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PT1B Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Weekly_October_28.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, October 28, 2005 PT1 *****eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******* PT1B 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 We have changed our format this month to provide shorter Newsletter files. ***Continuing Requests New Sites and Announcements * We have been invited to peruse the various eBook collections of the Internet Archive for potential Project Gutenberg eBooks. http://www.archive.org Don't worry, many of the numbers listed are out of date, but you should get all the files when you pass through to the original sites. Click on "texts" to get started, feel free to pick up any of the eBooks you would like to work on. 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With 17,250 eBooks online as of October 05, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.90 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,707,722 x 17,250 x $.90 = ~$1 Trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. With 17,250 eBooks online as of October 05, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.58 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.72 when we had 13,891 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 17,250 eBooks in 34 Years and 03.00 Months We Averaged ~504 Per Year 42.0 Per Month 1.38 Per Day At 2294 eBooks Done In The 273 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.4 Per Day 59 Per Week 255 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. 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PT1A Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Weekly_October_05.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, October 05, 2005 PT1* ******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1A Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. 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 We have changed our format this month to provide shorter Newsletter files. "***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B***" You should receive TWO versions of PT1 today: PT1A, and PT1B. * HOT REQUESTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS We were mentioned in yesterday's "User Friendly" comic strip. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20051004 STATISTICAL CHANGES Due to various changes in our statistical reporting and coverage, the accuracy of the weekly count of the number of eBooks will not be as redundantly checked by a human count, and we will rely more on the automated system. ***If you notice any inconsistencies, please send email to: hart AT pglaf DOT org For example, one week we reported 40 new eBooks, but in recounts it appears that we counted three extras. These three have been a consistent source of extra counts or short counts over a period. * New Site!!! 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For information please contact Philip Harper <webmaster AT kingkong.demon.co.uk> * WANTED! >>> !!!People to help us collect ALL public domain eBooks!!! <<< * Wanted: People who are involved in conversations on Slashdot, Salon, etc. * TABLE OF CONTENTS [Search for "*eBook" or "*Intro". . .to jump to that section, etc.] *eBook Milestones *Introduction *Hot Requests, New Sites and Announcements *Continuing Requests and Announcements *Progress Report *Distributed Proofreaders Collection Report *Project Gutenberg Consortia Center Report *Permanent Requests For Assistance: *Donation Information *Access To The Project Gutenberg Collections *Mirror Site Information *Instant Access To Our Latest eBooks *Have We Given Away A Trillion Yet? *Flashback *Weekly eBook update: This is now in PT2 of the Weekly Newsletter Also collected in the Monthly Newsletter Corrections in separate section 6 New From PG Australia [Australian, Canadian Copyright Etc.] 33 New Public Domain eBooks Under US Copyright *Headline News from Edupage, etc. *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists *** *eBook Milestones* ***500 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971*** 17,250 eBooks As Of Today!!! [Includes Australian eBooks] We Are 86% of the Way to 20,000!!! 14,188 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's 250+ eBooks per Month for ~59 Months We Have Produced 2294 eBooks in 2005!!! 2,750 to go to 20,000!!! 7,516 from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] We have now averaged 500+ eBooks per year since July 4th, 1971 We Averaged About 339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Are Averaging About 258 books Per Month This Year [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org; all Project Gutenberg sites have a higher grand total.] This Site Is Averaging About 59 eBooks Per Week This Year 39 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 ~1.75 years from Oct. 2003 to Aug. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,000 * ***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. Note well that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] YAHOO ANNOUNCES BOOK-SCANNING PROJECT Yahoo has announced a plan to scan large collections of texts into an online digital archive, though officials said their approach differs in important ways from Google's similar venture, which has drawn extensive criticism and legal action. Yahoo's initiative, called the Open Content Alliance (OCA), represents a partnership with the University of California, the University of Toronto, the Internet Archive, and several other companies and organizations. Unlike Google's project, they will not scan any copyrighted work without explicit permission. Organizers of the project said the goal is to digitize and make freely available as much of what is in the public domain as possible. In addition, the archive will not be restricted to users of Yahoo. David Mandelbrot, Yahoo's vice president for search content, said the texts will be online in such a way that other search engines will be able to locate them. Much of the scanning for the OCA will be done by the Internet Archive, which has already been working with the University of Toronto on scanning several thousand books in its collection. Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 October 2005 http://chronicle.com/free/2005/10/2005100301t.htm WIKIBOOKS ENTERS TEXTBOOK PUBLISHING FIELD [Yet Another Entry Into The eBook Field] The Wikimedia Foundation launched the Wikibooks project to create a kindergarten-to-college curriculum of textbooks based on an open source development model. Material written for the new texts can be short or long and easily modified, and the resulting Wikibooks would be freely licensed. The goal is to produce thousands of books and smaller entries on a range of topics by employing a worldwide community of writers and editors. Any reader or student could create a personalized book or edit an existing title. Wikibooks currently contains more than 11,000 submissions from volunteers (professionals in many fields, college and graduate students, and professors). The project is still in the early stages and faces competitors such as Google's digital library project, which has run into copyright issues. ZDNet, 28 September 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5884291.html FAB LABS ALLOW CREATION, NOT JUST CONSUMPTION [Something In The Way Of A 3-D Project Gutenberg?] With the help of host countries, MIT is setting up Fab Labs, or fabrication laboratories, around the world. Fab Labs provide an opportunity for individuals to use various technological means to build things that solve local problems. For example, Haakon Karlsen, a rancher who lives hundreds of miles north of the Artic Circle, used a Fab Lab in Norway to devise radio collars for his sheep. The collars help Karlsen locate his sheep in the conditions where he lives, and they send information about whether the flock is moving, what the temperature is, and other data he uses to care for the sheep. Neil Gershenfeld, professor at MIT and director of the university's Center for Bits and Atoms, said the labs take people out of the role of simply being consumers of technology that is available and puts them in the position of creating the technology they need. For each Fab Lab, MIT pays for equipment, and the host country provides the location for the lab. Officials in South Africa are currently working to introduce not one but four Fab Labs in that country, starting with one just outside Pretoria. Sushil Borde, who is directing the development of Fab Labs in South Africa, said the country hopes the labs will open new avenues for engineers and entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into tangible products. BBC, 27 September 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4276180.stm LAMS FOUNDATION LAUNCHES COMMUNITY WEB SITE The Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) Foundation has announced the launch of a new Web site that will allow what it calls "open source teaching," in which educators can share and modify digital lesson plans. The LAMS Community Web site is based on the .LRN open source platform, developed at MIT. Using the LAMS Community Web site, teachers can search through various subset communities, looking for sequences of learning activities particular to their field. Available communities will initially include developers, technical support, and education, which will offer subcommunities for K-12, higher education and training, and research and development. New communities can be added later, such as a community focused on math teachers in the Boston area. The Web site will allow teachers to share their own learning sequences, access others' sequences, rate them, and discuss them. All of the content will be used under Creative Commons licenses. LAMS Foundation, 30 September 2005 http://www.lamsfoundation.org/news/lamscomm.html [A Similar Project Across The Pond] IRELAND AND U.K. TO COOPERATE ON E-LEARNING Education officials in the United Kingdom and Ireland have signed an agreement to work together in support of an initiative called the National Digital Repository, which is designed to support higher education e-learning. The repository, which started in January 2005, is to be a collection of components of higher education courses, allowing users to develop online courses in various fields by picking and choosing from among those components. Components can include images, multimedia clips, text, maps, and other elements that can support online learning. The repository is currently funded by the Irish Higher Education Authority (HEA) and the Department of Education and Science. Under the agreement between the HEA and the United Kingdom's Joint Information Services Committee, the two countries will cooperate "in building a technology infrastructure that provides lifelong access to programs of study for learners in a manner that is flexible and convenient to their particular life circumstances," according to Tom Boland, chief executive of the HEA. Silicon Republic, 29 September 2005 http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single5459 GOOGLE OFFERS TO UNWIRE SAN FRANCISCO Google is one of more than a dozen organizations that have submitted bids in response to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's call for a citywide wireless Internet network. The network would provide free Internet access to anyone in the city. Google finds itself flush with more than $7 billion in cash after recent stock sales. Industry observers speculated that setting up a municipal wireless network in San Francisco could be the first step in a Google plan to establish such a network nationwide, though the company said it currently has no plans to expand beyond the Bay Area. Analysts said Google's interest in facilitating increased Internet access directly serves the company's goals of organizing the world's information. In addition, providing Internet access to greater numbers of people means potentially more visitors to Google's site, which would increase advertising revenues. Wired News, 1 October 2005 http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,69059,00.html [Related Article NOT From Edupage] * San Francisco receives more than 24 Wi-Fi bids Mayor calls free wireless 'a fundamental right' "City officials said participants ranged from Cingular, the largest U.S. wireless carrier, to Atlanta-based Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. to San Francisco wireless broadband start-up Feeva Inc." Reuters * DIGITAL MUSIC SALES SURGE [If sales "declined by nearly 7 percent in value and 3.4 percent in units," that means that somehow the dollar value change in the last year was double that of the amount of music sold. . .this doesn't compute.] According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), sales of online digital music more than tripled in the first half of 2005, compared to the same period in 2004. Sales of legal music downloads totaled $790 million (representing 6 percent of total music sales worldwide), up from $220 million the year before. Most of the gains were seen in the world's top five music markets: the United States, Britain, Japan, Germany, and France. Sales of physical formats declined by nearly 7 percent in value and 3.4 percent in units. The IFPI said it will continue working to spur legal sales of online music while limiting the illegal sharing of music. John Kennedy, chairman and chief executive of the IFPI, said that "digital and physical piracy remain a big threat to our business in many markets. Our industry's priorities are to further grow this emerging digital-music business while stepping up our efforts to protect it from copyright theft." Wall Street Journal, 3 October 2005 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB112834107711958392.html EOLAS RULING SWINGS BACK TO UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued its final ruling in favor of the University of California in its patent dispute with Microsoft. At issue is a technology used for launching certain applications in Web browsers. The technology was developed at the University of California at San Francisco and licensed to a company called Eolas Technologies. Eolas and the university had earlier won a $521 million judgment against Microsoft for violating the patent in its software, but that ruling was appealed on the grounds that the patent was not valid. Despite a preliminary ruling in which the Patent and Trademark Office indicated its leaning toward Microsoft's position on the Eolas patent, the final ruling upholds all of the university's claims. The ruling rejects the assertions of both Microsoft and the World Wide Web Consortium that the patent relies on "prior art." The case now returns to district court for trial. Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 September 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/09/2005093001t.htm MASSACHUSETTS PLAN WOULD PROVIDE LAPTOPS FOR ALL STUDENTS The state of Massachusetts is considering a plan to provide a laptop computer to every middle and senior high school student in the state. The plan, offered by Governor Mitt Romney, includes other provisions, such as adding 1,000 new science and math teachers. The nonprofit One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization was credited with the idea of providing the laptops; in 2000, Maine began a program to equip all seventh graders in that state with laptops. The initiative depends in part on acquiring laptops for about $100 each, an idea put forth by Nicholas Negroponte, founding chairman of MIT~Rs Media Laboratory. Negroponte formed the OLPC to help provide such inexpensive computers to children in developing nations. According to Negroponte, pencils are "tools to think with, sufficiently inexpensive to be used for work and play, drawing, writing, and mathematics." Computers, he says, can be seen the same way, though they are "far more powerful." Federal Computer Week, 29 September 2005 http://www.fcw.com/article90958-09-29-05-Web You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, 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 or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.] None of the major US television network news shows even mentioned Yahoo's effort to form a coalition to compete with Google Print, whose media blitz covered the television, radio and print news last December 14th. Apparently "once bitten, twice shy" is the rule even for the major media. Even the BBC barely mentioned it, sandwiched into Tanya Beckett's business news segment, between the major news segments of Katty Kay and Mike Embley. * None of the major media would announce the total deaths of Katrina when the new, and supposedly final, numbers were released yesterday, most likely because that number exceeded 1,000. 972 in Louisiana 221 in Mississippi ??? in Alabama For a total that will probably reach about 1300 CBS, NBC, BBC, etc. * Judith Miller was finally released from her imprisonment this week, after serving about three months for refusing to divulge her source for an article she never wrote about the White House "outing" of CIA covert agent Valerie Plame, wife of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV. The incident was allegedly sparked by White House retaliation for Ambassador Wilson's unwillingness to support President Bush's claims of Weapons of Mass Destruction as per the now infamous "yellow cakes of uranium" that apparently never existed. Now that she testified, it appears this could cause trouble for White House insiders Karl Rove, VP Cheney's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, as well as for President Bush. Washington Post New York Times *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK Many flood victims in St. Bernard Parish [New Orleans] were told by federal officials they did not need flood insurance. ABC News 10/04 DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Callers to the federal map center were routed to a private answering service in Tallahassee, Florida, when they called to find out if they were susceptible to flooding in the New Orleans area, and the calls were answered by people with no expertise whatsoever on the subject. These people who have now lost everything are "out of luck" as they "can't sue." ABC News 10/04 *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Texas and Florida will continue to get better hurricane relief than Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, simply because Texas and Florida have so much more money and so many more electoral votes that put the Bush administrations in the White House. Meet The Press and/or Face The Nation *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK Senator McCain bluntly declared that "things have not gone as we had planned or expected, nor as we were told by you, General Myers." As quoted in The New York Times on October 3, 2005 * Ex-Chief of FEMA, Michael Brown, attacked Governor Blanco and other local officials as the cause of problems related to Hurriana Katrina in one of his first speeches after being re-hired by FEMA in his new consulting position only a week after his resignation. Blanco was a bit more politic about the name calling and refused to comment. Lehrer News Hour * "In the future, computers will weigh no more than 1.5 tons." "By the year 2000, all computers will weigh under half a ton." [Popular Electronics, 1950][?] "In the future, computers will weigh less than a ton." Unknown, 1949 [Popular Mechanics, 1949][?] "In the future, computers will weigh no more than a ton." [Popular Science (1940)][?] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The current cost of Katrina has passed 35 billion dollars. Interesting that so much is reported by the foreign news that is not reported by the US media. [BBC] * INTERNET ADS TAKE OFF IN U.S. According to numbers from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers, online advertising revenues in the first half of 2005 hit a new high of about $5.8 billion, an increase of 26 percent over the first half of 2004. The percentage of total online ad revenues earned by keyword-based search ads has held steady at 40 percent, but income increased. The same holds true for display ads, which accounted for 20 percent of total online ad revenue. The Internet Advertising Revenue Report will be published in early October. The Register, 28 September 2005 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/28/us_internet_advertising_soars/ * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "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 America 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 think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. 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. 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CNET, 25 September 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-5879068.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, 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 or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.] EVOLUTION LAWSUIT OPENS IN PENNSYLVANIA from The New York Times (Registration Required) HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 26 - Intelligent design is not science, has no support from any major American scientific organization and does not belong in a public school science classroom, a prominent biologist testified on the opening day of the nation's first legal battle over whether it is permissible to teach the fledgling "design" theory as an alternative to evolution. "To my knowledge, every single scientific society that has taken a position on this issue has taken a position against intelligent design and in favor of evolution," said the biologist, Kenneth R. Miller, a professor at Brown University and the co-author of the widely used high school textbook "Biology." Eleven parents in the small town of Dover, just south of here, are suing their school board for introducing intelligent design in the ninth-grade biology curriculum. The parents accuse the board of injecting religious creationism into science classes in the guise of intelligent design. Professor Miller, their main expert witness, was the only person to take the stand on Monday. http://tinyurl.com/dpds7 * "You know that the arrest of Mr. Safavian, one of three known Abramoff alumni to migrate into the administration, is the start of something big. Alberto Gonzales's Justice Department announced it only after Mr. Safavian had appeared in court and had been released without bail. The gambit was clearly intended to keep the story off television, and it worked." "Safavian's arrest comes less than a year after a high-level Air Force procurement official, Darleen Druyun, went to prison for trading favorable multibillion-dollar contracts for a top job with Boeing Co." Safavian was in charge of procurement of all the hurrican relief until he was brought up on charges. The specific charges are that he lied to a General Services Administration Ethics Officer, and other investigators about the Abramoff Scottish golf junket. In addition there were properties owned by the US government in DC and MD that were allegedly going to be sold to Safavian for his own private development plans. Safavian and Abramoff worked at Preston Gates Ellis' law firm starting in early 1995. They both moved to the area of various gambling interests, including Indian casinos in later in the 90s. Safavian's wife, Jennifer is Chief Counsel for Oversight and Investigations on the House Government Reform Committee, which is chaired by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va. Abramoff was recently indicted on fraud and conspiracy charges by a federal grand jury, re: attempts to buy a number of Flordia gaming ships, and is still under Conngressional investigation for alegedly swindling millions from the very Indian tribes he was hired by as their lobbyist. The New York Times 9/25 [Remember that in the news business, Friday is called "Garbage Day." Stories that are meant not to be reported are done or released on a Friday so that by Monday, when everyone is back in the news loop, the story is already dead. The charges were filed Friday Sept. 16, and it was very quietly all over by Monday morning.] *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK "Many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said after touring the Astrodome, "so this is working very well for them.") Barbara Bush, as quoted in the New York Times 9/25 *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "To my knowledge, every single scientific society that has taken a position on this issue has taken a position against intelligent design and in favor of evolution," said the biologist, Kenneth R. Miller, a professor at Brown University and the co-author of the widely used high school textbook "Biology." [Previously, there has been no report that this was so unanimous.] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK More than 50% of the US populations lives within 50 miles of a coastline. ". . .authorities were sufficiently concerned about hurricanes that last year they pre-positioned 10,000 body bags in New Orleans." New York Times 9/25 * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "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 think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. 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. * POEM OF THE WEEK the Heavens mourn the passing of the day with tears of rain and wonder of thunder Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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[Includes Australian eBooks] We Are 86% of the Way to 20,000!!! 14,148 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's 250+ eBooks per Month for ~56 Months We Have Produced 2254 eBooks in 2005!!! 2,890 to go to 20,000!!! 7,494 from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] We have now averaged 500+ eBooks per year since July 4th, 1971 We Averaged About 339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Are Averaging About 258 books Per Month This Year [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org; all Project Gutenberg sites have a higher grand total.] This Site Is Averaging About 60 eBooks Per Week This Year 40 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 ~1.75 years from Oct. 2003 to Aug. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,000 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. 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CNET, 25 September 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-5879068.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, 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 or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.] EVOLUTION LAWSUIT OPENS IN PENNSYLVANIA from The New York Times (Registration Required) HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 26 - Intelligent design is not science, has no support from any major American scientific organization and does not belong in a public school science classroom, a prominent biologist testified on the opening day of the nation's first legal battle over whether it is permissible to teach the fledgling "design" theory as an alternative to evolution. "To my knowledge, every single scientific society that has taken a position on this issue has taken a position against intelligent design and in favor of evolution," said the biologist, Kenneth R. Miller, a professor at Brown University and the co-author of the widely used high school textbook "Biology." Eleven parents in the small town of Dover, just south of here, are suing their school board for introducing intelligent design in the ninth-grade biology curriculum. The parents accuse the board of injecting religious creationism into science classes in the guise of intelligent design. Professor Miller, their main expert witness, was the only person to take the stand on Monday. http://tinyurl.com/dpds7 * "You know that the arrest of Mr. Safavian, one of three known Abramoff alumni to migrate into the administration, is the start of something big. Alberto Gonzales's Justice Department announced it only after Mr. Safavian had appeared in court and had been released without bail. The gambit was clearly intended to keep the story off television, and it worked." "Safavian's arrest comes less than a year after a high-level Air Force procurement official, Darleen Druyun, went to prison for trading favorable multibillion-dollar contracts for a top job with Boeing Co." Safavian was in charge of procurement of all the hurrican relief until he was brought up on charges. The specific charges are that he lied to a General Services Administration Ethics Officer, and other investigators about the Abramoff Scottish golf junket. In addition there were properties owned by the US government in DC and MD that were allegedly going to be sold to Safavian for his own private development plans. Safavian and Abramoff worked at Preston Gates Ellis' law firm starting in early 1995. They both moved to the area of various gambling interests, including Indian casinos in later in the 90s. Safavian's wife, Jennifer is Chief Counsel for Oversight and Investigations on the House Government Reform Committee, which is chaired by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va. Abramoff was recently indicted on fraud and conspiracy charges by a federal grand jury, re: attempts to buy a number of Flordia gaming ships, and is still under Conngressional investigation for alegedly swindling millions from the very Indian tribes he was hired by as their lobbyist. The New York Times 9/25 [Remember that in the news business, Friday is called "Garbage Day." Stories that are meant not to be reported are done or released on a Friday so that by Monday, when everyone is back in the news loop, the story is already dead. The charges were filed Friday Sept. 16, and it was very quietly all over by Monday morning.] *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK "Many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said after touring the Astrodome, "so this is working very well for them.") Barbara Bush, as quoted in the New York Times 9/25 *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "To my knowledge, every single scientific society that has taken a position on this issue has taken a position against intelligent design and in favor of evolution," said the biologist, Kenneth R. Miller, a professor at Brown University and the co-author of the widely used high school textbook "Biology." [Previously, there has been no report that this was so unanimous.] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK More than 50% of the US populations lives within 50 miles of a coastline. ". . .authorities were sufficiently concerned about hurricanes that last year they pre-positioned 10,000 body bags in New Orleans." New York Times 9/25 * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "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 think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. 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. * POEM OF THE WEEK the Heavens mourn the passing of the day with tears of rain and wonder of thunder Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
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23 Sep '05

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RESERVED/PENDING count: 44 =-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= .:: Minor corrections have been made to the following, and a TEI master file for each was used to generate all included files: The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary, by Anne Warner 15775 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/7/15775 ] [Files: 15775.txt; 15775-8.txt; 15775-0.txt; 15775-pdf.pdf; 15775-h.htm; 15775-tei.tei] True Stories of History and Biography, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 15697 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/9/15697 ] [Files: 15697.txt; 15697-8.txt; 15697-0.txt; 15697-h.htm; 15697-pdf.pdf; 15697-tei.tei] Judith of the Plains, by Marie Manning 15573 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/5/7/15573 ] [Files: 15573.txt; 15573-8.txt; 15573-0; 15573-pdf.pdf; 15573-h.htm; 15573-tei.tei] .:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: Incorrectly listed last week as #16691: Five Months on a German Raider, by Frederic George Trayes 16690 [Subtitle: Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf'] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/9/16690 ] [Files: 16690.txt; 16690-8.txt; 16690-h.htm; ] -=-=-=-=[ 35 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A Catechism of Familiar Things, by Benziger Brothers 16728 [Full title: A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the] [Events Which Led to Their Discovery] [Subtitle: With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural] [Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged] [and Revised Edition.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16728 ] [Files: 16728.txt; 16728-8.txt; 16728-h.htm] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 25th, 1920, by Various 16727 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16727 ] [Files: 16727.txt; 16727-8.txt; 16727-h.htm] Four Weird Tales, by Algernon Blackwood 16726 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16726 ] [Files: 16726.txt; 16726-h.htm] Sprookjes van Jean Mac, by Jean Mac 16725 [Illustrator: Jan Wiegman] [Translator: Hermanna] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16725 ] [Files: 16725-8.txt; 16725-h.htm] The Campaign of 1760 in Canada, by Chevalier Johnstone 16724 [Subtitle: A Narrative Attributed to Chevalier Johnstone] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16724 ] [Files: 16724.txt; 16724-h.htm] Mooses ja hnen hevosensa, by Heikki Merilinen 16723 [Subtitle: Romaani] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16723 ] [Files: 16723-8.txt] Americans and Others, by Agnes Repplier 16722 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16722 ] [Files: 16722.txt; 16722-h.htm] A Place so Foreign, by Cory Doctorow 16721C [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16721 ] [Files: 16721-8.txt; ] Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster, by F. Marion Crawford 16720 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16720 ] [Files: 16720.txt; 16720-8.txt; 16720-h.htm; ] The Husbands of Edith, by George Barr McCutcheon 16719 [Ill.: Harrison Fisher] [Decorated by Theodore B Hapgood (1871-1938) designed book covers,] [bookplates, posters, and a set of type ornaments, known as Hapgood] [florets.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16719 ] [Files: 16719.txt; 16719-8.txt; 16719-h.htm; ] Mineralogia Polygotta, by Christian Keferstein 16718 [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16718 ] [Files: 16718-8.txt; 16718-h.htm; ] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 1st, 1920, Various 16717 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16717 ] [Files: 16717.txt; 16717-8.txt; 16717-h.htm] The Going of the White Swan, by Gilbert Parker 16716 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16716 ] [Files: 16716.txt; 16716-8.txt; 16716-h.htm] Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature, by Margaret Ball 16715 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16715 ] [Files: 16715.txt; 16715-8.txt; 16715-h.htm] Under Sealed Orders, by H. A. Cody 16714 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16714 ] [Files: 16714.txt; 16714-8.txt; ] Amusements in Mathematics, by Henry Ernest Dudeney 16713 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16713 ] [Files: 16713.txt; 16713-8.txt; 16713-h.htm] Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy, by George Santayana 16712 [Subtitle: Five Essays] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16712 ] [Files: 16712.txt; 16712-8.txt; 16712-h.htm] Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary, John Kline 16711 [Subtitle: Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk] [Editor: Benjamin Funk] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16711 ] [Files: 16711.txt; 16711-8.txt; 16711-h.htm] Les Deux Gentilshommes de Vrone, by William Shakespeare 16710 [Translator: Franois Pierre Guillaume Guizot] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16710 ] [Files: 16710-8.txt; 16710-h.htm] Contes rapides, by Franois Coppe 16709 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16709 ] [Files: 16709-8.txt; 16709-h.htm] Kuolleet omenapuut, by Joel Lehtonen 16708 [Subtitle: Runollista proosaa] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16708 ] [Files: 16708-8.txt] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 18th, 1920, by Various 16707 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16707 ] [Files: 16707.txt; 16707-8.txt; 16707-h.htm] Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger, by Lowe and Rand 16706 [Title: A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger] [Subtitle: A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York] [Author: Elias Avery Lowe and Edward Kennard Rand] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16706 ] [Files: 16706.txt; 16706-8.txt; 16706-0.txt; 16706-h.htm] A Wanderer in Venice, by E.V. Lucas 16705 [Illustrator: Harry Morley] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16705 ] [Files: 16705.txt; 16705-8.txt; 16705-h.htm] Adventures in Southern Seas, by George Forbes 16704 [Subtitle: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] [ATTENTION INDEXERS--The transcriber thinks the George Forbes who wrote] [this is NOT the George Forbes in the PG catalog, although the LOC] [attributes the book to Forbes 1849-1936. I cannot resolve the question.] [The transcriber's note is as follows: "About the author George Forbes I] [can find almost nothing. I am fairly certain that it is NOT George Forbes] [(1849-1936), the Scottish engineer who wrote popular science books,] [including one on astronomy in the PG list. There is a copy of "Adventures] [.." in the National Library of Australia and the British Library but no] [biographical information; all the many reference works I have consulted do] [not mention him. From references made in his "introductory" to the] [Mitchell Library in Sydney, I think he wrote the book in Australia, though] [it was published in Britain. He may be the same George Forbes who] [published a history of Sydney in the 1920s, but again no biographical info] [- a man of mystery!"] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16704 ] [Files: 16704.txt; ] A Comedy of Masks, by Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore 16703 [Subtitle: A Novel] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16703 ] [Files: 16703.txt; 16703-8.txt; ] New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 1, Jan. 9, 1915 16702 [Title: The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915] [Subtitle: What Americans Say to Europe] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16702 ] [Files: 16702.txt; 16702-8.txt; 16702-h.htm; ] Het Leven der Dieren, by A. E. Brehm 16701 [Subtitle: Deel I, Hoofdstuk 1. De Apen] [Editor: S. P. Huizinga] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16701 ] [Files: 16701-8.txt; 16701-h.htm] The Ancient Church, by W.D. [William Dool] Killen 16700 [Subtitle: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16700 ] [Files: 16700.txt; 16700-8.txt] Glen of the High North, by H. A. Cody 16699 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/9/16699 ] [Files: 16699.txt; 16699-8.txt; ] The King's Arrow, by H. A. Cody 16698 [Subtitle: A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/9/16698 ] [Files: 16698.txt; 16698-8.txt; ] Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, by Baha'u'llah 16697C [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/6/16666 ] [Files: 16697.txt; 16697-8.txt; 16697-0; 16697-h.htm; 16697-pdf.pdf; 16697-tei.tei] Leiarvsir stamlum, by Jnna Sigrur Jnsdttir 16696 [Subtitle: II. fyrir ungar stlkur] [Language: Icelandic] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/9/16696 ] [Files: 16696-8.txt; 16696-0.txt; 16696-h.htm] Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816, by Julian S. Corbett 16695 [Subtitle: Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/9/16695 ] [Files: 16695.txt; 16695-8.txt] Fifth Avenue, by Arthur Bartlett Maurice 16691 [Illus.: Allan G. 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by Michael Hart 22 Sep '05

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by Michael Hart 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

Weekly_September_21.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, September 21, 2005 PT1 ******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1B 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 We are trying an experiment this month to provide shorter Newsletter files. PT1 of the Newsletter will be split into to sections starting and ending at the points below where you will see this marker" "***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B***" You should receive THREE versions of PT1 today: PT1, PT1A, and PT1B. Please send your comments on this. Weekly_September_21.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, September 14, 2005 PT1 ******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1B Newsletter editors needed! 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With 17,170 eBooks online as of September 21, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.91 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,679,224 x 17,170 x $.90 = ~$1 Trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] 6,467,922,438 64,679,224 With 17,170 eBooks online as of September 21, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.58 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.72 when we had 13,848 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 17,170 eBooks in 34 Years and 02.50 Months We Averaged ~502 Per Year 41.8 Per Month 1.37 Per Day At 2214 eBooks Done In The 250 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.5 Per Day 60 Per Week 260 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. 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PT1A Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

Weekly_September_21.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, September 21, 2005 PT1 ******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1A 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 We are trying an experiment this month to provide shorter Newsletter files. PT1 of the Newsletter will be split into to sections starting and ending at the points below where you will see this marker" "***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B***" You should receive THREE versions of PT1 today: PT1, PT1A, and PT1B. Please send your comments on this. * HOT REQUESTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS New Site!!! New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm which now indexes 24,000 books available free online, including all PG(US) & PG(Aus)'s books, along with some basic date information about them and their authors where you can find more. For information please contact Philip Harper <webmaster AT kingkong.demon.co.uk> * You might be interested in reading about MIT's Neil Gershenfeld's "Fab Labs" that are encouraging people to with three dimensions what Project Gutenberg has been encouraging with two dimensions. There are currently 6 of these Fab Labs: Boston, India [2], Ghana, Norway and Costa Rica where people are making 3 dimensional computer generated materials. Not quite the Star Trek Replicator, yet!!! [mh] From: PERSONAL FABRICATION: A TALK WITH NEIL GERSHENFELD "From this combination of passion and inventiveness I began to get a sense that what these students are really doing is reinventing literacy. Literacy in the modern sense emerged in the Renaissance as mastery of the liberal arts. This is liberal in the sense of liberation, not politically liberal. The trivium and the quadrivium represented the available means of expression. Since then we've boiled that down to just reading and writing, but the means have changed quite a bit since the Renaissance. In a very real sense post-digital literacy now includes 3D machining and microcontroller programming. I've even been taking my twins, now 6, in to use MIT's workshops; they talk about going to MIT to make things they think of rather than going to a toy store to buy what someone else has designed." www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gershenfeld03/gershenfeld_index.html and www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.09/fablab.html www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0574.html www.itconversations.com/shows/detail460.html * More News From MIT's General Direction SQUID LABS: SUCKERS FOR NOVELTY from Wired News EMERYVILLE, California -- It's a classic scenario: Five friends with a mutual passion, disillusioned with their choices after their East Coast college, pile into a van and head to California to break into the big time. But don't think rock 'n' roll fantasy. This group came straight out of MIT, and its members don't do guitar and vocals; they do patents and prototypes. They make up Squid Labs, self-billed as "a design firm that does differential equations," and they're already picking up the hits: solar panel driveways, swarming parachutes, a SourceForge for hardware and a comic book series for kid engineers. Squid Labs is housed in a generic warehouse in Emeryville down the street from the elaborate Pixar Animation Studios gates. The building is full of toys and half-completed projects, seemingly more chaos than inspiration. The desks of the five founders -- Saul Griffith, Colin Bulthaup, Dan Goldwater, Ryan McKinley and Eric Wilhelm -- are scattered with papers, scrap metal and wood, and small, bare electronics. http://tinyurl.com/74xhq * WRITERS SUING GOOGLE Wyatt, Edward. Writers Sue Google, Accusing It of Copyright Violation. New York Times, September 21, 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/technology/21book.html [registration required] WANTED! >>> !!!People to help us collect ALL public domain eBooks!!! <<< * Wanted: People who are involved in conversations on Slashdot, Salon, etc. * TABLE OF CONTENTS [Search for "*eBook" or "*Intro". . .to jump to that section, etc.] *eBook Milestones *Introduction *Hot Requests, New Sites and Announcements *Continuing Requests and Announcements *Progress Report *Distributed Proofreaders Collection Report *Project Gutenberg Consortia Center Report *Permanent Requests For Assistance: *Donation Information *Access To The Project Gutenberg Collections *Mirror Site Information *Instant Access To Our Latest eBooks *Have We Given Away A Trillion Yet? *Flashback *Weekly eBook update: This is now in PT2 of the Weekly Newsletter Also collected in the Monthly Newsletter Corrections in separate section 2 New From PG Australia [Australian, Canadian Copyright Etc.] 38 New Public Domain eBooks Under US Copyright *Headline News from Edupage, etc. *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists *** *eBook Milestones* ***500 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971*** 17,170 eBooks As Of Today!!! [Includes Australian eBooks] We Are 85% of the Way to 20,000!!! 14,170 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's 250+ eBooks per Month for ~56 Months We Have Produced 2214 eBooks in 2005!!! 2,830 to go to 20,000!!! 7,467 from Distributed Proofreaders [Details in PT1B] We have now averaged ~500+ eBooks per year since July 4th, 1971 We Averaged About 339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Are Averaging About 260 books Per Month This Year We Are Averaging About 60 eBooks Per Week This Year 40 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 ~1.75 years from Oct. 2003 to Aug. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,000 * ***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. Note well that PT1 is now being send as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter ***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B*** Weekly_September_14.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, September 14, 2005 PT1 ******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] PANASONIC LAUNCHES LINUX COLLABORATION CENTER Motivated by a desire to foster standardized software architectures, Panasonic has launched a Linux incubator at its Digital Concepts Center, located in San Jose, California. Brad McManus, director of the Digital Concepts Center, said that Panasonic sees much to be gained in developing technologies on standard architectures, which would minimize problems of incompatibility among products. The Linux Collaboration Center will focus primarily on middleware and applications but will also consider projects that address user interfaces and ubiquitous networking. McManus said the new Linux center aims to establish relationships with four or five start-up companies developing consumer electronics. In exchange, Panasonic will have first right of refusal for a portion of the companies' institutional funding. eWeek, 14 September 2005 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1859036,00.asp You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, 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 or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Hurricane Hits Norway: http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4863 * "After Katrina, the FEMA Web site directing charitable contributions prominently listed Operation Blessing, a Pat Robertson kitty that, according to I.R.S. documents obtained by ABC News, has given more than half of its yearly cash donations to Mr. Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. If FEMA is that cavalier about charitable donations, imagine what it's doing with the $62 billion (so far) of taxpayers' money sent its way for Katrina relief." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/opinion/18rich.html?hp * Why was Karl Rove not more involved with the White House positioning on Katrina? He was in the hospital with kidney stones. Sources: Baraboo News Republic, WI 9/21 Press-Enterprise, CA 9/19 New York Daily News, NY 9/16 Australian, Australia 9/18 Times of India, India 9/19 *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK Correction: that strange non-word mentioned last week should have been attributed to: The New Oxford American Dictionary ^^^^^^^^ NOT The New Oxford English Dictionary ^^^^^^^ [Another possible correction, as to the source of the two photographs and captions mentioned last week: some say only one of them was genuinely from the AP, Associated Press, though the person suggesting the correction didn't clarify further, though this URL, <http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/looters.asp> was provided for more details, which credited BOTH to the AP: "The Associated Press has separately captioned two photos of looters. . . ."] DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK To lie to the police is a crime. For them to lie to you is not. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK New Orleans will try to have usual Mardi Gras celebration. *QUOTES OF THE WEEK [As requested, adding in URL and credit lines when possible.] More data from our readers about pre-Katrina warnings: >From 2002, concering the New Orleans area: "THE BIG ONE A major hurricane could decimate the region, but flooding from even a moderate storm could kill thousands. It's just a matter of time." http://www.nola.com/hurricane/?/washingaway/ and A good summary of the various predictions of the effects of a hurricane on New Orleans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_of_hurricane_risk_for_New_Orleans [Sent in by Martin Ward <Martin.Ward(a)durham.ac.uk>] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK "Kozlowski and Swartz to pay nearly $240 million in fines and resitution." [Tyco CEO and CFO] Borsa-Italia.Net, Italy 9/21 HoweStreet.com, Canada 9/20 Australian Financial Review 9/21 [Large fines for white collar criminals are not making the headlines the way they used to, these were hardly mentioned, and no mention of whether the fines would make it into the record books or not.] * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "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 think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. 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. * POEM OF THE WEEK [This week it's not a poem, but a Cherokee Indian tale.] One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. 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