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GWeekly_June_29_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 29 Jun 2005 eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 2 of the Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter: - Obtaining Project Gutenberg eBooks - Updates/corrections to previously posted eBooks - 40 New U.S. eBooks this week - 2 New eBooks at Project Gutenberg of Australia - Last, but not least: insights and other fine stuff - Mailing list information - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .:: HOW TO GET EBOOKS FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG ::. The easiest way to obtain our eBooks is at our search page at http://gutenberg.org/find which allows searching by title, author or eBook number; there is also an Advanced Search page which allows for additional search criteria (note that our newer postings may not yet be indexed for all additional criteria). 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Last week the Total Count was 16518, including 458 at PG of Australia. This week we added 42 new. RESERVED/PENDING count: 44 =-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= .:: During the past week the following ebooks were manually updated and reposted with the indicated filenames and transferred into the corresponding new directories: .:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: -=-=-=-=[ 40 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Harry, by Fanny Wheeler Hart 16144 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/4/16144 ] [Files: 16144.txt; 16144-8.txt; 16144-h.htm; ] A Man and a Woman, by Stanley Waterloo 16143 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/4/16143 ] [Files: 16143.txt] The Communist Threat in the Taiwan Area, by Eisenhower 16142 [Author: John Foster Dulles and Dwight D. Eisenhower] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/4/16142 ] [Files: 16142.txt; 16142-h.htm; ] The American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 6, June, 1889, by Various 16141 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/4/16141 ] [Files: 16141.txt; 16141-8.txt; 16141-h.htm; ] The Curious Book of Birds, by Abbie Farwell Brown 16140 [Illustrator: E. Boyd Smith] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 38, by Various 16139 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.] [1,] [No. 38, July 29, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] The Cromptons, by Mary J. Holmes 16138 The Hoyden, by Mrs. Hungerford 16137 [Author AKA: Margaret Wolfe Hamilton] American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology, by Huxley 16136 [Author: Tomas Henry Huxley] Safe Marriage, by Ettie A. Rout 16135 [Subtitle: A Return to Sanity] [Commentator: Sir William Arbuthnot Lane] The First Christmas Tree, by Henry Van Dyke 16134 [Subtitle: A Story of the Forest] [Ill.: Howard Pyle] The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624, by Various 16133 [Subtitle: Explorations By Early Navigators, Descriptions Of The] [Islands And Their Peoples, Their History And Records Of] [The Catholic Missions, As Related In Contemporaneous Books] [And Manuscripts, Showing The Political, Economic, Commercial] [And Religious Conditions Of Those Islands From Their] [Earliest Relations With European Nations To The Close Of] [The Nineteenth Century] [Editor: Emma Helen Blair] Filosofia Fundamental I-IV, Volumen 2, by Jaime Balmes 16132 [Language: Spanish] Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900), by A. G. Hales 16131 [Subtitle: Letters from the Front] Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review 16130 [Title: Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings] [to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into] [the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster] [Author: Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan] [Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers] [Subtitle: C.A. 95/81] In Luck at Last, by Walter Besant 16129 Le Jour des Rois, by William Shakespeare 16128 [Translator: Fran�ois Pierre Guillaume Guizot] [Language: French] The Diamond Cross Mystery, by Chester K. Steele 16127 [Subtitle: Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story] ["Chester K. Steele" was a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate;] [I am unable to find the true identity of the author.] English Satires, by Various 16126 [Editor: Oliphant Smeaton] [Author: Introduction by Oliphant Smeaton] The Judge, by Rebecca West 16125 [Author AKA: Cicily Isabel Fairfield (1892-1983)] [Rebecca West was the pseudonym used by British journalist and novelist] [Cicily Isabel Fairfield. At age 19 she began a 10-year love affair with H.] [G. Wells, by whom she had a son.] Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVI., December, 1880, by Various 16124 [Full title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science,] [Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, by Various 16123 [Full title: St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5,] [Nov 1877-Nov 1878] [Subtitle: Scribner's Illustrated] [Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge] Leabhr�in an Irisleabhair--III, by Various 16122 [Full authors: "Chon�n Maol", "Beirt Fhear", An tAthair P�draig � Duinn�n,] [agus "Gruagach an Tobair"] [Subtitle: Seanaid na nGaedheal] [Language: Irish] Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men, by Ewing 16121 [Author: Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing] [Contents: Brothers of Pity]] [ Father Hedgehog and His Neighbours] [ Toots and Boots] [ The Hens of Hencastle] [ Flaps] [ A Week Spent in a Glass Pond] [ Among the Merrows] [ Tiny's Tricks and Toby's Tricks] [ The Owl in the Ivy Bush] Kertoelmia ja kuvauksia, by Juho Reijonen 16120 [Language: Finnish] Doctrina Christiana, by Anonymous 16119 [Subtitle: The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.] [A Facsimile of the copy in the Lessing J. Rosenwald] [Collection, Library] [Editor: Edwin Wolf 2nd] American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 5, May, 1889, by Various 16118 Het land der Bagas en de Rio-Nuñez, by Coffinières de Nordeck 16117 [Subtitle: De Aarde en haar volken, 1887] [Language: Dutch] Studies of Trees, by Jacob Joshua Levison 16116 Red Pepper's Patients, by Grace S. Richmond 16115 [Subtitle: With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular] The Knight of the Golden Melice, by John Turvill Adams 16114 [Subtitle: A Historical Romance] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 27, 1917, by Various 16113 [Editor: Owen Seaman] Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Pe 16112 [Title: Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to] [Be a Peer of Great Britain,--and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather,] [Captain Williams] [Author: Tobias Aconite] [Subtitle: or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End] [of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His] [Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment] [The Library of Congress catalogue says "Tobias Aconite" is a pseudonym,] [but I have been unable to find his real name.] Opúsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo I, by Alexandre Herculano 16111 [Language: Portuguese] Viage al Parnaso, by Miguel de Cervantes Saveedra 16110 [Subtitle: La Numancia (Tragedia) y El Trato de Argel (Comedia)] [Language: Spanish] Viage al Parnaso, by Miguel de Cervantes Saveedra 16110 [Subtitle: La Numancia (Tragedia) y El Trato de Argel (Comedia)] [Language: Spanish] Do.a Clarines y Ma.ana de Sol, by Seraf.n y Joaqu.n .lvarez Quintero 16109 [Editor: S. 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PT1 Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Weekly_June_29.txt **The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, June 29, 2005 PT1** *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971****** Please note that this Newsletter is being prepared in advance so statistics for the last few days of our production week are estimated based on 50. 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 Please note that we are still in the process of correcting our statistical program data. Last week we subtracted a few that we thought had been in a duplicate count situation, but either that correction didn't stick or some new similar problem has occured. As always, the total count should be the consideration of some attention as to possibly being off by a few eBooks. Please note that PT2 of this Newsletter is currently in flux, as we shift from to an automated PT2 sender. 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[Plato #7][prtgsxxx.xxx] 1591 The Amazing Interlude, by Mary Roberts Rinehart 1590 [Illus.: Troy Kinney and Margaret West Kinney] Jan 1999 Tamburlaine the Great PT 2, by Christopher Marlowe[tmbn2xxx.xxx] 1589 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? With 16,560 eBooks online as of June 29, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.94 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,507,911 x 16,560 x $.94 = ~$1 trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,560 eBooks online as of June 29, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.60 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.76 when we had 13,106 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 16,570 eBooks in 33 Years and 11.80 Months We Averaged ~487 Per Year 40.6 Per Month 1.33 Per Day At 1604 eBooks Done In The 175 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 9 Per Day 64 Per Week 277 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] SUN BROADENS OPEN SOURCE RELEASES Just weeks after Sun Microsystems published the source code for its Solaris operating system as an open source application, the company announced it would also release the source code of its Java application server software. Offering the two technologies as open source tools is part of Sun's efforts to rebuild momentum and market share lost in the collapse of the dot-com economy, which has hurt Sun more than competitors including IBM, HP, and Dell. The Java language can be used to develop applications that run on a variety of computers and other electronic devices, such as cell phones. By moving the Java software to open source, Sun hopes to broaden the number of developers working with Java (already estimated at 4.5 million) and give the company a stronger foothold in various markets. According to John Loiacono, head of Sun's software group, making the source code for the Java application server software available will help Sun sell "services, systems, storage, and design services" to greater numbers of customers. Reuters, 27 June 2005 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8897847 DEFENSE DEPARTMENT TO CREATE VAST STUDENT DATABASE Officials at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) have proposed the creation of a database containing information on virtually every college student in the country, as well as many high school students. Intended as a tool to aid recruitment efforts, the database would include names, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, addresses, birth dates, ethnicities, grade point averages, and other data. The DoD's database bears similarities to another database proposed by the Department of Education. That database would track individual students through their college careers, providing a clearer picture of graduation rates than current records, which track only aggregate rates from institutions. The Education Department's proposed database has drawn criticism from privacy advocates, who see it as a potential risk to privacy. The DoD proposal has similarly elicited complaints from groups such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). According to EPIC, the database would be a "bad idea," putting tools of direct marketers in the hands of government officials but without affording consumers the same protections from government that they enjoy from marketers. Inside Higher Ed, 23 June 2005 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/06/23/database MICHIGAN SHARES GOOGLE CONTRACT [We should be aware that the contract with the New York Public Library never included copyrighted works, but only their public domain books.] In an effort to address concerns that have arisen over Google's project to digitize vast numbers of books from several libraries, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has made its contract with Google available online. Google has entered into agreements with libraries at Michigan, as well as Stanford University, Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and the New York Public Library, to scan most or all of their books, including those still protected by copyright. Books in the public domain will be made available on the Web; for those under copyright, only short excerpts will be online. Critics have contended that simply making digital copies of copyrighted books is a violation of copyright protections. The contract states that if either party becomes aware of copyright infringement, it will be quickly addressed. The contract also indicates that, aside from compensation for costs of transporting books, the university will receive no money for its participation in the project. John P. Wilkin, associate university librarian at Michigan, said he hopes that by making the university's contract publicly available, critics will see that there is nothing sneaky going on between Google and the library. Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 June 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/06/2005062001t.htm ALA SAYS NEARLY ALL PUBLIC LIBRARIES OFFER FREE INTERNET ACCESS [I think there is an error in the first mention of 21 percent. Perhaps the 1994 date should have been 1984. Sent inquiry] A study released this week by the American Library Association (ALA) indicates that 98.9 percent of libraries in the United States offer free Internet access, up from 95 percent in 2002 and just 21 percent in 1994. In addition, the study found that 18 percent of libraries offer wireless access, with another 21 percent expecting to offer it within a year. Rates of access, as well as bandwidth and the likelihood of wireless access, were higher in urban than in rural parts of the country. Nearly 40 percent of libraries use Web filters to prevent minors from accessing adult content on library computers. Carol Brey-Casiano, president of the ALA, commented that the availability of Internet-connected computers at libraries could be one reason the number of annual library visits has risen from about 500 million in the early 1990s to 1.2 billion today. New York Times, 24 June 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/national/24library.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 Zinmbabwe Passes Human Rights Bill Overshadowing US Rights Yes, people in Zimbabwe now have rights even Americans don't! They can assemble for protest marches without getting a permit! Even though the United States Consitution guarantees people the "right to assemble," and for "redress of grievances," the rights were curtailed by the Nixon administration and never returned. Of course, this isn't the only such example these days: The UN wanted to send election monitors to the United States, but the Bush II adminstration refused, they were already winning. Amnesty International rates the United States as one of the most problematic areas in the world in terms of human rights, torture and other issues. * Eminent Domain, Paying Increases Taxes As Bribery Is Ruled As Legal by the United States Supreme Court Yes, this subject has been covered, but the subject of taking the land for public use has NOT been covered as having been converted to taking land for private use. It's one thing to take someone's property against their will to create highways, railroad, public water plants, etc. It's quite another to take someone's property against their will to build a luxury high rise, a McDonald's, a Disneyland, a mall, or any other privately owned plainly commercial enterprise. What only a few commentators have addressed is the fact that the case is fundamentally a case legalizing the bribery of cities by stating that the new owners will pay higher taxes than old ones. What USED to be a bidding war between cities to GIVE TAX BREAKS to corporations to get them to come to town, now, as companies have become more powerful than cities, the companies now offer TAX INCENTIVES to the cities as a bribe to encourage the cities to give them access to land already owned my private citizens, no matter how long they have owned the property. Another fact left out of current reporting is that the practice of using eminent domain for corporate projects did not start in Connecticut or Indiana, but was going strong in Ohio beforehand. * Turkey As An EU Member: It's About The Money, All Over Again Again the commercial factor has been left out of all reporting, and they expect you not to notice that Turkey is the gateway to India and China as a trading route and thus bringing Turkey into the EU would be highly profitable merely in terms of an enhanced trade opportunity with these two giant new economies. In addition, Turkey has one of the largest standing armies, which will give the EU much more power to enforce its will. * Nike Is Falling Apart, It's Still About the Money Remember when Michael Jordan was paid more by Nike than ALL the workers who made ALL the Nike shoes? Perhaps it is turning out that you really can't build solid businesses on these kinds of practices. * Another Supreme Court Ruling Against Human Rights The Supreme Court also ruled that the police could not be sued for failure to enforce court restraining orders, even when this results in the death of the people supposedly protected by such restraining orders. * *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK Yet More Rights Rescinded by the United States Supreme Court The case of the reporters involved in the story about Valerie Plame, undercover agent for the CIA, whose cover was blown in apparent retaliation against her husband by the Bush White House, is now the stage for the undoing of confidentiality of the press by the Supreme Court. Two years after the event, even after the unprecedented naming of a special prosecutor to find the person who leaked her name, there has been no one brought to trial for this offense. Even Robert Novak, whose article sparked the entire controversy, as a result of Ms. Plame's name being leaked to him, is somehow free of these legal entaglements, but Matthew Cooper of Time and Judith Miller of The New York Times are instead being threatened with jail if THEY don't tell who leaked the information, even if Ms. Miller never wrote about it. Somehow Novak, the direct user of the leaked information is now off the hook, but others are being hooked in his place, and the new Supreme Court decision has placed the entire free press of the United States in jeopardy to protect this effort to place blame on others than Robert Novak, the originator of the story. DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK I'm guessing the above stories are enough doublespeak for a week. Especially when you consider that this kind of threat was not used on Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post when they broke the Watergate stories and refused to name "Deep Throat." If the Nixon administration didn't try this strategy with Woodstein, then why is the Bush II White House doing this to Cooper and Miller? However, there is still more doublespeak that should be mentioned: The Republicans are saying public media, PBS and NPR, are too political. In a totally unrelated story: Patricia S. Harrison, former chair of the Republican party, was slated as the new head of The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, overseer of funding for both PBS and NPR [The Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio]. Ms. Harrison apparently has no experience in the area of public broadcasting whatsoever. "This is a fatal blow to the historic political neutrality of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting," said Senator Frank Lautenberg. The current head, also a Republican, has been reported as being too soft on retaliation against people such as Bill Moyers, who, a Conservative himself, once worked for President Lyndon Johnson, who, although a Democrat, was such a Conservative that many recall him as more of a Republican. Of course, Bill Moyers no longer has his NOW program on PBS, but that part is being ignored as he is pillaged just as if he were still there. * And lastly, we heard Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice say: "The fear of free choices can no longer justify the denial of liberty." [So why no UN election monitors allowed into United States elections?] "The day is coming when the promise of a fully free and democratic world, once thought impossible, will also seem inevitable." "When we talk about democracy, though, we are referring to governments that protect certain basic rights for all their citizens -- among these, the right to speak freely. The right to associate. The right to worship as you wish. The freedom to educate your children -- boys and girls. And freedom from the midnight knock of the secret police." [Not to mention those who were excommuniated for voting against Bush.] "The day must come when the rule of law replaces emergency decrees." [Not to mention "The War Against Terror."] "Opposition groups must be free to assemble, and to participate, and to speak to the media." [Not to mention those who were invited to various Bush events, but were arrested and removed when they wore anti-Bush T-shirts, even though they had official invitations.] "They must accept the rule of law, they must reject violence, they must respect the standards of free elections. . . ." *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Matthew Cooper of Time and Judith Miller of The New York Times will go to jail rather than divulge their sources, and Time and the New York Times will stand behind them, and so will most of the world press corps. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 50 million Americans live in various kinds "gated communites." That means out of just a handful of people, one is most likely living in such an "arranged community." * 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 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 So They Asked For A poem on love is what they daily ask for they demand it really, they call for it honest people with honest views and honest desires so here it goes from me to you overnight delivery like a boomerang that will soon enough come back and hit me right in the face, Bullseye, I'll holler and it'll make the woods tremble Then I'll laugh out loud ha ha without embarrassment. I can't find my eye, where is my eye This is getting really hilarious, Has anybody seen my eye [I mean the inner eye you dummy] If love is the product of society of long hours of work processing and searching data digitalized internet-ized by our intelligentsia on the context of our fruitful economy and growing industry, I don't want to purchase it at retail stores. Not wholesale either. I don't want gallons of it, pounds of it, boxes of it loads of it tons of it zillions of it I don't want whole sets of emotions just like I reject whole sets of ideologies I want this stuff to be expensive - spiritwise classy fancy dandy randy clever witty and pretty no refunds policy no returns ever no money back guarantee no 30 days to fool with it, mess with it, and bring it back put it on the shelf ready for the next purchase I don't want it merchandised labeled marketed publicized on the isles of any store I don't want it bought, priced up, redeemed Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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At 16,523 eBooks in 33 Years and 11.75 Months We Averaged ~486 Per Year 40.5 Per Month 1.33 Per Day At 1568 eBooks Done In The 186 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 9.4 Per Day 65.5 Per Week 273.4 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] BRINGING THE INTERNET TO RURAL INDIA As many as 5,000 villages in rural India may soon be connected to the Internet, thanks to efforts of an international group of companies and organizations, including the World Bank. Many rural Indians do not have easy access to business or government functions, and the project is designed to fill that gap for villages with more than 5,000 residents in the Indian state of Karnataka. The computer centers or kiosks will connect to the Internet either through wired networks or by satellite and will have between 5 and 10 "thin client" computers. In addition to the World Bank, partners in the project include Comat Technologies, an Indian Internet service provider; ICICI Bank, a commercial bank in India; and California-based Wyse Technology, maker of computer terminal equipment. New York Times, 15 June 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/16/technology/16compute.html DUKE EVALUATES IPOD PROGRAM A study conducted at Duke University provided a mixed review of the institution's iPod program, in which all incoming freshmen last fall were given the devices to investigate their educational value. 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Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 June 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/06/2005061602t.htm HOUSE VOTES TO LIMIT PATRIOT ACT The U.S. House of Representatives has voted 238-187 to impose limits on the powers of the Patriot Act. Sponsored by Rep. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.), the measure would eliminate federal authority granted by the Patriot Act to compel libraries and bookstores to disclose information about books their patrons have checked out or bought, without first obtaining a search warrant; the measure would preserve the right for government officials to obtain Internet search records from libraries. Although Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recently told Congress that federal authorities have never invoked the power, a number of libraries have begun deleting patron records to preempt the possibility of having to turn them over. Sanders called the vote "a tremendous victory that restores important constitutional rights to the American people." Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.) defended the powers, saying that federal authorities need tools to help them identify planned terrorist activities and prevent attacks before they happen. The measure has not been introduced by the Senate, and President Bush has promised to veto the bill if it passes [without the no warrant search provision]. Wired News, 15 June 2005 http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67880,00.html SOLARIS GOES OPEN SOURCE This week Sun Microsystems began offering its Solaris 10 operating system as a free, open source application, called OpenSolaris. According to Sun, users can download many of the technologies of the operating system--including the kernel and networking software--make changes to the code, and create new commercial products. Tom Goguen, vice president for platform software at Sun, said, "Our goal is to increase and really drive up the ecosystem around Solaris." Goguen said that with the release, Sun surpasses the University of California as the single largest contributor to the open source community. Gordon Haff, senior analyst at Illuminata, said the move is more likely to help Sun retain existing customers than to draw new ones. OpenSolaris is not likely a competitor for Linux in the near term, said Haff, and Windows is sufficiently different from Solaris that current Windows customers are unlikely to switch based on the new release. Haff said he believes Sun's goal is to support "its customer base and developer community that are still in the Solaris camp." InfoWorld, 13 June 2005 http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/13/HNopensolaris_1.html SPYWARE CHARGES RESULT IN $7.5 MILLION SETTLEMENT California-based Intermix Media will pay New York State $7.5 million over three years to settle a spyware lawsuit. In the suit, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer had charged the company with violating state false-advertising and deceptive-practices laws. Intermix acknowledged that it formerly distributed software that was surreptitiously installed on users' computers, though as part of the settlement the company admitted no wrongdoing. Intermix had previously suspended the distribution of the software at issue; with the settlement, the company will permanently discontinue the practice. Intermix has also created a position of chief privacy officer since the lawsuit was originally filed, and officials from the company said they have cooperated with federal regulators. Reuters, 15 June 2005 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8798165 *** SUMMER BREAK *** Edupage will be taking a brief break and will not be published on Monday, June 20, or Wednesday, June 22. Look for the next Edupage on Friday, June 24. 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 Philip A. Clooney, a White House lawyer with a BA in economics, has apparently been altering many of the White House statements concerning Global Warming [or Climate Change, as the spin medic establishment is attempting to recoin the term]. Apparently Mr. Clooney, Esq., has no scientific training, other than a stint as a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, where he was the "Climate Team Leader." When The White House was asked for comment, Michele St. Martin, a White House spokeswoman, said: "We don't put Phil Cooney on the record. "He's not a cleared spokesman." However, his additions and editions of various adjectives and/or adverbs seem to have been exactly what the spin-doctors at The White House ordered, as he added the word "extremely" in this: "The attribution of the causes of biological and ecological changes to climate change or variability is extremely difficult." Here is an even more obvious example: "Many scientific observations indicate that the Earth is undergoing a period of relatively rapid change." became "Many scientific observations point to the conclusion that the Earth may be undergoing a period of relatively rapid change." In yet more of this kind of doublespeak, Harlan L. Watson, the chief climate negotiator for the State Department, said to the BBC last month: "We are still not convinced of the need to move forward quite so quickly," "There is general agreement that there is a lot known, but also there is a lot to be known." I guess the environment is now a negotiable commodity, in the eyes of The White House, at least. However, try telling that to chemicals we have put there already. Sources: The NY Times and the BBC *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK When Mr. Evers, former head of MCI-Worldcom appeared in Congress to answer questions, he refused to even answer the simple query, as to whether he was the Mr. Evers who had headed MCI-Worlcom-- claiming his 5th Amendment rights again self-incrimination. Or should that one go under doublespeak? Source: The Congressional Record DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Recent news stories have reported various project to "harden" various "Public Safety Building," but the stories were sparse. 1. "Harden" means to make them more resistant to attack. 2. "Public Safety Building" = "Police Station" *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK There will be no 6 month report from Google Print in the media. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The Illinois state budget was very quietly signed into law by the governor this week, as the pension fund was raided to do the magic of budget balancing. The Republicans, in a fit of fiscal responsibility, berated the governor for taking money from the pension fund at 8.5% when it could have been borrowed commercially for 3.5%. I suppose calling this a balanced budget might place this in the Doublespeak column.. . . * 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 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 collage scattered wood shavings, fallen feathers waves of sand tossed on a toasty beach undulating pattern shows my heart and eyes ensemble riding on the high tide of beauty without boundaries Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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Neal Malone Art Maguire; Or, The Broken Pledge.] [Illustrator: M. L. 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W.H. Leavitt 16065 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/6/16065 ] [Files: 16065.txt; 16065-h.htm] Carolina Chansons, by DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen 16064 [Subtitle: Legends of the Low Country] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/6/16064 ] [Files: 16064.txt; 16064-8.txt; 16064-h.htm; ] Jack Rustig, by Kapitein Marryat 16063 [Illustrator: Johan Braakensiek] [Translator: A. J. van Dragt] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/6/16063 ] [Files: 16063-8.txt; 16063-h.htm] In het gebied van het Tsadmeer met de expeditie Tilho, by Melin 16062 [Full author: L. Roserot de Melin] [Subtitle: De Aarde en haar volken, 1910] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/6/16062 ] [Files: 16062-8.txt; 16062-h.htm] Op de olifantenjacht in Oeganda, by Baron De Langsdorff 16061 [Subtitle: De Aarde en haar volken, 1910] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/6/16061 ] [Files: 16061-8.txt; 16061-h.htm] American Missionary, Vol. 45, No. 2, February, 1891, by Various 16060 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/6/16060 ] [Files: 16060.txt; 16060-8.txt; 16060-h.htm] Modern Spanish Lyrics, by Various 16059 [Editor: Elijah Clarence Hills And S. Griswold Morley] [Language: English and Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16059 ] [Files: 16059.txt; 16059-8.txt; 16059-h.htm] Occult Chemistry, by Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater 16058 [Editor: A. P. Sinnett] [Subtitle: Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16058 ] [Files: 16058.txt; 16058-8.txt; 16058-h.htm; ] Atlantic Monthly,Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864, by Various 16057 [Subtitle: A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16057 ] [Files: 16057.txt; 16057-8.txt; 16057-h.htm] A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire, by Harold Harvey 16056 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16056 ] [Files: 16056.txt; 16056-8.txt; 16056-h.htm] Shakespeare and Precious Stones, by George Frederick Kunz 16055 [Subtitle: Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in] [Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the] [Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to] [Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16055 ] [Files: 16055.txt; 16055-8.txt; 16055-h.htm; ] The Palace of Darkened Windows, by Mary Hastings Bradley 16054 [Illustrator: Edmund Frederick] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16054 ] [Files: 16054.txt; 16054-8.txt; 16054-h.htm] The Haunted Chamber, by "The Duchess" 16053 [Subtitle: A Novel] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16053 ] [Files: 16053.txt; 16053-8.txt; 16053-h.htm] The Brownies and Other Tales, by Juliana Horatia Ewing 16052 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16052 ] [Files: 16052.txt; 16052-8.txt; 16052-h.htm] The Voice in the Fog, by Harold MacGrath 16051 [Ill.: A. B. Wenzell] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16051 ] [Files: 16051.txt; 16051-8.txt; 16051-h.htm; ] The Gold Hunters' Adventures, by William H. Thomes 16050 [Subtitle: Or, Life in Australia] [Ill.: Champney] [The illustrator is listed only as "Champney" in the LOC catalogue as] [well as this text. He might have been James Wells Champney (1843-1903), a] [well-known American artist who did some book illustrations in addition to] [painting.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/5/16050 ] [Files: 16050.txt; 16050-8.txt; 16050-h.htm; ] Humphrey Bold, by Herbert Strang 16049 [Subtitle: A Story of the Times of Benbow] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16049 ] [Files: 16049.txt; 16049-h.htm; ] Troop One of the Labrador, by Dillon Wallace 16048 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16048 ] [Files: 16048.txt; 16048-h.htm] The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons, by Ellice Hopkins 16047 [Subtitle: A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16047 ] [Files: 16047.txt; 16047-8.txt; 16047-h.htm] Boy Blue and His Friends, by Etta and Mary Blaisdell 16046 [Full author: Etta Austin Blaisdell and Mary Frances Blaisdell] [Illustrator: Maud Touser] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16046 ] [Files: 16046.txt; 16046-h.htm] Op de jacht in Mozambique, by Guillaume Vasse 16045 [Subtitle: De Aarde en haar volken, 1909] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16045 ] [Files: 16045-8.txt; 16045-h.htm] Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, Emanuel Swedenborg 16044 [Full title: Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets; and] [Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, and] [The Spirits And Angels There] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16044 ] [Files: 16044.txt; 16044-h.htm] Mythen & Legenden van Japan, by F. Hadland Davis 16043 [Illustrator: Evelyn Paul] [Translator: B. C. Goudsmit] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16043 ] [Files: 16043-8.txt; 16043-h.htm] The Wonder Book of Bible Stories, Compiled by Logan Marshall 16042 [Editor: Logan Marshall] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16042 ] [Files: 16042.txt; 16042-8.txt; 16042-h.htm] The Grey Cloak, by Harold MacGrath 16041 [Ill.: Thomas Mitchell Peirce] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16041 ] [Files: 16041.txt; 16041-8.txt; 16041-h.htm; ] Kenny, by Leona Dalrymple 16040 [Ill.: Joseph Pierre Nuyttens] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/4/16040 ] [Files: 16040.txt; 16040-8.txt; 16040-h.htm; ] The Lost Lady of Lone, by E.D.E.N. Southworth 16039 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16039 ] [Files: 16039.txt; 16039-8.txt; 16039-h.htm] Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II, by Various 16038 [Subtitle: The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562-1733] [Editor: Francis W. 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Halsey] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16037 ] [Files: 16037.txt; 16037-8.txt; 16037-h.htm] American Missionary, Volume 44, No. 6, June, 1890, by Various 16036 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16036 ] [Files: 16036.txt; 16036-8.txt; 16036-h.htm] The Food of the Gods, by Brandon Head 16035 [Subtitle: A Popular Account of Cocoa] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16035 ] [Files: 16035.txt; 16035-8.txt; 16035-h.htm; ] Jouluilta, by Johan Ludvig Runeberg 16034 [Subtitle: Kolmilauluinen runoelma] [Translator: Valter Juva] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16034 ] [Files: 16034-8.txt] Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, August, 1863, No. 70, by Various 16033 [Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16033 ] [Files: 16033.txt; 16033-8.txt; 16033-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 51, October 28, 1897, by Various 16032 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,] [No. 51, October 28, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16032 ] [Files: 16032.txt; 16032-8.txt; 16032-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 50, October 21, 1897, by Various 16031 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,] [No. 50, October 21, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16031 ] [Files: 16031.txt; 16031-8.txt; 16031-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 49, October 14, 1897, by Various 16030 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,] [No. 49, October 14, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/3/16030 ] [Files: 16030.txt; 16030-8.txt; 16030-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 48, October 7, 1897, by Various 16029 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1] [No. 48, October 7, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16029 ] [Files: 16029.txt; 16029-8.txt; 16029-h.htm] Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863, by Various 16028 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16028 ] [Files: 16028.txt; 16028-8.txt; 16028-h.htm] Expeditions In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2), by Grey 16027 [Full title: Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West] [And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2)] [Full author: George Grey] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16027 ] [Files: 16027.txt; 16027-h.htm] De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars, by Thomas De Quincey 16026 [Editor: William Edward Simonds] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16026 ] [Files: 16026.txt; 16026-8.txt; 16026-h.htm; ] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 47, by Various 16025 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.] [1, No. 47, September 30, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16025 ] [Files: 16025.txt; 16025-8.txt; 16025-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 46, by Various 16024 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.] [1, No. 46, September 23, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16024 ] [Files: 16024.txt; 16024-8.txt; 16024-h.htm] -=-=-=-=[ 2 NEW EBOOKS AT PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jun 2005 Mother Mason, by Bess Streeter Aldrich [050053xx.xxx] 0448A Jun 2005 A Lantern in her Hand, by Bess Streeter Aldrich [050052xx.xxx] 0447A eBooks are posted in uncompressed and/or compressed formats. 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Clooney, a White House lawyer with a BA in economics, has apparently been altering many of the White House statements concerning Global Warming [or Climate Change, as the spin medic establishment is attempting to recoin the term]. Apparently Mr. Clooney, Esq., has no scientific training, other than a stint as a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, where he was the "Climate Team Leader." When The White House was asked for comment, Michele St. Martin, a White House spokeswoman, said: "We don't put Phil Cooney on the record. "He's not a cleared spokesman." However, his additions and editions of various adjectives and/or adverbs seem to have been exactly what the spin-doctors at The White House ordered, as he added the word "extremely" in this: "The attribution of the causes of biological and ecological changes to climate change or variability is extremely difficult." Here is an even more obvious example: "Many scientific observations indicate that the Earth is undergoing a period of relatively rapid change." became "Many scientific observations point to the conclusion that the Earth may be undergoing a period of relatively rapid change." In yet more of this kind of doublespeak, Harlan L. Watson, the chief climate negotiator for the State Department, said to the BBC last month: "We are still not convinced of the need to move forward quite so quickly," "There is general agreement that there is a lot known, but also there is a lot to be known." I guess the environment is now a negotiable commodity, in the eyes of The White House, at least. However, try telling that to chemicals we have put there already. Sources: The NY Times and the BBC *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK When Mr. Evers, former head of MCI-Worldcom appeared in Congress to answer questions, he refused to even answer the simple query, as to whether he was the Mr. Evers who had headed MCI-Worlcom-- claiming his 5th Amendment rights again self-incrimination. Or should that one go under doublespeak? Source: The Congressional Record DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Recent news stories have reported various project to "harden" various "Public Safety Building," but the stories were sparse. 1. "Harden" means to make them more resistant to attack. 2. "Public Safety Building" = "Police Station" *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK There will be no 6 month report from Google Print in the media to follow up their huge media blitz from December 14, 2004. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The Illinois state budget was very quietly signed into law by the governor this week, as the pension fund was raided to do the magic of budget balancing. The Republicans, in a fit of fiscal responsibility, berated the governor for taking money from the pension fund at 8.5% when it could have been borrowed commercially for 3.5%. I suppose calling this a balanced budget might place this in the Doublespeak column.. . . * 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 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 sounds my flute fills with sandalwood fragrance the air is adorned with jewels of smoke they tenderly encircle the heart of a cloud the skies ablaze return caressing rain my helpless lips have found delicious burden a garland of melodies is my breath Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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08 Jun '05

GWeekly_June_08_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 08 Jun 2005 eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 2 of the Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter: - Obtaining Project Gutenberg eBooks - Updates/corrections to previously posted eBooks - 56 New U.S. eBooks this week - 5 New eBooks at Project Gutenberg of Australia - Last, but not least: insights and other fine stuff - Mailing list information - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .:: HOW TO GET EBOOKS FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG ::. The easiest way to obtain our eBooks is at our search page at http://gutenberg.org/find which allows searching by title, author or eBook number; there is also an Advanced Search page which allows for additional search criteria (note that our newer postings may not yet be indexed for all additional criteria). 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Last week the Total Count was 16364, including 446 at PG of Australia. This week we added 61 new. RESERVED/PENDING count: 44 =-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= .:: During the past week the following ebooks were manually updated and reposted with the indicated filenames and transferred into the corresponding new directories: Parisians in the Country, by Honore de Balzac 7929 [Contents: The Illustrious Gaudissart, The Muse of the Department] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/7/9/2/7929 ] [Files: 7929.txt] The Lock And Key Library, by Various 2038 [Subtitle: Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English] [Editor: Julian Hawthorne] [Contents: Rudyard Kipling My Own True Ghost Story The Sending of Dana Da In the House of Suddhoo His Wedded Wife A. Conan Doyle A Case of Identity A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League Egerton Castle The Baron's Quarry Stanley J. Weyman The Fowl in the Pot Robert Louis Stevenson The Pavilion on the Links Wilkie Collins The Dream Woman The First Narrative The Second Narrative The Third Narrative Fourth (and Last) Narrative Anonymous The Lost Duchess The Minor Canon The Pipe The Puzzle The Great Valdez Sapphire] [Updated edition: etext00/sbmea10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/3/2038 ] [Files: 2038.txt; 2038-8.txt; 2038-h.htm] Paz, by Honore de Balzac 1369 [Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley] [Updated edition of: etext98/pzhdb10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1369 ] [Files: 1369.txt] .:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: Title fixed: The Horror of the Heights, by Arthur Conan Doyle 15949C [Tr.: Anders Blixt] [Language: Interlingua] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15949 ] [Files: 15949.txt; ] History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. III., by Robert Kerr 12325 [Full title: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume III.] [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: History Of The Discovery Of America, And Of Some Of The Early Conquests In The New World] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/3/2/12325 ] [Files: 12325-h.htm] An html version has been provided: General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II, by Kerr 10803 [Full author: Robert Kerr] [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.net/1/0/8/0/10803 ] [Files: 10803-h.htm] An html version has been provided. Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1, by Robert Kerr 10600 [Full title: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1] [Subtitle: 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.net/1/0/6/0/10600 ] [Files: 10600-h.htm] -=-=-=-=[ 56 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens 16023 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16023 ] [Files: 16023-8.txt; 16023-r.rtf] Les conteurs � la ronde, by Charles Dickens 16022 [Translator: Am�d�e Pichot] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16022 ] [Files: 16022-8.txt; 16022-r.rtf] Cantique de No�l, by Charles Dickens 16021 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16021 ] [Files: 16021-8.txt; 16021-r.rtf] Le grillon du foyer, by Charles Dickens 16020 [Translator: Am�d�e Chaillot] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/2/16020 ] [Files: 16020-8.txt; 16020-r.rtf] Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories, by William Carleton 16019 [Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of] [William Carleton, Volume Three] [Contents:] [Phelim Otoole's Courtship] [Wildgoose Lodge] [Tubber Derg; Or, The Red Well.] [Neal Malone] [Art Maguire; Or, The Broken Pledge.] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1/16019 ] [Files: 16019.txt; 16019-h.htm] The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine, by William Carleton 16018 [Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of] [William Carleton, Volume Three] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1/16018 ] [Files: 16018.txt; 16018-h.htm] The Poor Scholar, by William Carleton 16017 [Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of] [William Carleton, Volume Three] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1/16017 ] [Files: 16017.txt; 16017-h.htm] Going To Maynooth, by William Carleton 16016 [Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of] [William Carleton, Volume Three] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1/16016 ] [Files: 16016.txt; 16016-h.htm] Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver and Other Stories, by William Carleton 16015 [Full title: Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath;] [The Lianhan Shee] [Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of] [William Carleton, Volume Three] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1/16015 ] [Files: 16015.txt; 16015-h.htm] The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh, by William Carleton 16014 [Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of] [William Carleton, Volume Three] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1/16014 ] [Files: 16014.txt; 16014-h.htm] Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim, Carleton 16013 [Full author: William Carleton] [Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of] [William Carleton, Volume Three] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1/16013 ] [Files: 16013.txt; 16013-h.htm] The Ned M'Keown Stories, by William Carleton 16012 [Subtitle: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of] [William Carleton, Volume Three] [Contents:] [Ned M'Keown.] [The Three Tasks.] [Shane Fadh's Wedding.] [Larry M'Farland's Wake.] [The Battle Of The Factions.] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1/16012 ] [Files: 16012.txt; 16012-h.htm] The Emigrants Of Ahadarra, by William Carleton 16011 [Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1/16011 ] [Files: 16011.txt; 16011-8.txt; 16011-h.htm] The Tithe-Proctor, by William Carleton 16010 [Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1/16010 ] [Files: 16010.txt; 16010-h.htm] Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent, by William Carleton 16009 [Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16009 ] [Files: 16009.txt; 16009-h.htm] Ellen Duncan; and The Proctor's Daughter, by William Carleton 16008 [Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16008 ] [Files: 16008.txt; 16008-h.htm] The Dead Boxer, by William Carleton 16007 [Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16007 ] [Files: 16007.txt; 16007-h.htm] Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day, by William Carleton 16006 [Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16006 ] [Files: 16006.txt; 16006-h.htm] Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale, by William Carleton 16005 [Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16005 ] [Files: 16005.txt; 16005-h.htm] The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector, by William Carleton 16004 [Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16004 ] [Files: 16004.txt; 16004-h.htm] Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain, by William Carleton 16003 [Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16003 ] [Files: 16003.txt; 16003-h.htm] Fardorougha, The Miser, by William Carleton 16002 [Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16002 ] [Files: 16002.txt; 16002-h.htm] Willy Reilly, by William Carleton 16001 [Subtitle: The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] [Illustrator: M. L. Flanery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16001 ] [Files: 16001.txt; 16001-8.txt; 16001-h.htm] The Ship of Stars, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 16000 [Author AKA: Q] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/0/0/16000 ] [Files: 16000.txt; ] The Theater (1720), by Sir John Falstaffe 15999 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15999 ] [Files: 15999.txt; 15999-8.txt; ] Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2, James Marchant 15998 [Full title: Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2] [(of 2)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15998 ] [Files: 15998.txt; 15998-8.txt; 15998-h.htm] Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol 1, James Marchant 15997 [Full title: Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] [(of 2)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15997 ] [Files: 15997.txt; 15997-8.txt; 15997-h.htm] Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850, by Various 15996 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15996 ] [Files: 15996.txt; 15996-8.txt; 15996-h.htm] Salambo, by Gustave Flaubert 15995 [Subtitle: Ein Roman aus Alt-Karthago] [Translator: Artur Schurig] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15995 ] [Files: 15995-8.txt; 15995-h.htm] A Reckless Character, And Other Stories, by Ivan Turgenev 15994 [Contents:] [A Reckless Character] [The Dream] [Father Alexy�i's Story] [Old Portraits] [The Song Of Love Triumphant] [Clara M�litch] [Poems In Prose] [Translator: Isabel Hapgood] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15994 ] [Files: 15994.txt; 15994-8.txt] 25 vuotta, by Kasimir Leino 15993 [Subtitle: Valikoima runoja] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15993 ] [Files: 15993-8.txt] Come Rack! Come Rope!, by Robert Hugh Benson 15992 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15992 ] [Files: 15992.txt; 15992-8.txt] Japhet, In Search Of A Father, by Frederick Marryat 15991 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15991 ] [Files: 15991.txt; 15991-8.txt; 15991-h.htm] Akten voor en na de Heilige Communie, by De Gibergues 15990 [Subtitle: Voor de kleine kinderen] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15990 ] [Files: 15990-8.txt; 15990-h.htm] The Fatal Glove, by Clara Augusta Jones Trask 15989 [Author AKA: Clara Augusta] [Clara Augusta Jones Trask (1839-1905) often wrote under the pseudonym] ["Clara Augusta".] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/8/15989 ] [Files: 15989.txt; 15989-8.txt; 15989-h.htm; ] Ennen ja nyky��n 1, by Hanna Ongelin 15988 [Subtitle: Kuvauksia naisen el�m�st�] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/8/15988 ] [Files: 15988-8.txt] Kuvauksia ja unelmia, by Fredrika Runeberg 15987 [Subtitle: Valikoima kertomuksia] [Translator: Ilta] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/8/15987 ] [Files: 15987-8.txt] Th' Barrel Organ, by Edwin Waugh 15986 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/8/15986 ] [Files: 15986.txt; ] Deephaven and Selected Stories and Sketches, by Sarah Orne Jewett 15985 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/8/15985 ] [Files: 15985.txt; 15985-h.htm] Washington Irving, by Charles Dudley Warner 15984 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/8/15984 ] [Files: 15984.txt; 15984-8.txt; 15984-h.htm] Read-Aloud Plays, by Horace Holley 15983 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/8/15983 ] [Files: 15983.txt; 15983-8.txt; 15983-h.htm] Woman As She Should Be, by Mary E. Herbert 15982 [Subtitle: or, Agnes Wiltshire] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/8/15982 ] [Files: 15982.txt; 15982-8.txt; 15982-h.htm] Si Tandang Basio Macunat, by Fray Miguel Lucio y Bustamante 15981 [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/8/15981 ] [Files: 15981-8.txt; 15981-h.htm] Pag Susulatan nang Dalauang Binibini na si Urbana at ni Feliza, Castro 15980 [Full author: Modesto de Castro] [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/8/15980 ] [Files: 15980-8.txt; 15980-h.htm] Miss Caprice, by St. George Rathborne 15979 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/7/15979 ] [Files: 15979.txt; 15979-h.htm] The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France, by Henry Van Dyke 15978 [Ill: Frank E. Schoonover ] [Language: English ] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/9/7/15978 ] [Files: 15978.txt; 15978-h.htm; ] Frank and Fanny, by Mrs. Clara Moreton 15977 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/7/15977 ] [Files: 15977.txt; 15977-h.htm] Puck of Pook's Hill, by Rudyard Kipling 15976 [Illustrator: Harold Robert Millar] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/7/15976 ] [Files: 15976.txt; 15976-8.txt; 15976-h.htm] Camera Obscura, by Nicolaas Beets (AKA Hildebrand) 15975 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/7/15975 ] [Files: 15975-8.txt; 15975-h.htm] De Pop van Elisabeth Gehrke, by Dina Mollinger-Hooyer 15974 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/7/15974 ] [Files: 15974-8.txt; 15974-h.htm] Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 103, November 26, 1892, by Various 15973 [Editor: Francis Burnand] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/7/15973 ] [Files: 15973.txt; 15973-8.txt; 15973-h.htm] The Record of a Regiment of the Line, by M. Jacson 15972 [Subtitle: Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire] [Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/7/15972 ] [Files: 15972.txt; 15972-8.txt; 15972-h.htm] Polly of the Hospital Staff, by Emma C. Dowd 15971 [Ill.: Irma Deremeaux] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/7/15971 ] [Files: 15971.txt; 15971-h.htm; ] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 44, by Various 15970 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.] [1, No. 44, September 9, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/7/15970 ] [Files: 15970.txt; 15970-8.txt; 15970-h.htm] Mestarin nuuskarasia, by Robert Kiljander 15969 [Subtitle: Yksin�yt�ksinen huvin�ytelm�] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/6/15969 ] [Files: 15969-8.txt] The Grounds of Christianity, by George Bethune English 15968 [Full title: The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New] [Testament with the Old] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/6/15968 ] [Files: 15968.txt; 15968-8.txt; 15968-r.rtf; 15968-pdf.pdf] -=-=-=-=[ 5 NEW EBOOKS AT PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jun 2005 Helen Vardon's Confession, by R Austin Freeman [050051xx.xxx] 0446A Jun 2005 When Rogues Fall Out, by R Austin Freeman [050050xx.xxx] 0445A Jun 2005 The Shadow of the Wolf, by R Austin Freeman [050049xx.xxx] 0444A Jun 2005 The Jacob Street Mystery, by R Austin Freeman [050048xx.xxx] 0443A Jun 2005 The Great Portrait Mystery, by R Austin Freeman [050047xx.xxx] 0442A eBooks are posted in uncompressed and/or compressed formats. 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Weekly_June_08.txt **The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, June 8, 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 * HOT REQUESTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS PROJECT GUTENBERG OF EUROPE TAKES OFF!!! "EUROPE'S FLAMING JUNE 2005" "PROJECT GUTENBERG EUROPE" STARTS REGULAR ACTIVITY After a year of preparation "Project Gutenberg Europe", organized by "Project Rastko Network" and its "Distributed Proofreaders Europe", starts regular activity this month, now having now its own server provided by leading South Eastern European provider "EUnet". First 20 PD e-texts are already posted, as below, and some 80 could follow by the end of the June. 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Zoran Sample listings: [please forgive chars not supported in this format] Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic (1787-1864) - Srpske narodne pjesme [Serbian] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/0/u0001 Petar Petrovic Njegos (1813-1851) - Luca Mikrokozma [Serbian] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/0/u0002 Nikola Tesla (1876-1943) - My Inventions [English] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/0/u0003 Arvid Jdrnefelt (1861-1932) - Minun Marttani [Finnish] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/0/u0004 Uuno Kailas (1901-1933) - Purjehtijat [Finnish] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/0/u0005 Uuno Kailas (1901-1933) - Uni ja kuolema [Finnish] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/0/u0006 Stella Benson (1892-1933) - The Little World [English] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/0/u0007 Stella Benson (1892-1933) - The Man Who Missed The 'Bus [English] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/0/u0008 Stella Benson (1892-1933) - Worlds Within Worlds [English] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/0/u0009 Claude Hopkins (1866-1932) - Scientific Advertising [English] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/1/u0010 Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) Ruslan i Lyudmila [Russian] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/1/u0011 Mihail Bulgakov (1891-1940) - Master i Margarita [Russian] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/1/u0012 Odoevskiy Vladimir Fedorovich (1804?-1869) - Russkie nochi [Russian] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/1/u0013 Mihail Yur'evich Lermontov (1814-1841) - Geroy nashego vremeni [Russian] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/1/u0014 Aleko Konstaninov - Do Chikago i nazad [Bulgarian] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/1/u0016/ Anton Strshimirov - Horo [Bulgarian] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/1/u0017/ Mihaylo Kotsyubinskiy - Tini zabutih predkiv [Ukrainian] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/1/u0018/ Ivan Kotlyarevskiy (tr.) - Eneyida [Ukrainian] http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/u/0/0/1/u0019/ Plato, K. 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At 16,425 eBooks in 33 Years and 11.25 Months We Averaged ~484 Per Year 40.3 Per Month 1.33 Per Day At 1469 eBooks Done In The 154 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 10 Per Day 67 Per Week 280 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] SPAM FIGHTERS FORM NEW COALITION A new group tentatively called the Anti-Spyware Coalition plans to publish guidelines to define spyware, best practices for software development, and a lexicon of common terms by the end of the summer. The guidelines will be open to public comment. The Center for Democracy and Technology, a public advocacy group based in Washington, is running the new initiative. The coalition formed two months after the collapse of the Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology Vendors, which admitted a company suspected of making adware. According to David Fewer, staff counsel at the Ottawa-based Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, which is affiliated with the new consortium, judging whether software is spyware comes down to notice, consent, and control. Many adware and spyware products fail to meet all three requirements. Silicon.com, 3 June 2005 http://software.silicon.com/malware/0,3800003100,39130956,00.htm APPLE TO SWITCH TO INTEL Apple Computer reportedly plans to use Intel processors in Macintosh computers, ending a multiyear relationship with IBM and Motorola. Analysts speculate that a major factor behind the shift is the failure of IBM to develop new Power PC chips that produce less heat. Low heat generation is critical for notebook computers, which have less room for heat-dissipating features than desktop systems. The move follows Microsoft's decision to build its own computer hardware with assistance from IBM--a shift from its previous Windows-Intel alliance--and IBM's sale of its PC business to Lenovo. One key challenge facing Apple is persuading software developers to rewrite their code to work with Intel chips. New York Times, 6 June 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/06/technology/06apple.html UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING BROWSER TO FIGHT TERRORISM Researchers at the University of Buffalo (UB) are developing browser technology that endeavors to identify hidden connections in vast collections of documents. Rather than simply looking for matches to specified query terms, which is what typical search engines do, the UB technology seeks to uncover connections between ideas. 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CNET, 2 June 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5730176.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 GM has "placed" this statistic all over the major media for a few weeks now, presumably hoping people will feel sorry for them, as per their high prices: $1500 from every car sold goes to employee health cost, and we heard it straight from the horses mouth in more media coverage just yesterday. However, GM made 5.2 million vehicles in North America during 2004, and at $1500 each, that would have placed $12.3 Billion into their health care plan while source information from The Detroit News indicates only $5.6B. "If General Motors was just selling a million more cars per years, you wouldn't be hearing these complaints about high health and pension costs." Sources: Detroit News, Sunday, May 8, 2005 www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/ 0505/08/A01-175048.htm and CSM The AP also credits GM with only ~$5 billion in health care: and PBS * Google claims to now be the largest media company, as per the value of its stock, which is now trading at triple the original price at a total of ~$81 B, thus surpassing AOL Time-Warner at ~78 B. However, cash flow into the company was only $3.x B last year, as compared with over 10 times as much at AOL Time Warner at ~$42 B. * The Pentagon has apparently conspired to artificially increases prices paid to Boeing for passenger planes converted into tankers, with several officials having already taken the fall for what has been termed as an unofficial Boeing bailout effort that may now turn to an effort to bail these parties out of trouble if not out of jail. Meanwhile, Airbus and Northrop have teamed up to make an offer the Pentagon can't refuse under scrutiny. Sources: Seattle Times and The Washington Post * When the whole MCI-Worldcom-Citigroup thing hit the fan, one of the major players, a Mr. Grubman was fined $15 M and fired. However, that fine was only half of what he got from his diamond-encrusted-platinum-parachute clause, not to mention the $20 million per year he received for at least four years of work on that project. *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK Republican Presidential Quotations "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954 Source : The Eisenhower Presidential Papers, Document #1147; November 8, 1954 The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part VI: Crises Abroad, Party Problems at Home; September 1954 to December 1954 November 8, 1954 DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK The United Nations, for whom most of us have always had the utmost respect, fell a number of rungs off a ladder recently when it officially adopted "World Intellectual Property Organization's" masthead as part of its own. While the UN is famous for assisting those in need from countries all over the world, WIPO is equally infamous, for its hundreds of years of public domain repressions, all the way back to the Gutenberg Press, when, under an assortment of previous names, this organization felt it would oppose any new technology that would/could/should bring relatively unlimited information to the masses. My own copyright situation reflects at least these five copyright laws, each designed to eliminate competitions from technologies that were capable of bringing as much information to the masses as was available to the elite only a few short years before. 1. "The Statute of Mary" in 1557 Anti-Gutenberg Press 2. The Statute of Anne in 1709 Anti-Gutenberg Press 3. The US Copyright Act of 1909 Anti-Steam/Electric 4. The US Copyright Act of 1976 Anti-Xerox Machines 5. The US Copyright Act of 1998 Anti-Internet/Web The first two laws were written and lobbied through The Stationers' Guild, later The Stationers' Company, in an obvious political power struggle that took generations, but eventually, after 150 years of the Gutenberg Press, the Stationers [scribes] got back their monopoly status over all publishing under British law. Of course, during that 150 years more books had already been printed by the Gutenberg Presses than had been all the previous years of hand-written history, and the die had already been cast by Gutenberg for the upcoming new Industrial Revolution, and thus there was no going back to the previous feudal system of total guild monopolies as had been written into these first two laws. However, at least momentarily, the number of books made available in the U.K. fell to ~600 after the Statute of Anne from ~6,000 before the Statute of Anne; censorship by the government and The Stationers was back, and in a very big way. The 14 year copyright with a possible 14 year extension as stated in The Statute of Anne was adopted later from British law to the laws of the revolutionary new places created by the Americans and the French. I should note that the author still had to be alive for such extended copyright periods in the original laws, and a copyright belonged to the publisher, The Stationers' Company in a first 14 year copyright period. We should also note it was written into the first of these five laws that such copyrights would apply retroactively to every word ever written, not matter by whom, or how long ago. The original copyright law was designed to put all work under copyright ownership by The Stationers Company. This law was egocentric on the parts of The Stationers' Guild members and it was held in such ill repute by all concered that it was never enforced or obeyed, thus the law was replaced by second, The Statute of Anne. These changes allowed for copyright only on new works and for the second copyright period to be owned by the authors. This was deemed a great victory by the authors, but the reality was that The Stationers' Company were giving up very little, as hardly any books were still in print in the second 14 years of their existence, and not so many authors were still alive 14 years after writing some of the best sellers that were still in print. However, not all countries were bound by these laws and the total number of titles and copies continued in some fashion or form around the world. 200 years after The Statute of Anne came the third law, one that was again designed by the olde garde publisher network to elimination competition from the new boyes. At the end of the 19th Century, more steam and electric press books were being published than anyone had seen-- again, more books than had ever been made before, again the monopoly of the olde boye network was threatened. What to do? Simple! Just do what ye olde boyes did to the Gutenberg Press. Pass a law that wipes out the new competition. Since the new boys WERE new, they didn't have contracts to publish the new authors, so they reprinted all those books over 28 years old and most books over 14 years as 90% of all copyrights were never renewed, so copyrights were really mostly only for 14 years. By placing one of these new steam or electric presses a few feet from the new transcontinental railroad lines a new boy publisher could fill an entire boxcar literally overnight and have it shipped anywhere in the country a few days later. . .and they did exactly that. Combining these new technologies with new Rural Federal Delivery mail system, Sears & Roebuck delivered a whole 768 page catalog to nearly everyone in the U.S., a feat that would have been impossible earlier. This made the other publishers sit up and take notice-- if Sears could do this inexpensively enough to send the millions of catalogs all over the country, then any new publisher could do the same, only sell the books at low prices the olde boye networke couldn't compete with via their now antiquated business plans. Thus the U.S Copyright Act of 1909 was created with the specific goal of wiping out all those new reprint house publishers by making it illegal to reprint simply via a new copyright law that voided the old one, and made the new copyrights twice as long as the old ones. This is why you can find so many collections of reprint books dated around the turn of the 19th Century but the number drops off precipitously after 1909. Got competition? Buy a law against it! This was the third time such a stragegy was employed. The fourth time was in 1976 when a similar law was made to extend the maximum copyright term from 56 years as a copyright had been since 1909, to 75 years, but perhaps even more importantly, the requirement for copyright to to be extended was eliminated, even though 90% of those copyrights had never been extended before. Thus this law was nine times more repressive than those previous laws had been: eliminating from public domain access ALL books for 75 years, not just those books the publishers could still make a profit on. This is a great example of spite, where these publisher refuse access to others even what they don't want to do anything with themselves. The true nature of copyright once again is revealed, an act that keeps information from flowing to the public-- even when it is deemed worthless by the publishers. But the story isn't quite over yet. . . . "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Not satisfied with nearly complete control for 75 years the publishers reacted in the same manner when Internet access to public domain books became obvious to them in the 1990's, and once again they extended copyrights, to 95 years this time, so that virtually no one could ever be able to reprint anything that was published in their lifetimes. . .thus cutting the umbilical cord between a civilization and its past, except for what was deemed a proper historical perpective by "in loco parentis," the ugly heads of the three headed censorship again. The end result was to change the public domain from the 50/50 proposition it was a century ago to the new world order of 999/1 proposition of the new copyright laws. That's right, by the time the first of the copyrights a new world order created in 1998 expires, you will see a copyrighted to public domain ratio that leaves you this 1 book out of 1,000 in the now endangered public domain species that appears to be on the verge of extinction. The publishers are not shy about saying they want a law that specifies copyright should be permanent, that this public domain that has long been the link between pasts and futures of various societies throughout history, is now targeted squarely in the crosshairs of the hunters, and your access to information is the target. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Eventually the cell phone will take over the functions of the PDA [Personal Digital Assistants, such as Palm, Handspring, etc], the PPC [Pocket Personal Computer, such as Sony, Compaq, etc.]. However, watch out for more per minute charges than you expect, as some functions you think may be local to you may actually be billed as if you were logged in for those minutes. Google, Yahoo, ebooks, email, stock trading, movies, music, etc., are all now being tailor-made for cell phone use. Believe it or not, even during a week in which three major bands released a new CD, a ringtone beat out everything else in the UK as the best seller in the music world, just this current week. By the way, at the other end of the scale, have you noticed yet how TV programs are being shot from wider and wider angles, for the presumed purpose of forcing viewers to buy larger screens-- just so they can see the facial expressions they used to get in the more close-up shots? Not to mention the finer and finer print being displayed in the corners and on the runners across the bottom of the screen. Ever tried to read those on a 15" TV via normal broadcasting? This is all part of the pressure tactics to force HDTV on us, and watch for the government to step in and declare that your old TV sets will no longer have any programs suitable to them. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Today there are 10 times as many commercials on television as 50 years ago. . .~20 minutes per hour compared with ~2 minutes. In addition, you also hear 10 times as many "non-commercials" on PBS and NPR. By the way, this does NOT include those HUGE blocks of time known as "infomercials" or "pledge drives" which are obviously just about infinitely greater than 50 years ago when they had little or no existence. By the way, when I watch U.S. TV programs in other countries, many of the commercial breaks are left out, since they don't have nearly as many commericals, yet they still seem to make plenty of money, just not by U.S. standards. "It's all about the money." "The first rule of reporting? Follow the money." However, under this model, it's not the upper class who pays. * The average of the pop stars on todays' Top 40 is 20 years old. * The average prescription drug costs twice as much in the U.S. Medical costs are cited as the cause of more people going into bankruptcy than any other cause in the U.S. In Europe it is legal for companies to buy prescription drugs in one country, relabel them, and resell them in another, all the while under government supervision, just to save money on personal prescriptions. It is less efficient work-wise, but it costs less cash-wise. * 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 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 city at dawn queen of high heels goes to work legs like those of svelte bridges rivers of asphalt flow beneath the chill mornings the flesh quivers streets are red silky fashion caprices everybody's watching life with desire Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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X. Leyendecker] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15953 ] [Files: 15953.txt; 15953-8.txt; 15953-h.htm] Die Prinzessin Girnara, by Jakob Wassermann 15952 [Subtitle: Weltspiel und Legende] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15952 ] [Files: 15952-8.txt; 15952-h.htm] A Sea Queen's Sailing, by Charles Whistler 15951 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15951 ] [Files: 15951.txt; 15951-h.htm] Wilderness Ways, by William J Long 15950 [Illustrator: Charles Copeland] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/5/15950 ] [Files: 15950.txt; 15950-8.txt; 15950-0.txt; 15950-h.htm] The Hoor of the Heights, by Arthur Conan Doyle 15949C [Tr.: Anders Blixt] [Language: Interlingua] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15949 ] [Files: 15949.txt; ] The Hollow Land, by William Morris 15948 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15948 ] [Files: 15948.txt; 15948-h.htm; ] The Pleasures of England, by John Ruskin 15947 [Subtitle: Lectures given in Oxford] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15947 ] [Files: 15947.txt; 15947-8.txt; 15947-0.txt; 15947-h.htm] The Original Fables of La Fontaine, by Jean de la Fontaine 15946 [Subtitle: Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. 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Kendall 15940 [Subtitle: A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/4/15940 ] [Files: 15940.txt; 15940-8.txt; ] Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy 15939C [Author: Thomas Colignatus] [Author AKA: Thomas Cool] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15939 ] [Files: 15939-h.htm; ] The Yankee Tea-party , by Henry C. Watson 15938 [Subtitle: Or, Boston in 1773] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15938 ] [Files: 15938.txt; 15938-8.txt; 15938-h.htm; ] "I was there", by C. LeRoy Baldridge 15937 [Subtitle: with the Yanks in France.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15937 ] [Files: 15937.txt; 15937-h.htm] The Sad Shepherd, by Henry Van Dyke 15936 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15936 ] [Files: 15936.txt] Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 276, by Various 15935 [Subtitle: Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15935 ] [Files: 15935.txt; 15935-8.txt; 15935-h.htm] His Excellency the Minister, by Jules Claretie 15934 [Translator: Henri Roberts] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15934 ] [Files: 15934.txt; 15934-8.txt; 15934-h.htm] Stories of Childhood, by Various 15933 [Editor: Rossiter Johnson] [Contents: ] [A Dog Of Flanders by Louisa De La Rame (Ouida)] [The King Of The Golden River by John Ruskin] [The Lady Of Shalott by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps] [Marjorie Fleming by John Brown, M.D.] [Little Jakey by Mrs S.H. Dekroyft] [The Lost Child by Henry Kingsley] [Goody Gracious! And The Forget-Me-Not by John Neal] [A Faded Leaf Of History by Rebecca Harding Davis] [A Child's Dream Of A Star by Charles Dickens] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15933 ] [Files: 15933.txt] The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians, by E. A. Wallis Budge 15932 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/3/15932 ] [Files: 15932.txt; 15932-8.txt; 15932-0.txt; 15932-h.htm] A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, by Beers 15931 [Author: Henry A. 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Weekly_June_01.txt **The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, June 1, 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 Please note that we are still in the process of correcting our statistical program data. Last week we subtracted a few that we thought had been in a duplicate count situation, but either that correction didn't stick or some new similar problem has occured. As always, the total count should be the consideration of some attention as to possibly being off by a few eBooks. Please note that PT2 of this Newsletter is currently in flux, as we shift from to an automated PT2 sender. The situation with Monthly Newsletters is in flux to an even greater degree. Our apologies as we make changes. * HOT REQUESTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Cellphone as PDA Redux: Following up on several discussions concerning cell phones used as PDAs, eBook readers, etc., it now appears that the major players realized this is the new wave, as more and more of the major players, including Google, have made their services available in cell phone formats. * Wanted: People who are involved in conversations on Slashdot, Salon, etc. * Ipod & IP: A Public Radio Commentary by Bill Hammack This year I joined the iPod generation. Unlike the youth of American mine is filled mostly with public radio - and the occasional Ella Fitzgerald tune. At first I found it great: I mean no moving parts, just this tiny sliver of a thing, so anytime I exercise I can listen on demand to public radio. Then one day it all stopped. You see I purchase some of the public radio shows. And for some reason the IPod software stopped downloading it. Turns out that the permissions got goofed up: IPod thought I was illegally downloading them, which I wasn't. But it got me to thinking is it really a fantastic thing to have all this intellectual property tied up electronically? Sure it seems convenient, but what's the downside? The courts have dealt with this in the past. When VCRs first arrived on the scene Hollywood studios tried to curtail their use by suing the electronics giant Sony, a major manufacturer. The Supreme Court wisely held that individuals had the right to use VCRs to make complete copies of television shows for personal use. Technological advances have made this issue even more acute. If you had a VCR tape of a show, you could make copies, but they were never as good as the original, and further duplication of that copy made even worse copies. Now, of course, the digital revolution has erased the difference: A computer can make a copy identical to the original - plus a billion more! This, of course, has the entertainment industry terrified, especially when combined with the Internet, which provides unlimited distribution of these digital copies. While I understand the fears of the entertainment industry, I hope the courts and legislators continue to resist restricting too much our ability to copy files. When everything turns into electronic form we run the risk that every embodiment of thought or imagination may be subjected to some kind of commercial control. For example, as books become electronic, readers may lose the rights they've had since Gutenberg's time. The publishers of an electronic book can specify whether you can read the book all at once, or only in parts. And they can decide whether you read it once or a hundred times. So, the risk is this: The literary and intellectual canon of the coming century may be locked into a digital vault accessible only to a few. As the Courts and Congress regulate digital copying, I think they should keep in mind an aphorism from T.S. Eliot about literary creativity: "Good poets borrow," he said, "great poets steal." Copyright 2005 William S. Hammack Enterprises Reprinted with Bill's personal permission. * 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 1 New From PG Australia [Australian, Canadian Copyright Etc.] 68 New Public Domain eBooks Under US Copyright *Headline News from Edupage, etc. *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists *** *eBook Milestones 16,363 eBooks As Of Today!!! 13,301 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 We Have Produced 1407 eBooks in 2005 We Are ~64% of the Way from 10,000 to 20,000 We are ~27% of the Way from 15,000 to 20,000 3,637 to go to 20,000!!! 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Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #1407 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright [Note: books without month and year entries have been reposted] Aug 1998 El Verdugo, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #30][vrdugxxx.xxx] 1425 Aug 1998 Castle Rackrent, by Maria Edgeworth [Edgeworth #1][rkrntxxx.xxx] 1424 No Thoroughfare, by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins 1423 Going into Society, by Charles Dickens 1422 Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, by Charles Dickens 1421 Aug 1998 London's Underworld, by Thomas Holmes [lndwdxxx.xxx] 1420 Mugby Junction, by Charles Dickens 1419 Aug 1998 Country Sentiment, by Robert Graves [csentxxx.xxx] 1418 Aug 1998 Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #29][ssoilxxx.xxx] 1417 Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, by Charles Dickens 1416 Doctor Marigold, by Charles Dickens 1415 Somebody's Luggage, by Charles Dickens 1414 Tom Tiddler's Ground, by Charles Dickens 1413 Aug 1998 Masterman Ready, by Captain Marryat [Marryat #1][mmrdyxxx.xxx] 1412 Domestic Peace, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell] 1411 The Commission in Lunacy, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Clara Bell] 1410 Aug 1998 The Soul of the Far East, by Percival Lowell [#1][sofrexxx.xxx] 1409 Aug 1998 The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White [tnhosxxx.xxx] 1408 A Message from the Sea, by Charles Dickens 1407 The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, by Charles Dickens 1406 The Collection of Antiquities, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Ellen Marriage] 1405 Jul 1998 The Federalist Papers, by Hamilton, Jay & Madison [federxxa.xxx] 1404 Jul 1998 A Start in Life, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #25][stlifxxx.xxx] 1403 Jul 1998 Where the Blue Begins, by Christopher Morley [wtbbgxxx.xxx] 1402 Jul 1998 Tarzan the Untamed, Edgar R. Burroughs [Tarzan #7][tarz7xxx.xxx] 1401 [Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs] Jul 1998 Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#38][grexpxxx.xxx] 1400 (Alt. version, ostensibly from 1867 Edition:) [grexpxxa.xxx] Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy 1399 (Author note: sometimes spelled Tolstoi) Jul 1998 Dore Lectures on Mental Science, by Thomas Troward[dorelxxx.xxx] 1398 Jul 1998 The Ruins by C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney[ruinsxxx.xxx] 1397 Jul 1998 Rienzi, last of the Roman Tribunes, by E. B.Lytton[rienzxxx.xxx] 1396 Letters on Literature, by Andrew Lang 1395 The Holly-Tree, by Charles Dickens 1394 Jul 1998 Amours de Voyage, by Arthur Hugh Clough [mrvygxxx.xxx] 1393 The Seven Poor Travellers, by Charles Dickens 1392 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? With 16,363 eBooks online as of June 01, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.95 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,451,036 x 16,363 x $.95 = ~$1 trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,363 eBooks online as of June 01, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.61 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.78 when we had 12,808 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 16,363 eBooks in 33 Years and 11.00 Months We Averaged ~482 Per Year 40.2 Per Month 1.32 Per Day At 1407 eBooks Done In The 147 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 10 Per Day 67 Per Week 282 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] DATABASES GO PORTABLE As handheld computing devices become increasingly common, organizations that maintain a variety of databases are modifying their content to allow for easy access by handheld devices. Chemical Abstracts Service, which is a division of the American Chemical Society, is finalizing a "mobile" version of a database that contains data on roughly 25 million molecules, allowing users of handheld devices to access molecular weights, boiling points, and other information in a format designed for portable devices. The final database will be available to the public later this year. Medical sciences already have a broad range of databases designed for handhelds, and many librarians see the trend continuing for other fields. As for the upcoming chemistry database, reactions are mixed, even at single institutions. At Yale University, David Austin, associate professor of chemistry, said the database will be extremely valuable, whereas Glenn Micalizio, assistant professor of organic chemistry, said he sees little value in it, given widespread access to laptops and desktops. Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 May 2005 (sub. req'd) SPREADING SPYWARE THROUGH AN AFFILIATE PROGRAM A business based in Russia is adopting the affiliate-program approach to spreading spyware around the globe. Called iframeDOLLARS, the company is offering Web site operators 6.1 cents for every computer on which the Web site installs code that exploits vulnerabilities in Windows and Internet Explorer. Microsoft has issued patches for the weaknesses, but unpatched computers remain at risk. The malicious code includes backdoors, Trojans, spyware, and adware. Operators of the iframeDOLLARS site claim to have paid out nearly $12,000 last week alone, which would translate to nearly 200,000 infected computers. Although spyware expert Richard Stiennon called the tactic "brazen" and said iframeDOLLARS might be making quite a bit of money from its scheme, Dan Hubbard, the head of security at Websense, gave iframeDOLLARS less credit. He noted that the company has been around for a while, trying various methods to install malicious code, and he said a number of others have tried similar affiliate programs to accomplish the same thing. TechWeb, 24 May 2005 http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/163700705 HOUSE TAKES TWO STEPS AGAINST SPYWARE The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed two separate bills this week designed to address the growing problem of spyware. HR 29, introduced by Mary Bono (R-Calif.), would impose stiff fines on anyone found guilty of distributing computer code that results in browser hijacking, modifying bookmarks, collecting personal information without permission, and disabling security mechanisms. Violators can be fined as much as $3 million per incident. One of only four Representatives who voted against Bono's bill, Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) had introduced another bill, HR 744, that also prohibits installing spyware. Lofgren's bill, which passed 395 to 1, would impose fines and jail time to anyone found guilty. Both bills now go to the Senate, which failed to act on a spyware bill sent by the House last year. Senators have said they will not allow a similar situation this year. CNET, 23 May 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5717658.html FBI TRIES AGAIN TO REPLACE COMPUTER SYSTEMS After spending several years and $170 million on a failed computer system, the FBI said it now has a new system in the works, the first part of which will be operational by the end of 2006. After September 11, 2001, federal officials identified a need for a computer system that would allow various agencies to share information efficiently to help prevent similar attacks in the future. The FBI's Virtual Case File, designed to meet that need, was riddled with problems and ultimately was not viable. At a Senate Appropriations subcommittee meeting, FBI Director Robert Mueller conceded that Virtual Case File would not be implemented and expressed his regret that so much time and money were wasted on it. The new electronic information management system will be called Sentinel. Reuters, 24 May 2005 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8593132 STUDENTS SHOW EASE OF IDENTITY THEFT Graduate students at Johns Hopkins University set out to see how much personal information they could collect on as many individuals as possible, using only the Internet and $50. The 41 students were in a course taught by Aviel D. Rubin, professor of computer science and technical director of the university's Information Security Institute, who divided them into groups of three or four and instructed them to use only legal, public sources of information. The exercise mimicked the activities of data brokers, such as ChoicePoint and LexisNexis, and the students were able to collect and aggregate vast amounts of information, even with limited time and budgets. Although Rubin was pleased that fewer Social Security numbers were among the data collected than he had anticipated, privacy advocates insisted that such information remains easy to obtain, posing enormous risk of identity theft. Even without Social Security numbers, the data collected represented for some individuals a very broad picture of who they are, where they live, and activities in which they participate. Such access to personal information worries many, including Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who conducted a similar experiment, instructing his staff to try to steal his identity. Aside from information they discovered about Stevens, they were told they could buy his Social Security number for $65. New York Times, 18 May 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/technology/18data.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 Just one note at the moment concerning the revelation of Mark Felt, Deputy Director of the FBI being the "Deep Throat" source of great amounts of information and leads for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they created what may have been the biggest news story in over a century, covering the Watergate break-in of the offices of the Democratic National Committee as part of the "dirty tricks" of the 1972 presidential campaign. Obviously there have been many references to the movie made from Woodward and Bernstein's book "All The President's Men," starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, and, no doubt, many of these have now been checked out from libraries, rented from Blockbuster, or gleaned from other sources. However, there is another movie, also starring Robert Redford, "Three Days of the Condor," in which Cliff Robertson plays the FBI Deputy Director in more detail than is presented in "All The President's Men," and also presages to an alarming degree the plans for destabilization and invasion of the Middle East countries in a remarkable prediction of the Gulf Wars. * Speaking of the FBI: Before 9/11 the FBI was about 4% military people. After 9/11 the FBI has recruited over 50% from military people. * Dick Cheney was the Auburn's commencement speaker last weekend when he told them he dropped out of Yale. That means three out of the four major candidates of the last elections were chosen by Yale, and weren't both presidential candiates from Yale's most secret society, Skull and Bones? * An unnamed 11-year-old boy at Rawlinson Road Middle School in Rock Hill, S.C., was stopped by Assistant Principal Dianne McCray, who asked what was jingling in his pocket. He handed over ten 3.5" nails, left over from a Boy Scout trip. The administrator turned the boy over to the school police officer, who arrested the boy for possession of "weapons" at school. "Is a pencil a weapon?" demanded the boy's father. Apparently so: state law says anything "that can be construed or used as a weapon on school grounds can be classified as unlawful," says a police spokesman. (Rock Hill Herald) * Meanwhile in California, The Governator seemed to have picked up $2 billion budget dollars from various sources, a privitization move similar to those of Bush or United Airlines of recent days. However, quick response time by those affected seems to have had some powerful results and The Governator has rescinded his plan, but is expected to resubmit it in other guises in the future. Fights over a wide variety of pension plans have now spilled out into other states as it appears to be open season on what is now being called "Economic Warfare" or "Class Warfare" as goverments target the working class pension plans, etc. * In local news, one of our high schools was recently the scene of massive aggravation on the part of hundreds of parents who would have liked to have seen their children graduate. Initially it was said that there weren't enough seats for all of the parents and family members who showed up, and thus the doors were closed on hundreds of people who showed up at the very last minute [some argument about if they were actually late, and some were let in who were already in line at the last minute; however there were still hundreds left outside]. After some deep research and investigation it was finally out in the open that there actually were enough seats for everyone in a space that had room for well over 2,000, and apparently the only people who were trying to get in totalled well under 2,000. The real question thus became whether those closing the door had some ulterior motive, perhaps just overzealous use of power some had over the event, or perhaps other reasons still hidden. At any rate, at least one person who managed to get through then was maced when the doorkeepers called the police, and when being maced wasn't enough to drive them away from the graduation, then the person was tasered. It just makes you wonder. . . . *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK "But the pension fund was just sitting there!" Highly predictive Doonesbury title from Gary Trudeau, on April Fool's Day, 1979. DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Privatizing the pension funds will do much more good than harm. "Countries are not coerced into privatizing their national enterprises.... It does more good than harm." *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK A few years from now all this news will turn out to be simple politicking, and will appear much more obvious when termed as "class warfare." *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Add another log to the billion dollar scandal fire, as AIG has admitted that it cooked the books in various ways to make it appear as if AIG is worth $4 billion more than it actually is with an apparent loss of even $2 billion more in real terms as things start to fall apart. * In related news, it appears that Andersen Inc's conviction concerning their role in the multi-billion dollar Enron scandal was not kosher, as it seems some questionable jury instructions may have been given. Will the entire trial have to take place again with a new jury with better instructions? * "Put The Bad News Out With The Trash" Trash Day in Washington, D.C. By the way, are you aware that goverment agencies have a statistical bias towards giving reports that are favorable to them early in the week, when it can get the widest possible coverage in the current "news cycle," and only giving out the news that reflects badly on them late in the week, when it can get only the narrowest possible coverage? A recent example was the FDA report that many more drugs were recalled, which was held up for 5 days until it landed at 6:00 PM Friday evening, just before the Memorial Day weekend, where it was buried along with an assortment of other "trash," rather than getting the full news cycle. If you really want to see what the goverment is hiding from you, watch and listen to the Friday and weekend news, these stories will usually be quite passe by Monday, at least that's what they are hoping. Also watch and listen to news from other countries when possible, or you may never see how the world is reacting to your own nation's politics. * The malpractice premiums paid by hospitals doubled in 2002, and appears to have doubled yet again since then, however, the rate of payouts from these funds only increased by 12% in 2002, when 63.2% of premiums were paid out to cover malpractice claims. The premiums for individual doctors is also rising, but half as quickly. What is not made obvious in these reports is that "that the average medical malpractice premium in California was $7,200 in 2000, as compared with the national average of $7,843," leaving some concern over making mountains of molehills in terms how much is paid by each individual doctor, especially when considered as a percentage of gross income. This is not much when compared to the property taxes we all have to pay, even if indirectly, which may average half that much. Rates have been going up around 3.5% per year since 1991, which isn't much different from general inflation. Bills in major states are now pressuring for a cap of $ 1/4 million on any amount of pain and suffering caused even by proven malpractice and some have even passed and been made into law. [See California] There is also increasing pressure forcing medical workers to buy their malpractice insurance from a smaller and smaller group of vendors now licenses by various states. Example figures from Missouri: www.insurance.mo.gov/reports/medmal/ * 15 billion cigarettes are made daily. At $2.50 a pack, this is 10 cents per cigarette, or $1.5 billion dollars per day!!! * 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 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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