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PT1 Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

GWeekly_January_26.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 26, 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 HEADLINE NEWS Project Gutenberg of Canada needs your help! Please email: pgcanada(a)lists.pglaf.org * v0.2 version of PodReader is out, and it interfaces to PG. 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Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #216 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright Mar 1995 Radar Map of the United States [1st Graphic File] [usmprxxx.xxx] 239 Mar 1995 Dear Enemy by Jean Webster #2 [Twain Grandniece] [drnmyxxx.xxx] 238 Mar 1995 Propertius [in Latin], [Sexti Properti Carmina] [prptixxx.xxx] 237 Mar 1995 The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling [Kipling #1] [jnglbxxx.xxx] 236 Mar 1995 William Gibson Intervewed by Giuseppe Salza [wmgibxxx.xxx] 235C Mar 1995 Child Christopher, by William Morris [Morris #2] [chilcxxx.xxx] 234 Mar 1995 Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser [Dreiser #1] [scarrxxx.xxx] 233 Mar 1995 The Georgics [English] by Virgil/Vergil[Virgil #6][georexxx.xxx] 232 Mar 1995 The Georgics [in Latin] by Virgil/Vergil[Virgil#5][georlxxx.xxx] 231 Mar 1995 The Bucolics/Ecloges [English] by Virgil/Virgil#4][bucoexxx.xxx] 230 Mar 1995 The Bucolics/Ecloges [Latin], by Virgil/Virgil #3][bucolxxx.xxx] 229 Mar 1995 The Aeneid [English], by Virgil/Vergil [Virgil#2][anidexxx.xxx] 228 Mar 1995 The Aeneid [in Latin] by Virgil/Vergil [Virgil #1][anidlxxx.xxx] 227 Mar 1995 Cicero's Orations [in Latin, Selected Orations] [cceroxxx.xxx] 226 Mar 1995 At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald #0[nwindxxx.xxx] 225 Mar 1995 A Pair of Blue Eyes, by Thomas Hardy [Hardy #6] [pbluexxx.xxx] 224 Feb 1995 The Wisdom of Father Brown, by G.K. 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With 15,172 eBooks online as of January 26, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of $1.05 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,112,028 x 15,050 x $1.05 = $1+ trillion With 15,172 eBooks online as of January 26, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.66 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.90 when we had 11,001 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! Can you imagine ~15,172 books each costing ~$.24 less a year later??? Or. . .would this say it better? Can you imagine ~15,172 books each costing 1/3 less a year later??? 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This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] 'ROBO-SOLDIER' PREPARES FOR IRAQ The U.S. Army is sending 18 remote-controlled robotic soldiers called SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems) to Iraq, but they are not the autonomous killer robots of science fiction: a SWORDS robot shoots only when its human operator presses a button (after identifying a target on video shot by the robot's cameras). Jim Lowrie, president of Perceptek, one of the firms developing robotics systems for the military, says: "For the foreseeable future, there always will be a person in the loop who makes the decision on friend or foe. That's a hard problem to determine autonomously." (Washington Post 24 Jan 2005) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31968-2005Jan24.html> LONG LIVE THE LAPTOP! We've apparently entered the age of laptops: during the past holiday season U.S. retail stores sold 24% more laptops than during the same period in 2003, whereas desktop computers fell 7% in the same period. The report comes from research company Current Analysis. Intel vice president Mooly Eden provides confirming data: "Between 2001 and 2004, we more than doubled the amount of notebooks in the market. Between 2004 and 2008, we believe the market will double again." (USA Today 23 Jan 2005) <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-23-laptop_x.htm> PEW STUDY FINDS SEARCHER MISPERCEPTIONS A new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project has found that only 1 in 6 users of Internet search engines can tell the difference between unbiased search results and paid advertisements. All of the major search engines return a mix of regular results (based solely on relevance to the search terms entered) and sponsored links (for which a Web site had paid advertising fees). Only 38% of Web searchers are aware of the distinction, and of those only 47% can always tell which are paid -- even though they're usually labeled by the search engines. PEW researcher Deborah Fallows says: "We're still in the infancy of the Internet. People are still kind of so pleased that they can go there, ask for something and get an answer that it's kind of not on their radar screen to look in a very scrutinizing way to see what's in the background there." (AP 24 Jan 2005) <http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050124/D87QEK3O0.html> MICROSOFT: SOFTWARE FIXES AREN'T FOR PIRATES [Microsoft will now require a network connection to your computer?] [Of course, the highly security conscious people at the Fortune 500 won't be subjected to this. . .or will they?] Microsoft will soon be requiring that Windows XP users verify that their copy of the software is genuine before they'll be able to receive "greater reliability, faster access to updates, and richer user experiences." Although users of pirated copies of Windows will still be able get security patches, they won't be able to get other enhancements to Windows. The company will be expanding a trial authentication program it began last fall, and will make mandatory in mid-2005 for all users seeking to access software updates, downloads and security fixes for Windows. (Reuters/Washington Post 26 Jan 2005) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37035-2005Jan26.html> TEEN SUED BY APPLE GETS FREE HELP FROM LAWYER San Francisco lawyer Terry Gross, a specialist in freedom of speech and the Internet, will defend 19-year-old Nicholas Ciarelli against a lawsuit brought by Apple charging the Harvard freshman and Web publisher revealing Apple trade secrets on his Web site, www.ThinkSecret.com. Gross, whose services will be given on a pro bono basis, says that his client used proper news-gathering techniques and deserves First Amendment protection. (AP/USA Today 19 Jan 2005) <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-19-apple-teen-gains-counsel_x.htm> THOUSANDS OF LAPTOPS, CELL PHONES LEFT IN CABS A new survey estimates that 11,300 laptops, 31,400 handheld devices and 200,000 mobile phones were left in taxis around the world during the last six months. The survey, which polled some 1,000 taxi drivers and extrapolated from there, indicates that four out of five cell phones and 19 out of 20 laptops were returned to their owners eventually. Geographically, Chicagoans were most likely to leave a handheld device in a cab, while Londoners were more careless than others with their laptops. Danes seemed to be most likely to forget their cell phones. Other items reportedly left in cabs include a harp, dentures, artificial limbs and a baby. (Reuters/CNN.com 24 Jan 2005) <http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/01/24/taxis.lost.reut/index.html> You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage CARNIVORE IS DEAD According to two recent reports to Congress, the FBI has put an end to its electronic surveillance tool, known as Carnivore. Despite claims from federal officials that they need expanded access to electronic communications, the system was widely criticized by civil liberties groups as being overly invasive and for not respecting individuals' privacy. The reports, which the Electronic Privacy Information Center obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, note that the FBI did not use the system for fiscal years 2002 and 2003 and instead used commercially available monitoring software. According to the reports, the FBI engaged in court-ordered Internet surveillance 13 times during those years. CNET, 19 January 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5541483.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Turnout in this week's elections in Iraq appear as if it will be surprisingly small. *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK "The Iraqis want to vote, they want to particpate in democracy." George W. Bush Strange in light of the the 7% registration in the US mentioned below, particularly as compared to a world wide 14% registration. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Iraq locals will say the newly elected government is merely a puppet created by the United States, particularly if there is only a voter registration of a small minority and/or actual votes cast. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Only 7% of Iraqi citizens in the United States have registered to vote in this week's elections, though registration dates have been extended. * Most of you have probably seen something like this: "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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by Michael Hart 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

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Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #138 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright Jul 1994 The Republic by Plato, Jowett, Wiretap [repubxxx.xxx] 150 Jul 1994 The Lost Continent, by Edgar Rice Burroughs[ERB#2][lcontxxx.xxx] 149 Jul 1994 The Autobiography of Ben Franklin [bfautxxx.xxx] 148 Jul 1994 Common Sense, by Thomas Paine [Paine #1] [comsnxxx.xxx] 147 Jul 1994 A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett[#3] [lprssxxx.xxx] 146 Jul 1994 Middlemarch, by George Eliot[#1] [per PBS series] [mdmarxxx.xxx] 145 Jul 1994 The Voyage Out, by Virginia Woolf [vooutxxx.xxx] 144 Jun 1994 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy [Hardy4][mayrcxxx.xxx] 143 Jun 1994 The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)142 Jun 1994 Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen [Austen #3] [mansfxxx.xxx] 141 Jun 1994 The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair [junglxxx.xxx] 140 Jun 1994 The Lost World/Arthur Conan Doyle [Challenger #2] [lostwxxx.xxx] 139 Jun 1994 Biography of George Sand, by Rene Doumic [sandbxxx.xxx] 138 Jun 1994 Sara Crewe by Frances Hodgson Burnett [Burnett#2] [saracxxx.xxx] 137 Jun 1994 A Child's Garden of Verses, R. L. Stevenson [#3][childxxx.xxx] 136 May 1994 Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo [In English] [lesmsxxx.xxx] 135 May 1994 Maria or the Wrongs of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft [mariaxxx.xxx] 134 May 1994 The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic #1[dwarexxx.xxx] 133 May 1994 The Art of War, by Sun Tzu [Tr. by Lionel Giles] 132 Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? With 15,094 eBooks online as of January 19, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of $1.04 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,112,028 x 15,094 x $1.04 = $1+ trillion With 15,094 eBooks online as of January 19, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.66 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.91 when we had 11,044 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! Can you imagine ~15,094 books each costing ~$.25 less a year later??? Or. . .would this say it better? Can you imagine ~15,094 books each costing 1/3 less a year later??? At 15,094 eBooks in 33 Years and 06.50 Months We Averaged 450 Per Year [We do about 3/4 that much per month these days!] 37.5 Per Month 1.23 Per Day At 138 eBooks Done In The 14 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 11 Per Day 69 Per Week 299 Per Month The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] FBI AXES CARNIVORE, EATS INVESTMENT The FBI has abandoned its custom-built Internet surveillance technology, dubbed Carnivore, and is now using commercial software to eavesdrop on computer network traffic during investigations of suspected criminals, terrorists and spies. In addition, it's asking Internet service providers to conducting wiretaps on targeted customers, when necessary. Carnivore initially was developed because commercial tools available in 2000 were inadequate, but FBI spokesman Paul Bresson says the Bureau moved a while ago to using popular commercial wiretap software because it's less expensive and has improved in its ability to copy e-mails to and from a specific Internet account without affecting other subscribers. "We see the value in the commercially available software; we're using it more now and we're asking the Internet service providers that have the capabilities to collect data in compliance with court orders," says Bresson. The FBI didn't disclose how much it had spent on Carnivore, but outside experts estimate expenditures at somewhere between $6 million and $15 million. (AP 18 Jan 2005) <http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050119/D87MS3CO0.html> GPS EVERYWHERE The rules about the use of GPS devices are widely varied: whereas a federal judge in New York has ruled that police have a right to place tracking devices on vehicles without a warrant (since the drivers should have no expectation of privacy on public roads), California has restricted car rental companies' use of GPS to track customers (a law adopted after a company fined customers $3,000 because their GPS system indicated the cars had crossed the state line into Nevada in violation of the rental agreement). But the fact is that GPS is here to stay: David Gilmore, the court-appointed transportation administrator for D.C. Public Schools, says of the use of GPS to monitor school bus drivers in that jurisdiction: "As uncomfortable as this might make them, they are now being watched by satellite every minute of their workday, like it or not." (Washington Post 14 Jan 2005) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10788-2005Jan14.html> WILD WEB JUSTICE Ohio trial court judge James L. Kimbler has set up a personal Sony digital camcorder in his courtroom and using it to post online video of people being sentenced for robbery, rape and other crimes. Kimbler says, "It's all public record anyway. If the general public and law students know what we do it increases their understanding." Lloyd Snyder, a professor of legal ethics, predicts: "This is coming. With 'Court TV' available, people are getting used to having things like this out there, and it's also entertainment. It is the right of the defendant to be tried in the open. There is no correlative right for a defendant to have a private trial." (AP/USA Today 18 Jan 2005) <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-18-sentenced-online_x.htm> APPLE SUES STUDENT FOR DIVULGING SECRETS [Another article on this is below in the Edupage section] Nicholas Ciarelli launched what has become one of the most influential Apple-focused Web sites when he was 13 as a hangout for fellow Mac enthusiasts, but his penchant for posting trade secrets has gotten the now-19-year-old Harvard student, who publishes online under the name Nick dePlume, in hot water. Apple filed a lawsuit Jan. 4 against ThinkSecret.com and its unnamed tipsters, charging: "Apple is informed and believes that Defendant Nick dePlume is an individual who uses the pseudonym 'Nick dePlume' but whose true name and identity cannot be confirmed at this time." Apple, known for its highly secretive culture, says it believes ThinkSecret obtains its information by illegally soliciting information about unreleased Apple products from individuals who violate their confidentiality agreements. In fact, on Dec. 28 the site correctly predicted Apple's debut of its $499 Mac Mini and a low-cost iPod. In response to Apple's accusations, Ciarelli replies, "I didn't do anything wrong. My reporting practices are the same that any journalists use. I talk to sources, I confirm details, I follow up on tips and leads that I get." It will be difficult for Apple to prove that Ciarelli's coverage has violated its trade secrets, says an intellectual property attorney, noting that trade secrets usually refer to the formula behind products, not simply the details about their release. (Wall Street Journal 14 Jan 2005) <http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110566157500825906,00.html> (sub req'd) [Here's the related announcement] NEW MAC TARGETS LOW-END MARKET Apple Computer's new, stripped-down Mac Mini is priced as low as $499, reflecting Apple's strategy to position the Mac as an entertainment and communication device designed for today's digital household, which views the PC as simply another appliance. The move is fueled in part by the company's success with its iPod digital music players, which has reached mass market proportions with 10 million sold over the last three years. "I wish I had a nickel for every time people have suggested that we do this," says Apple CEO Steve Jobs. "We want to price this Mac so that people who are thinking of switching will have no excuse." Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says most consumers won't give up their Microsoft PCs, but may consider buying a Mac as an additional computer for entertainment. "It's not about switching but adding. People may still need a PC because of work activities, but this is for doing multimedia activities and searching the Internet." In addition to the low-cost Mac Mini, Apple also debuted a $99 iPod Shuffle, which comes without a screen and can hold about 120 songs, compared with 5,000 on a standard iPod. (New York Times 12 Jan 2005) <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/technology/12apple.html> SQUEEZING MORE OUT OF JPEG Allume Systems, based in California, says the new version of its StuffIt compression technology can reduce JPEG files by an additional 28% without loss of quality. The announcement met with some skepticism among compression specialists, but researchers have previously suggested that significant improvements -- perhaps as high as 30% -- were possible by enhancing certain aspects of the JPEG technology. Data compression is achieved by finding replicated patterns in data and encoding them so that they can be represented by a smaller amount of data. Allume would like to see its new StuffIt Image Format (SIF) replace JPEG as the dominant method for storing files, noting that it could save significant storage space for those with very large digital image collections. But some experts point to the new, improved JPEG2000, which could provide comparable benefits. "It is not only technically advanced, but is royalty and license-free as well," says Mike Reddy, a compression expert at the University of Glamorgan in Wales. (New Scientist 12 Jan 2005) <http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6876> WIRELESS HOTMAIL IN INDIA [India will be following in the steps of China, worth watching. Of course, due to a less repressive government, in some areas India will surpass China very quickly, but slower in others.] Microsoft has inked a deal with two Indian wireless carriers to deliver e-mail and instant messages via text messaging. BPL Mobile and Airtel launched two new services on Thursday -- Mobile-mail and MSN Messenger over SMS -- but have not released details on whether or how much they plan to charge. Microsoft is not the first to offer Indian consumers such services -- Yahoo already has similar arrangements with wireless carriers serving India, including Orange, Hutch and Airtel. (CNet News.com 13 Jan 2005) <http://news.com.com/Hotmail+goes+mobile+in+India/2100-1036_3-5535294.html> PAINT ON A LITTLE WI-FI SECURITY Tired of worrying whether your wireless hotspot is hosting "drive-by" users? Force Field Wireless has developed a do-it-yourself DefendAir paint "laced with copper and aluminum fibers that form an electromagnetic shield, blocking most radio waves and protecting wireless networks." One coat of the water-based paint "shields Wi-Fi, WiMax and Bluetooth networks operating at frequencies from 100 megahertz to 2.4 gigahertz," while two or three applications are "good for networks operating at up to five gigahertz." Force Field Wireless warns that the paint must be applied carefully -- too little, and the radio waves will "leak"; too much and you risk hindering the performance of radios, televisions and cell phones. And while the only color available is a dreary gray, DefendAir can also be used as a primer so you can paint over it with your favorite hue. (The Register 13 Jan 2005) <http://www.theregister.com/2005/01/13/wi_fi_paint/> SECURITY I: VANDALISM OF COLLEGE NETWORKS [In other words, your computer has to be vulnerable to ours, before we will let you in. . .what happens when one secure system of this type tries to contact another one. . . ? ] Early this month an intruder penetrated a central computer at George Mason University and attempted to access GMU's 130 other servers -- which hold such information as grades, financial aid, and payrolls. In the past two years, similar attacks have occurred at the universities of Georgia, Texas, Missouri, and California. To resist such attacks, some schools are beginning to use software that scans individual computers before they are allowed to connect to campus networks, and other institutions are setting up multiple smaller networks that house sensitive data, keeping them separate from the main networks. (Washington Post 12 Jan 2005) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5188-2005Jan12.html> SECURITY III: THE CRIMINAL CLASS In an interview with journalist John Markoff of the New York Times, security expert Bruce Schneier suggests that the problem of Web vandalism has fundamentally changed in the last several years. Previously, hackers were mainly kids, engaging in hacking as a kind of intellectual challenge or a sport, but more recently hackers are coming mainly from criminals "in Third World countries, from Africa, South America, Asia, and the former Soviet Union" -- a development that makes life much harder for security officials. Schneier, whose latest book is "Beyond Fear," is founder and chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security. (New York Times 13 Jan 2005) <http://tech.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html> SECURITY IV: NEW FBI SOFTWARE NOT USABLE [Another article listed in the Edupage section below] A new FBI computer system called Virtual Case File, designed to help agents share information to ward off terrorist attacks, may have to be discarded because it doesn't work as designed. The agency will be soliciting proposals for new software from outside contractors for new software. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee, calls the development "a stunning reversal of progress" and adds: "If the software has failed, that sets us back a long way. This has been a fits-and-starts exercise, and a very expensive one for a very long time. There are very serious questions about whether the FBI is able to keep up with the expanding responsibility and the amount of new dollars that are flowing into it. We have fully funded it at its requested levels." Science Applications, the company that developed the system, says it "successfully completed" delivery of the initial version of the Virtual Case File software last month. (Los Angeles Times 13 Jan 2005) <http://www.latimes.com/ technology/la-na-fbi13jan13,1,2171776.story?coll=la-headlines-technology> You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage OPERA BROWSER FREE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION Opera Software said this week that its Opera browser will be freely available to any university worldwide, in an effort to protect higher education from flaws in "more vulnerable browsers." The company also touted its browser's customization features, which would allow colleges and universities to personalize the browser for their own campus. Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner said his company's browser is "fully standards-compliant and offers extensive administration possibilities for network configuration." Institutions including Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Oxford University have reportedly already taken Opera up on its offer. CNET, 12 January 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5533666.html IBM OFFERS PATENTS TO OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS IBM will begin allowing the use of 500 technologies covered by patents it holds by developers working on open source projects. While IBM will not forfeit the patents, it will seek no licensing fees from groups that use them on projects that meet a definition by the Open Source Initiative. Despite past donations of intellectual property to open source groups, the new program is seen as a fundamental shift in the company's approach because unlike those donations, this one does not hold the potential to harm IBM's competitors. The 500 patents that will be available involve 14 categories of technology and do not target any specific open source project. IBM said it hopes to create a "patent commons," including the initial 500 as well as other patents, that other companies could join. IBM's new approach to managing its intellectual property, however, has not diminished its pursuit of new patents. IBM, which is the world's largest patent holder, collected 3,248 new patents in 2004, 1,300 more than Matsushita Electric Industrial, which had the second-highest tally for the year. New York Times, 11 January 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/technology/11soft.html APPLE UNVEILS PRODUCTS FOR WIDER MARKETS At the Macworld trade show in San Francisco, Apple Computer cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs presented several new low-priced products targeted at a broader group of consumers than current products. Notably, Apple showed its Mac Mini, a very small computer with a starting price of $499, and the iPod Shuffle, which will sell for as little as $99. The iPod Shuffle, which is the shape of a pack of gum, has no screen and uses flash memory, like that in digital cameras, rather than a hard drive. Apple's entry into the digital music market has been a boon for the company, with consumers buying 4.5 million of the current iPod models during the 2004 holiday season. Some analysts believe Apple may be able to capitalize on interest in its music products to appeal to consumers who previously would not have been likely to consider purchasing an Apple computer. Tim Bajarin, an analyst with Creative Strategies, said it would be an "intriguing" goal for Apple to "convince traditional PC users to make the Mac the center of their creative, digital work." Reuters, 12 January 2005 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7300623 FBI'S NEW COMPUTER SYSTEM ALREADY OLD A complete overhaul of the FBI's computer system following the September 11 attacks may prove to have been wasted effort, according to the agency. Criticism was leveled at intelligence agencies following the attacks of September 11, with some arguing that, had information been freely shared among the agencies, the attacks might have been prevented. The FBI undertook to replace all of its systems at one time, which agency officials said was the wrong approach. One official compared the initiative to "changing wheels on a car that is going at 70 miles per hour." Such an overhaul, he said, should be done in stages. Critics faulted the old system for being largely paper-based, preventing agents in the field from accessing needed information or from filing reports electronically. An application called Virtual Case File was supposed to fix many of those problems, but after numerous delays, the software that was finally delivered last month is largely unusable. Reuters, 13 January 2005 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7324403 APPLE SUES HARVARD STUDENT Apple Computer has filed a lawsuit against the operator of a Web site that revealed information about upcoming products before the company publicly unveiled them. The ThinkSecret Web site posted rumors of a sub-$500 Macintosh computer and an iPod that uses flash memory just days before those products were announced at the Macworld show. Apple has a reputation for being one of the most secretive high-tech companies concerning new products, and it alleges that the information posted by ThinkSecret was obtained illegally. The operator of the site, however, which many industry analysts regard as one of the premier rumor sites about Apple, turned out to be 19-year-old Nick Ciarelli, a freshman at Harvard. Ciarelli, who started the site six years ago, said he has done nothing wrong in collecting material to post. "My reporting practices are the same that any journalists use," he said. "I talk to sources, I confirm details, I follow up on tips and leads that I get." Intellectual-property attorney Robert E. Camors said it will be difficult for Apple to prove harm in the case because the information revealed does not constitute trade secrets as traditionally defined and because the information was not revealed sufficiently ahead of company announcements for competitors to benefit from it. Wall Street Journal, 14 January 2005 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110566157500825906,00.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Tsunami death toll reaches ~200,000 [details below] Official US aid to tsunami victims being scaled back, often at the request of the local governments who are defensive about having armed US troops on their soil. Troops now requested to return to US ships at night, and to leave permanently no later than March 31. * From: The New Yorker "The Coming Wars: What the Pentagon Can Now Do in Secret" US intelligence and military officials quoted as saying: "The next strategic target was Iran." Seymour Hersh's comments about the US having plans to include Iran along with Iraq in efforts to clean up the Middle East are receiving denials, even those "non-denial denials" made famous by Nixon concering the Republican financed break in of the Democratic National Headquarters at Watergate. All sides seem to be keeping an extremely low profile on this issue, as both US and Iranian officials agree there is little to be gained by saying very much. Official US sources would not deny that they had such plans for Iran, but rather focused on attacking the article as being "riddled with errors," but not false in its statement concerning their plans for Iran. * Spec/4 Charles Graner Jr. was the first US soldier convicted of prisoner mistreatment [read torture] in Iraq, yet what they don't report is that every one of Graner's superiors refused to appear or to give written testimony. . .no involvement at all. In case you are not familiar with US Army ranks, a Spec/4 is not quite the lowest rank, but close. Lower are those a single stripe, or no stripe. Thus you can safely presume that most of those at Abu Ghraib prison were his superiors. Graner said he was willing to serve his time, even though he was obeyin orders, if they would allow him to continue to serve. However, after his sentence is concluded, he will receive a dishonorable discharge, forfeit benefits, and be unable to re-enlist in any service. If you believe what the prosecution is saying, the entire Abu Ghraib scenario was conceived, planned, and carried out by the lowest ranking personnel of the US Army, and no others even had any idea it was going on. *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK "I'll bet our cumulative IQ isn't as high as it was fifty or one hundred years ago." Andy Rooney, 60 Minutes, CBS 1/16/05 *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK More than the 100 blocks officially announced will be blocked off from "civilians" during Bush's inauguration. People with anti-Bush signs and anti-war signs will not be allowed within viewing distance. . .they won't see Bush, he won't see them. I'm sure they won't be able to hear each other either. Various colored badges, all too reminiscent of the color coded terrorist threat levels, are being issued to those who are officially invited to attend, and apparently no others will be allowed inside this 100 block radius, in which no vehicles other than police will be allowed. How is it that the United States is becoming more and more like our enemies, and less and less like our friends? By the way, I'll bet there is a decent likelihood that the 100 blocks will be augmented to even greater numbers at the last minute, if protestors manage to figure out a way for their opinions to be seen or heard by President Bush. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 1/4 of the new Iraqi Congress must be women. In how many other countries is this true? * Why the dramatic new increase in the tsunami death toll? The official death toll from the tsunami of December 26th has now reached 200,000, after literally falling from the news reports for a few days a week ago because the figures were topping out as they passed 150,000. However, Indonesia has finally admitted that the current death toll from their own internal losses is officially much greater than the previous listed total for all of the affected countries. . .now listed at 166,000. 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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
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19 Jan '05

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RESERVED/PENDING count: 43 (No change this week). =-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= .:: During the past week the following eBooks were manually updated and reposted with the indicated filenames and transferred into the corresponding new directories: None to report this week. .:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: Last week's correction for eBook #14114 was still incorrect; Stewart and Long are translators, not authors of this work; Plutarch was, and will probably remain, the author: Plutarch's Lives, Volume II, Tr. by Aubrey Stewart & George Long 14114 Correction to author's name ("Frederick", not "Fredrick"): Mystic Isles of the South Seas, by Frederick O'Brien 11400 -=-=-=-=[ 59 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue, by Ashton 14731 [Subtitle: A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west] [Author: Warren T. Ashton; aka William Taylor Adams; aka Oliver Optic] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/3/14731 ] [Files: 14731.txt; 14731-8.txt; 14731-h.htm; ] The Redemption of David Corson, by Charles Frederic Goss 14730 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/3/14730 ] [Files: 14730.txt; 14730-8.txt; 14730-h.htm; ] A Review and Exposition, by An Elector 14729 [Title: A Review and Exposition, of the Falsehoods and Misrepresentations, of a Pamphlet Addressed to the Republicans of the County of Saratoga, Signed, "A Citizen"] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/2/14729 ] [Files: 14729.txt; 14729-8.txt] The Crime Against Europe, by Roger Casement 14728 [Subtitle: A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/2/14728 ] [Files: 14728.txt; 14728-8.txt; 14728-h.htm] Maekijaervelaeiset, by Kauppis-Heikki 14727 [Subtitle: Kuvaus Savon kansan elamast] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/2/14727 ] [Files: 14727-8.txt] Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson, Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson 14726 [Title: The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson] [Tr.: Benjamin Thorpe and I. A. Blackwell] [Editor in Chief: Rasmus B. Anderson] [Managing Editor: J. W. Buel] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/2/14726 ] [Files: 14726.txt; 14726-8.txt; 14726-h.htm] Treatise on Light, by Christiaan Huygens 14725 [Subtitle: In which are explained the causes of that which occurs in reflexion, & in refraction and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland crystal] [Tr.: Silvanus P. Thompson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/2/14725 ] [Files: 14725.txt; 14725-8.txt; 14725-h.htm; ] Kangastuksia; Talvi-yoe; Halla; Taehtitarha, by Eino Leino 14724 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/2/14724 ] [Files: 14724-8.txt] How It Happened, by Kate Langley Bosher 14723 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/2/14723 ] [Files: 14723.txt; 14723-h.htm] Contestaciones y Consideraciones, by Apolinario Mabini 14722 [Subtitle: Al Pueblo y Congreso Norte-Amercicanos] [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/2/14722 ] [Files: 14722-8.txt; 14722-h.htm] Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, by Abraham Lincoln 14721 [Editor: Merwin Roe] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/2/14721 ] [Files: 14721.txt; 14721-8.txt; 14721-h.htm; ] Opuscules, by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland 14720 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/2/14720 ] [Files: 14720-8.txt; 14720-h.htm] Viimeinen ponnistus, by Matti Kurikka 14719 [Subtitle: Nytelm neljss nytksess] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/1/14719 ] [Files: 14719-8.txt] Bartek Sankari, by Henryk Sienkiewicz 14718 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/1/14718 ] [Files: 14718-8.txt] Twelve Men, by Theodore Dreiser 14717 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/1/14717 ] [Files: 14717.txt; 14717-8.txt; 14717-h.htm] The Art of Soul-Winning, by J.W. Mahood 14716 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/1/14716 ] [Files: 14716.txt; 14716-h.htm] The House in Good Taste, by Elsie de Wolfe 14715 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/1/14715 ] [Files: 14715.txt; 14715-8.txt; 14715-h.htm; ] Half Portions, by Edna Ferber 14714 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/1/14714 ] [Files: 14714.txt; 14714-8.txt; 14714-h.htm] Noel dans les pays etrangers, by Alphonse Chabot 14713 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/1/14713 ] [Files: 14713-8.txt; 14713-h.htm] Vandover and the Brute, by Frank Norris 14712 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/1/14712 ] [Files: 14712.txt; 14712-8.txt; 14712-h.htm; ] The Boy Allies Under the Sea, by Robert L. Drake 14711 [Subtitle: The Vanishing Submarines] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/1/14711 ] [Files: 14711.txt; 14711-h.htm; ] Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country, by Johanna Spyri 14710 [Subtitle: A Story for Children and for Those Who Love Children] [Tr.: Louise Brooks] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/1/14710 ] [Files: 14710.txt; 14710-h.htm; ] Lippincott's Magazine, February, 1875, Vol. 15, No. 86, Ed. by Kirk 14709 [Editor: John Foster Kirk] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/0/14709 ] [Files: 14709.txt; 14709-8.txt; 14709-h.htm; ] The Laurel Bush, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik [aka Miss Mulock] 14708 [Subtitle: An Old-Fashioned Love Story] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/0/14708 ] [Files: 14708.txt; ] Punch, Vol. 102, June 11, 1892, Ed. by Francis Burnand 14707 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/0/14707 ] [Files: 14707.txt; 14707-8.txt; 14707-h.htm; ] Greybeards at Play, by G. K. Chesterton 14706 [Subtitle: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/0/14706 ] [Files: 14706.txt; 14706-8.txt; 14706-h.htm; ] Le bachelier, by Jules Valles 14705 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/0/14705 ] [Files: 14705-8.txt] L'enfant, by Jules Valles 14704 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/0/14704 ] [Files: 14704-8.txt] Le nain noir, by Walter Scott 14703 [Tr.: Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/0/14703 ] [Files: 14703-8.txt] Le loup blanc, by Paul H.C. Feval 14702 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/0/14702 ] [Files: 14702-8.txt] Roof and Meadow, by Dallas Lore Sharp 14701 [Illus.: Bruce Horsfall] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/0/14701 ] [Files: 14701.txt; 14701-8.txt; 14701-h.htm] Die Menschen der Ehe, by John Henry Mackay 14700 [Subtitle: Schilderungen aus der kleinen Stadt] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/0/14700 ] [Files: 14700-8.txt; ] Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies, by Porter and Clarke 14699 [Author: Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/6/9/14699 ] [Files: 14699.txt; 14699-8.txt; ] Ranching for Sylvia, by Harold Bindloss 14698 [Published in England as: The Trustee] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/6/9/14698 ] [Files: 14698.txt; ] Lewis Rand, by Mary Johnston 14697 [Illus.: F.C. Yohn] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/6/9/14697 ] [Files: 14697.txt; 14697-8.txt; 14697-h.htm; ] Lewis Rand, by Mary Johnston 14697 [Illus.: F. C. Yohn] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/6/9/14697 ] [Files: 14697.txt; 14697-8.txt; 14697-h.htm; ] The Wheel of Life, by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 14696 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/6/9/14696 ] [Files: 14696.txt; 14696-8.txt; 14696-h.htm; ] Punch, Vol. 102, May 21, 1892, Ed. by Francis Burnand 14695 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/6/9/14695 ] [Files: 14695.txt; 14695-8.txt; 14695-h.htm; ] Punch, Vol. 102, May 14, 1892, Ed. by Francis Burnand 14694 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/6/9/14694 ] [Files: 14694.txt; 14694-8.txt; 14694-h.htm; ] Le crime de Lord Arthur Savile, by Oscar Wilde 14693 [Tr.: Albert Savine] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/9/14693 ] [Files: 14693-8.txt; 14693-h.htm] Portraits litteraires, Tome III, by C.-A. Sainte-Beuve 14692 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/9/14692 ] [Files: 14692-8.txt; 14692-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873, by Various 14691 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/9/14691 ] [Files: 14691.txt; 14691-8.txt; 14691-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 102, May 28, 1892, Ed. by Francis Burnand 14690 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/9/14690 ] [Files: 14690.txt; 14690-8.txt; 14690-h.htm] The Bay State Monthly, Vol. II, No. 6, March, 1885, by Various 14689 [Subtitle: A Massachusetts Magazine] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/8/14689 ] [Files: 14689.txt; 14689-8.txt; 14689-h.htm] Un hiver a Majorque, by George Sand 14688 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/8/14688 ] [Files: 14688-8.txt; 14688-h.htm] Christian's Mistake, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 14687 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/8/14687 ] [Files: 14687.txt] Haermaendene pa Helgeland, by Henrik Ibsen 14686 [Subtitle: Med anmerkninger av stud. mag. Birger Knudsen] [Commentator: Birger Knudsen] [Compiler: Joh. Hertzberg] [Language: Norwegian] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/8/14686 ] [Files: 14686-8.txt; 14686-h.htm] The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Ed. by Blair and Robertson 14685 [Subtitle: Volume XI, 1599-1602] [Ed. & Annotations: Emma Helen Blair And James Alexander Robertson] [Intro. & Notes: Edward Gaylord Bourne] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/8/14685 ] [Files: 14685.txt; 14685-8.txt] Mr. Dooley Says, by Finley Dunne 14684 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/8/14684 ] [Files: 14684.txt; 14684-h.htm] Poemes, by Oscar Wilde 14683 [Tr.: Albert Savine] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/8/14683 ] [Files: 14683-8.txt; 14683-h.htm] My Friend Prospero, by Henry Harland 14682 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/8/14682 ] [Files: 14682.txt; 14682-8.txt; 14682-h.htm] The Art of Travel, by Francis Galton 14681 [Subtitle: Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/8/14681 ] [Files: 14681.txt; 14681-8.txt; 14681-h.htm] Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862, by Various 14680 [Subtitle: Devoted To Literature And National Policy] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/8/14680 ] [Files: 14680.txt; 14680-8.txt; 14680-h.htm] Stray Thoughts for Girls, by Lucy H. M. Soulsby 14679 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/6/7/14679 ] [Files: 14679.txt; 14679-8.txt; ] The War of the Wenuses, by C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas 14678 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/6/7/14678 ] [Files: 14678.txt; 14678-8.txt; ] Contes de Noel, by Madame Henri de La Ville de Mirmont 14677 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/7/14677 ] [Files: 14677.txt; 14677-8.txt; 14677-h.htm] Women and War Work, by Helen Fraser 14676 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/6/7/14676 ] [Files: 14676.txt; 14676-8.txt; 14676-h.htm; ] Secret Enemies of True Republicanism, by Andrew B. Smolnikar 14675 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/7/14675 ] [Files: 14675.txt; 14675-8.txt; 14675-h.htm] Ten Great Religions, by James Freeman Clarke 14674 [Subtitle: An Essay in Comparative Theology] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/7/14674 ] [Files: 14674.txt; 14674-8.txt; 14674-0.txt; 14674-h.htm] The Copyright Question, by George N. Morang 14673 [Subtitle: A Letter to the Toronto Board of Trade] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/6/7/14673 ] [Files: 14673.txt; 14673-8.txt; 14673-h.htm] ============================================================================= [ This Week's Other Stuff ] ============================================================================= Found in #14680, Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862: 'Roman newspapers,' said an intelligent Roman to Caper, 'were invented to conceal the news.' We'll leave it to each of you to decide for yourselves if this is still true. ~ ~ ~ There is a theory that states: "If anyone finds out what the universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by something even more bizaarly inexplicable." There is another theory that states: "This has already happened...." =============================================================================

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PT1 Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

GWeekly_January_12.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 12, 2005 PT1 *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971***** 15,000 eBooks listed as of this week, see PT2 for details!!! Whew! It's perhaps only due to luck that this Newsletter is going out today with all the usual updates and features, as this computer was knocked out during the most violent single lightning strike I have ever been so very close to. I have rebooted just in time to get the progress report figures, and should have time to include all the normal news articles, etc. 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 HEADLINE NEWS Project Gutenberg of Canada needs your help! Please email: pgcanada(a)lists.pglaf.org * v0.2 version of PodReader is out, and it interfaces to PG. 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Too much independent learning?] A report from the Department of Education says that although virtually all U.S. schools are now connected to the Internet (with one computer for every five students), many educators remain doubtful about the benefits of online learning. Secretary of Education Ron Paige says in the National Education Technology Plan: "Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology. Schools remain unchanged for the most part despite numerous reforms and increased investments in computers." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 7 Jan 2005) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10588049.htm> You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. 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You'll find the two interviews at: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i29_jain.html> and <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i39_schrage.html> RADAR INFO 'MORE RELIABLE' THAN WHAT THE AIRLINES TELL YOU [Tired of not being able to believe what the airlines tell you?] The Yosemite International Airport in Fresno, California, has become the first in the nation to use a Web-based wireless system that relies strictly on radar (rather than on reports from the airline carriers themselves) to obtain the flight information it displays on monitors and portable kiosks. Ron Dunsky, of the company that developed the software, says: "It is a way to inexpensively kick information up to a more accurate level." (AP/Washington Post 4 Jan 2005) <www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46599-2005Jan4.html?nav=headlines> 'ENHANCED INTENSIVE CARE': IF YOU NEED IT YOU'LL WANT IT [Waiting for first story of a patient dying "live" on camera while no one is paying attention to what the camera is showing] New technology known as eICU ("Enhanced Intensive Care") lets physicians miles away from their patents manage health care via cameras and banks of computer screens. Developed by Baltimore-based VISICU Inc., the technology is already in use at least 18 hospital systems nationwide. Whereas traditional health care systems rely on nurses to notice a problem with a patient and relay the information to a doctor, eICU informs the doctor directly. The doctor can check the patient's ventilator, intravenous medication and anything else in the patient's room, and one physician notes: "The camera is such that I can count eyelashes." (AP/Los Angeles Times 4 Jan 2004) <http://www.latimes.com/technology/ats-ap_technology12jan04,1,3365615.story? coll=sns-ap-toptechnology> ANOTHER HIGH-TECH LEAP IN INDIA [India and China will be moving up the technology ladder, just watch.] The Indian state Andhra Pradesh is planning a new $90-million network that will move data between Hyderabad, the state's capital, and 23 districts at a speed more than 5,000 times the speed of the existing network. Hyderabad is already a hub of knowledge-based industries, and it has attracted Microsoft and numerous other world-class companies to establish research centers there. Mohammed Ali Shabbir, the state's information minister, predicts predicts the new system will revolutionize the entire communication network. He explains: "Widespread availability of broadband services at very low and affordable rates is expected to take government services to the doorsteps of the citizens and also trigger significant economic activity in every sector." 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Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame began testing a Vmag two years ago, sending it to students who had been accepted but had not yet decided to enroll. Saint Mary's Vmag includes four videos, each between one and two minutes, showing various activities on campus. Users who have downloaded the Vmag are prompted when new versions are available. Many believe video is able to persuade in ways that fixed images are not. Westminster College in Salt Lake City has added 136 video clips to its Web site in an effort to appeal to prospective students. Joel Bauman, vice president for enrollment at Westminster, said the videos are fairly inexpensive to produce. Karen Giannino, senior associate dean of admission at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., said the videos added to her institution's Web site help "tell our story in a compelling way" and "differentiate Colgate" from similar schools. New York Times, 30 December 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/technology/circuits/30coll.html EBAY TO DISCONTINUE PASSPORT Online auction site eBay has announced it will discontinue support of Microsoft's Passport service later this month. The service offers registered users a single location to store personal information including names, addresses, and credit card numbers. When shopping at online vendors participating in the service, users can access their profiles for transactions with just a single login. Since its debut in 1999, however, Passport has failed to live up to expectations, in part due to competition as well as to security concerns among consumers. In addition, retailers were slow to sign up for fear that Microsoft might begin charging fees to retailers for the service. A spokesperson from eBay said that the percentage of its customers who regularly signed in using Passport was "very small." Despite losing one of the largest online retailers in eBay, Microsoft said the Passport service will continue. Reuters, 1 January 2005 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7217100 COPYRIGHT LEVY ATTACHED TO GERMAN PC SALES A German court has ordered one of the country's largest PC makers to pay a levy for each new computer sold, to compensate copyright holders for royalties lost to copying. Germany has long charged such levies on devices used for copying content, including blank audio and video cassettes. The VG Wort rights society, which represents copyright holders in Germany, had asked the court to charge Fujitsu Siemens Computers 30 euros (US$41) per computer; the court decided on a levy of 12 euros. VG Wort said it will work to make all PC vendors in Germany subject to the same levy. Bernd Bischoff, CEO of Fujitsu Siemens, said the levy is "a de facto tax on PCs," which will tend to decrease sales. Officials from Fujitsu Siemens said they will consider appealing the decision and have asked the German government to review the copyright levies as they apply to digital technologies. ITWorld, 24 December 2004 http://www.itworld.com/Man/2681/041224germanlevy/ You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** TECHNOLOGY REVIEW *Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK About last week's quote: The actual quote by Jan Egeland, the United Nations' emergency relief coordinator and former head of the Norwegian Red Cross: "We were more generous when we were less rich, many of the rich countries. And it is beyond me, why are we so stingy, really. Even Christmas time should remind many Western countries at least how rich we have become." George Stephanopolis questionned Secretary of State Colin Powell about this, asking pretty much the same question I did: Why was the original estimate barely into the millions of dollars, when it was obvious from the start that it would/should/could approach a billion dollars? Not to mention why President Bush took four days before giving out any statement whatsoever. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK I'm sure you've all now heard this spin-doctored beyond belief, so I'll let it be other than to add that when all is said and done, perhaps over a year from now, the death toll might be 1/4 million, possibly the second greatest natural disaster of all time. [There was an earthquake in Japan in the 1500s that perhaps took 1/2 million lives, perhaps 3/4 million.] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK More on TIMSS I'm not at all sure why the 8th grade math scores got the press releases a few weeks ago, my own comparisons with a report from 1999 that I saved showed that the U.S. scores in 8th grade science showed much more of a change: 1999 Rank Country Name Score 28 United States 500 2003 Rank Country Name Score 09 United States 527 This shows a 5% increase in absolute scoring, and drastic improvement in international ranking. [Perhaps it was a misprint, and the press releases should have said Science, not Math] At any rate, here are the top 15 in each category of 2003: Math Grade 8 Rank Country Name Score 1. Singapore 605 2. Korea [Rep./South] 589 3. Hong Kong, SAR 586 4. Chinese Taipei 585 5. Japan 570 6. Belgium [Flemish] 537 7. Netherlands 536 8. Estonia 531 9. Hungary 529 10. Malaysia 508 11. Latvia 508 12. Russian Federation 508 13. Slovak Republic 508 14. Australia 505 15. United States 504 Math Grade 4 [Only about half as many countries measured] Rank Country Name Score 1. Singapore 594 2. Hong Kong SAR 575 3. Japan 565 4. Chinese Taipei 564 5. Belgium [Flemish] 551 6. Netherlands 540 7. Latvia 536 8. Lithuania 534 9. Russian Federation 532 10. England 531 11. Hungary 529 12. United States 518 13. Cyprus 510 14. Moldova, Rep. of 504 15. Italy 503 [Please note approximately 100 point level change between the 15 each grade] Science Grade 8 Rank Country Name Score 1. Singapore 578 2. Chinese Taipei 571 3. Korea, Rep./South 558 4. Hong Kong, SAR 556 5. Estonia 552 6. Japan 552 7. Hungary 543 8. Netherlands 536 9. United States 527 10. Australia 527 11. Sweden 524 12. Slovenia 520 13. New Zealand 520 14. Lithuania 519 15. Slovak Republic 520 [Note only 58 points from #1 to #15 in this area] Science Grade 4 Rank Country Name Score 1. Singapore 565 2. Chinese Taipei 551 3. Japan 543 4. Hong Kong, SAR 542 5. England 540 6. United States 536 7. Latvia 532 8. Hungary 530 9. Russian Federation 526 10. Netherlands 525 11. Australia 521 12. New Zealand 520 13. Belgium [Flemish] 518 14. Italy 516 15. Lithuania 512 [Again note less difference betwen #1 and #15] TIMSS = Third International Mathematics and Science Study Three weeks ago nearly every new service had positive comments about the improved U.S. students' TIMSS test scores that come out every four years. Only one source I heard had the nerve to say that the scores didn't really show any improvement, while the rest seemed to reek of jingoism. However, in reviewing the scores, it seems obvious that the U.S. test scores in question, the 8th grade math scores, were basically unchanged, moving up less than 1% from the 1999 score of 500 to the 2003 score of 504, out of 800. This represents a change of 1/5 of 1% per year, which I seriously doubt is within the statistical parameters of the TIMSS testing methodologies. [This is 1/8% if you measure from the total of 800 points, or a 1/2% total change over the four year period, an increment these kinds of tests are not reported to target.] Much more likely is the fact that the U.S. ranking has been changed more by changes in the other countries, both in terms of the changes the countries chosen for the 2003 tests, and the performance changes of those countries that stayed the same. More details of score changes in the top 20 of 1999: Rank Country 1999/2003 Change 1/1 Singapore 643/605 = 38 2/2 Korea 607/589 = 18 3/5 Japan 605/570 = 35 4/3 Hong Kong 588/586 = 3 6/6 Belgium (Fl) 565/537 = 28 7/13 Slovak Republic 547/508 = 39 9/7 Netherlands 541/536 = 5 9/21 Slovenia 541/493 = 48 [Netherlands and Slovenia tied in 1999] 11/25 Bulgaria 540/476 = 66 14/9 Hungary 537/529 = 7 16/14 Australia 530/505 = 25 Avg. of 11 listed here: 568/539 = 29 Change in U.S. Score: 500/504 = 4 Change in U.S. Rank 28/15 = 13 Obviously the other countries changed much more than the U.S., over 7 times as much change, not to mention that many of the countries tested in 1999 were not tested in 2003, a factor of change much greater than that of the U.S. performance change. Thus we see that that most other countries changed much more than did the U.S., which changed very little. It would appear that the U.S. didn't really move on the charts so much as other countries moved up and down past the U.S. In addition, it appears that the science scores were not mentioned in these news reports, nor were the scores for students in the lower grade classes. I will have to dig them up to let you know more about them in later issues. *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. To subscribe to any (or to unsubscribe or adjust your subscription preferences), visit the Project Gutenberg mailing list server: http://lists.pglaf.org If you are having trouble with your subscription, please email the list's human administrators at: help(a)pglaf.org

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Payne 14594 [Subtitle: A Manual Of Cheap And Wholesome Diet] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/9/14594 ] [Files: 14594.txt; 14594-h.htm] Norse Tales and Sketches, by Alexander Lange Kielland 14593 [Tr.: R. L. Cassie] Contents: A Siesta A Monkey A Tale of the Sea A Dinner Trofast Karen My Sister's Journey to Modum Letters from Master-Pilot Seehus Old Dances Autumn [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/9/14593 ] [Files: 14593.txt; 14593-8.txt; 14593-h.htm; ] Punch, Vol. 102, April 9th, 1892, Ed. by Francis Burnand 14592 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/9/14592 ] [Files: 14592.txt; 14592-8.txt; 14592-h.htm] Faust, by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 14591 [Translated Into English in The Original Metres by Bayard Taylor] [Illustrated by Harry Clarke] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/9/14591 ] [Files: 14591.txt; 14591-8.txt; 14591-h.htm] A New Hochelagan Burying-ground. . .Montreal, by W. D. Lighthall 14590 [Title: A New Hochelagan Burying-ground Discovered at Westmount on the Western Spur of Mount Royal, Montreal, July-September, 1898] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/9/14590 ] [Files: 14590.txt; 14590-h.htm; ] Certain Success, by Norval A. Hawkins 14589 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/8/14589 ] [Files: 14589.txt; 14589-8.txt; 14589-h.htm] Three Wonder Plays, by Lady I. A. Gregory 14588 Contents The Dragon Aristotle's Bellows The Jester [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/8/14588 ] [Files: 14588.txt; 14588-8.txt; 14588-h.htm] The Crest-Wave of Evolution, by Various, Ed. by Kenneth Morris 14587 [Subtitle: A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/8/14587 ] [Files: 14587.txt; ] The Brain, A Decoded Enigma, by Dorin T. Moisa 14586C [Note: This is a translation of eBook #11756, by the author.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/8/14586 ] [Files: 14586-8.txt; 14585-r.rtf ] ERPANET Case Study: Project Gutenberg, by ERPANET 14585C [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/8/14585 ] [Files: 14585.txt; 14585.doc ] Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Appendix, by James D. Richardson 14584 [Title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. 10, Sec. 1 (of 3), Appendix: Messages, Proclamations, Executive Orders, etc., Omitted from Volumes I to IX] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/8/14584 ] [Files: 14584.txt; 14584-h.htm] Continental Monthly - Volume 1 - Issue 3, by Various 14583 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/8/14583 ] [Files: 14583.txt; 14583-8.txt; 14583-h.htm] The War With the United States, by William Wood 14582 [Subtitle: A Chronicle of 1812] [Volume 14 (of 32) in the series Chronicles of Canada] [Editors: George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/8/14582 ] [Files: 14582.txt] The Just and the Unjust, by Vaughan Kester 14581 [Illus.: M. Leone Bracker] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/8/14581 ] [Files: 14581.txt; 14581-8.txt; 14581-h.htm; ] Elsje, by A.C. Kuiper 14580 [Illus.: A. Wijthoff] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/8/14580 ] [Files: 14580-8.txt; 14580-h.htm] Simon Called Peter, by Robert Keable 14579 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/7/14579 ] [Files: 14579.txt; 14579-8.txt] >From Death into Life, by William Haslam 14578 [Subtitle: or, Twenty Years of my Minstry] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/7/14578 ] [Files: 14578.txt] The Teaching of History, by Ernest C. Hartwell 14577 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/7/14577 ] [Files: 14577.txt; 14577-h.htm; ] Modern Mythology, by Andrew Lang 14576 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/7/14576 ] [Files: 14576.txt; 14576-h.htm] Bylow Hill, by George Washington Cable 14575 [Illus.: F. C. Yohn] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/7/14575 ] [Files: 14575.txt; 14575-h.htm; ] Gunsight Pass, by William MacLeod Raine 14574 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/7/14574 ] [Files: 14574.txt; 14574-8.txt] The Truce of God, by Mary Roberts Rinehart 14573 [Illus.: Harold Sichel] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/7/14573 ] [Files: 14573.txt; 14573-h.htm; ] The Spirit of Christmas, by Henry Van Dyke 14572 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/7/14572 ] [Files: 14572.txt; 14572-h.htm] Life and Gabriella, by Ellen Glasgow 14571 [Subtitle: The Story of a Woman's Courage] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/7/14571 ] [Files: 14571.txt; 14571-h.htm] Oulua soutamassa, by Teuvo Pakkala 14570 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/7/14570 ] [Files: 14570-8.txt] Lapsuuteni muistoja, by Teuvo Pakkala 14569 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/6/14569 ] [Files: 14569-8.txt] Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, by Anonymous 14568 [Subtitle: An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.)] [Re-Edited From Cotton. Ms. Nero, A.x., In The British Museum, By Richard Morris] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/6/14568 ] [Files: 14568.txt; 14568-8.txt; 14568-h.htm] The Reconstructed School, by Francis B. Pearson 14567 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/6/14567 ] [Files: 14567.txt; 14567-8.txt; 14567-h.htm; ] Elsie's Motherhood, by Martha Finley [AKA: Martha Farquharson] 14566 [Subtitle: A Sequel to Elsie's Womanhood] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/6/14566 ] [Files: 14566.txt; ] COSMOS: A Sketch. . .of the Universe, Vol. 1, by Alexander von Humboldt 14565 [Title: COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] [Tr.: E.C. Otte] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/6/14565 ] [Files: 14565-8.txt; ] Cesarine Dietrich, by George Sand 14564 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/6/14564 ] [Files: 14564-8.txt] Sheila of Big Wreck Cove, by James A. Cooper 14563 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/6/14563 ] [Files: 14563.txt; 14563-8.txt; 14563-h.htm] The Land-War In Ireland (1870), by James Godkin 14562 [Subtitle: A History For The Times] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/6/14562 ] [Files: 14562.txt; 14562-8.txt; 14562-h.htm] Reis naar de Fidsji-eilanden, by G. Verschuur 14561 [From "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1892] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/6/14561 ] [Files: 14561.txt; 14561-8.txt; 14561-h.htm] De Fidji-eilanden, by Anonymous 14560 [Title: Omzwervingen door de eilandenwereld van den Grooten Oceaan: De Fidji-eilanden] [From "De Aarde en Haar Volken"] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/6/14560 ] [Files: 14560.txt; 14560-8.txt; 14560-h.htm] Omzwervingen door de eilandenwereld van den Grooten-oceaan, by Anonymous 14559 [From "De Aarde en Haar Volken"] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/5/14559 ] [Files: 14559.txt; 14559-8.txt; 14559-h.htm] Darwinism (1889), by Alfred Russel Wallace 14558 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/5/14558 ] [Files: 14558.txt; 14558-8.txt; 14558-h.htm] The Conundrums of Psychology, by Sam Vaknin 14557C [Ed.: Lidija Rangelovska] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/5/14557 ] [Files: 14557.txt; ] An Encounter in Atlanta, by Ed Howdershelt 14556C [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/5/14556 ] [Files: 14556.txt; 14556-h.htm; ] William Lloyd Garrison, by Archibald H. Grimke 14555 [Subtitle: The Abolitionist] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/5/14555 ] [Files: 14555.txt; 14555-8.txt; 14555-h.htm] Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4), by Thomas L. Kinkead 14554 [Subtitle: An Explanation Of The Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine For Two Years' Course for Post-Confirmation Classes; For The Use of Sunday-School Teachers and Advanced Classes] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/5/14554 ] [Files: 14554.txt] Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4), by Anonymous 14553 [Subtitle: For Two Years' Course for Post-Confirmation Classes] [Supplemented By Rev. Thomas L. Kinkead] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/5/14553 ] [Files: 14553.txt] Baltimore Catechism No. 2 (of 4), by Anonymous 14552 [Subtitle: For Confirmation Classes] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/5/14552 ] [Files: 14552.txt] Baltimore Catechism No. 1 (of 4), by Anonymous 14551 [Subtitle: For First Communion Classes] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/5/14551 ] [Files: 14551.txt] Two Hundred Sketches Humorous and Grotesque (1867), by Gustave Dore 14550 [Illus.: Gustave Dore] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/5/14550 ] [Files: 14550-h.htm] Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife, by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher 14549 [Subtitle: Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/4/14549 ] [Files: 14549.txt; 14549-h.htm] The Laws of Candy, by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher 14548 [Subtitle: Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/4/14548 ] [Files: 14548.txt; 14548-h.htm] Gwaith Mynyddog. Cyfrol II, by Mynyddog 14547 [Editor: Owen M. Edwards] [Language: Welsh] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/4/14547 ] [Files: 14547.txt; 14547-h.htm] Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp, by Alice B. Emerson 14546 [Subtitle: The Mystery of Ida Bellethorne] [Author note: Alice B. Emerson was a pseudonym for Stratemeyer Syndicate writers for the Betty Gordon series and the Ruth Fielding series.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/4/14546 ] [Files: 14546.txt; 14546-8.txt; 14546-h.htm; ] Copper Streak Trail, by Eugene Manlove Rhodes 14545 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/4/14545 ] [Files: 14545.txt; 14545-8.txt; ] Punch, Vol. 102, April 30, 1892, Ed. by Francis Burnand 14544 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/4/14544 ] [Files: 14544.txt; 14544-8.txt; 14544-h.htm; ] False Friends, and The Sailor's Resolve, by Unknown 14543 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/4/14543 ] [Files: 14543.txt; 14543-h.htm; ] The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories, by B. M. Bower 14542 [Author AKA: Bertha Muzzy Bower Sinclair Cowan; B. M. Sinclair] Contents: The Lonesome Trail First Aid to Cupid When the Cook Fell Ill The Lamb The Spirit of the Range The Reveler The Unheavenly Twins [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/4/14542 ] [Files: 14542.txt; ] Seance De L'academie Francaise Du 2 Mai 1901, by Berthelot et Lemaitre 14541 [Subtitle: Discours De Reception De M. Berthelot; Reponse De M. Jules Lemaitre] [Author: Pierre Berthelot and Jules Lemaitre] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/4/14541 ] [Files: 14541-8.txt] When William Came, by Saki 14540 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/4/14540 ] [Files: 14540.txt; 14540-h.htm] La Chevre Jaune, by Paul De Musset 14539 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/3/14539 ] [Files: 14539-8.txt] L'Illustration, Samedi 1er Aout 1914, 72e Annee, No 3727, by Various 14538 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/3/14538 ] [Files: 14538-8.txt; 14538-h.htm] Un amour vrai, by Laure Conan 14537 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/3/14537 ] [Files: 14537-8.txt; 14537-h.htm] Jeanne la Fileuse, by H. Beaugrand 14536 [Subtitle: Episode de l'Emigration Franco-Canadienne aux Etats-Unis] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/3/14536 ] [Files: 14536-8.txt; 14536-h.htm] A Christmas Sermon, by Robert Louis Stevenson 14535 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/3/14535 ] [Files: 14535.txt; 14535-h.htm; ] Christmas with Grandma Elsie, by Martha Finley [AKA: Martha Farquharson] 14534 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/3/14534 ] [Files: 14534.txt; ] Hocken and Hunken, by A. T. Quiller-Couch 14533 [Subtitle: A Tale of Troy] [Author AKA: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch; Q] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/3/14533 ] [Files: 14533.txt; ] The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him, by Ford 14532 [Author: Paul Leicester Ford] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/3/14532 ] [Files: 14532.txt; 14532-8.txt; 14532-h.htm; ] The Singing Man, by Josephine Preston Peabody 14531 [Subtitle: A Book of Songs and Shadows] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/3/14531 ] [Files: 14531.txt; 14531-8.txt] Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885, by Various 14530 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/3/14530 ] [Files: 14530.txt; 14530-8.txt; 14530-h.htm] The Old English Physiologus, by Albert S. Cook 14529 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/2/14529 ] [Language: English and Old English] [Files: 14529-8.txt; 14529-0.txt; 14529-h.htm] Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707), by Samuel Cobb 14528 [Subtitle: From Poems On Several Occasions] [Intro.: Louis I. Bredvold] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/2/14528 ] [Files: 14528.txt; 14528-8.txt; 14528-h.htm] Children of the Mist, by Eden Phillpotts 14527 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/2/14527 ] [Files: 14527.txt; 14527-h.htm] The Little City Of Hope, by F. Marion Crawford 14526 [Subtitle: A Christmas Story] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/2/14526 ] [Files: 14526.txt; 14526-8.txt; 14526-h.htm] Prefaces to Fiction, by Various, Ed. by Benjamin Boyce 14525 Contents Georges de ScudTry, Preface to "Ibrahim" Mary De la Riviere Manley, Preface to "The Secret History of Queen Zarah" Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, "The Jewish Spy", Letter 35 William Warburton, Preface to Volumes III and IV, of Richardson's "Clarissa" Samuel Derrick, Preface to d'Argens's "Memoirs of The Count Du Beauval" [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/2/14525 ] [Files: 14525.txt; 14525-8.txt; 14525-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine, July 1885, by Various 14524 [Title: Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36--New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/2/14525 ] [Files: 14525.txt; 14525-8.txt] Sister Carmen, by M. Corvus [Tr.: Kate Dykers] 14523 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/2/14523 ] [Files: 14523.txt; ] The Canterville Ghost, by Oscar Wilde 14522 [Illus.: Wallace Goldsmith] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/2/14522 ] [Files: 14522.txt; 14522-8.txt; 14522-h.htm; ] Memories, by Max Muller 14521 [Subtitle: A Story of German Love] [Tr.: George P. Upton] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/2/14521 ] [Files: 14521.txt; ] Mavericks, by William MacLeod Raine 14520 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/2/14520 ] [Files: 14520.txt; 14520-8.txt; 14520-h.htm] Five Little Plays, by Alfred Sutro 14519 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/1/14519 ] [Files: 14519.txt; 14519-8.txt] Handbook of Home Rule, by W. E. 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Cyfrol II: For those interested: Mynyddog (real name Richard Davies) was born in Llanbrynmair, Mont. in Wales in 1833. Well known as a conductor and soloist he was also a poet. This book is the second volume in a collection of his works. Most of the literary criticism of today damns his poetry but some of his verse is still popular. In pure conincidence the last Welsh eBook (Gwaith Samuel Roberts) also had an author born in Llanbryn-mair (in 1800). The place itself is very small and it's noteworthy that it produced two important Welsh literary figures within a few decades. ~ ~ ~ And about #14540, When William Came: For those wishing to know: Murrey Yeovil has been away from England for a long time. When he returns the "fait accompli" has occured. The story follows his life as he attempts to make sense of the new England. What was the "fait accompli"? Well, for that you have to read the story. The occasional witty remark breaks up a rather depressing novel. ~ ~ ~ Also, about #14576, Modern Mythology, by Andrew Lang: For those wishing to know: Max Muller (a famous Victorian researcher and linguist) had written a rather nasty piece about Andrew Lang's views on mythology. This book is Lang's response and is in part a defense of Lang's method and also a critical look at Max Muller's approach to mythological research. It's very technical those looking for an introduction to the ideas might be better reading Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang first. ~ ~ ~ And from David Widger, about #14568, Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight: NOTE: The Old English "yogh" characters have been translated both upper and lower-case yoghs to digit 3's. There are Unicode allocations for these (in HTML Ȝ and ȝ) but at present no font which implements these. Substiting the digit 3 seemed a workable compromise which anybody can read. The linked html "Old English 'yogh' file" uses Ȝ and ȝ representations, and is included for users with specialist fonts. ~ ~ ~ A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. =============================================================================

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The prevalence of "always-on" broadband leads to higher usage rates as high-speed users subscribe to the practice of "infosnacking," says AOL executive VP Jim Bankoff: "People are more able and willing to just walk up to the Internet to get a quick snippet of what they need, send a quick e-mail, read a quick news article, check a sports score." That instant availability has changed communal behavior, says Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Family members arguing over a point are more apt to "look it up online rather than continue to yell at each other," says Rainie, who notes his high-speed bandwidth at home has also changed his offline behavior -- he gets to the office late and leaves early in order to avoid rush-hour traffic, knowing that he can accomplish what he needs to do in his hours at home. 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Don't miss the one way up at the very beginning.] EU COURT RULES AGAINST MICROSOFT A European Union judge today ruled that Microsoft must immediately submit to sanctions imposed by EC regulators after they found that Microsoft broke antitrust laws by integrating its Windows Media Player into Windows, thus putting rival media software companies at a disadvantage. Microsoft had appealed the initial decision, arguing that pulling Media Player out of Windows would degrade its performance, but in today's ruling, Chief Judge Bo Vesterdorf of the Court of First Instance found that postponing sanctions would give Microsoft time to strengthen its grip on the market for media playing applications. Microsoft must now create two versions of Windows for European distribution -- one that contains Media Player and one without. Microsoft announced it would comply while contemplating its next legal move. (Washington Post 22 Dec 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18543-2004Dec22.html> You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage MICROSOFT MUST ACCEPT EU SANCTIONS The president of the European Union's Court of First Instance ruled that Microsoft must abide by sanctions imposed by EU regulators pending the results of an appeal. The sanctions require Microsoft to provide a version of its Windows operating system that does not include the company's Media Player software. Microsoft also must publish application programming interfaces to allow competitors to create server products compatible with Windows. The court ruled that Microsoft failed to prove that meeting the sanctions would cause "serious and irreparable harm" to its business. ComputerWorld, 22 December 2004 http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,98474,00.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** TECHNOLOGY REVIEW *Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK "We are less generous now that we are more rich." Jan Egeland, UN emergency relief coordinator. [This is the quotation I wrote down directly when I heard it on the air, but I notice it doesn't appear in any of my searches, rather the word "stingy" is the main word used, and wanting higher taxes to get more relief. I recall, hopefully correctly, that I wrote the quote from The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. However, this quote didn't come up in ANY searches, but was rather replaced more the more sensational: "It is beyond me why are we so stingy, really," "Christmastime should remind many Western countries at least, how rich we have become." [Please not he used "we" above, and only used "they" when replying to specific complaints he received.] "There are several donors who are less generous than before in a growing world economy," and that officials are saying "the taxpayers want to give less. It's not true. They want to give more."] No similar comments were raised against the BBC comments that current relief efforts would be small enough for the immediate responses, and forgotten soon enough that many of the victims would be still living in temporary shelters a year from now. You may also want to note that this is possibly the greatest natural disaster in recorded history, as the massive Krakatoa eruption of 1883 only killed 40,000, most by the same sort of tsunamis as in this catastrophe. By comparison, the number killed in Pompeii was perhaps 2,000, with perhaps another several thousand in nearby Herculaneum and their surroundings. The official count for this one had already passed 50,000 24 hours before our deadline, with another 50,000 expected to be added as more bodies are found and second stage deaths take place from injuries, lack of supplies, and an expected resulting empidemic from lack of food and clean water. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The responses to Jan Egeland's statements will continue to be of the tabloid nature, completely ignoring facts that pledged donations at the time were much smaller than those reported after the effect of his statement, but reported as if they were that large before. [When I heard the first report of the U.S. pledging 3.5 million dollars, I actually thought they meant 3.5 billion dollars. . .a fraction of the amount spent to rebuild Florida after the four hurricanes this year. Apparently the total cost to insurance companies alone has been over $20 billion, not to mention all the costs not borne by insurance.] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK [For those of you who still refuse to believe that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. . . .] Economic reports for holiday sales indicate that the stores catering to the upper classes did quite well, while classes of a less wealthy nature spent much less at discount stores. In addition, the post-Chrismas rush expected the days after never seemed to materialize this year. Camera crews from a variety of news programs showed a several lack of crowds to face expectant store personnel. * More on TIMSS TIMSS = Third International Mathematics and Science Study Three weeks ago nearly every new service had positive comments about the improved U.S. students' TIMSS test scores that come out every four years. Only one source I heard had the nerve to say that the scores didn't really show any improvement, while the rest seemed to reek of jingoism. However, in reviewing the scores, it seems obvious that the U.S. test scores in question, the 8th grade math scores, were basically unchanged, moving up less than 1% from the 1999 score of 500 to the 2003 score of 504, out of 800. This represents a change of 1/5 of 1% per year, which I seriously doubt is within the statistical parameters of the TIMSS testing methodologies. [This is 1/8% if you measure from the total of 800 points, or a 1/2% total change over the four year period, an increment these kinds of tests are not reported to target.] Much more likely is the fact that the U.S. ranking has been changed more by changes in the other countries, both in terms of the changes the countries chosen for the 2003 tests, and the performance changes of those countries that stayed the same. More details of score changes in the top 20 of 1999: Rank Country 1999/2003 Change 1/1 Singapore 643/605 = 38 2/2 Korea 607/589 = 18 3/5 Japan 605/570 = 35 4/3 Hong Kong 588/586 = 3 6/6 Belgium (Fl) 565/537 = 28 7/13 Slovak Republic 547/508 = 39 9/7 Netherlands 541/536 = 5 9/21 Slovenia 541/493 = 48 [Netherlands and Slovenia tied in 1999] 11/25 Bulgaria 540/476 = 66 14/9 Hungary 537/529 = 7 16/14 Australia 530/505 = 25 Avg. of 11 listed here: 568/539 = 29 Change in U.S. Score: 500/504 = 4 Change in U.S. Rank 28/15 = 13 Obviously the other countries changed much more than the U.S., over 7 times as much change, not to mention that many of the countries tested in 1999 were not tested in 2003, a factor of change much greater than that of the U.S. performance change. Thus we see that that most other countries changed much more than did the U.S., which changed very little. 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