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PT1 Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

GWeekly_March_30.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, March 30, 2005 PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971****** Newsletter editors needed! Please email hart(a)pobox.com or gbnewby(a)pglaf.org Anyone who would care to get advance editions: please email hart(a)pobox.com * I'll be travelling to Alaska to give some presentations this summer, so if any of you would like to schedule something along the way, such as Seattle, Tacoma, Anchorage, etc., please let me know. By the way, still looking for a gig in North Dakota, the only state left on my list. 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We have now averaged ~469 eBooks per year since July 4th, 1971 We Averaged About 339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Are Averaging About 315 books Per Month This Year We Are Averaging About 78 eBooks Per Week This Year 65 This Week It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2002 to 2005 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~1.25 years from Oct. 2003 to Jan. 2005 from 10,000 to 15,000 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing.] [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. 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Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #931 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright Jul 1997 Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens[Dickens #32][chuzzxxx.xxx] 968 Jul 1997 Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens[Dickens #31][ncklbxxx.xxx] 967 Jul 1997 Maid Marian, by Thomas Love Peacock [maidmxxx.xxx] 966 Jul 1997 The Black Tulip, by Alexandre Dumas[Pere][Dumas#1][tbtlpxxx.xxx] 965 Jul 1997 The Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle[HP#1][2rbnhxxx.xxx] 964 Jul 1997 Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #30] [ldortxxx.xxx] 963 Jul 1997 The Poems of Henry Kendall, by Henry Kendall [phkndxxx.xxx] 962 Jul 1997 Glinda of Oz, by L. Frank Baum [LFB#17][Oz#14][14wozxxx.xxx] 961 Jun 1997 The Tin Woodman of Oz, by Baum [LFB#16][Oz#12][12wozxxx.xxx] 960 Jun 1997 The Lost Princess of Oz, by Baum [LFB#15][Oz#11][11wozxxx.xxx] 959 Jun 1997 Rinkitink In Oz, by L. Frank Baum [LFB#14][Oz#10][10wozxxx.xxx] 958 Jun 1997 The Scarecrow of Oz, by L. Frank Baum[FB#13][Oz#9][09wozxxx.xxx] 957 Jun 1997 Tik-Tok of Oz, by L. Frank Baum [Baum #12][Oz #8][08wozxxx.xxx] 956 Jun 1997 The Patchwork Girl of Oz, by L. Frank Baum[Baum12][07wozxxx.xxx] 955 Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his War Tank, by Victor Appleton [21tomxxx.xxx] 954 Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Big Tunnel, by Victor Appleton [19tomxxx.xxx] 953 Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Air Glider, by Victor Appleton [12tomxxx.xxx] 952 Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Sky Racer, by Victor Appleton [09tomxxx.xxx] 951 Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Electric Runabout, by V. Appleton [05tomxxx.xxx] 950 Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Submarine Boat, by Victor Appleton[04tomxxx.xxx] 949 Jun 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 3 [#3] [3spnexxx.xxx] 948 [Translator: R. H. M. Elwes] Jun 1997 The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson, by Robert Southey[hnlsnxxx.xxx] 947 Jun 1997 Lady Susan, by Jane Austen [Jane Austen #6] [lsusnxxx.xxx] 946 Jun 1997 Dust, by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius [dsthjxxx.xxx] 945 Jun 1997 The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [#1] [vbglexxx.xxx] 944 Jun 1997 Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw [Shaw #1] [msalixxx.xxx] 943 Jun 1997 Green Mansions, by W. H. Hudson [W. H. Hudson #1] [gmansxxx.xxx] 942 Jun 1997 Just Folks, by Edgar A. Guest [Edgar A. Guest #2] [jfolkxxx.xxx] 941 Jun 1997 Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper #1 [mohicxxx.xxx] 940 Jun 1997 Life of Thomas Telford, by Samuel Smiles [SS #5] [tlfrdxxx.xxx] 939 Jun 1997 Good Indian, by B. M. Bower [B. M. Bower #2] [gndinxxx.xxx] 938 Jun 1997 Poems: Patriotic, Religious, etc, by Father Ryan [fryanxxx.xxx] 937 Jun 1997 The Village Watch-Tower, by Kate Douglas Wiggin #3[vilwtxxx.xxx] 936 Jun 1997 Self Help; Conduct & Perseverance by Samuel Smiles[selfhxxx.xxx] 935 Jun 1997 Songs of a Savoyard by W. S. Gilbert [Gilbert #5] [svyrdxxx.xxx] 934 Jun 1997 More Bab Ballads, by W. S. Gilbert [Gilbert #4] [3babbxxx.xxx] 933 Jun 1997 Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe [#1][usherxxx.xxx] 932 Jun 1997 The Bab Ballads, by W. S. Gilbert [Gilbert #3] [2babbxxx.xxx] 931 Jun 1997 The Cook's Decameron, by Mrs. W. G. Water [ckdecxxx.xxx] 930 Jun 1997 The Cyberpunk Fakebook, by St. Jude & R.U. Sirius [fakebxxx.xxx] 929C * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? With 15,887 eBooks online as of March 30, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.98 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,275,850 x 15,887 x $.98 = $1+ trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 15,887 eBooks online as of March 30, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.63 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.82 when we had 12,145 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 15,887 eBooks in 33 Years and 08.80 Months We Averaged ~480 Per Year 40.0 Per Month 1.32 Per Day At 931 eBooks Done In The 84 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 11.08 Per Day 78 Per Week 333 Per Month The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] FCC ALLOWS BELLS TO BUNDLE DSL The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ruled that local phone companies cannot be compelled to offer stand-alone DSL service to customers who purchase phone service from other providers. Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Kentucky had sought to force BellSouth to unbundle its DSL service from its phone service and sell the high-speed data service to individuals who bought phone service from other local providers or from cell-phone companies. BellSouth filed a petition with the FCC, which narrowly granted the petition on a vote of 3-2. Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein, the two Democrats on the FCC, filed a dissenting statement expressing their concern that the ruling would limit consumer choice. "If it is permissible to deny consumers DSL if they do not also order analog voice service," they wrote, "what stops a carrier from denying broadband service to an end-user who has cut the cord and uses only a wireless phone?" Wall Street Journal, 28 March 2005 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111196508520290459,00.html FEDS ORDER BANKS TO DISCLOSE BREACHES Four federal agencies have released regulations requiring banks and other financial institutions to notify customers when a security breach presents a risk that their personal information may be misused. The Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Office of Thrift Supervision deliberated for 18 months on how federal legislation, including the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act, should be interpreted. The resulting "guidance" stipulates that when personal information is accessed without authorization and misuse of that information has occurred or is reasonably possible, institutions must notify affected customers "as soon as possible." In all cases, even those that do not meet the standard set for notifying customers, institutions must notify their primary federal regulators of the breach. Delays in notifying customers are permissible if such notification is determined to jeopardize an investigation into the breach. [You can be sure the delays will be long and constant] PCWorld, 24 March 2005 http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120168,00.asp ICANN APPROVES EU TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved use of .eu as a country-code top-level domain for use by European Union countries. EURid officials, who will manage the registry for .eu, expect the U.S. Department of Commerce to approve the decision shortly. The introduction of .eu is not expected to affect use of already popular country codes such as .de for Germany or .uk for the United Kingdom. Internet News, 25 March 2005 http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3492776 BLUE GENE/L SPEED RECORD BROKEN, BY BLUE GENE/L The still-unfinished Blue Gene/L supercomputer, being built by IBM at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has reached a processing speed of 135.3 trillion floating point operations per second (teraflops), smashing the record it set last year of 70.72 teraflops. When complete, the Blue Gene/L supercomputer will have a theoretical processing capacity of 360 teraflops. Developers of the machine doubled the number of racks in the system--to 32--to achieve the new record. Each rack holds 1,024 processors; Blue Gene will eventually include 64 racks. Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore Lab, which is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, will use Blue Gene to study the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons, without the need to perform dangerous underground testing. BBC, 25 March 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4379261.stm CRITICISM MOUNTS FOR FEDERAL STUDENT DATABASE The U.S. Department of Education has proposed creating a national database of college students, but the idea has drawn heavy criticism for its use of Social Security numbers to identify individuals. The current system for reporting student progress, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, reports aggregate data for institutions and cannot accurately track students who start at one college or university and transfer to another. The proposed database would track individuals, offering more accurate data for graduation rates and other statistics, but some argue that those gains would come at the expense of student privacy. David Baime, vice president of government relations for the American Association of Community Colleges, said that despite the benefits to community colleges in particular from such a system, his organization opposes the plan "primarily due to privacy concerns, expressed to us by our members." David L. Warren, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, said, "The proposal takes us down the slippery slope toward Big Brother oversight of college students, and of those same citizens beyond their college years." Inside Higher Ed, 23 March 2005 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/03/23/unit 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 WHEN/HOW DID *YOU* HEAR ABOUT THE TEXAS CITY EXPLOSION? [More "Packaged News" Reporting, Even In Scandal Midst?] TexasCity has been the location of several of the largest industrial explosions in all history, and a week ago from the time you are likely reading this another happened, at 1:28PM, local time [CST]. However, four hours later, when the evening new was on at CBS, NBC, and ABC, there was no mention of this explosion in the headlines. Interestingly enough, the BBC had already reported on the story earlier and had even had time to relay through PBS, to millions of non-commercial network news watchers. The first ten minutes of those BBC news broadcasts were given to the Texas City explosion story. Details: This refinery is the third largest in the U.S. 15 dead and over 100 injured. Oil prices were reported as being lower in spite of this. Yet, gasoline prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1.6080 per gallon record highs. This news lets us calculate exactly how much profits are made by those who buy gas at $1.61 per gallon and sell a gallon at the then current average price of $2.06. $.45 profit on an investment of $1.61 equals 28%. Of course you have to add in the expense of pumping that gasoline into your own tank trucks and delivering it for retail sale to the local gas stations. [Sources: Reuters and CNN] *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK Robert Rodriquez, famed movie director of El Mariachi, Desperado, Spy Kids, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, and a new movie, Sin City, coming out Friday, said late last night on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson that a delegation from the Directors' Guild was on it way for the purposes of shutting down the filming of Sin City, when he resigned his membership in the their Directors Guild so he could share directing credits with Quentin Tarantino and Frank Miller on the new Sin City movie. Apparently the Directors' Guild would not allow shared credits for directing, even in famous cases in which a director is fired and replaced, then replaced again. [Not the case with Sin City.] The film was totally created outside Hollywood studios and their system of dictating motion picture practices in great detail. This puts yet another hole in studio system history in Hollywood, as Rodriguez and more are making films on their own and thumbing their noses for good at Hollywood and its antiquated political powers. Sin City was made entirely in Austin, Texas. DOUBLESPEAK OF THE DAY Doublespeak to avoid the term "invasion" with reference to Panama: "Operation Just Cause"; "directed our armed forces to protect the lives of American citizens in Panama"; "deployed forces" to Panama; conducted "efforts to support the democratic processes in Panama"; assured "the integrity of the Panama Canal", etc. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK No mention will be made of the news embargo about Texas City. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK BOOK PRICES SKYROCKET! Yet book prices never make the news. The overall inflation rate over the past 50 years has prices today at about 6 times what they were in 1955. Gasoline at $2 a gallons is 8 time higher than $.25 in 1955. The minimum wage is $5.15 as compared to $1 in 1955. But the price of the average paperback book in 1995 was $.25, about the same as a gallon of gas. In 2005 the average price of a paperback is $7.50, or 30 times as much as it was 50 years ago. All this hype about gas prices, but never a mention of books. Tuition is the only other item I could find that went up as much. * "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. *** *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. 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Buckelew and Margaret W. Lewis 15435 [Subtitle: A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of] [School No. 49, New York City] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/3/15435 ] [Files: 15435.txt; 15435-h.htm; ] En Kabylie, by J. Vilbort 15434 [Subtitle: Voyage d'une Parisienne au Djurjura] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/3/15434 ] [Files: 15434-8.txt] Memoires (Tome 3), by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot 15433 [Full title: Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 3)] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/3/15433 ] [Files: 15433-8.txt] Henry Brocken, by Walter J. de la Mare 15432 [Subtitle: His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange,] [Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/3/15432 ] [Files: 15432.txt; 15432-8.txt; 15432-h.htm; ] Success, by Samuel Hopkins Adams 15431 [Subtitle: A Novel] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/3/15431 ] [Files: 15431.txt; 15431-8.txt] The Lever, by William Dana Orcutt 15430 [Subtitle: A Novel] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/3/15430 ] [Files: 15430.txt; 15430-8.txt] Thomas Henry Huxley, by Leonard Huxley 15429 [Subtitle: A Character Sketch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/2/15429 ] [Files: 15429.txt; 15429-8.txt] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 20, by Various 15428 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 20, March] [25, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/2/15428 ] [Files: 15428.txt; 15428-8.txt; 15428-h.htm] Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850, by Various 15427 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/4/2/15427 ] [Files: 15427.txt; 15427-8.txt; 15427-h.htm] Pixy's Holiday Journey, by George Lang 15426 [Tr.: Mary E. 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23 Mar '05

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Charles Vivian [haeroxxx.xxx] 874 Apr 1997 A House of Pomegranates, by Oscar Wilde [Wilde #8][hpomgxxx.xxx] 873 Apr 1997 Reprinted Pieces, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #20][cdrprxxx.xxx] 872 Apr 1997 The Golden Sayings of Epictetus [epictxxx.xxx] 871 Apr 1997 The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl, Jerome K. Jerome[12][jjulrxxx.xxx] 870 Apr 1997 The Soul of Nicholas Snyders, Jerome K. Jerome[11][jjsnyxxx.xxx] 869 * Apr 1997 The Philosopher's Joke, Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ#10] [jjphjxxx.xxx] 868 Apr 1997 Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies, by JK Jerome [JKJ#9][jjkorxxx.xxx] 867 Apr 1997 The Cost of Kindness, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ#8] [jjkndxxx.xxx] 866 Apr 1997 Passing of the Third Floor Back, by JK Jerome [#7][jjp3bxxx.xxx] 865 Mar 1997 Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson #38[blntrxxx.xxx] 864 Mar 1997 The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie[masacxxx.xxx] 863 Mar 1997 [Harvard] Philosophy 4, by Owen Wister [phil4xxx.xxx] 862 Mar 1997 The Dominion of the Air, by J. M. Bacon [dmairxxx.xxx] 861 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? With 15,822 eBooks online as of March 23, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.99 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,261,863 x 15,822 x $.98 = $1 trillion With 15,822 eBooks online as of March 23, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.63 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.83 when we had 11,912 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 15,822 eBooks in 33 Years and 08.75 Months We Averaged ~469 Per Year 39.0 Per Month 1.28 Per Day At 866 eBooks Done In The 77 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 11.25 Per Day 79 Per Week 315 Per Month The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] FRANCE CALLS GOOGLE'S ANTE High-level officials in France have put their support behind an initiative to digitize European works of literature and make them available free online. President Jacques Chirac, as well as Jean-Noel Jeanneney, president of the National Library of France, and Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, minister of culture and communication, met recently to discuss efforts to digitize the "cultural patrimony" of France and Europe, a discussion evidently prompted by recently announced plans by Google to digitize vast amounts of English-language literature. Following the meeting, Donnedieu de Vabres published an essay called "Google Is Not the End of History," in which he commented that "we probably have a lot to learn from Google" and said the Google announcement "comes in an intellectual and cultural climate in which the digitization of documents and works seems to be the key to all problems." French officials rejected the notion that their actions are merely a reaction to Google or that their project should be seen as antithetical to or in competition with Google. Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 March 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/03/2005032101t.htm CHINA BLOCKS ACCESS TO CAMPUS WEB PAGES Chinese officials have blocked outside access to a number of online bulletin boards operated by universities. Such bulletin boards have become popular vehicles for discussion about topics including politics, pop culture, and pornography, subjects which Chinese authorities have not been shy about censoring. Tsinghua University's Shuimu Tsinghua bulletin board was one of those restricted recently, joining bulletin boards at Wuhan University and Nankai University, as well as one at Peking University that was shut down entirely. According to a student from Tsinghua University who asked not to be named, the Ministry of Education's reasoning for blocking outside access was "because the bulletin board was only supposed to be a platform for internal exchange within the university." He added, "Students are calm about it, but it seems that non-student users are angry because they can no longer get access." Reuters, 21 March 2005 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7958355 APPLYING OLD SCAMS TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES The emergence of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phone service has opened a new door for hackers and others to fool users. Using the Internet to transmit phone calls allows callers to spoof Caller ID systems, something that isn't possible with traditional phone service. Although telemarketers are required by the Federal Communications Commission to properly identify themselves, Caller ID spoofing is otherwise not prohibited. As a result, someone can, for example, call Western Union, which requires customers to call from their home phones to initiate money transfers, using a faked source number, and make a fraudulent transfer. In other instances, debt collectors and private investigators use Caller ID spoofing to trick people into answering their phones and possibly divulging information they otherwise would not. Scams similar to e-mail phishing rackets also take advantage of Caller ID spoofing, deceiving people into believing that a caller is at a bank or a financial institution and helping persuade them to reveal personal information to the caller. Wired News, 20 March 2005 http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66954,00.html REPORT OFFERS RENEWED CRITICISM FOR E-RATE PROGRAM A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) puts forth renewed charges of fraud and mismanagement in the federal government's E-rate Program, designed to subsidize technology to connect U.S. schools and libraries to the Internet. The report was prepared for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is conducting its own investigation. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), chairman of the committee, blamed the Federal Communications Commission, unscrupulous vendors, and certain schools for the problems in the program, which he said was a "disgrace." Although investigations have led to a handful of penalties for abuse in the program, the report advises increased efforts to clean it up. Among the report's recommendations are calls to "comprehensively determine which federal accountability requirements apply to E-rate; establish meaningful E-rate performance goals and measures; and take steps to reduce its backlog of appeals." Internet News, 17 March 2005 http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3490806 U.S. CONSIDERS RESTRICTIONS ON SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS [Did you know that your Social Security Numbers is supposed to be used ONLY for Social Security purposes? You have a right to refuse to give it to anyone else who asks for it. I called the Social Security Administration to verify this.] Following recent incidents that exposed personal information on more than 175,000 individuals, U.S. lawmakers are considering placing new restrictions on companies that gather and sell such information. Relatively few regulations apply to companies such as ChoicePoint and LexisNexis that collect data about driving records, financial records, and other sensitive information. Social Security numbers appear to be at the crux of the issue: because they are unique, data companies rely on Social Security numbers to distinguish individuals, but the numbers are also a powerful weapon in the hands of identity thieves, who can use them to access confidential records, open new accounts, and wreak havoc with a person's privacy. At separate hearings in the House and the Senate, legislators discussed laws that would require data companies to notify any individual before they sell that person's Social Security number. Other suggestions included requiring disclosure of any incident that exposes sensitive information. Don McGuffey, vice president of ChoicePoint, which recently sold 145,000 records to identity thieves, told a Senate hearing that personal information had been compromised by his company in "a handful" of other incidents that were not made public. Reuters, 15 March 2005 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7911154 MICROSOFT AND STUDENT SETTLE OVER SOFTWARE RESALE Microsoft and David Zamos have reached a settlement in their dispute over Zamos's sale on eBay of Microsoft software he purchased while a student at the University of Akron. After Zamos bought Windows XP Pro and Microsoft Office from the university bookstore, he found he was not permitted to return it, though it was unopened. Zamos, who paid about $50 for both products because of deep educational discounts, decided to sell the software on eBay, where he sold each for about $100. The sale prompted Microsoft to file a lawsuit alleging that Zamos improperly benefited from academic pricing, in violation of company policies. Zamos argued that such policies were not explained on the packaging, and he countersued the company, alleging that because of Microsoft's actions and policies, obtaining a refund for software is virtually impossible. Although both parties expressed their satisfaction with the resolution, a confidentiality agreement covering the settlement prevents disclosure of any details. A statement from Microsoft did note, however, that the company will "continue its commitment to protecting those intended to benefit from its academic program," suggesting it will continue to look unfavorably on anyone reselling academic purchases. Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 March 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/03/2005031606n.htm You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA No Weapons Of Mass Destruction It turns out that the US used technologies in Iraq that could have even detected a penny that had been stored in proximity to an atomic bomb or chemical warfare elements. Such a penny could easily be detected in a huge stack of otherwise identical pennies. A person who recently received anti-cancer radiation therapy set of the alarms in the Holland Tunnel when returning to New York from New Jersey. * Iraq still has no president and no prime minister. * The Ukraine shipped nuclear-capable missiles to Iran and to China. These put Turkey and Israel in Iran's range. * New Alaskan oil could barely reach the pump in 10 years. * The Vatican vehemently and repeatedly denies that Jesus could have been married, yet no reference is made to an assortment of evidence that Jesus was a rabbi, and then to the fact that rabbis must be married. This issue recently resurfaced in relation to Da Vinci Code plot elements that Jesus was married. The Vatican has requested The Da Vinci Code be deleted from Christian bookstores, but apparently this isn't a big issue with the booksellers who ignored the order. The Da Vinci Code has sold 25 million copies. * $9 billion dollars the US sent to Iraq is missing. *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK Radio Frequency ID Tags Speaking about RFID tags for his kids, Harry Hamlin said: "I can't wait until the chips are ready," referring to the implantable GPS ID tags that are already in use in animals. He wants to know where his kids are every minute every day. [This is a miniaturized internal version of what is on the ankle bracelet Martha Stewart is wearing the next 5 months] * "Disarming Iraq and The War On Terror are not related." Don Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz just 50 days before "Shock And Awe." Paul Wolfowitz is the heir apparent to lead the World Bank, which is nearly always headed by someone from the U.S., but there is some concern about a resume as the major architect of the Iraq invasion be accepted as a World Banker resume. DOUBLESPEAK OF THE DAY The Doublespeak Committee awarded the 1989 Doublespeak Award to: EXXON "For calling some 35 miles of Alaskan beaches `environmentally clean' and "environmentally stabilized." In his announcement speech, Doublespeak Committee Chair William Lutz noted that various major news media subsequently reported the visible presence of oil along the coast in the area where the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground March 24, 1989. . .just about exactly 16 years ago. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK RFIDs will be transferred from keeping track of animals in the wild and in agriculture to keeping track of people. Entire schools will inist on the "electronic hall passes." Big Brother won't have to watch you, he will know where you are at all times. . ."The Computer Never Blinks." *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The United States Military Academies Report Hundreds Of Sex Oriented Assaults On Their Female Cadets By The Male Cadets Every Year. [West Point, Annapolis, and Air Force Academy] * 6,000 Coal miners are officially reported killed every year as China goes ballistic in its effort to keep energy supplies up. Unofficial reports say the figure 2 to 3 times as high. * 60% of Afganistan's GDP is opium poppies. For each dollar in poppy acreage a farmer would only receive 8.3 cents in wheat. * According to "Testosterone Dreams" more police officers in are using drugs than athletes. * Anti-depressants are the 3rd most prescribed drugs in the US and have many of the same ingredients that are railed against in public announcements. Prediction: we will find we have millions addicted to them. * 90% of the prisoners at the US base at Guantanamo, Cuba are there for unspecified reasons. * 1/2 the population of Tehran, Iran is under 20 years old. Tehran is the capital of Iran. * Gas prices would be $3 if they had kept up with the rising prices of everything else. * For those who keep up with such things, the US Trade Deficit reached 2/3 of a trillion dollars last year, and this figure must be subtracted from the GDP to equal the GNP. The Gross Domestic Product was created to make things look a bit better by not subtracting our debt from our profits, as was done with GNP figures. Thus all current GDP figures are 2/3 of a trillion too high. Of course, the National Debt is much higher. * In an interesting coincidence, chess champion Bobby Fischer was granted citizenship by Iceland after years of searching for a home where he could just be left alone, the same day Gary Kasparov, the last great champion, retired. Was Gary's retirement a gambit to unpin his fianchettoed knight? * "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. *** *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. 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We had two volunteers for Darwin, but lost one one address. Tom F., I have yours. Would the other please contact me again? Thanks!!! Michael

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Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine, by Jules Verne 14162 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/6/14162/ ] [Files: 14162-r.rtf] RTF file has been provided. Les enfants du capitaine Grant, by Jules Verne 14163 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/6/14163/ ] [Files: 14163-r.rtf] RTF file has been provided. Le nain noir, by Walter Scott 14703 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/7/0/14703/ ] [Files: 14703-r.rtf] RTF file has been provided. La Jangada, by Jules Verne 14806 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/0/14806/ ] [Files: 14806-r.rtf] RTF file has been provided. Bruges-la-morte, by Georges Rodenbach 14911 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/1/14911/ ] [Files: 14911-r.rtf] RTF file has been provided. L'�le myst�rieuse, by Jules Verne 14287 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/2/8/14287/ ] [Files: 14287-r.rtf] RTF file has been provided. L'enfant, by Jules Vall�s 14704 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/7/0/14704/ ] [Files: 14704-r.rtf] RTF file has been provided. Le bachelier, by Jules Vall�s 14705 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/7/0/14705/ ] [Files: 14705-r.rtf] RTF file has been provided. La maison � vapeur, by Jules Verne 14810 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/1/14810/ ] [Files: 14810-r.rtf] -=-=-=-=[ 85 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Real Adventure, by Henry Kitchell Webster 15384 [Ill.: R. M. Crosby] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/8/15384 ] [Files: 15384.txt; 15384-8.txt; 15384-h.htm; ] The Photoplay, by Hugo Muensterberg 15383 [Subtitle: A Psychological Study] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/8/15383 ] [Files: 15383.txt; 15383-8.txt; 15383-h.htm] Jess of the Rebel Trail, by H. A. Cody 15382 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/8/15382 ] [Files: 15382.txt] Victorian Short Stories, by Various 15381 [Subtitle: Trials of Love] [Contents: Angela, an Inverted Love Story, by William Schwenk Gilbert]] [ The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne, by Anthony Trollope] [ Anthony Garstin's Courtship, by Hubert Crackanthorpe] [ A Little Grey Glove, by George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne] [Bright)] [ The Woman Beater, by Israel Zangwill] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/8/15381 ] [Files: 15381.txt; 15381-8.txt; ] Mrs. Warren's Daughter, by Sir Harry Johnston 15380 [Subtitle: A Story of the Woman's Movement] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/8/15380 ] [Files: 15380.txt; 15380-8.txt; 15380-h.htm] Robert Moffat, by David J. Deane 15379 [Subtitle: The Missionary Hero of Kuruman] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/7/15379 ] [Files: 15379.txt; 15379-8.txt; 15379-h.htm] Atalanta in Calydon, by Algernon Charles Swinburne 15378 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/7/15378 ] [Files: 15378.txt; 15378-8.txt; ] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 16, 1917., by Various 15377 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/7/15377 ] [Files: 15377.txt; 15377-8.txt; 15377-h.htm] Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 11, by Robert Kerr 15376 [Full title: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels,] [Volume 11] [Subtitle: Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History] [of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and] [Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the] [Present Time] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/7/15376 ] [Files: 15376.txt; 15376-8.txt; 15376-h.htm] Voyage dans l'Aures, by Dorothee Chellier 15375 [Subtitle: Notes d'un m�decin envoy� en mission chez les femmes arabes] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/7/15375 ] [Files: 15375-8.txt; 15375-h.htm] St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878, by Various 15374 [Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/7/15374 ] [Files: 15374.txt; 15374-8.txt; 15374-h.htm] St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877, by Various 15373 [Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/7/15373 ] [Files: 15373.txt; 15373-8.txt; 15373-h.htm] Le portrait de monsieur W.H., by Oscar Wilde 15372 [Translator: Albert Savine] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/7/15372 ] [Files: 15372-8.txt; 15372-r.rtf] Les mille et une nuits - Tome premier, by Anonymous 15371 [Translator: Antoine Galland] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/7/15371 ] [Files: 15371-8.txt; 15371-r.rtf] Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs, by W. S. Gilbert 15370 [Author AKA: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)] [This is the fourth book of Bab Ballads in the PG library. It appears to] [be from a different source (an American "pirated" edition) than the others] [and thus is given a new e-book number.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/7/15370 ] [Files: 15370.txt; 15370-8.txt; 15370-h.htm; ] Old Scores and New Readings, by John F. Runciman 15369 [Subtitle: Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/6/15369 ] [Files: 15369.txt; 15369-8.txt; 15369-h.htm; ] Fugitive Pieces, by George Gordon Noel Byron 15368 [With A Bibliographical Note By Marcel Kessel] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/6/15368 ] [Files: 15368.txt; 15368-8.txt; 15368-h.htm] The Magic Speech Flower, by Melvin Hix 15367 [Subtitle: or Little Luke and His Animal Friends] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/6/15367 ] [Files: 15367.txt; 15367-h.htm] Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, Sep. 24, 1892, by Various 15366 [Edited by Francis Burnand] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/6/15366 ] [Files: 15366.txt; 15366-8.txt; 15366-h.htm] A Psychiatric Milestone, by Various 15365 [Editor: Howard Townsend] [Editor: Bronson Winthrop] [Editor: R. Horace Gallatin] [Subtitle: Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/6/15365 ] [Files: 15365.txt; 15365-8.txt; 15365-h.htm] Society for Pure English Tract 4, by John Sargeaunt 15364 [Subtitle: The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin] [Annotator: H. Bradley] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/6/15364 ] [Files: 15364.txt; 15364-8.txt; 15364-h.htm] Carving and Serving, by Mrs. D. A. Lincoln 15363 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/6/15363 ] [Files: 15363.txt; 15363-8.txt; 15363-h.htm] The American Missionary - Vol. 44, No. 3, March, 1890, by Various 15362 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/6/15362 ] [Files: 15362.txt; 15362-8.txt; 15362-h.htm] Felix Poutre, by Louis H. Frechette 15361 [Subtitle: Drame historique en quatre actes] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/6/15361 ] [Files: 15361-8.txt] The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking, by Helen Campbell 15360 [Subtitle: Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/6/15360 ] [Files: 15360.txt; 15360-8.txt; 15360-h.htm] The Negro, by W.E.B. Du Bois 15359 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/5/15359 ] [Files: 15359.txt; 15359-8.txt; 15359-h.htm] The Great Round World Vol. 1 No. 17, by Various 15358 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, ] [ No. 17, March 4, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/5/15358 ] [Files: 15358.txt; 15358-8.txt; 15358-h.htm] The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, by Arthur Wing Pinero 15357 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/5/15357 ] [Files: 15357.txt; ] Red Money, by Fergus Hume 15356 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/5/15356 ] [Files: 15356.txt; 15356-8.txt; 15356-h.htm] Nautilus, by Laura E. Richards 15355 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/5/15355 ] [Files: 15355.txt; 15355-8.txt; 15355-h.htm] Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850, by Various 15354 [Subtitle: A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men,] [Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/5/15354 ] [Files: 15354.txt; 15354-8.txt; 15354-h.htm] A First Spanish Reader, by Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy 15353 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/5/15353 ] [Files: 15353.txt; 15353-8.txt; 15353-h.htm] Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922), by Board of Health 15352 [Full author: Committee Of The Board Of Health] [Subtitle: Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health] [appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health] [Committee Members: W. H. Triggs; J. S. Elliott; Murdoch Fraser;] [J. P. Frengley; Lady Luke; Donald McGavin] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/5/15352 ] [Files: 15352.txt; 15352-8.txt; 15352-0.txt; 15352-h.htm] H. G. Wells, by J. D. Beresford 15351 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/5/15351 ] [Files: 15351.txt; 15351-8.txt; 15351-h.htm] A History of English Prose Fiction, by Bayard Tuckerman 15350 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/5/15350 ] [Files: 15350.txt; 15350-8.txt; 15350-h.htm] The Works Of John Dryden, Volume 4 (of 18), by John Dryden 15349 [Subtitle: Almanzor And Almahide, Marriage-a-la-Mode, The Assignation] [Commentator: Walter Scott] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/4/15349 ] [Files: 15349.txt; 15349-8.txt; 15349-h.htm] Blown to Bits, by Robert Michael Ballantyne 15348 [Subtitle: or, The Lonely Man of Rakata] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/4/15348 ] [Files: 15348.txt; 15348-8.txt; 15348-h.htm] Pinya de Rosa, by Joaquim Ruyra 15347 [Subtitle: Volume 2, Book 4] [Language: Catalan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/4/15347 ] [Files: 15347-8.txt] Pinya de Rosa, by Joaquim Ruyra 15346 [Subtitle: Volume 1, Books 1-3] [Language: Catalan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/4/15346 ] [Files: 15346-8.txt] The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4, by Various 15345 [Editor: Rossiter Johnson] [Subtitle: From the Fall of Rome to the Empire of Charlemagne] [Associate Editors are Charles F. Horne and John Rudd] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/4/15345 ] [Files: 15345.txt; 15345-8.txt; 15345-h.htm; ] Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School, by Jessie Graham Flower 15344 [Author AKA: Josephine Chase] [Subtitle: The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics] [Jessie Graham Flower was a pseudonym for Josephine Chase] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/4/15344 ] [Files: 15344.txt; 15344-8.txt; 15344-h.htm; ] A Little Book for Christmas, by Cyrus Townsend Brady 15343 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/4/15343 ] [Files: 15343.txt; 15343-8.txt; 15343-h.htm] Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory, by John M'lean 15342 [Full title: Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service] [in the Hudson's Bay Territory] [Subtitle: Volume I.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/4/15342 ] [Files: 15342.txt; 15342-8.txt] Jouluaattona juomarin kodissa, by Evald Ferdinand Jahnsson 15341 [Subtitle: 1-n�yt�ksinen n�ytelm] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/4/15341 ] [Files: 15341-8.txt] Joululahjat, by Theodolinda Hahnsson 15340 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/4/15340 ] [Files: 15340-8.txt] Vieraita odottaessa, by Robert Kiljander 15339 [Subtitle: Huvin�ytelm� yhdess� n�yt�ksess] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/3/15339 ] [Files: 15339.txt; 15339-8.txt] More Toasts, by Various 15338 [Subtitle: Jokes, Stories and Quotations] [Editor: Marion Dix Mosher ] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/3/15338 ] [Files: 15338.txt; 15338-8.txt; 15338-h.htm; ] Source Book Of Australian History, Compiled by Gwendolen H. Swinburne 15337 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/3/15337 ] [Files: 15337.txt; 15337-8.txt; 15337-0.txt; 15337-h.htm] The Life of Columbus, by Arthur Helps 15336 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/3/15336 ] [Files: 15336.txt; 15336-doc.doc; 15336-pdf.pdf] Madame Chrysantheme, by Pierre Loti 15335 [Translated by Laura Ensor] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/3/15335 ] [Files: 15335.txt; 15335-8.txt; 15335-0.txt; 15335-h.htm] [See also #3995 of a different translator] Mindanao: Su Historia y Geografia, by Jose Nieto Aguilar 15334 [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/3/15334 ] [Files: 15334.txt; 15334-8.txt; 15334-h.htm] The Confessions Of Nat Turner, by Nat Turner 15333 [Subtitle: The Leader Of The Late Insurrections In Southampton, Va.] [As Fully And Voluntarily Made To Thomas R. Gray, In The Prison] [Where He Was Confined, And Acknowledged By Him To Be Such When] [Read Before The Court Of Southampton; With The Certificate, Under] [Seal Of The Court Convened At Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, For His Trial.] [Also, An Authentic Account Of The Whole Insurrection,] [Compiled by Thomas R. Gray] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/3/3/15333 ] [Files: 15333.txt; 15333-h.htm] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 17, 1892, by Various 15332 [Editor: F. C. Burnand] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/3/15332 ] [Files: 15332.txt; 15332-8.txt; 15332-h.htm; ] St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878, by Various 15331 [Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/3/3/15331/ ] [Files: 15331.txt; 15331-8.txt; 15331-h.htm] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 9, 1917, by Various 15330 [Editor: Owen Seaman] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/3/15330 ] [Files: 15330.txt; 15330-8.txt; 15330-h.htm; ] An Apology For The Study of Northern Antiquities, by Elizabeth Elstob 15329 [Introduction by Charles Peake] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/3/2/15329/ ] [Files: 15329.txt; 15329-8.txt; 15329-h.htm] The Lost Hunter, by John Turvill Adams 15328 [Subtitle: A Tale of Early Times] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/3/2/15328/ ] [Files: 15328.txt; 15328-8.txt] A Library Primer, by John Cotton Dana 15327 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/3/2/15327/ ] [Files: 15327.txt; 15327-8.txt; 15327-h.htm] The Great Round World Vol. 1 No. 16, by Various 15326 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,] [ No. 16, February 25, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/3/2/15326/ ] [Files: 15326.txt; 15326-8.txt; 15326-h.htm] The Great Round World Vol. 1 No. 15, by Various 15325 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,] [ No. 15, February 18, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/3/2/15325/ ] [Files: 15325.txt; 15325-8.txt; 15325-h.htm] Promenades et interieurs, by Francois Coppee 15324 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/3/2/15324/ ] [Files: 15324-8.txt; 15324-r.rtf] The Green Eyes of Bast, by Sax Rohmer 15323 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/3/2/15323/ ] [Files: 15323.txt; 15323-8.txt; 15323-h.htm] The American Architect and Building News, by Various 15322 [Full title: The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733,] [ January 11, 1890] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/3/2/15322/ ] [Files: 15322.txt; 15322-8.txt; 15322-h.htm] Tracy Park, by Mary Jane Holmes 15321 [Author AKA: Mary Jane Hawes Holmes (1825-1907)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/2/15321 ] [Files: 15321.txt; 15321-8.txt; 15321-h.htm; ] The Romance of the Milky Way, by Lafcadio Hearn 15320 [Subtitle: And Other Studies & Stories] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/3/2/15320/ ] [Files: 15320.txt; 15320-8.txt; 15320-h.htm] The Government Class Book, by Andrew W. Young 15319 [Subtitle: Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles] [of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of] [Citizens.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/3/1/15319 ] [Files: 15319.txt; 15319-8.txt; 15319-0.txt; 15319-h.htm] Pilven hattaroita I, by Matti Kurikka 15318 [Subtitle: Pieni� kyh�elmi�] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/3/1/15318/ ] [Files: 15318-8.txt] The Baronet's Bride, by May Agnes Fleming 15317 [Author AKA: Miss M. A. 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Corps] [arspkxxx.xxx] 818 Feb 1997 The Jargon File, 4.0.0, by various editors [jarg400x.xxx] 817 Feb 1997 Democracy In America, Alexis de Toqueville Vol 2 [2dinaxxx.xxx] 816 Feb 1997 Democracy In America, Alexis de Toqueville Vol 1 [1dinaxxx.xxx] 815 Feb 1997 Hunting Sketches, by Anthony Trollope [Trollope#2][hntskxxx.xxx] 814 Feb 1997 Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by Ilya Tolstoy[his son][rtlstxxx.xxx] 813 Feb 1997 Catalan's Constant to 1.5M Places [see#15][math18][ctcstxxa.xxx] 812 Feb 1997 Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe, Newer Edition[drfstaxx.xxx] 811 [Title: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; From the Quarto of 1616] [Ed: Alexander Dyce] Feb 1997 George Silverman's Explanation/Charles Dickens[18][gsilxxxx.xxx] 810 Feb 1997 Holiday Romance, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #17] [hldrmxxx.xxx] 809 Feb 1997 The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan [G#2] [cpogsxxx.xxx] 808 Feb 1997 Hunted Down, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #16] [hntdnxxx.xxx] 807 Feb 1997 Philoktetes, by Sophocles, Trans. Gregory McNamee [phlokxxx.xxx] 806 Feb 1997 This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald [#1][tsparxxx.xxx] 805 Feb 1997 A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne [senjrxxx.xxx] 804 [The Following eBooks Were The First Project Gutebnerg eBooks In French] Feb 1997 La Duchesse de Palliano, by Stendhal[in French]#6][8plnoxxx.xxx] 803 Feb 1997 Vittoria Accoramboni, by Stendhal [in French] #5][8vtraxxx.xxx] 802 Feb 1997 Les Cenci by Stendhal[Marie-Henri Beyle][French#4][8cncixxx.xxx] 801 Jan 1997 Tour Du Mond 80 Jours [in French] by Jules Verne#5[?80jrxxx.xxx] 800 Jan 1997 De La Terre a La Lune [in French] by Jules Verne#4[?lunexxx.xxx] 799 Jan 1997 Le Rouge et Le Noir, by Stendhal [in French] #3[8rougxxx.xxx] 798 Jan 1997 L'Abbesse de Castro etc, by Stendhal[in French] #2[8castxxx.xxx] 797 Jan 1997 La Chartreuse de Parme, Stendhal [French#1][?parmxxx.xxx] 796 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? With 15,767 eBooks online as of March 16, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.99 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,247,806 x 15,765 x $.99 = $1+ trillion With 15,767 eBooks online as of March 16, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.63 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.84 when we had 11,912 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 15,767 eBooks in 33 Years and 08.50 Months We Averaged ~468 Per Year 39.0 Per Month 1.28 Per Day At 811 eBooks Done In The 70 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 11.6 Per Day 81 Per Week 322 Per Month The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] CHICAGO LOOKS AT CITY-WIDE WI-FI Officials in Chicago have authorized a study of the feasibility of a city-wide wireless network, despite a bill in the state legislature that would ban municipalities from acting as utilities for such services. Reportedly at the urging of commercial broadband providers, State Sen. Steven Rauschenberger introduced a bill that would forbid cities from either offering broadband service or "reselling" such service to a company that would then manage it. Alderman Edward Burke said he would introduce legislation that would give the city the right to install a broadband wireless network before the state could pass the law that would prevent it. Christopher O'Brien, chief information officer for Chicago, said a city-wide network would likely consist of about 7,500 antennas on light poles and would cost more than $18 million. One option, said O'Brien, would be to enter into an agreement with a company that would install and maintain the network and would pay the city rent for the use of the light poles. Federal Computer Week, 14 March 2005 http://www.fcw.com/article88275 SCHOOLS CRITICIZED OVER REJECTION OF NOSY APPLICANTS A number of business-school applicants who were rejected due to their looking at university admissions records online without authorization have spoken out against the universities' decision to exclude them. Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, and MIT have rejected the applications of 153 individuals who used a hacker's instructions to try to find out if they had been accepted. Although some applicants involved acknowledged that accessing the records was wrong, they contended that the actions do not constitute hacking and that the institutions have overreacted. One rejected applicant wrote a letter to Harvard, admitting a "lapse in judgment" but noting that he "wasn't trying to harm anyone and wasn't trying to get an advantage over anyone." Len Metheny, CEO and president of ApplyYourself, the software that all the affected schools used for applications, said the procedure to access the records was sufficiently complicated that anyone doing so would have to have known it was unauthorized. Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 March 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/03/2005031104n.htm APPLE WINS RIGHT TO SUBPOENA E-MAIL RECORDS New iPod, etc., outed before official announcement] A judge in California has ruled that Apple Computer has the right to subpoena records of an e-mail provider to determine the source of leaks of confidential company information on upcoming products. In his ruling, Judge James P. Kleinberg was careful to sidestep the question of protection for journalists and to note that his ruling does not concern the merits of Apple's underlying case. Rather, he found that under California law, the information published on Mac enthusiast sites constitutes stolen property, as would physical property that had been stolen. While the law does not allow prevention of such publications, those responsible--regardless of the definition of "journalist"--must bear the consequences of doing so, said Kleinberg. Apple hopes through the proceedings to identify those individuals who leaked the information that was posted on the enthusiast sites. The operators of those sites are not the target of Apple's efforts. Kleinberg delayed enforcement of his ruling for seven days to provide an opportunity for the defendants to appeal. CNET, 11 March 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1047_3-5611285.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 Malaria Drastically Underreported It turns out that the media have been giving false reports on malaria these past years, with half a billion people on file as having malaria in 2002, but probably less than one half that many were acknowledged. The possible reason behind this is that most media outlets are not particularly concerned with Africa, other than the portion bordering the Middle Eastern oil/conflict region. At least half of the world's malaria cases are located out of the regions the media concentrates on, in a sub-Saharan region of Africa. However, about one quarter of malaria cases are located in Asia and the Western Pacific. And this is only counting the most deadly form of Malaria, plasmodium falciparum malaria; 515 million cases per year. As the World Wide Web brings us closer together, the media can no longer continue to keep us apart. * In a related story, it would appear that "The Plague" your history books mentioned in Europe, actually more like some world series of plagues, conferred upon its survivors, and their descendants, resistance to AIDS. * In yet another related story, having one gene for "sickle- cell anemia" gives resistance to malaria, which explains a confounding persistence of sickle-cell anemia in Africa. * FOUL UP CAUSES ANTHRAX SCARE, STOCK MARKET FALLS [Official Pentagon Spokesman Remains Anonymous] Apparently a test sample either was not cleaned out of the anthrax testing machines or such a sample was placed close or on the air filter from the Pentagon Remote Delivery Facility to cause the recent anthrax scare this past week. As a result, 100's of government employees were placed on a three day regimen of antibiotics at an undisclosed cost in terms of medical support, paid work leave, lost work, etc., not to mention the substantial loss to our finanical markets. "Quality Control Problems" were officially announced as the cause of the scare by a senior Pentagon official who has insisted on remaining nameless. * In Juxaposition, However, It Appears The Bird Flu Has Been Undercounted To A Major Degree In A Different Kind Of Error * *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK "That which does not kill you makes you stronger." That's why our cockroaches and rats are so tough. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Pharacological [drug] companies will spend well over half their entire budgets this year on their marketing divisions and stock dividends while only spending 3% on developing new drugs and 9% on revamping old drugs to renew patents or to develop new drugs that do not out perform old drugs. Figures are from the US SEC [Securities Exchange Commission] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK A few years ago the average citizen of the world had not ever made a single phone call. Today even the average citizen of Africa has made a phone call. [Figures from Reuters] * "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. *** *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. 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Calhoun's Remarks in the Senate[Calhoun1#][jccrsxxx.xxx] 740 Dec 1996 Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate [Clay #1][hcrhsxxx.xxx] 739 Dec 1996 The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot by Andrew Lang#5[pldlpxxx.xxx] 738 Dec 1996 The Bobbsey Twins at School, by Laura Lee Hope #2?[tbtasxxx.xxx] 737 Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V6 [6dfrexxx.xxx] 736 . . . Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V1 [1dfrexxx.xxx] 731 [Author: Edward Gibbon](See also eBooks 890-895 for HTML formatted editions.) Nov 1996 Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #13] [olivrxxx.xxx] 730 Nov 1996 Hackers/Computer Revolution Heroes, by Steven Levy[hckrsxxx.xxx] 729 Nov 1996 Emile Zola, by William Dean Howells [howells #5] [ezolaxxx.xxx] 728 Nov 1996 The Star-Spangled Banner, by John Carpenter [stspbxxx.xxx] 727 Nov 1996 Psychological Counter-Current by Howells [WDH #4] [pccmfxxx.xxx] 726 Nov 1996 Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles #2 [moiaixxx.xxx] 725 Nov 1996 The Man of Letters as a Man of Business [Howells3][tmlmbxxx.xxx] 724 Nov 1996 Henry James, Jr., by William Dean Howells [WDH#2][jimjrxxx.xxx] 723 Nov 1996 James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist, by J.C. Ridpath [jotisxxx.xxx] 722 Nov 1996 The Birds' Christmas Carol, Kate Douglas Wiggin #2[tbsccxxx.xxx] 721 Nov 1996 Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #12] [lmyerxxx.xxx] 720 Nov 1996 Plays of Wm.E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson [RLS #34][tpohsxxx.xxx] 719 Nov 1996 Tono Bungay, by H. G. Wells [H. G. Wells #6] [tonobxxx.xxx] 718 Nov 1996 Chita: A Memory of Last Island, by Lafcadio Hearn[chitaxxx.xxx] 717 Nov 1996 The Cruise of the Jasper B., by Don Marquis [#3] [jsprbxxx.xxx] 716 Nov 1996 Moon Endureth [Tales/Fancies], by John Buchan [#5][ndrthxxx.xxx] 715 Nov 1996 Bobbsey Twins in the Country, by Laura Lee Hope #1[tbticxxx.xxx] 714 Nov 1996 Memoirs of Popular Delusions V2, by Charles MacKay[2ppdlxxx.xxx] 713 Nov 1996 Thomas Jefferson, by Edward S. Ellis [tjeffxxx.xxx] 712 Nov 1996 Allan Quatermain, by H. Rider Haggard 711 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? With 15,678 eBooks online as of March 09, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.99 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,433,715 x 15,678 x $.99 = $1+ trillion With 15,678 eBooks online as of March 09, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.64 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.85 when we had 11,819 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 15,678 eBooks in 33 Years and 08.25 Months We Averaged ~468 Per Year 39.0 Per Month 1.28 Per Day At 722 eBooks Done In The 63 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 11.5 Per Day 80 Per Week 321 Per Month The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage NewsScan is ceasing publication for at least a while, we send our best wishes. [Preserving last article we posted one extra week in tribute. . . .] [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] [India will be following in the steps of China, and then will come Indonesia, and "suddenly" half the world's population will no longer be "Third World" or "developing countries." This is obvious to anyone paying attention, but we will find that some very important people, institutions and countries have been keeping their heads in the sand.] BRAIN DRAIN CHANGES DIRECTION Whereas a few years ago the "brain drain" of Indian talent to the West represented a $2 billion annual loss to India, the recent growth of the tech industry in India is bringing home as many as 45% of the Indian high-technology workers abroad. Some engineering schools are already claiming a 50% decline in the number of students leaving the country, and V. Kalyanaraman of the prestigious engineering school IIT in Madras says: "Students are finding interesting and challenging jobs in India. The pay is also better than it used to be, and they find that they can have a good quality of life." (USA Today 24 Feb 2005) <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2005-02-24-indians-tech-wave_x.htm> 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 [The Legal System Ponders The Online World In Several Ways] TEXAS BILL WOULD BENEFIT GRADUATES OF ONLINE LAW SCHOOLS A bill working its way through the Texas legislature could give graduates of online law schools more opportunities to practice law. The American Bar Association (ABA) has so far refused to accredit online law schools, saying that they do not train students adequately to practice law. Although the ABA continues to refuse accreditation to online law schools, the organization does accredit institutions that offer some courses online. Currently in Texas, a graduate of an online law school can only take the state's bar exam if he or she has practiced law in another state for at least five years. The proposed law would allow online graduates to take the Texas bar exam if they simply had passed the bar in another state. A small number of other states have similar statutes. California is currently the only state that allows individuals to take the bar exam without having passed another state's bar exam. The bill was prompted by the situation of Julie Drenner, daughter of a state legislator, who graduated from Oak Brook College of Law and Government in California, passed that state's bar exam, and now wants to practice law in Texas. Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 March 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i27/27a03501.htm COURT PONDERS PROTECTION OF ONLINE JOURNALISTS Two court cases involving Apple Computer have significant potential to define the legal landscape for online journalists. In one case, Apple has asked the court to allow it to compel the operators of three industry Web sites to disclose the identities of confidential sources who supplied the sites with confidential information about upcoming Apple products. The judge in that case indicated he is leaning toward finding for Apple. In the other case, Apple has accused Harvard student Nick DePlume, operator of the Think Secret Web site, of trying to persuade Apple employees to divulge company secrets. At issue in both cases is the extent to which online journalists are afforded the protection granted to traditional journalists for protecting their sources. An attorney from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is fighting Apple in the first case, said that a ruling in Apple's favor would "have a chilling effect on the use of confidential sources." DePlume's attorney, Terry Gross, commented that had a major newspaper published the stories that DePlume published on Think Secret, those actions would simply have been deemed "good journalism" and no lawsuits would have been filed. New York Times, 5 March 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/05/technology/05blogs.html HACKER EXPOSES ADMISSIONS RECORDS [9 1/2 Hours, Or 9 1/2 Weeks?] A hacker who was able to access admissions records for dozens of business schools posted instructions online for how applicants could access those records. Among the universities whose records were exposed were Harvard University, Stanford University, Duke University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Dartmouth College. All of the affected schools use an online application and notification system called ApplyYourself. The vulnerability that allowed the unauthorized access has been fixed, but during the nine hours in which the systems were exposed, several hundred students attempted to find out if they had been accepted to schools to which they applied. Final decisions and notifications of acceptance are not expected for several more weeks. School officials have been able to identify at least some of the applicants who gained access to the records systems, and officials from some schools said such activity would factor into the admission decision. Steve Nelson of Harvard's MBA program said, "Hacking into a system in this manner is unethical and also contrary to the behavior we expect of leaders we aspire to develop." Even if a student saw a decision, said Nelson, that decision isn't final until March 30. San Jose Mercury News, 3 March 2005 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11044063.htm NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY UNVEILS ONLINE ARCHIVE The New York Public Library this week unveiled an online archive of 275,000 images, available to the public for free. The project, called the NYPL Digital Gallery, is supported by a $7 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies and includes Civil War photographs, illuminated manuscripts, Japanese prints, early American maps, and photographs of New York City buildings and streetscapes. Paul LeClerc, president and chief executive officer of the library, noted that while other libraries are digitizing texts, few are putting materials such as photographs and maps online. Images in the collection are either in the public domain or are owned by the library and can be downloaded and used for noncommercial purposes. The NYPL Digital Gallery project, which is unrelated to the library's arrangement with Google to digitize content, is expected to add another 225,000 images to its database in the coming months. Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 March 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/03/2005030307n.htm LIBRARY EXPERIMENTS WITH IPODS FOR AUDIO BOOKS [The Fact That The iPod Shuffle Actually "Shuffles" The Playing Order Of The MP3s Might Be A Potential Problem Here, Unless The Library Puts Only A Single MP3 File On Each iPod] The South Huntington Public Library on Long Island, New York, has begun a program of loaning iPod shuffles to library patrons to listen to audio books. Ken Weil, director of the library, said that the introduction of Apple's newest iPod device, the shuffle, made the program economically viable. "It's the right product with the right price," he said. Although currently the selection of books available in MP3 format is relatively limited, Joe Latini, assistant director of the library, said patrons can request new titles to be added. He also noted that because books in MP3 format cost just $15 to $25, compared to about $75 for books on CD, the savings will likely pay for the iPod devices over time. The library has ten of the devices available for checkout, four of which store 512 megabytes while the other six hold up to 1 gigabyte. Wired News, 3 March 2005 http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66756,00.html [More Educational Possibilities for iPods] IPODS DEBUT AT DREXEL Students entering the School of Education at Drexel University this fall will receive iPods as part of a program to explore and evaluate the educational potential of the devices. Duke University launched a similar program last fall, distributing iPods to all 1,650 of its incoming freshmen. The program at Drexel, however, is much smaller in scope, with about 30 students expected to enter the School of Education in the fall. Some have criticized such programs as gimmicks that are unlikely to produce valuable educational results, and officials involved in the programs acknowledge the risk that students will simply use the devices to listen to music. Drexel officials said part of the university's program is to solicit feedback from students about how the devices could be put to good use educationally. Students will receive microphones to record interviews and other meetings, and the university will request that the students use the iPods to create "audio Web logs" during a required semester of off-campus work. Drexel will also experiment with podcasting, a process in which iPod owners can download audio files, such as news announcements or lectures from professors, and listen to them at their convenience. Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 March 2005 http://chronicle.com/free/2005/03/2005030203n.htm RESEARCHERS OFFER PLANET NAMING RIGHTS Researchers hoping to locate unknown planets outside the solar system have launched a project to encourage computer users to donate unused processing power on their computers to analyze telescope data. Participants in the PlanetQuest Collaboratory whose computers discern variations in the data that indicate the existence of a planet will be allowed to name it. The project is led by David Gutelius, visiting scholar at Stanford University, and Laurance Doyle, an astrophysicist with the SETI Institute in California. The PlanetQuest project is not unlike the SETI@Home project, sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley, which uses donated computing power to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Gutelius and Doyle hope to raise enough money for their project to build as many as 10 telescopes around the world dedicated to searching for unknown planets. Gutelius said start-up costs could reach $20 million, with annual operating costs running about $10 million, money he hopes can be raised from private investors as well as from subscriptions to premium content and revenue from ads on the site. Wired News, 2 March 2005 EDUCAUSE LAUNCHES BLOG SERVICE EDUCAUSE has launched the EDUCAUSE Community Blog Service, a pilot project to create a new, vibrant medium for professional information sharing in the higher education IT community. The blogs represent a growing number of voices in this community, and postings span a wide range of topics, including cybersecurity, teaching and learning, and open source software. Postings are categorized by taxonomy term and by blogger and can be browsed on the EDUCAUSE Web site or received through an RSS syndicated feed. EDUCAUSE, 2 March 2005 http://www.educause.edu/blogs/ 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 NBC BLAMES AMERICAN OFFICIALS FOR IRAQ-ASSASSINATION GOOF NBC News blamed United States officials for a mistakenly reporting the assassination of the chief judge overseeing the trial of Saddam Hussein. An NBC spokeswoman said: "We got the information from multiple high-level sources who confirmed the story's accuracy," and "It was wrong, and we corrected it immediately." Even those who ARE willing to report this story refuse to mention that NBC showed the judge's picture which was previous banned or only presented in the now popular digital blur. In addition, no these articles are not mentioning his name, which is obviously still on many sites that originally reported the NBC story. *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK "A 20 year old worker has a 30% chance of being disabled before retirement." U. S. Social Security Information *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Increases oil importation by China and India will drive price up even further, as they buy all the additional oil OPEC is putting on the market. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Before the year 2000, only about half the world population had ever made a phone call. Now cell phones are reaching the rural areas of Asia and Africa. About one billion cell phones have been sold in 18 months. * "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. *** *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. 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No. 2., by Various 15231 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/3/15231 ] [Files: 15231.txt; 15231-8.txt; 15231-h.htm] Mrs. Mink's Soldier and Other Stories, by Alice Hegan Rice 15230 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/3/15230 ] [Files: 15230.txt; 15230-8.txt; 15230-h.htm] Resources of the State of Washington, 1909, by Ithamar Howell 15229 [Title: A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/2/15229 ] [Files: 15229.txt; 15229-h.htm] Lady Good-for-Nothing, by A. T. Quiller-Couch 15228 [Subtitle: A Man's Portrait of a Woman] [Author AKA: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch; Q] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/2/15228 ] [Files: 15228.txt; ] Prince Lazybones and Other Stories, by Mrs. W. J. Hays 15227 Contents: The Adventures of Prince Lazybones Phil's Fairies Florio and Florella: a Christmas Fairy Tale Boreas Bluster's Christmas Present [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/2/15227 ] [Files: 15227.txt; 15227-8.txt; 15227-h.htm; ] Nanon, by George Sand 15226 [Subtitle: La bibliotheque precieuse] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/2/15226/ ] [Files: 15226-8.txt; 15226-r.rtf] Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew, by Unknown 15225 [Translator: Robert Kilburn Root] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/2/15225/ ] [Files: 15225.txt; 15225-8.txt] With Steyn and De Wet, by Philip Pienaar 15224 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/2/15224/ ] [Files: 15224.txt; 15224-8.txt; 15224-h.htm] Doctor Claudius, A True Story, by F. Marion Crawford 15223 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/2/15223 ] [Files: 15223.txt; 15223-8.txt; 15223-h.htm] Looking Seaward Again, by Walter Runciman 15222 [Author AKA: Sir Walter Runciman, Bart.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/2/15222 ] [Files: 15222.txt; 15222-8.txt; 15222-h.htm; ] A New Conscience And An Ancient Evil, by Jane Addams 15221 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/2/15221 ] [Files: 15221.txt; 15221-8.txt] Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2), by Ida Husted Harper 15220 [Subtitle: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/2/15220 ] [Files: 15220.txt; 15220-8.txt; 15220-h.htm] If Only, Etc., by Francis Clement Philips and Augustus Harris 15219 Contents: If Only One Can't Always Tell Songs. After Victor Hugo, Armand Silvestre, Charles Rousseau and The Vicomte De Borelli Love Went Out When Money Was Invented A Puzzled Painter. (Written in Collaboration with the Late Sir Augustus Harris) [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/1/15219 ] [Files: 15219.txt; 15219-8.txt; 15219-h.htm] The Woman Who Toils, by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst 15218 [Subtitle: Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] [Prefatory Letter From Theodore Roosevelt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/1/15218 ] [Files: 15218.txt; 15218-8.txt; 15218-h.htm] Sillankorvan emanta, by Hilja Kilpi 15217 [Subtitle: Nelinaytoksinen naytelma - Tapaus lansisuomalaisessa talonpoikaissuvussa 1860-1870-luvulla] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/1/15217 ] [Files: 15217.txt; 15217-8.txt] Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850, by Various 15216 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/1/15216 ] [Files: 15216.txt; 15216-8.txt; 15216-h.htm] Magie bij de Grieken en de Romeinen, by Karel H.E. de Jong 15215 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/1/15215 ] [Files: 15215-8.txt; 15215-0.txt; 15215-h.htm] Sevenoaks, by J. 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Beede 15209 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/0/15209/ ] [Files: 15209.txt; 15209-8.txt; 15209-h.htm] Les mille et un fantomes, by Alexandre Dumas 15208 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/2/0/15208 ] [Files: 15208.txt; 15208-8.txt; 15208-h.htm] The New Physics and Its Evolution, by Lucien Poincare 15207 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/0/15207 ] [Files: 15207.txt; 15207-8.txt; 15207-h.htm; ] Torquemada en la hoguera, by B. Perez Galdos 15206 [Subtitle: El articulo de fondo; La mula y el buey; La pluma en el viento; La conjuracion de las palabras; Un tribunal literario; La princesa y el granuja; Junio] [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/0/15206/ ] [Files: 15206-8.txt; 15206-h.htm] The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems, by H. L. 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(of 12), by Burke 15198 [Full author: Edmund Burke] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15198 ] [Files: 15198.txt; 15198-8.txt; 15198-h.htm] Notes & Queries No. 29, Saturday, May 18, 1850, by Various 15197 [Subtitle: A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15197 ] [Files: 15197.txt; 15197-8.txt; 15197-h.htm] Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 10, 1892,by Various 15196 [Edited by Francis Burnand] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15196 ] [Files: 15196.txt; 15196-8.txt; 15196-h.htm] Rose of Old Harpeth, by Maria Thompson Daviess 15195 [Illustrated by W. B. King] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15195 ] [Files: 15195.txt; 15195-8.txt; 15195-h.htm] Out To Win, by Coningsby Dawson 15194 [Subtitle: The Story of America in France] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15194 ] [Files: 15194.txt; 15194-8.txt; 15194-h.htm] Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892, by Various 15193 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15193 ] [Files: 15193.txt; 15193-8.txt; 15193-h.htm] Salomy Jane, by Bret Harte 15192 [Illustrated By Harrison Fisher And Arthur I. Keller] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/9/15192 ] [Files: 15192.txt; 15192-8.txt; 15192-h.htm] The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom, by P. L. 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McClelland from some of Griffith's diaries after his early death and published originally by the East India Company, is an account of his plant-identifying and collecting trips through regions and countries to the North-West and the North-east of the Indian sub-continent. It is not a travel book in the usual sense -- although there is some mention of various difficulties and 'adventures' encountered during the journeys (on his trek in Afghanistan he was a scientific adviser in the Army of the Indus during the First Afghan War, and witnessed the capture of the city and fort of Ghuzni, and on another occasion, as member of a small party, was lucky to survive an attack by bandits), it is principally a record, sometimes in great detail, of the botanical species that he found along the way, trees, shrubs, flowers, grasses and mosses, and the conditions, heights, temperatures, etc. where they were found growing, -- also, to a lesser degree and in less detail, reference is made to the birds, animals and fish of the areas traversed. ============================================================================= -- Goodbye, now, goodbye. Write down all I said And tell Tom, Dick and Harry I rose from the dead. What's bred in the bone cannot fail me to fly And Olivet's breezy... Goodbye, now, goodbye. ~ ~ ~ 'That's all,' said Humpty Dumpty. 'Good-bye.' =============================================================================

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