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by Michael Hart 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

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That's the 9.75 months of 2004 as Compared to ~31 years!!! *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] >From NewsScan: DESCENT FROM PRIVACY: A 'SLIPPERY SLOPE' Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, warns: "Most consumers don't fully understand the tradeoffs they're making with privacy." As an example, she argues that the potential widespread use of the VeriChip -- a tiny radio transmitter inserted under a person's skin -- is "a nightmare situation" for privacy, because at first workers might be induced to wear the devices simply to get high-security jobs but that eventually the transmitters would be much more broadly required: "All of a sudden it becomes mandatory for certain classes of people. I just see this as an extremely slippery slope."(Christian Science Monitor 21 Oct 2004) <http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2004/1021/p13s01-stct.html> [and in a related story] U.S. PASSPORTS GET CHIPPED [If crooks read your passport, they will know when you are not at home.] Beginning in January, diplomats and U.S. State Department employees will be issued passports containing embedded RFID chips that will contain the individual's name, address, date and place of birth, and a digital photo. Ordinary citizens applying for new passports will get the high-tech version starting in the spring. Civil liberties advocates have called the new passports a "privacy horror," and point out that even if the data were encrypted (and it's not), it would still be very easy to steal. "If 180 countries have access to the technology for reading this thing, whether or not it is encrypted, from a security standpoint, that is a very leaky system," says Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Lee Tien. "Strictly from a technology standpoint, any reader system, even with security, that was so widely deployed and accessible to so many people worldwide will be subject to some very interesting compromises." Meanwhile, a travel privacy expert says that in addition to identity thieves, commercial travel companies, including hotels, will capture the data when people check in or exchange currency. Intel RFID expert Roy Want says those fears are overblown, but acknowledges some theft is possible: "In principle someone could rig up a reader, perhaps in a doorway you are forcing people to go through. You could read some of these tags some of the time." (Wired.com 21 Oct 2004) <http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65412,00.html> ROBOT USE TO SURGE BY 2007 The use of robots to perform household tasks such as lawn-mowing, vacuuming, guard duty and other chores is slated to increase sevenfold by 2007, according to the U.N.'s latest World Robotics Survey. The report says 607,000 automated domestic helpers are in use now, two thirds of them purchased last year. Most of them -- 570,000 -- are robot vacuum cleaners, and 37,000 of them are robotic lawn-mowers. While the report predicts that vacuum cleaners will continue to hold the lead, sales of window-washing and pool-cleaning robots are expected to take off. Meanwhile, sales of robotic companions, like Sony's Aibo dog, are also expanding, with some 692,000 "entertainment robots" around the world. Japan remains home to about half of the current 800,000 industrial robots, which are used primarily on automobile assembly lines, but Europe and North America are catching up. And "service robots" are branching out, performing such tasks as milking cows, handling toxic waste, transporting medicine around hospitals and assisting surgeons. By the end of this decade, robots will "also assist old and handicapped people with sophisticated interactive equipment, carry out surgery, inspect pipes and sites that are hazardous to people, fight fire and bombs," says the report. (AP 21 Oct 2004) <http://apnews.excite.com/article/20041021/D85RQCJ82.html> MUSIC INDUSTRY ON THE WRONG COURSE Wharton business professor Joel Waldfogel says the music industry is mistakenly pursuing a short-term strategy in backing the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004, which would hold liable any entity that "intentionally aids, abets, induces or procures" copyrighted material. Rather than fighting technological advances through litigation, the music industry must come up with new business models -- for instance, taking advantage of the Internet to slash its distribution costs. "Instead of putting out CDs and shipping them on trucks, they can send them directly at a very low cost. That does suggest a very different business model than charging $15 or $20 for a CD. It might be a much more attractive way to do things. Stuff that is easy to distribute wants to be free. Given that force, I think [the recording industry] needs to come up with a new model for generating income," says Waldfogel. (Knowledge@Wharton Oct 20-Nov 2 2004) http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&id=1066 ADVERTISERS TRACK RADIO LISTENING HABITS In 14 locations around the Washington area, a company called MobilTrak has installed sensing devices on utility poles that pick up the electronic signals from cars' antennas as they speed by and record which station they're listening to. The monitoring process gives businesses a welcome insight into the listening habits of their target audience and helps them decide how to allocate their advertising budget, says MobilTrak managing partner C. David Boice: "It's all about precision marketing. It's about giving marketers real-time data about what's happening in certain areas at certain times so they don't waste their advertising dollars." The most enthusiastic adopters have been car dealerships, who generally believe that 80% of their business comes from people who live or work within 10 miles of their location. One dealer found that the two stations he'd been investing in -- a talk-personality station and a contemporary music station -- didn't even rank in the top 10 for in-car radio listeners driving by his dealership. "It was a real eye-opener," he says. Currently, MobilTrak picks up only FM signals, but the company says it plans to introduce technology that picks up AM and satellite station signals next spring. (Washington Post 25 Oct 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60013-2004Oct24.html> CYBERSECURITY LARGELY IGNORED BY INDIVIDUAL USERS A new study by America Online and the National Cyber Security Alliance indicates that about 80% of home PCs are infected with spyware, but most users aren't even aware of it. And while 85% of users had installed antivirus software, two-thirds of those had not updated it in the past week. In addition, about 20% had an active virus on their machines and two-thirds did not have a firewall installed. AOL chief trust officer Tatiana Gau says the results highlight just how vulnerable the average online user is to malicious hackers. "No consumer would walk down the street waving a stack of cash or leave their wallet sitting in a public place, but far too many are doing the exact same thing online. Without basic protections like antivirus, spyware and firewall software, consumers are leaving their personal and financial information at risk." (CNet News.com 24 Oct 2004) <http://news.com.com/Plague+carriers+Most+users+unaware+of+PC+infections/210 0-1029_3-5423306.html> [More below on this one] You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage SPYWARE RAMPANT, USERS UNAWARE Results of a recent study highlight the lack of awareness among a wide majority of home computer users about malicious code and the tools they could use to protect their computers against it. The study was carried out by America Online and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), which is promoting October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Technicians from AOL and NCSA went to the homes of more than 300 computer users and inspected their systems. Among the study's more alarming findings were that 80 percent of home computers are currently infected with spyware and that 90 percent of users with infected machines were completely unaware of the infection. Authors of the report's findings also noted that close to 60 percent of home users do not know the difference between a firewall and antivirus software and that two-thirds of users do not have a firewall installed. Although 85 percent of users had antivirus software installed on their computers, only one-third had updated it within the previous week. Of the computers studied, 20 percent had active viruses. CNET, 25 October 2004 http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-5423306.html JUDGE ISSUES RESTRAINING ORDER ON SPYWARE A federal judge has issued a restraining order against notorious spammer Stanford Wallace, forcing him to disable spyware programs that secretly track users' actions and flood their computers with pop-up ads. Wallace, who in the 1990s headed one of the most prolific spamming companies, is the target of the first action taken by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against spyware purveyors. The FTC also alleges that Wallace sold consumers bogus tools that supposedly detect and remove spyware. Wallace's attorney said his client wants to use the Internet in "lawful and proper ways" and "looks forward to an opportunity to establish exactly what advertising practices are allowable." Laura Sullivan, attorney for the FTC, described the judge's order as "relief for consumers" while the case is being resolved. A hearing in the case has been scheduled for November 9. San Jose Mercury News, 25 October 2004 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10010269.htm IBM TO ISSUE SECURITY ALERTS IBM will begin releasing monthly security reports called the Global Business Security Index to give corporate customers a snapshot of current threats to computer networks. The reports will be based on data collected from 2,700 IBM employees and about 500,000 sensors in 34 countries. The sensors are applications that monitor attacks and attempted attacks against networks. The new reports will be part of IBM's Security Threats and Attack Trends service, which is available for about $10,000 a month and resembles the DeepSight Threat Management System offered by Symantec. Analysts said such tools are valuable for network administrators to anticipate threats and minimize the damage they cause. Observers noted, however, that the computer security industry is locked in a cycle of announcing vulnerabilities and then working frantically to patch them before hackers exploit them. New York Times, 25 October 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/technology/25ibm.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** *Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media DISNEY AND VIACOM: HUGE FINES FOR TOO MUCH ADVERTIZING Only the more independent media are reporting that Disney, the world's second largest media company, has been fined a whopping half million dollars for placing more advertizing than is legal in their programming. In addition, Viacom-- the multimedia empire--has been fined a million dollars to also penalize them for this illegal behavior. Even in these days of rampant deregulation, there is still a law against saturating programs with advertizing and the "product placement" of advertizing items within programs-- and both Disney and Viacom were nabbed by the FCC--Federal Communications Commission for these violations, but you do not hear much about this on the major media who are in bed with these two media giants through various deals. A news report literally half way around the world reported this. The laws prohibit advertizing in excess of 20% of showtime [slightly different on weekdays than weekends], but it was broken some 600 times last year in this case, and some 145 product placement violations were cited in this period, in which products related to the programs were illegally sold in the programs' advertizing slots. The vast majority [85 million] of U.S. households received these programs last year, in which various programs of ABC and Disney were cited for these violations. [Note, most or all of these laws are designed to protect a viewer of age 12 or under from more than 20% saturation of advertizing per hour of television. Apparently adults are expected to fend for themselves, as they get saturated for approximately 1/3 of each hour with advertizing. If there is anything you can forward on this, please do.] [In related stories from various stock exchanges, it would appear Disney is not doing well, with European stock price falling dramatically, and the selling off of the 333 store Disney chain of retail outlets. Disney investors are also suing Disney a couple million dollars for paying off their former Disney President, Michael Ovitz, to the tune of $77 million dollars, apparently including such personages as a former U.S. Senate member, and a famous Oscar winner, in a legal process that could apparently be taught in textbooks for the next few centuries. The details are still sketchy but apparently there was a total of $140 million involved, as severance pay for Mr. Ovitz, perhaps only half of which is involved in this case. Ovitz barely lasted one year as Disney President, and due to the manner in which he left a severance package is being challenged as inappropriate. A quick look indicates he was hired 9 years ago, so why have the lawsuits only come up now? In another point, it would appear that the Disney corporation would get to keep funds and interest returned under this lawsuit, not investors.] Law pundits predict that this case will drive up the price of executive salaries paid up front, as this case seems to have poked a serious hold in the Golden Parachute idea. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK THE HUMAN GENOME IS SHRINKING Recent estimates over the years of how many genes it takes to actually build a human being are shrinking. Remember a while back when they talked about millions of genes. . . . Now they think it really only takes just over 20,000. . .! It turns out most of the human genome doesn't do very much. INDEX FINGERS POINT THE WAY FOR MALE SCIENTISTS from The Scotsman Male scientists are good at research because they have higher-than-average levels of the female hormone oestrogen which aids analytical skills, a study on Bath University academics today revealed. The survey found that male scientists tended to have longer index fingers than other men, indicating high levels of oestrogen present in their bodies. 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RESERVED/PENDING count: 43 (No change this week). =-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= .:: During the past week the following eBooks were manually updated and reposted with the indicated filenames and transferred into the corresponding new directories: The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete, by Holmes 7400 [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp1310.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/4/0/7400 ] [Files: 7400.txt] The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 12, by Holmes 7399 [Subtitle: Verses From The Oldest Portfolio] [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp1210.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/3/9/7399 ] [Files: 7399.txt] The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 11, by Holmes 7398 [Subtitle: Poems From Over The Teacups] [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp1110.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/3/9/7398 ] [Files: 7398.txt] The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 10, by Holmes 7397 [Subtitle: Before The Curfew] [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp1010.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/3/9/7397 ] [Files: 7397.txt] The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 9, by Holmes 7396 [Subtitle: The Iron Gate And Other Poems (1877-1881)] [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp0910.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/3/9/7396 ] [Files: 7396.txt] The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 8, by Holmes 7395 [Subtitle: Bunker-Hill Battle And Other Poems (1874-1877)] [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp0810.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/3/9/7395 ] [Files: 7395.txt] The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 7, by Holmes 7394 [Subtitle: Songs Of Many Seasons (1862-1874)] [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp0710.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/3/9/7394 ] [Files: 7394.txt] The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 6, by Holmes 7393 [Subtitle: Poems From The Breakfast-Table Series (1857-1872)] [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp0610.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/3/9/7393 ] [Files: 7393.txt] The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 5, by Holmes 7392 [Subtitle: Poems Of The Class Of '29 (1851-1889)] [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp0510.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/3/9/7392 ] [Files: 7392.txt] The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 4, by Holmes 7391 [Subtitle: Songs In Many Keys (1849-1861)] [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp0410.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/3/9/7391 ] [Files: 7391.txt] The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 3, by Holmes 7390 [Subtitle: Medical Poems] [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp0310.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/3/9/7390 ] [Files: 7390.txt] The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 2, by Holmes 7389 [Subtitle: Additional Poems (1837-1848)] [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp0210.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/3/8/7389 ] [Files: 7389.txt] The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 1, by Holmes 7388 [Subtitle: Earlier Poems (1830-1836)] [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Updated edition of: etext05/ohp0110.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/3/8/7388 ] [Files: 7388.txt] Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 4728 [Updated edition of: etext03/oh14v10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/4/7/2/4728 ] [Files: 4728.txt] In the Days of the Comet, by H. G. Wells 3797 [Updated edition of etext03/incom10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/7/9/3797 ] [Files: 3797.txt] The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., by O.W. Holmes, Sr. 3252 [Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.] [Note: this is the Physician and Poet, not the Jurist)] [Contents: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table The Professor at the Breakfast-table The Poet at the Breakfast Table Over the Teacups Elsie Venner The Guardian Angel A Mortal Antipathy Pages from an Old Volume of Life Bread and the Newspaper My Hunt after "The Captain" The Inevitable Trial Cinders from Ashes The Pulpit and the Pew Medical Essays Homeopathy and its Kindred Delusions The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science Scholastic and Bedside Teaching The Medical Profession in Massachusetts The Young Practitioner Medical Libraries Some of My Early Teachers A Memoir of John Lothrop Motley A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson Our Hundred Days in Europe] [Updated edition of: etext02/ohent12.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/2/5/3252 ] [Files: 3252.txt; 3252-8.txt] Medical Essays, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr 2700 [Note: this is the Physician and Poet, not the Jurist)] [Updated edition of: etext01/medic11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/7/0/2700 ] [Files: 2700.txt] Pages From an Old Volume of Life, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2699 [Subtitle: A Collection Of Essays] [Note: this is the Physician and Poet, not the Jurist)] [Updated edition of: etext01/pages11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/6/9/2699 ] [Files: 2699.txt] A Mortal Antipathy, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2698 [Note: this is the Physician and Poet, not the Jurist)] [Updated edition of: etext01/antip11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/6/9/2698 ] [Files: 2698.txt] The Guardian Angel, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2697 [Note: this is the Physician and Poet, not the Jurist)] [Updated edition of: etext01/angel11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/6/9/2697 ] [Files: 2697.txt] Elsie Venner, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr 2696 [Note: this is the Physician and Poet, not the Jurist)] [Updated edition of: etext01/elsie11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/6/9/2696 ] [Files: 2696.txt] Over the Teacups, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr 2689 [Note: this is the Physician and Poet, not the Jurist)] [Updated edition of: etext01/teacp11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/6/8/2689 ] [Files: 2689.txt] The Poet at the Breakfast Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2666 [Note: this is the Physician and Poet, not the Jurist)] [Updated edition of: etext01/ptabt11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/6/6/2666 ] [Files: 2666.txt] The Professor at the Breakfast Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2665 [Note: this is the Physician and Poet, not the Jurist)] [Updated edition of: etext01/prabt11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/6/6/2665 ] [Files: 2665.txt] Legends and Lyrics: Second Series, by Adelaide Anne Procter 2304 [Updated edition of etext00/lgly210.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/0/2304 ] [Files: 2304.txt; 2304-h.htm] Legends and Lyrics: First Series, by Adelaide Anne Procter 2303 [Preface by: Charles Dickens] [Updated edition of etext00/lgly110.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/0/2303 ] [Files: 2303.txt; 2303-h.htm] La Grande Breteche, by Honore de Balzac 1710 [Translated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell] [Updated edition of: etext99/brtch10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/7/1/1710 ] [Files: 1710.txt] La Grenadiere, by Honore de Balzac 1428 [Translated by Ellen Marriage] [Updated edition of: etext98/grndr10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/2/1428 ] [Files: 1428.txt] Gobseck, by Honore de Balzac 1389 [Translated by Ellen Marriage] [Updated edition of: etext98/gbsek10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/1389 ] [Files: 1389.txt] The Firm of Nucingen, by Honore de Balzac 1294 [Updated edition of: etext98/ncngn10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/9/1294 ] [Files: 1294.txt] The First Men In The Moon, by H. G. Wells 1013 [Updated edition of etext97/fmitm10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/1/1013 ] [Files: 1013.txt] Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson 535 [Updated edition of etext96/ceven10.txt] [Ill.: Walter Crane] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/5/3/535 ] [Files: 535.txt; 535-h.htm] .:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: Add subtitle: Une histoire d'Amour, by Paul Marieton 13622 [Subtitle: George Sand and A. de Musset, Documents indits, Lettres de Musset [Language: French] -=-=-=-=[ 68 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John Thorndyke's Cases, by R. Austin Freeman 13882 [Related By Christopher Jervis] [Edited By R. Austin Freeman] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/8/13882 ] [Files: 13882.txt; 13882-8.txt; 13882-0.txt; 13882-h.htm] The Case of Mrs. Clive, by Catherine Clive 13881 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/8/13881 ] [Files: 13881.txt; 13881-0.txt; 13881-h.htm] Triple Spies, by Roy J. Snell 13880 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/8/13880 ] [Files: 13880.txt; 13880-h.htm] The Death of Balder, by Johannes Ewald 13879 [Tr.: George Borrow] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/7/13879 ] [Files: 13879.txt; 13879-h.htm] The English Orphans, by Mary Jane Holmes 13878 [Subtitle: A Home in the New World] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/7/13878 ] [Files: 13878.txt; 13878-8.txt; 13878-h.htm; ] Poise: How to Attain It, by D. Starke 13877 [Tr.: Francis Medhurst] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/7/13877 ] [Files: 13877.txt; 13877-8.txt; 13877-h.htm; ] The Great Taboo, by Grant Allen 13876 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/7/13876 ] [Files: 13876.txt; 13876-8.txt; ] Rauhan erakko, by Juhani Aho 13874 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/7/13874 ] [Files: 13874-8.txt] Tuomio, by Juhani Aho 13873 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/7/13873 ] [Files: 13873-8.txt] The Ten Pleasures of Marriage..., by A. Marsh 13872 [Title: The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682)] [Attributed To Aphra Behn] [Reprinted With An Introduction By John Harvey] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/7/13872 ] [Files: 13872.txt; 13872-8.txt; 13872-h.htm] The Practice of the Presence of God, by Herman Nicholas 13871 [Title: The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/7/13871 ] [Files: 13871.txt] A Summary History of the Palazzo Dandolo, by Anonymous 13870 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/7/13870 ] [Files: 13870.txt; 13870-h.htm] In Roemenie, by Th. Hebbelynck 13869 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/6/13869 ] [Files: 13869-8.txt; 13869-h.htm] Macbeth, by William Shakespeare 13868 [Language: French] [Translator: M. Guizot] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/6/13868 ] [Files: 13868-8.txt; 13868-h.htm] Kijkjes in een mooi werk over Chili, by Marie Robinson Wright 13867 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/6/13867 ] [Files: 13867.txt; 13867-8.txt; 13867-h.htm] Le naturalisme au theatre: les theories et les exemples, by Emile Zola 13866 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/6/13866 ] [Files: 13866.txt; 13866-8.txt; 13866-h.htm] Chambers's Edinburgh Journal Vol. XVII, by William and Robert Chambers 13865 [Full title: Chambers's Edinburgh Journal Vol. XVII. No. 418. New Series. January 3, 1882.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/6/13865 ] [Files: 13865.txt; 13865-h.htm] The Bay State Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 3, December, 1884, by Various 13864 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/6/13864 ] [Files: 13864.txt; 13864-h.htm] Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre, by Denis Diderot 13863 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/6/13863 ] [Files: 13863-8.txt] Le neveu de Rameau, by Denis Diderot 13862 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/6/13862 ] [Files: 13862-8.txt] Adolphe, by Benjamin Constant 13861 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/6/13861 ] [Files: 13861-8.txt] Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters, by Milligan, et al. 13860 [Author: George Milligan, J. G. Greenhough, Alfred Rowland, Walter F. Adeney, J. Morgan Gibbon, H. Elvet Lewis, D. Rowlands, & W. J. Townsend] Contents: Enoch Eldad and Medad Barzillai Adonijah Hiram Jeroboam Asa Ahaziah Gehazi Hazael Manasseh Amaziah Jabez Simeon Pontius Pilate Barabbas Joseph of Arimathea Philip, the Evangelist Ananias and Sapphira Demas [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/6/13860 ] [Files: 13860.txt; ] Boy Scouts in Southern Waters, by G. Harvey Ralphson 13859 [Author AKA: George Harvey Ralphson] [Subtitle: Spaniard's Treasure Chest] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/5/13859 ] [Files: 13859.txt; 13859-h.htm; ] The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping, by H. Byerley Thomson 13858 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/5/13858 ] [Files: 13858.txt; 13858-8.txt; ] La reine Margot - Tome II, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere 13857 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/5/13857 ] [Files: 13857.txt; 13857-8.txt] La reine Margot - Tome I, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere 13856 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/5/13856 ] [Files: 13856.txt; 13856-8.txt] Une politique europeenne, by Etienne Grosclaude 13855 [Title: Une politique europeenne : la France, la Russie, l'Allemagne et la guerre au Transvaal] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/5/13855 ] [Files: 13855.txt; 13855-8.txt; 13855-h.htm] The Old Franciscan Missions Of California, by George Wharton James 13854 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/5/13854 ] [Files: 13854.txt; 13854-8.txt; 13854-h.htm] New National First Reader, by Charles J. Barnes, et al 13853 [Authors: Charles J. Barnes, Harlan H. Ballard, S. Proctor Thayer] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/5/13853 ] [Files: 13853.txt; 13853-8.txt; 13853-0.txt; 13853-pdf.pdf; 13853-h.htm] Literary Taste: How to Form It, by Enoch Arnold Bennett 13852 [Subtitle: With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/5/13852 ] [Files: 13852.txt; 13852-8.txt; 13852-h.htm; ] The Downfall, by Emile Zola 13851 [Translated by E. P. Robins] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/5/13851 ] [Files: 13851.txt] Panu, by Juhani Aho 13850 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/5/13850 ] [Files: 13850-8.txt] Panu: Naytelma, by Juhani Aho 13849 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/4/13849 ] [Files: 13849-8.txt] Les diaboliques, by Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly 13848 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/4/13848 ] [Files: 13848-8.txt] Slave Narratives: Aministrative Files, by Works Project Administration 13847 [Title: Slave Narratives, A Folk History Of Slavery In The United States From Interviews With Former Slaves, Administrative Files] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/4/13847 ] [Files: 13847.txt; 13847-h.htm] Discours de la methode, by Rene Descartes 13846 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/4/13846 ] [Files: 13846-8.txt; 13846-h.htm] Manasse Jappinen, by Maiju Lassila 13845 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/4/13845 ] [Files: 13845-8.txt; 13845-h.htm] No. 13 Washington Square, by Leroy Scott 13844 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/4/13844 ] [Files: 13844.txt; 13844-8.txt; 13844-h.htm; ] La Boheme Libretto, by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica 13843 [From: La Boheme, An Opera in Four Acts, by Giacamo Puccini] [Tr.: W. Grist and P. Pinkerton] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/4/13843 ] [Files: 13843.txt; 13843-8.txt; ] The Story of Manhattan, by Charles Hemstreet 13842 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/4/13842 ] [Files: 13842.txt; 13842-8.txt; 13842-h.htm; ] Oberheim (Voices), by Christopher Leadem 13841C [Subtitle: A Chronicle of War] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/4/13841 ] [Files: 13841.txt; ] The Sign Of The Red Cross, by Evelyn Everett-Green 13840 [Subtitle: A Tale of Old London] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/4/13840 ] [Files: 13840.txt; 13840-h.htm; ] Correspondance, Vol. 5, 1812-1876, by George Sand 13839 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/3/13839 ] [Files: 13839.txt; 13839-8.txt] Correspondance, Vol. 3, 1812-1876, by George Sand 13838 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/3/13838 ] [Files: 13838.txt; 13838-8.txt] Correspondance, Vol. 2, 1812-1876, by George Sand 13837 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/3/13837 ] [Files: 13837.txt; 13837-8.txt] Wide Courses, by James Brendan Connolly 13836 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/3/13836 ] [Files: 13836.txt; 13836-8.txt; 13836-h.htm; ] The Amulet, by Hendrik Conscience 13835 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/3/13835 ] [Files: 13835.txt; 13835-8.txt] A se tordre, by Alphonse Allais 13834 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/3/13834 ] [Files: 13834.txt; 13834-8.txt] Blackfeet Indian Stories, by George Bird Grinnell 13833 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/3/13833 ] [Files: 13833.txt; 13833-8.txt; 13833-h.htm; ] Romance of California Life, by John Habberton 13832 [Subtitle: Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous] Contents: The Schoolteacher at Bottle Flat Jim Hockson's Revenge Making His Mark Codago The Last Pike at Jagger's Bend First Prayer at Hanney's The New Sheriff of Bunker County Major Martt's Friend Buffle Matalette's Section A Story of Ten Mile Gulch Captain Sam's Change Miss Fewne's Last Conquest Markson's House Grump's Pet Wardelow's Boy Tom Chafflin's Luck Old Twitchett's Treasure Blizzer's Wife A Boarding-House Romance Retiring from Business The Hardhack Mistake The Carmi Chums Little Guzzy A Romance of Happy Rest Two Powerful Arguments Mr. Putchett's Love The Meanest Man At Blugsey's Deacon Barker's Conversion Joe Gatter's Life Insurance The Temperance Meeting at Backley Jude A Love of a Cottage The Bleighton Rivals Budge and Toddie at Aunt Alice's Sailing Up Stream Free Speech [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/3/13832 ] [Files: 13832.txt; 13832-8.txt; ] Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic, by Sidney L. Gulick 13831 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/3/13831 ] [Files: 13831.txt; 13831-8.txt; 13831-h.htm] The Wreck of the Hesperus, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 13830 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/3/13830 ] [Files: 13830.txt; 13830-8.txt; 13830-h.htm] The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol 17, No. 475 13829 [February 5, 1831] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/2/13829 ] [Files: 13829.txt; 13829-8.txt; 13829-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XII, No. 29. August, 1873, by Various 13828 [Title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 29. August, 1873.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/2/13828 ] [Files: 13828.txt; 13828-8.txt; 13828-h.htm] Fields of Victory, by Mrs. Humphry Ward 13827 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/2/13827 ] [Files: 13827.txt; 13827-8.txt; 13827-h.htm] A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee", by Russell Doubleday 13826 [Subtitle: From the Diary of Number Five of the After Port Gun (Russell Doubleday): The Yarn of the Cruise and Fights of the Naval Reserves in the Spanish-American War] [Editor: H. H. Lewis] [Introduction: W. T. Sampson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/2/13826 ] [Files: 13826.txt; 13826-8.txt; 13826-h.htm; ] Sapho, by Alphonse Daudet 13825 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/2/13825 ] [Files: 13825.txt; 13825-8.txt] The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827, by Leland and Baldwin 13824 [Subtitle: Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers, Sermons XXVI. and XXVII.] [Author: Aaron W. Leland and Elihu W. Baldwin] [Ed.: Austin Dickinson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/2/13824 ] [Files: 13824.txt; 13824-h.htm] Lady Merton, Colonist, by Mrs. Humphry Ward 13823 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/2/13823 ] [Files: 13823.txt; 13823-8.txt; 13823-h.htm] Notes & Queries, No. 26. Saturday, April 27, 1850, by Various 13822 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/2/13822 ] [Files: 13822.txt; 13822-8.txt; 13822-h.htm] Tales of Wonder, by Lord Dunsany 13821 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/2/13821 ] [Files: 13821.txt; 13821-8.txt] Unhappy Far-Off Things, by Lord Dunsany 13820 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/2/13820 ] [Files: 13820.txt; 13820-8.txt] Les compagnons de Jehu, by Alexandre Dumas 13819 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/1/13819 ] [Files: 13819.txt; 13819-8.txt] Jacques, by George Sand 13818 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/1/13818 ] [Files: 13818.txt; 13818-8.txt; 13818-h.htm] With Marlborough to Malplaquet, by Herbert Strang and Richard Stead 13817 [Subtitle: A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/1/13817 ] [Files: 13817.txt; 13817-8.txt; 13817-h.htm; ] The Jericho Road, by W. 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The move pits Google directly against Microsoft, which includes a file-search feature in its operating systems and is planning a more comprehensive tool in the future. Google's Desktop Search (http://desktop.google.com/) sifts through Microsoft Office and text files, e-mails, AOL instant messenger exchanges, and Web sites that users have visited in the past. Once installed, the software creates an index of the PC owner's files to speed up the search process, and when the owner then uses Google to search for something, a small box showing related files will appear above the Web results. "Our goal for the application is to have it act like a photographic memory for your computer," says Google consumer Web products director Marissa Mayer. (Wall Street Journal 14 Oct 2004) <http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109776260102945353,00.html> (sub req'd) [more] GOOGLE'S PC SEARCH TOOL MIGHT PROVE THE 'PERFECT SPY' Google Desktop Search, released last Thursday in a "beta" test phase, may prove a boon to disorganized PC users who need assistance in finding data on their computers, but it also has a downside for those who use public or workplace computers. Its indexing function may compromise the privacy of users who share computers for such tasks as processing e-mail, online shopping, medical research, banking or any activity that requires a password. "It's clearly a very powerful tool for locating information on the computer," says one privacy consultant. "On the flip side of things, it's a perfect spy program." The program, which is currently available only for Windows PCs, automatically records any e-mail read through Outlook, Outlook Express or the Internet Explorer browser, and also saves pages viewed through IE and conversations conducted via AOL Instant Messenger. In addition, it finds Word, Excel and PowerPoint files stored on the computer. And unlike the built-in cache of recent Web sites visited that's included in most browser histories, Google's index is permanent, although individuals can delete items individually. Acknowledging potential privacy concerns, a Google executive says managers of shared computers should think twice about installing the tool before advanced features like password protection and multi-user support are available. (AP/Washington Post 19 Oct 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43548-2004Oct18.html> DELL TAKES A BITE OUT OF APPLE Dell launched its diminutive Dell Digital Jukebox music player, dubbed the DJ 5, which features 5GB of storage for $199. The move signals a direct challenge to Apple, whose 4GB iPod Mini sells for $249. In addition, Dell lowered the price on its existing 20GB Dell DJ from $279 to $249 and introduced a new line of plasma TVs, which start at $2,299. The PC maker's aggressive move into consumer electronics reflects its determination to stake out a strong position in the so-called digital home market. (CNet News.com 14 Oct 2004) news.com.com/iPod+Mini+gets+new+challenge+from+Dell/2009-1041_3-5409195.html VATICAN TAPS RFID TECHNOLOGY TO TRACK BOOKS The Vatican Library has tagged about 30,000 of its books with RFID (radio frequency identification) tags since last year, and says plans call for tagging 2 million of the 40-million piece collection in the near future. That would enable the staff to complete the library's annual inventory in less than a day -- a task that previously forced it to close for a whole month. Emilia Di Bernardo, VP of Seret, the company that installed the RFID system, says initially the Vatican staff were interested only in an efficient inventory process. "But we came up with something that is not only an inventory but a way to manage the books. This way staff always know where all the books are." Di Bernardo says it is relatively inexpensive to maintain the system and the technology does not harm the books in any way. "The most expensive part is the tags and the hardware." The RFID tags cost between five and 10 cents each, but Texas Instruments, which manufactures the tags, anticipates the costs coming down. "It's robust and as the price comes down, you will see it being used more and more, including in bus ticketing and concert ticketing," says a TI spokesman. (CNN.com 14 Oct 2004) <http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/10/14/spark.rfid.vatican/index.html> 7-ELEVEN TESTS WIRELESS INVENTORY SYSTEM Prompted by the example of Wal-Mart, convenience store giant 7-Eleven is testing a wireless system in 10 Dallas-area stores that enable managers to scan shelves using a handheld device and instantly order products that need replenishing. Many retailers already use point-of-sale systems that deduct sold items from an overall inventory list, but 7-Eleven officials say the handheld computer takes the process one step further. The device, made by NEC, features software that helps predict demand for perishable food -- from sandwiches to milk -- by taking factors such as the weather forecast into account. Rainy days produce sales slumps, while hot weather triggers a run on Slurpees. Balancing supply and demand in the margin-thin world of food stores is critical, according to a 2002 study by Emory University, which estimated stores lose 4% of potential sales because they run out of items consumers want. (AP/SiliconValley.com 13 Oct 2004) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/9907516.htm> [I have personally found out that the stores I go to have more often been out of what I wanted since the dreaded MBAs [Masters of Business Administration] have taken over with their "just in time ordering." The MBAs would apparent prefer to lose that 4%, and the customer- satisfaction that goes along with it, and thus some friends will NOT go with me to Wendy's for example, because all too often they are out of something they want to eat, and there is no time to go elsewhere. [Why else eat fast food, if you know it might not be there fast?] I was at Wendy's recently when FIVE CUSTOMERS IN A ROW ordered and were told they were out of luck. . .they were out of at least five different things. And when I asked, they told me that for certain they would not have all five items after the next truck arrived, because the MBAs had decided to limit how many items they ordered, no matter how much would fit on the truck. . . . GO FIGURE!"] You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage LAPTOPS PREPARE STUDENTS FOR COLLEGE, BRIDGE INCOME GAPS Laptop programs are showing up at a number of high schools around the United States, including T.C. Williams High School in Washington, D.C., which this week issued 2,100 laptops to its students. Technology literacy is one of the primary goals of such programs, as is ensuring that students from varying socioeconomic backgrounds have equal access to such technology. John Crites, head of technical support for the Alexandria school district, said of the $1.4 million program to supply all students with laptops, "It gives us the ability to level the playing field." In an effort to control how the computers are used, administrators of the program at T.C. Williams configured the school's laptops to allow Internet access only on school grounds, installed several Web filters, and elected not to allow instant messaging or e-mail, though a limited e-mail system may be added later. Washington Post, 13 October 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28050-2004Oct12.html [Yes, keeping students from emailing each other or their teachers is obviously a high priority. . .though this seems to be where a lot of education takes place. . .though it also includes a lot of yadda yadda yadda.] You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** More Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media Diebold Coughs Up Cash in Copyright Case False Accusation of Infringement Results in Hefty Payment of Legal Fees, Damages California - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) capped its historic victory in a copyright abuse case against electronic voting machine manufacturer Diebold today. The corporation agreed to pay $125,000 in damages and fees. The settlement, a win for free speech advocates, comes after a California district court found that Diebold had knowingly misrepresented that online commentators, including Indymedia and two Swarthmore college students, had infringed the company's copyrights. "It makes me happy that students in this situation in the future won't have to worry about big corporations breathing down their necks," said Nelson Pavlosky, one of the students. Diebold is the first company to be held liable for violating section 512(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which makes it unlawful to use DMCA takedown threats when the copyright holder knows that infringement has not actually occurred. The section also stipulates that anyone who issues such frivolous threats must pay damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, to those harmed by the misrepresentations. EFF and the Center for Internet and Society Cyberlaw Clinic at Stanford Law School sued on behalf of nonprofit Internet Service Provider (ISP) Online Policy Group (OPG) and the two students to prevent Diebold's abusive copyright claims from silencing public debate about voting. Diebold sent dozens of cease-and-desist letters to ISPs hosting leaked internal documents revealing flaws in Diebold's e-voting machines. The company claimed copyright violations and used the DMCA to demand that the documents be taken down. OPG refused to remove them in the name of free speech. "The risk of substantial damages and fees should make companies pause before sending unfounded copyright threats," said EFF staff attorney Wendy Seltzer. "Plus ISPs can fight back against these false claims without taking a financial hit." "As a nonprofit ISP it's great to have legal recourse when a company threatens us or our clients with frivolous lawsuits," added OPG Executive Director Will Doherty. EFF is a member-supported nonprofit which represented OPG and the Swarthmore students pro bono. Thanks to the settlement, Diebold will pay the costs of the case. For this release: http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_10.php#002009 * "Meanwhile, last week was some sort of national holiday in Spain. In past years there was a US contingent in the military parade, but it seems that they were left out this year. The French were invited as substitutes." "It's Fleet Week here in SF again, and we usually get the Navy's Blue Angels aerobatics team... this year it was outsourced to the Canadian Snow Birds ...I can't decide whether it was a deliberate insult to the Bay Area, or just a sign of astounding lameness..." "News from your man in Tempe: You already know what happened inside at the third joint campaign appearance yesterday, and it's a good thing because I couldn't get anywhere near it. (I just can't call it a blsfrgl ... see, I can't!) Grady Gammage Auditorium was named for a former ASU president, designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and originally intended to be built as an opera house in Baghdad. (Yes, the one in Iraq. The project fell through when King Faisal II was murdered by a military coup in 1958. It was built here in 1959 without the original parking ziggurat.) "So here's the news from outside. I was amazed at the size and number of power transformers on the lawn, probably for lights in the circus tents erected in the parking lot. Hey, you can't have a media circus without tents! There was also an eight foot (2.4384 m) chain link fence surrounding the whole shootin' match about where the perimeter of the ziggurat would have been. "Traffic was a mess as slightly over one bazillion motorcycle officers lined every street within bazooka distance of the president's hotel. When his handlers told him it was time, those same streets were closed. At least it was during rush hour, to maximize the disruption." *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Crude oil is up 62% this year, while heating oil is up 77%. Various voter registrations in the U.S. are showing more people have registered to vote than there are people entitled to vote. Of course, they are all saying that these are only plain errors and no one is trying to vote more than once. However, this is only going to increase, as there are large numbers of brand new registrations still waiting to be processed, so we can expect a lot more of these "irregularities and anomalies" to come shortly. Experts are predicting that the effect of the lack of flu shots will cause a measurable downturn in productivity in flu season. [Some are also precdicting a measurable downturn in productivity in Boston this week due to the fact of having one of the baseball playoff games run so late that people didn't get to bet until well after midnight while they have start getting ready to get back in their seats for the next game only half a day after getting home.] [Of course these predictions don't always pan out, as when the big electrical blackouts did NOT result in a higher birth rate than normal nine months later.] [More on the flu: about 40,000 people in the U.S. die of the flu every year, 144,000 are hospitalized. 3,000,000 die each year from malaria. Nothing on worldwide flu deaths that I can find.] *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK "When you are poor enough, everything has some value." 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The Man of Property Volume 2. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery Volume 3. Awakening To Let] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/4/3/9/4397 ] [Files: 4397.txt] Project Gutenberg Plays of John Galsworthy, Complete,by John Galsworthy 4269 [Contents: First Series: The Silver Box Joy Strife Second Series: The Eldest Son The Little Dream Justice Third Series: The Fugitive The Pigeon The Mob Fourth Series: A Bit O' Love The Foundations The Skin Game Six Short Plays: The First and The Last The Little Man Hall-marked Defeat The Sun Punch and Go Fifth Series: A Family Man Loyalties Windows] [Updated edition of: etext03/gplay11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/4/2/6/4269 ] [Files: 4269.txt] The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy, by John Galsworthy 4261 [Updated edition of: etext03/jgess10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/4/2/6/4261 ] [Files: 4261.txt; 4261-h.htm] The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy, by John Galsworthy 3254 [Contents: The Forsyte Saga: Volume 1. The Man of Property Volume 2. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery Volume 3. Awakening To Let Other Novels: The Dark Flower The Freelands Beyond Villa Rubein and Other Stories Villa Rubein A Man of Devon A Knight Salvation of a Forsyte The Silence Saint's Progress The Island Pharisees The Country House Fraternity The Patrician The Burning Spear Five Short Tales The First and Last A Stoic The Apple Tree The Juryman Indian Summer of a Forsyte Essays and Studies: Concerning Life Inn of Tranquility Magpie over the Hill Sheep-shearing Evolution Riding in the Mist The Procession A Christian Wind in the Rocks My Distant Relative The Black Godmother Quality The Grand Jury Gone Threshing That Old-time Place Romance--three Gleams Memories Felicity Concerning Letters A Novelist's Allegory Some Platitudes Concerning Drama Meditation on Finality Wanted--Schooling On Our Dislike of Things as They Are The Windlestraw About Censorship Vague Thoughts on Art Plays: First Series: The Silver Box Joy Strife Second Series: The Eldest Son The Little Dream Justice Third Series: The Fugitive The Pigeon The Mob Fourth Series: A Bit O' Love The Foundations The Skin Game Six Short Plays: The First and The Last The Little Man Hall-marked Defeat The Sun Punch and Go Fifth Series: A Family Man Loyalties Windows] [Updated edition of: etext02/glent12.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/2/5/3254 ] [Files: 3254.txt] Hall-Marked and Others (Six Short Plays), by John Galsworthy 2920 [Contents: Hall-Marked Defeat The Sun Punch And Go] [Updated edition of: etext01/shply11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/2/2920 ] [Files: 2920.txt] The Little Man (Six Short Plays), by John Galsworthy 2919 [Updated edition of: etext01/ltman11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/1/2919 ] [Files: 2919.txt] The First and The Last (Six Short Plays), by John Galsworthy 2918 [Updated edition of: etext01/flast11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/1/2918 ] [Files: 2918.txt] The Skin Game (Fourth Series Plays), by John Galsworthy 2917 [Updated edition of: etext01/skgam11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/1/2917 ] [Files: 2917.txt] The Foundations (Fourth Series Plays), by John Galsworthy 2916 [Updated edition of: etext01/fndat11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/1/2916 ] [Files: 2916.txt] A Bit O' Love (Fourth Series Plays), by John Galsworthy 2915 [Updated edition of: etext01/bolov11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/1/2915 ] [Files: 2915.txt] The Mob (Third Series Plays), by John Galsworthy 2914 [Updated edition of: etext01/glmob11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/1/2914 ] [Files: 2914.txt] The Pigeon (Third Series Plays), by John Galsworthy 2913 [Updated edition of: etext01/pigon11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/1/2913 ] [Files: 2913.txt] The Fugitive (Third Series Plays), by John Galsworthy 2912 [Updated edition of: etext01/fugtv11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/1/2912 ] [Files: 2912.txt] The Little Dream (Second Series Plays), by John Galsworthy 2910 [Updated edition of: etext01/ldrem11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/1/2910 ] [Files: 2910.txt] The Eldest Son (Second Series Plays), by John Galsworthy 2909 [Updated edition of: etext01/eldsn11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/0/2909 ] [Files: 2909.txt] Strife (First Series Plays), by John Galsworthy 2908 [Updated edition of: etext01/strif11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/0/2908 ] [Files: 2908.txt] Joy (First Series Plays), by John Galsworthy 2907 [Updated edition of: etext01/gljoy11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/0/2907 ] [Files: 2907.txt] The Silver Box (First Series Plays), by John Galsworthy 2906 [Updated edition of: etext01/silbx11] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/0/2906 ] [Files: 2906.txt] The Burning Spear, by John Galsworthy 2905 [Updated edition of: etext01/bsper11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/0/2905 ] [Files: 2905.txt] Quality and Other Studies and Essays, by John Galsworthy 2904 [Updated edition of: etext01/qualt11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/0/2904 ] [Files: 2904.txt] Inn of Tranquility and Other Essays, by John Galsworthy 2903 [Updated edition of: etext01/inntr11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/0/2903 ] [Files: 2903.txt] Essays Concerning Letters, by John Galsworthy 2902 [Updated edition of: etext01/cnlet11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/0/2902 ] [Files: 2902.txt] Essays on Censorship and Art, by John Galsworthy 2901 [Updated edition of: etext01/cnart11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/0/2901 ] [Files: 2901.txt] The Four Million, by O. Henry 2776 [This is a new edition 11 of: etext01/4mil10.txt ] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/7/2776 ] [Files: 2776.txt; 2776-8.txt; 2776-h.htm] The Patrician, by John Galsworthy 2774 [Updated edition of: etext01/ptrcn11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/7/7/2774 ] [Files: 2774.txt] Fraternity, by John Galsworthy 2773 [Updated edition of: etext01/frtrn11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/7/7/2773 ] [Files: 2773.txt] The Country House, by John Galsworthy 2772 [Updated edition of: etext01/chous11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/7/7/2772 ] [Files: 2772.txt] The Island Pharisees, by John Galsworthy 2771 [Updated edition of: etext01/iphar11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/7/7/2771 ] [Files: 2771.txt] Five Tales, by John Galsworthy 2684 [Contents: The First And Last A Stoic The Apple Tree The Juryman Indian Summer Of A Forsyte (See also Etext #2594)] [Updated edition of: etext01/5tale11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/6/8/2684 ] [Files: 2684.txt] Saint's Progress, by John Galsworthy 2683 [Updated edition of: etext01/saint11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/6/8/2683 ] [Files: 2683.txt] Villa Rubein et al, by John Galsworthy 2639 [Updated edition of: etext01/vlrbn11.txt] [Contents: Villa Rubein A Man of Devon A Knight Salvation of a Forsyte The Silence] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/6/3/2639 ] [Files: 2639.txt] Awakening and To Let, by John Galsworthy 2596 [Subtitle: The Forsyte Saga, Part 3.] [Updated edition of: etext01/tolet11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/5/9/2596 ] [Files: 2596.txt] Indian Summer of a Forsyte, and In Chancery, by John Galsworthy 2594 [Subtitle: The Forstye Saga, Part 2] [Updated edition of: etext01/isoaf12.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/5/9/2594 ] [Files: 2594.txt] The Man of Property, by John Galsworthy 2559 [Subtitle: The Forsyte Saga, Part 1.] [Updated edition of: etext01/mnprp12.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/5/5/2559 ] [Files: 2559.txt] Gambara, by Honore de Balzac 1873 [Tr.: Clara Bell and James Waring] [Updated edition of: etext99/gmbra10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/8/7/1873 ] [Files: 1873.txt] Gaudissart II, by Honore de Balzac 1475 [Translated by Clara Bell and others] [Updated edition of: etext98/2gdsr10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/1475 ] [Files: 1475.txt] The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells 159 [Updated edition of etext94/dmoro11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/159 ] [Files: 159.txt; 159-h.htm] .:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: Added HTML: How to Observe in Archaeology, by Various 13575 [Subtitle: Suggestions for Travellers in the Near and Middle East] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/7/13575 ] [Files: 13575.txt; 13575.htm ] -=-=-=-=[ 76 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Common Law, by Robert W. Chambers 13813 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/1/13813 ] [Files: 13813.txt; 13813-8.txt] Sir Mortimer, by Mary Johnston 13812 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/1/13812 ] [Files: 13812.txt; 13812-8.txt; 13812-h.htm] Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam, by Abbott 13811 [Author: John S. C. Abbott] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/1/13811 ] [Files: 13811.txt; 13811-8.txt; ] Tristan, by Thomas Mann 13810 [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/1/13810 ] [Files: 13810.txt; 13810-8.txt] Mountain idylls, and Other Poems, by Alfred Castner King 13809 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/0/13809 ] [Files: 13809.txt; 13809-8.txt; 13809-h.htm] L'assassinat du pont-rouge, by Charles Barbara 13808 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/0/13808 ] [Files: 13808.txt; 13808-8.txt; 13808-0.txt] Abelard, Tome II, by Charles de Remusat 13807 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/0/13807 ] [Files: 13807.txt; 13807-8.txt; 13807-h.htm] Overland through Asia (Illustrated), by Thomas Wallace Knox 13806 [Title: Overland through Asia: Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life] [Subtitle: Travels and Adventures in Kamchatka, Siberia, China, Mongolia, Chinese Tartary, and European Russia, with Full Accounts of the Siberian Exiles, Their Treatment, Condition, and Mode of Life; a Description of the Amoor River, and the Siberian Shores of the Frozen Ocean; with an Appropriate Map, and Nearly 200 Illustrations] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/0/13806 ] [Files: 13806.txt; 13806-8.txt; 13806-h.htm; ] Todsuenden, by Hermann Heiberg 13805 [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/0/13805 ] [Files: 13805.txt; 13805-8.txt; 13805-0.txt] Voyage du Prince Fan-Federin dans la romancie, by Bougeant 13804 [Full author: Guillaume Hyacinthe Bougeant] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/0/13804 ] [Files: 13804.txt; 13804-8.txt] Making His Way: Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward, by Horatio Alger, Jr 13803 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/0/13803 ] [Files: 13803.txt; 13803-h.htm] Indrukken van Finland, by Clara Engelen 13802 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/8/0/13802 ] [Files: 13802.txt; 13802-8.txt; 13802-h.htm] Harvest, by Mrs. Humphry Ward 13801 [Author AKA: Mary Augusta Arnold Ward] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/0/13801 ] [Files: 13801.txt; 13801-8.txt; ] The Pleasures of a Single Life, or, The Miseries Of Matrimony, Anonymous 13800 Contents: The Pleasures of a Single Life, or, The Miseries of Matrimony The Choice, or, The Pleasures of a Country-Life, &c. An Answer to the Pleasures of a Single Life: or, The Comforts of Marriage The Ladies Choice (Note: A famous pamphlet first published anonymously in 1701) [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/8/0/13800 ] [Files: 13800.txt; ] Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts, by A. T. Quiller-Couch 13799 [Subtitle: A Book of Stories] [Author AKA: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch; Q] Contents: Oceanus The Seventh Man The Room of Mirrors A Pair of Hands The Lady of the Ship Frozen Margit The Singular Adventure of a Small Free-Trader The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem Prisoners of War A Town's Memory The Lady of the Red Admirals The Penance of John Emmet Elisha "Once Aboard the Lugger" Which? [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/9/13799 ] [Files: 13799.txt; ] La fille du capitaine, by Alexandre Pouchkine 13798 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/9/13798 ] [Files: 13798.txt; 13798-8.txt] The International Weekly Miscellany, Volume I. No. 9., by Various 13797 [Subtitle: Of Literature, Art, and Science, August 26, 1850] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/9/13797 ] [Files: 13797.txt; 13797-8.txt; 13797-h.htm] The International Weekly Miscellany, Volume I. No. 8, by Various 13796 [Subtitle: Of Literature, Art, and Science, August 19, 1850] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/9/13796 ] [Files: 13796.txt; 13796-8.txt; 13796-h.htm] Nouveaux mysteres et aventures, by Arthur Conan Doyle 13795 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/9/13795 ] [Files: 13795.txt; 13795-8.txt] Tarass Boulba, by Nikolai Vassilievitch Gogol 13794 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/9/13794 ] [Files: 13794.txt; 13794-8.txt] En famille, by Hector Malot 13793 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/9/13793 ] [Files: 13793.txt; 13793-8.txt] Journeaux intimes, by Charles Baudelaire 13792 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/9/13792 ] [Files: 13792.txt; 13792-8.txt] Psychology and Achievement, by Warren Hilton 13791 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/9/13791 ] [Files: 13791.txt; 13791-8.txt; 13791-h.htm] Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), by Lewis Melville 13790 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/9/13790 ] [Files: 13790.txt; 13790-8.txt; 13790-h.htm] Great Britain and the American Civil War, by Ephraim Douglass Adams 13789 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/8/13789 ] [Files: 13789.txt; 13789-8.txt; 13789-h.htm] McClure's Magazine, Volume VI, No. 3, February 1896, by Various 13788 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/8/13788 ] [Files: 13788.txt; 13788-8.txt; 13788-h.htm] Taormina, by Johanna G. Lugt 13787 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/8/13787 ] The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature, by Nordby 13786 [Author: Conrad Hjalmar Nordby] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/8/13786 ] [Files: 13786.txt; 13786-8.txt; 13786-h.htm; ] The Glory of English Prose, by Stephen Coleridge 13785 [Subtitle: Letters to My Grandson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/8/13785 ] [Files: 13785.txt; 13785-8.txt; 13785-h.htm] Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen, by Finley Peter Dunne 13784 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/8/13784 ] [Files: 13784.txt; 13784-h.htm] The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone, by Richard Bonner 13783 [Illustrated by Charles L. Wrenn] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/8/13783 ] [Files: 13783.txt; 13783-8.txt; 13783-h.htm] Lady Rose's Daughter, by Mrs. Humphry Ward 13782 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/8/13782 ] [Files: 13782.txt; 13782-8.txt; 13782-h.htm] The Life of James Renwick, by Thomas Houston 13781 [Subtitle: A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/8/13781 ] [Files: 13781.txt; 13781-8.txt; 13781-h.htm] Minka mitakin Italiasta, by Juhani Aho 13780 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/8/13780 ] [Files: 13780-8.txt] Minka mitakin Tyrolista, by Juhani Aho 13779 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/7/13779 ] [Files: 13779.txt; 13779-8.txt] Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14, Elbert Hubbard 13778 [Subtitle: Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/7/13778 ] [Files: 13778.txt; 13778-8.txt; 13778-h.htm] The Siege of Kimberley, by T. Phelan 13777 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/7/13777 ] [Files: 13777.txt; 13777-8.txt; 13777-h.htm] One Day, by Anonymous 13776 [Subtitle: A sequel to 'Three Weeks'] (See: #8899) [Note: Elinor Glyn is the author of 'Three Weeks'] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/7/13776 ] [Files: 13776.txt; 13776-8.txt; 13776-h.htm] Every Step in Canning, by Grace Viall Gray 13775 [Subtitle: The Cold-Pack Method] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/7/13775 ] [Files: 13775.txt; 13775-8.txt; 13775-h.htm; ] Rosa Mundi and Other Stories, by Ethel M. Dell 13774 Contents: Rosa Mundi A Debt of Honour The Deliverer The Prey of the Dragon The Secret Service Man The Penalty [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/7/13774 ] [Files: 13774.txt; 13774-8.txt; 13774-h.htm; ] Ang Mestisa, Ikalawang Bahagi (Second Volume), by Engracio Valmonte 13773 [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/7/13773 ] [Files: 13773-8.txt; 13773-h.htm] Les etranges noces de Rouletabille, by Gaston Leroux 13772 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/7/13772 ] [Files: 13772-0.txt; 13772-8.txt] Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick, Vol. I, by Charles Dickens 13771 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/7/13771 ] [Files: 13771-8.txt; 13771-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873., by Various 13770 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/7/13770 ] [Files: 13770.txt; 13770-8.txt; 13770-h.htm] Lohilastuja ja kalakaskuja, by Juhani Aho 13769 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/6/13769 ] [Files: 13769-8.txt] Katajainen kansani, by Juhani Aho 13768 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/6/13768 ] [Files: 13768-8.txt] Edward MacDowell, by Elizabeth Fry Page 13767 [Subtitle: His Work and Ideals] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/6/13767 ] [Files: 13767.txt; 13767-8.txt; ] Cobwebs of Thought, by Arachne 13766 [Unable to discover identity of author; "Arachne" is pseudonym] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/6/13766 ] [Files: 13766.txt; 13766-8.txt; ] Le mystere de la chambre jaune, by Gaston Leroux 13765 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/6/13765 ] [Files: 13765.txt; 13765-8.txt] The Art of Letters, by Robert Lynd 13764 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/6/13764 ] [Files: 13764.txt; 13764-8.txt; 13764-h.htm; ] The Lamp in the Desert, by Ethel M. Dell 13763 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/6/13763 ] [Files: 13763.txt; 13763-8.txt; 13763-h.htm; ] Journey in Search of the Red Indians in Newfoundland, by W. E. Cormack 13762 [Title: Report of Mr. W. E. Cormack's Journey in Search of the Red Indians in Newfoundland] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/6/13762 ] [Files: 13762.txt; 13762-h.htm; ] The Bay State Monthly, Volume I. No. VI. June, 1884, by Various 13761 [Subtitle: A Massachusetts Magazine] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/6/13761 ] [Files: 13761.txt; 13761-8.txt; 13761-h.htm] John Rutherford, the White Chief, by George Lillie Craik 13760 [Subtitle: A Story of Adventure in New Zealand] [Ed. & Intro.: James Drummond] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/6/13760 ] [Files: 13760.txt; 13760-8.txt; 13760-h.htm; ] Secret Societies, by David MacDill, Jonathan Blanchard, & Edward Beecher 13759 [Subtitle: A Discussion of Their Character and Claims] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/5/13759 ] [Files: 13759.txt; 13759-h.htm; ] Gerda in Sweden, by Etta Blaisdell McDonald 13758 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/5/13758 ] [Files: 13758.txt; 13758-8.txt] Saracinesca, by F. Marion Crawford 13757 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/5/13757 ] [Files: 13757.txt; 13757-8.txt] Story of Chester Lawrence, by Nephi Anderson 13756 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/5/13756 ] [Files: 13756.txt; 13756-8.txt; 13756-h.htm] How to See the British Museum in Four Visits, by W. Blanchard Jerrold 13755 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/5/13755 ] [Files: 13755.txt; 13755-8.txt; ] Evesham, by Edmund H. New 13754 [Illustrated by the Author] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/5/13754 ] [Files: 13754.txt; 13754-8.txt; 13754-h.htm] Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times, by Amy Brooks 13753 [Ill.: Amy Brooks] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/5/13753 ] [Files: 13753.txt; 13753-8.txt; 13753-h.htm; ] Wulfric the Weapon Thane, by Charles W. Whistler 13752 [Subtitle: A Story of the Danish Conquest of East Anglia] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/5/13752 ] [Files: 13752.txt; 13752-h.htm; ] Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles, by Various 13751 [With "Essay On The Character" And Historical Notes By David Nichol Smith] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/5/13751 ] [Files: 13751.txt; 13751-8.txt] The Heavenly Footman, by John Bunyan 13750 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/5/13750 ] [Files: 13750.txt; 13750-h.htm; ] Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II., by Thomas Stevens 13749 [Subtitle: From Teheran To Yokohama] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/4/13749 ] [Files: 13749.txt] Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed., by Calvin Coolidge 13748 [Subtitle: A Collection of Speeches and Messages] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/4/13748 ] [Files: 13748.txt; 13748-8.txt; 13748-h.htm] Notes & Queries, No. 25. Saturday, April 20, 1850, by Various 13747 [Subtitle: A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/4/13747 ] [Files: 13747.txt; 13747-8.txt; 13747-h.htm] Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore, by Robert H. Elliot 13746 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/4/13746 ] [Files: 13746.txt; 13746-8.txt; 13746-h.htm] Lastuja IV-VII, by Juhani Aho 13745 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/4/13745 ] [Files: 13745-8.txt] Isidora, by George Sand 13744 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/4/13744 ] [Files: 13744.txt; 13744-8.txt; 13744-h.htm] Le Cote de Guermantes, Troisieme Partie, by Marcel Proust 13743 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/4/13743 ] [Files: 13743.txt; 13743-8.txt; 13743-h.htm] The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. 8, Ed. by Blair & Robertson 13742 [Subtitle: Volume VIII, 1591-1593] (Note: Vol. 8 of 55) [Ed.: Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson] [Intro. and Notes: Edward Gaylord Bourne] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/4/13742 ] [Files: 13742.txt; 13742-8.txt; 13742-h.htm] The Bay State Monthly, Volume II. No. 2, November, 1884, by Various 13741 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/4/13741 ] [Files: 13741.txt; 13741-8.txt; 13741-h.htm] Mischievous Maid Faynie, by Laura Jean Libbey 13740 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/4/13740 ] [Files: 13740.txt; 13740-8.txt; 13740-h.htm; ] Shandygaff, by Christopher Morley 13739 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/3/13739 ] [Files: 13739.txt; 13739-8.txt; 13739-h.htm; ] The Last Shot, by Frederick Palmer 13738 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/7/3/13738 ] [Files: 13738.txt; 13738-8.txt; 13738-h.htm; ] -=-=-=-=[ 3 NEW EBOOKS AT PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Oct 2004 The Journal of Abel Jansz Tasman, by Abel Tasman [040077xx.xxx] 0385A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400771.txt or .zip ] Oct 2004 The Jerilderie Letter, by Edward (Ned) Kelly [040076xx.xxx] 0384A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400761.txt or .zip ] Oct 2004 A Tour on the Prairies, by Washington Irving [040075xx.xxx] 0383A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400751.txt or .zip ] eBooks are posted in uncompressed and/or compressed formats. To access these ebooks, go to http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html For more information about Project Gutenberg of Australia, including accessing those etexts from outside of Australia, please visit: http://gutenberg.net.au/ --Project Gutenberg of Australia-- --A treasure trove of Literature-- *treasure-trove n. treasure found hidden with no evidence of ownership For more information about copyright restrictions in other countries, please visit: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html ============================================================================= Joe Loewenstein sends along the following additional information about #13760, John Rutherford, the White Chief, by George Lillie Craik: This account was first published anonymously in 1830 and authorship was popularly attributed to Lord Brougham. By the end of the 19th century it was known that George Lillie Craik was the author. This version of the story was edited by James Drummond and published in New Zealand about 1908. ~ ~ ~ After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident, you begin to wonder about history. =============================================================================

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EXTRA! Special Edition -- D.P. Milestone
by Project Gutenberg Newsletter 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS UPDATE - OCTOBER 19, 2004 "Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to humanity, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." --Joseph Addison TABLE OF CONTENTS [ ] The 5,000th Title Collection - What has been accomplished. - Why it is significant beyond commemorating a milestone. - Why the Collection was organized. - How it was accomplished. - How the past lead us to this expansion of DP's potential. - What the 5,000 commemoration means for the future of DP. - What is presently involved in supplementing the 5K Collection. - The DP News & Information Center - Acknowledgements. [ ] MANIFEST OF THE COLLECTION =========================================== THE 5,000th TITLE COLECTION - OCTOBER 2004 by Thierry Alberto "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." --Jorge Luis Borges On the morning of October 8, 2004, near his library window overlooking a quiet lake in upstate New York, David Widger ran a series of final checks and verifications on a partitioned element of the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Yes, that same EB11 which has long been known as a formidable processing challenge throughout the Project Gutenberg community. This latest approach towards its digital conversion did little to diminish that reputation. It was about to do something of great importance, however. Dr. Widger had been anticipating the project files for some 48 hours by the time they were at last wrestled into acceptable compliance. For everyone aware of what was on the Whitewashing agenda that morning, an intermingled sense of relief and excitement began to spread. This "slice" of EB11 was not simply another single project being posted to the PG shelves, but the final component in a varied and impressive collection which had been in preparation for several months. When the final checks were cleared, the Britannica text joined 50 other finished works as a single commemorative event organized to mark the completion of Distributed Proofreaders' 5,000th unique title produced for Project Gutenberg and the digital public domain. This event is the largest single contribution to Project Gutenberg in the four year history of Distributed Proofreaders. Through the orchestrated collective efforts of its members throughout the world, DP produced 50 diverse and significant written works to accompany the 5,000th title on its journey to the PG library. A total of over 13,000 original pages from a distinctive variety of books in several languages were carefully chosen to display the merits and strengths of the DP production model. A sister objective for this collection was to produce a newsworthy example of the fertility of public domain content yet to be converted into digital formats. In our own "Field of Dreams," we have learned collectively, that if we build it ... they will definitely come. What we do not know yet, is how strongly "they" and others to come will defend what we are building, should the public domain be challenged further. At the heart of the inspiration for this Collection is a belief that we can help insure that present and future volunteers will care enough to stand up should they be called to. If we make a dramatic and valid statement now and then, proving what a fertile field this really is, we may indeed embolden many to care and nurture these legacy resources. "All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been--it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books." --Thomas Carlyle These 51 projects have much in common that binds them together as a family with a focused intention. In one manner or other, all of these titles belong to a larger set of projects, some of them so vast that it will require several years to complete them. The titles within the collection were selected from amongst its most challenging and complex projects in order to demonstrate the varied strengths of the Distributed Proofreaders production model. There are four classes of super or "uber" projects which make up the 5,000 Collection. These are: 1) 'Classic Ubers' - Truly massive works such as EB11 or the Bureau of American Ethnology reports, spanning over thirty years. 2) 'Large Book Sets' - Smaller in scale than the Classic Ubers, yet still daunting enough to discourage commencement by an individual. Among this class are Hakluyt's 'Principal Voyages of the English Nation', 'The Psychology of Sex' by Havelock Ellis and 'The Library of the World's Best Literature.' 3) 'Author Collections' - Organized programs to provide entire libraries of an author's work for Project Gutenberg, or to complete catalogs of authors partially represented. The intention with these sets is to systematically advance PG towards comprehensive coverage of commonly requested authors with works in the public domain. Featured authors include: Hendrik Conscience, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Edward Lear and George Sand. 4) 'Periodicals' - As a whole, the processing of entire runs of many volumes of journal titles is perhaps the largest initiative DP has ever undertaken. Among the many periodicals represented within the 5K Collection are: 'The Atlantic Monthly', 'Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine', 'Notes and Queries', 'Punch', and 'Scientific American.' The accomplishment represented by the 5,000 milestone is a source of great pride to the membership of DP. Fueling the labor of our intentions for the 5K Collection was a desire to produce for the world a gift of immense value that would dramatically exemplify the best of which Distributed Proofreaders is now capable. Read through the manifest at the end of this newsletter and see if that wealth of titles does not stir up a sense of profound excitement about the work we are all engaged in here. There is a fine hope which we are capable of encouraging together with our dedication. Intending towards a greater good for the world with our industrious energies, we become a living example of what is possible when like-minded people join together in creative endeavor. It is a rare example, true ... but it is powerful ... and so greatly needed within this time of deep and uncertain change. Faith in a brighter future is an essential source of courage and stability. Preserving history and cultural legacies of the past sustains that faith by providing recognition of the continuity of the human story across time and change. This is not the day to day reason for why we preserve public domain works, yet it is a subtle, derivative effect of what we do. "For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives." --Amy Lowell 5,000 unique written works. As accustomed as many of us have become to the steady accomplishments of the Project Gutenberg community, being book lovers, we are still capable of being awed by our milestones. 5,000 published works is a vast library by the measure of any human lifetime. To secure such an archive in print form would cost a fortune, the likes of which few of us will ever amass. Yet here they all are! ... available to anyone in the world with access to the Internet; and now to some even without such access. We are not talking about just any books we can lay our hands on. Amongst these 5,000 titles are a large number of creative works that are treasured among the great legacies of world culture. In organizing the choices for this collection, it was decided from the beginning to emphasize the value of content within the public domain which has yet to be converted into digital formats. This has been successfully achieved through the inclusion of exemplary representatives of such written treasures. Having been closely involved with the previous milestone celebrations, I can avow that these rituals mean much more to the members of DP than crowing over past accomplishments. What we each derive from these celebrations has more to do with inspiration than anything else. When we pause in our daily efforts at DP to commemorate the rounded figures of Golden projects, posted to PG, what we experience is a refreshed recognition of why it was that we came to devote our time and energy to this cause in the first place. These are times when we reflect on how far we have each come, the projects we have been involved with and what we have learned. At these times we remember (or blissfully forget) the various challenges we have passed through along the way and we share all these recollections and reflections with people who have grown to become our friends, even though continents may lay between us. There is always a renewed sense of energy and commitment after each celebration, and this time the inspiration is more deeply felt than ever before. The reasons for this are as varied as the individuals who make up the DP membership. In this past week, I have received a wondrous outpouring of distinctive expressions from people involved in all fields of project production. One common feeling that I have been noticing is joy. It is a joy that comes from participating in something greater than oneself, which is at the same time intimately familiar and personally valued. This is a deeply felt and powerful emotion experienced by many involved in this field of work. Yet, all we are doing here is crafting some old, dusty tomes into e-texts. Right? "Read, read, read." --William Faulkner It is just four years now since Charles Franks put forth an innovative idea for how to enhance the development process of public domain texts for Project Gutenberg. It is not at all uncommon for someone to pull down a good or even brilliant idea from wherever it is that spirit of invention springs. What is very uncommon is for someone to take a great idea and follow through upon it across the forge of trial and error unto eventual success. Project Gutenberg is an impressive example of what can happen in this world when one individual does pass through the crucible of creative innovation to see an idea crafted into manifest utility. Sometimes the hardest challenge while bringing a new idea into existence is rallying enough supporters to your cause. An idea in and of itself will not do the work for you. Action must be taken and the validity of the idea must be proven, if others are to ally themselves with the values and intentions underlying the idea. The positive effects of Michael Hart's contribution to our age will continue on well into the lives of generations to come. We may not be able to measure the full extent of Project Gutenberg's benefit, but we none the less know it is extensive, world spanning and long lasting. What Charles and the early circle of DP members proved, was that inspirational lightning could definitely strike the same ground twice. It took a while and a lot of puzzle work to figure out how best to implement those early concepts of distribution, but in time they were well worked out. As with most productive endeavors, we can measure the success of DP by the quality and growth of its expressive output. Both of these measures have been improving at a steadily impressive rate over the past three years, from about the time the foundational process of DP was settled upon. For quality, I offer that you merely spend some time with any number of the texts within this collection. Let the work convey its own merit to you, in ways I could never hope to match. For the quantity measure, we can look to the primary indicator of growth at DP ... the number of pages being proofed each day. By the middle of 2001, with the basic production models in use, the daily average of pages proofed was 259. One year later that figure had nearly quadrupled to an average of 1001 pages per day. Step forward two more years, to the present, and DP is averaging in the neighborhood of 6,000 pages proofed on a daily basis. Of course this measure alone does not come near to conveying the advances of all the production processes involved in the creation of finished texts at DP. It is merely a single snapshot ...yet one that captures a clear sense of how successful the distributed model has proved to be. Another new and dramatic measure which became evident in 2004, is the broadening interest in adapting the DP model to other archival projects. The most advanced of these at present is Distributed Proofreaders Europe, initiated and maintained by the Rastko family of archives and cultural initiatives based in Belgrade. The European DP will provide support for Project Gutenberg Europe which is soon to begin its official testing phase. PG Europe will expand what is available online in the public domain according to European copyright terms. What the future holds for DP seems bright with promise in many directions, and it is to the future, more than anywhere else, that we are turning our attention this month. "The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them." --Samuel Butler The significance of the public domain edition of Encyclopedia Britannica and the broad based interest in its development, led to its selection as a milestone project for DP. While EB's 11th edition easily meets the classification as one of the most complex of DP's multi-volume projects, its selection was also influenced by future possibilities. By giving the Britannica project spotlighted prominence as the 5,000th title during ongoing promotions, we will also be drawing attention to the need for new waves of volunteers to assist in its eventual completion. This is true for most of the projects within the 5K Collection. Some of the book sets and periodical titles are nearing completion, a few are even completed. These will serve as inspiration ... impressive examples of the significant work which people can participate in. For the most part however, the complex projects represented in the collection have a long way to go before they are entirely available from the PG shelves. The ongoing promotional work beginning this month with the 5,000th title, shall carry forward through the end of the year, reaching out to new generations of volunteers, who will see these vast works through to the final page. It is for these future generations of volunteers that the second exhibition of the 5,000 Collection was conceived. Yes ... a second exhibition. After providing everyone, including myself some time to recuperate from the preparations of the First Collection, the Second Collection is now in production. The aim of this follow through pageant is to sustain the messages of the 5,000 Collection while providing a dynamic demonstration of DP's production capabilities. The presentation of this broad selection of complex projects was an organized event, yet it was not an extraordinary exercise spent for the sake of promotional theatrics. Processing large scale, complex projects is part of DP's daily stock & trade. Because the labor is broadly distributed, we often lose sight of the scale of what is being accomplished over time. The purpose of extending the presentation of the 5K Collection is to provide a stage upon which the present strengths of the DP model can be substantiated. The Second Collection is timed to coincide with the end of the month. The actual date of posting will depend upon the reluctance of those few projects who may shy away from their initial public premiere. Among the featured titles will be several additional volumes or periodical issues appearing in the First Collection as well as some projects more complex, in their own way, then any among the initial 50. If the Fates are kind, we expect to deliver another portion of EB11. With what we have been learning from these first two partitions, we do expect to soon witness a steady stream of 11th Edition "slices" making their way to PG. Once each volume has been completed, a single file matching the original print edition will be compiled. An original content feature is being crafted as a supportive initiative to the 5,000 events. Background information about each project is being gathered and prepared to form a permanent resource for public access. These articles will explore the history of each work and its author, augmented by a chronicle of the project's development at DP. In time, other features will join the project backgrounds to form an evolving news and information center at DP. Among other content being developed for the center are articles documenting the history and lore of DP's evolution, a variety of community resources, support for new visitors and timely coverage of current events. Watch for announcements on the main page at DP regarding the progress of the news and information center. "Books--the children of the brain." --Jonathan Swift It is a little over a week now since the First Collection posted to PG. In that time, over 100 titles have followed after those 51 and turned to Gold. As we turn our attention to the labors of the Second Collection and move on towards the future, we carry with us a happy certainty: wherever that future takes us, there will be plenty to read when we get there. With an initiative of this scale it is difficult in the space allowed to fairly credit each person who participated. Once the second collection is complete we will compose a roll of all those involved and post it in a very public place at DP. At present, I want to express a deep sense of gratitude to three volunteers on the PG side who deserve noted recognition. Well in advance of posting the first collection David Widger, Jim Tinsley and Joseph Lowenstein began working in close coordination with us. Performing like great chefs over a two week period, the Whitewashing team orchestrated all 51 projects into organized assembly. Presenting these works as a cohesive collection would not have been possible without their advice and dedication. To everyone who made the 5,000 Milestone a reality ... one page at a time ... Congratulations! I look forward to reporting on all the future milestones yet to be realized as we continue the labor begun by Michael Hart of building the world's grandest library. For now. Thierry "Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!" --Elizabeth Barrett Browning ================================================================ MANIFEST OF THE 5,000th TITLE COLLECTION - OCTOBER 8, 2004 Notes: - Initial number: PG E-Text number - Second number: DP Unique Title number - Where other than English, language is noted in parenthesis. 13600 / 5000 - Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition, Vol II, Part I - AND- ANI http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13600/13600-h/13600-h.htm 13601 / 5001 - Expositions of Holy Scripture - Romans, Corinthians, by Alexander Maclaren http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13601/13601-h/13601-h.htm 13602 / 5002 - Slave Narratives, a Folk History of Slavery, Vol. IV, Georgia, I http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13602/13602-h/13602-h.htm 13603 / 5003 - Bureau of American Ethnology Publications - The Romance of Laieikawai by Haleole & Beckwith (English & Hawaiian) http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13603/13603-8.txt 13604 / 5004 - TIA Children's Library - Thrilling Stories of the Ocean by Park, Marmaduke http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13604/13604-h/13604-h.htm 13605 / 5005 - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Vol. XII, by Richard Hakluyt (English & Latin) http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13605/13605-8.txt 13606 / 5006 - General History & Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. XVIII, by Robert Kerr http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13606/13606-8.txt 13607 / 5007 - Historie de la RTvolution frantaise, Vol. X, by Adolphe Thiers (French) http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13607/13607-h/13607-h.htm 13608 / 5008 - Filosfia fundamental, Vol. I, by Jaime Balmes (Spanish) http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13608/13608-8.txt 13609 / 5009 - Vector Analysis and Quaternions by Alexander MacFarlane (Cornell Math Collection) TeX and pdf format only http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13609/13609-pdf.pdf 13610 / 5010 - The Psychology of Sex, Vol I - Evolution of Modesty, by Havelock Ellis http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13610/13610-h/13610-h.htm 13611 / 5011 - The Psychology of Sex, Vol II - Sexual Inversion, by Havelock Ellis http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13611/13611-h/13611-h.htm 13612 / 5012 - The Psychology of Sex, Vol III - Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, by Havelock Ellis http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13612/13612-h/13612-h.htm 13613 / 5013 - The Psychology of Sex, Vol IV - Sexual Selection in Men, by Havelock Ellis http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13613/13613-h/13613-h.htm 13614 / 5014 - The Psychology of Sex, Vol V - Erotic Symbolism, by Havelock Ellis http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13614/13614-h/13614-h.htm 13615 / 5015 - The Psychology of Sex, Vol VI - Sex in Relation to Society, by Havelock Ellis http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13615/13615-h/13615-h.htm 13616 / 5016 - The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. III by Blair & Robertson http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/1/13616/13616-8.txt 13617 / 5017 - A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Harrison, Benjamin, ed. Richardson http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/1/13617/13617-h/13617-h.htm 13618 / 5018 - Bell's Cathedrals - The Cathedral Church of Peterborough, by W.D. Sweeting http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/1/13618/13618-h/13618-h.htm 13619 / 5019 - Little Journeys to Homes of the Great, Vol. 5, English Authors by Elbert Hubbard http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13619/13619-h/13619-h.htm 13620 / 5020 - The Worlds Greatest Books, Vol. XIII. ed. Mee & Hammerton http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13620/13620-h/13620-h.htm 13621 / 5021 - Jonathan Swift - Poems, Volume II http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13621/13621-8.txt 13622 / 5022 - Une histoire d'Amour by Paul MariTton (French) http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13622/13622-h/13622-h.htm 13623 / 5023 - Library of the World's Best Literature, Vol. VI, ed. Charles Dudley Warner http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13623/13623-h/13623-h.htm 13624 / 5024 - Chronicles Vol. I, The Historie of England, Part 2 by Raphael Holinshed http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13624/13624-h/13624-h.htm 13625 / 5025 - De Kerels van Vlaanderen by Hendrik Conscience (Dutch) http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13625/13625-h/13625-h.htm 13626 / 5026 - The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13626/13626-h/13626-h.htm 13627 / 5027 - Memorie del Presbiterio by Emilo Praga (Italian) http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13627/13627-8.txt 13628/ 5028 - La Esmeralda by Victor Hugo (French) http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13628/13628-8.txt 13629 / 5029 - Correspondence, Volume I - George Sand (French) http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13629/13629-8.txt 13630 / 5030 - As Farpas, Junho a Julho 1882 (Portuguese) http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13630/13630-h/13630-h.htm 13631 / 5031 - Atlantic Monthly - Issue 71 Sept. 1863 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13631/13631-h/13631-h.htm 13632 / 5032 - Bay State Monthly - Vol. I, Issue 5 May, 1884 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13632/13632-h/13632-h.htm 13633 / 5033 - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1844 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13633/13633-h/13633-h.htm 13634 / 5034 - Continental Monthly - Vol. I - Issue 2 Feb 1862 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13634/13634-h/13634-h.htm 13635 / 5035 - The New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 1 Issue 1, What Men of Letters Say http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13635/13635-h/13635-h.htm 13636 / 5036 - Lippincott's Magazine - February, 1873 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13636/13636-h/13636-h.htm 13637 / 5037 - McClure's Magazine -January 1896 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13637/13637-h/13637-h.htm 13638 / 5038 - Notes and Queries - Vol. I, Number 19, March 9, 1850 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13638/13638-h/13638-h.htm 13639 / 5039 - Punch - Vol. I, Issue 1, July 17, 1841 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13639/13639-h/13639-h.htm 13640 / 5040 - Scientific American Supplement - No. 821, September 26, 1891 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/4/13640/13640-h/13640-h.htm 13641 / 5041 - The American Missionary - October, 1888, Vol. XLII. No. 10. http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/4/13641/13641-h/13641-h.htm 13642 / 5042 - The Journal of Negro History - Vol. I, No. 1, Jan. 1916 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/4/13642/13642-h/13642-h.htm 13643 / 5043 - International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. I, No. 6, August 5, 1850 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/4/13643/13643-h/13643-h.htm 13644 / 5044 - The Mirror of Literature, Amusement & Instruction - Issue 360, March 14, 1829 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/4/13644/13644-h/13644-h.htm 13645 / 5045 - The Tatler, Vol. I http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/4/13645/13645-h/13645-h.htm 13646 / 5046 - A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/4/13646/13646-h/13646-h.htm 13647 / 5047 - Nonsense songs, stories, botany, and alphabets by Edward Lear http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/4/13647/13647-h/13647-h.htm 13648 / 5048 - More nonsense, pictures, rhymes, botany, etc by Edward Lear http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/4/13648/13648-h/13648-h.htm 13649 / 5049 - Laughable Lyrics by Edward Lear http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/4/13649/13649-h/13649-h.htm 13650 / 5050 - Nonsense Books by Edward Lear, DP Compilation http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/5/13650/13650-h/13650-h.htm

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Anti-spyware activist Ari Schwartz says the FTC has "built a good case. This fits into the kinds of cases where FTC could get their feet wet on this issue." (CNet News.com 12 Oct 2004) <http://news.com.com/From+spam+king+to+spy+master/2100-1032_3-5406348.html> [Did you know THEY can jam YOUR cell phone?] FRANCE APPROVES CELL PHONE-JAMMING IN THEATERS Tired of chatty theater-goers disturbing your entertainment enjoyment? France Industry Minister Patrick Devedijian has approved a decision by the country's Telecommunications Regulation Authority to allow cinemas, concert halls and theaters to install cell phone jammers that would prevent patrons from making or receiving calls during performances. Devedijian stipulated that emergency calls and calls made outside theaters and other performance spaces must not be affected, however. The move comes in response to "a long-standing request" from cinemas, says Jean Labbe, president of the National Federation of French Cinemas, noting that movie theaters had invested heavily to improve comfort and that "the authorization of jammers is the cherry on the cake." (AP 11 Oct 2004) <http://apnews.excite.com/article/20041012/D85LIBC80.html> U.S. GOVERNMENT FUNDS CHAT ROOM SURVEILLANCE The U.S. government is funding a year-long study by a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute computer science professor aimed at developing mathematical models to identify patterns in the chaotic traffic generated by online public forums that might reveal "hidden communities" of terrorists. RPI professor Bulent Yener will download data from selected chat rooms while tracking the times that messages were sent in order to create a statistical profile of the traffic. For instance, if QTpie and RatBoi consistently send messages within seconds of each other in a crowded chat room, it might be inferred that they are "speaking" to each other, camouflaged by the "noise" of the chat room environment. "For us, the challenge is to be able to determine, without reading the messages, who is talking to whom," says Yener. The $157,673 grant to conduct the study comes from the National Science Foundation's Approaches to Combat Terrorism program, which works in concert with U.S. intelligence agencies to make its selections. However, some scholars doubt the concept has much merit: "In a world in which you can embed your message in a pixel on a picture on a home page about tea cozies, I don't know whether if you're any better if you think chat would be any particular magnet," says Harvard Law School Internet scholar Jonathan Zittrain. (AP/Washington Post 11 Oct 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25272-2004Oct11.html> REUTERS TRIPLES JOBS AT SITE IN INDIA UK-based Reuters news service and data company will triple the number of employees it has in India, with as many as 1,500 employees (mainly in technical and data-entry jobs) in Bangalore by 2006. That figure represents about 10% of the total Reuter's workforce. Reuter's chief executive Tom Glocer says: "The amazing thing -- and this is the dirty little secret about outsourcing that people need to talk about publicly a bit more -- not only is the cost conflation amazing at four, five or even six to one, but the quality and productivity is better too. We are flooded. We have 100 qualified applications for every data input person and these people have qualified accounting degrees." (New York Times 8 Oct 2004) <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/08/business/worldbusiness/08reuters.html> ADVANCED CHIPS FROM CHINA [China: Not Just For The Chinese Any More] Chinese computer chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) will be supplying 90-nanometer chips to Texas Instruments and other major clients as part of Beijing's plan to reduce the country's once total dependence on imported chips for its own electronics industry. Texas Instruments has been using SMIC for late-stage processing of 130-nanometer chips since 2002, and SMIC's adoption of the 90-nanometer technology will bring it to the level of the highest industry standard. But SMIC has assured governments in Europe, the United States and Japan that it will never use its equipment to produce defense-related products. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 8 Oct 2004) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9868936.htm> EBAY BOSS HEADS 'SHE POWER' LIST [The Times They Are A'Changin'"] Meg Whitman of eBay has been named the most powerful woman in corporate America by Fortune magazine, toppling Carly Fiorina of Hewlett-Packard, who had headed the list since it began in 1998. Fortune ranks the women on criteria including the size and importance of a business in its market, the businesswoman's clout at her organization, her career trajectory and social or cultural impact. In Ms Whitman's case, there was one over-riding factor, the magazine said: "2004 belongs to Meg Whitman. Here's just one reason: The $60-billion market value of eBay, the company she runs, has surged past that of HP." The online marketplace is one of the fastest growing companies in history. This year it expects to report operating profits of about $1 billion on revenue of $3.2 billion. (The Age, 6 Oct 2004) rec'd from John Lamp <http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/05/1096949508672.html> You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage HOUSE SUPPORTS ANTISPYWARE LEGISLATION The U.S. House of Representatives this week voted overwhelmingly to pass the Spy Act, which prohibits a range of actions including surreptitiously installing software, tracking users' keystrokes, and hijacking home pages. Those found guilty under the Spy Act are subject to civil penalties of up to $3 million. The House is expected to pass similar legislation, called the I-Spy Act, which adds criminal penalties to many of the violations covered by the Spy Act. The bills include exemptions for determining if a computer is authorized to use software that is being legitimately installed; monitoring networks, as long as such monitoring is for security or repair purposes; and using cookies to allow access to certain Web sites. With those exemptions, the bills earned the support of The Business Software Alliance, Dell, eBay, Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo, and EarthLink. Although no votes have been scheduled for companion legislation that is pending in the Senate, lawmakers still hope that the bills can be delivered to the president's desk before Congress adjourns this Friday. Internet News, 6 October 2004 http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3417891 COLLEGES PRAISED FOR EFFORTS TO LIMIT COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS Members of Congress this week praised the efforts of some in the higher education community to limit the incidence of illegal file trading on campus networks. At a hearing of the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, witnesses testified about legal online music services on certain campuses and about software developed by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) that automatically handles notices of copyright infringement. The UCLA system disconnects students from the networks and notifies them by e-mail of the offending files. Network access is restored after the individual removes the files in question. Members of the subcommittee applauded UCLA's system, saying the blocking of network access for illegal file traders is an appropriate course of action. James Davis, UCLA's associate vice chancellor for information technology, said the number of copyright notices received by the institution has fallen since the introduction of the system, and no student has been disconnected more than once. The subcommittee also said it supports the work of the Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities, which encourages colleges to offer free legal services for students who download music on campus. Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 October 2004 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/10/2004100604n.htm FIRST VICTORY FOR CAN-SPAM ACT The first state prosecution under the federal CAN-SPAM Act was resolved this week when the state of Massachusetts reached a settlement with DC Enterprises and its principal owner, William Carson. Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly had filed the suit against Carson and DC Enterprises in July, alleging that the company sent thousands of messages that failed to provide a valid "opt-out" feature, did not identify themselves as advertisements, and used bogus return addresses. The messages reportedly asked recipients to send personal and financial information. In a statement, Reilly described the e-mail messages as the type that "threaten the credibility of companies using e-mail for legitimate purposes." Carson and DC Enterprises will pay $25,000 and will end practices that violate the CAN-SPAM Act as well as Massachusetts state laws. CNET, 11 October 2004 http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5406062.html PURDY NAMED INTERIM HEAD OF CYBERSECURITY Andy Purdy has been named interim head of cybersecurity in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), replacing Amit Yoran, who abruptly resigned from the post after serving just one year. Yoran was reportedly frustrated with what he saw as the Bush administration's lack of support for efforts to improve cybersecurity. Yoran and members of the technology industry had lobbied to have Yoran's position within DHS elevated, a move that Congress appeared set to make this week. Under a bill sponsored by Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), the position would be elevated such that the director would report to the undersecretary for information analysis and infrastructure protection, one step below DHS Secretary Tom Ridge. In addition, the bill would require government agencies to demonstrate consideration of security issues when requesting new technology systems. Reuters, 7 October 2004 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=6444284 FTC PURSUES SPYWARE PROSECUTION The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed charges against Sanford Wallace, alleging that his companies are guilty of installing spyware that change browser settings, track users' surfing habits, and open pop-up ads on their computers. Wallace is further charged with selling antispyware tools that, according to the FTC, "resolve the specific problems that the defendants themselves have caused." The FTC has asked the courts to force Wallace's companies to remove the software they have secretly installed and to refund consumers for the cost of the antispyware products they have purchased. The U.S. House of Representatives this week passed two antispyware bills, despite comments in April by the FTC that it already had sufficient authority to investigate and prosecute those accused of installing spyware. 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[Remember the WTO making all the news? It appears it today is the case that the administration NOW thinks WTO rulings, when they are not in lock-step with party politics, are NOT such a good thing. . . . It would appear that any company expressing an interest for inclusion in this bill has been accomodated, from importers of ceiling fans, to makers of fishing tackle boxes, all the specific pork-barrel additions to this bill make a list the lobbyists are saying was the most easy pickins of history. One commentator said a company got a tax break if they have just an ordinary lobbyist with a pulse. Apparently the only proposed inclusion in this bill that is NOT going forward was one to create a body to study the new tax and deficit situation caused by the bill. . .literally, the only ones NOT getting a break from the bill, taxpayers. $145 billion more for them to pay, as their goverment finds a way to make something now declared illegal appear legal. 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Sep. 12, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13710 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/1/13710 ] [Files: 13710.txt; 13710-8.txt; 13710-h.htm] Wolfville Nights, by Alfred Lewis 13709 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/0/13709 ] [Files: 13709.txt] Walking-Stick Papers, by Robert Cortes Holliday 13708 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/0/13708 ] [Files: 13708.txt] Twice Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 13707 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/0/13707 ] [Files: 13707.txt; 13707-8.txt; 13707-h.htm] Socialism and American ideals, by William Starr Myers 13706 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/0/13706 ] [Files: 13706.txt; 13706-h.htm] Op reis en thuis, by Justus van Maurik, jr 13705 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/0/13705 ] [Files: 13705-8.txt; 13705-h.htm] L'homme a l'oreille cassee, by Edmond About 13704 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/0/13704 ] [Files: 13704-8.txt] La maison de Claudine, by Colette 13703 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/0/13703 ] [Files: 13703-8.txt] Non-Euclidean Geometry, by Henry Manning 13702 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/0/13702 ] [Files: 13702-t.tex; 13702-pdf.pdf] The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, V7, 1588-1591, by Emma Helen Blair 13701 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/0/13701 ] [Files: 13701.txt; 13701-8.txt; 13701-h.htm] Slave Narratives, Arkansas Part 2, by Work Projects Administration 13700 [Title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Vol. II, Arkansas Narratives, Pt. 2] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/7/0/13700 ] [Files: 13700.txt; 13700-h.htm] In Zuid-Bretagne, by Gustave Geffroy 13699 [From De Aarde en haar volken, Jaargang 1906] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/9/13699 ] [Files: 13699-8.txt; 13699-h.htm] Bij de ruinen van Angkor, by Vicomte de Miramon-Fargues 13698 [From: De Aarde en haar volken, Jaargang 1906] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/9/13698 ] [Files: 13698-8.txt; 13698-h.htm] Pondichery, hoofdstad van Fransch-Indie, by G. 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Carmichael 13693 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/9/13693 ] [Files: 13693-t.tex; 13693-pdf.pdf] Hyperbolic Functions, by James McMahon 13692 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/9/13692 ] [Files: 13692-t.tex; 13692-pdf.pdf] Lastuja I-III, by Juhani Aho 13691 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/9/13691 ] [Files: 13691-8.txt] Aus meinem Leben - Zweiter Teil, by August Bebel 13690 [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/9/13690 ] [Files: 13690-8.txt] Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean, by E. Hamilton Currey 13689 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/8/13689 ] [Files: 13689.txt; 13689-8.txt] Mr. Murray's List of New and Recent Publications July, 1890 13688 [Author: John Murray] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/8/13688 ] [Files: 13688.txt; 13688-h.htm] Dakilang Asal, by Aurelio Tolentino 13687 [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/8/13687 ] [Files: 13687-8.txt; 13687-h.htm] Nang Bata Pa Kami, by Pura Medrano 13686 [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/8/13686 ] [Files: 13686-8.txt; 13686-h.htm] Stories From Seven Old Favorites, by Eva March Tappan 13685 [Title: Children's Hour, Vol. 5, Stories From Seven Old Favorites] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/8/13685 ] [Files: 13685.txt; 13685-8.txt; 13685-h.htm] Notes and Queries, No. 28. Saturday, May 11, 1850, by Various 13684 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/8/13684 ] [Files: 13684.txt; 13684-8.txt; 13684-h.htm] Justicia Nang Dios, by Mariano Sequera 13683 [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/8/13683 ] [Files: 13683-8.txt; 13683-h.htm] Isanmaa, by Arvid Jarnefelt 13682 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/8/13682 ] [Files: 13682-8.txt] Ihmiskohtaloja, by Arvid Jarnefelt 13681 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/8/13681 ] [Files: 13681-8.txt] The Bay State Monthly - Volume 1, Issue 4 - April, 1884, by Various 13680 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/8/13680 ] [Files: 13680.txt; 13680-h.htm] Andrew the Glad, by Maria Thompson Daviess 13679 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/7/13679 ] [Files: 13679.txt; 13679-8.txt; 13679-h.htm] Chapters on Jewish Literature, by Israel Abrahams 13678 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/7/13678 ] [Files: 13678.txt; 13678-8.txt; 13678-h.htm] Beautiful Thoughts, by Henry Drummond 13677 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/7/13677 ] [Files: 13677.txt] Au jeune royaume d'Albanie, by Gabriel Louis-Jaray 13676 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/7/13676 ] [Files: 13676.txt; 13676-8.txt; 13676-h.htm] Goody Two-Shoes, by Anonymous 13675 [Subtitle: A Facsimile Reproduction Of The Edition Of 1766] [Introduction By Charles Welsh] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/7/13675 ] [Files: 13675.txt; 13675-8.txt; 13675-h.htm] Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series), by Various 13674 [Authors: Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed] [Edited by Charles W. Eliot] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/7/13674 ] [Files: 13674.txt; 13674-8.txt; 13674-h.htm] The Pacha of Many Tales, by Captain Frederick Marryat 13673 Contents: Story of the Camel-Driver Story of the Greek Slave Story of the Monk Huckaback Manuscript of the Monk Third Voyage of Huckaback Fourth Voyage of Huckaback Fifth Voyage of Huckaback Sixth Voyage of Huckaback The Last Voyage of Huckaback The Scarred Lover The Story of Hudusi Tale of the English Sailor The Water-Carrier The Wondrous Tale of Han Story of the Old Woman [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/7/13673 ] [Files: 13673.txt; 13673-8.txt; ] The Unknown Eros, by Coventry Patmore 13672 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/7/13672 ] [Files: 13672.txt; 13672-h.htm] Horace, by George Sand 13671 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/7/13671 ] [Files: 13671.txt; 13671-8.txt; 13671-h.htm] The Happy Family, by Bertha Muzzy Bower 13670 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/7/13670 ] [Files: 13670.txt; 13670-8.txt; 13670-h.htm] The New Dr. Price Cookbook, by Anonymous 13669 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/6/13669 ] [Files: 13669.txt; 13669-8.txt; 13669-h.htm] Le chateau des Desertes, by George Sand 13668 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/6/13668 ] [Files: 13668.txt; 13668-8.txt; 13668-h.htm] Bog-Myrtle and Peat, by S.R. Crockett 13667 [Subtitle: Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/6/13667 ] [Files: 13667.txt; 13667-8.txt] A Study of Fairy Tales, by Laura F. Kready 13666 [Author: Introduction by Henry Suzzallo] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/6/13666 ] [Files: 13666.txt; 13666-8.txt; ] War in the Garden of Eden, by Kermit Roosevelt 13665 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/6/13665 ] [Files: 13665.txt; 13665-8.txt; 13665-h.htm; ] Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay, by Lord Dunsany 13664 [Author AKA: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunket] [Editor: W. B. Yeats] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/6/13664 ] [Files: 13664.txt; 13664-8.txt; ] Papin rouva, by Juhani Aho 13663 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/6/13663 ] [Files: 13663-8.txt] Papin tytaer, by Juhani Aho 13662 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/6/13662 ] [Files: 13662-8.txt] (Note: The following eBook number was previously assigned to a different work, but has been re-assigned to this eBook.) Der Bankerott, by Florian Mueller 13661 [Subtitle: Eine gesellschaftliche Tragodie in funf Akten] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/6/13661 ] [Files: 13661.txt; 13661-8.txt; 13661-0.txt; 13661-h.htm] Nonsense Books (Complete), by Edward Lear 13650 [Author AKA: Derry Down Derry] Contents: A Book of Nonsense Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets More Nonsense: Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. Laughable Lyrics: A Fresh Book Of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, etc.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/5/13650 ] [Files: 13650.txt; 13650-8.txt; 13650-h.htm; ] Laughable Lyrics, by Edward Lear 13649 [Author AKA: Derry Down Derry] [Subtitle: A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, etc.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/4/13649 ] [Files: 13649.txt; 13649-8.txt; 13649-h.htm; ] More Nonsense, by Edward Lear 13648 [Author AKA: Derry Down Derry] [Subtitle: Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/4/13648 ] [Files: 13648.txt; 13648-h.htm; ] Nonsense Song, by Edward Lear 13647 [Author AKA: Derry Down Derry] [Subtitle: Stories, Botany, and Alphabets] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/4/13647 ] [Files: 13647.txt; 13647-h.htm; ] A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear 13646 [Author AKA: Derry Down Derry] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/4/13646 ] [Files: 13646.txt; 13646-8.txt; 13646-h.htm; ] [Clearance: gbn0403300722] The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899, by George A. Aitken 13645 [Edited with Introduction & Notes by George A. Aitken] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/4/13645 ] [Files: 13645.txt; 13645-8.txt; 13645-0.txt; 13645-h.htm] Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 360, by Various 13644 [Subtitle: Vol. XIII. No. 360, Saturday, March 14, 1829] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/4/13644 ] [Files: 13644.txt; 13644-8.txt; 13644-h.htm] International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. I, No. 6, by Various 13643 [Subtitle: Of Literature, Art, And Science, New York, August 5, 1850] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/4/13643 ] [Files: 13643.txt; 13643-8.txt; 13643-h.htm] The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. No. 1, Jan. 1916, by Various 13642 [Edited by Carter G. Woodson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/4/13642 ] [Files: 13642.txt; 13642-8.txt; 13642-h.htm] The American Missionary, Volume XLII. No. 10. October 1888, by Various 13641 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/4/13641 ] [Files: 13641.txt; 13641-8.txt; 13641-h.htm] Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, Sep. 26, 1891, by Various 13640 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/4/13640 ] [Files: 13640.txt; 13640-8.txt; 13640-h.htm] Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 1, July 17, 1841, by Various 13639 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13639 ] [Files: 13639.txt; 13639-8.txt; 13639-h.htm] Notes & Queries, No. 19, Saturday, March 9, 1850, by Various 13638 [Subtitle: A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13638 ] [Files: 13638.txt; 13638-8.txt; 13638-h.htm] McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2, by Various 13637 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13637 ] [Files: 13637.txt; 13637-8.txt; 13637-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI., by Various 13636 [Full title: Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13636 ] [Files: 13636.txt; 13636-8.txt; 13636-h.htm] New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1, by Various 13635 [Subtitle: From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13635 ] [Files: 13635.txt; 13635-8.txt; 13635-h.htm] Continental Monthly, Vol. I. February, 1862, No. II., by Various 13634 [Subtitle: Devoted To Literature And National Policy] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13634 ] [Files: 13634.txt; 13634-8.txt; 13634-h.htm] Blackwood's Magazine, No. CCCXLII. Vol. LV. April, 1844, by Various 13633 [Full title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLII. Vol. LV. April, 1844] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13633 ] [Files: 13633.txt; 13633-8.txt; 13633-h.htm] The Bay State Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 5, May, 1884, by Various 13632 [Subtitle: A Massachusetts Magazine] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13632 ] [Files: 13632.txt; 13632-8.txt; 13632-h.htm] Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI., by Various 13631 [Subtitle: A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13631 ] [Files: 13631.txt; 13631-8.txt; 13631-h.htm] As Farpas (Junho a Julho 1882), by Eca de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigao 13630 [Language: Portugese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/3/13630 ] [Files: 13630.txt; 13630-8.txt; 13630-h.htm] Correspondance, Vol. 1, 1812-1876, by George Sand 13629 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13629 ] [Files: 13629.txt; 13629-8.txt] La Esmeralda, by Victor Hugo 13628 [From The Complete Works, Vol. 17. Drame, 4.] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13628 ] [Files: 13628.txt; 13628-8.txt] Memorie del Presbiterio, by Emilio Praga 13627 [Language: Italian] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13627 ] [Files: 13627.txt; 13627-8.txt] The Forty-Five Guardsmen, by Alexandre Dumas 13626 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13626 ] [Files: 13626.txt; 13626-8.txt; 13626-h.htm] De Kerels van Vlaanderen, by Hendrik Conscience 13625 [Language: Dutch/Flemish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13625 ] [Files: 13625.txt; 13625-8.txt; 13625-h.htm] Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8), Raphael Holinshed 13624 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13624 ] [Files: 13624.txt; 13624-8.txt; 13624-h.htm] World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6, by Various 13623 [Title: Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6] [Edited by Charles Dudley Warner] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13623 ] [Files: 13623.txt; 13623-8.txt; 13623-h.htm] Une histoire d'Amour, by Paul Marieton 13622 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13622 ] [Files: 13622.txt; 13622-8.txt; 13622-h.htm] Poems (Volume II.), by Jonathan Swift 13621 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13621 ] [Files: 13621.txt; 13621-8.txt; 13621-0.txt] The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII., by Various 13620 [Subtitle: Religion and Philosophy] [Editors: Arthur Mee & J. A. Hammerton] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/2/13620 ] [Files: 13620.txt; 13620-8.txt; 13620-h.htm] Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, V. 5 of 14, by ElbertHubbard 13619 [Subtitle: Little Journeys To The Homes Of English Authors] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13619 ] [Files: 13619.txt; 13619-8.txt; 13619-h.htm; ] The Cathedral Church of Peterborough, by W.D. Sweeting 13618 [Subtitle: A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/1/13618 ] [Files: 13618.txt; 13618-8.txt; 13618-h.htm] Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Harrison, by Richardson 13617 [Title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. IX, Benjamin Harrison] [Edited by James D. Richardson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/1/13617 ] [Files: 13617.txt; 13617-8.txt; 13617-h.htm] The Philippine Islands, Vol. II, by Blair and Robertson 13616 [Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569] [Editors: Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson] [Introduction and Comments: Edward Gaylord Bourne] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/1/13616 ] [Files: 13616.txt; 13616-8.txt] Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6), by Havelock Ellis 13615 [Subtitle: Sex in Relation to Society] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13615 ] [Files: 13615.txt; 13615-8.txt; 13615-h.htm; ] Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6), by Havelock Ellis 13614 [Subtitle: Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13614 ] [Files: 13614.txt; 13614-8.txt; 13614-h.htm; ] Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6), by Havelock Ellis 13613 [Subtitle: Sexual Selection In Man: Touch; Smell; Hearing; Vision] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13613 ] [Files: 13613.txt; 13613-8.txt; 13613-h.htm; ] Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6), by Havelock Ellis 13612 [Subtitle: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13612 ] [Files: 13612.txt; 13612-8.txt; 13612-h.htm; ] Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6), by Havelock Ellis 13611 [Subtitle: Sexual Inversion] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13611 ] [Files: 13611.txt; 13611-8.txt; 13611-h.htm; ] Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6), by Havelock Ellis 13610 [Subtitle: The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1/13610 ] [Files: 13610.txt; 13610-8.txt; 13610-h.htm; ] Vector Analysis and Quaternions, by Alexander Macfarlane 13609 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13609 ] [Files: 13609-t.tex; 13609-pdf.pdf] Note: there is no plain-text for this mathematical work. Filosofia fundamental, by Jaime Balmes 13608 [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13608 ] [Files: 13608.txt; 13608-8.txt] Histoire de la Revolution francaise, Tome 10, by Adolphe Thiers 13607 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13607 ] [Files: 13607.txt; 13607-8.txt; 13607-h.htm] Kerr's Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18, William Stevenson 13606 [Full title: Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18] [Subtitle: Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson] (Note: This is the final volume of Robert Kerr's History. Though it still has Kerr's name on the title page it was actually written by William Stevenson after Kerr's death.) [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13606 ] [Files: 13606.txt; 13606-8.txt] Principal Navigations, Vol. XII., America, Part I., by Richard Hakluyt 13605 [Full title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] [Edited By Edmund Goldsmid, F.R.H.S.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13605 ] [Files: 13605.txt; 13605-8.txt] Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean, by Marmaduke Park 13604 [Subtitle: From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13604 ] [Files: 13604.txt; 13604-8.txt; 13604-h.htm] The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai, by Anonymous 13603 [With Introduction And Translation By Martha Warren Beckwith] [Taken From The Bureau Of American Ethnology Thirty-Third Annual Report] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13603 ] [Files: 13603.txt; 13603-8.txt] Slave Narratives: Georgia, Pt. 1, by Works Project Administration 13602 [Title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/0/13602 ] [Files: 13602.txt; 13602-8.txt; 13602-h.htm] Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans/Corinthians, by Alexander Maclaren 13601 [Title: Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans and Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. 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Yonge [#6][ltdukxxx.xxx] 3048 Jan 2002 Life's Little Ironies etc., Thomas Hardy [#14][lfirnxxx.xxx] 3047 Jan 2002 The Land of the Changing Sun, William N. Harben [lcsunxxx.xxx] 3046 Jan 2002 Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope [#9][lacobxxx.xxx] 3045 Jan 2002 Desperate Remedies, Thomas Hardy [#13][desrmxxx.xxx] 3044 Jan 2002 The Quaker Colonies, Sydney G. Fisher [quakexxx.xxx] 3043 Jan 2002 Hispanic Nations of the New World, Wm. R. Shepherd[hispnxxx.xxx] 3042 Jan 2002 The Cleveland Era, Henry Jones Ford [clevexxx.xxx] 3041 [Title: The Cleveland Era, A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics] Jan 2002 The Boss and the Machine, Samuel P. Orth [bossmxxx.xxx] 3040 Jan 2002 Forty-Two Poems by James Elroy Flecker[Flecker #1][42pomxxx.xxx] 3039 Jan 2002 The Armies of Labor, Samuel P. Orth [laborxxx.xxx] 3038 Jan 2002 The Age of Big Business, Burton J. 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Unlike grand jury subpoenas, national security letters may not be contested before a judge and require only that the FBI describe the information it seeks as "relevant" to terrorism or intelligence probes. Recipients of the letters are prohibited from telling anyone -- including their customers and their lawyers -- about the FBI requests. In the past 14 months since the Patriot Act's passage, "hundreds" of such letters have been issued, according to U.S. District Judge Victor Morrero, who says he appreciates the government's terrorism concerns but feels freedoms must be carefully preserved in times of crisis: "Sometimes a right, once extinguished, may be gone for good." ACLU executive director Anthony Romero called the decision "a stunning victory against John Ashcroft's Department of Justice." The Justice Department now has 90 days to fix the law or appeal the ruling. (USA Today 30 Sep 2004) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-09-29-patriotact_x.htm SOUTH KOREA VULNERABLE TO CYBER ATTACKS FROM NORTH South Korea's defense ministry says that North Korea has trained hundreds of computer hackers who could launch a cyber-war on South Korea, the US or Japan. Because South Korea has the world's highest usage of broadband services yet maintains relatively low levels of Internet security, the country is especially vulnerable to network attacks. (Financial Times 4 Oct 2004) <http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3d592eb4-15f0-11d9-b835-00000e2511c8.html> SAUDI ARABIAN BAN ON CAMERA-EQUIPPED CELLPHONES [Do they also ban VCRs and other kinds of cameras/recording devices?] Saudi Arabia's grand mufti has prohibited as "un-Islamic" trading in camera-equipped mobile phones, because such phones "could be exploited to photograph and spread vice in the Muslim community." Camera-equipped mobile phones are ostensibly banned in the conservative kingdom, but are apparently very much in use and are often the center of controversy. (The Age 4 Oct 2004) Rec'd from J. Lamp <http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/30/1096401689051.html> FCC CHAIR: TIME TO SWITCH TO DIGITAL [Are they still intending to force digital TV on us?] The Federal Communications Commission is beginning a new consumer-education campaign to support the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV. Announcing a new Web site to answer questions about digital TV, Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell explained: "For the vast majority of American households, digital television may be uncharted territory. We will not let them go it alone." The Consumer Electronics Association estimates that about 10% of U.S. households currently have digital sets. (Washington Post 5 Oct 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7846-2004Oct5.html> DECLARING VICTORY, SONY ABANDONS COPYRIGHT PROTECTED CDs Sony's music unit will no longer be selling CDs that use built-in technology to prevent their being copied, because the company has come to the conclusion that its message against illegally copying of CDs has become widely accepted. Sony's persistent dilemma has been how to protect the copyrights on its movies, music and other entertainment assets while at the same time making its electronics devices attractive to consumers. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 4 Oct 2004) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9832592.htm> MOBILES REACH ALL CHINA'S ETHNIC MINORITIES China has brought its mobile phone network to the last of its ethnic minority regions previously cut off from communication with the outside world. The district of Drung in the mountainous county of Gongshan in southwestern Yunnan province was connected to the mobile phone network on Saturday -- the last of 55 ethnic minority regions to be hooked up, says the Xinhua news agency. (The Age 4 Oct 2004) rec'd from J. Lamp <http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/04/1096850384137.html> MICROSOFT IN YOUR LIVING ROOM [What makes this any different than Web-TV?] Microsoft has developed a $200 device called MSN TV 2 to pipe pictures, video and music from a PC to a TV, either wirelessly or via a cable, and to let users send e-mail and surf the Internet from their TVs. People with Internet connections pay either $9.95 a month or $99 a year for the service; dial-up access costs $21.95 a month. Gartner Research analyst David Smith explains, "As the economics tilt toward consumer electronics, Microsoft wants to be a key technology provider. Microsoft has deep pockets and a willingness to be there for many, many years. They're very patient. People are interested in being able to access their content from lots of different devices. And this is definitely a step in that direction." (Los Angeles Times 6 Oct 2004) <http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-microtv6oct06,1,6758384.story?coll= la-headlines-technology> [Meanwhile, TIVO makes to to radio. . .well. . .not quite] RADIO WHEN AND HOW YOU WANT IT A company called Griffin Technology has introduced radioShark, a device that does for radio what TiVo does for television: allowing a user to pause, rewind or fast-forward live programming, and of course store it as well. Technology analyst Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal writes: "Overall, we found the radioShark to be a good idea, but it lacks some of TiVo's smart features. Because it doesn't have program schedules like TiVo does, you can't look through a list of upcoming radio shows to learn what will be on when, what specific song will be played, or which talk-radio topic will be discussed. By contrast, TiVo's schedule grid makes it a cinch to plan your recordings ahead of time... If radioShark were smarter, it could be a sensation. For now, though, it's more of a curiosity, or a tool for radio enthusiasts with a good sense of station schedules and time to invest." (Wall Street Journal 6 Oct 2004) <http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109701902050037291,00.html> (sub req'd) You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage JUDGE RULES PART OF PATRIOT ACT UNCONSTITUTIONAL A federal judge this week handed the Bush administration a defeat when he ruled part of the Patriot Act unconstitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had sued the Department of Justice, asking that part of the act be thrown out because it authorizes the FBI to compel financial institutions to divulge sensitive information about clients. The ACLU argued that because the provision did not require the FBI to present a compelling need for the information requested and did not require the FBI to inform individuals how they could contest the disclosure, the law did not include adequate safeguards for sensitive information. The judge in the case agreed and said that the part in question "effectively bars or substantially deters any judicial challenge." Wired News, 29 September 2004 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65136,00.html [Sony Keeps Learning!] NO MORE COPY-PROTECTED CDS FROM SONY Sony Music Entertainment, the music arm of Sony Corporation, will stop using copy protections that debuted on its CDs two years ago. The copy protections allowed consumers to make one copy of a CD on a personal computer. Users who wanted to make additional copies had to pay to do so. A company spokesperson said evidence suggests that its educational efforts aimed at reducing illegally sharing copyrighted songs online have been successful. According to Sony, only a small minority of users make illegal copies of CDs. Sony also said that its portable music players will soon be able to play all MP3 files. Currently, users who want to play MP3 files on Sony devices first must convert them to Sony's format. San Jose Mercury News, 4 October 2004 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9832592.htm You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK For the first time since 1909, Chicago police reported no gunshot wounds or deaths yesterday. * SURVEY SHOWS U.S. COMPUTER USERS UNAWARE OF SECURITY RISKS A survey commissioned by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) shows significant gaps of understanding among U.S. computer users about the actual threat posed by computer security problems. According to the survey, 30 percent of Americans believe they are more likely to be hit by lightning, to be audited by the IRS, or to win the lottery than be the victim of a computer security problem; among users under the age of 25, the rate of those who believe this rises to 40 percent. In truth, cybersecurity threats, including viruses, phishing scams, and hacking, affect about 70 percent of computer users, while the odds of being hit by lightning are 0.0000102 percent, according to the U.S. National Weather Service. The survey also found that 90 percent of computer users remember Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl, but only 60 percent remember when the security software on their PCs was last updated. Ken Watson, chairman of the NCSA, said that 91 percent of PCs are infected with some variant of spyware. The NCSA has declared October to be National Cyber Security Awareness month in the United States and is sponsoring educational efforts to teach users about the real risks of ignoring cybersecurity. BBC, 3 October 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3708260.stm *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK If voting could really change things, it would be illegal. Revolution Books, New York, New York. *** *More Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media Diebold Case: Lawsuit Provides Recourse for ISPs Defending Free Speech San Jose, CA - In a landmark case in which the Online Policy Group sued voting machine manufacturer Diebold, Inc., a California district court has determined that Diebold incorrectly claimed that online commentators had infringed the company's copyrights. Diebold is thus the first company to be held liable for violating section 512(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which makes it unlawful to use DMCA takedown threats when the copyright holder knows that infringement has not actually occurred. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Center for Internet and Society Cyberlaw Clinic at Stanford Law School sued on behalf of nonprofit Internet Service Provider (ISP) Online Policy Group (OPG) and two Swarthmore students to prevent Diebold's abusive copyright claims from silencing public debate about voting. Diebold sent dozens of cease-and-desist letters to ISPs hosting leaked internal documents revealing flaws in Diebold's e-voting machines. The company claimed copyright violations and used the DMCA to demand that the documents be taken down. One ISP, OPG, refused to remove them in the name of free speech, and thus became the first ISP to test whether it would be held liable for the actions of its users in such a situation. "This decision is a victory for free speech and for transparency in discussions of electronic voting technology," said Wendy Seltzer, an EFF staff attorney who worked on the case. "Judge Fogel recognized the fair use of copyrighted materials in critical discussion and gave speakers a remedy when their speech is chilled by improper claims of copyright infringement." OPG Executive Director Will Doherty said, "This ruling means that we have legal recourse to protect ourselves and our clients when we are sent misleading or abusive takedown notices." In his decision, Judge Jeremy Fogel wrote, "No reasonable copyright holder could have believed that the portions of the email archive discussing possible technical problems with Diebold's voting machines were protected by copyright... the Court concludes as a matter of law that Diebold knowingly materially misrepresented that Plaintiffs infringed Diebold's copyright interest." *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For this release: <http://www.onlinepolicy.org/media/040930opgvdieboldorder.shtml>http://www.o nlinepolicy.org/media/040930opgvdieboldorder.shtml More info on OPG v. Diebold case, including judge's decision: <http://www.onlinepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/>http://www.onli nepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/ * ARREST EXPOSES NASA SAFETY from The Orlando Sentinel A former NASA inspector lied about inspecting highly critical space-shuttle parts -- sometimes not even entering the orbiter to make his checks -- in the months before and after the Columbia accident, according to an indictment released Tuesday. The case against Billy T. Thornton comes amid the space agency's prolonged struggle to repair safety flaws exposed by the fiery crash, which killed seven astronauts Feb. 1, 2003. During his 15-year career, Thornton inspected the entire shuttle fleet, but the charges involve Discovery, slated to be the first shuttle to be launched since the grounding of the fleet, probably next summer. http://snipurl.com/9kr2 From: inthenews <inthenews(a)SIGMAXI.ORG> *** About the Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter: Goes out approximately at noon each Wednesday, but various different relays will get it to you at different times; you can subscribe directly, just send me email to find out how, or to subscribe directly by yourself, go to: http://www.gutenberg.org/subs.shtml and About the Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter: Goes out approximately first Wednesday of each month. 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NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. I, No. 6, by Various 13661 [Subtitle: Of Literature, Art, And Science, New York, August 5, 1850] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/6/13661 ] [Files: 13661.txt; 13661-8.txt; 13661-h.htm] The Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson, Vol II., Carlyle and Emerson 13660 [Title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.] [Author: Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson] [Edited and Arranged by Charles E. Norton] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/6/13660 ] [Files: 13660.txt] Der Todesgruss der Legionen, Dritter Band, by Meding 13659 [Author: Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding, AKA Gregor Samarow] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/5/13659 ] [Files: 13659.txt; 13659-8.txt; 13659-0.txt] Der Todesgruss der Legionen, Zweiter Band, by Meding 13658 [Author: Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding, AKA Gregor Samarow] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/5/13658 ] [Files: 13658.txt; 13658-8.txt; 13658-0.txt] Der Todesgruss der Legionen, Erster Band, by Meding 13657 [Author: Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding, AKA Gregor Samarow] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/5/13657 ] [Files: 13657.txt; 13657-8.txt; 13657-0.txt] A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga, by Yogi Ramacharaka 13656 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/5/13656 ] [Files: 13656.txt] Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876, by Various 13655 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/5/13655 ] [Files: 13655.txt; 13655-8.txt; 13655-h.htm] Ida et Carmelita, by Hector Malot 13654 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/5/13654 ] [Files: 13654.txt; 13654-8.txt; 13654-h.htm] Elle et lui, by George Sand 13653 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/5/13653 ] [Files: 13653.txt; 13653-8.txt; 13653-0.txt] Exposition of the Apostles Creed, by James Dodds 13652 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/5/13652 ] [Files: 13652.txt; 13652-h.htm] Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literature, by Various 13651 [Title: Chatto & Windus Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literature, Sept. 1905] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/6/5/13651 ] [Files: 13651.txt; 13651-8.txt; 13651-h.htm] Ambrosius, by Chris K.F. Molbech 13599 [Language: Danish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/9/13599 ] [Files: 13599.txt; 13599-8.txt; 13599-h.htm] Jim l'indien, by Gustave Aimard and Jules Berlioz d'Auriac 13598 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/9/13598 ] [Files: 13598.txt; 13598-8.txt] A Tale of a Lonely Parish, by F. Marion Crawford 13597 [Author AKA: Francis Marion Crawford] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/9/13597 ] [Files: 13597.txt; 13597-8.txt; ] Bavo en Lieveken, by Hendrik Conscience 13596 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/9/13596 ] [Files: 13596.txt; 13596-8.txt; 13596-h.htm] Avondstonden, by Hendrik Conscience 13595 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/9/13595 ] [Files: 13595.txt; 13595-8.txt; 13595-h.htm] Portraits litteraires, Tome I, by C.-A. Sainte-Beuve 13594 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/9/13594 ] [Files: 13594.txt; 13594-8.txt; 13594-h.htm] Yksin, by Juhani Aho 13593 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/9/13593 ] [Files: 13593-8.txt] L'Uscoque, by George Sand 13592 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/9/13592 ] [Files: 13592.txt; 13592-8.txt; 13592-0.txt] Noorwegens Letterkunde in de Negentiende Eeuw, by R.C. Boer 13591 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/9/13591 ] [Files: 13591.txt; 13591-8.txt; 13591-h.htm] British Folk-Music -- "Shepherd's Hey", by Percy Grainger 13590 [Title: British Folk-Music Settings Nr. 4, "Shepherd's Hey"] [Author: Anonymous, Arranged for piano by Percy Grainger] (Note: This is a musical score in MIDI, PDF and Finale's MUS formats) [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/9/13590 ] [Files: 13590.txt; 13590-mid.mid; 13590-mus.mus; 13590-pdf.pdf] The Theory of the Theatre, by Clayton Hamilton 13589 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/8/13589 ] [Files: 13589.txt; 13589-8.txt; 13589-h.htm] The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor..., by John Hamilton Moore 13588 [Full title: The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/8/13588 ] [Files: 13588.txt; 13588-8.txt; 13588-h.htm] Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, No. 290 13587 [December 29, 1827] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/8/13587 ] [Files: 13587.txt; 13587-h.htm] Poems, by Samuel Rogers 13586 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/8/13586 ] [Files: 13586.txt; 13586-8.txt] De profundis, by Oscar Wilde 13585 [Translated by P.C. Boutens] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/8/13585 ] [Files: 13585.txt; 13585-8.txt; 13585-h.htm] American Missionary, Volume XLII, No. 11, November 1888, by Various 13584 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/8/13584 ] [Files: 13584.txt; 13584-8.txt; 13584-h.htm] The Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson, by Carlyle and Emerson 13583 [Title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I] [Author: Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/8/13583 ] [Files: 13583.txt] The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath, by Charles E. Davis 13582 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/8/13582 ] [Files: 13582.txt; 13582-8.txt; 13582-h.htm; ] Hellmannin herra; Esimerkin vuoksi; Maailman murjoma, by Juhani Aho 13581 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/8/13581 ] [Files: 13581-8.txt] Helsinkiin, by Juhani Aho 13580 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/8/13580 ] [Files: 13580-8.txt] Slave Narratives: Indiana, by Work Projects Administration 13579 [Title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Vol. V: Indiana Narratives] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/7/13579 ] [Files: 13579.txt; 13579-8.txt; 13579-h.htm] The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, No. 361 13578 [Supplementary Issue (1829)] [Author: Various] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/7/13578 ] [Files: 13578.txt; 13578-8.txt; 13578-h.htm; ] The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat, by Janet Aldridge 13577 [Subtitle: The Stormy Cruise of the Red Rover] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/7/13577 ] [Files: 13577.txt; 13577-h.htm; ] The Poor Gentleman, by Hendrik Conscience 13576 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/7/13576 ] [Files: 13576.txt; 13576-8.txt; 13576-h.htm; ] How to Observe in Archaeology, by Various 13575 [Subtitle: Suggestions for Travellers in the Near and Middle East] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/7/13575 ] [Files: 13575.txt; ] Keeping Fit All the Way, by Walter Camp 13574 [Subtitle: How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/7/13574 ] [Files: 13574.txt; 13574-h.htm; ] Elizabeth's Campaign, by Mrs. Humphry Ward 13573 [Author AKA: Mary Augusta Arnold Ward] [Illustrator: C. Allan Gilbert] [Note: UK title was The War and Elizabeth] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/7/13573 ] [Files: 13573.txt; 13573-8.txt; 13573-h.htm; ] The Son of Clemenceau, by Alexandre Dumas (fils) 13572 [Subtitle: A Novel of Modern Love and Life (A Sequel to The Clemenceau Case)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/7/13572 ] [Files: 13572.txt; 13572-8.txt; 13572-h.htm; ] Notes & Queries, Index of Vol. 2, May through December, 1850 13571 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/7/13571 ] [Files: 13571.txt; 13571-8.txt; 13571-h.htm] Sketches of the Covenanters, by J. C. McFeeters 13570 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/7/13570 ] [Files: 13570.txt; 13570-h.htm; ] Tractus de Hermaphrodites (1718), by Giles Jacob 13569 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/6/13569 ] [Files: 13569.txt; 13569-8.txt; 13569-h.htm] Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment, by Catt (Compiler) 13568 [Compiler: Carrie Lane Chapman Catt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/6/13568 ] [Files: 13568.txt; 13568-8.txt] Clementina, by A.E.W. Mason 13567 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/6/13567 ] [Files: 13567.txt; 13567-8.txt; 13567-h.htm] Muuan markkinamies, by Juhani Aho 13566 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/6/13566 ] [Files: 13566-8.txt] Jaakko Juteini ja hanen kirjallinen toimintansa, by Kuuno A. Talvioja 13565 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/6/13565 ] [Files: 13565.txt; 13565-8.txt] Ensimmaiset novellit, by Juhani Aho 13564 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/6/13564 ] [Files: 13564-8.txt] Punch, Vol. 101, July 4, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13563 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/6/13563 ] [Files: 13563.txt; 13563-8.txt; 13563-h.htm] Ghislaine, by Hector Malot 13562 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/6/13562 ] [Files: 13562.txt; 13562-8.txt; 13562-h.htm] Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher, by Henry Jones 13561 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/6/13561 ] [Files: 13561.txt; 13561-8.txt; 13561-h.htm; ] Nancy MacIntyre, by Lester Shepard Parker 13560 [Subtitle: A Tale of the Prairies] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/6/13560 ] [Files: 13560.txt; 13560-h.htm; ] The Backwoods of Canada, by Catharine Parr Traill 13559 [Subtitle: Being Letters From The Wife Of An Emigrant Officer, Illustrative Of The Domestic Economy Of British America] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/5/13559 ] [Files: 13559.txt] Notes & Queries, No. 14. Saturday, February 2, 1850, by Various 13558 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/5/13558 ] [Files: 13558.txt; 13558-8.txt; 13558-h.htm] Cent-vingt jours de service actif, by Charles R. Daoust 13557 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/5/13557 ] [Files: 13557.txt; 13557-8.txt; 13557-h.htm] Behind the Line, by Ralph Henry Barbour 13556 [Subtitle: A Story of College Life and Football] [Illustrator: C. M. Relyea] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/5/13556 ] [Files: 13556.txt; 13556-8.txt; 13556-h.htm; ] Youth and the Bright Medusa, by Willa Cather 13555 [Subtitle: A Collection of Short Stories] Contents: Coming, Aphrodite! The Diamond Mine A Gold Slipper Scandal Paul's Case A Wagner Matinee The Sculptor's Funeral "A Death in the Desert" [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/5/13555 ] [Files: 13555.txt; 13555-8.txt; ] Cambridge Essays on Education, Ed. by Arthur Christopher Benson 13548 Contents: Introduction, by Viscount Bryce The Aim of Educational Reform, by J. L. Paton The Training of the Reason, by W. R. Inge The Training of the Imagination, by A. C. Benson Religion at School, by W. W. Vaughan Citizenship, by Albert Mansbridge The Place of Literature in Education, by Nowell Smith The Place of Science in Education, by William Bateson Athletics, by F. B. Malim The Use of Leisure, by J. H. Badley Preparation for Practical Life, by J. D. McClure Teaching as a Profession, by Frank Roscoe [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/4/13548 ] [Files: 13548.txt; 13548-8.txt; 13548-h.htm; ] ============================================================================= A conference is a gathering of important people who individually can't do anything but together can decide that nothing can be done. A friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg even though you're slightly cracked. A drop of ink may make a million think. =============================================================================

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