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Nina Balatka, by Anthony Trollope 8897
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[Files: 8897.txt; 8897-h.htm]
The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope 5231
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/5/2/3/5231 ]
[Files: 5231.txt; 5231-8.txt; 5231-h.htm]
A House-Boat on the Styx, by John Kendrick Bangs 2618
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/1/2618 ]
[Updated edition of: etext01/hstyx10.txt]
[Files: 2618.txt; 2618-h.htm]
The Caged Lion, by Charlotte M. Yonge 2573
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/7/2573 ]
[Updated edition of: etext01/cgdln10.txt]
[Files: 2573.txt; 2573-h.htm]
How to Fail in Literature, by Andrew Lang 2566
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/6/2566 ]
[Updated edition of: etext01/fllit10.txt]
[Files: 2566.txt; 2566-h.htm]
An Accursed Race, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2531
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/3/2531 ]
[Updated edition of: etext01/accrc10.txt]
[Files: 2531.txt; 2531-h.htm]
My Lady Ludlow, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2524
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/2/2524 ]
[Updated edition of: etext01/ldyld10.txt]
[Files: 2524.txt; 2524-h.htm]
A Dark Night's Work, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2522
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/2/2522 ]
[Updated edition of: etext01/drknw10.txt]
[Files: 2522.txt; 2522-h.htm]
Lizzie Leigh, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2521
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/2/2521 ]
[Files: 2521.txt; 2521-h.htm]
[Updated edition of: etext01/lzlgh10.txt]
Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi, by David Livingstone 2519
[Title: A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi
and Its Tributaries]
[Subtitle: And of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa
(1858-1864)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/1/2519 ]
[Updated edition of: etext01/zambs10.txt]
[Files: 2519.txt; 2519-h.htm]
The Sleeping Car, by William D. Howells 2506
[Subtitle: A Farce]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/0/2506 ]
[Updated edition of: etext01/slpcr10.txt]
[Files: 2506.txt; 2506-h.htm]
Lost Face, by Jack London 2429
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/2/2429 ]
[Updated edition of: etext00/lstfc10.txt]
[Files: 2429.txt; 2429-h.htm]
The Muse of the Department, by Honore de Balzac 1912
[Translated by James Waring]
[Updated edition of: etext99/msdpt11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1912 ]
[Files: 1912.txt]
Modeste Mignon, by Honore de Balzac 1482
[Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley]
[Updated edition of: etext98/mdmgn10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/8/1482 ]
[Files: 1482.txt]
Letters on Literature, by Andrew Lang 1395
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/1395 ]
[Updated edition of: etext98/ltlit10.txt]
[Files: 1395.txt; 1395-h.htm]
Historical Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley 1360
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1360 ]
[Updated edition of: etext98/hstle10.txt]
[Files: 1360.txt; 1360-h.htm]
The Ancien Regime, by Charles Kingsley 1335
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/3/1335 ]
[Updated edition of: etext98/anrgm10.txt]
[Files: 1335.txt; 1335-h.htm]
An Essay on Comedy, by George Meredith 1219
[Subtitle: And the Uses of the Comic Spirit]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/1/1219 ]
[Updated edition of: etext98/esycm10.txt]
[Files: 1219.txt; 1219-h.htm]
The Jolly Corner, by Henry James 1190
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/9/1190 ]
[Updated edition of: etext98/jllyc10.txt]
[Files: 1190.txt; 1190-h.htm]
The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James 898
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/8/9/898 ]
[Updated edition of: etext97/tlotm10.txt]
[Files: 898.txt; 898-h.htm]
Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson 416
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/416 ]
[Files: 416.txt]
Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy 107
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/0/107 ]
[Files: 107.txt; 107-8.txt; 107-h.htm]
Reposted in HTML format at PG of Australia:
May 2005 Lord Minto, A Memoir, by John Buchan [050026xx.xxx] 0421A
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Love Conquers All, by Robert C. Benchley 15851
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15851 ]
[Files: 15851.txt; 15851-8.txt; 15851-h.htm]
Iphigenia in Tauris, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 15850
[Translator: Anna Swanwick]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15850 ]
[Files: 15850.txt; 15850-8.txt; 15850-0.txt; 15850-h.htm]
Timon d'Athenes, by William Shakespeare 15849
[Translator: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15849 ]
[Files: 15849-8.txt; 15849-h.htm]
La Comedie des Meprises, by William Shakespeare 15848
[Translator: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15848 ]
[Files: 15848-8.txt; 15848-h.htm]
Jules Cesar, by William Shakespeare 15847
[Translator: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15847 ]
[Files: 15847-8.txt; 15847-h.htm]
Beaucoup de Bruit pour Rien, by William Shakespeare 15846
[Translator: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15846 ]
[Files: 15846-8.txt; 15846-h.htm]
Florante at Laura, by Francisco Baltazar 15845
[Commentator: Carlos Ronquillo]
[Language: Tagalog]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15845 ]
[Files: 15845-8.txt; 15845-h.htm]
Escal-Vigor, by Georges Eekhoud 15844
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15844 ]
[Files: 15844-8.txt; 15844-r.rtf]
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man, Marie Conway Oemler 15843
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/4/15843 ]
[Files: 15843.txt; 15843-8.txt; 15843-0.txt; 15843-h.htm]
Valtaset, by Arvid Jarnefelt 15842
[Subtitle: 3-näytöksinen näytelmä]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15842 ]
[Files: 15842-8.txt]
Leonie of the Jungle, by Joan Conquest 15841
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15841 ]
[Files: 15841.txt; 15841-8.txt]
Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885, by Various 15840
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15840 ]
[Files: 15840.txt; 15840-8.txt; 15840-h.htm]
The Rebel of the School, by Mrs. L. T. Meade 15839
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/3/15839 ]
[Files: 15839.txt; 15839-8.txt; 15839-h.htm]
The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 72, October, 1863, by Various 15838
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/3/15838 ]
[Files: 15838.txt; 15838-8.txt; 15838-h.htm]
Jerusalem, by Selma Lagerl�f 15837
[Author: Introduction by Henry Goddard Leach]
[Tr.: Velma Swanston Howard]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15837 ]
[Files: 15837.txt; 15837-8.txt; ]
Expositions of Holy Scripture, by Alexander Maclaren 15836
[Subtitle: Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. ]
[St Matthew Chapters I to VIII]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15836 ]
[Files: 15836.txt; 15836-8.txt]
William Lilly's History of His Life and Times, by William Lilly 15835
[Subtitle: From the Year 1602 to 1681]
[Editor: Elias Ashmole]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15835 ]
[Files: 15835.txt; 15835-8.txt; 15835-h.htm]
The Book of Joyous Children, by James Whitcomb Riley 15834
[Illustrator: J. W. Vawter]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15834 ]
[Files: 15834.txt; 15834-h.htm]
Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884., by Various 15833
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15833 ]
[Files: 15833.txt; 15833-8.txt; 15833-h.htm]
Vallankumouksen vyöryssä, by Elvira Willman 15832
[Subtitle: Novelli]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15832 ]
[Files: 15832-8.txt; 15832-h.htm]
The Scientific American Boy, by A. Russell Bond 15831
[Subtitle: The Camp at Willow Clump Island]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15831 ]
[Files: 15831.txt; 15831-doc.doc; 15831-pdf.pdf]
Three Years in Europe, by William Wells Brown 15830
[Author: Memoir of William Wells Brown by William Farmer]
[Subtitle: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15830 ]
[Files: 15830.txt; 15830-8.txt; 15830-h.htm; ]
Memories, by Fannie A. (Mrs.) Beers 15829
[Subtitle: A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During ]
[Four Years of War]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15829 ]
[Files: 15829.txt; 15829-8.txt; 15829-h.htm]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 37, by Various 15828
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,]
[No. 37, July 22, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15828 ]
[Files: 15828.txt; 15828-8.txt; 15828-h.htm]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 34, by Various 15827
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,]
[No. 34, July 1, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15827 ]
[Files: 15827.txt; 15827-8.txt; 15827-h.htm]
Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration, by Leona Dalrymple 15826
[Ill.: Charles L. Wrenn]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15826 ]
[Files: 15826.txt; 15826-h.htm; ]
New National Fourth Reader, by Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes 15825
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15825 ]
[Files: 15825.txt; 15825-8.txt; 15825-h.htm; ]
Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century, by Various 15824
[Editor: John Clark Ridpath]
[Subtitle: Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15824 ]
[Files: 15824.txt; 15824-8.txt; 15824-h.htm; ]
Voyages abracadabrants du gros Phileas, by Olga de Pitray 15823
[Illustrator: Mme. de la Fargue]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/2/15823 ]
[Files: 15823-8.txt; 15823-h.htm]
The Faithful Steward, by Sereno D. Clark 15822
[Subtitle: Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian]
[Character]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15822 ]
[Files: 15822.txt; ]
Elsa Finne I-II, by Axel Lundegard 15821
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/2/15821 ]
[Files: 15821-8.txt]
A Book For The Young, by Sarah French 15820
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/2/15820 ]
[Files: 15820.txt; 15820-8.txt; 15820-h.htm]
The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864, by Various 15819
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/1/15819 ]
[Files: 15819.txt; 15819-8.txt; 15819-h.htm]
The Melting of Molly, by Maria Thompson Daviess 15818
[There are two separate and significantly different versions of this]
[text. This is the non-illustrated British magazine version. The]
[illustrated American novel version was just posted as e-book #15817.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/1/15818 ]
[Files: 15818.txt; 15818-8.txt; 15818-h.htm; ]
The Melting of Molly, by Maria Thompson Daviess 15817
[Ill.: R. M. Crosby]
[There are two separate and significantly different versions of this]
[text. This is the illustrated American novel publication.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/1/15817 ]
[Files: 15817.txt; 15817-8.txt; 15817-h.htm; ]
La fabrique de crimes, by Paul H.C. Feval 15816
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/1/15816 ]
[Files: 15816-8.txt; 15816-r.rtf]
Les tendres menages, by Paul Jean Toulet 15815
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/1/15815 ]
[Files: 15815-8.txt; 15815-h.htm]
Lauluja ja ballaadeja, by Robert Burns 15814
[Translator: Valter Juva]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/1/15814 ]
[Files: 15814-8.txt]
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FLASHBACK!
Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #1289
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
[Note: books without month and year entries have been reposted]
La belle Gabrielle, vol. 1, by Auguste Maquet 11300
[Language: French]
O cancioneiro portuguez da Vaticana, by Teophilo Braga 11299
[Subtitle: e suas relacoes com outros cancioneiros dos seculos XIII e XIV]
[From: Zeitschrift fuer Romanische Philologie 1877]
[Language: Portuguese]
Wanderings by Southern Waters, Eastern Aquitaine, Edward Harrison Barker 11298
Travels Through the Empire of Morocco, by John Buffa 11297
Tyomiehen vaimo, by Minna Canth 11296
[Language: Finnish]
Lehtori Hellmanin vaimo, by Minna Canth 11295
[Language: Finnish]
Juhana Herttuan ja Catharina Jagellonican lauluja, by Eino Leino 11294
[Language: Finnish]
Jan van Huysums Blomsterstykke, by Henrik Wergeland 11293
[Language: Norwegian]
Sekund vecnosti, by Dragutin J. Ilijc 11292
[Subtitle: istocnjacki roman]
[Translated title: One Second of Eternity: An Eastern Novel]
[Language: Serbian]
Kameno doba, by Jovan Zujovic 11291
[Title translation: Stone Age] [Language: Serbian]
Emilie the Peacemaker, by Mrs. Thomas Geldart 11290
What is Coming?, by H. G. Wells 11289
Ons Vaderland van de vroegste tijden tot de 15de eeuw, by Coopman 11288
[Author: M. Lievevrouw-Coopman]
[Language: Dutch]
De omwenteling van 1830, by Hendrik Conscience 11287
[Language: Dutch]
Meesterstukken van Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn, by G. Kielder 11286
[Subtitle: Leesboek voor het Lager en Voortgezet Onderwijs]
[Language: Dutch]
Een Heldin, by A.C. Kuiper 11285
[Language: Dutch]
Punch, Vol. 156, 26 Mar 1919, Ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 11284
Plays of Gods and Men, by Lord Dunsany 11283
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 2, No 336 11282
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 2, No 334 11281
Maggie Miller, by Mary J. Holmes 11280
The Slim Princess, by George Ade 11279
Folk-Tales of Napoleon, by Honore de Balzac and Alexander Amphiteatrof 11278
[Subtitle: The Napoleon of the People; Napoleonder]
[Translated, and an introduction added, by George Kennan]
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life, by E. A. Wallis Budge 11277
Civil Government in the United States, by John Fiske 11276
[Title: Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some
Reference to Its Origins]
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus, by American Anti-Slavery Society 11275
[Contains: etexts 11271, 11272, 11273 and 11274]
Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4, by American Anti-Slavery Society 11274
Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4, by American Anti-Slavery Society 11273
Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4, by American Anti-Slavery Society 11272
Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4, by American Anti-Slavery Society 11271
Practical Illustration of Woman's Right to Labor, by Marie E. Zakrzewska 11270
[Subtitle: A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia]
[Editor: Caroline H. Dall]
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1% of the world population is 64,422,556 x 16,248 x $.96 = ~$1 trillion]
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
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This "cost" is down from about $.79 when we had 12,700 eBooks a year ago.
100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!
At 16,248 eBooks in 33 Years and 10.50 Months We Averaged
~480 Per Year
40.0 Per Month
1.31 Per Day
At 1289 eBooks Done In The 133 Days Of 2005 We Averaged
10 Per Day
68 Per Week
286 Per Month
The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks'
production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon,
starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was
the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production
year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon.
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
MOVING BEYOND LISTS FOR SEARCHING THE WEB
Supporters of non-text-based representations of Web search results got
a boost this week as Groxis, the makers of Grokker, released a version
of the software that runs as a Java plug-in for browsers. Previously,
the software, which returns search results in a circular "map," was
only available as a separate, $49 application. The company will now
depend on revenue from advertisements placed next to search results by
search engine Yahoo. For the past nine months, 2,000 students and
faculty of Stanford University have been testing the Grokker software,
which has earned a strong following there. Michael A. Keller,
Stanford's head librarian and an adviser to Groxis, said the
application allows users to find appropriate information more quickly.
Another company, Vivisimo, is developing a search engine that, while
still text-based, displays groups of folders next to ranked lists of
results. The folders give users another method of sifting through
search results for useful resources.
New York Times, 9 May 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/technology/09yahoo.html
We'd like more feedback on this, Grokker, and similar programs.
REPLACING BOOKS WITH COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES
[This article is well worth reading, more than one point of view in it]
As digital delivery of printed material becomes increasingly efficient
and common, some colleges and universities are relocating books from
libraries to make room for facilities where students access content on
computers. The University of Southern California was one of the first
to create such a digital learning laboratory in 1994, and in the past
few years it has been joined by schools including Emory University, the
University of Georgia, the University of Arizona, the University of
Michigan, and the University of Houston. The University of Texas at
Austin has recently decided to move all of the books from its
undergraduate library to other facilities and create an "electronic
information commons." No one expects books to disappear completely,
but, according to Geneva Henry, executive director of the digital
library initiative at Rice University, libraries should be primarily
concerned with the exchange of ideas rather than simply storage of
books. As colleges and universities work to provide appropriate
services to students who have grown up with computers, the trend to use
electronic resources is likely to continue.
New York Times, 14 May 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/14/education/14library.html
CLICKING ON CAMPUS
Faculty at hundreds of colleges and universities are using small
electronic devices similar to television remote controls as part of
their in-class instruction. Commonly referred to as "clickers," the
devices allow students to respond to instructor questions by choosing
one of several options or, in some cases, by entering a numeric answer.
Answers are transmitted by either infrared or radio frequency signal to
a receiver connected to a computer, which logs the responses and can
track individual students' responses, as for a quiz, or display
responses from the entire class anonymously. Faculty who use the
devices said that because they allow students to respond anonymously,
they encourage participation from students who might be too shy to
answer verbally in class, and they elicit more honest answers on
controversial subjects. Stephen Bradforth, a chemistry professor at the
University of Southern California, said that after he began using
clickers in his classes, attendance and participation increased. He
also noted that the devices force professors to think differently about
how they teach their courses.
Wired News, 14 May 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67530,00.html
UNIVERSITY SEEKS NAMES OF BLOGGERS
Officials at St. Lawrence University are trying to obtain the names of
individuals responsible for a blog that includes content the university
finds inappropriate. Included in the blog, whose stated goal is to
fight a "right-wing assault" on the university, are pictures of and
harshly derogatory comments about students and faculty whom the blog's
contributors see as conservative. Other blog posts criticize university
policies and administrators, but Macreena Doyle, a spokesperson for St.
Lawrence, said the institution is most concerned about the anonymous
attacks on students. "If these were posters attacking students on
campus," said Doyle, "we would take action." The university has filed
"John Doe" court actions with Time Warner Cable, whose service was used
to make postings to the blog, demanding information that would identify
the blog's contributors. Google disclosed IP addresses from which blog
postings came after being ordered to do so by the courts, but it is not
clear whether Time Warner will do the same.
Inside Higher Ed, 13 May 2005
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/05/13/lawrence
TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM AT U OF MAINE TO REQUIRE IBOOKS
Beginning in the fall 2005 semester, students entering the teacher
certification program at the College of Education and Human Development
at the University of Maine will be required to have Apple iBook laptop
computers. According to Robert Cobb, dean of the college, "It is
essential that aspiring teachers understand and know how and when to
use wireless laptop technology in the teaching and learning process."
The machines will meet a standard configuration, both for hardware and
software, as determined by the college. The college's Teacher
Education Faculty opted for Apple computers because they are less
frequently the targets of computer viruses, relative to Windows-based
machines, and because of the state's Learning Technology Initiative.
Under that program, all seventh- and eighth-grade students and teachers
in Maine public schools have iBook computers.
Macworld, 11 May 2005
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/05/11/umaine/index.php
IBM PUSHES FIREFOX
The Firefox Web browser received a boost this week when IBM began
encouraging all of its more than 300,000 employees to use the open
source browser instead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE).
Employees will be able to download the browser from company servers,
and IBM help desk staff will be trained to support the browsers.
Despite having been downloaded about 50 million times since its launch
last November, Firefox is still dwarfed by IE, which holds more than 90
percent of the browser market. IBM has a history of supporting open
source products, and the Firefox announcement furthers its support of
open source technologies while shedding some of the company's
dependence on Microsoft products. Brian Truskowski, chief information
officer at IBM, said supporting Firefox is a "good example of walking
the talk when it comes to open standards and open source." Truskowski said
he expects IBM will ultimately save money using Firefox instead of IE.
CNET, 12 May 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5704750.html
DUTCH ACADEMICS LAUNCH OPEN-ACCESS SITE
Dutch academics have publicly announced a Web site that offers free
access to scholarly material from all of the country's universities.
The Digital Academic Repositories (DARE) project, which started a year
ago as a test program, is a joint effort among all Dutch universities,
the National Library of the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research. DARE includes 47,000 academic articles and other digital
resources, including bibliographic information, full text materials,
and audio and video files. Organizers of the project said no other
country allows such widespread and easy access to its academic
research. Such open access publishing projects remain anathema to most
commercial publishers, but supporters of open access argue that it is
the appropriate publishing model, given digital technologies and
increasing subscription costs for traditional academic publishing.
The Register, 11 May 2005
http://www.theregister.com/2005/05/11/open_access_research/
HAMLET DATABASE NEARS COMPLETION
An online database that includes all available commentary on
Shakespeare's Hamlet is expected to debut within the next few months.
The database was the brainchild of Bernice W. Kliman, who, in the early
1990s was working on a printed edition of such a collection for the
Modern Language Association. Kliman saw the Internet as a better tool
for such a project, and she raised about $1 million from the National
Endowment for the Humanities for her idea. Over the past 10 years,
scholars including Eric C. Rasmussen, a professor of English at the
University of Nevada at Reno, have been working to gather every bit of
scholarship and criticism ever written about the play and add it to the
database. When the database is complete, users will be "able to see 400
years' worth of commentary" for any single line of the play, according
to Rasmussen. Certain items from critics in the 20th century had to be
left out, however, due to copyright concerns. "We tried to, of course,
credit the edition," said Kliman, "but also just paraphrase rather than
copy sentence by sentence."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 May 2005
http://chronicle.com/free/2005/05/2005051001t.htm
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
The list of billion dollar companies defaulting on their
pensions plans is enormous, including Bethelhem Steel,
National Steel, Polaroid, Kaiser Aluminum, US Airways, etc.
*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
UK Member of Parliament Galloway's entire address to U.S.
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Given court rulings and new bills signed into law, it is
now easier for corporations to declare bankruptcy to get
out of their pension plan responsibilities, but in great
reversal, it is now harder for bankruptcy to be declared
by an individual or family.
It turns out this one is having increased effects, while
not being reported.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Graphical representations of search data, see above,
will become a major information tool.
Try the new Grokker. . . .
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
Women who wear makeup get promoted 30% faster than
those who do not.
*
You've probably seen something like this statistic:
"A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes,
at the rate Washington spends it."
Then:
"This may have been true a half a billion seconds ago, too,
but now they're spending faster, so it doesn't take so long.
It's less than five hours."
And lately:
"It's 3 hours, 30 minutes now, for the feds to spend a billion USD,
not counting some off-budget expenditures."
*
"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
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A Footnote to History, by Robert Louis Stevenson 536
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Michelangelo Gedichte und Briefe, by Michelangelo Buonarroti 15813
[Editor: R. A. Guardini]
[Subtitle: In Auswahl herausgegeben von R. A. Guardini]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/1/15813 ]
[Files: 15813-8.txt; 15813-h.htm; ]
The Testimony of the Bible, by S. E. Wishard 15812
[Full title: The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive]
[Criticism]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/1/15812 ]
[Files: 15812.txt; 15812-h.htm]
Le serment des hommes rouges, by Pierre Alexis de Ponson du Terrail 15811
[Subtitle: Aventures d'un enfant de Paris]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/1/15811 ]
[Files: 15811-8.txt; 15811-h.htm]
The Age of Erasmus, by P. S. Allen 15810
[Subtitle: Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/1/15810 ]
[Files: 15810.txt; 15810-8.txt; 15810-h.htm]
A Apple Pie, by Kate Greenaway 15809
[Ill.: Kate Greenaway]
[Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was perhaps the most influential illustrator]
[of children's books of late 19th century Great Britain, as the]
[illustrations in this e-book will attest.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/0/15809 ]
[Files: 15809.txt; 15809-h.htm; ]
The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary, by Robert Hugh Benson 15808
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/0/15808 ]
[Files: 15808.txt; ]
Among the Forces, by Henry White Warren 15807
[According to the Library of Congress catalogue, and also according to]
[the text of this file, Henry White Warren (1831-1912) is also the author]
[of Recreations in Astronomy (author listed as Henry Warren in the PG]
[bibrec).]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/0/15807 ]
[Files: 15807.txt; 15807-8.txt; 15807-h.htm; ]
Hiljaisuudessa, by Arvid Jarnefelt 15806
[Subtitle: Kokoelma kertomuksia ja näelmiä [Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/0/15806 ]
[Files: 15806-8.txt]
La mort de Cesar, by Voltaire 15805
[Subtitle: Tragée en trois actes - avec les changemens fait par le citoyen Gohier]
[ministre de la justice]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/0/15805 ]
[Files: 15805-8.txt; 15805-h.htm]
La mort de Cesar, by Voltaire 15804
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/0/15804 ]
[Files: 15804-8.txt; 15804-h.htm]
Crime and Its Causes, by William Douglas Morrison 15803
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/0/15803 ]
[Files: 15803.txt; 15803-8.txt; 15803-h.htm]
With Botha in the Field, by Eric Moore Ritchie 15802
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/0/15802 ]
[Files: 15802.txt; 15802-8.txt; 15802-h.htm; ]
Winning His "W", by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson 15801
[Subtitle: A Story of Freshman Year at College]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/0/15801 ]
[Files: 15801.txt; 15801-8.txt; 15801-h.htm; ]
How to Teach Religion, by George Herbert Betts 15800
[Subtitle: Principles and Methods]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/0/15800 ]
[Files: 15800.txt; 15800-8.txt; 15800-h.htm; ]
Walter Harland, by Harriet S. Caswell 15799
[Subtitle: Or, Memories of the Past]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/9/15799 ]
[Files: 15799.txt; 15799-h.htm; ]
Clover, by Susan Coolidge 15798
[Author AKA: Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905)]
[Ill.: Jessie McDermot]
[Sarah Chauncey Woolsey wrote under the psuedonym Susan Coolidge.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/9/15798 ]
[Files: 15798.txt; 15798-8.txt; 15798-h.htm; ]
Clover, by Susan Coolidge 15798
[Author AKA: Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905)]
[Ill.: Jessie McDermot]
[Sarah Chauncey Woolsey wrote under the psuedonym Susan Coolidge.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/9/15798 ]
[Files: 15798.txt; 15798-8.txt; 15798-h.htm; ]
The Seeker, by Harry Leon Wilson 15797
[Ill.: Rose Cecil O'Neill]
[Language: english]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/9/15797 ]
[Files: 15797.txt; 15797-8.txt; 15797-h.htm; ]
Joy in the Morning, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews 15796
[Contents: The Ditch]]
[ Her Country Too]
[ The Swallow]
[ Only One of Them]
[ The V.C.]
[ He That Loseth His Life Shall Find It]
[ The Silver Stirrup]
[ The Russian]
[ Robina's Doll]
[ Dundonald's Destroyer]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/9/15796 ]
[Files: 15796.txt; 15796-8.txt; 15796-h.htm; ]
The Rover Boys in Camp, by Edward Stratemeyer 15795
[Author AKA: Arthur M. Winfield]
[Subtitle: or, The Rivals of Pine Island]
[Edward Stratemeyer wrote the Rover Boys series under the pseudonym]
[Arthur M. Winfield.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/9/15795 ]
[Files: 15795.txt; ]
Plum Pudding, by Christopher Morley 15794
[Subtitle: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned]
[Ill.: Walter Jack Duncan]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/9/15794 ]
[Files: 15794.txt; 15794-8.txt; 15794-h.htm; ]
An Unpardonable Liar, by Gilbert Parker 15793
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/9/15793 ]
[Files: 15793.txt; 15793-h.htm; ]
Folk Lore, by James Napier 15792
[Subtitle: Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This]
[Century]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/9/15792 ]
[Files: 15792.txt; 15792-8.txt; 15792-h.htm; ]
Prvi Srpski bukvar, by Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic 15791
[Language: Serbian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/9/15791 ]
[Files: 15791-h.htm]
Esther, by Jean Racine 15790
[Editor: I.H.B. Spiers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/9/15790 ]
[Files: 15790-8.txt]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 36, by Various 15789
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It,]
[Vol. 1, No. 36, July 15, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/8/15789 ]
[Files: 15789.txt; 15789-8.txt; 15789-h.htm]
Waste, by Granville Barker 15788
[Subtitle: A Tragedy, In Four Acts]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/8/15788 ]
[Files: 15788.txt; 15788-h.htm]
Sieben Jahre in Süika. Erster Band., by Emil Holub 15787
[Subtitle: Erlebnisse, Forschungen und Jagden auf meinen Reisen von]
[den Diamantenfeldern zum Zambesi (1872-1879).]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/8/15787 ]
[Files: 15787-8.txt; 15787-h.htm]
Himlauret eller det profetiska ordet, by F. Franson 15786
[Subtitle: Häisningar. 3 örsigtstabeller och 1 diagram]
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/8/15786 ]
[Files: 15786-8.txt]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 35, by Various 15785
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It,]
[Vol. 1, No. 35, July 8, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/8/15785 ]
[Files: 15785.txt; 15785-8.txt; 15785-h.htm]
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, by Isaac Newton 15784
[Subtitle: To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First]
[Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by]
[Alexander the Great]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/8/15784 ]
[Files: 15784.txt; 15784-8.txt; 15784-0.txt; 15784-h.htm]
Utan anföe, by Ave 15783
[Subtitle: Fem svenskors fjellvandring i Norge]
[Author AKA: Eva Wigströ [Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/8/15783 ]
[Files: 15783-8.txt]
Scenes in Switzerland, by American Tract Society 15782
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/8/15782 ]
[Files: 15782.txt; 15782-8.txt; 15782-h.htm]
El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections,by George Tyler Northup 15781
[Contributor: Don Jose de Espronceda y Lara]
[Language: Spanish / English]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/8/15781 ]
[Files: 15781-8.txt; 15781-h.htm]
Edward Caldwell Moore, by Edward Moore 15780
[Subtitle: Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/8/15780 ]
[Files: 15780.txt; 15780-8.txt; 15780-h.htm]
Joanna Godden, by Sheila Kaye-Smith 15779
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/7/15779 ]
[Files: 15779.txt; 15779-8.txt; 15779-h.htm]
The Honorable Miss, by L. T. Meade 15778
[Subtitle: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town]
[Illustrator: F. Earl Christy]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/7/15778 ]
[Files: 15778.txt; 15778-8.txt; 15778-h.htm]
Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1, James Cook 15777
[Contributor: Tobias Furneaux]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/7/15777 ]
[Files: 15777.txt; 15777-8.txt]
The Economic Consequences of the Peace, by John Maynard Keynes 15776
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/7/15776 ]
[Files: 15776.txt; 15776-8.txt; 15776-h.htm; ]
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary, by Anne Warner 15775
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/7/15775 ]
[Files: 15775.txt; 15775-8.txt; 15775-h.htm; ]
Ishmael, by Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth 15774
[Author AKA: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819-1899)]
[Subtitle: In the Depths]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/7/15774 ]
[Files: 15774.txt; 15774-8.txt; 15774-h.htm; ]
Round the World in Seven Days, by Herbert Strang 15773
[Ill.: A. C. Michael]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/7/15773 ]
[Files: 15773.txt; 15773-8.txt; 15773-h.htm; ]
Machiavelli, Volume I, by Niccol� Machiavelli 15772
[Subtitle: The Art of War; and The Prince]
[Tr.: Peter Whitehorne and Edward Dacres]
[Peter Whitehorne translated The Art of War in 1560, and Edward Dacres]
[translated The Prince in 1640.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/7/15772 ]
[Files: 15772.txt; 15772-8.txt; 15772-h.htm; ]
The Bible Period by Period, by Josiah Blake Tidwell 15771
[Subtitle: A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/7/15771 ]
[Files: 15771.txt; ]
Germany, The Next Republic?, by Carl W. Ackerman 15770
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/7/15770 ]
[Files: 15770.txt; 15770-8.txt; 15770-h.htm; ]
In the Wars of the Roses, by Evelyn Everett-Green 15769
[Subtitle: A Story for the Young]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/6/15769 ]
[Files: 15769.txt; 15769-h.htm; ]
The Gist of Swedenborg, by Emanuel Swedenborg 15768
[Editor: Julian K. Smyth and William F. Wunsch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/6/15768 ]
[Files: 15768.txt; 15768-h.htm; ]
The Texan Scouts, by Joseph A. Altsheler 15767
[Subtitle: A Story of the Alamo and Goliad]
[On April 21, 1836, at the confluence of the San Jacinto River and]
[Buffalo Bayou, a small army of Texans led by General Sam Houston defeated]
[a much larger Mexican army and won independence for the Republic of Texas.]
[Their battle cry was, "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!"]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/6/15767 ]
[Files: 15767.txt; 15767-8.txt; 15767-h.htm; ]
Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays, by Margaret Penrose 15653
[Title: ]
[Subtitle: ]
[Author_AKA: Lilian C. McNamara Garis (1873-1954) ]
[Lilian C. Garis, wife of Howard R. Garis, wrote the 13 Dorothy Dale books for]
[the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pen name "Margaret Penrose." ]
[Language: English ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/6/5/15653 ]
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Le parfum de la Dame en noir, by Gaston Leroux 15554
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Les etranges noces de Rouletabille, by Gaston Leroux 13772
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Le mystere de la chambre jaune, by Gaston Leroux 13765
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FLASHBACK!
Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #1250
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
[Note: books without month and year entries have been reposted]
Apr 1998 Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley[#4][alxscxxx.xxx] 1275
Apr 1998 Martin Hyde the Duke's Messenger by John Masefield[mhydexxx.xxx] 1274
Apr 1998 The Autobiography of a Slander, by Edna Lyall [autosxxx.xxx] 1273
Apr 1998 Riddle of the Rhine/Chemical Strategy, by LeFebure[rrhinxxx.xxx] 1272
[Title: The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War]
[Author: Victor LeFebure]
Apr 1998 Bygone Beliefs, by H. Stanley Redgrove [byblfxxx.xxx] 1271
Apr 1998 In Defense of Women, by H. L. Mencken [ndwmnxxx.xxx] 1270
Apr 1998 Soul of a Bishop, by H. G. Wells [H. G. Wells #15][sbshpxxx.xxx] 1269
Apr 1998 The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne [Verne #6] [milndxxx.xxx] 1268
Apr 1998 Kai Lung's Golden Hours, by Ernest Bramah[Bramah3][klsghxxx.xxx] 1267
Apr 1998 Lavender and Old Lace, by Myrtle Reed [lvolcxxx.xxx] 1266
Apr 1998 Queen Victoria, by Lytton Strachey [qvctrxxx.xxx] 1265
Apr 1998 Wheels of Chance/Bicycling Idyll by H.G. Wells #14[wchncxxx.xxx] 1264
Apr 1998 The Glimpses of the Moon, by Edith Wharton [EW#9][tgotmxxx.xxx] 1263
Apr 1998 Heritage of the Desert, by Zane Grey[Zane Grey #6][hdsrtxxx.xxx] 1262
Betty Zane, by Zane Grey 1261
Mar 1998 Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte [#7 by Bronte's] [janeyxxx.xxx] 1260
Mar 1998 Twenty Years After, by Alexandre Dumas [Pere #4] [3muskxxx.xxx] 1259
Mar 1998 Ten Years Later, by Alexandre Dumas[Dumas Pere #3][2muskxxx.xxx] 1258
Mar 1998 The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas [Pere #2][1muskxxx.xxx] 1257
Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand 1256
[Language: French]
Pending / Unfilled 1255*
Mar 1998 Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand [In English] [cdbenxxx.xxx] 1254
Mar 1998 A Simple Soul, by Gustave Flaubert [Flaubert #1] [ssengxxx.xxx] 1253
Mar 1998 Le Mort d'Arthur, by Thomas Malory Volume 2[TM#2][2martxxx.xxx] 1252
Mar 1998 Le Mort d'Arthur, by Thomas Malory Volume 1[TM#1][1martxxx.xxx] 1251
Mar 1998 Anthem, by Ayn Rand [Alice Rosenblum][Ayn Rand #1][anthmxxx.xxx] 1250
(Slightly different format in:) [anthmxxa.xxx]
Mar 1998 Anthem, by Ayn Rand [Comparison of anthm10 & 10a] [anthmxxz.xxx] 1249
Mar 1998 Last of the Great Scouts, by Helen Cody Wetmore [bbillxxx.xxx] 1248
[Title: Last Of The Great Scouts, The Life Story Of Col. William F. Cody
"Buffalo Bill", As Told By His Sister Helen Cody Wetmore]
Mar 1998 Second April, by Edna St. Vincent Millay[Millay#2][aprilxxx.xxx] 1247
Mar 1998 The House of Dust, by Conrad Aiken [Aiken #1][hdustxxx.xxx] 1246
Mar 1998 Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf [Woolf #2][nidayxxx.xxx] 1245
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1% of the world population is 64,408,278 x 16,209 x $.96 = ~$1 trillion]
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
With 16,206 eBooks online as of May 11, 2005 it now takes an average
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This "cost" is down from about $.79 when we had 12,642 eBooks a year ago.
100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!
At 16,205 eBooks in 33 Years and 10.25 Months We Averaged
~479 Per Year
39.9 Per Month
1.31 Per Day
At 1250 eBooks Done In The 126 Days Of 2005 We Averaged
10 Per Day
70 Per Week
295 Per Month
The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks'
production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon,
starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was
the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production
year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon.
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
MOVING BEYOND LISTS FOR SEARCHING THE WEB
Supporters of non-text-based representations of Web search results got
a boost this week as Groxis, the makers of Grokker, released a version
of the software that runs as a Java plug-in for browsers. Previously,
the software, which returns search results in a circular "map," was
only available as a separate, $49 application. The company will now
depend on revenue from advertisements placed next to search results by
search engine Yahoo. For the past nine months, 2,000 students and
faculty of Stanford University have been testing the Grokker software,
which has earned a strong following there. Michael A. Keller,
Stanford's head librarian and an adviser to Groxis, said the
application allows users to find appropriate information more quickly.
Another company, Vivisimo, is developing a search engine that, while
still text-based, displays groups of folders next to ranked lists of
results. The folders give users another method of sifting through
search results for useful resources.
New York Times, 9 May 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/technology/09yahoo.html
STUDENT SHUTS DOWN BLOG AFTER THREAT FROM SINGAPORE
Chen Jiahao, a graduate student in chemical physics at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has shut down his personal blog and
issued two apologies after an agency of the government in Singapore
threatened to sue Chen for defamation. A*Star, the agency in Singapore
dealing with science and research, accused Chen, who is from Singapore,
of libelous statements that "went way beyond fair comment." The agency
demanded a public apology but said Chen's first apology was insincere
and insisted on another. A*Star said it welcomes various opinions and
perspectives, but many in the journalism community rejected that claim.
Singapore has long had a reputation for using tactics including
lawsuits to silence critics. Organizations including the Committee to
Protect Journalists and Reporters without Borders have decried
Singapore's threats to Chen and journalists. "Chen criticized some of
A*Star's policies," said Julien Pain, head of Reporters without
Borders' Internet freedom desk, "but there was nothing defamatory in
what he wrote."
Reuters, 9 May 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8422422
APPEALS COURT REJECTS BROADCAST FLAG
A federal appeals court has struck down regulations passed by the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to control unauthorized
dissemination of digital broadcasting signals. At issue was a
"broadcast flag," a technology that would be added to digital signals
that would prevent them from being distributed over the Internet. The
FCC's regulation would also have required makers of video-recording
equipment to modify their products to support the broadcast-flag
technology. The American Library Association filed a case arguing that
the regulation would impose undue restrictions on libraries, preventing
them from distributing digital content to online classrooms. Consumer
groups had also opposed the regulation, arguing it would drive up costs
of electronic products and would keep consumers from making legitimate
copies of digital works. In its ruling, the court said flatly that the
FCC had overstepped its authority in issuing the regulation.
Wall Street Journal, 6 May 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111539047987326903,00.html
DARTMOUTH NEARS COMPLETION OF NETWORK CONVERGENCE
Dartmouth College expects this fall to complete a project begun in 2001
to converge the school's phone, cable, and wireless systems into a
single network. When finished, the network--described as the first of
its kind at a U.S. university--will give students and faculty wireless
access to the university's online services, including cable television
and telephone, from anywhere on campus. In addition, the network will
allow users to create individual "channels," which can include various
forms of video content with a cable-quality signal. Channels could be
set up, for example, to let students view video snippets of lectures
when choosing classes. Having a network that allows students to watch
cable programming any time, from anywhere on campus, including during
class, has some worried about keeping students focused on studies, but
university officials are optimistic that the network will offer
compelling tools for professors to hold students' attention. Dartmouth
said it saved more than $2 million by installing its new network when
old systems needed to be replaced, and the network reportedly saves
close to $1 million each year on maintenance and other costs.
New York Times, 4 May 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/technology/techspecial/04zezima.html
APPLE WORKS FOR SCHOOL IBOOK DEAL
A tentative deal between Apple Computer and the Cobb County School
District in Georgia could see as many as 63,000 iBook computers going
to teachers and students in the district. The school board has already
given its approval to the purchase of 17,000 iBooks, for all teachers
and for students at four high schools. If approved, the program could
be expanded to include all students in the district. Apple's efforts
to persuade school districts to provide a computer for every
student--what it calls its one-to-one solutions--are aimed at regaining
ground in the education market that has been lost to companies selling
Windows-based products, most notably Dell. In 2001, Apple signed a
four-year deal with the Henrico County Public Schools in Virginia, only
to see that contract given to Dell last week when it came up for
renewal. Officials of Cobb County said they were aware of the situation
at Henrico when they selected Apple but that the problems with that
contract had been overcome. Henrico wanted the Microsoft Office
software suite on their computers and didn't have it, according to Jay
Dillion, a spokesperson for Cobb County. "We ... required Apple to
pre-load Office on all our iBooks."
CNET, 2 May 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-7342_3-5692363.html
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
General Kirkpatrick was busted to Colonel for Abu Ghraib events.
*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The mainstream media is giving equal weight to fact and spin."
Jeaneane Garafolo
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
It turns out that government and military officials knew
sat on the knowledge that that NFL star Pat Tillman been
killed by "friendly fire" for weeks, waiting to figure
out the best time, place and manner to release the data.
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Given court rulings and new bills signed into law, it is
now easier for corporations to declare bankruptcy to get
out of their pension plan responsibilities, but in great
reversal, it is now harder for bankruptcy to be declared
by an individual or family.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Graphical representations of search data, see above,
will become a major information tool.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
10 years ago 40% of workers were covered by pensions.
Today it is only 20%, and half of those are underfunded.
*
The divorce rate in the U.S. passed 1/2 some time ago,
and is now about half way to 2/3.
*
You've probably seen something like this statistic:
"A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes,
at the rate Washington spends it."
Then:
"This may have been true a half a billion seconds ago, too,
but now they're spending faster, so it doesn't take so long.
It's less than five hours."
And lately:
"It's 3 hours, 30 minutes now, for the feds to spend a billion USD,
not counting some off-budget expenditures."
*
"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
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Feb 1998 South Sea Tales, by Jack London [London #41-48][sosetxxx.xxx] 1208
Feb 1998 Nada the Lily, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard #2] [ndllyxxx.xxx] 1207
Feb 1998 The Flying U Ranch, by B. M. Bower [Bower #5] [flurnxxx.xxx] 1206
The Colour of Life, by Alice Meynell 1205
[Subtitle: And Other Essays on Things Seen and Heard]
Feb 1998 Cabin Fever, by B. M. Bower [B. M. Bower #4] [cabfvxxx.xxx] 1204
Feb 1998 Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope [Anthony Hope #4] [dlydlxxx.xxx] 1203
Feb 1998 Tales of Unrest, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #20] [tnrstxxx.xxx] 1202
Feb 1998 Essay on the Trial By Jury, by Lysander Spooner[1][tbjryxxx.xxx] 1201
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete, by Francois Rabelais 1200
Feb 1998 An Anthology of Australian Verse, Bertram Stevens [ozvrsxxx.xxx] 1199
Feb 1998 Robbery Under Arms, by Rolf Boldrewood[T.A.Browne][robryxxx.xxx] 1198
Feb 1998 Taras Bulba, et. al, by Nikolai Gogol [Gogol #2-7][tarasxxx.xxx] 1197
Feb 1998 The Purse, by Honore' de Balzac [Balzac #3] [pursexxx.xxx] 1196
Glasses, by Henry James 1195
Feb 1998 Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, by de Rougemont [advlrxxx.xxx] 1194
Feb 1998 The Coxon Fund, by Henry James [Henry James #18][coxonxxx.xxx] 1193
Feb 1998 The Old Bachelor, by William Congreve [Congreve#2][oldbaxxx.xxx] 1192
Feb 1998 The Double-Dealer, by William Congreve[Congreve#1][dbdlrxxx.xxx] 1191
Feb 1998 The Jolly Corner, by Henry James [Henry James #17][jllycxxx.xxx] 1190
The Message, by Honore de Balzac 1189
The Lair of the White Worm, by Bram Stoker 1188
Feb 1998 War of the Classes, by Jack London[Jack London#40][wrclsxxx.xxx] 1187
Poems, by Alice Meynell 1186
Feb 1998 Conflict Between Religion and Science, by Draper [hcbrsxxx.xxx] 1185
Jan 1998 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas[Pere][crstoxxx.xxx] 1184
Jan 1998 The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer[Rohmer4][rfumnxxx.xxx] 1183
Jan 1998 Dope, by Sax Rohmer [Sax Rohmer #3] [dopexxxx.xxx] 1182
Jan 1998 The Symposium by Xenophon, trans. by Dakyns [#13][sympmxxx.xxx] 1181
Jan 1998 The Sportsman, by Xenophon trans. by Dakyns [#12][sportxxx.xxx] 1180
Jan 1998 On Revenues by Xenophon, translated by Dakyns[#11][rvnuexxx.xxx] 1179
Jan 1998 Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians, Xenophon[#10][pltisxxx.xxx] 1178
Jan 1998 The Memorabilia by Xenophon, trans. by Dakyns [#9][mmrbixxx.xxx] 1177
Jan 1998 On Horsemanship by Xenophon, trans. by Dakyns [#8][hrsmnxxx.xxx] 1176
Jan 1998 Hiero, by Xenophon, translation by H.G. Dakyns[#7][hieroxxx.xxx] 1175
Jan 1998 Hellenica, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#6][hllncxxx.xxx] 1174
Jan 1998 The Economist, by Xenophon, Dakyns translation[#5][econmxxx.xxx] 1173
Jan 1998 The Cavalry General by Xenophon, trans. Dakyns[#4][cvlryxxx.xxx] 1172
Jan 1998 The Apology by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns[#3][aplgyxxx.xxx] 1171
Jan 1998 Anabasis, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#2][anbssxxx.xxx] 1170
Jan 1998 Agesilaus, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#1][agslsxxx.xxx] 1169
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This "cost" is down from about $.79 when we had 12,581 eBooks a year ago.
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At 16,159 eBooks in 33 Years and 10.00 Months We Averaged
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39.8 Per Month
1.31 Per Day
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10.11 Per Day
71 Per Week
301 Per Month
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PROPOSED DATABASE WORRIES SECURITY EXPERTS
Amid a rash of corporate and institutional data breaches recently,
security experts are questioning whether a "unit record" database
proposed by the Department of Education could be kept secure. Currently
the department collects aggregate data on college students and
graduation rates. A unit record database would track individual
students through their college careers, presenting what some see as an
extremely tempting target for hackers. The current system would force a
hacker to "compromise several databases," according to Eugene Spafford,
professor of computer sciences and electrical and computer engineering
at Purdue University, whereas with a database like the one proposed,
"it's possible to attack it from any point in the system." Barbara
Simons, former president of the Association for Computing Machinery,
was also concerned about a unit record database, suggesting that it
might not be the safest way to accomplish the department's goals.
Grover Whitehurst, director of the Institute of Education Sciences at
the Education Department, said the agency is investigating security
options for the proposed database and welcomes suggestions. He noted
that the system might not use Social Security numbers as identifiers
and said that if the information in the system were limited in scope,
it would not be very appealing to hackers.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 May 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i35/35a03701.htm
TIME WARNER REPORTS DATA LOSS
A company that handles data storage for Time Warner lost tape backups
containing personal information for about 600,000 employees. Iron
Mountain Inc., based in Boston, reportedly lost the tapes during
transport. Officials from Time Warner said the tapes did not contain
customer information. In a statement, Larry Cockell, chief security
officer at Time Warner, said that although no evidence exists that the
data have been accessed or misused, "we are providing current and
former employees with resources to monitor their credit reports while
our investigation continues." Time Warner owns America Online, HBO, and
Warner Brothers.
Reuters, 2 May 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8363208
HEARINGS FOCUS ON LIBRARY PROVISIONS OF USA PATRIOT ACT
Amid both House and Senate hearings on whether to renew certain
portions of the USA PATRIOT Act, supporters and critics of Section 215,
which authorizes law enforcement to obtain records from libraries and
other institutions, have lined up to voice their opinions. Section 215
allows gaining access to various types of records with only the
approval of a secret court. Further, those whose information has been
collected are barred from disclosing that fact, even to attorneys.
Representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has
been highly critical of the legislation, said they could support its
renewal if several concessions were made, including limiting the
authority to investigate only "agent[s] of a foreign power" and
eliminating the gag order for those under investigation. Groups
including the American Library Association said they supported the
ACLU's recommendations. Rep. Howard Coble (R-N.C.) defended the law as
it stands, saying there has been much "misinformation" about Section
215 and how it has been used. Kenneth L. Wainstein, U.S. attorney for
the District of Columbia, said that the law has not been used to obtain
records from libraries, though he acknowledged that it could be used
that way in the future.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 April 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/04/2005042901t.htm
FIU SUFFERS COMPUTER HACK
Officials at Florida International University (FIU) are warning faculty
and students about possible identity theft after it was discovered that
a hacker had user names and passwords for 165 computers on campus.
Although only a few of the computers contained personal information,
and despite the fact that no evidence exists that anyone's information
has been misused, school officials fear that the hacker may have had
enough access to put the university's entire network in question.
University staff have been instructed to inspect 3,000 computers on
campus to determine if they have been compromised. FIU has recommended
that faculty and students remove any personal information from their
computers and that they monitor their credit cards for suspicious
activity that could indicate fraud.
The Register, 29 April 2005
http://www.theregister.com/2005/04/29/fiu_id_fraud_alert/
U.S. STRENGTHENS COPYRIGHT LAW
President Bush this week signed into law the Family Entertainment and
Copyright Act, which allows for stiffer penalties for copyright
violations. Under the law, individuals found guilty of possessing one
or more copyrighted movie, music, or software files that have not been
released to the public face a fine and prison term of up to three
years. The law also criminalizes using a camcorder to record movies in
theaters. Copyright holders supported the measure. Dan Glickman of the
Motion Picture Association of America thanked Congress for what he
called "their strong advocacy for intellectual property rights."
Although some consumer groups opposed the law, some observers described
it as a relatively minor expansion of existing law. Eric Goldman,
professor of copyright law at Marquette University Law School, said he
expects the Justice Department to use its new authority responsibly.
Silicon.com, 28 April 2005
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39129955,00.htm
SPITZER FILES SUIT AGAINST MARKETING FIRM FOR SPYWARE
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has filed suit against
California-based Intermix Media for installing spyware on millions of
computers. The marketing company, which conceded that previous owners
indeed distributed spyware, is accused of violating state laws
concerning false advertising, deceptive business practices, and
trespassing. The state is seeking injunctions barring the company from
distributing any more spyware; an accounting of revenues the company
realized from the spyware; and fines of $500 for each act of installing
spyware. A statement from the company said that it voluntarily stopped
installing spyware recently and that no personal information was ever
collected with the secretly installed software. The statement hinted at
trying to reach a settlement with New York, a resolution that observers
said is a typical outcome of situations like this one.
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
Bill Gates and Thomas Friedman on the subject of the
U.S. high school system.
*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"I don't know what the future holds,
but I do know who holds the future."
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE DAY
In the bombing of the Toykyo, Japan area the vast majority
of U.S. bombing runs were total disasters with very heavy
losses and most of the bombs missing their targets, but it
was never reported at the time. Curtis LeMay, commander
of these air raids, was later promoted from Lt. Colonel
to Major General in just 18 months and even became the
Air Force Chief of Staff. However, he pursued failure
after failure in that office, and, finally, after his
abortive candidacy for Vice President under segregationist
George Wallace, his career in the public eye was over.
In his favor, however, was his stance against the gradual
buildup to U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, but he was once
again ignored.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
The New York Stock Exchange will remain steady, not moving
much more than 5% above and below 10,500.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
20% of U.S. adults have completed 4 years or more of higher education,
which is 1 out of 5. 40 years ago college was more exclusive, as only
1 out of 7 had a college education. Even with this influx of moderate
students, the grade average has increased, yet the SAT and ACT college
test scores continued to decline though the same period, at least from
then up to the point where the tests were rescored to make things look
as if they were not so bad. However, when such testing was initiated,
it was for an even wider portion of the U.S. population, servicemen of
the World War Two era.
*
You've probably seen something like this statistic:
"A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes,
at the rate Washington spends it."
Then:
"This may have been true a half a billion seconds ago, too,
but now they're spending faster, so it doesn't take so long.
It's less than five hours."
And lately:
"It's 3 hours, 30 minutes now, for the feds to spend a billion USD,
not counting some off-budget expenditures."
*
"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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[December 1881]
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"Same old Bill, eh Mable!", by Edward Streeter 15758
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Consideraciones, by T. H. Pardo de Tavera 15757
[Full title: Consideraciones Sobre el Origen del Nombre de los Numeros en Tagalog]
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Der Kalendermann vom Veitsberg, by O. Glaubrecht 15756
[Subtitle: Eine Erzählung für das Volk]
[Language: German]
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English Dialects From the Eighth Century, by Walter W. Skeat 15755
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Ihmekos tuo, by Matti Kurikka 15754
[Subtitle: Huvinäytelmä 1:ssä näytöksessä]
[Language: Finnish]
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Svensk diktning II, by Various 15753
[Subtitle: Selections from Swedish Poets with Brief Monographies]
[Editor: Jules Mauritzson]
[Notes and Vocabulary by Ernst W. Olson]
[Language: Swedish]
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Personal Reminiscences, by Stephen Field; George C. Gorham 15752
[Full title: Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches;]
[To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the]
[Supreme Bench of the State]
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Selection of Books Published by Methuen, October 1910, by Methuen & Co. 15751
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Pee-Wee Harris on the Trail, by Percy Keese Fitzhugh 15750
[Illustrator: H. S. Barbour]
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Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future, by A. T. Mahan 15749
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Kaerlighedens Komedie, by Henrik Ibsen 15748
[Language: Norwegian]
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Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader, by John L. Huelshof 15747
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The Flamingo Feather, by Kirk Munroe 15746
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The Man-Wolf and Other Tales, by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian 15745
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The Gay Lord Quex, by Arthur W. Pinero 15744
[Subtitle: A Comedy in Four Acts]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/4/15744 ]
[Files: 15744.txt; 15744-8.txt; 15744-h.htm]
Bunker Bean, by Harry Leon Wilson 15743
[Ill.: F. R. Gruger]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/4/15743 ]
[Files: 15743.txt; 15743-8.txt; 15743-h.htm; ]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, November 12, 1892, by Various 15742
[Editor: F. C. Burnand]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/4/15742 ]
[Files: 15742.txt; 15742-8.txt; 15742-h.htm; ]
The Little Colonel's House Party, by Annie Fellows Johnston 15741
[Ill.: Louis Meynell]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/4/15741 ]
[Files: 15741.txt; 15741-8.txt; 15741-h.htm; ]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 33, by Various 15740
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,]
[No. 33, June 24, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/4/15740 ]
[Files: 15740.txt; 15740-8.txt; 15740-h.htm]
Traité de la Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne, by Hugo Grotius 15739
[Translator: P le Jeune]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/3/15739 ]
[Files: 15739-0.txt; 15739-0.txt; 15739-h.htm]
Married Life, by May Edginton 15738
[Author AKA: Helen Marion Edginton Bailey]
[Subtitle: The True Romance]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/3/15738 ]
[Files: 15738.txt; 15738-8.txt; 15738-h.htm; ]
The Torch and Other Tales, by Eden Phillpotts 15737
[Contents: "Santa Claus"]]
[ The Returned Native]
[ John and Jane]
[ The Old Soldier]
[ When Fox Was Ferryman]
[ Mother's Misfortune]
[ Steadfast Samuel]
[ The Hound's Pool]
[ The Price of Milly Bassett]
[ The Amber Heart]
[ The Wise Woman of Walna]
[ The Torch]
[ "Spider"]
[ The Woodstock]
[ The Night-Hawk]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/3/15737 ]
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Der Mann von vierzig Jahren, by Jakob Wassermann 15736
[Language: German]
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History of the Negro Race, Vol 1, by George W. Williams 15735
[Full title: History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880.]
[Vol 1]
[Subtitle: Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/3/15735 ]
[Files: 15735.txt; 15735-8.txt; 15735-h.htm]
Aus Kroatien, by Arthur Achleitner 15734
[Subtitle: Skizzen und Erzahlungen]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/3/15734 ]
[Files: 15734-8.txt; 15734-0.txt]
Grey Roses, by Henry Harland 15733
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Contes de bord, by Edouard Corbiere 15732
[Language: French]
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[Files: 15732-8.txt; 15732-h.htm]
Allvarsord om allting och ingenting, by Waldemar Bulow 15731
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/3/15731 ]
[Files: 15731-8.txt]
A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel,by Stephen Crisp 15730
[Ill.: Flo-Ann Goerke]
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[Files: 15730.txt; 15730-h.htm; ]
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II, by S.M. Dubnow 15729
[Subtitle: From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander]
[III. (1825-1894)]
[Translator: I. Friedlaender]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/2/15729 ]
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Gritli's Children, by Johanna Spyri 15727
[Tr.: Louise Brooks]
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The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm, by Jane L. Stewart 15726
[Subtitle: Or, Bessie King's New Chum]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/2/15726 ]
[Files: 15726.txt; 15726-h.htm]
Dona Perfecta, by Benito Perez Galdos 15725
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[Files: 15725.txt; 15725-8.txt; 15725-h.htm]
Vi Bookar, Krokar och Rothar, by Hjalmar Bergman 15724
[Subtitle: Ur en stadskrönika]
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/2/15724 ]
[Files: 15724-8.txt]
The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle, by Edward Stratemeyer 15723
[Subtitle: The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/2/15723 ]
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The Tysons, by May Sinclair 15722
[Author AKA: Mary Amelia St. Clair Sinclair]
[Subtitle: (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/2/15722 ]
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The Hawk of Egypt, by Joan Conquest 15721
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/2/15721 ]
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Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest, by Alice B. Emerson 15720
[Subtitle: Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/2/15720 ]
[Files: 15720.txt; 15720-8.txt; 15720-h.htm]
What Philately Teaches, by John N. Luff 15713
[Subtitle: A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the]
[Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/1/15713 ]
[Files: 15713.txt; 15713-8.txt; 15713-h.htm; ]
Hugo, by Arnold Bennett 15712
[Subtitle: A Fantasia on Modern Themes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/1/15712 ]
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887, by Various 15678
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/7/15678 ]
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The House that Jill Built, by E. C. Gardner 15678
[Subtitle: after Jack's had proved a failure]
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
FEWER COLLEGE STUDENTS PURSUING COMPUTER SCIENCE DEGREES
[Because of the .com bust]
A new report from the Computing Research Association (CRA) shows a
significant drop in the number of college freshmen in the United States
who say they plan to major in computer science. The CRA looked at data
from the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of
California at Los Angeles and found that between fall of 2000 and fall
of 2004, interest in computer science fell by more than 60 percent and
is now 70 percent below its all-time high. Interest among women has
fallen even further, said the CRA, dropping 80 percent since 1998 and
93 percent since 1982. The CRA also conducted surveys of higher
education institutions and came up with similar results. The report
goes on to suggest that the United States will have difficulty meeting
the demand for IT workers in coming years, increasing the gap with
countries including India and China that are producing larger numbers
of computer science graduates. "Freshmen interest levels at any given
point have been an accurate predictor of trends in the number of
degrees granted four to five years later," according to the report.
CNET, 22 April 2005
http://news.com.com//2100-1022_3-5681438.html
ISU CONSIDERS LAPTOP REQUIREMENT
[For students, not for faculty]
The Faculty Senate at Indiana State University (ISU) has put its
support behind a proposal to require incoming freshmen to purchase
laptops beginning in the fall of 2007. Under the proposal, written by a
university committee, the university would recommend a particular
model, which would be available at reduced cost, though students could
obtain a waiver that would allow them to purchase a different model.
Officials at ISU noted that most students already have a computer and
said that the requirement would allow the university to see advantages
from having standardized systems that could be incorporated into
academic programs. Critics of the proposal pointed out that faculty
would not be required to use computers in their classes. Concerns over
the added cost to students were also raised by students and faculty who
oppose the plan, while others said having computers in class could be a
significant distraction.
Tribune-Star, 22 April 2005
http://www.tribstar.com/articles/2005/04/22/news/top_stories/top02.txt
GOOGLE TRIES NEW AD PROGRAM
[More ads, flashier ads, longer download times]
Internet search engine Google has implemented changes to its ad program
that allow advertisers more options for what their ads look like and
where they appear. Initially at least, the new ads will not appear on
Google's own sites but will potentially be included on the thousands
of sites to which Google provides ads. Until now, Google ads were
textual, and Google only placed ads on sites that were related to the
advertised product or service. A Web site about wine, for instance,
might get ads from Google about other wines, cheese, or other directly
relevant topics. Under the new program, Google will allow graphical
elements, including some animation and video, and advertisers can
decide which Web sites will display their ads. The program changes the
model from a pay-per-click arrangement to one in which advertisers pay
simply to show an ad.
New York Times, 25 April 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/technology/25google.html
EUROPE INTRODUCES .EU DOMAIN
The long-awaited .eu Internet domain will be operational by the end of
2005, according to officials of the European Union. Supporters of the
domain name have been working for six years to reach an agreement under
which the domain can be launched. Representatives of the European Union
believe the new domain will provide a sense of identity on the Internet
for organizations based around Europe, though it will not replace
existing country-specific domains, such as .uk or .de. In an effort to
limit cybersquatting of names in the domain, new domain names will only
be granted to companies and trademark owners for the first four months.
Members of the European Commission, the executive arm of the European
Union, advised that all offers of early registration for the domain
could well be fraudulent and should be treated with skepticism.
BBC, 21 April 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4470797.stm
JUDGE REJECTS RIAA'S EXPEDITED SUBPOENAS
A federal judge in North Carolina handed the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) a legal defeat in its effort to learn the
identities of two students accused of illegal file sharing. The RIAA
had sought the identities from the students' universities, the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State
University, under an expedited subpoena process the group has since
abandoned. In a December 2003 decision, another federal judge had
rejected the expedited subpoenas, which did not require a judge's
signature, ruling that Verizon could not be forced to disclose
identities of its customers. In their capacity as Internet service
providers (ISPs) for students, universities were given similar
protection from the expedited subpoenas. In this case, Judge Russell A.
Eliason ruled that an ISP that does not store information but merely
transmits it cannot be compelled under the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act to reveal identities of its users. After the 2003 decision, the
RIAA began filing individual "John Doe" lawsuits for illegal file
sharing. Under that process, which costs the RIAA more time and money
than the other, ISPs can be forced to turn over identities of users.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 22 April 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/04/2005042201t.htm
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No follow up on the huge Texas City oil refinery explosion.
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No Weapons of Mass Destruction
Yesterday it was announced that the search for the alleged
weapons of mass destruction whose suspected presence was
the official reason for the U.S. invasion of Iraq ended.
After millions of man-hours all leads have been exhausted
and no WMDs or further leads have been discovered. [NPR]
*
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the new intelligence community leadership under Negroponte
indicate that the two greatest failures of U.S. intelligence
were missing the 9/11 attacks and being duped into thinking
there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said in Russia that there
was too much power in the Kremlin and not enough independent
news media in Russia.
It would seem others are saying the same thing about the U.S.
White House gaining too much power and a similar decline in a
previously strong independent media in the U.S.
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE DAY
The richest man in Italy says that Prime Minister Berlusconi
resigned due to pressure from a biased liberal media.
He neglected to say that he owns 90% of the Italian media in
which he voices a conservative point of view.
By the way, that richest man in Italy. . .is Berlusconi. . .
*
The Bush Administration came out on the side of family rights
to decide on who decides to "pull the plug" in hospitial care,
but 1998 Bush signed a Texas law that took such decisions out
of the hands of the family.
*
The new Pope said that his job was to defend the church
against "the monstrous terrorism of modernism."
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
U.S. car sales will continue to go down, while U.S. home
sales will continue to go up.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
Even while announcing that inflation has been curbed, numbers
are being released that show 30% higher inflation for 2005 in
the first quarter than the annual rate for 2004.
.6% Inflation for March, 2005 [7.5% Annual Rate]
3.3% Inflation for 2004 [Annual Rate]
4.3% Inflation for 2005 [First Quarter]
Cost Price Index = CPI
*
Speaking of inflation, how many of you know "grade inflation?"
This is a trend caused by schools refusing to flunk out those
who can't even read so they can receive more money through an
assortment of per capita subsidies, athletic program tickets,
and various other reasons.
Even counting that half the students never make it to a degree
in four years, or even if extended to five years, the average
grades given in most colleges has been higher than a "B" quite
some time, and is still inching up.
Thus a "B" is now "below average" even though a "C" is supposed
to represent "average."
This trend, when compounded by the fact that more and more people
are receiving college degrees, which should bring the average way
down as more than the best students enroll, means that inflation
of grades is even more intense that previously thought, as these
grade would have to be inflated even more to discount the average
of the greater number of midrange students.
Approximately 1/3 of all U.S. young people get a college education
in modern times, a much greater number than the 14% I remember for
the period when I was researching colleges. Does anyone have some
statistics for the total U.S. % with college degrees?
*
56% of all U.S. college graduates are women.
Even more for those receiving advanced degrees.
*
Drug Pushers
There is one commercial drug rep for every 6.8 Drs in the US.
*
25-30% of high school and middle school students can't read.
First Lady Laura Bush on The Tonight Show last night.
*
"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
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Baron Olson och andra historier, by Sigge Stromberg 15719
[Language: Swedish]
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How To Write Special Feature Articles, by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer 15718
[Subtitle: A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire]
[to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/1/15718 ]
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Books and Persons, by Arnold Bennett 15717
[Subtitle: Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911]
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The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 25, by Various 15716
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 25, April]
[29, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/1/15716 ]
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My Adventures as a Spy, by Robert Baden-Powell 15715
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The Poor Little Rich Girl, by Eleanor Gates 15714
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Frau Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert 15711
[Translator: Arthur Schurig]
[Language: German]
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Nicky-Nan, Reservist, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q) 15710
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The Christmas Angel, by Abbie Farwell Brown 15709
[Illustrator: Reginald Birch]
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891, by Various 15708
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/0/15708 ]
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Zoonomia, Vol. I, by Erasmus Darwin 15707
[Subtitle: Or, the Laws of Organic Life]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/0/15707 ]
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Winchester, by Sidney Heath 15706
[Illustrator: E. W. Haslehust]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/0/15706 ]
[Files: 15706.txt; 15706-8.txt; 15706-h.htm]
The Silly Syclopedia, by Noah Lott 15705
[Note: Author name is pseudonym; real author name unknown.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/0/15705 ]
[Files: 15705.txt; 15705-h.htm]
Far to Seek, by Maud Diver 15704
[Subtitle: A Romance of England and India]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/0/15704 ]
[Files: 15704.txt; 15704-8.txt; 15704-h.htm]
Modern, by Ernst Ahlgren and Axel Lundegard 15703
[Subtitle: En Ber�ttelse]
[Note: Ernst Ahlgren och Axel Lundgard is a pseudonym for Victoria Benedictsson]
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/7/0/15703 ]
[Files: 15703-8.txt]
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12), by Burke 15702
[Full author: Edmund Burke]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/0/15702 ]
[Files: 15702.txt; 15702-8.txt; 15702-h.htm]
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12), by Burke 15701
[Full author: Edmund Burke]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/0/15701 ]
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Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12), by Burke 15700
[Full author: Edmund Burke]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/0/15700 ]
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A Handbook of the Boer War, by Gale and Polden, Limited 15699
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/9/15699 ]
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A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin, by A. Woodward 15698
[Subtitle: or, An Essay on Slavery]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/9/15698 ]
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True Stories of History and Biography, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 15697
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/9/15697 ]
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Superstition Unveiled, by Charles Southwell 15696
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/9/15696 ]
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'Doc.' Gordon, by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman 15695
[Illustrator: Frank T. Merrill]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/9/15695 ]
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A Friend of Caesar, by William Stearns Davis 15694
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/9/15694 ]
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T. De Witt Talmage, by T. De Witt Talmage and Mrs. T. De Witt Talmage 15693
[Subtitle: As I Knew Him]
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Aarimmaisessa talossa, by Matti Kurikka 15692
[Subtitle: N�ytelm� viidess� n�yt�ksess�]
[Language: Finnish]
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Woman in Modern Society, by Earl Barnes 15691
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Het Nut Der Mechanistische Methode In De Geneeskunde, Herman Boerhaave 15690
[Language: Dutch]
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Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader, by R. M. Ballantyne 15689
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Pacific]
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 13, 1917, by Various 15688
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Little Essays of Love and Virtue, by Havelock Ellis 15687
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La belle Gabrielle, vol. 3, by Auguste Maquet 15686
[Language: French]
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A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, by William Dampier 15685
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The Summer Holidays, by Amerel 15684
[Subtitle: A Story for Children]
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The High School Failures, by Francis P. Obrien 15683
[Subtitle: A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic]
[ or Commercial High School Subjects]
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De Leeuw Van Vlaanderen, by Hendrik Conscience 15682
[Subtitle: Of De Slag Der Gulden Sporen]
[Language: Dutch]
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Constructive Imperialism, by Viscount Milner 15681
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De Usu Ratiocinii Mechanici in Medicina, by Hermanni Boerhaave 15680
[Language: Latin]
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Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12), by Burke 15679
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, November 5, 1892, by Various 15677
[Editor: Francis Burnand]
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Tien ohesta tempomia, by Aino Malmberg 15676
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A Voyage to New Holland, by William Dampier 15675
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Chronica d'El-Rei D. Affonso III, by Ruy de Pina 15674
[Language: Portuguese]
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The Day of the Beast, by Zane Grey 15673
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Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, by George Gibbs 15672
[Full title: Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of]
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A Splendid Hazard, by Harold MacGrath 15671
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The Secret Chamber at Chad, by Evelyn Everett-Green 15670
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Fru inger til Ostrat, by Henrik Ibsen 15669
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Breves instruccoes, by Unknown 15668
[Full title: Breves instruccoes aos correspondentes da Academia das]
[ Sciencias de Lisboa sobre as remessas dos productos, e]
[ noticias pertencentes a' Historia da Natureza, para formar]
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Best Short Stories, by Various 15667
[Collected by Thomas L. Masson]
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The American Missionary--Vol. 48, No. 10, October, 1894, by Various 15666
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Today, I would like to recommend to you a book I have only recently noticed.
Book #2274, "How to Live on 24 Hours a Day" by Arnold Bennett. The title
alone intruiged me when I saw this book (the real thing) on a stack of
donations that had arrived to me from the local library. I simply could not
resist starting to read it as I am simply horrible at living in the time
allotted (as evidence I cite the fact that I started reading a book instead of
processing the donations to Distributed Proofreaders as I had intended!).
This book is exceedingly well written. Those of you who are inclined to read
it should also jot down the writings of the following:
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations(#2680) and Thoughts(#6920)
Epictetus: Golden Sayings(#871) and Discourses(#10661)
Emerson: Essays(#2944-5) and Representative Men(#6312)
Meredith: Complete Works(#4500)
Bogehot: Lombard Street(#4359)
Tolstoy: Anna Karenina(#1399)
Milton: Paradise Lost(#26)
Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire(#731-736)
As the author encourages you to read some of at least one at one point. Here
are two samples from the work:
"Strange that the newspapers, so enterprising and up-to-date as they are, are
not full of 'How to live on a given income of time,' instead of 'How to live
on a given income of money'! Money is far commoner than time. When one
reflects, one perceives that money is jut about the commonest thing there is.
It encumbers the earth in gross heaps."
"If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously
planning out a time-table with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give
up hope at once. If you are not prepared for discouragements and
disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort,
then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call
your existence."
~ ~ ~
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain
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A Monk of Fife, by Andrew Lang 1631
[Subtitle: Being the chronicle written by Norman Leslie of Pitcullo,
concerning marvellous deeds that befell in the realm of France, in
the years of our redemption, MCCCCXXIX-XXXI. Now first done into
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The Toys of Peace, by Saki 1477
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Pepper & Salt, by Howard Pyle 15664
[Subtitle: or, Seasoning for Young Folk]
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Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, by John Hunter 15662
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 6, 1917, by Various 15657
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Representation of the Impiety, by Anonymous 15656
[Full title: Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704);]
[Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704)]
[Introduction by Emmett L. Avery]
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Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun, by Mabel C. Hawley 15655
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The Firing Line, by Robert W. Chambers 15654
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, by Thomas Hood 15652
[Biographical Introduction by William Michael Rossetti]
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His Grace of Osmonde, by Frances Hodgson Burnett 15651
[Subtitle: Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His]
[Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality]
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The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 32, by Various 15650
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 32, June]
[17, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/5/15650 ]
[Files: 15650.txt; 15650-8.txt; 15650-h.htm]
Philosophicall Essay for the Reunion of the Languages,by Pierre Besnier 15649
[Subtitle: Or, The Art of Knowing All by the Mastery of One]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/4/15649 ]
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American Merchant Ships and Sailors, by Willis J. Abbot 15648
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The American Missionary, Vol. 44, No. 5, May 1890, by Various 15647
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/4/15647 ]
[Files: 15647.txt; 15647-h.htm]
Nord contre sud, by Jules Verne 15646
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/4/15646 ]
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Port-Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet 15645
[Subtitle: Derni�res aventures de l'illustre Tartarin]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/4/15645 ]
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Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army, by William G. Stevenson 15644
[Subtitle: Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance,]
[Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes,]
[Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/4/15644 ]
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Romeo ja Julia, by William Shakespeare 15643
[Translator: Paavo Cajander]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/4/15643 ]
[Files: 15643-8.txt]
Memoires, by Marie-Louise-Victoire de Donniss La Rochejaquelein 15642
[Full title: Memoires de Mme la marquise de La Rochejaquelein]
[Subtitle: �crits par elle-m�me]
[Editor: Prosper Brugi�re Barante]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/4/15642 ]
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Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851, by Various 15641
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Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851, by Various 15640
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/4/15640 ]
[Files: 15640.txt; 15640-8.txt; 15640-h.htm]
Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851, by Various 15639
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/3/15639 ]
[Files: 15639.txt; 15639-8.txt; 15639-h.htm]
Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851, by Various 15638
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/3/15638 ]
[Files: 15638.txt; 15638-8.txt; 15638-h.htm]
Harkmanin pojat, by Betty Elfving 15637
[Subtitle: Historiallinen novelli isonvihan ajoilta]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/3/15637 ]
[Files: 15637-8.txt]
The Future of Astronomy, by Edward C. Pickering 15636
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/3/15636 ]
[Files: 15636.txt; 15636-8.txt; 15636-h.htm]
Memoires (Tome 4), by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot 15635
[Full title: Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 4)]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/3/15635 ]
[Files: 15635-8.txt]
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Vol. 56, No. 346, by Various 15634
[Full title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/3/15634 ]
[Files: 15634.txt; 15634-8.txt]
Etimologia, by Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera 15633
[Full title: Etimologia de los Nombres de Razas de Filipinas]
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/3/15633 ]
[Files: 15633-8.txt; 15633-h.htm]
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare 15632
[Translator: Paavo Cajander]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/3/15632 ]
[Files: 15632-8.txt]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 31, by Various 15631
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 31, June]
[10, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/3/15631 ]
[Files: 15631.txt; 15631-8.txt; 15631-h.htm]
Polly Oliver's Problem, by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 15630
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/3/15630 ]
[Files: 15630.txt; 15630-8.txt; 15630-h.htm; ]
The Southern Cross, by Foxhall Daingerfield, Jr 15629
[Subtitle: A Play in Four Acts]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/2/15629 ]
[Files: 15629.txt; 15629-h.htm]
Sa Ano Nabubuhay Ang Tao, by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 15628
[Translator: Sofronio G. Calderon]
[Language: Tagalog]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/2/15628 ]
[Files: 15628-8.txt; 15628-h.htm]
Verner's Pride, by Mrs. Henry Wood 15627
[Illustrator: Harold Piffard]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/2/15627 ]
[Files: 15627.txt; 15627-8.txt; 15627-h.htm]
Contes et historiettes a l'usage des jeunes enfants, by Zulma Carraud 15626
[Subtitle: Qui commencent � savoir lire]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/2/15626 ]
[Files: 15626-8.txt; 15626-h.htm]
The Lookout Man, by B. M. Bower 15625
[Illustrator: H. Weston Taylor]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/2/15625 ]
[Files: 15625.txt; 15625-h.htm]
Trisagio Quen Carcararag, by Justo Claudio Fojas 15624
[Language: Iloko]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/2/15624 ]
[Files: 15624-8.txt; 15624-h.htm]
Jukes-Edwards, by A. E. Winship 15623
[Subtitle: A Study in Education and Heredity]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/2/15623 ]
[Files: 15623.txt; 15623-8.txt; 15623-h.htm]
Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition, by William N. Brown 15622
[Subtitle: For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and]
[Galvanizing]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/2/15622 ]
[Files: 15622.txt; 15622-8.txt; 15622-h.htm]
The Story of Jack and the Giants, by Anonymous 15621
[Illustrator: Richard Doyle]
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Recreations in Astronomy, by Henry Warren 15620
[Subtitle: With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work]
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[Files: 15620.txt; 15620-8.txt; 15620-h.htm]
The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 30, by Various 15619
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 30, June 3,]
[1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/1/15619 ]
[Files: 15619.txt; 15619-8.txt; 15619-h.htm]
The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman, by Thackeray 15618
[Author: Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray]
[Ill.: George Cruikshank]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/1/15618 ]
[Files: 15618.txt; 15618-h.htm; ]
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1, by Various 15617
[Full author: Kempster Miller, George Patterson, Charles Thom,]
[Robert Millikan and Samuel McMeen]
[Subtitle: A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/1/15617 ]
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Hero Tales, by James Baldwin 15616
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, March 17, 1920, by Various 15615
[Editor: Owen Seaman]
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The Ragged Edge, by Harold MacGrath 15614
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The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 28, by Various 15613
[Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,]
[ No. 28, May 20, 1897]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/1/15613 ]
[Files: 15613.txt; 15613-8.txt; 15613-h.htm]
Genesis A, by Anonymous 15612
[Subtitle: Translated from the Old English]
[Editor: Albert S. Cook]
[Translator: Lawrence Mason]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/6/1/15612 ]
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Auringon noustessa, by Tekla Roschier 15611
[Subtitle: Kasvavalle nuorisolle]
[Language: Finnish]
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FLASHBACK!
Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #1095
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
Nov 1997 King Henry VI, Part 1, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws01xxx.xxx] 1100C
Nov 1997 The Riverman, by Stewart Edward White [White #3][rvrmnxxx.xxx] 1099
Nov 1997 The Turmoil, A novel, by Booth Tarkington [BT#5] [turmoxxx.xxx] 1098
Nov 1997 Mrs. Warren's Profession, by G. B. Shaw [Shaw #4] [wrproxxx.xxx] 1097
The Faith of Men, by Jack London 1096
Nov 1997 Light of the Western Stars, Zane Grey [Grey #4][lwstrxxx.xxx] 1095
Nov 1997 Tamburlaine the Great PT 1, by Christopher Marlowe[tmbn1xxx.xxx] 1094
Nov 1997 The Beast in the Jungle, by Henry James[James #15][bstjgxxx.xxx] 1093
Nov 1997 The Description of Wales, by Giraldus Cambrensis [dscwlxxx.xxx] 1092
Nov 1997 Heroes and Hero Worship, by Thomas Carlyle [TC#3] [herosxxx.xxx] 1091
Nov 1997 Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift[#4][bstafxxx.xxx] 1090
Nov 1997 Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London[#19-26][mfacexxx.xxx] 1089
Oct 1997 Rolf in the Woods, by Ernest Thompson Seton [rolfwxxx.xxx] 1088
Oct 1997 Baartock, by Lewis Roth [brtckxxx.xxx] 1087C
Oct 1997 A Horse's Tale, by Mark Twain [Clemens] [MT#12][hrstlxxx.xxx] 1086
Oct 1997 Life of John Sterling, by Thomas Carlyle [TC#2] [strlgxxx.xxx] 1085
Oct 1997 Recipes Tried and True by Presbyterian Ladies' Aid[tandtxxx.xxx] 1084
Oct 1997 The Arrow of Gold, by Joseph Conrad [argldxxx.xxx] 1083
Oct 1997 Voyage of The Paper Canoe, by Nathaniel H. Bishop [pprcnxxx.xxx] 1082
Oct 1997 Dead Souls, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [Gogol#1][dsolsxxx.xxx] 1081
Oct 1997 A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift [Swift #3] [mdprpxxx.xxx] 1080
Oct 1997 Life of Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne [shndyxxx.xxx] 1079
Oct 1997 The Scouts of the Valley, by Joseph A. Altsheler [sctvlxxx.xxx] 1078
Oct 1997 The Mirror of Kong Ho, by Ernest Bramah [Bramah#2][konghxxx.xxx] 1077
Oct 1997 The Wallet of Kai Lung, by Ernest Bramah[Bramah#1][wklngxxx.xxx] 1076
Oct 1997 The Strength of the Strong, by Jack London [#12][sstrgxxx.xxx] 1075
Oct 1997 The Sea Wolf, by Jack London [Jack London #11] [cwolfxxx.xxx] 1074
Oct 1997 The Death of Olivier Becaille, by Emile Zola [#4] [1zolaxxx.xxx] 1073
Oct 1997 The Miller's Daughter, by Emile Zola [Zola #3] [1zolaxxx.xxx] 1072
Oct 1997 Captain Burle, by Emile Zola [Emile Zola #2] [1zolaxxx.xxx] 1071
Oct 1997 Nana, by Emile Zola [Emile Zola #1] [See note] [1zolaxxx.xxx] 1070
Oct 1997 1st PG Collection of Emile Zola [Emile Zola #1] [1zolaxxx.xxx] 1069
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Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet???
With 16,051 eBooks online as of April 20, 2005 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.97 from each book.
1% of the world population is 64,318,029 [x 16,051 x $.97 = ~$1 trillion]
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
With 16,051 eBooks online as of April 20, 2005 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.62 from each book,
This "cost" is down from about $.81 when we had 12,401 eBooks a year ago.
100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!
At 16,051 eBooks in 33 Years and 09.50 Months We Averaged
~475 Per Year
39.6 Per Month
1.30 Per Day
At 1095 eBooks Done In The 105 Days Of 2005 We Averaged
10.43 Per Day
73 Per Week
313 Per Month
The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks'
production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon,
starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was
the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production
year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon.
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
STUDENT FORCED TO TAKE TESTS OFF THE WEB
[What's Good For The College Jocks And Greeks, Not Good For The Masses]
The University of Wyoming has insisted that a student remove copies of
old tests from his Web site. Aaron Narva, a senior at the university,
had posted the tests online and initially sold them to other students.
Later, Narva gave the tests away for free. Narva said that old tests
are a useful study aid, noting that the athletics department as well as
sororities and fraternities make copies of tests available to their
members. Dane Ciolino, professor of copyright law at Loyola University,
said that Narva's comparison fails because by posting the tests
online, he is making many more copies available. Ciolino also noted
that fair use cannot apply if Narva was charging money for the tests.
Narva is charged with violating university policies and will have a
hearing at the university later this month.
CNN, 15 April 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/04/15/old.tests.website.ap/
BRITS UNVEIL CREATIVE ARCHIVE
The BBC has launched an initiative known as the Creative Archive to
disseminate creative works across the United Kingdom. Modeled on the
Creative Commons in the United States, the Creative Archive License
invites users to download creative materials and use them however they
desire, with a few stipulations. Users of content must cite the
creator; allow others to use newly created works in the same manner;
not use content for commercial gain; and limit use to within the United
Kingdom. The archive is relatively small so far, containing works only
from the British Film Institute, but a spokesperson from the BBC said
the group hopes eventually to make available a vast quantity of content
currently unavailable to the public. She noted that because of the wide
range of copyright concerns, those posting content must work carefully
and thoroughly to meet all requirements. Lawrence Lessig, professor at
Stanford Law School and one of the founders of Creative Commons,
applauded the Creative Archive, saying that the BBC is inviting
consumers to become part of the creative process rather than just
receivers. He said he hopes the program helps U.S. users "think more
progressively about this issue."
Wired News, 18 April 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67239,00.html
LEXISNEXIS DISCLOSES MORE DATA LOSSES
LexisNexis this week revealed that much more personal information was
exposed to identity thieves than reported in estimates released last
month. Information including Social Security numbers for 310,000 U.S.
citizens was exposed--nearly 10 times the 32,000 previously announced
by company officials. According to LexisNexis, the data were
compromised in a total of 59 separate incidents over the past two
years, most of them at subsidiary Seisint, which LexisNexis bought in
July 2004. A spate of data breaches lately has prompted the U.S.
Congress to hold hearings on problems affecting the data-brokerage
industry and to propose regulations that would add strict controls on
the collection and sale of personal information. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
said, "When a company like LexisNexis so badly underestimates its own
ID theft breaches, it is clear that things are totally out of hand."
Reuters, 12 April 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8159934
POKING HOLES IN MICROSOFT'S GRAMMAR CHECKER
Sandeep Krishnamurthy, associate professor of marketing and e-commerce
at the University of Washington, is so incensed with the grammar
checker in Microsoft Word that he has taken to posting examples of what
he sees as the checker's failings on his Web site. He has also called
on Microsoft to improve the checker. Citing egregious grammar mistakes
that the tool does not question, Krishnamurthy said that although it
might be helpful for above-average writers, it actually impedes
below-average writers' efforts to improve their writing skill.
Krishnamurthy said Microsoft should modify the tool to allow users to
select the level of help they need, from basic to advanced. For its
part, Microsoft said in a statement that the tool is not intended to
find or identify all errors. Instead, it is designed "to catch the
kinds of errors that ordinary users make in normal writing situations."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 April 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i32/32a02902.htm
COMPUTER APPLICATION GRADES ESSAYS
A professor at the University of Missouri has developed a computer
application that grades papers and offers advice on writing. Ed Brent,
professor of sociology, created the application, called Qualrus, using
a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Qualrus
evaluates papers based on the structure of sentences and paragraphs and
on the flow of ideas. Instructors can specify which factors of an
assignment are most important, and Qualrus incorporates that
information into the scores it provides. Brent claims the application
improves students' papers and estimated that it saves him more than
200 hours of grading per semester. The tool has been approved for use
across the university, but so far Brent is the only instructor using it.
Brent is also looking for ways to distribute the tool to other
universities and to businesses. [Probably at a large profit]
CNET, 7 April 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5659366.html
UC ELECTRONIC RESERVES RANKLE PUBLISHERS
A system that handles electronic reserves at the University of
California (UC) in San Diego has prompted complaints from publishers
that the university has far exceeded the bounds of fair use. With the
system, materials that faculty put on reserve are made available
electronically, allowing students to access and even print them from
outside the university library. The Association of American Publishers
objected, saying that electronic access substantially changes the
traditional terms of reserve materials and deprives publishers of
sales. Publishers have previously won legal challenges to the
production of coursepacks, which the courts said do not fall under the
terms of fair use. The publishing group insisted the same applies to
electronic resources. Representatives of UC disputed the claims, saying
the reserve system does not infringe on sales of texts. Jonathan
Franklin, associate law librarian at the University of Washington,
noted that the fair use law is not clear and commented that if the
disagreement is ultimately settled by the courts, such a resolution
might provide needed clarification for all concerned.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 April 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/04/2005040701t.htm
CODING CONTEST SHOWS U.S. STUDENTS FALLING BEHIND
[More details below in media avoidance section, Shanhai was winner]
At this year's Association for Computing Machinery International
Collegiate Programming Contest, the University of Illinois's tie for
17th place was the best result for any U.S. team, representing the
worst performance for U.S. institutions in the 29 years of the
competition. Many observers believe the result is indicative of a
variety of factors that have resulted in a striking shift in
technological preeminence away from U.S. schools and companies. As
recently as 1997, the United States came out on top, when a team from
Harvey Mudd College won the competition. David Patterson, president of
the Association for Computing Machinery and a computer science
professor at the University of California, Berkeley, noted, "The U.S.
used to dominate these kinds of programming Olympics." Others pointed
out that applications from outside the United States to computer
science and other technology programs at U.S. graduate schools have
dropped lately.
ZDNet, 7 April 2005
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5659116.html
E-RATE INDICTMENTS HANDED DOWN
Six companies and five individuals have been indicted on charges of
fraud in the federal E-Rate program, which was instituted to provide
funds to connect public schools and libraries to the Internet. A year
ago, a subsidiary of NEC admitted defrauding the program and settled
with prosecutors for $20.7 million. Those indicted this week were
charged with fraud, collusion, and rigging bids. According to the
Justice Department, the accused misrepresented financial terms of
E-Rate projects to school administrators and colluded on pricing and
terms of government contracts. The violations are said to have taken
place in seven states, though all but one defendant are based in
California. The individuals charged face up to five years in prison,
and the indicted companies could be fined as much as $10 million.
Wall Street Journal, 8 April 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111292755907301701,00.html
DUKE SCALES BACK IPOD PROGRAM
Officials at Duke University have said they will cut back a program to
equip incoming students with iPods. Last fall, all 1,600 incoming
freshmen were given the devices as part of a pilot program to see how
they might influence learning. Next year, the university will only
provide iPods to students who enroll in courses that use iPods in the
curriculum. School officials said they were pleased with what they
learned from the program in its first year, but they pointed out that
the larger goal is to incorporate technology into the teaching and
learning processes. The narrower focus of the iPod initiative was
characterized as an evolution of the university's efforts toward that
goal. Lynne O'Brien, who coordinated the iPod program, said some
faculty embraced the devices in their classes, while other faculty were
more skeptical, seeing no real purpose for the devices.
CNET, 6 April 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5657240.html
TECH COMPANIES LINE UP WITH EU
[No mention of the huge MicroSoft payoff to settle with Gateway]
Five leading technology companies have voiced their support of the
European Union (EU) in its antitrust case against Microsoft. IBM,
Oracle, Red Hat, RealNetworks, and Nokia have applied to join the case
in which the European Commission has already fined Microsoft $640
million and ordered that the company make changes to its operating
systems to increase competition with other vendors. Aside from
RealNetworks, which has previously challenged Microsoft in court, the
other four companies have been reluctant to take a strong public stance
against Microsoft. Thomas Vinje, an attorney for the EU, said the
support from these companies undercuts Microsoft's claim that the case
against it in Europe is not endorsed by others in the technology
industry. It is not clear whether the court hearing the case will
accept the companies' application, but, according to Jonathan Todd,
spokesperson for the EU, their action is not likely to be "relevant or
determining in terms of the outcome of a particular antitrust case."
Washington Post, 6 April 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30610-2005Apr6.html
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
Some of these were covered yesterday by ABC, NBC and CBS, some not:
A little about the new pope:
Previous name: Joseph Ratzinger
New name: Benedict XVI [16th]
Was formerly head of the "Inquisition."
[The Office of Orthodox Catholic Doctrine]
Oldest cardinal elected pope in 300 years.
[Other sources said in over 100 years]
First German pope in 1,000 years
Nickname: "The Enforcer" [Not a joke]
Reported as the most hardline conservative
of all those in the conclave.
Served in Germany's Hitler Youth as a boy.
Deserter from the Germany Army in 1945.
*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Congressman "Barney Frank had the best line. He said he'd been the focus of
ethics probes fifteen years ago because he'd `"behaved inappropriately.'"
"I changed my behavior," said Frank.
"Tom DeLay changed the ethics committee."
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE DAY
It now take a majority of the Ethics Committee to contine an investigation.
Since the committee is split equally among Republicans and Democrats, it is
unlikely anyone will ever be investigated again without someone crossing an
interestingly drawn party line.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Fewer Chinese and Indian students will come to the U.S.
for their educations, more will graduate at home, as an
educational revolution has taken place.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
When you listen to the news you the only income levels
you usually hear are something such as 2001's $51,407.
BUT. . .this isn't one income, it is THREE incomes put
together to appear as one income.
To achieve this fictional family income level you must
add together the median income for men plus the median
income for women plus ~1,000 of part time labor:
$29,101 Median Income For Men
$16,614 Median Women's Income
$ 5,691 1105 Hour Minium Wage
------- --------------------------
$51,402 ~Median Family Income
All figures from 2001, more details on request.
*
"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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