the $20 million per year he received for
at least four years of work on that project.
*STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK
Republican Presidential Quotations
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment
insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of
that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group,
of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas
oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other
areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
Source : The Eisenhower Presidential Papers,
Document #1147; November 8, 1954
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower,
Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part VI: Crises Abroad, Party Problems at Home;
September 1954 to December 1954
November 8, 1954
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
The United Nations, for whom most of us have always had
the utmost respect, fell a number of rungs off a ladder
recently when it officially adopted "World Intellectual
Property Organization's" masthead as part of its own.
While the UN is famous for assisting those in need from
countries all over the world, WIPO is equally infamous,
for its hundreds of years of public domain repressions,
all the way back to the Gutenberg Press, when, under an
assortment of previous names, this organization felt it
would oppose any new technology that would/could/should
bring relatively unlimited information to the masses.
My own copyright situation reflects at least these five
copyright laws, each designed to eliminate competitions
from technologies that were capable of bringing as much
information to the masses as was available to the elite
only a few short years before.
1. "The Statute of Mary" in 1557 Anti-Gutenberg Press
2. The Statute of Anne in 1709 Anti-Gutenberg Press
3. The US Copyright Act of 1909 Anti-Steam/Electric
4. The US Copyright Act of 1976 Anti-Xerox Machines
5. The US Copyright Act of 1998 Anti-Internet/Web
The first two laws were written and lobbied through The
Stationers' Guild, later The Stationers' Company, in an
obvious political power struggle that took generations,
but eventually, after 150 years of the Gutenberg Press,
the Stationers [scribes] got back their monopoly status
over all publishing under British law.
Of course, during that 150 years more books had already
been printed by the Gutenberg Presses than had been all
the previous years of hand-written history, and the die
had already been cast by Gutenberg for the upcoming new
Industrial Revolution, and thus there was no going back
to the previous feudal system of total guild monopolies
as had been written into these first two laws.
However, at least momentarily, the number of books made
available in the U.K. fell to ~600 after the Statute of
Anne from ~6,000 before the Statute of Anne; censorship
by the government and The Stationers was back, and in a
very big way.
The 14 year copyright with a possible 14 year extension
as stated in The Statute of Anne was adopted later from
British law to the laws of the revolutionary new places
created by the Americans and the French. I should note
that the author still had to be alive for such extended
copyright periods in the original laws, and a copyright
belonged to the publisher, The Stationers' Company in a
first 14 year copyright period. We should also note it
was written into the first of these five laws that such
copyrights would apply retroactively to every word ever
written, not matter by whom, or how long ago.
The original copyright law was designed to put all work
under copyright ownership by The Stationers Company.
This law was egocentric on the parts of The Stationers'
Guild members and it was held in such ill repute by all
concered that it was never enforced or obeyed, thus the
law was replaced by second, The Statute of Anne. These
changes allowed for copyright only on new works and for
the second copyright period to be owned by the authors.
This was deemed a great victory by the authors, but the
reality was that The Stationers' Company were giving up
very little, as hardly any books were still in print in
the second 14 years of their existence, and not so many
authors were still alive 14 years after writing some of
the best sellers that were still in print.
However, not all countries were bound by these laws and
the total number of titles and copies continued in some
fashion or form around the world.
200 years after The Statute of Anne came the third law,
one that was again designed by the olde garde publisher
network to elimination competition from the new boyes.
At the end of the 19th Century, more steam and electric
press books were being published than anyone had seen--
again, more books than had ever been made before, again
the monopoly of the olde boye network was threatened.
What to do?
Simple!
Just do what ye olde boyes did to the Gutenberg Press.
Pass a law that wipes out the new competition.
Since the new boys WERE new, they didn't have contracts
to publish the new authors, so they reprinted all those
books over 28 years old and most books over 14 years as
90% of all copyrights were never renewed, so copyrights
were really mostly only for 14 years.
By placing one of these new steam or electric presses a
few feet from the new transcontinental railroad lines a
new boy publisher could fill an entire boxcar literally
overnight and have it shipped anywhere in the country a
few days later. . .and they did exactly that.
Combining these new technologies with new Rural Federal
Delivery mail system, Sears & Roebuck delivered a whole
768 page catalog to nearly everyone in the U.S., a feat
that would have been impossible earlier.
This made the other publishers sit up and take notice--
if Sears could do this inexpensively enough to send the
millions of catalogs all over the country, then any new
publisher could do the same, only sell the books at low
prices the olde boye networke couldn't compete with via
their now antiquated business plans.
Thus the U.S Copyright Act of 1909 was created with the
specific goal of wiping out all those new reprint house
publishers by making it illegal to reprint simply via a
new copyright law that voided the old one, and made the
new copyrights twice as long as the old ones.
This is why you can find so many collections of reprint
books dated around the turn of the 19th Century but the
number drops off precipitously after 1909.
Got competition?
Buy a law against it!
This was the third time such a stragegy was employed.
The fourth time was in 1976 when a similar law was made
to extend the maximum copyright term from 56 years as a
copyright had been since 1909, to 75 years, but perhaps
even more importantly, the requirement for copyright to
to be extended was eliminated, even though 90% of those
copyrights had never been extended before.
Thus this law was nine times more repressive than those
previous laws had been: eliminating from public domain
access ALL books for 75 years, not just those books the
publishers could still make a profit on.
This is a great example of spite, where these publisher
refuse access to others even what they don't want to do
anything with themselves.
The true nature of copyright once again is revealed, an
act that keeps information from flowing to the public--
even when it is deemed worthless by the publishers.
But the story isn't quite over yet. . . .
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Not satisfied with nearly complete control for 75 years
the publishers reacted in the same manner when Internet
access to public domain books became obvious to them in
the 1990's, and once again they extended copyrights, to
95 years this time, so that virtually no one could ever
be able to reprint anything that was published in their
lifetimes. . .thus cutting the umbilical cord between a
civilization and its past, except for what was deemed a
proper historical perpective by "in loco parentis," the
ugly heads of the three headed censorship again.
The end result was to change the public domain from the
50/50 proposition it was a century ago to the new world
order of 999/1 proposition of the new copyright laws.
That's right, by the time the first of the copyrights a
new world order created in 1998 expires, you will see a
copyrighted to public domain ratio that leaves you this
1 book out of 1,000 in the now endangered public domain
species that appears to be on the verge of extinction.
The publishers are not shy about saying they want a law
that specifies copyright should be permanent, that this
public domain that has long been the link between pasts
and futures of various societies throughout history, is
now targeted squarely in the crosshairs of the hunters,
and your access to information is the target.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Eventually the cell phone will take over the functions of the
PDA [Personal Digital Assistants, such as Palm, Handspring, etc],
the PPC [Pocket Personal Computer, such as Sony, Compaq, etc.].
However, watch out for more per minute charges than you expect,
as some functions you think may be local to you may actually be
billed as if you were logged in for those minutes.
Google, Yahoo, ebooks, email, stock trading, movies, music, etc.,
are all now being tailor-made for cell phone use.
Believe it or not, even during a week in which three major bands
released a new CD, a ringtone beat out everything else in the UK
as the best seller in the music world, just this current week.
By the way, at the other end of the scale, have you noticed yet
how TV programs are being shot from wider and wider angles, for
the presumed purpose of forcing viewers to buy larger screens--
just so they can see the facial expressions they used to get in
the more close-up shots?
Not to mention the finer and finer print being displayed in the
corners and on the runners across the bottom of the screen.
Ever tried to read those on a 15" TV via normal broadcasting?
This is all part of the pressure tactics to force HDTV on us,
and watch for the government to step in and declare that your
old TV sets will no longer have any programs suitable to them.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
Today there are 10 times as many commercials on television as
50 years ago. . .~20 minutes per hour compared with ~2 minutes.
In addition, you also hear 10 times as many "non-commercials"
on PBS and NPR.
By the way, this does NOT include those HUGE blocks of time
known as "infomercials" or "pledge drives" which are obviously
just about infinitely greater than 50 years ago when they had
little or no existence.
By the way, when I watch U.S. TV programs in other countries,
many of the commercial breaks are left out, since they don't
have nearly as many commericals, yet they still seem to make
plenty of money, just not by U.S. standards.
"It's all about the money."
"The first rule of reporting? Follow the money."
However, under this model, it's not the upper class who pays.
*
The average of the pop stars on todays' Top 40 is 20 years old.
*
The average prescription drug costs twice as much in the U.S.
Medical costs are cited as the cause of more people going into
bankruptcy than any other cause in the U.S.
In Europe it is legal for companies to buy prescription drugs
in one country, relabel them, and resell them in another, all
the while under government supervision, just to save money on
personal prescriptions. It is less efficient work-wise, but
it costs less cash-wise.
*
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
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
*
POEM OF THE WEEK
city at dawn
queen of high heels goes to work
legs like those of svelte bridges
rivers of asphalt flow beneath
the chill mornings the flesh quivers
streets are red silky fashion caprices
everybody's watching life with desire
Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
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The Lock And Key Library, by Various 2038
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Rudyard Kipling
My Own True Ghost Story
The Sending of Dana Da
In the House of Suddhoo
His Wedded Wife
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The Second Narrative
The Third Narrative
Fourth (and Last) Narrative
Anonymous
The Lost Duchess
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The Pipe
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History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. III., by Robert Kerr 12325
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Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens 16023
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Les conteurs � la ronde, by Charles Dickens 16022
[Translator: Am�d�e Pichot]
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Cantique de No�l, by Charles Dickens 16021
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Le grillon du foyer, by Charles Dickens 16020
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Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories, by William Carleton 16019
[Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of]
[William Carleton, Volume Three]
[Contents:]
[Phelim Otoole's Courtship]
[Wildgoose Lodge]
[Tubber Derg; Or, The Red Well.]
[Neal Malone]
[Art Maguire; Or, The Broken Pledge.]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
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The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine, by William Carleton 16018
[Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of]
[William Carleton, Volume Three]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
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The Poor Scholar, by William Carleton 16017
[Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of]
[William Carleton, Volume Three]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
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Going To Maynooth, by William Carleton 16016
[Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of]
[William Carleton, Volume Three]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
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Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver and Other Stories, by William Carleton 16015
[Full title: Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath;]
[The Lianhan Shee]
[Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of]
[William Carleton, Volume Three]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
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The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh, by William Carleton 16014
[Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of]
[William Carleton, Volume Three]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
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Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim, Carleton 16013
[Full author: William Carleton]
[Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of]
[William Carleton, Volume Three]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
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The Ned M'Keown Stories, by William Carleton 16012
[Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of]
[William Carleton, Volume Three]
[Contents:]
[Ned M'Keown.]
[The Three Tasks.]
[Shane Fadh's Wedding.]
[Larry M'Farland's Wake.]
[The Battle Of The Factions.]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
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The Emigrants Of Ahadarra, by William Carleton 16011
[Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two]
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The Tithe-Proctor, by William Carleton 16010
[Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1/16010 ]
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Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent, by William Carleton 16009
[Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16009 ]
[Files: 16009.txt; 16009-h.htm]
Ellen Duncan; and The Proctor's Daughter, by William Carleton 16008
[Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16008 ]
[Files: 16008.txt; 16008-h.htm]
The Dead Boxer, by William Carleton 16007
[Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16007 ]
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Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day, by William Carleton 16006
[Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two]
[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
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Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale, by William Carleton 16005
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[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
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The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector, by William Carleton 16004
[Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume One]
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Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain, by William Carleton 16003
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[Illustrator: M. L. Flanery]
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Fardorougha, The Miser, by William Carleton 16002
[Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume One]
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Willy Reilly, by William Carleton 16001
[Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume One]
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The Ship of Stars, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 16000
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The Theater (1720), by Sir John Falstaffe 15999
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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2, James Marchant 15998
[Full title: Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2]
[(of 2)]
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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol 1, James Marchant 15997
[Full title: Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1]
[(of 2)]
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Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850, by Various 15996
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Salambo, by Gustave Flaubert 15995
[Subtitle: Ein Roman aus Alt-Karthago]
[Translator: Artur Schurig]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15995 ]
[Files: 15995-8.txt; 15995-h.htm]
A Reckless Character, And Other Stories, by Ivan Turgenev 15994
[Contents:]
[A Reckless Character]
[The Dream]
[Father Alexy�i's Story]
[Old Portraits]
[The Song Of Love Triumphant]
[Clara M�litch]
[Poems In Prose]
[Translator: Isabel Hapgood]
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25 vuotta, by Kasimir Leino 15993
[Subtitle: Valikoima runoja]
[Language: Finnish]
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Come Rack! Come Rope!, by Robert Hugh Benson 15992
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Japhet, In Search Of A Father, by Frederick Marryat 15991
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Akten voor en na de Heilige Communie, by De Gibergues 15990
[Subtitle: Voor de kleine kinderen]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15990 ]
[Files: 15990-8.txt; 15990-h.htm]
The Fatal Glove, by Clara Augusta Jones Trask 15989
[Author AKA: Clara Augusta]
[Clara Augusta Jones Trask (1839-1905) often wrote under the pseudonym]
["Clara Augusta".]
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Ennen ja nyky��n 1, by Hanna Ongelin 15988
[Subtitle: Kuvauksia naisen el�m�st�]
[Language: Finnish]
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Kuvauksia ja unelmia, by Fredrika Runeberg 15987
[Subtitle: Valikoima kertomuksia]
[Translator: Ilta]
[Language: Finnish]
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Th' Barrel Organ, by Edwin Waugh 15986
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Deephaven and Selected Stories and Sketches, by Sarah Orne Jewett 15985
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Washington Irving, by Charles Dudley Warner 15984
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Read-Aloud Plays, by Horace Holley 15983
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Woman As She Should Be, by Mary E. Herbert 15982
[Subtitle: or, Agnes Wiltshire]
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[Files: 15982.txt; 15982-8.txt; 15982-h.htm]
Si Tandang Basio Macunat, by Fray Miguel Lucio y Bustamante 15981
[Language: Tagalog]
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Pag Susulatan nang Dalauang Binibini na si Urbana at ni Feliza, Castro 15980
[Full author: Modesto de Castro]
[Language: Tagalog]
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Miss Caprice, by St. George Rathborne 15979
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The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France, by Henry Van Dyke 15978
[Ill: Frank E. Schoonover ]
[Language: English ]
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Frank and Fanny, by Mrs. Clara Moreton 15977
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Puck of Pook's Hill, by Rudyard Kipling 15976
[Illustrator: Harold Robert Millar]
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Camera Obscura, by Nicolaas Beets (AKA Hildebrand) 15975
[Language: Dutch]
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De Pop van Elisabeth Gehrke, by Dina Mollinger-Hooyer 15974
[Language: Dutch]
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Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 103, November 26, 1892, by Various 15973
[Editor: Francis Burnand]
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The Record of a Regiment of the Line, by M. Jacson 15972
[Subtitle: Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire]
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Polly of the Hospital Staff, by Emma C. Dowd 15971
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The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 44, by Various 15970
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.]
[1, No. 44, September 9, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
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[Language: Finnish]
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The Grounds of Christianity, by George Bethune English 15968
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
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Aug 1998 El Verdugo, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #30][vrdugxxx.xxx] 1425
Aug 1998 Castle Rackrent, by Maria Edgeworth [Edgeworth #1][rkrntxxx.xxx] 1424
No Thoroughfare, by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins 1423
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Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, by Charles Dickens 1421
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Mugby Junction, by Charles Dickens 1419
Aug 1998 Country Sentiment, by Robert Graves [csentxxx.xxx] 1418
Aug 1998 Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #29][ssoilxxx.xxx] 1417
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, by Charles Dickens 1416
Doctor Marigold, by Charles Dickens 1415
Somebody's Luggage, by Charles Dickens 1414
Tom Tiddler's Ground, by Charles Dickens 1413
Aug 1998 Masterman Ready, by Captain Marryat [Marryat #1][mmrdyxxx.xxx] 1412
Domestic Peace, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell] 1411
The Commission in Lunacy, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Clara Bell] 1410
Aug 1998 The Soul of the Far East, by Percival Lowell [#1][sofrexxx.xxx] 1409
Aug 1998 The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White [tnhosxxx.xxx] 1408
A Message from the Sea, by Charles Dickens 1407
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, by Charles Dickens 1406
The Collection of Antiquities, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Ellen Marriage] 1405
Jul 1998 The Federalist Papers, by Hamilton, Jay & Madison [federxxa.xxx] 1404
Jul 1998 A Start in Life, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #25][stlifxxx.xxx] 1403
Jul 1998 Where the Blue Begins, by Christopher Morley [wtbbgxxx.xxx] 1402
Jul 1998 Tarzan the Untamed, Edgar R. Burroughs [Tarzan #7][tarz7xxx.xxx] 1401
[Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs]
Jul 1998 Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#38][grexpxxx.xxx] 1400
(Alt. version, ostensibly from 1867 Edition:) [grexpxxa.xxx]
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy 1399
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Jul 1998 Dore Lectures on Mental Science, by Thomas Troward[dorelxxx.xxx] 1398
Jul 1998 The Ruins by C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney[ruinsxxx.xxx] 1397
Jul 1998 Rienzi, last of the Roman Tribunes, by E. B.Lytton[rienzxxx.xxx] 1396
Letters on Literature, by Andrew Lang 1395
The Holly-Tree, by Charles Dickens 1394
Jul 1998 Amours de Voyage, by Arthur Hugh Clough [mrvygxxx.xxx] 1393
The Seven Poor Travellers, by Charles Dickens 1392
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This "cost" is down from about $.78 when we had 12,808 eBooks a year ago.
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At 16,363 eBooks in 33 Years and 11.00 Months We Averaged
~482 Per Year
40.2 Per Month
1.32 Per Day
At 1407 eBooks Done In The 147 Days Of 2005 We Averaged
10 Per Day
67 Per Week
282 Per Month
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
DATABASES GO PORTABLE
As handheld computing devices become increasingly common, organizations
that maintain a variety of databases are modifying their content to
allow for easy access by handheld devices. Chemical Abstracts Service,
which is a division of the American Chemical Society, is finalizing a
"mobile" version of a database that contains data on roughly 25 million
molecules, allowing users of handheld devices to access molecular
weights, boiling points, and other information in a format designed for
portable devices. The final database will be available to the public
later this year. Medical sciences already have a broad range of
databases designed for handhelds, and many librarians see the trend
continuing for other fields. As for the upcoming chemistry database,
reactions are mixed, even at single institutions. At Yale University,
David Austin, associate professor of chemistry, said the database will
be extremely valuable, whereas Glenn Micalizio, assistant professor of
organic chemistry, said he sees little value in it, given widespread
access to laptops and desktops.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 May 2005 (sub. req'd)
SPREADING SPYWARE THROUGH AN AFFILIATE PROGRAM
A business based in Russia is adopting the affiliate-program approach
to spreading spyware around the globe. Called iframeDOLLARS, the
company is offering Web site operators 6.1 cents for every computer on
which the Web site installs code that exploits vulnerabilities in
Windows and Internet Explorer. Microsoft has issued patches for the
weaknesses, but unpatched computers remain at risk. The malicious code
includes backdoors, Trojans, spyware, and adware. Operators of the
iframeDOLLARS site claim to have paid out nearly $12,000 last week
alone, which would translate to nearly 200,000 infected computers.
Although spyware expert Richard Stiennon called the tactic "brazen" and
said iframeDOLLARS might be making quite a bit of money from its
scheme, Dan Hubbard, the head of security at Websense, gave
iframeDOLLARS less credit. He noted that the company has been around
for a while, trying various methods to install malicious code, and he
said a number of others have tried similar affiliate programs to
accomplish the same thing.
TechWeb, 24 May 2005
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/163700705
HOUSE TAKES TWO STEPS AGAINST SPYWARE
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed two separate bills
this week designed to address the growing problem of spyware. HR 29,
introduced by Mary Bono (R-Calif.), would impose stiff fines on anyone
found guilty of distributing computer code that results in browser
hijacking, modifying bookmarks, collecting personal information without
permission, and disabling security mechanisms. Violators can be fined
as much as $3 million per incident. One of only four Representatives
who voted against Bono's bill, Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) had introduced
another bill, HR 744, that also prohibits installing spyware.
Lofgren's bill, which passed 395 to 1, would impose fines and jail
time to anyone found guilty. Both bills now go to the Senate, which
failed to act on a spyware bill sent by the House last year. Senators
have said they will not allow a similar situation this year.
CNET, 23 May 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5717658.html
FBI TRIES AGAIN TO REPLACE COMPUTER SYSTEMS
After spending several years and $170 million on a failed computer
system, the FBI said it now has a new system in the works, the first
part of which will be operational by the end of 2006. After September
11, 2001, federal officials identified a need for a computer system
that would allow various agencies to share information efficiently to
help prevent similar attacks in the future. The FBI's Virtual Case
File, designed to meet that need, was riddled with problems and
ultimately was not viable. At a Senate Appropriations subcommittee
meeting, FBI Director Robert Mueller conceded that Virtual Case File
would not be implemented and expressed his regret that so much time and
money were wasted on it. The new electronic information management
system will be called Sentinel.
Reuters, 24 May 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8593132
STUDENTS SHOW EASE OF IDENTITY THEFT
Graduate students at Johns Hopkins University set out to see how much
personal information they could collect on as many individuals as
possible, using only the Internet and $50. The 41 students were in a
course taught by Aviel D. Rubin, professor of computer science and
technical director of the university's Information Security Institute,
who divided them into groups of three or four and instructed them to
use only legal, public sources of information. The exercise mimicked
the activities of data brokers, such as ChoicePoint and LexisNexis, and
the students were able to collect and aggregate vast amounts of
information, even with limited time and budgets. Although Rubin was
pleased that fewer Social Security numbers were among the data
collected than he had anticipated, privacy advocates insisted that such
information remains easy to obtain, posing enormous risk of identity
theft. Even without Social Security numbers, the data collected
represented for some individuals a very broad picture of who they are,
where they live, and activities in which they participate. Such access
to personal information worries many, including Sen. Ted Stevens
(R-Alaska), who conducted a similar experiment, instructing his staff
to try to steal his identity. Aside from information they discovered
about Stevens, they were told they could buy his Social Security number
for $65.
New York Times, 18 May 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/technology/18data.html
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
Just one note at the moment concerning the revelation of Mark Felt,
Deputy Director of the FBI being the "Deep Throat" source of great
amounts of information and leads for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
as they created what may have been the biggest news story in over
a century, covering the Watergate break-in of the offices of the
Democratic National Committee as part of the "dirty tricks" of the
1972 presidential campaign.
Obviously there have been many references to the movie made from
Woodward and Bernstein's book "All The President's Men," starring
Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, and, no doubt, many of these
have now been checked out from libraries, rented from Blockbuster,
or gleaned from other sources. However, there is another movie,
also starring Robert Redford, "Three Days of the Condor," in which
Cliff Robertson plays the FBI Deputy Director in more detail than
is presented in "All The President's Men," and also presages to an
alarming degree the plans for destabilization and invasion of the
Middle East countries in a remarkable prediction of the Gulf Wars.
*
Speaking of the FBI:
Before 9/11 the FBI was about 4% military people.
After 9/11 the FBI has recruited over 50% from military people.
*
Dick Cheney was the Auburn's commencement speaker last weekend when
he told them he dropped out of Yale. That means three out of the
four major candidates of the last elections were chosen by Yale,
and weren't both presidential candiates from Yale's most secret
society, Skull and Bones?
*
An unnamed 11-year-old boy at Rawlinson Road Middle School in
Rock Hill, S.C., was stopped by Assistant Principal Dianne McCray, who
asked what was jingling in his pocket. He handed over ten 3.5" nails,
left over from a Boy Scout trip. The administrator turned the boy over
to the school police officer, who arrested the boy for possession of
"weapons" at school. "Is a pencil a weapon?" demanded the boy's father.
Apparently so: state law says anything "that can be construed or used
as a weapon on school grounds can be classified as unlawful," says a
police spokesman. (Rock Hill Herald)
*
Meanwhile in California, The Governator seemed to have picked up
$2 billion budget dollars from various sources, a privitization
move similar to those of Bush or United Airlines of recent days.
However, quick response time by those affected seems to have had
some powerful results and The Governator has rescinded his plan,
but is expected to resubmit it in other guises in the future.
Fights over a wide variety of pension plans have now spilled out
into other states as it appears to be open season on what is now
being called "Economic Warfare" or "Class Warfare" as goverments
target the working class pension plans, etc.
*
In local news, one of our high schools was recently the scene of
massive aggravation on the part of hundreds of parents who would
have liked to have seen their children graduate.
Initially it was said that there weren't enough seats for all of
the parents and family members who showed up, and thus the doors
were closed on hundreds of people who showed up at the very last
minute [some argument about if they were actually late, and some
were let in who were already in line at the last minute; however
there were still hundreds left outside].
After some deep research and investigation it was finally out in
the open that there actually were enough seats for everyone in a
space that had room for well over 2,000, and apparently the only
people who were trying to get in totalled well under 2,000.
The real question thus became whether those closing the door had
some ulterior motive, perhaps just overzealous use of power some
had over the event, or perhaps other reasons still hidden.
At any rate, at least one person who managed to get through then
was maced when the doorkeepers called the police, and when being
maced wasn't enough to drive them away from the graduation, then
the person was tasered.
It just makes you wonder. . . .
*STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK
"But the pension fund was just sitting there!"
Highly predictive Doonesbury title from Gary Trudeau,
on April Fool's Day, 1979.
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Privatizing the pension funds will do much more good than harm.
"Countries are not coerced into privatizing their national enterprises....
It does more good than harm."
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
A few years from now all this news will turn out to be simple politicking,
and will appear much more obvious when termed as "class warfare."
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
Add another log to the billion dollar scandal fire, as AIG has admitted
that it cooked the books in various ways to make it appear as if AIG is
worth $4 billion more than it actually is with an apparent loss of even
$2 billion more in real terms as things start to fall apart.
*
In related news, it appears that Andersen Inc's conviction concerning
their role in the multi-billion dollar Enron scandal was not kosher,
as it seems some questionable jury instructions may have been given.
Will the entire trial have to take place again with a new jury with
better instructions?
*
"Put The Bad News Out With The Trash"
Trash Day in Washington, D.C.
By the way, are you aware that goverment agencies have a statistical
bias towards giving reports that are favorable to them early in the week,
when it can get the widest possible coverage in the current "news cycle,"
and only giving out the news that reflects badly on them late in the week,
when it can get only the narrowest possible coverage?
A recent example was the FDA report that many more drugs were recalled,
which was held up for 5 days until it landed at 6:00 PM Friday evening,
just before the Memorial Day weekend, where it was buried along with an
assortment of other "trash," rather than getting the full news cycle.
If you really want to see what the goverment is hiding from you, watch
and listen to the Friday and weekend news, these stories will usually
be quite passe by Monday, at least that's what they are hoping. Also
watch and listen to news from other countries when possible, or you
may never see how the world is reacting to your own nation's politics.
*
The malpractice premiums paid by hospitals doubled in 2002, and appears
to have doubled yet again since then, however, the rate of payouts from
these funds only increased by 12% in 2002, when 63.2% of premiums were
paid out to cover malpractice claims.
The premiums for individual doctors is also rising, but half as quickly.
What is not made obvious in these reports is that "that the average medical
malpractice premium in California was $7,200 in 2000, as compared with the
national average of $7,843," leaving some concern over making mountains of
molehills in terms how much is paid by each individual doctor, especially
when considered as a percentage of gross income. This is not much when
compared to the property taxes we all have to pay, even if indirectly,
which may average half that much. Rates have been going up around 3.5%
per year since 1991, which isn't much different from general inflation.
Bills in major states are now pressuring for a cap of $ 1/4 million on
any amount of pain and suffering caused even by proven malpractice and
some have even passed and been made into law. [See California]
There is also increasing pressure forcing medical workers to buy their
malpractice insurance from a smaller and smaller group of vendors now
licenses by various states.
Example figures from Missouri:
www.insurance.mo.gov/reports/medmal/
*
15 billion cigarettes are made daily. At $2.50 a pack, this is 10
cents per cigarette, or $1.5 billion dollars per day!!!
*
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
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship, by Various 15381
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A Voyage of Consolation, by Sara Jeannette Duncan 15966
[Subtitle: (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of]
['An American girl in London')]
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[Files: 15966.txt; 15966-8.txt; 15966-h.htm]
Dagdrör, by Gustaf Hellströ 15959
[Subtitle: En man utan humor I]
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15959 ]
[Files: 15959-8.txt]
In Friendship's Guise, by Wm. Murray Graydon 15965
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/6/15965 ]
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The Child of the Dawn, by Arthur Christopher Benson 15964
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/6/15964 ]
[Files: 15964.txt; 15964-8.txt]
May-Day, by Ralph Waldo Emerson 15963
[Subtitle: and Other Pieces]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/6/15963 ]
[Files: 15963.txt; 15963-h.htm]
Essays on Political Economy, by Frederic Bastiat 15962
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/6/15962 ]
[Files: 15962.txt; 15962-8.txt; 15962-0.txt; 15962-h.htm]
Turns of Fortune, by Mrs. S. C. Hall 15961
[Subtitle: And Other Tales]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/6/15961 ]
[Files: 15961.txt; 15961-8.txt; 15961-h.htm]
Literary Character of Men of Genius, by Isaac Disraeli 15960
[Editor: Benjamin Disraeli]
[Subtitle: Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions]
[The author, Isaac Disraeli, was the father of Benjamin Disraeli (Lord]
[Beaconsfield)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/6/15960 ]
[Files: 15960.txt; 15960-8.txt; ]
French and English, by Evelyn Everett-Green 15958
[Subtitle: A Story of the Struggle in America]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15958 ]
[Files: 15958.txt; 15958-h.htm]
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, November 19, 1892, by Various 15957
[Editor: Francis Burnand]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15957 ]
[Files: 15957.txt; 15957-8.txt; 15957-h.htm]
Vellenaux, by Edmund William Forrest 15956
[Subtitle: A Novel]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15956 ]
[Files: 15956.txt; 15956-8.txt]
A Short History of Scotland, by Andrew Lang 15955
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15955 ]
[Files: 15955.txt; 15955-h.htm]
Mary Jane--Her Visit, by Clara Ingram Judson 15954
[Ill.: Frances White]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15954 ]
[Files: 15954.txt; 15954-h.htm; ]
The City of Delight, by Elizabeth Miller 15953
[Subtitle: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem]
[Illustrator: F. X. Leyendecker]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15953 ]
[Files: 15953.txt; 15953-8.txt; 15953-h.htm]
Die Prinzessin Girnara, by Jakob Wassermann 15952
[Subtitle: Weltspiel und Legende]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15952 ]
[Files: 15952-8.txt; 15952-h.htm]
A Sea Queen's Sailing, by Charles Whistler 15951
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15951 ]
[Files: 15951.txt; 15951-h.htm]
Wilderness Ways, by William J Long 15950
[Illustrator: Charles Copeland]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15950 ]
[Files: 15950.txt; 15950-8.txt; 15950-0.txt; 15950-h.htm]
The Hoor of the Heights, by Arthur Conan Doyle 15949C
[Tr.: Anders Blixt]
[Language: Interlingua]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15949 ]
[Files: 15949.txt; ]
The Hollow Land, by William Morris 15948
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15948 ]
[Files: 15948.txt; 15948-h.htm; ]
The Pleasures of England, by John Ruskin 15947
[Subtitle: Lectures given in Oxford]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15947 ]
[Files: 15947.txt; 15947-8.txt; 15947-0.txt; 15947-h.htm]
The Original Fables of La Fontaine, by Jean de la Fontaine 15946
[Subtitle: Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney]
[Illustrator: Frederick Colin Tilney]
[Translator: Frederick Colin Tilney]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15946 ]
[Files: 15946.txt; 15946-8.txt; 15946-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 15945
[Subtitle: Volume 10, No. 279, October 20, 1827]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15945 ]
[Files: 15945.txt; 15945-8.txt; 15945-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 15944
[Subtitle: Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15944 ]
[Files: 15944.txt; 15944-8.txt; 15944-h.htm]
Le conte futur, by Paul Adam 15943
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15943 ]
[Files: 15943-8.txt; 15943-h.htm]
Antoine et Cléopâtre, by William Shakespeare 15942
[Translator: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15942 ]
[Files: 15942-8.txt; 15942-h.htm]
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters, by Anonymous 15941
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15941 ]
[Files: 15941.txt; 15941-8.txt; 15941-h.htm]
The Luck of the Mounted, by Ralph S. Kendall 15940
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15940 ]
[Files: 15940.txt; 15940-8.txt; ]
Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy 15939C
[Author: Thomas Colignatus]
[Author AKA: Thomas Cool]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15939 ]
[Files: 15939-h.htm; ]
The Yankee Tea-party , by Henry C. Watson 15938
[Subtitle: Or, Boston in 1773]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15938 ]
[Files: 15938.txt; 15938-8.txt; 15938-h.htm; ]
"I was there", by C. LeRoy Baldridge 15937
[Subtitle: with the Yanks in France.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15937 ]
[Files: 15937.txt; 15937-h.htm]
The Sad Shepherd, by Henry Van Dyke 15936
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15936 ]
[Files: 15936.txt]
Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 276, by Various 15935
[Subtitle: Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15935 ]
[Files: 15935.txt; 15935-8.txt; 15935-h.htm]
His Excellency the Minister, by Jules Claretie 15934
[Translator: Henri Roberts]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15934 ]
[Files: 15934.txt; 15934-8.txt; 15934-h.htm]
Stories of Childhood, by Various 15933
[Editor: Rossiter Johnson]
[Contents: ]
[A Dog Of Flanders by Louisa De La Rame (Ouida)]
[The King Of The Golden River by John Ruskin]
[The Lady Of Shalott by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps]
[Marjorie Fleming by John Brown, M.D.]
[Little Jakey by Mrs S.H. Dekroyft]
[The Lost Child by Henry Kingsley]
[Goody Gracious! And The Forget-Me-Not by John Neal]
[A Faded Leaf Of History by Rebecca Harding Davis]
[A Child's Dream Of A Star by Charles Dickens]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15933 ]
[Files: 15933.txt]
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians, by E. A. Wallis Budge 15932
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15932 ]
[Files: 15932.txt; 15932-8.txt; 15932-0.txt; 15932-h.htm]
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, by Beers 15931
[Author: Henry A. Beers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15931 ]
[Files: 15931.txt; 15931-8.txt; ]
A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After, by Edward Bok 15930
[Editor: John Louis Haney]
[Adapted from The Americanization of Edward Bok]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15930 ]
[Files: 15930.txt; 15930-8.txt; 15930-h.htm; ]
Mother Stories, by Maud Lindsay 15929
[Illustrator: Sarah Noble-Ives]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/2/15929 ]
[Files: 15929.txt; 15929-8.txt; 15929-h.htm]
The Nursery, Number 164, by Various 15928
[Subtitle: A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/2/15928 ]
[Files: 15928.txt; 15928-h.htm]
The Vehement Flame, by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 15927
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/2/15927 ]
[Files: 15927.txt; 15927-8.txt; 15927-h.htm]
Bay State Monthly, Vol. II, No. 1, October, 1884, by Various 15926
[Subtitle: A Massachusetts Magazine]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/2/15926 ]
[Files: 15926.txt; 15926-8.txt; 15926-h.htm]
Bay State Monthly, Vol. I, No. 3, March, 1884, by Various 15925
[Subtitle: A Massachusetts Magazine]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/2/15925 ]
[Files: 15925.txt; 15925-8.txt; 15925-h.htm]
Bay State Monthly, Volume I, No. 2, February, 1884, by Various 15924
[Subtitle: A Massachusetts Magazine]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/2/15924 ]
[Files: 15924.txt; 15924-8.txt; 15924-h.htm]
The Boy and the Sunday School, by John L. Alexander 15923
[Subtitle: A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday]
[School with Teen Age Boys]
[Introduction By Marion Lawrance]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/2/15923 ]
[Files: 15923.txt; 15923-h.htm]
A Loose End and Other Stories, by S. Elizabeth Hall 15922
[Contents: A Loose End]]
[ In a Breton Village]
[ Twice a Child]
[ The Road by the Sea]
[ The Halting Step]
[ Tabitha's Aunt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/2/15922 ]
[Files: 15922.txt; 15922-8.txt; 15922-h.htm; ]
The Haskalah Movement in Russia, by Jacob S. Raisin 15921
[Language: En]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/2/15921 ]
[Files: 15921.txt; 15921-8.txt; 15921-h.htm; ]
Outward Bound, by Oliver Optic 15920
[Subtitle: Or, Young America Afloat]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/2/15920 ]
[Files: 15920.txt; 15920-8.txt; 15920-h.htm]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 42, by Various 15919
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.]
[1, No. 42, August 26, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/1/15919 ]
[Files: 15919.txt; 15919-8.txt; 15919-h.htm]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 41, by Various 15918
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.]
[1, No. 41, August 19, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/1/15918 ]
[Files: 15918.txt; 15918-8.txt; 15918-h.htm]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 40, by Various 15917
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.]
[1, No. 40, August 12, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/1/15917 ]
[Files: 15917.txt; 15917-8.txt; 15917-h.htm]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 39, by Various 15916
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.]
[1, No. 39, August 5, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/1/15916 ]
[Files: 15916.txt; 15916-8.txt; 15916-h.htm]
The Tales of Hoffmann, Book By Jules Barbier; Music By J. Offenbach 15915
[Subtitle: Les contes d'Hoffmann]
[Translator: Charles Alfred Byrne]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/1/15915 ]
[Files: 15915-8.txt]
The American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 11, November, 1889, by Various 15914
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/1/15914 ]
[Files: 15914.txt; 15914-h.htm]
The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863, by Various 15913
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/1/15913 ]
[Files: 15913.txt; 15913-8.txt; 15913-h.htm]
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 24, 1920, by Various 15912
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/1/15912 ]
[Files: 15912.txt; 15912-8.txt; 15912-h.htm]
Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, by Gabriel Franchere 15911
[Full title: Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America]
[in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the]
[First American Settlement on the Pacific]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/1/15911 ]
[Files: 15911.txt; 15911-8.txt; 15911-h.htm]
Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries, by Christopher Merrett 15910
[Full title: A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by]
[Apothecaries]
[Subtitle: As well in Relation to Patients, as Physicians: And Of the]
[only Remedy thereof by Physicians making their own]
[Medicines.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/1/15910 ]
[Files: 15910.txt; 15910-8.txt; 15910-h.htm]
American Missionary, Volume 44, No. 1, January, 1890, by Various 15909
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/0/15909 ]
[Files: 15909.txt; 15909-h.htm]
Johdanto Suomen kirjallishistoriaan, by Rietrik Polén 15908
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/0/15908 ]
[Files: 15908-8.txt; 15908-0.txt; 15908-h.htm]
De la litterature des negres, by Henri Grégoire 15907
[Full title: De la littérature des nègres, ou Recherches sur leurs]
[facultés intellectuelles, leurs qualités morales]
[et leur littérature]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/0/15907 ]
[Files: 15907-8.txt; 15907-h.htm]
A Good Samaritan, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews 15906
[Ill.: Charlotte Harding]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/0/15906 ]
[Files: 15906.txt; 15906-h.htm; ]
Collected Essays, Volume V, by T. H. Huxley 15905
[Subtitle: Science and Christian Tradition: Essays]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/0/15905 ]
[Files: 15905.txt; 15905-8.txt; 15905-h.htm]
The Rover Boys on the River, by Arthur Winfield 15904
[Subtitle: The Search for the Missing Houseboat]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/0/15904 ]
[Files: 15904.txt]
Bart Stirling's Road to Success, by Allen Chapman 15903
[Subtitle: Or; The Young Express Agent]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/0/15903 ]
[Files: 15903.txt; 15903-8.txt; 15903-h.htm]
Poker!, by Zora Hurston 15902
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/0/15902 ]
[Files: 15902.txt]
Ristiaallokossa, by Kasimir Leino 15897
[Subtitle: Kokoelma runoelmia]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/9/15897 ]
[Files: 15897-8.txt]
Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887, by Various 15889
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A note from Jim Tinsley on "I Was There" #15937:
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Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 May 2005 (sub. req'd)
STUDENTS SHOW EASE OF IDENTITY THEFT
Graduate students at Johns Hopkins University set out to see how much
personal information they could collect on as many individuals as
possible, using only the Internet and $50. The 41 students were in a
course taught by Aviel D. Rubin, professor of computer science and
technical director of the university's Information Security Institute,
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the activities of data brokers, such as ChoicePoint and LexisNexis, and
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information, even with limited time and budgets. Although Rubin was
pleased that fewer Social Security numbers were among the data
collected than he had anticipated, privacy advocates insisted that such
information remains easy to obtain, posing enormous risk of identity
theft. Even without Social Security numbers, the data collected
represented for some individuals a very broad picture of who they are,
where they live, and activities in which they participate. Such access
to personal information worries many, including Sen. Ted Stevens
(R-Alaska), who conducted a similar experiment, instructing his staff
to try to steal his identity. Aside from information they discovered
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Electric Company, Reliance Group Holdings & Reliance Financial,
NationsRent, ANC Rental, Burlington Industries, Chiquita Brands,
Polaroid Corporation, Hayes Lemmerz, Federal-Mogul, W.R. Grace &
Co., Owens Corning, Armstrong World Industries, USG Corporation,
Lodgian, The FINOVA Group, Inc., Comdisco, Fruit of the Loom,
Pillowtex, Warnaco, Kmart Corp., Ames Department Stores, Service
Merchandise, Bridge Information Services, Imperial Sugar, The
Loewen Group International, Inc., Vlasic Foods, AMF Bowling,
Harnischfeger Industries, Inc., Vencor, Inc., Sun Healthcare
Group, Inc., Mariner Post-Acute & Mariner Health, Genesis Health
& Multicare, and Integrated Health Services.
*STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK
"Monopolies are a terrible thing, unless you have one"
Rupert Murdoch, major media player.
"There exists in America a control of news and of
current comment more than any monopoly in industry."
"Beware of the military-industrial-Congressional complex."
U.S. President Eisenhower [as related by Daniel Ellsberg]
"Bribes were tax deductible in Europe until a few years ago."
James Wolfensohn, outgoing President of the World Bank,
being replaced by Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq War architect.
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
The White House is chastising Newsweek both for not fact
checking to a greater level of accuracy initially, then
for not making an earlier public retraction and apology for
the article concerning flushing the Koran down the toilet.
This is in just about an identical manner as worldwide
pressures were brought upon The White House for never
going through the process of initially checking their
facts on presumed weapons of mass destruction and not
making an earlier public apology and a retraction of
the U.S. incursion into Iraq based on the alleged
presence of WMDs.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
The media continue to be gobbled up by "Merger Mania."
Ever wonder why so much of North American media content
looks as if it were all written by clones?
There are ~1,800 newspapers, ~11,000 magazines, ~11,000 radio stations,
~2,000 TV stations and ~3,000+ book publishers in the United States:
Companies owning a controlling interest in the major players:
50 in 1984
26 in 1987
10 in 1996
6 in 2002
Today about 90% of the media voices have been silenced by takeovers,
just compared to the number we had 20 years ago. . . .
Source:
NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Massive Media | PBS
*
You know that clean fresh air smell you get when you hang laundry out
to dry on a beautiful day? Sooner than you think it will be illegal
for you to get that smell directly, you'll have to get it from a box
of Tide, Cheer, All, etc. . .as it will be illegal for most Americans
to hang laundry out to dry.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
23 of President Clinton's Circuit Court judge nominations were kept
from an up or down vote by the Republicans in his administration,
plus the nomination of Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court was blocked,
and it was no big item in the news.
6 of President Bush's nominations have been similarly blocked,
and it is the biggest political football in America today.
98% of President Bush's nominations have been approved.
*
There are more "Paycheck Loan" businesses in the U.S. than McDonald's.
Some victims of these services have paid over $10,000 on ~$2,500 loans.
However, the new bankruptcy laws encourage even more of these.
*
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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Franzosisch-slavische Kampfe in der Bocca di Cattaro, by Velimirovitch 15891
[Full title: Franz�sisch-slavische K�mpfe in der Bocca di Cattaro]
[1806-1814.]
[Full author: Nicola Velimirovitch]
[Language: German]
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Mein erster Aufenthalt in Marokko, by Gerhard Rohlfs 15890
[Full title: Mein erster Aufenthalt in Marokko und Reise s�dlich vom]
[Atlas durch die Oasen Draa und Tafilet.]
[Language: German]
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The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi, by Hattie Greene Lockett 15888
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The American Missionary, Volume 49, No. 3, March, 1895, by Various 15887
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[Files: 15887.txt; 15887-8.txt; 15887-h.htm]
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories, by Paul Laurence Dunbar 15886
[Ill.: E. W. Kemble]
[Contents: Strength of Gideon]]
[ Mammy Peggy's Pride]
[ Viney's Free Papers]
[ The Fruitful Sleeping of The Rev. Elisha Edwards]
[ The Ingrate]
[ The Case of 'Ca'line']
[ The Finish of Patsy Barnes]
[ One Man's Fortunes]
[ Jim's Probation]
[ Uncle Simon's Sundays Out]
[ Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker]
[ An Old-Time Christmas]
[ A Mess of Pottage]
[ The Trustfulness of Polly]
[ The Tragedy at Three Forks]
[ The Finding of Zach]
[ Johnsonham, Junior]
[ The Faith Cure Man]
[ A Council of State]
[ Silas Jackson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/8/15886 ]
[Files: 15886.txt; 15886-8.txt; 15886-h.htm; ]
Les pilotes de l'Iroise, by �douard Corbi�re 15885
[Language: French]
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Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20), by Various 15884
[Editor: Edward Singleton Holden]
[Subtitle: Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/8/15884 ]
[Files: 15884.txt; 15884-8.txt; 15884-h.htm; ]
The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life, by Anonymous 15883
[Subtitle: Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women]
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Mon amie Nane, by Paul-Jean Toulet 15882
[Language: French]
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The Flower of the Chapdelaines, by George W. Cable 15881
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The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864, by Various 15880
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Elene; Judith; Athelstan, Byrhtnoth, Dream of the Rood, by Anonymous 15879
[Full title: Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh;]
[Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood]
[Subtitle: Anglo-Saxon Poems]
[Translator: James M. Garnett]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15879 ]
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The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts, by Honore De Balzac 15878
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The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3, by Various 15876
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The Unseen Bridgegroom, by May Agnes Fleming 15875
[Subtitle: or, Wedded For a Week]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15875 ]
[Files: 15875.txt; 15875-h.htm]
Old Testament Legends, by M. R. James 15874
[Subtitle: being stories out of some of the less-known apochryphal]
[books of the old testament]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15874 ]
[Files: 15874.txt; 15874-page-images.zip ]
The Day of Days, by Louis Joseph Vance 15873
[Subtitle: An Extravaganza]
[Illustrator: Arthur William Brown]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15873 ]
[Files: 15873.txt; 15873-8.txt; 15873-h.htm]
The Memories of Fifty Years, by William H. Sparks 15872
[Subtitle: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished]
[Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and]
[Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the]
[Southwest]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15872 ]
[Files: 15872.txt; 15872-8.txt; 15872-h.htm; ]
La femme fran�aise dans les temps modernes, by Clarisse Bader 15871
[Language: French]
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Of Genius / Preface to The Creation, by Aaron Hill 15870
[Full title: 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The]
[Creation]
[Commentator: Gretchen Graf Pahl]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15870 ]
[Files: 15870.txt; 15870-8.txt; 15870-h.htm]
Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2, James Cook 15869
[Contributor: Tobias Furneaux]
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[Files: 15869.txt; 15869-8.txt]
The Man Without a Country and Other Tales, by Edward E. Hale 15868
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The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware, by Annie Fellows Johnston 15867
[Illustrator: Etheldred B. Barry]
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Humanly Speaking, by Samuel McChord Crothers 15866
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Noughts and Crosses, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 15865
[Author AKA: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)]
[Author AKA: Q]
[Subtitle: Stories, Studies and Sketches]
[Contents: The Omnibus]]
[ Fortunio]
[ The Outlandish Ladies]
[ Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman]
[ The Return of Joanna]
[ Psyche]
[ The Countess of Bellarmine]
[ A Cottage in Troy]
[ Old Aeson]
[ The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands]
[ The Constant Post-Boy]
[ A Dark Mirror]
[ The Small People]
[ The Mayor of Gantick]
[ The Doctor's Foundling]
[ The Gifts of Feodor Himkoff]
[ Yorkshire Dick]
[ The Carol]
[ The Paradise of Choice]
[ Beside the Bee Hives]
[ The Magic Shadow]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/6/15865 ]
[Files: 15865.txt; ]
Garman and Worse, by Alexander Lange Kielland 15864
[Subtitle: A Norwegian Novel]
[Tr.: W. W. Kettlewell]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/6/15864 ]
[Files: 15864.txt; 15864-8.txt; 15864-h.htm; ]
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, by Cleveland 15863
[Full author: Grover Cleveland]
[Subtitle: Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term.]
[Editor: James D. Richardson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/6/15863 ]
[Files: 15863.txt; 15863-8.txt; 15863-h.htm]
Afterwhiles, by James Whitcomb Riley 15862
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/6/15862 ]
[Files: 15862.txt]
The Things Which Remain, by Daniel A. Goodsell 15861
[Subtitle: An Address To Young Ministers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/6/15861 ]
[Files: 15861.txt; 15861-8.txt; 15861-h.htm]
The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864, by Various 15860
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/6/15860 ]
[Files: 15860.txt; 15860-8.txt; 15860-h.htm]
The Piazza Tales, by Herman Melville 15859
[Contents: The Piazza]]
[ Bartleby]
[ Benito Cereno]
[ The Lightning-Rod Man]
[ The Encantadas; Or, Enchanted Islands]
[ The Bell-Tower]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15859 ]
[Files: 15859.txt; 15859-8.txt; 15859-h.htm; ]
The Social Emergency, by Various 15858
[Subtitle: Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals]
[Commentator: Charles W. Eliot]
[Editor: William Trufant Foster]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15858 ]
[Files: 15858.txt; 15858-8.txt; 15858-h.htm]
Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira of Malloch, by Boswell et al. 15857
[Full title: Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written]
[by Mr. David Malloch (1763)]
[Full author: James Boswell, Andrew Erskine and George Dempster]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15857 ]
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Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time, by James Gray 15856
[Subtitle: or, The Jarls and The Freskyns]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15856 ]
[Files: 15856.txt; 15856-8.txt; 15856-h.htm]
The Man from Home, by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson 15855
[Ill.: Luther S. White]
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Initial Studies in American Letters, by Henry A. Beers 15854
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One of Life's Slaves, by Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 15853
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The Texan Star, by Joseph A. Altsheler 15852
[Subtitle: The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty]
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