April 2006 - gutvol-d - lists.pglaf.org

re: [gutvol-d] don't believe everything you read on the internets
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

> You choose to foster a hostile environment by your messages spin. i carefully tailor my posts to be rorschach blots, open to interpretation; what each person sees in them is informative to me about that person... -bowerbird

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re: [gutvol-d] don't believe everything you read on the internets
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

like i said, it doesn't matter to me if i'm banned or not, because i want to stop wasting time over there anyway. and since i am certainly not about to change what i say _or_ how i say it, it would only be a matter of time before i was banned eventually, "for the good of the community". besides, jon, with adobe plotting against openreader, you've got much bigger fish to fry than my fat old ass... -bowerbird

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don't believe everything you read on the internets
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

geez, it's _so_ boring to talk about me, but i figure you deserve to know how the teleread censorship thing has played out. the last 3-4 comments i sent to teleread were "flagged" for "review by an administrator" as "spam" and have never appeared. they weren't controversial comments, just me finishing a few threads in case i was banned. so it appears to me my hall pass has been revoked... but meanwhile, rothman is posting comments saying i am "welcome" there (albeit with huge reservations), and that no one is being censored or even moderated. so don't believe everything you read on the internets! i don't know how to resolve the discrepancy here... perhaps he's willing to tell a great big lie in order to save a little bit of face. or maybe it's "a coincidence" that all of a sudden my comments stopped appearing. whatever the case may be, it's clear that rothman wants only "yes-men" on his blog, and i am not one of those, so i see no need for me to be there, thank you very much. as i told you, my new year's resolution for 2006 was to stop wasting time and energy commenting on his blog. and i actually succeeded for two months, then relapsed when he was in the midst of a campaign to give readers the impression that openreader was _the_ way to get a publicly-shared annotation capability. (it might be _one_ way, but it's certainly not the only way, not by a long shot.) so any uncertainty about whether i've been banned or not doesn't really matter, because i'd just as soon not be there. i am certainly not going to "submit" comments that might never appear, and might have been "edited" when they do. so the banning is helping me to keep my resolution! :+) oh, that doesn't mean i'm going to stop puncturing the hype put out by the rothman/noring spin machine. it just means that i will not be doing it where they control my microphone. it's so silly to think that they can silence me by banning me! cyberspace has no shortage of soapboxes, and branko won't be able to edit me or delete me when i use my own soapbox. but i'll be sure to let the world know he _would_, if he _could_, as demonstrated by the fact that he already _did_... oh, for the record, branko's "editing" consisted of three things. first, he removed my linebreaks; might or might not seem significant to you, but that's irrelevant, it's significant to me; you don't mess with a poet's linebreaks. second, he removed my z.m.l.-style _styling_ markers and replaced them with actual styling. (bold in the one instance.) finally, he uppercased some of my letters. that's a huge no-no. i write my posts the way i do as an expression of my individuality. if anyone thinks i will tolerate their "editing" out that individuality, they're wrong. but even more to the point, _no_one_ should have their comments on a blog be "edited" by the blog's owners. ever. anyway, it will be nice to go back to keeping my 2006 resolution! moreover, it will be fun to pull back my "reality check" and watch, as the rothman/noring machine might spin itself out of control... rothman's delusions are grandly entertaining, i must say. for instance, today he's got an entry saying that there is an "apparent plot to subvert openreader" by adobe and a whole cast of other parties who are "doing all they can to preempt openreader". i bet few of you even knew that this app -- which won't even be released until summer -- is so threatening that it's stirred up secret plans at adobe, and maybe sony, microsoft, and who knows? check it out: > http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4647 i don't know about you, but paranoia _this_ grandiose is tremendously amusing to me! heck, it makes me wish i would have been _egging_him_on_ all along, instead of providing a calm and rational counterbalance to his hype. i bet it'd be easy to find "evidence" that supports his fears, because he seems willing to believe some crazy things... it's too late for _me_ to do that now, but if _someone_else_ were to feed his hysteria, it might create some fun reading! ah, the world of e-books. what an interesting "community". :+) anyway, i am sorry to disturb all you fine people digitizing books. you can return to your important work now. thanks for your time. -bowerbird

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the emergence of the "site-specific browser"
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

there's a new mac app called "pyro" available here: > http://www.karppinen.fi/pyro/ as it says on the site, pyro > demonstrates a new breed of applications > we call site-specific browsers—apps that are > about making a browser-based application > better with client-side technology while > keeping the user interface intact. pyro works with "campfire", a web-based chat service. this kind of application -- one that runs on the users own machines, but connects them with the web -- is how many e-book viewers of the future will be oriented. -bowerbird

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re: [gutvol-d] PG texts in South Africa
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

hey windows people, do please let me know if this viewer-program is any good, and i'll check it out... -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] PG catalog question
by Dick Adicks 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Library cataloguers have been handling this problem since time immemorial with "See" and "See also" references. The author's name on the PG book should be the same as the name on the title page. Dick Adicks

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re: [gutvol-d] PG catalog question
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

dick said: > The author's name on the PG book > should be the same as the name on the title page. i agree with dick. but that's not the end of the story. at the point in the file where the title page is, the name that is located there should obviously "be the same as the name on the title page"... plus, at _some_ point in the file, there should _also_ be the name as it occurs in the authority file you use. project gutenberg _is_ using an authority file, isn't it? also, google indexes only the first 100k of a file, so _all_ forms of the author's name (even those that are neither on the title-page nor the one in your authority file) should appear in the first 100k... that's the right answer, from your resident know-it-all. -bowerbird

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PG catalog question
by Greg Weeks 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

I just noticed that the last posting for H. Beam Piper ended up in its own author section instead of with the rest of the Piper works. Piper, H. Beam * Time Crime (English) Piper, Henry Beam, 1904-1964 * Wikipedia * Genesis (English) * Graveyard of Dreams (English) * Little Fuzzy (English) * Murder in the Gunroom (English) Is there any way to get these merged into a single author section? Preferably with a search for either name hitting the same author section in the catalog. -- Greg Weeks http://durendal.org:8080/greg/

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Re: 'Lasker's Manual of Chess.'
by tom arnall 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

how do you do a search for works published before 1978? at the LOC site i could find a search facility only for works published after 1978. i would like to get copyright info for other works by lasker. thanks, tom arnall north spit, ca > > On Sunday 09 April 2006 05:36 pm, tom arnall wrote: > > > >>I am interested in creating a Gutenberg book of Emanuel Lasker's 'Lasker's > >>Manual of Chess.' > > D Garcia wrote: > > > > The earliest edition I find of this in a quick LOC search is 1927, so at a > > glance it's still under copyright in the US, and not eligible for PG. > > >

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Re: 'Lasker's Manual of Chess'
by tom arnall 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

how do i find out about publishing lasker's book via PG Australia? thanks, tom arnall north spit, ca On Tuesday 11 April 2006 08:19 am, gutvol-d-request(a)lists.pglaf.org wrote: > Yesterday 06:37:34 pm > > > > On Sunday 09 April 2006 05:36 pm, tom arnall wrote: > >>I am interested in creating a Gutenberg book of Emanuel Lasker's > >> 'Lasker's Manual of Chess.' > > D Garcia wrote: > > The earliest edition I find of this in a quick LOC search is 1927, so at > > a glance it's still under copyright in the US, and not eligible for PG. > > Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) is most likely fair game for PG Australia. > > ============================================================ > Gardner Buchanan <gbuchana(a)rogers.com> > Ottawa, ON FreeBSD: Where you want to go. Today. > > End of encapsulated message

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