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Bentzon (Mme. Blanc) (see also #3971) The Ink-Stain by Rene Bazin (see also #3975) Fromont and Risler, by Alphonse Daudet (see also #3980) Gerfaut by Charles de Bernard (see also #3985) Conscience by Hector Malot (see also #3990) Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti (see also #3995) An "Attic" Philosopher by Emile Souvestre (see also #3999) [Updated edition of: etext03/imewk10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/4/0/0/4000 ] [Files: 4000.txt] An "Attic" Philosopher, Complete, by Emile Souvestre 3999 [Updated edition of: etext03/im86b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/9/3999 ] [Files: 3999.txt] Madame Chrysantheme Complete, by Pierre Loti 3995 [Updated edition of: etext03/im82b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/9/3995 ] [Files: 3995.txt] Conscience, Complete, by Hector Malot 3990 [Updated edition of: etext03/im77b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/9/3990 ] [Files: 3990.txt] Gerfaut, Complete, by Charles de Bernard 3985 [Updated edition of: etext03/im72b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/8/3985 ] [Files: 3985.txt] Fromont and Risler, Complete, by Alphonse Daudet 3980 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/8/3980 ] [Updated edition of: etext03/im67b10.txt] [Files: 3980.txt] The Ink-Stain, Complete, by Rene Bazin 3975 [Updated edition of: etext03/im62b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/7/3975 ] [Files: 3975.txt] Jacqueline, Complete, by Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc) 3971 [Updated edition of: etext03/im58b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/7/3971 ] [Files: 3971.txt] Cosmopolis, Complete, by Paul Bourget 3967 [Updated edition of: etext03/im54b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/6/3967 ] [Files: 3967.txt] A Romance of Youth, Complete, by Francois Coppee 3962 [Updated edition of: etext03/im49b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/6/3962 ] [Files: 3962.txt] L'Abbe Constantin, Complete, by Ludovic Halevy 3957 [Updated edition of: etext03/im44b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/5/3957 ] [Files: 3957.txt] Cinq Mars, Complete, by Alfred de Vigny 3953 [Updated edition of: etext03/im40b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/5/3953 ] [Files: 3953.txt] Monsieur de Camors, Complete, by Octave Feuillet 3946 [Updated edition of: etext03/im33b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/4/3946 ] [Files: 3946.txt] Confession of a Child of The Century, Complete, by Alfred de Musset 3942 [Updated edition of: etext03/im29b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/4/3942 ] [Files: 3942.txt] A Woodland Queen, Complete, by Andre Theuriet 3938 [Updated edition of: etext03/im25b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/3/3938 ] [Files: 3938.txt] Zibeline, Complete, by Phillipe de Massa 3934 [Updated edition of: etext03/im21b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/3/3934 ] [Files: 3934.txt] Prince Zilah, Complete, by Jules Claretie 3930 [Updated edition of: etext03/im17b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/3/3930 ] [Files: 3930.txt] Monsieur, Madame and Bebe, Complete, by Gustave Droz 3926 [Updated edition of: etext03/im13b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/2/3926 ] [Files: 3926.txt] The Red Lily, Complete, by Anatole France 3922 [Updated edition of: etext03/im09b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/2/3922 ] [Files: 3922.txt] Serge Panine, Complete, by Georges Ohnet 3918 [Updated edition of: etext03/im05b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/1/3918 ] [Files: 3918.txt] The Project Gutenberg Historic Court Memoirs, by Various 3900 Contents: Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois (see also #3841) Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (see also #3846) Memoirs of Madame de Montespan (see also #3854) Memoirs Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans (see also #3859) Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon (see also #3875) Memoirs Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset (see also #3883) Memoirs Marie Antoinette, by Campan (see also #3891) Memoirs of Court of St. Cloud (see also #3899) Memoirs of Count Grammont (see also #5416) [Updated edition of: etext02/cm63b10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/9/0/3900 ] [Files: 3900.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Complete, by Michel de Montaigne 3600 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] [Contains: eBooks: #3581-#3599] [Updated edition of: etext02/mn20v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/6/0/3600 ] [Files: 3600.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 19, by Michel de Montaigne 3599 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] [Contents: XIII. Of Experience.] [Updated edition of: etext02/mn19v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/9/3599 ] [Files: 3599.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 18, by Michel de Montaigne 3598 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: X. Of Managing the Will. XI. Of Cripples. XII. Of Physiognomy. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn18v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/9/3598 ] [Files: 3598.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 17, by Michel de Montaigne 3597 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: IX. Of Vanity [Updated edition of: etext02/mn17v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/9/3597 ] [Files: 3597.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 16, by Michel de Montaigne 3596 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: VI. Of Coaches. VII. Of the Inconvenience of Greatness. VIII. Of the Art of Conference. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn16v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/9/3596 ] [Files: 3596.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 15, by Michel de Montaigne 3595 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: V. Upon Some verses of Virgil [Updated edition of: etext02/mn15v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/9/3595 ] [Files: 3595.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 14, by Michel de Montaigne 3594 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: Book The Third I. Of Profit and Honesty. II. Of Repentance. III. Of Three Commerces. IV. Of Diversion. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn14v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/9/3594 ] [Files: 3594.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 13, by Michel de Montaigne 3593 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: XXXII. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch. XXXIII. The story of Spurina. XXXIV. Means to carry on a war according to Julius Caesar. XXXV. Of three good women. XXXVI. Of the most excellent men. XXXVII. Of the resemblance of children to their fathers. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn13v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/9/3593 ] [Files: 3593.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 12, by Michel de Montaigne 3592 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: XVIII. Of giving the lie. XIX. Of liberty of conscience. XX. That we taste nothing pure. XXI. Against idleness. XXII. Of Posting. XXIII. Of ill means employed to a good end. XXIV. Of the Roman grandeur. XXV. Not to counterfeit being sick. XXVI. Of thumbs. XXVII. Cowardice the mother of cruelty. XXVIII. All things have their season. XXIX. Of virtue. XXX. Of a monstrous child. XXXI. Of anger. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn12v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/9/3592 ] [Files: 3592.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 11, by Michel de Montaigne 3591 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: XIII. Of judging of the death of another. XIV. That the mind hinders itself. XV. That our desires are augmented by difficulty. XVI. Of glory. XVII. Of presumption. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn11v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/9/3591 ] [Files: 3591.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 10, by Michel de Montaigne 3590 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: VII. Of recompenses of honour. VIII. Of the affection of fathers to their children. IX. Of the arms of the Parthians. X. Of books. XI. Of cruelty. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn10v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/9/3590 ] [Files: 3590.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 9, by Michel de Montaigne 3589 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: Book The Second: I. Of the inconstancy of our actions. II. Of drunkenness. III. A custom of the Isle of Cea. IV. To-morrow's a new day. V. Of conscience. VI. Use makes perfect. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn09v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/8/3589 ] [Files: 3589.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 8, by Michel de Montaigne 3588 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: XLVIII. Of war-horses, or destriers. XLIX. Of ancient customs. L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus. LI. Of the vanity of words. LII. Of the parsimony of the Ancients. LIII. Of a saying of Caesar. LIV. Of vain subtleties. LV. Of smells. LVI. Of prayers. LVII. Of age. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn08v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/8/3588 ] [Files: 3588.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 7, by Michel de Montaigne 3587 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: XXXIX. A consideration upon Cicero. XL. That the relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon opinion. XLI. Not to communicate a man's honour. XLII. Of the inequality amongst us. XLIII. Of sumptuary laws. XLIV. Of sleep. XLV. Of the battle of Dreux. XLVI. Of names. XLVII. Of the uncertainty of our judgment.] [Updated edition of: etext02/mn07v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/8/3587 ] [Files: 3587.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 6, by Michel de Montaigne 3586 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: XXVII. Of friendship. XXVIII. Nine-and-twenty sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie. XXIX. Of moderation. XXX. Of cannibals. XXXI. That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances. XXXII. That we are to avoid pleasures, even at the expense of life. XXXIII. That fortune is oftentimes observed to act by the rule of reason. XXXIV. Of one defect in our government. XXXV. Of the custom of wearing clothes. XXXVI. Of Cato the Younger. XXXVII. That we laugh and cry for the same thing. XXXVIII. Of solitude. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn06v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/8/3586 ] [Files: 3586.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 5, by Michel de Montaigne 3585 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: XXV. Of the education of children. XXVI. That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own capacity. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn05v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/8/3585 ] [Files: 3585.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 4, by Michel de Montaigne 3584 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: XXII. Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received XXIII. Various events from the same counsel. XXIV. Of pedantry. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn04v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/8/3584 ] [Files: 3584.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 3, by Michel de Montaigne 3583 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: XIII. The ceremony of the interview of princes. XIV. That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended XV. Of the punishment of cowardice. XVI. A proceeding of some ambassadors. XVII. Of fear. XVIII. That men are not to judge of our happiness till after death. XIX. That to study philosophy is to learn to die. XX. Of the force of imagination. XXI. That the profit of one man is the damage of another. [Updated edition of: etext02/mn03v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/8/3583 ] [Files: 3583.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 2, by Michel de Montaigne 3582 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: I. That Men by Various Ways Arrive at the Same End. II. Of Sorrow. III. That our affections carry themselves beyond us. IV. That the soul discharges her passions upon false objects, where the true are wanting. V. Whether the governor of a place besieged ought himself to go out to parley. VI. That the hour of parley is dangerous. VII. That the intention is judge of our actions. VIII. Of idleness. IX. Of liars. X. Of quick or slow speech. XI. Of prognostications. XII. Of constancy.] [Updated edition of: etext02/mn02v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/8/3582 ] [Files: 3582.txt] The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 1, by Michel de Montaigne 3581 [Tr.: Charles Cotton] [Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt] Contents: Preface The Life of Montaigne The Letters of Montaigne [Updated edition of: etext02/mn01v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/5/8/3581 ] [Files: 3581.txt] One of Ours, by Willa Cather 2369 [Updated edition of: etext00/1ours10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/3/6/2369 ] [Files: 2369.txt; 2369-8.txt] Allan Quatermain, by H. Rider Haggard 711 [Updated edition of: etext96/allnq11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/1/711 ] [Files: 711.txt] .:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: Title corrected ("Handwriting", not "Handrwriting"): Disputed Handwriting, by Jerome B. Lavay 14003 -=-=-=-=[ 72 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Plutarch's Lives Volume III, by Plutarch 14140 [Tr.: Aubrey Stewart and George Long] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/4/14140 ] [Files: 14140.txt; 14140-8.txt; 14140-0.txt; 14140-h.htm] New Tabernacle Sermons, by Thomas De Witt Talmage 14139 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/3/14139 ] [Files: 14139.txt; 14139-8.txt; 14139-h.htm] Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 18, May 3, 1914, Ed. by George E. Cook 14138 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/3/14138 ] [Files: 14138.txt; 14138-h.htm] Messages and Papers of Grover Cleveland, Ed. by James D. Richardson 14137 [Title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. 8, Section 2 of 2, Grover Cleveland] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/3/14137 ] [Files: 14137.txt; 14137-8.txt; 14137-h.htm] The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House, by Laura Lee Hope 14136 [Subtitle: Doing Their Best for the Soldiers] (Note: Laura Lee Hope was a pseudonym used by several house authors of the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Outdoor Girls series and for other series including the Bobbsey Twins.) [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/3/14136 ] [Files: 14136.txt; 14136-h.htm; ] Punch, Vol. 152, January 10, 1917, Ed. by Owen Seamen 14135 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/3/14135 ] [Files: 14135.txt; 14135-8.txt; 14135-h.htm; ] Akbar, Emperor of India, by Richard von Garbe 14134 [Subtitle: A Picture of Life and Customs from the Sixteenth Century] [Tr.: Lydia G. Robinson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/3/14134 ] [Files: 14134.txt; 14134-8.txt; 14134-h.htm; ] David Balfour, Second Part, by Robert Louis Stevenson 14133 [Subtitle: Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/3/14133 ] [Files: 14133.txt; 14133-8.txt; 14133-h.htm] Bay State Monthly, Vol. II. No. 5, February, 1885, by Various 14132 [Subtitle: A Massachusetts Magazine] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/3/14132 ] [Files: 14132.txt; 14132-8.txt; 14132-h.htm] Bay State Monthly, Vol. II. No. 4, January, 1885, by Various 14131 [Subtitle: A Massachusetts Magazine] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/3/14131 ] [Files: 14131.txt; 14131-8.txt; 14131-h.htm] The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf, by Captain Quincy Allen 14130 [Subtitle: Rescuing the Lost Balloonists] (Note: Captain Quncy Allen was a pseudonym used by the house authors of the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Outdoor Chums series.) [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/3/14130 ] [Files: 14130.txt; ] The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Vol. 4, by Charles Lamb 14129 [Author: Mary Lamb] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/2/14129 ] [Files: 14129.txt; 14129-8.txt; 14129-h.htm; ] Toni, the Little Woodcarver, by Johanna Spyri 14128 [Tr.: Helen B. Dole] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/2/14128 ] [Files: 14128.txt; 14128-h.htm; ] A Kindergarten Story Book, by Jane L. Hoxie 14127 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/2/14127 ] [Files: 14127.txt] The Marriage of William Ashe, by Mrs. Humphry Ward 14126 [Illustrated By Albert Sterner] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/2/14126 ] [Files: 14126.txt; 14126-8.txt; 14126-h.htm] Amerikan loytoretken paivakirja, by Kristoffer Kolumbus 14125 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/2/14125 ] [Files: 14125-8.txt; 14125-h.htm] Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 584, by Various 14124 [Subtitle: Vol. 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/2/14124 ] [Files: 14124.txt; 14124-8.txt; 14124-h.htm] Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, November 28, 1891, by Various 14123 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/2/14123 ] [Files: 14123.txt; 14123-8.txt; 14123-h.htm] Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, December 5, 1891, by Various 14122 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/2/14122 ] [Files: 14122.txt; 14122-8.txt; 14122-h.htm] Langs den Congo tot Brazzaville, by A. Kloos 14121 [Subtitle: From "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1906] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/2/14121 ] [Files: 14121-8.txt; 14121-h.htm] Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters, by Matthew Turner 14120 [Title: Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever] [Ed.: William Hammon] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/2/14120 ] [Files: 14120.txt] The White Riband, by Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse 14119 [Subtitle: A Young Female's Folly] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/1/14119 ] [Files: 14119.txt; 14119-8.txt; 14119-h.htm] Legend of Moulin Huet, by Lizzie A. Freeth 14118 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/1/14118 ] [Files: 14118.txt; 14118-8.txt; 14118-h.htm; ] Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework, by C. Helene Barker 14117 [Subtitle: Business Principles Applied to Housework] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/1/14117 ] [Files: 14117.txt; 14117-8.txt; 14117-h.htm; ] Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 7, February 15, 1914, by Various 14116 [Edited by George E. Cook] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/1/14116 ] [Files: 14116.txt; 14116-h.htm; 14116-page-images] Quatre contes de Prosper Merimee, by F. C. L. Van Steenderen 14115 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/1/14115 ] [Files: 14115-8.txt] [Language: French / English] Plutarch's Lives, Volume II, by Aubrey Stewart 14114 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/1/14114 ] [Files: 14114.txt; 14114-8.txt; 14114-0.txt; 14114-h.htm] Les fantomes, by Charles-M. Flor O'Squarr 14113 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/1/14113 ] [Files: 14113-8.txt] Venetie, by Anonymous 14112 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/1/14112 ] [Files: 14112-8.txt; 14112-h.htm] Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 15, April 12, 1914, by Various 14111 [Editor: George E. Cook] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/1/14111 ] [Files: 14111.txt; 14111-h.htm; ] Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover, by George Mitchel 14110 [Illus.: Tony Sarg] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/1/14110 ] [Files: 14110.txt; 14110-h.htm; ] Edward MacDowell, by Lawrence Gilman 14109 [Subtitle: A Study] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/0/14109 ] [Files: 14109.txt; 14109-8.txt; 14109-h.htm; ] In the Catskills, by John Burroughs 14108 [Subtitle: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs] [Intro.: Clifton Johnson] [Illus.: Clifton Johnson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/0/14108 ] [Files: 14108.txt; 14108-8.txt; 14108-h.htm; ] The Lost Stradivarius, by John Meade Falkner 14107 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/0/14107 ] [Files: 14107.txt; 14107-8.txt; 14107-h.htm; ] The Belfry, by May Sinclair 14106 [Author AKA: Mary Amelia St. Clair Sinclair] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/0/14106 ] [Files: 14106.txt; 14106-8.txt; ] Im gruenen Tann, by Arthur Achleitner 14105 [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/0/14105 ] [Files: 14105-8.txt; 14105-0.txt] Our Changing Constitution, by Charles Pierson 14104 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/0/14104 ] [Files: 14104.txt; 14104-8.txt] Prose Fancies (Second Series), by Richard Le Gallienne 14103 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/0/14103 ] [Files: 14103.txt; 14103-8.txt; 14103-h.htm] American Missionary, August, 1888, (Vol. XLII, No. 8), by Various 14102 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/0/14102 ] [Files: 14102.txt; 14102-8.txt] Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 10, March 8, 1914, by Various 14101 [Ed.: George E. Cook] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/0/14101 ] [Files: 14101.txt; 14101-h.htm; 14101-page-images.zip] Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 14100 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/1/0/14100 ] [Files: 14100.txt; 14100-page-images ] True Irish Ghost Stories, by St John D Seymour 14099 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/9/14099 ] [Files: 14099.txt; 14099-8.txt] Hieroglyphic Tales, by Horace Walpole 14098 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/9/14098 ] [Files: 14098.txt; 14098-8.txt; 14098-h.htm] Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885, by Various 14097 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/9/14097 ] [Files: 14097.txt; 14097-8.txt; 14097-h.htm] With Links of Steel, by Nicholas Carter 14096 [Subtitle: The Peril of the Unknown] (Note: Nicholas Carter was a pseudonym used by many "house" writers of Street & Smith, a firm that turned out hundreds of "dime" detective novels around the turn of the 20th century. "Steel" was a common word in their titles, such as "With Fetters of Steel" and "With Bands of Steel.") [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/9/14096 ] [Files: 14096.txt; 14096-8.txt; 14096-h.htm; ] The Thirteenth Chair, by Bayard Veiller 14095 [Subtitle: A Play in Three Acts] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/9/14095 ] [Files: 14095.txt; 14095-8.txt; 14095-h.htm; ] The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, by Alfred Lord Tennyson 14094 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/9/14094 ] [Files: 14094.txt; 14094-8.txt; 14094-h.htm] Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 152, January 24, 1917, by Various 14093 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/9/14093 ] [Files: 14093.txt; 14093-8.txt; 14093-h.htm] The World's Fair, by Anonymous 14092 [Subtitle: Or, Children's Prize Gift Book of the Great Exhibition of 1851] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/9/14092 ] [Files: 14092.txt; 14092-8.txt; 14092-h.htm; ] Burroughs' Encyclopaedia, 1889, by Barkham Burroughs 14091 [Title: Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/9/14091 ] [Files: 14091.txt; 14091-8.txt; 14091-h.htm] Elements of Debating, by Leverett S. Lyon 14090 [Subtitle: A Manual for Use in High Schools and Academies] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/9/14090 ] [Files: 14090.txt; 14090-h.htm; ] Homestead on the Hillside, by Mary Jane Holmes 14089 [Author AKA: Mary Jane Hawes Holmes] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/8/14089 ] [Files: 14089.txt; 14089-8.txt; 14089-h.htm; ] Uit Marokko, by Siegfried Genthe 14088 [From: "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1906] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/8/14088 ] [Files: 14088-8.txt; 14088-h.htm] The Jungle Girl, by Gordon Casserly 14087 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/8/14087 ] [Files: 14087.txt; 14087-8.txt; 14087-h.htm; ] Carry On, by Coningsby Dawson 14086 [With An Introduction And Notes By His Father, W. J. Dawson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/8/14086 ] [Files: 14086.txt; 14086-8.txt; 14086-h.htm] Partners of Chance, by Henry Herbert Knibbs 14085 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/8/14085 ] [Files: 14085.txt; 14085-8.txt; 14085-h.htm; ] A Vindication of the Press, by Daniel Defoe 14084 [With an Introduction by Otho Clinton Williams] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/8/14084 ] [Files: 14084.txt; 14084-8.txt] Tom Fairfield's Luck and Pluck, by Allen Chapman 14083 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/8/14083 ] [Files: 14083.txt] Le Corbeau, by Edgar Allen Poe 14082 [Tr.: Stephane Mallarme] [Illus.: Edouard Manet] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/8/14082 ] [Files: 14082-8.txt; 14082-h.htm] The Three Jovial Huntsmen, by Randolph Caldecott 14081 [Illus.: Randolph Caldecott] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/8/14081 ] [Files: 14081.txt; 14081-h.htm; ] Custom and Myth, by Andrew Lang 14080 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/8/14080 ] [Files: 14080.txt; 14080-h.htm] Sandy, by Alice Hegan Rice 14079 [Author AKA: Alice Caldwell Hegan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/7/14079 ] [Files: 14079.txt; 14079-8.txt; 14079-h.htm; ] The Liberation of Italy, by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco 14078 [Author AKA: Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/7/14078 ] [Files: 14078.txt; 14078-8.txt; 14078-h.htm; ] A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go, by Randolph Caldecott 14077 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/7/14077 ] [Files: 14077.txt; 14077-h.htm] The Elephant God, by Gordon Casserly 14076 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/7/14076 ] [Files: 14076.txt; 14076-8.txt; 14076-h.htm] Die Frauenfrage, by Lily Braun 14075 [Subtitle: ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche Seite] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/7/14075 ] [Files: 14075-8.txt; 14075-h.htm] Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, November 14th, 1891, Various 14074 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/7/14074 ] [Files: 14074.txt; 14074-8.txt; 14074-h.htm] Beraettelser fran Finland, by Daniel Sten 14073 [Language: Swedish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/7/14073 ] [Files: 14073-8.txt] Primitive Christian Worship, by James Endell Tyler 14072 [Subtitle: Or, The Evidence Of Holy Scripture And The Church, Against The Invocation Of Saints And Angels, And The Blessed Virgin Mary.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/7/14072 ] [Files: 14072.txt; 14072-8.txt; 14072-h.htm] Les Portes de l'Enfer, by Maurice Level 14071 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/7/14071 ] [Files: 14071.txt; 14071-8.txt] English Grammar in Familiar Lectures, by Samuel Kirkham 14070 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/7/14070 ] [Files: 14070.txt; 14070-8.txt; 14070-0.txt; 14070-h.htm] Contes pour les petits garcons, by Johann Christopher Schmid 14069 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/6/14069 ] [Files: 14069.txt; 14069-8.txt; 14069-h.htm] ============================================================================= [ This Week's Other Stuff ] ============================================================================= "For those wishing to know. . .", David Price writes about #14080, Custom and Myth, by Andrew Lang: It's a collection of Andrew Lang's essays covering various aspects of mythology. Many of the essays are technical in nature and look at etomology, the studies of leading researchers etc. ~ ~ ~ Bad planing on your part does not necessarily constitute an automatic emergency on my part. =============================================================================

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Last week, after intensive lobbying by Verizon, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a bill with a deeply buried provision that would make it illegal for any "political subdivision" to provide to the public "for any compensation any telecommunications services, including advanced and broadband services within the service territory of a local exchange telecommunications company operating under a network-modernization plan." Verizon is the local exchange operator for most of Pennsylvania and is planning a major fiber-optic cable rollout. Similar bills have passed in Utah, Louisiana and Florida. Critics say the telco giants' clout is stifling broadband expansion in the U.S., but the telcos argue it's unfair for them to have to compete against local governments, which have easy access to capital and pay no taxes. (Wall Street Journal 23 Nov 2004) <http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110116864041881375,00.html> (sub req'd) [and even greater threats by VOIP] KAZAA OFFERS FREE VOIP CALLS The latest version of Kazaa software, distributed by Sharman Networks, incorporates Internet telephony software from Skype Technologies, which is also owned by Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. That means while people are downloading their music they can also make free online calls anywhere in the world. (Reuters/CNet.com 22 Nov 2004) <http://news.com.com/Kazaa+offers+unlimited+free+Internet+phone+calls/2110-7 352_3-5463440.html> MAKE INCISION HERE: RFID TAG USED IN SURGERY [Tired of hearing they cut off the wrong leg?] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved use of radio frequency ID (RFID) tags to ensure that physicians perform the right surgery on the right patient. Manufactured by SurgiChip Inc., the radio tag is encoded with the patient's name and the site, type, and date of the surgery; the patient helps stick the adhesive-backed tag near the site of the surgery and workers in the hospital's operating room scan the tag to compare that information with the patient's chart. (AP/San Jose Merury News 19 Nov 2004) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10226986.htm> [more on RFIDs] TRACKING SCHOOLCHILDREN WITH COMPUTER TAGS A number of school districts around the country are implementing systems that use radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to track the whereabouts of schoolchildren. In Spring, Texas, the district's 28,000 students will be given ID cards with RFID chips in them. Card readers on the district's school busses track where and when students get on and off the busses and send that information to police and school administrators. In the event that a child is reported missing, authorities would use the system's data to help locate the child, whether the student was kidnapped or simply went to another student's home after school. A school district in Buffalo, New York, uses a similar system at the doors of the school to track attendance. Despite teething problems of the systems, not to mention concerns over cards that are lost or traded by mischievous students, supporters said they offer unique capacities to track students and reassure worried parents. Critics of the systems, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said they elevate security concerns to the level of paranoia and represent an invasion of privacy. New York Times, 17 November 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/technology/17tag.html THE COMING BATTLE: GOOGLE VERSUS MICROSOFT Already competing against one other in Web search, free e-mail, and techniques for searching individual computers, Google and Microsoft are drifting into a war over control of the user experience now dominated by Microsoft's Windows operating system. Industry-watchers say that Google could make people less dependent on storing information on their Microsoft-powered PCs and more dependent on free Web-based e-mail and search functions accessible anywhere from any device regardless of operating system, and analyst David Garrity says the real question is whether computer buyers may one day simply decide that they no longer even need a Microsoft operating system. (AP/Los Angeles Times 22 Nov 2004) <http://www.latimes.com/technology/ats-ap_technology11nov22,1,1657103.story? coll=sns-ap-toptechnology> 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 BRITISH LIBRARY GOES WIRELESS Responding to reports showing strong demand for Internet access, officials at the British Library have announced the implementation of a wireless network in the library's reading rooms, auditorium, restaurants, and outdoor area. A study recently showed that 86 percent of library patrons carry laptops and that 16 percent came to the library to use it as a business center. Many visitors routinely leave the library to check their e-mail at a local cafe, and surveys showed that many people would like to check their e-mail, as well as access the library catalog, while in the library. The service will cost users 4.50 British pounds per hour or 35 pounds per month. A pilot program has been available in the library since May, and usage logs indicate that in that time, the network has seen 1,200 sessions per week, making it the busiest hot spot in London. BBC, 18 November 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4020241.stm [Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of statistics will realize that 86% of any population is not likely to be carrying laptops. . . this very strange looking statistic is due to the fact that this is not a library in the sense most of use. It is not open to the public, other than a few rooms that look more like a museum, which is what it really is, by most definitions. One actually has to pass a test to gain entrance. . .to be a "reader." Not only do 86% of the "readers" bring laptops, but they are incredibly "well-heeled" even by London standards, as I observed myself when visiting there last month.] COLLEGE BLOCKS HOTMAIL AND YAHOO TO FIGHT SPAM Frustrated with the problem of spam and unable to afford antispam software packages, officials at Guam Community College have implemented a policy that blocks all mail from Hotmail or Yahoo--favorites with spammers--from being delivered to college e-mail accounts. Exceptions are made for return addresses that are on the institution's list of legitimate addresses. Currently, the college only provides e-mail accounts to faculty and staff, and many students rely on Hotmail or Yahoo accounts to keep in touch with faculty or to turn in assignments, prompting many complaints about the policy. The policy has resulted in significantly less spam, and the college's technical staff are spending much less time dealing with the spam that does get through. Still, many members of the faculty do not support the policy, saying that whatever benefits it provides do not outweigh the problems it causes. Joe St. Sauver of the University of Oregon Computing Center and an expert on spam issues said the tactic of blocking Hotmail and Yahoo has been tried before but that most institutions dropped it because they were not happy with the results. 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This ruling has finally come after months of legal wrangling since his arrest last August in his suburban Cape Town home. Dozens of mercenaries and planners have been arrested in Equatorial Guinea and in Zimbabwe, where one of Sir Mark's friends has already been convicted. In earlier arrests on March 7, about 70 men were taken at the Harare airport, mostly South Africans led by former SAS officer Simon Mann, a graduate of Eton. Most of these have been charged with violations of South Africa's foreign military assistance act and other charges are pending in other countries. It would appear all involved deny any participation in the failed coup attempt, including Severo Moto, who mysteriously appeared in nearby Mali just before the coup attempt, apparently ready to be the new leader if the right-wing network of businessmen had been successful in taking over the country. 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(CNet News.com 15 Nov 2004) <http://news.com.com/At+tech+firms%2C+time+again+for+flextime/2100-1022_3-54 48994.html> UNIVERSAL AND SNOCAP MAKE MUSIC TOGETHER [NAPSTER LIVES!] Vivendi Universal has agreed to license its catalog of 150,000 songs to Snocap, a new venture headed up by Napster founder Shawn Fanning. It's unclear how Snocap's peer-to-peer service will work, but people close to the deal say one possibility is that the service would allow users to share a low-quality copy of a licensed song for free but would require a fee for access to a high-quality version. The other three big labels -- Warner Music, EMI Group and Sony BMG -- all are seeking ways to license legitimate copies of their songs to peer-to-peer network, but Universal's move marks the first such partnering deal. (Wall Street Journal 15 Nov 2004) <http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110030801621473060,00.html> (sub req'd) CISCO TO BUILD CHINA'S NEXT-GENERATION NETWORK [Remember our predictions about China?] [Also story below that India has more cell phones than land lines. Notice in this China article no mention is made of wired versus wireless.] Cisco Systems has been chosen by China Telecommunications Corp., China's biggest telecom company, to build China's next-generation backbone network. Known as the China Telecom Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network, it will connect more than 200 cities and allow China's users to connect to overseas networks through virtual private network (VPN) services. The next-generation network is part of a plan by China Telecom to become one of the world's largest providers of Internet protocol services within the next two decades. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 12 Nov 2004) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10164520.htm> STUDYING NANOTECH RISKS [We heartily recommend you read "The Diamond Age," by Neal Stephenson, and "Engines of Creation," by Eric K. Drexler to see the potential in several very interesting perspectives.] The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $4 million in grants to a dozen universities to study the biological and medical implications of nanotechnology, which has already yielded such products as carbon "nanotube" electrical wires; cages of atoms that can capture pollutants in water and soil; and catalysts that reduce manufacturers' dependence upon caustic chemicals. Recognizing that these materials are small enough to enter the lungs (and perhaps even be absorbed through the skin and travel to the brain and other organs), EPA official Paul Gilman explained: "This emerging field has the potential to transform environmental protection, but at the same time we must understand whether nanomaterials in the environment can have an adverse impact." Barbara Karn of the EPA's Office of Research and Development says the projects funded by the new grants will do "infinitely more" on nanotech safety than has ever been done previously. (Washington Post 11 Nov 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43763-2004Nov11.html> AOL WINDS DOWN BROADBAND SERVICE [Why just the Southeast? Isn't AOL headquartered in Virginia?] [Will this bring back the "Digital Divide?" In only two months?] Earlier this year America Online stopped signing up new broadband customers -- and now it's telling existing broadband subscribers in nine Southern states that they'll need to find a new broadband carrier by mid-January, or face being moved to dial-up service. Broadband customers affected by this decision are residents of Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. (AP/Los Angeles Times 12 Nov 2004) <http://www.latimes.com/technology/ats-ap_technology10nov11,1,1067276.story? coll=sns-ap-toptechnology> MICROSOFT CRACKS DOWN ON XBOX MODIFICATIONS Cameron Ferroni, Microsoft's general manager for the Xbox software platform, says the company's not planning to sue individual users but that it does want to stop users of the Xbox Live online service from modifying their machines to improve their performance at games. Ferroni believes it's important that Microsoft prevent cheating on Xbox Live (where multiple players can take part in games) and says that the company's goal is to make sure there's a level playing field for game players. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 15 Nov 2004) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10189248.htm> SOFTWARE FREE AS THE SUN, FROM SUN Sun Microsystems, which spent $500 million developing its next-generation operating system, will offer its Solaris 10 operating system free, in hopes of expanding both its customer base and the number of software developers who write programs for it. To generate revenue, the company will charge subscription fees for Solaris support and service programs. Sun chief executive Scott McNealy says: "Hewlett Packard sells a printer at a low price and makes a lot of money on printer cartridges. Gillette gives you the razor and makes a lot of money on the blades. There are different ways to drive market penetration." (AP 15 Nov 2004) <http://apnews.excite.com/article/20041115/D86CA3700.html> [See related story below in Edupage section] 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 STRONG SHOWING FOR ONLINE EDUCATION According to a new report by the Sloan Consortium, significantly more students are enrolling in online courses, and the perceived quality of online education is also rising. The study, which is in its second year, showed a 19 percent increase in the number of students enrolled in an online course. The authors of the report expect that number to grow by another 24 percent in the next year. Growth rates among private, for-profit institutions outpaces others by a factor of almost two to one. The study also showed increasing confidence in the quality of online education, with more than 40 percent of respondents saying they believe students are at least as satisfied with online courses as with classroom instruction. According to Jeff Seaman, chief information officer for the Sloan Consortium and coauthor of the study, small baccalaureate institutions are the slowest to embrace online learning. Administrators at those institutions, he said, are more likely to support small, on-campus classes for the type of educational experience they provide. Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 November 2004 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/11/2004111503n.htm [and. . . .] S. KOREA CONSIDERS BANNING N. KOREAN COLLEGE WEB SITE Officials from South Korea are reportedly considering forbidding access to the Web site of North Korea's Kim Il-sung University in an effort to shield computer users in South Korea from communist ideology. Police in South Korea have asked the government to block access to a total of 31 Web sites under the country's National Security Law, which is currently being debated in parliament. South Korea's president wants the law, which places restrictions on contact with the north, to be revised or thrown out. Supporters of the law said it remains necessary to protect those in the south from the propaganda of North Korea, which has never officially rescinded its call for taking over South Korea by force. According to an unnamed South Korean police official, "We need to block access to resources of one-sided information or knowledge which ordinary people can obtain easily." Reuters, 12 November 2004 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=6800390 SUN OFFERS NEW SOLARIS FOR FREE Sun Microsystems announced that its upcoming Solaris 10 operating system will be available near the end of January and said it will offer a free version of the software. Sun's move reflects a growing practice among vendors such as Linux distributor Red Hat: offer software in a free version or a flagship version that includes licensing and support fees. An official from Sun said that under the new pricing arrangement, "Solaris will be less expensive in any category than our Linux competitors." Sun also hopes to appeal to customers on the basis of its being able to offer hardware, software, and support from a single vendor. According to IDC, Solaris is currently running on about one million computers around the world. Analyst Jean S. Bozman said, "They're looking for ubiquity." New York Times, 15 November 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/technology/15sun.html YAHOO UPS STORAGE LIMITS ON E-MAIL ACCOUNTS In an effort to stay competitive with Microsoft's Hotmail and Google's Gmail, Yahoo has announced an increase in the amount of free storage it allows for its e-mail customers. Yahoo users now have up to 250 megabytes of free space--the same as Hotmail customers--up from the former limit of 100 megabytes. Gmail offers 1,000 megabytes of free storage space but is currently in testing and only available by invitation or to existing account holders. Brad Garlinghouse, vice president of communications products at Yahoo, said, "[Gmail] really has raised the game for everyone, and that's good for consumers." Yahoo also said it has improved its technology for verifying the identities of those sending e-mail and its technology for searching e-mail content. Washington Post, 15 November 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50385-2004Nov15.html CAMPUS GROUPS EDUCATE STUDENTS ABOUT COPYRIGHT Students at about a dozen colleges and universities have started organizations called Free Culture groups to educate other students about copyright and fight what they see as a tilting of the law to favor copyright owners. The first Free Culture group was started by Swarthmore College student Nelson Pavlosky, known for his successful legal challenge to Diebold Election Systems' use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in trying to suppress leaked company memos. Pavlosky and other Free Culture organizers want college-age people to understand how copyrights have changed in the electronic era, particularly with respect to legislation such as the proposed Induce Act. Pavlosky acknowledged that a danger of the Free Culture groups is that participants will simply be seen as "rich white kids who want free music." Jessica Litman, a law professor at Wayne State University and a speaker at a meeting of the Free Culture groups, noted that copyright law is traditionally written by lobbyists who represent copyright owners and said that consumers should be included in that process. Wired News, 10 November 2004 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65616,00.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 Apparently Russia's approval of the Kyoto accords, which were stalled when President Bush reversed US policies, were mostly a ploy to gain membership in the World Trade Organization [WTO]. "Once you figure out what's going on, it's interesting to compare all the countries. The big news story of the day is obviously `Insurrection will not end in Fallujah' ... in every country except the USA and Spain, where it's not mentioned at all. Why Spain?" * We've all heard the some countries could leapfrog right over the wired to the wireless, but no one has admitted this could be done on a large scale until now. . .India in reporting more cell phones than land lines. [See above story on China.] [More on China] A controversial system of treating drug addiction by removing the portion of the brain responsible for cravings has been banned. One side effect feared most was the loss of the sex drive, too. This treatment was invented by Russian doctors, and apparently had only a 50% success rate in China, and only 60% elsewhere. * NASA RETALIATES AGAINST X-PRIZE WINNER November 17, 2004, off the coast of California In an effort to reclaim some of the fame lost by NASA with the various failures of the space shuttle and now with the advent of commercially oriented spacecraft, NASA decided to unveil its X-43A scramjet, short for supersonic ramjet. The plane, earlier versions of which graced magazine covers many years ago but which were then hushed up, travelled nearly 7,000 miles per hour, over twice as fast as the SR-71A "Blackhawk" spy plane did when it set an earlier record of 3,000 miles coast to coast when it was retired from service and finally unveiled. The unmanned plane was part of a three-stage effort in which a B-52 bomber carried the plane with attached booster rocket pack to a high altitude, then launched the the plane via the booster, and finally the plane separated from the booster and soared into the record books to a speed of Mach 9.6, or nearly 7,000 mph in a self-powered flight that lasts only about 10 seconds. Other reports claimed a speed of Mach 9.8. Other sources say the 9.8 figure was achieved only in flight on the Pegasus booster rocket, and that the new plane actually slowed down slightly after launch as it flew past the 100,000 foot altitude mark that is used as a general demarcation of the beginning of space. This is not a full-sized plane, it's only 12 feet long. This was the third of three X-43A's, the first of which was intentionally destroyed when the Pegasus booster failed to stay on course. The second flew last March, reaching Mach 6.83, or nearly 5,000 mph. The basic advantage being sought in this program is to eliminate the need for vehicles to carry oxygen to burn, but rather to use the oxygen in the atmosphere, thus making them lighter and faster, able to carry more payload over longer distances. One idea is for these scramjets to carry satellites nearly into orbit and then shoot them into orbit much as one would shoot any other projectile. Shades of Jules Verne's "From The Earth To The Moon," in which astronauts were shot into space. . .and you can read right here at Project Gutenberg. [meanwhile. . .back at the lunar ranch. . . .] SLOWLY BUT CHEAPLY, A NEW WAY TO THE MOON from The Washington Post Astronauts used to get to the moon in a few days, after blazing into space atop the largest rockets ever, but a new approach, dubbed SMART-1, is just now entering lunar orbit, after over a year in ever-widening orbits of the earth, eventually reaching close enough to the moon to be guided into its gravity and will now orbit the moon, all by using a very small engine, after being launch into earth orbit in the usual manner. http://snipurl.com/an8a *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK "They can be removed from our society with no more thought than removing bad apples from a barrel." Nixon's Vice-President Spiro Agnew, about those who disagreed with Nixon about the Viet Nam War [Does anyone have the exact reference?] *PREDICTION OF THE WEEK You won't hear much more about the X-43A scramjet for a while. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. To subscribe to any (or to unsubscribe or adjust your subscription preferences), visit the Project Gutenberg mailing list server: http://lists.pglaf.org If you are having trouble with your subscription, please email the list's human administrators at: help(a)pglaf.org ***

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De Bourrienne Recollections Of The Private Life Of Napoleon, by Constant Memoirs Of The Court Of St. Cloud, by Stewarton [Updated edition of: etext03/napol11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/7/4/3740 ] [Files: 3740.txt] Ragged Lady, Part 2, by William Dean Howells 3406 [Updated edition of: etext02/wh2rl11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/4/0/3406 ] [Files: 3406.txt] Ragged Lady, Part 1, by William Dean Howells 3405 [Updated edition of: etext02/wh1rl11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/4/0/3405 ] [Files: 3405.txt] April Hopes, by William Dean Howells 3404 [Updated edition of: etext02/whahp11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/4/0/3404 ] [Files: 3404.txt] First Visit to New England and Others, by William Dean Howells 3398 [From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"] [Contents: Biographical My First Visit to New England First Impressions of Literary New York] [Updated edition of: etext03/whvne11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3398 ] [Files: 3398.txt] Roundabout to Boston, by William Dean Howells 3397 [From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"] [Updated edition of: etext03/whrtb11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3397 ] [Files: 3397.txt] Literary Boston, by William Dean Howells 3396 [From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"] [Updated edition of: etext03/whbos11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3396 ] [Files: 3396.txt] Oliver Wendell Holmes, by William Dean Howells 3395 [From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"] [Updated edition of: etext03/whowh11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3395 ] [Files: 3395.txt] The White Mr. Longfellow, by William Dean Howells 3394 [From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"] [Updated edition of: etext03/whlng11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3394 ] [Files: 3394.txt] Studies of Lowell, by William Dean Howells 3393 [From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"] [Updated edition of: etext03/whlow11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3393 ] [Files: 3393.txt] Cambridge Neighbors, by William Dean Howells 3392 [From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"] [Updated edition of: etext03/whcbn11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3392 ] [Files: 3392.txt] A Belated Guest, by William Dean Howells 3391 [From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"] [Updated edition of: etext03/whabg11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3391 ] [Files: 3391.txt] My Mark Twain, by William Dean Howells 3390 [From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"] [Updated edition of: etext03/whmmt11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3390 ] [Files: 3390.txt] Literature and Life, Entire, by William Dean Howells 3389 [Updated edition of: etext02/whlal11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3389 ] [Files: 3389.txt] The Man of Letters as a Man of Business, by William Dean Howells 3388 [From: "Literature and Life"] [Updated edition of: etext02/whmlb11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3388 ] [Files: 3388.txt] The Confessions of a Summer Colonist, by William Dean Howells 3387 [From: "Literature and Life"] [Updated edition of: etext02/whcsc11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3387 ] [Files: 3387.txt] Editor's Relations With The Young Contributor, by William Dean Howells 3386 [From: "Literature and Life"] [Updated edition of: etext02/whtyc11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3386 ] [Files: 3386.txt] Last Days in a Dutch Hotel, by William Dean Howells 3385 [From: "Literature and Life"] [Updated edition of: etext02/whldh11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3385 ] [Files: 3385.txt] Some Anomalies of the Short Story, by William Dean Howells 3384 [From: "Literature and Life"] [Updated edition of: etext02/whass11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3384 ] [Files: 3384.txt] Spanish Prisoners of War, by William Dean Howells 3383 [From: "Literature and Life"] [Updated edition of: etext02/whspw11.txt and whspw11h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3383 ] [Files: 3383.txt; 3383-h.htm] American Literary Centers, by William Dean Howells 3382 [From: "Literature and Life"] [Updated edition of: etext02/whalc11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3382 ] [Files: 3382.txt] The Standard Household-Effect Company, by William Dean Howells 3381 [From: "Literature and Life"] [Updated edition of: etext02/whshe11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3381 ] [Files: 3381.txt] Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer, by William Dean Howells 3380 [From: "Literature and Life"] [Updated edition of: etext02/whvan11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3380 ] [Files: 3380.txt] Short Stories and Essays, by William Dean Howells 3379 [From: "Literature and Life"] [Contents: Worries of a Winter Walk Summer Isles of Eden Wild Flowers of the Asphalt A Circus in the Suburbs A She Hamlet The Midnight Platoon The Beach at Rockaway Sawdust in the Arena At a Dime Museum American Literature in Exile The Horse Show The Problem of the Summer Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago From New York into New England The Art of the Adsmith The Psychology of Plagiarism Puritanism in American Fiction The What and How in Art Politics in American Authors Storage "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o" [Updated edition of: etext02/whsse11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3379 ] [Files: 3379.txt] My Literary Passions, by William Dean Howells 3378 [From: "Literature and Life"] [Updated edition of: etext02/whmlp11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3378 ] [Files: 3378.txt] Criticism And Fiction, by William Dean Howells 3377 [From: "Literature and Life"] [Updated edition of: etext02/whcaf11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3377 ] [Files: 3377.txt] The Landlord at Lion's Head, Volume 2, by William Dean Howells 3376 [Updated edition of: etext02/wh2lh11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3376 ] [Files: 3376.txt] The Landlord at Lion's Head, Volume 1, by William Dean Howells 3375 [Updated edition of: etext02/wh1lh11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3375 ] [Files: 3375.txt] The March Family Trilogy, Complete, by William Dean Howells 3374 [Contents: Their Wedding Journey The Outset A Midsummer-day's Dream The Night Boat A Day's Railroading The Enchanted City, and Beyond Niagara Down the St. Lawrence The Sentiment of Montreal Homeward and Home Niagara Revisited Twelve Years after Their Wedding A Hazard of New Fortunes Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Their Silver Wedding Journey Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3] [Updated edition of: etext02/whemf11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3374 ] [Files: 3374.txt; 3374-h.htm] Their Silver Wedding Journey, Part III,by William Dean Howells 3373 [Updated edition of: etext02/wh3sw11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3373 ] [Files: 3373.txt] Their Silver Wedding Journey, Part II,by William Dean Howells 3372 [Updated edition of: etext02/wh2sw11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3372 ] [Files: 3372.txt] Their Silver Wedding Journey, Part I, by William Dean Howells 3371 [Updated edition of: etext02/wh1sw11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3371 ] [Files: 3371.txt] A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth, by William Dean Howells 3370 [Updated edition of: etext02/wh5nf11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3370 ] [Files: 3370.txt] A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fourth, by William Dean Howells 3369 [Updated edition of: etext02/wh4nf11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3369 ] [Files: 3369.txt] A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Third, by William Dean Howells 3368 [Updated edition of: etext02/wh3nf11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3368 ] [Files: 3368.txt] A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Second, by William Dean Howells 3367 [Updated edition of: etext02/wh2nf11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3367 ] [Files: 3367.txt] A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part First, by William Dean Howells 3366 [Updated edition of: etext02/wh1nf11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3366 ] [Files: 3366.txt] Their Wedding Journey, by William Dean Howells 3365 [Updated edition of: etext02/whtwj11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3365 ] [Files: 3365.txt] Dr. Breen's Practice, by William Dean Howells 3364 [Updated edition of: etext02/whdbp11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3364 ] [Files: 3364.txt] Fennel and Rue, by William Dean Howells 3363 [Updated edition of: etext02/whfar11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3363 ] [Files: 3363.txt] The Kentons, by William Dean Howells 3362 [Updated edition of: etext02/whken11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3362 ] [Files: 3362.txt] The Wandering Jew, Complete, by Eugene Sue 3350 [Updated edition of: etext02/es12v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/5/3350 ] [Files: 3350.txt] The Wandering Jew, Book XI, by Eugene Sue 3349 [Updated edition of: etext02/es11v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3349 ] [Files: 3349.txt] The Wandering Jew, Book X, by Eugene Sue 3348 [Updated edition of: etext02/es10v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3348 ] [Files: 3348.txt] The Wandering Jew, Book IX, by Eugene Sue 3347 [Updated edition of: etext02/es09v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3347 ] [Files: 3347.txt] The Wandering Jew, Book VIII, by Eugene Sue 3346 [Updated edition of: etext02/es08v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3346 ] [Files: 3346.txt] The Wandering Jew, Book VII, by Eugene Sue 3345 [Updated edition of: etext02/es07v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3345 ] [Files: 3345.txt] The Wandering Jew, Book VI, by Eugene Sue 3344 [Updated edition of: etext02/es06v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3344 ] [Files: 3344.txt] The Wandering Jew, Book V, by Eugene Sue 3343 [Updated edition of: etext02/es05v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3343 ] [Files: 3343.txt] The Wandering Jew, Book IV, by Eugene Sue 3342 [Updated edition of: etext02/es04v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3342 ] [Files: 3342.txt] The Wandering Jew, Book III, by Eugene Sue 3341 [Updated edition of: etext02/es03v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3341 ] [Files: 3341.txt] The Wandering Jew, Book II, by Eugene Sue 3340 [Updated edition of: etext02/es02v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3340 ] [Files: 3340.txt] The Wandering Jew, Book I, by Eugene Sue 3339 [Updated edition of: etext02/es01v11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/3/3339 ] [Files: 3339.txt] The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix, by Honore de Balzac 1968 [Updated edition of: etext99/hciaa10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/9/6/1968 ] [Files: 1968.txt] Finished, by H. Rider Haggard 1724 [Updated edition of: etext99/fnshd10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/7/2/1724 ] [Files: 1724.txt] The Illustrious Gaudissart, by Honore de Balzac 1474 [Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley] [Updated edition of: etext98/1gdsr10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/1474 ] [Files: 1474.txt] Njal's Saga, by Unknown Icelanders 597 [Updated edition of: etext96/njals10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/5/9/597] [Files: 597.txt] .:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: For those of you keeping track, there is nothing to report this week. I know, like all of you, I also find this remarkable. -- Ed. -=-=-=-=[ 57 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Gordon Keith, by Thomas Nelson Page 14068 [Illus.: George Wright] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/6/14068 ] [Files: 14068.txt; 14068-8.txt; 14068-h.htm; ] Punch, Vol. 101, November 7, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 14067 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/6/14067 ] [Files: 14067.txt; 14067-8.txt; 14067-h.htm] Everyday Foods in War Time, by Mary Swartz Rose 14066 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/6/14066 ] [Files: 14066.txt; 14066-8.txt; 14066-h.htm; ] The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard, by Daniel Defoe 14065 [Subtitle: Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/6/14065 ] [Files: 14065.txt; 14065-h.htm; ] Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam, by H. E. E. Hayes 14064 [Author AKA: Herbert Edward Elton Hayes; H. E. Elton] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/6/14064 ] [Files: 14064.txt; 14064-h.htm; ] Reis naar de Nieuwe Hebriden en de Salomons-eilanden, by Alfred Hagen 14063 [From: "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1906] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/6/14063 ] [Files: 14063-8.txt; 14063-h.htm] Miscellanies, by Oscar Wilde 14062 [Editor: Robert Ross] [Also Contains: Bibliography of Wilde's works, by Stuart Mason) [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/6/14062 ] [Files: 14062.txt; 14062-h.htm] Lady Byron Vindicated, by Harriet Beecher Stowe 14061 [Subtitle: A History of the Byron Controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the Present Time] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/6/14061 ] [Files: 14061.txt; 14061-h.htm] Mr. Britling Sees It Through, by H. G. Wells 14060 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/6/14060 ] [Files: 14060.txt; 14060-8.txt; 14060-h.htm] Le Roi des Etudiants, by Eugene Dick 14059 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14059 ] [Files: 14059-8.txt; 14059-h.htm] Readings on Fascism and National Socialism, Ed. by Alan Swallow 14058 [Subtitle: Selected by Members of the Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/5/14058 ] [Files: 14058.txt; 14058-8.txt; 14058-h.htm; ] Punch, Vol. 101. October 24, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 14057 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14057 ] [Files: 14057.txt; 14057-8.txt; 14057-h.htm] The French Impressionists (1860-1900), by Camille Mauclair 14056 [Tr.: P. G. Konady] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/5/14056 ] [Files: 14056.txt; 14056-8.txt; 14056-h.htm; ] Food Guide for War Service at Home, by Blunt, Swain, Powdermaker 14055 [Subtitle: Prepared under the Direction of the United States Food Administration in Co-Operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education with a Preface by Herbert Hoover] [Author: Katharine Blunt, Frances L. Swain, and Florence Powdermaker] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/5/14055 ] [Files: 14055.txt; 14055-8.txt; 14055-h.htm; ] Max, by Katherine Cecil Thurston 14054 [Illustrated by Frank Craig] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14054 ] [Files: 14054.txt; 14054-8.txt; 14054-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 101. October 17, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand n 14053 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14053 ] [Files: 14053.txt; 14053-8.txt; 14053-h.htm] Rousseau (Volume 1 of 2), by John Morley 14052 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14052 ] [Files: 14052.txt; 14052-8.txt; 14052-h.htm] The End Of The World, by Edward Eggleston 14051 [Subtitle: A Love Story] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14051 ] [Files: 14051.txt; 14051-8.txt; 14051-h.htm] Daniel Hjort, by Josef Julius Wecksell 14050 [Language: Swedish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14050 ] [Files: 14050-8.txt] The Pointing Man, by Marjorie Douie 14049 [Subtitle: A Burmese Mystery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/4/14049 ] [Files: 14049.txt; 14049-8.txt; 14049-h.htm] The Nameless Castle, by Maurus Jokai 14048 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/4/14048 ] [Files: 14048.txt; 14048-8.txt; 14048-h.htm] Essays on the Stage, by Anonymous [Ed.: H. T. Swedenberg, Jr.] 14047 [Title: A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698); and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/4/14047 ] [Files: 14047.txt; 14047-h.htm; ] Punch, Vol. 101, September 26, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 14046 [Editor: F. C. Burnand] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/4/14046 ] [Files: 14046.txt; 14046-8.txt; 14046-h.htm; ] At a Winter's Fire, by Bernard Edward J. Capes 14045 [Author AKA: Bernard Edward Joseph Capes] Contents: The Moon Stricken Jack and Jill The Vanishing House Dark Dignum William Tyrwhitt's "Copy" A Lazy Romance Black Venn An Eddy on the Floor Dinah's Mammoth The Black Reaper A Voice from the Pit [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/4/14045 ] [Files: 14045.txt; 14045-8.txt; ] The Angels of Mons, by Arthur Machen 14044 [Subtitle: The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/4/14044 ] [Files: 14044.txt; 14044-8.txt; ] Een kijkje op de Tentoonstelling te Milaan, by Ph. J. Ketner 14043 [From: "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1906] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/4/14043 ] [Files: 14043.txt; 14043-8.txt; 14043-h.htm] Een vliegreisje in het Land der Rijzende Zon, by T. Tj. de Boer 14042 [Subtitle: From "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1906] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/4/14042 ] [Files: 14042.txt; 14042-8.txt; 14042-h.htm] Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XIX, No. 470, Jan. 3, 1885 14041 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/4/14041 ] [Files: 14041.txt; 14041-8.txt; 14041-h.htm] Household Gods, by Aleister Crowley 14040 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/4/14040 ] [Files: 14040.txt; 14040-page-images ] Through Stained Glass, by George Agnew Chamberlain 14039 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14039 ] [Files: 14039.txt; 14039-8.txt; 14039-0.txt] La Daniella, Vol. II, by George Sand 14038 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14038 ] [Files: 14038-8.txt] The Life of Hugo Grotius, by Charles Butler 14037 [Subtitle: With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/3/14037 ] [Files: 14037.txt; 14037-8.txt; 14037-h.htm; ] [Clearance: 20040903124154butler] Lippincott's Magazine Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873, by Various 14036 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14036 ] [Files: 14036.txt; 14036-8.txt; 14036-h.htm] Mimmi Paavaliina, by Maiju Lassila 14035 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14035 ] [Files: 14035-8.txt] King Alfred's Viking, by Charles W. Whistler 14034 [Subtitle: A Story of the First English Fleet] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14034 ] [Files: 14034.txt; 14034-h.htm] Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4), by Plutarch 14033 [Subtitle: Translated from the Greek with Notes and a Life of Plutarch] [Tr.: Aubrey Stewart and George Long] Contents: Life of Plutarch Life of Theseus Life of Romulus Comparison of Theseus and Romulus Life of Lykurgus Life of Numa Comparison of Numa with Lykurgus Life of Solon Life of Poplicola Comparison of Solon and Poplicola Life of Themistokles Life of Camillus Life of Perikles Life of Fabius Maximus Comparison of Perikles and Fabius Maximius Life of Alkibiades Life of Caius Marcius Coriolanus Comparison between Alkibiades and Coriolanus Life of Timoleon Life of Aemilius Comparison of Paulus Aemilius and Timoleon [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/3/14033 ] [Files: 14033.txt; 14033-8.txt; 14033-h.htm; ] An Enquiry. . .Concerning the Discovery of America, by John Williams 14032 [Title: An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/3/14032 ] [Files: 14032.txt; 14032-8.txt; 14032-h.htm; ] Colloquies of Erasmus, Vol. I, by Erasmus, Ed. by Rev. E. Johnson 14031 [Translated By N. Bailey] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14031 ] [Files: 14031.txt; 14031-8.txt] Un drame au Labrador, by Eugene Dick 14030 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14030 ] [Files: 14030.txt; 14030-8.txt; 14030-h.htm] Chateau and Country Life in France, by Mary King Waddington 14029 [Author AKA: Mary Alsop King Waddington] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/2/14029 ] [Files: 14029.txt; 14029-8.txt; ] Uber das Aussterben der Naturvolker, by Georg Gerland 14028 [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/2/14028 ] [Files: 14028.txt; 14028-8.txt; 14028-h.htm] Abydos, by Emile Amelineau 14027 [From: "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1906] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/2/14027 ] [Files: 14027.txt; 14027-8.txt; 14027-h.htm] Spiritual Life and the Word of God, by Emanuel Swedenborg 14026 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/2/14026 ] [Files: 14026.txt; ] Mount Music, by E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross 14025 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/2/14025 ] [Files: 14025.txt; 14025-8.txt; 14025-h.htm; ] The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, No. 566 14024 [September 15, 1832] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/2/14024 ] [Files: 14024.txt; 14024-8.txt; 14024-h.htm; ] Life & Times of Col. Daniel Boone, by Cecil B. Harley 14023 [Subtitle: Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer... To Which Is Added His Autobiography Complete As Dictated By Himself] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/2/14023 ] [Files: 14023.txt; 14023-8.txt; 14023-h.htm; ] The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, No. 479 14022 [March 5, 1831] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/2/14022 ] [Files: 14022.txt; 14022-8.txt; 14022-h.htm; ] Lord of the World, by Robert Hugh Benson 14021 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/2/14021 ] [Files: 14021.txt] The Works of Horace, by Horace [Tr.: C. Smart] 14020 [Translated Literally Into English Prose] [Revised by Theodore Alois Buckley] Contents: The First Book Of The Odes Of Horace. The Second Book Of The Odes Of Horace. The Third Book Of The Odes Of Horace. The Fourth Book Of The Odes Of Horace. The Book Of The Epodes Of Horace. The First Book Of The Satires Of Horace. The Second Book Of The Satires Of Horace. The First Book Of The Epistles Of Horace. The Second Book Of The Epistles Of Horace. Horace's Book Upon The Art Of Poetry [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/2/14020 ] [Files: 14020.txt; 14020-h.htm] The Harvard Classics, Vol. 49, Epic and Saga, Ed. by Charles W. Eliot 14019 Contents: The Song Of Roland [Tr.: John O'Hagan] The Destruction Of Da Derga's Hostel [Tr.: Whitley Stokes] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/1/14019 ] [Files: 14019.txt; 14019-8.txt; 14019-h.htm] Marie, by Laura E. Richards 14018 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/1/14018 ] [Files: 14018.txt] Clara A. Swain, M.D., by Mrs. Robert Hoskins 14017 [Subtitle: First Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/1/14017 ] [Files: 14017.txt; 14017-h.htm; ] John Knox and the Reformation, by Andrew Lang 14016 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/1/14016 ] [Files: 14016.txt; 14016-h.htm] The Discovery of Witches, by Matthew Hopkins 14015 [Subtitle: In Answer to Severall Queries, Lately Delivered to the Judges of Assize for the County of Norfolk. And now published By Matthew Hopkins, Witch-finder, for the Benefit of the Whole Kingdome] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/1/14015 ] [Files: 14015.txt; 14015-h.htm; ] Dangers on the Ice Off the Coast of Labrador, by Anonymous 14014 [Subtitle: With Some Interesting Particulars Respecting the Natives of that Country] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/1/14014 ] [Files: 14014.txt; 14014-h.htm; ] Almoran and Hamet, by John Hawkesworth [AKA: H. Greville] 14013 [Subtitle: An Oriental Tale in Two Volumes] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/1/14013 ] [Files: 14013.txt; 14013-h.htm; ] Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland, by George Forrest Browne 14012 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/1/14012 ] [Files: 14012.txt; 14012-8.txt; 14012-h.htm] ============================================================================= [ This Week's Other Stuff ] ============================================================================= "For those wishing to know. . .", David Price provides elucidation on a couple of this week's postings: ~ ~ ~ About #14062, Miscellanies, by Oscar Wilde: It's a collection of odds and ends by Oscar Wilde. We have a good number of them already in Gutenberg but some new ones are here, together with an introduction by Wilde's friend Robert Ross. About #14061, Lady Byron Vindicated, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, David sends along the following note submitted by volunteer Les Bowler: The poet, George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron married Anne Milbanke in 1815, but the marriage was short-lived -- Anne returned to her parents with a daughter of the marriage after about a year and didn't see her husband again. She seems to have been a formal, rather religious person, while Byron had a reputation for scandalous behaviour both before and after the marriage, and rumours abounded as to the causes of the split. In 1869, after both Lord Byron and Anne Milbanke were dead, and following the publication of a book by the Countess Guiccioli, the mistress of Lord Byron, certain English periodicals published articles laying the blame entirely upon Lady Byron, and branding her "a liar" and "the vilest of criminals" -- all this with virtually no response from Lady Byron's friends. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who had known Lady Byron for some years before her death in 1860, then felt it her duty to publish "Lady Byron Vindicated" in defence of her late friend. The book proved to be controversial, with Lord Byron's friends denying many of the allegations, including incest, referred to by Mrs. Stowe, but on the whole it seems a quite convincing explanation of the reasons for the break-down of the marriage. ~ ~ ~ About #14016, John Knox and the Reformation, by Andrew Lang: For those interested: John Knox was a famous Scottish protestant who was very involved in the politics of the reformation. Until Lang wrote this book it was established practise to hold Knox as a sort of saint. In this book Lang goes through Knox's life, writings and works - and paints a very unflattering picture of him. As an aside: outside of religion Knox is best known, or rather imfamous, for writing "The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women" - a text which is available from Project Gutenberg. [EBook #9660 -- Ed.] For another opinion on John Knox, folk might like to read Robert Louis Stevenson's article on "Knox and His Relations to Women" - which appears in the book "Familiar Studies of Men and Books" - again available from Gutenberg. [EBook #425 -- Ed.] ~ ~ ~ All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. =============================================================================

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PT2 The Future of eBooks
by Michael Hart 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

ebkfutr2.art PT2 The Future of eBooks How Many eBooks? Predicting the future of eBooks has always been a combination of fun and funny: fun in the sense I enjoy predicting something no one ever believes-- funny in the sense that even after so many years, nearly 14 now, of growth rates exceeding "Moore's Law," yet, still every single year including this one, so many people still say we can't do it, one more year or the year after. How many free eBooks are available? This week there are so many new eBooks officially posted for free download that it is hard to count them all, simply because we don't know which ones are duplicates of other ones. This will take the professional cataloguers some time to figure out. Meanwhile we will try to be well on the way to an eBook collection of 100,000 unique files for them to catalogue. So far we would guesstimate that the total number of volunteers at Project Gutenberg has been about 30,000, from those who have dropped into our site to proofread a few Distributed Proofreader pages, you can take a quick look at: http://pgdp.net , to those who have worked on thousands of eBooks. It will obviously take many more volunteers, your own efforts hopefully included, to create a final eLibrary containing all the public domain books a library of this nature might contain, and I use a term such as "final" somewhat lightly, as it will always be the case the new ones are coming in. However, just for the sake of those who want some "real" predictions, I would guesstimate that some 10,000,000 public domain works will be available, counting books, newspapers, magazines, music, and all the other items found in libraries today. Of course, this number of 10 million is exceeded, already, at a few dozen of the largest libraries, and I leave it again to the cataloguers to figure out just how things should be counted. The Current Counting Methodology Here is a brief rundown of Moore's Law projecting the growth pattern of eBooks, as compared with an actual growth pattern at Project Gutenberg. Projected Growth Rate Actual Growth Rate eBooks Date Year Years eBooks Date Year Years 10 Dec 10, 1990 0 10 Dec 10, 1990 0 40 Dec 10, 1993 3 100 Dec 10, 1993 3 160 Dec 10, 1996 6 1000 Aug 15, 1997 6.6 640 Dec 10, 1999 9 2000 Dec 10, 1999 8 2560 Dec 10, 2002 12 6400 Nov 27, 2002 11.9 10240 Dec 10, 2005 15 10000 Oct 15, 2003 12.8 20480 Dec 10, 2008 18 ?25000 Nov 04, 2004 14? Just think of what we can do, if you can help us continue this growth rate past 2014!!! eBooks Date Year Years eBooks Date Year Years 20480 Dec 10, 2008 18 ?25000 Nov 04, 2004 14? 81920 Dec 10, 2011 21 ?100000 Nov 04, 2007 17? 327680 Dec 10, 2014 24 ?400000 Nov 04, 2010 20? 1310720 Dec 10, 2017 27 ?1000000 Nov 04, 2014 23? Still think this is impossible? One year ago there were 10,000 eBooks available, that's 1,000 for every 10 eBooks back in 1990-- that's 100 for every 100 eBooks back in 1993! Today there are 25,000 Project Gutenberg eBooks, all we need is to multiply that by 400. . . . And we have years and years to do it. . . .

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Oops! PT1 [PT2 was a typo]
by Michael Hart 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

Sorry, that last PT2 message was really PT1, so don't think you got an extra copy of PT2. My apologies. . .obviously must slow down. Michael

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PT2 Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

GWeekly_November_10.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, November 10, 2004 PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******* Newsletter editors needed! 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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: MICROSOFT JOINS THE SEARCH Microsoft is introducing an Internet search service positioned to compete with Google and Yahoo. Details of the service are expected tomorrow. John Tinker of the investment bank ThinkEquity Partners suggests that Microsoft's initial product will be just the beginning of a much larger competitive threat: "I think Microsoft is a couple of years from doing anything serious, but it's a reminder that the big bad evil beast is out there." (New York Times 10 Nov 2004) <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/technology/10search.html?oref=login> SPITTING MAD AT SPAM Spam over Internet telephony, known as SPIT, will become commonplace as more people make phone calls over the Internet. Internet researcher Michael Osterman warns that Web-based phone systems attacked by spam will "trash voice-mail systems," and explains: "You can easily delete 100 spam text messages. But try to weed through a voice-mail system filled with 100 unsolicited pitches. That's a pain." Spam is already appearing frequently on instant messages, cell phones, and blogs, and one executive of an Internet service provider admits: "As everything gets connected, there are more ways to spam consumers. Spam is everywhere." (USA Today 9 Nov 2004) <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-11-09-spit_x.htm> [and in a related story] UNANIMOUS RULING: FCC, NOT STATES, WILL REGULATE VOIP The Federal Communications Commission has ruled that the federal government --rather than state regulatory bodies -- has the authority to oversee phone service offered over the Internet (known as Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP). FCC chairman Michael K. Powell says, "This landmark order recognizes that a revolution has occurred. Internet voice services have cracked the 19th century mold to the great benefit of consumers." (Washington Post 9 Nov 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37972-2004Nov9.html> E-LEARNING MEANS LESS MONEY FOR TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS A school superintendent in Colorado explains the plight of traditional schools faced with declining enrollments due to competition from new systems of learning: "If I lose two kids, that's $20,000 walking out the door... I was worried about making sure that if one student left, my budget wasn't a disaster." The state gives each school a per-pupil reimbursement for students who attend brick-and-mortar schools, but spends only $5,627 to educate each online student in Colorado. In almost all schools in that state, the cost of educating an online student is lower than for a traditional student. (Los Angeles Times 9 Nov 2004) <http://www.latimes.com/technology/ats-ap_technology13nov09,1,2640150.story? coll=sns-ap-toptechnology> P2P RADIO IS LATEST TWIST IN MUSIC SHARING Now there's a new way to share music that's free and perfectly legal --the trick involves marrying peer-to-peer technology with Internet radio. Pioneers in the field include Apple, Virgin Digital, and startups Mercora and Live 365, which offer tools that automatically stream users' private playlists over the Web while in some cases storing them in a searchable database for later retrieval. Mercora operates a Web-based network of about 8,000 "broadcasters" who serve up their playlists to somewhere between 175,000 and 200,000 listeners worldwide. "We're doing for music what Google did for the Web," says Mercora CEO Srivats Sampath. The company reasons that by using an Internet broadcast network model, it can take advantage of lower copyright fees, which are set by the U.S. Copyright Office rather than the record labels. As a result, Mercora can afford to pay the fees on behalf of broadcasters and offset the costs through advertising sales. "The big nut we had to crack is how to do this legally," says Sampath. "The law says you can broadcast as long as you pay. Fine, we will pay you." And if listeners happen to download a song? Technically, if the legally broadcast song is for personal use only, that's okay. "It's like a tape recorder," says Sampath. However, the downloader runs into legal trouble only when she tries to sell a track or transfer it to another person. (CNet News.com 8 Nov 2004) <//news.com.com/Music+sharing+thats+free+and+legal/2100-1027_3-5441036.html> NIGERIAN SCAMMER JAILED [5 years jail for $5 million. . .sounds like not enough jail time, and you know they didn't get the $5 million back. . . .] The Australian mastermind of a global Internet scam was today sentenced to at least four years behind bars. Nick Marinellis pleaded guilty in the New South Wales District Court to 10 counts of fraud and one count of perverting the course of justice over the so-called Nigerian or West African scam. The ruse fleeced victims of $5 million. Judge Barry Mahoney sentenced Marinellis to five years and three months jail with a non-parole period of four years and four months. (The Australian 8 Nov 2004) rec'd from John Lamp <http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11319598%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5 E,00.html> BIDDING UP PRICES ON ONLINE AUCTIONS [Was this penalty enough, either? How about the rest of the scammed?] Eight eBay sellers who bid up products online to inflate their prices have been ordered by the New York Attorney General's office to pay almost $90,000 in restitution and fines. More than 120 people will receive money from the settlement of the three cases. One man will receive a check for $3,089 after overpaying for a 1999 Jeep Cherokee sport-utility vehicle he bought from an eBay seller in 2002.(Washington Post 7 Nov 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32944-2004Nov7.html> IRAN'S CRACKDOWN ON PRO-DEMOCRACY WEB SITES In the past several months Iran has blocked hundreds of pro-democracy Web sites and arrested such journalists as Mahboubeh Abbas-Gholizadeh and Fereshteh Ghazi, both of whom write about women's issues. But the move to block Web sites has the support of senior cleric Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, who declared in September that Web sites should be blocked if they "insult sacred concepts of Islam, the Prophet and Imams," or if they publish "harmful and deviated beliefs to promote atheism or promote sinister books." (New York Times 8 Nov 2004) //www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/international/middleeast/08iran.html?oref=login GAME MAKERS THREATENED BY PATENT LAWSUIT Computer game makers, including such big names as Electronic Arts, Atari and Sega, have been sued by Texas-based McKool Smith, which claims the makers' games violate a 1987 patent that covers a way to display 3D objects realistically in a 2D space, such as a computer monitor. The technique is used by almost every game that uses 3D modeling, including older games such as Quake and Doom. The companies are now frantically researching prior art, citing games such as The Colony and Spectre, which may have been released before the 1987 patent was granted. (The Register 3 Nov 2004) <http://www.theregister.com/2004/11/03/game_cos_3d_lawsuit/> IRELAND TO SILENCE MOBILES IN CINEMAS, THEATERS Ireland's cinemas and theatres have been given the go-ahead by the country's communications watchdog to permit the use of mobile phone interceptors. Interceptors will allow the creation of "quiet zones" where the mobile phones will not ring but where calls can still be made to emergency services or to lists of approved numbers, the Communications Regulator said on Wednesday. (The Age 4 Nov 2004) rec'd from John Lamp <http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/11/04/1099362260997.html> [Approved numbers: meaning the government and their friends.] INDIA UNVEILS NATIONAL INTERNET HUB India has created a national Internet service hub to connect all service providers and boost web traffic in the country of one billion people. Until now, domestic Internet service providers have been forced to rely on international traffic routing providers to run their Web sites, and so Information and Technology Minister Dayanidhi Maran says the new plan will help to "proliferate the Internet" in that domestic service providers will now be able to reduce the cost of traffic routing and improve service for subscribers. (The Australian 29 Oct 2004) Rec'd from J. Lamp australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11222365%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html CELL PHONE PHOTOS MAKE THE FRONT PAGE Twice in the last month De Telegraaf, the Netherlands' largest newspaper, has run front-page photos snapped by amateur photographers using their cell phones. Wednesday De Telegraaf published a grisly picture of the body of filmmaker and columnist Theo van Gogh, who police suspect was stabbed to death by an Islamic militant. Passerby Aron Boskma took the photo at the crime scene in Amsterdam before the body had been covered. "This picture was the story. There was a discussion if we should use it, but everyone who would have had this picture would have published it," says Telegraaf pictures editor Peter Schoonen. Last month Dutch newspapers published cell phone pictures of a police shoot-out in the town of Enschede. In Japan, where many citizens now have camera-equipped cell phones, it is common practice to sell news-breaking pictures to TV stations and other media outlets. (Reuters 3 Nov 2004) <http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=UJYGZ4EES4VDICRBAEOCFEY ?type=technologyNews&storyID=6702434> IE LOSING GROUND TO OPEN SOURCE BROWSERS Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is still the overwhelming market leader [93%?], but the percentage of Americans using open-source alternatives Mozilla and Firefox inched up to 6% in October from 3.5% in June. Apple's Safari and the Opera browsers combined were employed by just a little over 1% of users, according to online research firm WebSideStory. The results were gleaned by sensors embedded on major Web sites that identified which browsers visitors were using to access the sites. And although Mozilla and Firefox constitute a miniscule portion of the browser market, some analysts say their steady rise may signal a trend. "What we're seeing is (Mozilla and Firefox) looking more like a vanguard than a flash in the pan," says WebSideStory analyst Geoff Johnston. (CNet News.com 1 Nov 2004) <http://news.com.com/Study+Firefox+still+gaining+on+Internet+Explorer/2100-1 032_3-5435176.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. 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Under that deal, Microsoft will join the CCIA and will pay undisclosed legal expenses; the CCIA will stop seeking a review of the settlement with the Justice Department and will also withdraw from the EC case. Since the landmark deal with the Justice Department, Microsoft has now spent about $3 billion to settle antitrust complaints, and the company might still be liable for another $950 million for outstanding lawsuits, including one by RealNetworks. Despite Microsoft's argument that the EC should end its case in light of the new settlements, an EC spokesperson said regulators would not be ending their investigations and would insist on enforcing sanctions against the company. Wall Street Journal, 8 November 2004 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109992201481467517,00.html USING VIDEO GAMES TO IMPROVE ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE Athletes at a number of colleges and universities are testing an application called IntelliGym designed to improve athletic performance through video games. Daniel Gopher, the research supervisor at the company that developed IntelliGym, is known for his work in training Israeli fighter pilots in the 1980s with video simulations. Cadets in that program reportedly "performed significantly better" than others who did not train with the computer games, and Gopher has applied the same ideas to sports. Basketball players at the University of Memphis are testing the IntelliGym program, which does not simulate basketball but purportedly develops decision-making and visual skills applicable to the game. IntelliGym endeavors to train players to keep track of several things happening at one time, to discern patterns among moving objects, and to make fast decisions. San Jose Mercury News, 4 November 2004 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10099990.htm NEXTEL AND VERIZON SETTLE DISPUTE [unlike MicroSoft. . .] In a settlement widely regarded as a win for Nextel Communications, the wireless provider and Verizon Wireless have ended a long-running dispute over trademarks and reallocation of spectrum. Under the deal, Nextel will drop a lawsuit against Verizon alleging trademark infringement for use of the term "push to talk," and Nextel agreed not to pursue such charges against Verizon or any other carrier that uses the term. Meanwhile, Verizon will end its opposition to a reallocation of radio-wave spectrum between the government and Nextel. Nextel's network was woven together with various slices of the spectrum that often caused interference with emergency workers, such as police and firefighters. A proposed spectrum swap with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) would eliminate much of that interference, but Verizon objected because the swap would also allow Nextel to upgrade its network fairly easily and to offer high-speed data services. Under the deal with the FCC, Nextel will return about $2 billion worth of spectrum to the FCC and will spend at least $3.2 billion to help relocate users affected by the change. The Government Accountability Office still has to rule on whether the FCC has the authority to swap the spectrum as outlined in the deal. Wall Street Journal, 3 November 2004 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109941002329062243,00.html VIRGINIA SEES FIRST FELONY SPAM CONVICTION A brother and sister in Virginia have been found guilty under that state's antispam law, which some describe as the toughest in the nation. Jeremy D. Jaynes and Jessica DeGroot, who live in North Carolina, were charged with sending unsolicited e-mail from a bogus return address. Prosecutors said the e-mail the pair sent advertised fraudulent products, such as a "FedEx refund processor" that supposedly allowed users to earn $75 an hour from their homes. During one month, Jaynes reportedly received 10,000 orders for the processor, which was priced at $39.95. Jurors in the nation's first felony conviction for spam will now consider punishment for the two defendants. Prosecutors have asked the jury to sentence Jaynes to the maximum 15 years in prison and have requested an unspecified prison term for DeGroot. 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[From an anonymous source on another listserver] "For your information, 20mm cannon shells are 5 times as massive as your standard every day police 9mm Glock bullets, and are travelling so much faster that you probably wouldn't believe it [when they leave the plane]. "The idea that these would only leave "puncture marks in the school's roof" is hardly testing the bloggers who challenged Dan Rather last month. "As an example, a .50 caliber machine gun would go right through a steel I-beam one inch thick. . .and this is only about 12.7mm in size, so I think any kind of follow-up examination will show that there is a LOT of damage to anything these 25 cannon rounds hit." *** And in addition to the story below, it would appear that the US has had missiles prepared to knock down satellites from both ground and air-based launchers for quite some time. US ADMITS TO DEPLOYMENT OF SPACE WARFARE TECHNOLOGY Washington, DC, October 29 The US Air Force's Space Commanders finally admitted that they had very quietly launched and activated various new weapons systems aimed at jamming electronic satellite communications systems of the other space faring countries of the world. The "Counter Communications Systems has been in operation since last month as per information from Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs. Since the US does not currently have any operational space shuttles, one is left to presume any orbital components were launched via the recent Russian launch that orbited the most recent US astronaut. However, no reference to any space-based components was made. 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Bosch 13999 [From "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1906] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/9/13999 ] [Files: 13999.txt; 13999-8.txt; 13999-h.htm] Ireland and the Home Rule Movement, by Michael F. J. McDonnell 13998 [Preface by John Redmond] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/9/13998 ] [Files: 13998.txt; 13998-8.txt; 13998-h.htm; ] Real Folks, by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney 13997 [Author AKA: Adeline Dutton Train Whitney] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/9/13997 ] [Files: 13997.txt; 13997-8.txt; 13997-h.htm; ] The Divine Fire, by May Sinclair 13996 [Author AKA: Mary Amelia St. Clair Sinclair] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/9/13996 ] [Files: 13996.txt; 13996-8.txt; 13996-h.htm; ] Punch, Vol. 101, October 3rd, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13995 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/9/13995 ] [Files: 13995.txt; 13995-8.txt; 13995-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 101, October 10, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13994 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/9/13994 ] [Files: 13994.txt; 13994-8.txt; 13994-h.htm] Dere Mable, by Edward Streeter 13993 [Subtitle: Love Letters Of A Rookie] [Illus.: G. William Breck] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/9/13993 ] [Files: 13993.txt; 13993-h.htm] Kitty Trenire, by Mabel Quiller-Couch 13992 [Author AKA: Florence Mabel Quiller-Couch (c. 1866-1924)] [Mabel Quiller-Couch was the sister of Arthur T. Quiller-Couch ("Q").] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/9/13992 ] [Files: 13992.txt; ] Puukkojunkkarit, by Santeri Alkio 13991 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/9/13991 ] [Files: 13991-8.txt] Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims, by American Anti-Slavery Society 13990 [Subtitle: Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/9/13990 ] [Files: 13990.txt; 13990-8.txt; 13990-h.htm] Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act, by Lydia Maria Childs 13989 [Subtitle: Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 9, An Appeal To The Legislators Of Massachusetts] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/8/13989 ] [Files: 13989.txt; 13989-h.htm] Fugitive Slave Law: The Religious Duty of Obedience to Law, by Spencer 13988 [Subtitle: A Sermon by Ichabod S. Spencer Preached In The Second Presbyterian Church In Brooklyn, Nov. 24, 1850] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/8/13988 ] [Files: 13988.txt; 13988-h.htm] Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law, by John Hossack 13987 [Full title: Speech of John Hossack, Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law] [Subtitle: Before Judge Drummond, Of The United States District Court, Chicago, Ill.; Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/8/13987 ] [Files: 13987.txt; 13987-h.htm] Mr. Cushing, on the Right of Petition, Abolition of Slavery, by Cushing 13986 [Title: Speech of Mr. Cushing, of Massachusetts, on the Right of Petition, as Connected with Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia. In The House Of Representatives, January 25, 1836.] [Author: Caleb Cushing] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/8/13986 ] [Files: 13986.txt; 13986-h.htm] V. V.'s Eyes, by Henry Sydnor Harrison 13985 [Illus.: Raymond M. Crosby] [One of the ten bestsellers of 1913] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/8/13985 ] [Files: 13985.txt; 13985-8.txt; 13985-h.htm; ] In the Wrong Paradise, by Andrew Lang 13984 [Subtitle: And Other Stories] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/8/13984 ] [Files: 13984.txt; 13984-h.htm ] The Book of the Epic, by Helene A. Guerber 13983 [Author: Introduction by J. Berg Esenwein] [Subtitle: The World's Great Epics Told in Story] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/8/13983 ] [Files: 13983.txt; 13983-8.txt; ] Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper, by James A. Cooper 13982 [Subtitle: A Story of Cape Cod] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/8/13982 ] [Files: 13982.txt; ] Histoire du Chevalier d'Iberville, by Adam-Charles-Gustave Desmazures 13981 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/8/13981 ] [Files: 13981.txt; 13981-8.txt; 13981-h.htm] Mappo, the Merry Monkey, by Richard Barnum 13980 [Subtitle: His Many Adventures] [Ill.: Harriet H. Tooker] [From the Knee-Time Animal Stories series] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/8/13980 ] [Files: 13980.txt; 13980-h.htm; ] For The Admiral, by W.J. Marx 13979 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13979 ] [Files: 13979.txt; 13979-8.txt; 13979-h.htm] The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil, by Edward G. Flight 13978 [Subtitle: Showing How the Horse-Shoe Came to Be a Charm against Witchcraft] [Ill.: George Cruikshank] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/7/13978 ] [Files: 13978.txt; 13978-h.htm; ] The Argonautica, by Apollonius Rhodius 13977 [Edited and with an introduction by R.C. Seaton] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13977 ] [Files: 13977.txt; 13977-8.txt] Koyhaa kansaa; Salakari, by Minna Canth 13976 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13976 ] [Files: 13976-8.txt] Qventin Durward, by Walter Scott 13975 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13975 ] [Files: 13975-8.txt] The Last West and Paolo's Virginia, by G. B. Warren 13974 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13974 ] [Files: 13974.txt] Whistler Stories, by Don C. Seitz 13973 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13973 ] [Files: 13973.txt] The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses From Women, by Various 13972 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13972 ] [Files: 13972.txt; 13972-h.htm] The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Men, by Various 13971 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13971 ] [Files: 13971.txt; 13971-h.htm] Nick of the Woods, by Robert M. Bird 13970 [Subtitle: Adventures of Prairie Life] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/7/13970 ] [Files: 13970.txt; ] The Hill of Dreams, by Arthur Machen 13969 [Author AKA: Arthur Llewellyn Jones] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/6/13969 ] [Files: 13969.txt; 13969-8.txt; ] Works Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IX. (of 12), by Burke 13968 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13968 ] [Files: 13968.txt; 13968-8.txt] Nedra, by George Barr McCutcheon 13967 [Illus.: Harrison Fisher] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/6/13967 ] [Files: 13967.txt; 13967-8.txt; 13967-h.htm; ] Punch, Vol. 152, January 17, 1917, Ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 13966 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13966 ] [Files: 13966.txt; 13966-8.txt; 13966-h.htm] Portraits litteraires, Tome II, by C.-A. Sainte-Beuve 13965 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13965 ] [Files: 13965.txt; 13965-8.txt; 13965-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873, by Various 13964 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13964 ] [Files: 13964.txt; 13964-8.txt; 13964-h.htm] Ireland Since Parnell, by Daniel Desmond Sheehan 13963 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13963 ] [Files: 13963.txt; 13963-8.txt; 13963-h.htm] Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884, by Various 13962 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13962 ] [Files: 13962.txt; 13962-8.txt; 13962-h.htm] Punch, Volume 101, September 19, 1891, Ed. by Francis Burnand 13961 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13961 ] [Files: 13961.txt; 13961-8.txt; 13961-h.htm] Charles Rex, by Ethel M. Dell 13960 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13960 ] [Files: 13960.txt; 13960-8.txt] Door Oost-Perzie, by Percy Molesworth Sykes 13959 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13959 ] [Files: 13959.txt; 13959-8.txt; 13959-h.htm] Authoritative Life of General William Booth, by George Scott Railton 13958 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13958 ] [Files: 13958.txt; 13958-8.txt; 13958-0.txt; 13958-h.htm] The Pocket George Borrow, by George Borrow 13957 [Subtitle: Passages chosen from the works of George Borrow] [Editor: Edward Thomas] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/5/13957 ] [Files: 13957.txt; 13957-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876, by Various 13956 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13956 ] [Files: 13956.txt; 13956-8.txt; 13956-h.htm] Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912, Lillie DeHegermann-Lindencrone 13955 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13955 ] [Files: 13955.txt; 13955-8.txt; 13955-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 152, June 27, 1917, Ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 13954 [Subtitle: 1917 Almanack] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13954 ] [Files: 13954.txt; 13954-8.txt; 13954-h.htm] Celsissimus, by Arthur Achleitner 13953 [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13953 ] [Files: 13953.txt; 13953-8.txt; 13953-0.txt] Vingt ans apres, by Alexandre Dumas 13952 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13952 ] [Files: 13952.txt; 13952-8.txt] Les trois mousquetaires, by Alexandre Dumas 13951 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13951 ] [Files: 13951.txt; 13951-8.txt] Le vicomte de Bragelonne, Tome IV, by Alexandre Dumas 13950 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13950 ] [Files: 13950.txt; 13950-8.txt] Le vicomte de Bragelonne, Tome III, by Alexandre Dumas 13949 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13949 ] [Files: 13949.txt; 13949-8.txt] Le vicomte de Bragelonne, Tome II, by Alexandre Dumas 13948 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13948 ] [Files: 13948.txt; 13948-8.txt] Le vicomte de Bragelonne, Tome I, by Alexandre Dumas 13947 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13947 ] [Files: 13947.txt; 13947-8.txt] Camp and Trail, by Isabel Hornibrook 13946 [Subtitle: A Story of the Maine Woods] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13946 ] [Files: 13946.txt; 13946-8.txt; 13946-h.htm] Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 (of 2), Harriet Beecher Stowe 13945 [Author: Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13945 ] [Files: 13945.txt; 13945-8.txt; 13945-h.htm] After London, by Richard Jefferies 13944 [Subtitle: Wild England] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13944 ] [Files: 13944.txt; 13944-8.txt; 13944-h.htm] Political Pamphlets, by George Saintsbury 13943 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13943 ] [Files: 13943.txt; 13943-8.txt; 13943-h.htm] Brave Men and Women, by O.E. Fuller 13942 [Subtitle: Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13942 ] [Files: 13942.txt; 13942-8.txt; 13942-h.htm] The Divine Right of Church Government, by Sundry Ministers 13941 [Author: Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] [Wherein It Is Proved That The Presbyterian Government, By Preaching And Ruling Elders, In Sessional, Presbyterial, And Synodical Assemblies, May Lay The Only Lawful Claim To A Divine Right, According To The Holy Scriptures] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13941 ] [Files: 13941.txt; 13941-8.txt; 13941-h.htm] The Problem of China, by Bertrand Russell 13940 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13940 ] [Files: 13940.txt; 13940-8.txt; 13940-h.htm] Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885, by Various 13939 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/3/13939 ] [Files: 13939.txt; 13939-8.txt; 13939-h.htm] The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, No. 491 13935 [May 28, 1831] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/3/13935 ] [Files: 13935.txt; 13935-8.txt; 13935-h.htm; ] ============================================================================= "For those wishing to know", elucidation from David Price: 1. About #13957, The Pocket George Borrow, by George Borrow: The Pocket George Borrow is part of a series of "selected passages from XYZ" produced by publisher Chatto & Windus in the early part of the 20th century. A different, but important, person made the selection in each case. Other volumes in the same series include Thackeray (chosen by Alfred Hyatt), Robert Louis Stevenson (already in Gutenberg) and so on. Edward Thomas, who selected for this volume, is the well-known war-poet: he was also a great admirer of George Borrow. George Borrow was an English eccentric, gifted in languages. All of the works selected from in this book are available in Gutenberg - if you like any particular passage you can have the whole eBook as well. 2. About #13984, In the Wrong Paradise, by Andrew Lang . . .it's a group of medium-sized stories, mainly on a theme of mythology (Lang's pet subject). A number of the stories are written with a wry twist. In one of the stories, "The Gladstone Myth" Lang has a friendly dig at those mythologists whose theories he disagreed with. The most well-rounded of the stories is the first one, The End of Phaeacia, in which a biggotted Victorian "missionary" comes across a "barbaric, heathen" tribe who, one feels, are more than the missionary perceives... ~ ~ ~ All men can fly, but sadly, only in one direction -- down. =============================================================================

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