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[during the writing of this newsletter we have posted three more etext files for may, , appended at the end of the lists. we also should be posting the newly revised copyrighted shakespeare files any minute. sue and greg may be sending you an independent newsletter about those. so. . .please forgive me if i have overdone or underdone anything here . . .i am already hours late in getting this posted as we speak. michael s. hart project gutenberg executive director contest: . late new items. . requests from our volunteers. . while "the cat in the cat in the hat hat" is away, will mice play? . a first glance at the new copyright laws. . the project gutenberg etexts for april, . . the new project gutenberg complete works of shakespeare, this one is in the public domain, at least in the u.s. . the newly revised editions of our th etext, the copyrighted version of shakespeare's works. . . , s of errors corrected! . who is this "cat in the cat in the hat hat," anyway? or what? *** . late news items. i [michael hart] will be hard to reach for the coming month, as i will be meeting with a number of people, doing conferences, house hunting in tacoma, and all that stuff, and, hopefully taking rest and refuge from everything to prepare to continue the fight for a reversal of the new copyright laws in court. so, in addition to emailing me at hart@pobox.com, you should also cc: sue asscher <asschers@aia.net.au>, or greg newby <gbnewby@ils.unc.edu> if you can't get to sue sue and greg will be posting the books while i am gone, and maybe even sending out one of these newsletters! please also be encouraged to contact: dianne bean <beandp@primenet.com>, united states david price <ccx @ccj.coventry.ac.uk> england john bickers <jbickers@ihug.co.nz> new zealand [but don't feel you can only contact the one who is closest to you. . . .] [we don't want sue and greg to be too inundated with everything.] they are not nearly as used to this as are dianne, david and john, and i hope you will be as considerate of them all as possible. thanks! michael *** for those who access our sites to get or send etexts: archive.org has been through a major crash as is not, at least at this moment, fully recovered, so you may want to try our other sites. email sue and newby to find out where to send files if you have trouble. i note that sunsite.unc.edu is not accepting files for the moment because the disk is full. . .more on this in the volunteers' newsletter in a day or so. newby just this minute let me know that archive.org is up, at least for "outgoing" to send us files, but now it requires a "cd work" command after ftping in. newby will try to get the /etext directories running asap, so you can get the normal files from archive.org [right. . ."ootgoing" is now "outgoing" [cd work]!!! . as usual, before we even get started, here are requests to find certain books our volunteers would love to work on: the works of francesca franco [of "dangerous beauty" fame] <cyri@juno.com> tania william blake, the four zoas we have someone who is willing to pay for part of the cost of getting a copy of this. . .and will proofread. you can contact me directly about this one. . . . if the price is decent, just go ahead and get it if the copyright is , or earlier. . .but please don't ship it to me yet. . . . burton's arabian nights. . .for: ron burkey <rburkey@heads-up.com> unabridged, dated before in copyright or publication info. and would anyone be interested in collecting up pieces of the human genome to post on project gutenberg? it is often requested. here is a list of our directors of production, please feel free to contact them during the next month as i will be hard to get. ??? *** . while "the cat in the cat in the hat hat" is away, will mice play? i will be hard to reach for the next month, hobnobbing with my fellow wizards as i tend to do every year at this time. i hope to come back with some major support for project gutenberg, as i am aging quickly, and surprised myself quite a bit with our huge rush of production for the past three months. it appears we have posted over new files, with some of them as new editions, all in the past days or so. in fact, the april etexts, and all the new and revised shakespeare files were posted in the last two weeks. . .someday i hope we can get that much work done every two weeks! . a first glance at the new copyright laws. i was only a week ago that the new copyright laws were signed, and it is my honor to tell you that our volunteers and supporters have great will power when it comes to a call to arms. the huge book production over the past two weeks was actually nearly all posted in just week since this new law took effect. [i had already gone into what i call "vacation mode" after sending out the mid-month newsletter, and, only or new books had been posted between the newsletter and the law-- when i announce an effort to avenge the passing of the law by posting as many books as possible for the next newsletter, which would now be set for only one week away, instead of six weeks away. no way i can say nearly enough about our volunteers and directors, as they really and truly came through in a time of crisis to let a world know that we were not going to knuckle under to the pressure! a tip of the hat to all of them!! now, on the legal matters. at first glance, the major effect on the public domain is destruction . . .plain and simple. . .for the next years. . .and more, if they pass another such law, which, i am sure they will try their damnedest to do. . .there will be no more public domain books in the u.s. other than the ones that had already entered the public domain on / / . even if such a law is not passed again and again, the public domain a person might have gotten used to living in this century will only "be a distant memory before orwell's age of " in that a public domain that used to include approximately half or % of all materials of an eternity of publishing up to years ago, should now include nearly % of the all the materials that will have been published in history, up to years from now. let me put this succinctly: years ago the u.s. public domain included about % of everything years from now the u.s. public domain will include about %. . here's the simple math: if copyrighted information doubles every years, and the copyright usually expires in years, then information is flowing into public domain access at the same rate it is flowing into copyright. . .so a quick look tells us that during the time it took to create a world's new supply of information, the old supply of information came out of copyright and into the public domain. . . . years ago [and up to ] the average copyright lasted about years, with most books having years of copyright monopoly and the copyrights were not renewed, because the books weren't selling after about years, on the average, for the books that were good enough a library would have purchased them. this is still true today. . .you steal or lose a book over years from a library and the odds are it cannot be replaced because it has gone out of print. since information was doubling just about every years back then-- the result was that half of all information was in the public domain . . .which isn't such a terrible way to have it be. . .the powerful, the rich, etc., can still have twice as much as those who mostly use free information. in my interview last week with the new york times, the interviewer's suggestion was that we consider current information to be doubling a bit faster. . .every years. if the average copyright were still just over years today, we see that % or / of all information would still be copyrighted. the faster information flows through our society, the more is hidden from the public domain by copyrights of the same length. under the new copyright law, the average copyright will be nearly an entire century in length, with no renewals required, and copyrighted notices are no longer required. . .it will be nearly impossible from the average person's point of view, to tell whether anything is in a copyrighted or public domain status, and, it will take some research to find out. . .this alone is enough to stop most public domain use. however, even after doing all the copyright research, the struggling "new age public domain information providers" will find that none of the materials they research will be in the public domain. . .none in the sense that the number will be closer to % than to %. . .closer by a huge margin to % than to %. if the new york times' estimates of years for information doubling may be considered at all correct, then this is what will happen in a united states under the new copyright law, even if we considered percent of current information to the entered into the public domain as an incentive to let this law stand: years. . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . . % of today's information is in the public domain years. . . . % of today's information is in the public domain this is literally just one book out of some , books that will be in the public domain after about years of a year copyright even if information does not continue to increase faster and faster. . . . many people think information is already doubling faster than years for each doubling, but all that does is make the total reach . % etc., etc., etc. and you though big brother had a thing for monopolizing information. this is the beginning of the information wars since they can no longer stop us from talking to each other via email or etext or the web, or ftp, etc., they are passing laws that tell us we cannot include . % of all the information in the world, because it is not all protected by copyright. one last word about the new copyright law. . . . i plan to be in court as soon as possible as a test case to defeat it once and for all. . .wish me luck! . the project gutenberg etexts for april, . we have chosen, with great effort and glee, to present what many call the greatest epic of all time as our lead story this month. . .in two separate translations. . .the odyssey, by homer. we are also including more plato and socrates, o henry, h. rider haggard, and b. m. bower, as well as several more g. k chestertons, balzacs, conrads, etc. including some of gaskell's life of charlotte bronte. we also included a bit more mary roberts rinehart and jules verne. we hope you enjoy reading these as much as we enjoy bringing them to you. mon year title and author [filename.ext]#### correction from last month: mar , by mary johnston [for columbus day, ] [c xxx.xxx] johnston. . .not johnson apr the odyssey, by homer, butcher & lang tr[homer # ][dyssyxxa.xxx] this is currently dyssy a.txt and .zip, will be a when proofing completed. apr the odyssey, by homer, trans by butler [homer # ][dyssyxxx.xxx] this is version dyssy .txt and .zip also see collection of hesiod, homer and homerica [homerxxx.xxx] apr theaetetus, by plato [more of socrates][plato # ][thtusxxx.xxx] apr heart of the west, by o henry [o henry # ][hrtwsxxx.xxx] apr finished, by h. rider haggard[h. rider haggard # ][fnshdxxx.xxx] apr cow-country, by b. m. bower [b. m. bower etext # ][cwcntxxx.xxx] apr martin luther's large catechism, bente & dau, trns[lrgctxxx.xxx] apr the trees of pride, by gilbert k. chesterton [# ][trprdxxx.xxx] apr the man who knew too much, by g. k. chesterton # a[mwktmxxa.xxx] from a different source than our february edition of this. apr the ballad of the white horse by gk chesterton # [botwhxxx.xxx] apr manalive, by g. k. chesterton[g.k. chesterton # ][mnalvxxx.xxx] apr what's wrong with the world, by gk chesterton [# ][wwwtwxxx.xxx] apr copy-cat & other stories by mary wilkins freeman# [cpyctxxx.xxx] apr eugenie grandet, by honore de balzac [balzac # ][gngndxxx.xxx] apr another study of woman, by honore de balzac[db# ][nswmnxxx.xxx] apr lincoln's personal life by nathaniel w. stephenson[lsplfxxx.xxx] apr the rescue, by joseph conrad [joseph conrad # ][trscuxxx.xxx] apr child of storm, by h. rider haggard [haggard # ][cstrmxxx.xxx] apr la grande breteche, by honore de balzac[balzac# ][brtchxxx.xxx] apr new grub street, by george gissing [gissing # ][nwgrbxxx.xxx] john handford <john@croulant.demon.co.uk>* apr a history of science, v , by henry smith williams[ hscixxx.xxx] apr a history of science, v , by henry smith williams[ hscixxx.xxx] apr a history of science, v , by henry smith williams[ hscixxx.xxx] apr a history of science, v , by henry smith williams[ hscixxx.xxx] there is also a v , but we haven't done that one yet. . . . apr pierrette, by honore de balzac [de balzac # ][prrttxxx.xxx] apr dead men tell no tales, by e. w. hornung [ewh # ][dmtntxxx.xxx] apr th century actor autobiographies, by george iles[aautoxxx.xxx] apr story of waitstill baxter, by kate d. wiggin [# ][tsowbxxx.xxx] apr life of charlotte bronte, v , by e. c. gaskell[# ][ locbxxx.xxx] apr the vanished messenger by e. phillips oppenheim # [vmsgrxxx.xxx] apr the survivors of the chancellor, by jules verne # [tsotcxxa.xxx] this is from a different source than our previous edition. apr madam how and lady why, by charles kingsley[ck # ][hwwhyxxx.xxx] apr the club of queer trades, by g. k. chesterton/gkc [tcoqtxxx.xxx] apr the man who was thursday, by g. k. chesterton/gkc [tmwhtxxx.xxx] apr our legal heritage, by s. a. reilly [rlglhxxx.xxx] apr dangerous days, by mary roberts rinehart [mrr # ] [ddaysxxx.xxx] . the new project gutenberg complete works of shakespeare, this one is in the public domain, at least in the u.s. remember: these are in /etext , we reserved the slots for them before we got on the huge production run that doubled the etexts coming out over the past three months. . .during this period our volunteers have created about etext files for you to read. the revised versions of our old shakespeare are done and will be announced. . .i just don't have the filenames for them. . .since we didn't release them as separate files back in , we cannot just put them in /etext as updates to old filenames. this may mean they will have to appear as june and july, etexts; the april etexts are all done, and we may have already started may. nov locrine/mucedorus, shakespeare apocrypha [ ws xxx.xxx] nov sir thomas more, shakespeare apocrypha [ ws xxx.xxx] nov sonnets/sundry notess of music, william shakespeare[ ws xxx.xxx] nov the passionate pilgrim, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the passionate pilgrim, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov a lover's complaint, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the two noble kinsmen, shakespeare apocrypha [ ws xxx.xxx] nov king henry viii, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the tempest, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the winter's tale, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov cymbeline, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov pericles, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov timon of athens, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov coriolanus, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov antony and cleopatra, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov macbeth, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov king lear, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov othello, by shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov measure for measure, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov all's well that ends well, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov troilus and cressida, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov twelfth night, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov twelfth night, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the phoenix and the turtle, by william shakespeare[ ws xxx.xxx] nov hamlet, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov as you like it, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov julius caesar, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov king henry v, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov much ado about nothing, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov much ado about nothing, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov king henry iv, part , by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the merry wives of windsor, by william shakespeare[ ws xxx.xxx] nov king henry iv, part , by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the merchant of venice, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov a midsummer night's dream, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov romeo and juliet, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct king richard ii, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct king john, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct love's labour's lost, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct two gentlemen of verona, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct the taming of the shrew, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct the tragedy of titus andronicus, by wm shakespeare[ ws xxx.xxx] oct the rape of lucrece, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct the rape of lucrece, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct the comedy of errors, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct king richard iii, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct king henry vi, part , by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct king henry vi, part , by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct king henry vi, part , by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] . the newly revised editions of our th etext, the copyrighted version of shakespeare's works. . . , s of errors corrected! these will likely be in /etext , stay tuned for newsletters from sue and greg about these. the filenames will be same as above only instead of starting with a or , they will start with , and the revision number is : so ws .txt and .zip are the new public domain edition of henry as listed above in /etect and ws .txt and .zip will be the revised [ ] old copyrighted edition in /etext and the new files will be in /etext if you have any problems finding these on your own, you can ask sue asscher, listed above, how to find them. if you are using an index, don't forget that it takes our indexers quite a while to get this many etext indexed, so you might want learn how to use ftp, or the ftp functions in your browers, to get them now. remember: if you get these files directly, without a "point and click" you will need to go to three different directories: april will be in /etext the new shakespeare will be in /etext the revised versions from etext # will be in /etext the original version of etext # is still in /etext etext # was originally released on december , , for an official release date of january, . hard to believe we have posted etexts since then, an average of nearly one etext per day. [literally ~. ] . who is "the cat in the cat in the hat hat," anyway? or what? i am pictured as the nd in the list of the wired for and since i don't like having my picture taken, i tend to clown a bit for the camera to make it more exciting. . .so i am sitting in my chair in the middle of a country road through the cornfields with a "long-stemmed american beauty" between my teeth. . .well you'll understand when/if you see the picture. . .and i'm wearing my own trademark red t-shirt with a "cat in the hat" hat. . . . ok, let's make it brief, i often either break into a sweat or may seem too self-important when these things come up. . . . first. . .please let me remind you that i probably do less than percent of the work it takes to do project gutenberg; maybe less, when i consider how many project gutenberg sites there are that i don't even know about, and probably never will. i accept any awards to project gutenberg, or myself, on behalf of all of our volunteers, past, present and future and i forward all the "thank you notess" i get, whether via email or snailmail on to the entire list of volunteers on our listserver. i tried to get wired to give this award to project gutenberg as a whole: and you probably don't want to hear the whole story about that. . . . to make a long story short wired finally seems to have bought the tickets to send me to the award banquet to receive "the wired " award, for which they commisioned a world famous architect, and i also get a pair of tennis shoes, a hotel room, and a limo, to and from lax. . .i promise to enjoy it all as much as possible in the honor of all our volunteers. "those who dare the wired a salute to: dreamers, inventors, mavericks, leaders" "life is short. "especially when you're determined to break all the rules." if you want to read the rest, i suppose i should encourage you to go out and buy the november issue of wired. . .it says the wired right in the middle of the cover, can't miss it. the first half of my name is obscured by the . . . . it's official: new name for nt . . the next-gen os becomes "windows ." they are trying to get it out before . nov locrine/mucedorus, shakespeare apocrypha [ ws xxx.xxx] nov sir thomas more, shakespeare apocrypha [ ws xxx.xxx] nov sonnets/sundry notess of music, william shakespeare[ ws xxx.xxx] nov the passionate pilgrim, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the passionate pilgrim, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov a lover's complaint, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the two noble kinsmen, shakespeare apocrypha [ ws xxx.xxx] nov king henry viii, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the tempest, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the winter's tale, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov cymbeline, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov pericles, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov timon of athens, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov coriolanus, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov antony and cleopatra, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov macbeth, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov king lear, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov othello, by shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov measure for measure, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov all's well that ends well, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov troilus and cressida, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov twelfth night, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov twelfth night, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the phoenix and the turtle, by william shakespeare[ ws xxx.xxx] nov hamlet, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov as you like it, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov julius caesar, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov king henry v, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov much ado about nothing, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov much ado about nothing, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov king henry iv, part , by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the merry wives of windsor, by william shakespeare[ ws xxx.xxx] nov king henry iv, part , by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov the merchant of venice, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov a midsummer night's dream, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] nov romeo and juliet, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct king richard ii, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct king john, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct love's labour's lost, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct two gentlemen of verona, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct the taming of the shrew, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct the tragedy of titus andronicus, by wm shakespeare[ ws xxx.xxx] oct the rape of lucrece, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct the rape of lucrece, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct the comedy of errors, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct king richard iii, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct king henry vi, part , by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct king henry vi, part , by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] oct king henry vi, part , by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] microsoft says it was netscape that suggested a deal in the antitrust suit against microsoft, microsoft has introduced a december e-mail message from netscape chairman james clark as evidence that it was netscape rather than microsoft that first suggested an arrangement to illegally restrain trade. clark had written to a microsoft executive: "we have never planned to compete with you. we want to make this company a success, but not at microsoft's expense. we'd like to work with you. working together could be in your self-interest as well as ours. depending on the interest level, you might take an equity position in netscape, with the ability to expand the position later." he added: "no one in my organization knows about this message." a microsoft attorney yesterday asked netscape president james barksdale of netscape chairman and cofounder james clark: "do you regard him as a truthful man?" barksdale paused and then replied: "i regard him as a salesman." the microsoft attorney said: "i'm not going to touch that." (new york times oct ) another try at free net service netzero inc. is offering free internet service to consumers, operating on an advertising-based business model. the company isn't selling your typical banner ad, however. netzero's banners can "follow" users from site to site as they peruse the web. the company says it's spent a year developing software that tracks users' habits, enabling advertisers to pinpoint their messages more efficiently. "we can target within a -mile radius of where (a subscriber) lives," says netzero's ceo. idealab capital partners, which is backing the venture, thinks subscribers will like the free access despite the ads. "people are spending $ . a month for aol -- that's a lot of money," says idealab's managing director. "we offer a value proposition that's hard to beat." (investor's business daily oct ) "grassroots" lobby effort rooted at at&t the prince george's coalition against hidden taxes, supposedly a grassroots lobbying effort organized in maryland, has been revealed to be a massive effort by at&t to defeat proposed legislation that would charge a fee of % of gross revenues generated by telecom companies seeking to use public rights of way to lay cable, string wire, or plant cellular towers to provide new services. at&t considers the legislation unfair because it singles out telecommunications companies from other users of public land, such as sanitary commissions and gas & electric companies. calling the coalition's media campaign a "massive fraud," the prince george's county chief executive said, "this isn't any citizens coalition. this is a bunch of giant companies trying to profit off the public for free." (washington post oct ) e-books to come singing down the wire saying that "if you can get to the web, you can buy a book -- instantly," the chief executive of nuvomedia unveiled his company's paperback-size, -ounce $ electronic rocket ebook at barnes & noble, the bookstore and publishing company that will make titles available for downloading onto a personal computer. books will sell for $ to $ , and downloading of a book will take to minutes. tapping a button will allow the reader to scroll through the book, which will include a built-in dictionary and allow electronic underlining, note-taking, word search, and font changes. generally similar products are being developed by other manufacturers, including softbook press and everybook inc. (ap oct ) edupage ... is what you've just finished reading excerpts of-- to subscribe to edupage: send mail to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: subscribe edupage susan b. anthony (if your name is susan b. anthony; otherwise use your own name to unsubscribe send a message to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: unsubscribe edupage. if you have problems, send email to manager@educom.unc.edu.) "i love edupage." mh edupage is written by john gehl (gehl@educom.edu), and suzanne douglas (douglas@educom.edu). usa telephone: - - http://www.educom.edu/web/pubs/pubhomeframe.html edupage is supported by educom mac users can download our .txt files in binary mode to avoid the double spacing cr/lf line ends creates. or download the .zip files, which unzip properly for nearly any operating system they are unzipped for... about the project gutenberg newsletter: [goes out approximately first wednesday of each month. but different relays will get it to you at different times; you can subscribe directly, just send me email to find out how, or surf to promo.net/pg to subscribe directly by yourself.] january this is the project gutenberg newsletter of wednesday, january , [usually sent the first wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] main url is promo.net webmaster is pietro di miceli, of rome, italy as you may recall from past years, we usually do not send this out the first wednesday of the year, so it won't get lost in your mailbox when you return from the holidays, but this year is just going to be so hot with potential that i thought we should get a head start. more about all of the project and deadlines shortly. right now we just need to get more xeroxes in from pre- editions, so we can get your copyright research done. we have more interest than ever in getting all languages on line; this will take an enormous effort, and we will need some very energetic and patient volunteers to coordinate these efforts. we would like to find at least two or three volunteers willing to be team leader for various language teams we will be forming. . .this is going to take some work! we will be notifying all those who volunteered to work on spanish. . ! here are some examples of other interests: from: leonidas hatzinikolaou <leonidas@hatzinikolaou.org> i write to you, michael, with the following proposal: i'm volunteering to undertake the task of coordinating a collective effort in my country to digitally publish greek books in the public domain, both in the greek language and translations of them (wherever they can be found) in english, under the auspices of the gutenberg project. the formats and all rules of submissions of the e-texts will be according to the rules established by the gutenberg project. i will try to spread the message all over greece asking for more volunteers to help in our task. i will check-out the texts, their copyright status, etc. currently i have a web site under development (http://www.hatzinikolaou.org), where i can host the greek e-texts (which require greek fonts, etc.), which, of course, i will forward as soon as i receive them to the gutenberg project. and. . . can we work on a few pieces of art, or more music? is it possible to, for example, generate a nice image of the mona lisa? or a few more midi files of the great classics? maybe some of davinci's neat graphics. it's not text, but would be nice to spice things up. what i don't know about are the copyright problems for art and how to get a high-rez image....i could visit france and take my own photos... for suggested books (i'm not volunteering, but in case you want ideas to pass on); principia mathematica, by alfred north whitehead and bertrand russell. ( ) also newton's principia (don't know how old an english translation we can find... **** and. . .a piece of good news for you who buying new computers: current pc sales at the end of : $ , is the current average price-- $ - $ accounts for % of all: computer out of costs over $ : computer out of costs under $ . *** and now here are the usual etexts we provide in each newsletter. . . . are officially for release in august, , and or more in june, . . .you may want to replace the listing we sent to you for june two months ago, as it will be easier than pasting in. mon year title and author [filename.ext]#### aug north america, vol. , by anthony trollope [at # ][ noamxxx.xxx] aug north america, vol. , by anthony trollope [at # ][ noamxxx.xxx] aug hero tales from american history, lodge/roosevelt [htfahxxx.xxx] aug from cornhill to grand cairo by thackeray [wmt # ][crhcrxxx.xxx] aug tartarin of tarascon, by alphonse daudet [trtrnxxx.xxx] aug an old town by the sea by thomas bailey aldrich # [ldtwnxxx.xxx] aug westward ho! by charles kingsley[chas kingsley # ][wsthoxxx.xxx] aug the works of max beerbohm, by max beerbohm[max # ][twombxxx.xxx] aug plain tales from the hills, by rudyard kipling[# ][ptfthxxx.xxx] aug initials only, by anna katharine green [green # ][ionlyxxx.xxx] aug cousin pons, by honore de balzac [de balzac # ][cspnsxxx.xxx] aug ban and arriere ban, by andrew lang[andr. lang# ][bnabnxxx.xxx] aug catherine de medici, by honore de balzac/balzac# [ctdmdxxx.xxx] aug the ninth vibration, et. al., by l. adams beck # [ thvbxxx.xxx] aug the interpreter, by l. adams beck [lab # ][ thvbxxx.xxx] aug the incomparable lady, by l. adams beck [lab # ][ thvbxxx.xxx] aug the hatred of the queen, by l. adams beck [lab # ][ thvbxxx.xxx] aug the fire of beauty, by l. adams beck [lab # ][ thvbxxx.xxx] aug the building of the taj majal, by l. adams beck # [ thvbxxx.xxx] aug how great is the glory of kwannon! by l adams beck[ thvbxxx.xxx] aug the round-faced beauty, by l. adams beck [lab# ] [ thvbxxx.xxx] aug lucile, by owen meredith [lucilxxx.xxx] aug the woman in the alcove by anna katharine green # [wintaxxx.xxx] aug old christmas, by washington irving [irving # ][oxmasxxx.xxx] aug the yellow crayon, by e. phillips oppenheim[epo# ][ycrynxxx.xxx] aug montezuma's daughter, by h. rider haggard [hrh # ][mzdtrxxx.xxx] aug songs, merry and sad, by john charles mcneill [sngmsxxx.xxx] aug the vision splendid, by william macleod raine [# ][vspldxxx.xxx] aug the vision spendid, by william macleod raine [# ][vspldxxx.xxx] aug zuleika dobson, by max beerbohm [max beerbohm # ][zdbsnxxx.xxx] aug the scholemaster, by roger ascham [in markup] [smstrxxx.xxx] aug the schoolmaster, by roger ascham [in markup] [smstrxxx.xxx] aug vera, the medium, by richard harding davis[rhd# ][veramxxx.xxx] aug michael strogoff, by jules verne [jules verne # ][strgfxxx.xxx] aug z. marcas, by honore de balzac [de balzac # ][zmrcsxxx.xxx] aug the financier, by theodore dreiser [tfncrxxx.xxx] aug other things being equal, by emma wolf [otbeqxxx.xxx] may laws, by plato [# and last of this plato series][plawsxxx.xxx] [we would love to do more tranlations of plato, if you are have any. michael] and here is a more complete and more organized listing for june, etexts # thru # are mosly corrected shakespeare. mon year title and author [filename.ext]#### jun the winter's tale, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun cymbeline, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun timon of athens, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun coriolanus, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun antony and cleopatra, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun macbeth, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] jun king lear, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun othello, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] jun measure for measure, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] jun all's well that ends well, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun troilus and cressida, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun reserved for more shakepeare or apocrypha [ x.xxx] reserved: will be "sir john oldcastle" coming from tony adam jun hamlet, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun as you like it, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun julius caesar, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun king henry v, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun much ado about nothing, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun king henry iv, part , by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun the merry wives of windsor, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun king henry iv, part , by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun the merchant of venice, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun a midsummer night's dream, by william skakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] jun romeo and juliet, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] jun king richard ii, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun king john, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun love's labour's lost, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun two gentlemen of verona, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun the taming of the shrew, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun titus andronicus, by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] jun king edward iii, shakespeare apocrypha [ ws xxx.xxx] jun the comedy of errors, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun king richard iii, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun reserved for more shakepeare or apocrypha [ xxx.xxx] jun reserved for more shakepeare or apocrypha [ xxx.xxx] jun henry vi part , by william shakespeare [ ws xxx.xxx] *** mac users can download our .txt files in binary mode to avoid the double spacing cr/lf line ends creates. or download the .zip files, which unzip properly for nearly any operating system they are unzipped for... about the project gutenberg newsletter: [goes out approximately first wednesday of each month. but different relays will get it to you at different times; you can subscribe directly, just send me email to find out how, or surf to promo.net/pg to subscribe directly by yourself.] library removes software filters responding to a federal court's ruling that the loudoun county (va.) library's use of software filters to screen out sexually explicit material on the internet was unconstitutional (edupage nov ), the library board has removed filters from some of its computers and left them on others; adults will decide whether they want to use a computer with a filter or one without, and parents of minors will be asked to sign a statement specifying whether or not they want their child to have unfiltered internet access. library patron becky montcastle-jones urged the library board to appeal the court's ruling, saying: "we have not had pornographic or salacious material in our library. why, just because we have new technology to get to it very quickly, should we have any different policy? in the video section, you can't go in there and get a pornographic movie. librarians throughout history have had to make choices about what will be in the library. that's not censorship -- that's choice." but board member marc leepson expressed the view of out of the board members: "i'm completely comfortable with the new policy. it's constitutional, and it still protects children." (washington post dec ) nbc acquires part of "women's content" site noting that women "happen to be the fastest-growing element on the internet," an executive of the nbc television network has announced it will promote the ivillage internet service, which he described as "the leading women's content site." nbc, in turn, will receive an ownership stake in that service, which now also provides information about parenting, families and health for special sites on snap -- an ad-supported web site owned by nbc and c/net. (usa today nov ) nader group challenges aol-netscape merger washington, d.c.-based consumer project, a group run by long-time consumer advocate ralph nader, says it will vigorously oppose the merger between america online and netscape. "we feel this will harm competition in the isp market," says director james love. "isps will have to go to netscape or microsoft for browser software. they compete against both and if they have to go to them to get software, it creates all kinds of problems." love says his group plans to ask the justice department or the federal trade commission to nix the merger. "we don't care if netscape sells its company to anybody else but aol or microsoft." (techweb nov ) dod falsified y k data but has "good feeling" about future a department of defense inspector-general report says that the defense special weapons agency never conducted required tests on three of five "mission critical" computer systems it had certified as y k-compliant. the military officer assigned to correct the agency's year problems says he agrees with the report but that the systems in question will be " % in compliance" by april : "i have a good feeling about y k in this agency." (usa today - nov ) edupage ... is what you've just finished reading excerpts of-- to subscribe to edupage: send mail to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: subscribe edupage susan b. anthony (if your name is susan b. anthony; otherwise use your own name to unsubscribe send a message to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: unsubscribe edupage. if you have problems, send email to manager@educom.unc.edu.) "i love edupage." mh edupage is written by john gehl (gehl@educom.edu), and suzanne douglas (douglas@educom.edu). usa telephone: - - http://www.educom.edu/web/pubs/pubhomeframe.html edupage is supported by educom february this is project gutenberg's newsletter for wednesday, february , etexts readable by both humans and computers since before the internet [usually sent the first wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] main url is promo.net webmaster is pietro di miceli, of rome, italy this newsletter contains index entries for etexts up to # and thus project gutenberg has now completed about % of its primary goal of a production and distribution run of , easy to use etexts. *** we are hoping to do a spanish edition of don quixote for # , but we need your help. if you have any old editions of don quixote or know a person or institution that does, please let me know. we don't need to scan from the book, but we need one to do our copyright research from! *** our newest site: www.gutenberg.cyberxs.nl/ an isp for younger internet users runs their own mirror. they hope to soon have the site search-engine enabled. *** requests for assistance from our volunteers: my sources show legge "published monumental edition of "chinese classics", with translation, prolegomena, and notes [ vols, - ]. by james legge please reply to me and to rick davis <rdavis@yin.or.jp> *** "does anyone have access to a first edition of 'alps and sanctuaries of piedmont and the canton ticino)' by samuel butler? i need to know what was in chapter x and also the last few paragraphs of the book. any help would be appreciated, email ccx @coventry.ac.uk" david price *** "help wanted: i am in the process of typing out the collection of samuel adams' writings gathered by h. a. cushing (copyrighted ) and putting them on the web. unfortunately, i do not own this collection, and must borrow it through the interlibrary loan. if anybody who either owns this work or can get it through your interlibrary loan system is interested in helping with this project, please contact me at: regina azucena <razucena@gis.net> so that we can coordinate the work. also if anyone has access to a scanner with ocr, this would be especially helpful, since at present i am typing by hand and the work is rather slow. the collection preserves the original spelling of samuel adams which is not at all uniform, and this makes the typing slower. i would be happy to find out for you if the collection is available through a library in your area." *** the current issue of information week ( / / ) has a review of three ocr products: presto!, textbridge, omnipage. you can read it on-line at: http://www.informationweek.com/ / olocr.htm *** announcement: lextek international has released an ebook viewer called infoblast designed to work especially with the ebooks produced by project gutenberg and several of the other online book projects. infoblast will index the ebook files letting users conduct keyword, phrase, proximity, and wildcard searches. (infoblast can index literally 's of megabytes quickly so no matter how big your ebook(s) are it is easy to set them up for searching.) you can also bookmark passages of text using infoblast making them easy to find again. searches are also saved as a history so you can easily go back to your past searches. infoblast has links to a number of the largest ebook download sites on the net (including gutenberg.net) where you can freely obtain ebooks to use with infoblast. infoblast is available for download from: http://www. source.com/~pollarda/textview/ *** and now here are the project gutenberg etexts concluding the run to # : mon year title and author [filename.ext]#### sep typee, by herman melville [herman melville # ][typeexxx.xxx] sep the village rector, by honore de balzac[balzac# ][vrctrxxx.xxx] sep albert savarus, by honore de balzac[de balzac # ][svrusxxx.xxx] sep the seventh man, by max brand [max brand # ][ thmnxxx.xxx] sep under the red robe, by stanley weyman [weyman # ][rdrobxxx.xxx] sep armadale, by wilkie collins [wilkie collins # ][armdlxxx.xxx] sep visit to iceland, by madame ida pfeiffer [ip # ] [vstilxxx.xxx] sep song & legend from the middle ages, by mcclintocks[slfmaxxx.xxx] sep extracts from adam's diary, by mark twain[twain ][xadamxxx.xxx] sep a plea for old cap collier by irvin s. cobb[cobb ][pfoccxxx.xxx] sep speaking of operations, by irvin s. cobb [cobb # ][spoprxxx.xxx] sep bird neighbors, by neltje blanchan [bdnbrxxx.xxx] sep the bittermeads mystery, by e. r. punshon [btrmmxxx.xxx] sep the life of the spider, by j. henri fabre [lfspdxxx.xxx] sep bunyan characters ( nd series), by alex. whyte # [ bnchxxx.xxx] sep reserved for st # [ bnchxxx.xxx] sep the exiles, by honore de balzac [h de balzac # ][xilesxxx.xxx] sep the wife, et al, by anton chekhov [chekhov # ][twifexxx.xxx] the stories contained in addition are: sep difficult people, by anton chekhov [chekhov # ][twifexxx.xxx] sep the grasshopper, by anton chekhov [chekhov # ][twifexxx.xxx] sep a dreary story, by anton chekhov [chekhov # ][twifexxx.xxx] sep the privy councillor, by anton chekhov[chekhov# ][twifexxx.xxx] sep the man in case, by anton chekhov [chekhov # ][twifexxx.xxx] sep gooseberries, by anton chekhov [chekhov # ][twifexxx.xxx] sep about love, by anton chekhov [chekhov # ][twifexxx.xxx] sep the lottery ticket, by anton chekhov [chekhov # ][twifexxx.xxx] sep the young forester, by zane grey [zane grey # ][yn stxxx.xxx] sep the call of the canyon, by zane grey[zane grey # ][tcotcxxx.xxx] sep the pathfinder, by james fenimore cooper[cooper# ][pthfnxxx.xxx] sep royalty restored, by j. fitzgerald molloy [rruc xxx.xxx] sep london under charles ii, by j. fitzgerald molloy [rruc xxx.xxx] sep a millionaire of yesterday, e. phillips oppenheim [mlystxxx.xxx] sep a mountain woman, by elia w. peattie [peattie # ][mtwmnxxx.xxx] sep the shape of fear, by elia w. peattie [peattie # ][tshfrxxx.xxx] sep painted windows by elia w. peattie [peattie # ][pwndsxxx.xxx] in addition, during the preparation of this newsletter, we posted: sep everybody's guide to money matters, by wm cotton [egtmmxxx.xxx] sep the old peabody pew by kate douglas wiggin[kdw# ][oldpwxxx.xxx] sep secret of the woods, by william j. long [sctwdxxx.xxx] *** from edupage: e-mail responses at a snail's pace a recent survey of fortune companies by e-mail software firm brightware shows that many respondents allow e-mail to languish for days before responding to it. four companies took a full week to respond to the question, "what is your corporate headquarters address?" (in one case, hewlett-packard took days.) rapid responders included texaco, which responded within four minutes, and albertson's and costco, both of which responded within five minutes. overall, fewer than % responded within three hours, and % either did not accept e-mail or made it so difficult to find e-mail information on their web sites that a typical user probably would give up looking. (los angeles times jan ) intel flips switch on pentium iii's i.d. feature responding to concerns by critics that the new pentium iii chip's unique serial number will allow the monitoring of an individual's moves throughout cyberspace, intel has decided to alter the software so that the id capability will be turned off unless the customer voluntarily turns it on to make a secure e-commerce transaction. (the original plan was to have the feature turned on unless the user took the trouble to turn it off.) but privacy advocates are not satisfied, and want the id feature entirely disabled. deirdre mulligan of the center for democracy and technology says, "if everybody's demanding it, it's going to be hard for a consumer to say no." (san jose mercury news jan ) linux users want their money back from microsoft aficionados of the linux operating system, which is available for free, say they will demand their money back for windows software installed against their wishes on pcs they buy. their demand is based on a windows licensing agreement that says that if the purchaser does not agree to the terms and conditions of use of the windows software, he or she should promptly contact manufacturer for instructions on return of the unused product for a refund. microsoft says that agreement applies only to the issues surrounding the of making copies of the software. (new york times jan ) judge extends ban on enforcement of child porn law u.s. district court judge lowell a. reed has extended his temporary ban on enforcement of the child online protection act, and signaled in a lengthy memorandum that he considers the act an unconstitutional violation of first amendment rights of free speech. to protect children from pornography transmitted through cyberspace, the federal child online protection act requires operators of commercial web sites offering potentially objectionable material to establish a system to prevent minors from viewing that material. judge reed, a reagan appointee, wrote: "despite the court's personal regret that this preliminary injunction will delay once again the careful protection of our children, i without hesitation acknowledge the duty imposed on the court and the great good such duty serves. indeed, perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if first amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection." (san jose mercury news feb ) edupage ... is what you've just finished reading excerpts of-- to subscribe to edupage: send mail to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: subscribe edupage susan b. anthony (if your name is susan b. anthony; otherwise use your own name to unsubscribe send a message to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: unsubscribe edupage. if you have problems, send email to manager@educom.unc.edu.) 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i won't repeat those simple four lines here, even if it may be true that their censors don't very far down toward the bottom of longer messages. however i will say that i did resend the note a second time, in response to their anonymous note saying they were putting an end to a discussion that had only had a half dozen notes over three days; i resent [this time a different word than resend] such anonymous notes, hiding behind the "moderator" login, and complained that their taste in posting the obviously in bad taste austin powers note was only exceeded by their refusing to post my very short, and very moderate reply. btw, the last time libref hosted message relays about free speech, the same thing happened, in terms of anonymous censorship. when i complained, they posted the note that had been censored, then, as i recall, still wanted to end the discussion with me having the last word. i send them that famous quote about: i may not agree with what is being said, but i will defend, to the death, their right to say it. they finally decided to let the conversation go on its own and the result was that it ended soon enough and simply enough w/o any interference from the "listowners" rather than moderators. i wonder if we will have to go through all that again. . . .mh *** mac users can download our .txt files in binary mode to avoid the double spacing cr/lf line ends creates. or download the .zip files, which unzip properly for nearly any operating system they are unzipped for... about the project gutenberg newsletter: [goes out approximately first wednesday of each month. but different relays will get it to you at different times; 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... but...i am willing to put this off until / / if that's what it is going to take to get something rolling. i think it is very important, more than i can say, to do more etexts in more languages. . . . b. la tulipe noire in french la tulipe noire, in french, by alexandre dumas. . .we have an etext in . . .but it needs some serious proofreading. . .we would love to do an entire series of dumas in french and english, and others in french! *** it is now possible to get any gutenberg file via email. you simply send a message to gutenberg@fireantproductions.com with your request in the subject and the file is sent back as a mime attachment. please note, however, that your request must follow a specific syntax in order to be fulfilled properly. for a complete set of instructions send a message to gutenberg@fireantproductions.com with the word and only the word "help" in the subject. that's help not help or help. also, do not include the quotes. if you have any questions, feel free to email aaron cannon <cannona@fireantproductions.com> lets say that you want the book marten hyde. well that book is called mhyde .txt and it is in the etext directory. to get via email, simply send a message to gutenberg@fireantproductions.com with a subject line of "get etext mhyde .txt" without the quotes. so your message would look something like this: from: you@yoursite.com to: gutenberg@fireantproductions.com subject: get etext mhyde .txt the message body is ignored. *** new this month: addition to our recent new releases of shakespeare: jun sir john oldcastle, shakespeare [apocryphal] [ ws x.xxx] we have also fixed ws .* which were accidentally saved as wordperfect files rather than in pvascii. those are in /etext we have also corrected thousands of errors in etexts over the past month or two while things were slowed down over the holidays. of course, with approximately , etexts, this represents only an average of a few errors corrected in each one, but you will find more corrections in those with filenames with higher numbers. i.e. xxxxx .txt will have major corrections from * .txt and xxxxxx .txt will have major corrections from * .txt, and so on. we hope you will continue to send us email of any errors or suggestions. we do not always change the version number when we make only a few correction, but it might be worthwhile to download new copies once a year or so, or to check the dates on the prairienet.org site against the dates on your files. . .i don't think the other sites keep our dates, sorry. . .except that the .zip files should unzip to the real file dates. *** we have done a massive update of our webster's unabridged, and version is not copyrighted. . . . sep the gutenberg webster's unabridged dictionary [xz][pgwxzxxx.xxx] sep the gutenberg webster's unabridged dictionary [tw][pgwtwxxx.xxx] sep the gutenberg webster's unabridged dictionary [s] [pgwsxxxx.xxx] sep the gutenberg webster's unabridged dictionary [r] [pgwrxxxx.xxx] sep the gutenberg webster's unabridged dictionary [pq][pgwpqxxx.xxx] sep the gutenberg webster's unabridged dictionary [mo][pgwmoxxx.xxx] sep the gutenberg webster's unabridged dictionary [il][pgwilxxx.xxx] sep the gutenberg webster's unabridged dictionary [fh][pgwfhxxx.xxx] sep the gutenberg webster's unabridged dictionary [de][pgwdexxx.xxx] sep the gutenberg webster's unabridged dictionary [c] [pgwcxxxx.xxx] sep the gutenberg webster's unabridged dictionary [ab][pgwabxxx.xxx] and here are new listings since we reached # last month. one from november already: nov scaramouche, by rafael sabatini[rafael sabatini# ][scmshxxx.xxx] and oct the second jungle book, by rudyard kipling [rk # ][ jngbxxx.xxx] oct letters from england, by elizabeth davis bancroft [ltengxxx.xxx] oct adventures of major gahagan, by thackaray[w.m.t. ][majghxxx.xxx] oct songs of innocence and experience, by wm. blake[ ][sinexxxx.xxx] oct the great hoggarty diamond, by thackeray [w.m.t. ][gthgdxxx.xxx] oct early kings of norway, by thomas carlyle [t.c. # ][knrwyxxx.xxx] oct the zeppelin's passenger, by e. phillips oppenheim[zplnpxxx.xxx] oct penguin island, by anatole france [pngwnxxx.xxx] oct school for scandal, by richard brinsley sheridan [scndlxxx.xxx] oct elinor wyllys, by susan fenimore cooper[volume ] [ wyllxxx.xxx] oct elinor wyllys, by susan fenimore cooper[volume ] [ wyllxxx.xxx] oct elinor wyllys, by amabel penfeather [volume ] [ wyllxxx.xxx] oct elinor wyllys, by amabel penfeather [volume ] [ wyllxxx.xxx] oct grandfather's chair, by nathaniel hawthorne[nh # ][gfchrxxx.xxx] oct droll stories [v. ], by honore de balzac[hdb # ][ drllxxx.xxx] oct many voices, by e. nesbit [poems] [e. nesbit # ][mnyvcxxx.xxx] oct the poisoned pen by, arthur b. reeve [tppenxxx.xxx] oct deirdre of the sorrows, by j. m. synge [synge # ][drdrexxx.xxx] [this one is a play, and is in markup format, need a volunteer to unmark it.] oct the chouans, by honore de balzac [de balzac # ] [chounxxx.xxx] oct billy baxter's letters, by william j. kountz, jr. [bbxtlxxx.xxx] oct ballads, by horatio alger, jr. [h. alger jr. # ][blldsxxx.xxx] oct long odds, by h. rider haggard [h. r. haggard # ][loddsxxx.xxx] oct the queen of hearts, by wilkie collins[collins# ][qnhrtxxx.xxx] oct the great stone face, et. al. nathaniel hawthorne [totwmxxx.xxx] includes the great stone face and other tales from the white mountains>>> oct sketches from memory, by nathaniel hawthorne [# ] [totwmxxx.xxx] oct the great carbuncle, by nathaniel hawthorne [# ] [totwmxxx.xxx] oct the ambitious guest, by nathaniel hawthorne [# ] [totwmxxx.xxx] oct the great stone face, by nathaniel hawthorne [# ] [totwmxxx.xxx] oct second thoughts of an idle fellow, by jerome [# ][scthkxxx.xxx] oct [reserved for the titanic [ xxx.xxx] * oct the drums of jeopardy, by harold macgrath [jprdyxxx.xxx] oct the muse of the department, by de balzac [hdb # ][msdptxxx.xxx] oct concerning christian liberty, by martin luther[# ][clbtyxxx.xxx] mon year title and author [filename.ext]#### sep [reserved for la tulipe noire] [ xxx.xxx] sep [reserved for darwin] [ xxx.xxx] sep her prairie knight, by b. m. bower[b.m. bower # ][hrprkxxx.xxx] sep rowdy of the cross l, by b. m. bower [bm bower # ][rowdyxxx.xxx] sep erewhon (revised edition), by samuel butler [erwhnxxx.xxx] sep the governess [female academy], by sarah fielding [gvrnsxxx.xxx] sep life & perambulations of a mouse by dorothy kilner[lpoamxxx.xxx] sep everybody's guide to money matters, by wm. cotton [egtmmxxx.xxx] sep the old peabody pew by kate douglas wiggin[kdw# ][oldpwxxx.xxx] sep secret of the woods, by william j. long [sctwdxxx.xxx] sep typee, by herman melville [herman melville # ][typeexxx.xxx] mac users can download our .txt files in binary mode to avoid the double spacing cr/lf line ends creates. or download the .zip files, which unzip properly for nearly any operating system they are unzipped for... from edupage: and viewers fight back against web ad overload meanwhile, web surfers weary of enduring the "pulsating, candy-colored wave of advertising that has spread across the internet," increasingly are turning to ad-blocking software to speed up their download times. "they are a symbol of people saying, 'i'm not going to take it anymore,'" says jakob nielsen, co-founder of the nielsen-norman group. the ad blockers, which automatically eliminate all advertising from web pages, go by names like webwasher, intermute and atguard. many online advertisers dismiss the trend toward ad-blocking, noting that when faster connections are available, consumers will not be so annoyed about being forced to download cumbersome advertisement files. "consumers understand the basic proposition that all the free things are enabled by advertising," says the chairman of the internet advertising bureau. "advertising is transforming the business model." (los angeles times mar ) open university offers first online course britain's open university, one of the oldest distance education institutions in existence, this week launched its first online course -- "you, your computer and the net." the course, which is designed for students with little or no technical knowledge, has attracted , students, with one senior o.u. lecturer calling the response "overwhelming." participants will use a dedicated web site and will have e-mail access to individual tutors. the o.u. says the new course is aimed at those "who feel apprehensive about the apparently inexorable march of the new communications technologies." (financial times mar ) prepare for y k the way you'd prepare for a three-day blow senator chris dodd's advice for getting ready for y k is: "what you ought to do is prepare for a good storm, a hurricane, a storm where you'd like two or three days of water and canned goods and the like," but you shouldn't withdraw your money from banks. a study conducted by dodd and senator robert bennett has concluded that there will be no major problems with regard to the airways, nuclear weapons, or the nation's power grids. (ap mar ) half of u.s. classrooms are now wired the department of education says that, largely thanks to government subsidies, % of classrooms, school computer and science labs, and school libraries had internet connections in the fall of (compared to % in and only % in ). smaller and poorer schools are now just as likely to have internet connections as larger and wealthier schools. (reuters/san jose mercury news mar ) edupage ... is what you've just finished reading excerpts of-- to subscribe to edupage: send mail to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: subscribe edupage susan b. anthony (if your name is susan b. anthony; otherwise use your own name to unsubscribe send a message to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: unsubscribe edupage. if you have problems, send email to manager@educom.unc.edu.) 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[more below on this, probably the most important thing right now] . we are releasing our first etext without ascii characters, and the hopes are we will be able to interest many of you in looking at an etext of rashomon, in japanese, as well as in translation. so far the translation is not yet complete, but we are working on it. in japanese, it is the first file in the list below. . we are gearing up for our first official public relations effort-- if you can help us get some extra media coverage for etext # -- that would be greatly appreciated. . .now is the time to start and we will continue right through the official release date of # . . we will probably have to get incorporated in the year , so the lawyers who can help us with that will also be very appreciated. . the visually impaired team of project gutenberg volunteers: jay mendham <jmendham@interlog.com>, temporary team leader. this is a team of visually impaired volunteers who create a set of general etexts for the project gutenberg audience. . the next project gutenberg message you are likely to receive will be a request for volunteers and donations. . .if you do not want to read it, feel free to just delete it. . . . the volunteers' list will receive one more message beforehand. from: webmaster@promo.net [pietro di miceli] there is a new pg volunteers' board available at: http://promo.net/pg/vol/wwwboard/ please use and peruse it and send me any suggestions, corrections, etc. also see: http://promo.net/pg/volunteer.html . we are still very interested in doing more languages, if you can do even one etext, however short, in various languages-- this would be more appreciated than you can imagine. *** requests: for may , [please forward this to balzac interests. . . .] in honor of the bicentennial of the birth of honore de balzac ( - - ) project gutenberg is proud to present english translations of the entire "human comedy." portraying over two thousand characters and with immense attention to detail, this massive collection of just under one hundred novels and shorter works brings to life the social history of france during the first half of the th century. team balzac is seeking a qualifying biography of honore de balzac and any non-human comedy works. except for the human comedy and droll tales we have been unable to locate any qualifying editions. if anyone is able to assist, please email dagny at dagnyj@hotmail.com * from: michael pullen <globaltraveler @yahoo.com> request for assistance/information: gothic german typeface i use a scanner to enter raw manuscript material and a software package for interpreting into e-text. while the software (visioneer proocr ) offers a decent german dictionary for spell checking, it does not recognize the old german scripts called fraktur. this moderately ornate and stylized font has gone out of style since , but many of the older german originals are available only in this mode. examples of this style can be viewed on the internet at the web site http://www.waldenfont.com/gutenberg and many others (use the word fraktur with your favorite web search engine). do you know of, or can suggest, any means of scanning/parsing this older typeface? if you have any information, please contact the gutenberg project office or myself (globaltraveler @yahoo.com). your assistance will be greatly appreciated in accelerating several projects. * if you can get a pre- copy of swiss family robinson, annewing@aol.com would either like to borrow it or have you do some proofing of an etext she has. . .thanks. mh * i have my own personal request. . .someone good with ftp to help me post books when i am away from my desk. mh * don quixote if anyone is a student at boston university, their library system has a - and a - edition which apparently are circulating, so that would be even better. * we need a copy of this because we made an etext, then lost contact with the person we sent it to. actually we don't really need to have the copy, if you are willing to do some proofreading. the jewel of seven stars, by bram stoker please contact [and cc: hart@pobox.com]: aaron cannon <cannona@fireantproductions.com> *** notess: you probably already know about this, but i have found ebay to be a good source of books older than . i did a search in the book category for (in titles and descriptions) and found quite a number of books with a copyright of (some even with a scan of the copyright page) so you might suggest to volunteers looking for a cheap book to contribute to look at http://www.ebay.com * about our webster's unabridged dictionary some people thought the filenames would be pgws *.txt and .zip however. . .in this case the volunteer added an extra , i know not why, and the location of the number part changed, so the files you want are: pgw xz.txt pgw tw.txt pgw s.txt pgw r.txt pgw pq.txt pgw mo.txt pgw il.txt pgw fh.txt pgw de.txt pgw c.txt pgw ab.txt and readme.web sorry for the confusion, will add to next newsletter. . . . newer versions just add one. . .next will be . . . . but most start with versions , , , etc. only those we know will be "in progress" for some time before they are up to our standard, but are too important not to post immediately get numbers lower than , as an indicator of "not yet ready for prime time." *** here is a list of our newest sites: california lutheran university centrigma.dhs.org/pg or, if a problem, use: . . . /pg david linstad <dlinsta@robles.callutheran.edu> * mexico universidad jesuita (instituto tecnolsgico y de estudios superiores de occidente at guadalajara) ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/pub/etext/ * from webmaster sergey v. malina center informika, ministry of education of russia new url for project gutenberg at ministry of education /www.informika.ru/text/books/gutenb/ * datacanyon enterprises of tucson, arizona ftp://ftp.datacanyon.com/pub/gutenberg/ and http://www.datacanyon.com/mirrors/gutenberg/ the server is a dual processor sparc , megs ram, gb+ disk, sitting on two fractional ds 's totaling megabit of full-duplex bandwidth. * ftp://ftp.is.co.za/text/project-gutenburg/ johannesburg, gauteng, south africa this site is ftp only, which most new browsers can handle. if you need help working with this particular site, email: 'the internet solution ftp admin' (ftp-admin@is.co.za) * austria gd.tuwien.ac.at/soc/gutenberg/ * a list of our sites can be accessed at promo.net *** and here, finally, is our list of some + new etexts: mon year title and author [filename.ext]#### *****a "c" following a project gutenberg etext number indicates copyright**** nov rashomon, by akutagawa ryunosuke [in japanese] [rshmnxxx.xxx] nov the right to read, by richard m. stallman [of gnu][tychoxxx.xxx] c this etext is available as tycho .txt or .zip and tycho h.htm or .zip files and in french html as tycho f.htm and tycho f.zip nov stories by english authors in africa, scribners ed[sbeaaxxx.xxx] contains: the mystery of sasassa valley by a. conan doyle long odds, by h. rider haggard king memba's point, by j. landers ghamba, by w. c. scully mary musgrave, anonymous gregorio, by percy hemingway nov the perdue chicken cookbook, by mitzi perdue [mitzixxx.xxx] c nov buttercup gold, et. al., by ellen robena field [btrcpxxx.xxx] nov phaedra, by jean baptiste racine, rb boswell, tr. [phrdrxxx.xxx] nov peter ruff and the double four, by oppenheim[epo ][rff xxx.xxx] nov the legacy of cain, by wilkie collins [collins# ][lcainxxx.xxx] nov poetics, by aristotle, tr. sh butcher[aristotle# ][poetcxxx.xxx] nov tales of troy, by andrew lang [andrew lang # ][tltryxxx.xxx] nov history of the britons, by nennius [brtnsxxx.xxx] nov erewhon revisited, by samuel butler [s. butler # ][ervstxxx.xxx] nov a poor wise man, by mary roberts rinehart[mrr # ][pwsmnxxx.xxx] nov catherine: a story, by william thackeray[w.m.t.# ][cthrnxxx.xxx] nov the human comedy: introductions and appendix[# ][hciaaxxx.xxx] nov the brotherhood of consolation, by balzac[hdb # ][brcnsxxx.xxx] nov the path of the king, by john buchan [buchan # ][tpotkxxx.xxx] nov captain blood, by rafael sabatini [r. sabatini # ][cpbldxxx.xxx] nov [reserved for pietro di miceli, pg webmaster] [ xxx.xxx] nov the confession, by mary roberts rinehart [mrr # ][cnfsnxxx.xxx] nov a defence of poesie and poems, by philip sidney [dfncpxxx.xxx] nov books and bookmen, by andrew lang[andrew lang # ][bkbkmxxx.xxx] nov sight unseen, by mary roberts rinehart[rinehart ][stnsnxxx.xxx] nov the crown of thorns, by e. h. chapin [thrnsxxx.xxx] nov hermann and dorothea by johann wolfgang von goethe[handdxxx.xxx] nov beatrix, by honore de balzac[honore de balzac # ][btrixxxx.xxx] nov and even now, by max beerbohm [max beerbohm # ][evnowxxx.xxx] nov the darrow enigma, by melvin l. severy [dngmaxxx.xxx] nov colonel chabert, by honore de balzac[de balzac# ][chbrtxxx.xxx] nov the diary of an old soul, by george macdonald [# ][doaosxxx.xxx] nov the yellow wallpaper, by charlotte perkins gilman [ylwlpxxx.xxx] nov the coming race, by edward bulwer lytton[lytton# ][cmgrcxxx.xxx] nov a woman of thirty, by honore de balzac[balzac # ][thrtyxxx.xxx] nov on the ruin of britain, by gildas sapiens [otrobxxx.xxx] nov the story of a bad boy, by thomas bailey aldrich [soabbxxx.xxx] nov scaramouche, by rafael sabatini[rafael sabatini# ][scmshxxx.xxx] oct on war, by carl von clausewitz [volume ] [cvc # ][ onwrxxx.xxx] oct egmont, by johann wolfgang von goethe [goethe # ][egmntxxx.xxx] oct the witch, et. al, by anton chekhov[chekhov# - ][witchxxx.xxx] the stories contained in addition are: the witch peasant wives the post the new villa dreams the pipe agafya at christmas time gusev the student in the ravine the huntsman happiness a malefactor peasants oct louis lambert, by honore de balzac [de balzac # ][lmbrtxxx.xxx] oct rise and fall of cesar birotteau, by balzac[hdb ][rfbrtxxx.xxx] oct letters of two brides, by honore de balzac[hdb# ][l brdxxx.xxx] oct christ in flanders, by honore de balzac[balzac# ][flndrxxx.xxx] oct a gentleman of france, by stanley weyman[weyman# ][gntfrxxx.xxx] oct resurrection, by leo tolstoy [leo tolstoi] [lt # ][resurxxx.xxx] and two from december, leaving us more to do in the next days. . . . dec origin of species, th ed., by charles darwin [# ][otoos .xxx] dec monsieur beaucaire, by booth tarkington [bt # ] [mbeauxxx.xxx] *** mac users can download our .txt files in binary mode to avoid the double spacing cr/lf line ends creates. or download the .zip files, which unzip properly for nearly any operating system they are unzipped for... about the project gutenberg newsletter: [goes out approximately first wednesday of each month. but different relays will get it to you at different times; you can subscribe directly, just send me email to find out how, or surf to promo.net/pg to subscribe directly by yourself.] not just intel and the pentium iii from edupage: microsoft responds to privacy issue reacting to a controversy started when a programmer in brookline, mass., discovered windows generates a unique serial number that is implanted in every electronic document and that can be used to trace the identity of its author, microsoft said it will create a software tool to allow customers to remove the number, which was created to help support specialists diagnose problems for customers who call with questions. jason catlett, who lobbies on privacy issues, says, "this is going to be a cleanup job larger than the exxon valdez oil spill. there are billions of tattooed documents out there." 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][lbrryxxx.xxx] dec the dhammapada, translated by f. max muller [dhmpdxxx.xxx] dec the cia world factbook[cia factbook # ][no# ][world x.xxx] dec a miscellany of men, by g. k. chesterton [gkc # ][miscyxxx.xxx] dec the lodger, by marie belloc lowndes [tldgrxxx.xxx] dec the pit prop syndicate, by freeman wills croft [ptprpxxx.xxx] dec the children, by alice meynell [alice meynell # ][chldnxxx.xxx] dec rudder grange, by frank r. stockton [stockton # ][rgrngxxx.xxx] dec the autobiography of charles darwin [darwin # ][adrwnxxx.xxx] dec origin of species, th ed., by charles darwin [# ][otoos .xxx] dec mazelli, and other poems, by george w. sands[gs# ][mzllixxx.xxx] dec we two, by edna lyall [wetwoxxx.xxx] dec a fair penitent, by wilkie collins [collins # ][frpntxxx.xxx] dec piccadilly jim, by pelham grenville wodehouse [# ][pccjmxxx.xxx] dec "pigs is pigs," by ellis parker butler [pgpgsxxx.xxx] dec spirits in bondage [lyrics cycle], by c. s. lewis [spbndxxx.xxx] dec spirits in bondage [lyrics cycle], clive hamilton [spbndxxx.xxx] dec sonnets from the portuguese, by e. b. browning[# ][snprgxxx.xxx] dec [reserved for , by arthur c. clarke] [ xxx.xxx] dec don quijote, by cervantes in spanish .txt & .htm [ donqxxx.xxx] dec crome yellow, by aldous huxley [aldous huxley # ] [crmylxxx.xxx] dec thus spake zarathustra, by friedrich nietzsche # [spzarxxx.xxx] dec paradise, divine comedy, dante, tr. by norton [ ddcnxxx.xxx] dec purgatory, divine comedy, dante, tr. by norton [ ddcnxxx.xxx] dec hell/inferno, divine comedy, dante, tr. by norton [ ddcnxxx.xxx] dec adventures among books, by andrew lang [lang # ][advbkxxx.xxx] dec told after supper, by jerome k. jerome [jkj # ] [tldspxxx.xxx] dec fragmenta regalia, by robert naunton [published] [trvfgxxx.xxx] dec travels in england, by paul hentzner [as book] [trvfgxxx.xxx] dec old friends, epistolary parody, by andrew lang[ ][oldfnxxx.xxx] dec the bedford-row conspiracy, by thackeray [wmt # ][bdfrcxxx.xxx] dec the foolish dictionary, by gideon wurdz [fldctxxx.xxx] dec history of tom thumb, etc. edited by henry altemus[thumbxxx.xxx] includes: the stories of the cat and the mouse [and] fire! fire! burn stick! dec the outlet, by andy adams [outltxxx.xxx] dec life and death of mr. badman, by john bunyan[jb# ][badmnxxx.xxx] dec men's wives, by william makepeace thackeray[wmt ][mnwvsxxx.xxx] dec [reserved: george orwell's /did it come true?][o xxx.xxx] dec monsieur beaucaire, by booth tarkington [bt # ] [mbeauxxx.xxx] and jan nostromo, by joseph conrad [joseph conrad # ][nstrmxxx.xxx] jan tarzan the terrible, by edgar r. burroughs[tarz# ][tzntrxxx.xxx] jan the bat, by m. r. rinehart & avery hopwood [mrr ][thbatxxx.xxx] ** mac users can download our .txt files in binary mode to avoid the double spacing cr/lf line ends creates. or download the .zip files, which unzip properly for nearly any operating system they are unzipped for... about the project gutenberg newsletter: [goes out approximately first wednesday of each month. but different relays will get it to you at different times; you can subscribe directly, just send me email to find out how, or surf to promo.net/pg to subscribe directly by yourself.] june *this is the project gutenberg newsletter for wednesday, june , * etexts readable by both humans and computers since before the internet [usually sent the first wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] main url is promo.net webmaster is pietro di miceli, of rome, italy new and reposted files: jul anna karenina, by leo tolstoy/tolstoi [tolstoy # ][nkrnnxxx.xxx] this file was never completed, and should have been released as version as it is now named, and the completed file [now spellchecked] is version . we also hope to have a version with an even more thorough proofreading, soon. * apr the survivors of the chancellor, by jules verne # [tsotcxxa.xxx] this is from a different source than our previous edition [tsotcxxx.xxx] [my apologies, i thought i posted this a long time ago, but it never made it] ****requests for assistance from our volunteers**** * we need a pre- edition of the velveteen rabbit, or one that says in it that it is a reprint of one. * below is a sample from a german play by goethe, iphigenie auf taurus. this material in its entirety will be available shortly and will need a german-speaking proofreader. i am requesting a volunteer to take on the challenge and assist in the final phase of this project. kindly contact me (globaltraveler @yahoo.com) if you can offer aid. thanks! mike pullen f|nfter aufzug. erster auftritt. thoas. arkas. arkas. verwirrt mu ich gestehn, da ich nicht wei, wohin ich meinen argwohn richten soll. sind's die gefangnen, die auf ihre flucht verstohlen sinnen? ist's die priesterin, die ihnen hilft? es mehrt sich das ger|cht: das schiff, das diese beiden hergebracht, sei irgend noch in einer bucht versteckt. und jenes mannes wahnsinn, diese weihe, der heil'ge vorwand dieser zvgrung, rufen den argwohn lauter und die vorsicht auf. thoas. es komme schnell die priesterin herbei! dann geht, durchsucht das ufer scharf und schnell ****and here are our etexts for january, , and a few for february**** mon year title and author [filename.ext]#### *****a "c" following a project gutenberg etext number indicates copyright**** jan iphigenie auf tauris, johann von goethe[# ] german[iphgnxxx.xxx] this is labelled as version iphgn .txt and .zip, as we need some practice. jan the american republic, by o. a. brownson [amrepxxx.xxx] jan everybody's business is nobody's business, defoe# [ebdybxxx.xxx] jan dickory cronke, by daniel defoe [daniel defoe # ][dckcrxxx.xxx] jan old john brown, by walter hawkins [ojbrnxxx.xxx] jan liber amoris, or, the new pygmalion, by wm hazlitt[nwpygxxx.xxx] jan the sketch-book of geoffrey crayon by w. irving # [sbogcxxx.xxx] jan stories of modern french novels: scribners ed. [sbmfaxxx.xxx] this is part of julian hawthorne's lock and key library contains: victor cherbuliez count kostia paul bourget andre cornelis anonymous the last of the costellos lady betty's indiscretion jan clotel; or, the president's daughter, by wm. brown[clotlxxa.xxx] also see our previous release, based on a separate source edition: ^ apr clotelle; or the colored heroine by wm wells brown[clotlxxx.xxx] jan my memories of eighty years, by chauncey m. depew [depewxxx.xxx] jan the education of henry adams, by henry adams [eduhaxxx.xxx] jan the education of henry adams, by henry adams[html][eduhaxxh.xxx] jan stories by modern american authors: scribners ed.[sbmaaxxx.xxx] this is part of julian hawthorne's lock and key library contains: f. marion crawford by the waters of paradise mary e. wilkins freeman the shadows on the wall melville d. post the corpus delicti ambrose bierce an heiress from redhorse the man and the snake edgar allan poe the oblong box the gold-bug washington irving wolfert webber, or golden dreams adventure of the black fisherman charles brockden brown wieland's madness fitzjames o'brien the golden ingot my wife's tempter nathaniel hawthorne the minister's black veil anonymous horror: a true tale jan something new, by p.g. wodehouse [p.g.wodehouse# ][smtnwxxx.xxx] jan the house of the wolf, by stanley weyman[weyman# ][hwolfxxx.xxx] jan confessions of an english opium-eater, de quincey [opiumxxx.xxx] jan evangeline, by henry w. longfellow [longfellow # ][vnglnxxx.xxx] jan evangeline, by henry w. longfellow [with accents] [vnglnxxi.xxx] also see: jun the complete poems of henry wadsworth longfellow [cphwlxxx.xxx] [a different version of evangeline is in this collection] jan stories by modern english authors: scribners ed. [sbmeaxxx.xxx] this is part of julian hawthorne's lock and key library contains: 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 anonymous the lost duchess the minor canon the pipe the puzzle the great valdez sapphire jan journey scotland's western isles, saumeul johnson [jwsctxxx.xxx] [a journey to the western isles of scotland [johnson # ]] jan novel notess, by jerome k. jerome[jeromekjerome# ][nvlntxxx.xxx] jan eight years' wanderings in ceylon, by samuel baker[ yearxxx.xxx] jan stories by english authors: orient, scribners ed.[sbeaoxxx.xxx] contains: the man who would be king, rudyard kipling tajima, miss mitford a chinces girl graduate, r. k. douglas the revenge of her race, mary beaumont king billy of ballarat, morley roberts thy heart's desire, netta syrett jan waverley, by walter scott [walter scott # ][wvrlyxxx.xxx] jan the unknown guest, by maurice maeterlinck [ungstxxx.xxx] jan martin pippin in the apple orchard/eleanor farjeon[mpnaoxxx.xxx] jan lock and key library, magic & real detectives [# ][ lckyxxx.xxx] this is part of julian hawthorne's lock and key library stories by several authors: p. h. woodward^m adventures in the secret service of the post-office department an erring shepherd an aspirant for congress the fortune of seth savage a wish unexpectedly gratified an old game revived a formidable weapon andrew lang saint-germain the deathless the man in the iron mask the legend the valet's history the valet's master original papers in the case of roux de marsilly m. robert-houdin [after whom harry houdini named himself] a conjurer's confessions self-training "second sight" the magician who became an ambassador facing the arab's pistol david p. abbott fraudulent spiritualism unveiled a doctor of the occult how the tricks succeeded the name of the dead mind reading in public some famous exposures hereward carrington more tricks of "spiritualism" "matter through matter" deception explained by the science of psychology anonymous how spirits materialize jan legends of babylon and egypt, by leonard w. king [behebxxx.xxx] [etext contains extended ascii characters and i did not name the file] jan lahoma, by john breckinridge ellis [lahomxxx.xxx] jan the yellow claw, by sax rohmer [sax rohmer # ][yclawxxx.xxx] jan tartuffe, by jean baptiste poquelin moliere [# ] [trtffxxx.xxx] jan the coming conquest of england, by august niemann [tccoexxx.xxx] jan my lady caprice, by jeffrey farnol [lcprcxxx.xxx] jan diary of a pilgrimage, by jerome k. jerome[jkj# ][dypgmxxx.xxx] jan malvina of brittany, by jerome k. jerome [jkj # ][mlvbtxxx.xxx] contains: malvina of brittany the street of the blank wall his evening out the lesson sylvia of the letters the fawn gloves jan angling sketches, by andrew lang [andrew lang # ][angskxxx.xxx] jan nostromo, by joseph conrad [joseph conrad # ][nstrmxxx.xxx] jan tarzan the terrible, by edgar r. burroughs[tarz# ][tzntrxxx.xxx] jan the bat, by m. r. rinehart & avery hopwood [mrr ][thbatxxx.xxx] and a few for february, feb all for love, by john dryden [john dryden # ][al lvxxx.xxx] feb not ready yet [ xxx.xxx] feb not ready yet [ xxx.xxx] feb the little shepherd of kingdom come by john fox jr[lsokcxxx.xxx] feb messer marco polo, by brian oswald donn-byrne [mpoloxxx.xxx] feb the last of the plainsmen, by zane grey [grey # ][plnsmxxx.xxx] feb life of william carey, by george smith [wmcryxxx.xxx] feb two years before the mast, by richard henry dana [ yb mxxx.xxx] and from edupage, etc. [now two newsletters, i will create a new blurb for each of them. . .michael] paper goes electric researchers at xerox and at the massachusetts institute of technology have recently developed electronic ink and electronic paper, which some analysts say may make traditional paper obsolete. electronic paper is easier on the eyes than a computer screen because it has a higher contrast, and it can display millions of different images in the same space. for example, analysts say that a paper newspaper could easily fit onto electronic paper, and information could be changed every morning by deleting yesterday's news and downloading the current news with no loss of print quality. some former mit students have already created a company called e ink, which has developed electronic ink and paper products and is testing the prototypes commercially. the company recently hung an electronic sign in a boston department store, where the display is controlled by a computer from within the store's main office. these electronic posters can have text changed instantaneously. (new scientist / / ) disputes and unknowns of electronic rights roil the book industry for all the hype surrounding electronic books, the fast-moving industry is having trouble convincing the slow-moving book industry to get on board. the authors' guild mailed warnings to its , members last month criticizing current e-book contracts as bad deals, saying the distribution fees for e-book manufacturers are payment schemes that would deny publishers and authors their rewards in the information age. other literary guilds are also advising authors to stay away from e-book agreements unless they promise to revise the deals when e-books become more popular. the book industry says it wants to see the market grow, but wants the terms to be fair. current e-book deals give authors a share of just percent of the book's list price, compared to percent for traditional book deals. (new york times / / ) court says temps deserve employee benefits a federal court of appeals has ruled that about , temporary workers at microsoft are entitled to take part in the discounted stock-option plan the company offers to regular employees. industry analyst rob enderle says, "this is a broad decision, and it applies to all businesses. if you've got a temp worker putting in -plus hours a week, you better start considering him or her like you would a part-time worker" -- and provide employee benefits. the ruling indicated that a temporary worker can be considered a "common-law employee" if the person's work was controlled not by the placement agency but by the company for which the work was being done. microsoft plans to appeal. (new york times may ) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/ / /biztech/articles/ soft.html european parliament wants isps to spy the european parliament last friday passed the lawful interception of communications council resolution on new technologies -- known as enfopol -- which requires internet service providers and telephone companies to provide law-enforcement agencies with full-time, real-time access to internet transmissions, even those traversing along multiple networks. in addition, wireless communications providers are required to provide geographical location information on cell phone users, along with decoding of messages, if encryption is provided as part of the service. the european internet service providers' association has denounced the resolution. "anyone who's got half a clue about the internet can easily see the enfopol proposals are unfeasible," says the chairman of u.k. isp linx. "the problem is it's a bunch of law-enforcement people who have cooked this up in a vacuum without public consultation." he also expressed concerns that the stringent requirements would prompt internet users from other countries to route around europe, damaging the european telecom industry's revenue. (techweb may ) http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/twb s privacy proposal a clinton administration proposal to protect individual financial and medical records includes a request for more than $ million to fund an increase in online surveillance and to train law enforcement officials in ways to combat security fraud. congressman jay inslee (d-wash.) explained the problem to his colleagues by writing: "do you believe your banking transaction experiences are private? you may be surprised to learn that with certain exceptions, financial institutions may legally share all of the information about you and your bank account activity with affiliated businesses or even third parties." (washington post may ) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/daily/may /privacy .htm pc sales up, profits down unit sales of pcs rose % in april, but revenue declined . % as prices fell and sales of low-cost pcs surged. the average sales price of a pc was $ , according to pc data corp. sales of sub-$ , computers accounted for % of all retail sales. 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[different numbering system for requests than other items] . found an etext of the golden bowl by henry james, http://www.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/goldenbowl .html if anyone can find a pre- matching paper edition, then we can post it. * . more languages [japanese, chinese, swedish, danish, dna. . .more.] . we would love to post one file in a language we have not worked with before in each of the remaining months of , and perhaps in , if we can. no matter what format, we are willing to post it, but would also like to post in the simplest possible format as well . . .when this is possible. we may still need help with posting our swedish and danish bibles. . .just to make sure we haven't mangled the files. . the human genome project [ % complete at megabytes] . if you would like to join our human genome project team, please email eliana brown at one of the following, and cc:me eliana brown <elianab @yahoo.com><brown @students.uiuc.edu> we need help getting them to prairienet.org, and perhaps with putting the headers on them. . .the files are large. . .and we don't have an easy internal way to get them there. . .thanks! we have successfully downloaded our first chromosomes, and the smallest one we could, the y chromosome, is . megabytes. we have reserved slots for june, , for the files and a few instructions and commentaries on how to read and use them. this will eventually total some . gigabytes, so we could use some programming help to create a compression program that would take only bits to store any of the gatc amino acids, and would unpack them for our readers. . .otherwise this one item will at least quadruple the size of project gutenberg. zip is currently compressing at %, i have not tried the higher compression zip options yet. . . . however, even if we represented each character with two bits, it would be hard to get much beyond %, unless we used a particularly good algorithm. we tried one combination of our own plus zip and got %. . .not sure if worth the hassle. . we need help getting incorporated as a (c) , need a lawyer. [we had a volunteer lawyer, but lost email contact] this would probably be done in illinois, and it is obvious we need to do this, or we won't get the donations required to do more than our original goal of , books. . .we are currently doing etext at a rate that will reach , by the end of . . .not bad for an unincorporated bunch of volunteers whose executive director has not had any paychecks for months and probably won't for the next months, and went through this same situation only two years ago. . we need help getting major grants. . .grant writers needed! we will get our , etexts done, whether we receive any funding of a major nature or not, but we could do , , etexts in just more years, if we could get some million dollar grants. the truth is that if we are going to spend time on other than etext, i would prefer that we go all out in this direction. . we need help with public relations. . .i lost the address of our new pr person in the big crash, please email me again! we have an excellent opportunity to be the cover story on the sunday supplement of a very major newspaper, very shortly. we did the preliminary interview last weekend, and we should also prepare a press release for our , th etext, human genome, and our new language efforts. which reminds me, we may still need help with swedish and danish. . you may want to try our new site at: www.instinct.org/gutenberg/ . from daniel meyers: here's what i'm ready to offer. the most up-to-date possible, full texts from project gutenberg on a two cd set for $ . (+$ . s/h). interested parties should send e-mail to gutenberg@monogames.com and they will be notified when and where they can order on-line. project gutenberg will receive $ . of the above amount. major credit cards and checks will be accepted. . we have a new german/fraktur team. . .and we need volunteers. mike pullen <globaltraveler @yahoo.com> german and fraktur team . we still need help finished up austen's pride and prejudice. please contact me if you can find any edition from before . *** this past, as in most months, we have made noticeable corrections to files: dec the crystal stopper, by maurice leblanc [cstprxxx.xxx] dec timaeus, by plato, benjamin jowett, translator # [tmeusxxx.xxx] feb memoirs of the comtesse du barry by lamothe-langon[dbrryxxx.xxx] mar the three musketeers, by alexandre dumas [pere # ][ muskxxx.xxx] mar twenty years after, by alexandre dumas [pere # ][ muskxxx.xxx] jan iphigenie auf tauris, johann von goethe[# ] german[iphgnxxx.xxx] dec the outlet, by andy adams [outltxxx.xxx] each of the above files has a version now posted, our files get a higher # when we have made enough corrections to call it a revised edition. . .if your system supports ftp [file transfer protocol] you can find all our corrections by just searching for filename ????? .*, .*, ,*, etc. here are the new etexts presented on our th anniversary and extras!! feb tao hua yuan ji, by tao yuanming [chinese/english][peachxxx.xxx] feb peach blossom shangri-la, by tao yuanming [short] [peachxxx.xxx] feb the reception of the origin of species, t h huxley[oroosxxx.xxx] feb life and letters of charles darwin, volume ii [# ][ llcdxxx.xxx] is reserved for ^^^^^^^^ feb life and letters of charles darwin, volume i [# ][ llcdxxx.xxx] feb the slowcoach, by e. v. lucas [slwchxxx.xxx] mary starr <marystarr@earthlink.net> feb cyropaedia, by xenophon [transl. h. g. dakyns] # [cyrusxxx.xxx] feb the way of all flesh, by samuel butler [butler# ][wflshxxx.xxx] feb in search of the castaways, by jules verne [jv# ][cstwyxxx.xxx] ^^^this version includes some markup, need volunteers to unmark to plain text feb memoirs of the comtesse du barry by lamothe-langon[dbrryxxx.xxx] by baron etienne leon lamothe-langon, using a pseudonym***** version is the binary version with french accents. version is the plain vanilla ascii version without accents. feb the blithedale romance, by nathaniel hawthorne[# ][blthdxxx.xxx] feb later poems, by alice meynell[ books/ file][# ][ almyxxx.xxx] feb flower of the mind, by alice meynell [maynell # ][ almyxxx.xxx] feb memoirs of a minister of france, by stanley weyman[moamfxxx.xxx] from the memoirs of a minister of france, by stanley weyman [weyman # ] feb thais, by anatole france, trans. by douglas [af# ][thaisxxx.xxx] feb the nabob, by alphonse daudet transl. w. blaydes [nabobxxx.xxx] feb the civilization of china, by herbert a. giles [cvchnxxx.xxx] feb crotchet castle, by thomas love peacock[peacock# ][ccstlxxx.xxx] feb civilization of renaissance in italy, j burckhardt[coriixxx.xxx] feb the valet's tragedy et al, by andrew lang[lang# ][vlttrxxx.xxx] contains stories about the man in the iron mask, etc. . . . feb michael, by e. f. benson [mikelxxx.xxx] feb stories by english authors in germany, scribners [sbeagxxx.xxx] includes: the bird on its journey, by beatrice harraden koosje: a study of dutch life, by john strange winter a dog of flanders, by ouida markheim, by robert louis stevenson queen tita's wager, by william black feb to the last man, by zane grey [zane grey # ][lstmnxxx.xxx] feb the religion of babylonia and assyria, by pinches [xrbaaxxx.xxx] ^^^^available as both -bit version rbaa .* and -bit version rbaa .*^^^^ feb keziah coffin, by joseph c. lincoln [kziacxxx.xxx] feb beasts, men and gods, by f. ossendowski [bmgdsxxx.xxx] feb wildfire, by zane grey [zane grey # ][wldfrxxx.xxx] feb dick hamiliton's airship, by howard r. garis [arshpxxx.xxx] feb journey scotland's western isles, saumeul johnson [jwsctxxx.xxx] [a journey to the western isles of scotland [johnson # ]] was listed as feb the trail of the white mule, by b.m. bower[bmb# ][tttwmxxx.xxx] feb all for love, by john dryden [john dryden # ][al lvxxx.xxx] feb shorter prose pieces by oscar wilde[oscar wilde ][wldspxxx.xxx] feb the history of caliph vathek, by william beckford [cvthkxxx.xxx] feb the little shepherd of kingdom come by john fox jr[lsokcxxx.xxx] feb messer marco polo, by brian oswald donn-byrne [mpoloxxx.xxx] feb the last of the plainsmen, by zane grey [grey # ][plnsmxxx.xxx] feb life of william carey, by george smith [wmcryxxx.xxx] feb two years before the mast, by richard henry dana [ yb mxxx.xxx] **extras from future collections we will be posting in coming months** we have posted the following chromosomes from the human genome project be advised, we have started with the smallest files, which will update the most often, but we will probably update only every few months. in our header is information on how to update the files yourself, if your interest requires the very latest information. warning!!! totals m if you download both the .txt and .zip files of these "small" files. jun human genome project, y chromosome [# ] [ yhgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] [warning: these files are not complete, and have at least one error. . .that being in chromosome . . .a sequence of nnn's around line . . . .] mar carlyle's "history of friedrich ii of prussia v [ frdxxx.xxx] mar carlyle's "history of friedrich ii of prussia v [ frdxxx.xxx] mar carlyle's "history of friedrich ii of prussia v [ frdxxx.xxx] mar carlyle's "history of friedrich ii of prussia v [ frdxxx.xxx] mar carlyle's "history of friedrich ii of prussia v [ frdxxx.xxx] mar carlyle's "history of friedrich ii of prussia v [ frdxxx.xxx] mar carlyle's "history of friedrich ii of prussia v [ frdxxx.xxx] mar carlyle's "history of friedrich ii of prussia v [ frdxxx.xxx] mar a thief in the night, by e. w. hornung[hornung # ][thfntxxx.xxx] mar the sign of the four, by arthur conan doyle [# ][sign xxx.xxx] mar a smaller history of greece, by william smith [asmhgxxx.xxx] mar clotelle: a tale of the southern states, by brown [clotlxxb.xxx] jan clotel; or, the president's daughter, by wm. brown[clotlxxa.xxx] apr clotelle; or the colored heroine by wm wells brown[clotlxxx.xxx] also see our previous releases, based on a separate source editions^ to turn electronic paper into commercial product though emphasizing "it won't be on the market in the next year," an executive of xerox's palo alto research center says that xerox and m have signed a manufacturing agreement intended to turn electronic paper into a commercial product, to be used in such applications as electronic newspapers capable of adding late-breaking news as you read them. like a computer screen but not much thicker than ordinary paper and almost as flexible, electronic paper uses "gyricon" display technology developed at xerox parc about ten years ago. you'll (eventually) be able to write on it with a wand or stylus or to put it through a computer printer. (reuters/san jose mercury news jun ) http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/ .htm "pc as simple as a toaster" - the $ itoaster a personal computer called the itoaster (because its developers say it's as simple to operate as a toaster) will use the beos operating system, rather than microsoft's windows. priced at $ (without a monitor) and manufactured by microworkz.com in seattle, the itoaster will offer word processing, home finance, and web browsing software, and will have a graphical interface. the company is reportedly in talks with america online about potential cross-marketing arrangements. (msnbc jun , http://www.msnbc.com/news/ .asp and usa today jun http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctf .htm ) the fight over internet domain name registration those who want to see the business of domain name registration opened up to competition will have to wait at least three weeks longer, as tensions build among the three major players in the discussion. those players are: first, the clinton administration; second, icann (internet corporation for assigned names and numbers), the organization the administration created to assume responsibility for internet administration; and, third, network solutions inc. (nsi), the private company which since has had the exclusive worldwide right to assign all internet addresses ending with the suffixes .com, .net, or .org. nsi is refusing to sign the contract icann has developed, saying it gives more icann more power than the administration had intended; in particular, nsi is claiming sole ownership to the rights of its database of more than million registered domain names. commerce department staffer becky burr is optimistic that the dispute will be resolved soon: "i believe it is in everybody's best interest not to swing threats around." in the meantime, icann interim president mike roberts notes, "it's great political theater." (new york times jun ) is there a shortage of info tech professionals? a survey conducted on the web site of computer magazine to determine attitudes about the shortage of information technology professionals found that % of the respondents believe that such a shortage indeed exists and that liberal immigration policies are generally a good idea; % deny that there's a shortage, and are convinced that corporate america is simply claiming one so that it can import less expensive workers instead of investing in the u.s. workforce. the rest of the respondents say that the global economy has created a new and complex problem which requires new kinds of solutions. (computer may/jun ) http://www.computer.org/computer/bcsummary.htm "who wants to know?" (customized history from encarta) today's wall street journal reports that the nine different editions of microsoft's encarta multimedia encyclopedia sometimes give different answers to the same question. for example, the u.s., u.k, and german editions say the inventor of the telephone was alexander graham bell, whereas the italian version says the inventor was the impoverished italian-american candle maker antonio meucci. other editions vary on who invented the electric light bulb, who discovered the virus that causes aids, and other such things. microsoft says its editorial teams are made up of local experts, and company chief executive bill gates argued in : "in the long run, exposing people to worldwide perspectives should be healthy. americans benefit from a better understanding of the asian or european view of important cultural and scientific events, and vice versa." tracking anonymous spam if you hate getting all those "make money fast at home!!!" messages from people who use hard-to-trace or false return addresses, you might want to use the services of www.spamcop.net, a web site that allows you to take action against unsolicited junk e-mail messages sent out in bulk quantities. spam cop is able to dissect the header information on such messages, identify where they've come from, and send a message of complaint to the network administer of the internet service provider the spammer is using. (new york times circuits section jun ) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/ / /circuits/articles/ spam.html those were excerpts from: newsscan <newsscan@newsscan.com> www.newsscan.com/, and send us mail: john gehl <gehl@newsscan.com> and suzanne douglas <douglas@newsscan.com>, or call - - . three week delay in opening up internet name registration the process to open the registration of internet domain names to competition has been delayed three weeks due to continued tensions between the clinton administration, monopoly-holder network solutions, and would-be overseer icann. many have accused icann of abusing its power, particularly by holding closed meetings and by assigning a $ annual fee to every domain name registered. many were also angered by icann's threat to terminate network solutions' authority to register new internet addresses, although icann has since admitted that only the commerce department holds that authority. government officials such as virginia's representative thomas j. bliley and governor james gilmore, as well as lobbyists on behalf of network solutions, have demanded investigations into the process of choosing board members and icann's authority to charge the $ fee. other major issues to be resolved include the question of ownership regarding network solutions' user database, the terms of icann's authority, and the prices that businesses must pay network systems to administer the central registry. (new york times / / ) textbook publisher lays plans for an internet university academic publishing house harcourt general is joining the growing business of distance education. it plans to expand its online offerings with three ventures: harcourt university; an internet high school for students planning to take high-school equivalency exams; and an e-commerce site called harcourt.com. through its university, harcourt may become the first major publishing house to offer accredited college degrees, pending approval from the new england association of schools and colleges. yet harcourt faces much opposition, particularly from college professors concerned that internet-based education denies students the personal interaction central to a traditional learning experience. university bookstores and other traditional distributors may also oppose the venture because it competes with their sales. last, harcourt will face strong competition from the companies and universities already providing online courses. harcourt maintains that its educational offerings will be unique. its university, which may begin to offer courses by september , will teach a range of subjects in arts and sciences. (wall street journal / / ) u.s. eases restrictions on selling fast pcs to russia and china president clinton significantly reduced restrictions on exports of powerful computers, arguing that technological innovations have made laptop and desktop pcs as powerful as the supercomputers produced just a few years ago. previously, companies were required to obtain individual export licenses to ship computers faster than , mtops (millions of theoretical operations per second) to a group of countries which include most of south america, south korea, south africa, and much of southeast asia, but clinton's order increased the limit to , mtops. the old laws also required companies shipping to a category of countries deemed "proliferation risks" -- such as china and russia -- to obtain licenses to ship any computer faster than , mtops to military users or , mtops for civilian users. in contrast, intel's pentium iii chip is rated at about , mtops, and versions due out later this year will hit about , mtops. (new york times / / ) y k scare leads to larger advances [i think this is just to counter the fact that most people will not buy computers now, and for the next months, until the bug date has passed. . . which will mean huge losses for the economy. . . . mh] experts say the y k bug may actually benefit companies and the economy in general, as it forced many firms to completely overhaul their computer systems and re-engineer their business processes to become more efficient. federal reserve governor alan greenspan noted in his june congressional testimony that the american economy "is displaying a remarkable run of economic growth that appears to have its roots in ongoing advances in technology," and many experts say the y k bug is to blame. the millennium bug gave senior management an urgent deadline for assessing their computer systems as well as their entire business processes, resulting in "a dramatic surge in buying" of erp systems, which reorganize and integrate a firm's accounting and other business practices. thus many companies' antiquated business operations have been modernized, merged, and streamlined to prepare for y k, producing benefits such as increased productivity, improved customer responsiveness, reduced inventory, and increased efficiency. (philadelphia inquirer / / ) u.s. to market info-tech work to teens [this seesm to be more pr aimed at "growing the economy" at the expense of the workers. i know lots of people in this field, and i'm not sure any of the people i hang out with on a daily basis are actually making the $ , "average" salary mentioned in an earlier one of these. however, it doesn't take too many bill gates to up the "average" beyond any useful meaning. . .perhaps "median" would be better.] the department of commerce next year is planning to launch a major advertising campaign to convince teenagers to choose a career in information technology. the marketing campaign is intended to help ease the shortage of high-tech workers by convincing teenagers that computers are "cool" and to dispel the "negative 'geek' or 'nerd' stereotype of technical workers," according to commerce secretary william daley. analysts estimate that the u.s. tech industry will need more than . million tech workers between and , with california, texas, and virginia being areas that will need workers the most. among the steps the department advises to ease the shortage are forging closer links between schools and tech companies, improving methods of teaching math and science in high schools, and increasing pay for teachers in those fields, and giving tech workers incentives to fill teaching positions and train older workers. 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[all the more reason we need to work on getting better pr--help!] i can only thank everyone who've put in the hard work to make those books available on pg. in fact, i've read so many. . . . most recent read i did was last month, of the gutenberg version of "the insidious dr fu manchu", a fiction novel. thanks gang, for all the excellent and invaluable work! i have read several classics from cover to cover on my trusty sharp laptop in the past year. including pg's pride and prejudice and villette (i think that was pg) what michael hart and other public domain people are doing is a work of unprecedented philanthropy: a direct acceleration of the democratisation of knowledge. they are to be applauded. all the best, and thanks for all the wonderful work you have been doing on the project. . . . as always, please add my thanks to the list... michael august this is the project gutenberg newsletter for wednesday, august , etexts readable by both humans and computers since before the internet [usually sent the first wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] main url is promo.net webmaster is pietro di miceli, of rome, italy *check out our websites at promo.net, and ask me for our ftp servers.* table of contest: requests new files index listings for the new files notess from edupage and news scan *** requests would anyone like to do any of these? just let me know. we have the books already. grey, zane. the man of the forest. new york: harper, . ken ward in the jungle. new york: harper, . wells, h. g. the passionate friends. new york: a. l. burt, . in the fourth year. new york: macmillan, . * would anyone like to work on romanian etexts? * we need someone to unrtf a small file. /home / /hart/tarascon.tex i will give you the password. * my idea is to translate into etext henryk sienkiewcz's books. he was nobel laureat in literature. is there anybody who can check my work (remember - it's in polish!!!) after scanning/correcting? from: rafal stein <rafal.stein@nokia.com> please cc:me *** new files we have a very interesting collection of etext for you this august. first, two new languages are introduced, swedish and danish, and an introduction to etext from project runeberg, the very first project project gutenberg spin-off, which started years ago. why did the introduction take so long, as with the gutenberg projekt-de [we are also going to introduce you to them] many etext projects wanted the opportunity to make it on their own. . .which we were glad to have, until things had gotten strongly underway. so we decided to wait a while, at least until our own project gutenberg effort had made the leap to one or two thousand etexts of our own. so, now, in efforts to create a wider availability of languages on the internet, we are cooperating with project runeberg, the gutenberg projekt-de and the other etext operations working in the public domain, to bring wider language selections to a wider audience around the world. i didn't realize that it was not obvious that downloading from european site locations was very difficult for persons in south africa, and south america, australia, new zealand, etc. . .or i would have made a big effort to make this more obvious to everyone sooner. this fact was a big part in securing the cooperation of the other projects, along with the fact that we are happy give full credit, list urls and all other contact information for those who create these etexts. we do not have this information for the danish bible, if you can help.... [yes, there is a double negative three sentences up. . .mh] in addition to swedish and danish, we are also continuing with some german etexts, including those from our own volunteers. . .goethe's egmont is available this month, and hopefully at least one etext in german each month to come, perhaps two. . .one of our own, plus one from projekt gutenberg-de. we also continue our series of human genome project chromosomes, to include more. . .for a total of of the human chromosomes; i should add that we have chosen the shortest of the files, to get things going as easily as possible. the last one is megabytes!! and these only add up to about % of the whole thing, so if you do want these, the total will eventually be . g. in addition, we have two more volumes of our friedrich series; that now brings our total to of the volumes by carlyle. to bring the introduction to a close, we have thomas more's utopia, along with a few dozen other etexts you will see listed below. due to the way we have indexed these for future convenience, we are including [all from the year ] etexts from june, of april, and from march. . .yes, we usually do post a few more than as the newsletter comes out on the first wednesday of the month, so we have a few days of work from the next month, which i feel we should include, rather than make you wait an additional month. i should add a few comments about using http ["the web"] versus ftp ["the net"]. . .if you use http, then you have to wait for a "human being" to index the files for that web site. . .unless they have an automated indexing system, which is usually not the case. . .but if you use ftp [which you can now do from most web browsers, you don't have to wait for such an index to be built. however, these indices are often very valuable in searching for what you want, so i should strongly recommend you use them when, other then when searching for the very latest etexts. . .the indices usually contain everything i have posted, other than from the most recent newsletter. if you do want to use ftp, keep this newsletter's contents on file so you can recognize which filenames you want to get. *** and now, here are ? etexts from march, april and june, of year . apr the works of edgar allan poe v [raven edition][ ][poe vxxx.xxx] contest philosophy of furniture a tale of jerusalem the sphinx hop frog the man of the crowd never bet the devill your head thou art the man why the little frenchman wears his hand in a sling bon-bon some words with a mummy the poetic principle old english poetry and other poems including the raven, lenore, and many others. apr the works of edgar allan poe v [raven edition][# ][poe vxxx.xxx] contest the devil in the belfry lionizing x-ing a paragrab metzengerstein the system of doctor tarr and professor fether the literary life of thingum bob, esq. how to write a blackwood article a predicament mystification diddling the angel of the odd mellonia tauta the duc de l'omlette the oblong box loss of breath the man that was used up the business man the landscape garden maelzel's chess-player the power of words the colloquy of monas and una the conversation of eiros and charmion shadow.--a parable apr the works of edgar allan poe v [raven edition][# ][poe vxxx.xxx] contest narrative of a. gordon pym ligeia morella a tale of the ragged mountains the spectacles king pest three sundays in a week apr the works of edgar allan poe v [raven edition][# ][poe vxxx.xxx] contest the purloined letter the thousand-and-second tale of scheherezade a descent into the maelstrvm von kempelen and his discovery mesmeric revelation the facts in the case of m. valdemar the black cat the fall of the house of usher silence -- a fable the masque of the red death the cask of amontillado the imp of the perverse the island of the fay the assignation the pit and the pendulum the premature burial the domain of arnheim landor's cottage william wilson the tell-tale heart berenice eleonora apr the works of edgar allan poe v [raven edition][# ][poe vxxx.xxx] contest edgar allan poe, an appreciation life of poe, by james russell lowell death of poe, by n. p. willis the unparalled adventures of one hans pfall the gold bug four beasts in one the murders in the rue morgue the mystery of marie rogjt the balloon hoax ms. found in a bottle the oval portrait apr egmont, by johann wolfgang von goethe[german] [# ][ gmntxxx.xxx] apr egmont, by johann wolfgang von goethe[german] [# ][ gmntxxx.xxx] we produce two versions of each of our etexts that have diacritic accents, an bit version with the accents included, and a bit version without them, so all our readers can download a version they can read on whatever programs. mh [the bit version filenames begin with xxxx, and the bit ones with xxxx] apr ben-hur: a tale of the christ, by lew wallace [benhrxxx.xxx] apr the bible, in danish, old testament, copyrighted [bbldoxxx.xxx] c apr the bible, in danish, new testament, public domain[bbldnxxx.xxx] apr childhood, by leo tolstoy/tolstoi [leo tolstoy # ][chldhxxx.xxx] apr strictly business[more million] by o henry[oh# ][stbusxxx.xxx] contains: strictly business the gold that glittered babes in the jungle the day resurgent the fifth wheel the poet and the peasant the robe of peace the girl and the graft the call of the tame the unknown quantity the thing's the play a ramble in aphasia a municipal report psyche and the pskyscraper a bird of bagdad compliments of the season a night in new arabia the girl and the habit proof of the pudding past one at rodney's the venturers the duel "what you want" apr extracts from the diary of william bray, by bray [drbryxxx.xxx] apr alvira, heroine of vesuvius, by a. j. o'reilly [alvraxxx.xxx] apr the day's work - part i, by rudyard kipling [rk# ][dywrkxxx.xxx] apr rosamund, by algernon charles swinburne [acs # ][rsmndxxx.xxx] apr the tale of balen, by algernon charles swinburne [balenxxx.xxx] apr stories by english authors in london, scribners [sbealxxx.xxx] apr utopia of usurers, et al, by g. k. chesterton[# ][uusryxxx.xxx] apr chinese sketches, by herbert a. giles [giles # ][chnskxxx.xxx] apr the daughter of an empress, by louise muhlbach [dmprsxxx.xxx] apr an account of egypt, by herodotus, tr. by macaulay[agyptxxx.xxx] apr utopia, by thomas more[banned in his time][more# ][utopixxx.xxx] apr murad the unlucky, etc., by maria edgeworth[me # ][muradxxx.xxx] apr original narratives of early american history[var][mohwkxxx.xxx] apr paul and virginia, by bernardin de saint pierre [pandvxxx.xxx] mar the quest of the sacred slipper, by sax rohmer[# ][qotssxxx.xxx] mar the nile tributaries of abyssinia, samuel w. baker[niletxxx.xxx] mar record of buddhistic kingdoms, by fa-hien[legge# ][rbddhxxx.xxx] mar the crime of sylvestre bonnard by anatole france [tcosbxxx.xxx] mar carlyle's "history of friedrich ii of prussia v [ frdxxx.xxx] mar carlyle's "history of friedrich ii of prussia v [ frdxxx.xxx] mar the bible, in swedish, from project runeberg [biblsxxx.xxx] mar history of the moravian church, by j. e. hutton [hotmcxxx.xxx] mar a thief in the night, by e. w. hornung[hornung # ][thfntxxx.xxx] mar the sign of the four, by arthur conan doyle [# ][sign xxx.xxx] mar a smaller history of greece, by william smith [asmhgxxx.xxx] mar clotelle: a tale of the southern states, by brown [clotlxxb.xxx] and jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] not all sites have the ??hgp .txt file, due to size limitations. last month we failed to report properly the other characters in the chromosome files besides atgc. . .here they are: ? meaning a a; adenine c c; cytosine g g; guanine t t; thymine in dna; uracil in rna m a or c r a or g w a or t s c or g y c or t k g or t v a or c or g; not t h a or c or t; not g d a or g or t; not c b c or g or t; not a n a or c or g or t aol to microsoft: sorry, but it's a private party america online is trying to block attempts by microsoft's new msn messenger service to let microsoft customers exchange messages instantly with aol's community of users. charging microsoft with trespassing on its system, aol has erected several software barriers to microsoft's efforts, prompting microsoft to respond to each obstruction by developing an immediate software workaround. forrester research analyst tom rhinelander sees the argument as "kind of like a food fight, like a couple of juveniles saying 'you can't do this,' 'yes i can,' 'you can't do this,' 'yes i can.' ... aol will say 'we've got to be careful about security and scalability,' and all these kinds of things. but they'll be forced to open up to the other folks, there's no way around it." (san jose mercury news jul ) http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/instan .htm internet fever spreads to britain with british isp freeserve plc enjoying a % stock price increase on the first day of public trading, britain.is getting its first experience of the wild internet success stories now common in the u.s. freeserve, which is now the largest access provider in britain, developed a business model that gives customers free access -- and derives its revenue exclusively by taking a share of phone revenue generated by the cost of the telephone calls users place to freeserve. unlike the u.s., where phone customers in most parts of the country can make unlimited local calls for a flat monthly charge, european phone companies (at least for the present!) charge by minutes of connect time. (new york times jul ) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/ / /biztech/articles/ net.html russian isp says "nyet" to spying russian internet service provider bayard-slavia is refusing to obey a directive that gives the country's federal security service (fsb) the right to examine private e-mail messages without a warrant. the system of efficient research measures directive also requires isps to pay for surveillance equipment in their servers and for a link to fsb headquarters. in retaliation for bayard-slavia's recalcitrance, the fsb has withdrawn the isp's license, frozen its bank account, and is challenging its right to frequencies for its satellite link to moscow. "we will never help the fsb implement illegal shadowing," says bayard-slavia's director general. "we're the first isp to struggle against illegal information collection. unfortunately, we're also likely to become the first to be destroyed because of insubordination." (data communications jul ) http://www.techweb.com/news/story/twb s you have been reading excerpts from newsscan: if you have questions or comments about newsscan send e-mail to editors@newsscan.com to subscribe or unsubscribe to newsscan daily, send an e-mail message to newsscan@newsscan.com with 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. internet rivals attempt to open up aol's instant message system a number of internet service providers aim to establish open access to america online's exclusive instant messaging programs. instant messaging notifies users when their friends are online and allows them to type messages to each other. it is an increasingly popular form of communication, and with three services and a total million users, aol dominates the market. yet microsoft, yahoo!, and prodigy each attempted to change this recently by creating rival services that can communicate with users of aol's services. aol responded to this threat by changing its communications protocols, effectively eliminating the rival programs' access to its service. while microsoft has been able to adjust its software to access aol, yahoo! and prodigy have not. the three contend that aol should open its technology to facilitate interaction between users of all services. yet aol argues that because access to its services was unauthorized, the rival services have breached accepted security standards. 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[motorboat] i also have the following books that i will do: tom swift and his wireless message tom swift in captivity tom swift in the city of gold we need proofreaders for these. ** we still need copies of faust in german that say their text is before . . .we have the etext, but we need to do the proofreading and the copyright research. . . ! contact me, and please cc: mike pullen <globaltraveler @yahoo.com> also need herman and dorothea in german. ** we received no replies to our request for help on romanian etext. ** ben bennett <fiji@ayup.limey.net> would like to continue with the th edition of the britannica. . .please cc:me. . . . ** comments on our schedule a number of people have asked about our current schedule... my apologies for jumping so far into the future for some of the files we are currently working on, but putting them all in a single block in the index really makes it much easier, for us, and also for those using the raw index i produce in the first week of each month, relating the postings, events and other comments from the previous month. the quick answers: . we are currently about months ahead of our schedule. . we are currently just barely making our schedule of etexts per month. . .so we can't increase scheduling. . we reserved space in march, for a volume set, of which we have now completed volumes. we also reserved space in june, , for human genome files, of which we have now complete chromosomes, but this leaves some gaps still to be filled. . .we have just finished all the april, , etexts, and started on may. . .all of which you will see indexed below. if possible, i will sneak in the last chromosomes for this newsletter, but it will be very close. . .they are big files, and the person who helps me with them is unavailable at the moment. the more detailed answers: our current official schedule is to do etext per month-- i am trying to do per month--but it is a tough go at the moment, with so many of our academic people having been out for the summer, and not really back in the saddle yet. . .i am therefore officially sticking to the etexts per month schedule, but doing my best to really make it average . if we can average , we will reach , etexts by the end of . . . . we were going to try to double production-- every year--but without and serious public relations effort or funding effort, we have still survived, but not expanded our production much from the etexts per month we did for several years. . .this is still more than anyone else but i do hope can eventually move to per month, and then more. but this will take some serious pr and financial grant work . . .if any of you are interested, please let me know. now. . .having said all that. . .we somehow managed a great deal of extra production during the last months last year . . .no one seems to have any idea why. . .but we actually, really did manage to average etext per month then, so we ended up about months ahead of schedule. . .since we were about a month or two ahead when we started that period. . . we have never quite figured out what happened, and we can't really change our schedule without the premise that this is actually possible on a continuing basis, without additional resources. . .so it is just one of those little mysteries-- and a very nice one to have had. so. . .we started this year about - months ahead. . .this is why we started the etexts for the year a few months ago. . . . if we manage an extra etext per month for the first months or a bit longer we will end up with one more month done ahead of schedule. . .but even with the files of the human genome project going in right now, it looks as if we will have to work pretty hard to achieve that goal. ** reposted files: apr our legal heritage, by s. a. reilly [ nd edition] [rlglhxxa.xxx] the new version is rlglh a.txt and .zip. . .in /etext this is direct from the author, the brand new edition, and pretty interesting and jan iphigenie auf tauris, johann von goethe[# ] german[iphgnxxx.xxx] jul anna karenina, by leo tolstoy/tolstoi [tolstoy # ][nkrnnxxx.xxx] [a much improved version. . . .] ** new files jun human genome project, x chromosome [# ] [ xhgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] we have now posted of the chomosomes, should be done with the first version of all sometime this month. and from may: mon year title and author [filename.ext]#### *****a "c" following a project gutenberg etext number indicates copyright**** may seven discourses on art, by joshua reynolds [artdsxxx.xxx] may you never can tell, by [george] bernard shaw [# ] [nvrctxxx.xxx] may frau und kindern auf der spur, by gerold k. rohner[ spurxxx.xxx] c may frau und kindern auf der spur, by gerold k. rohner[ spurxxx.xxx] c german/two versions/ -bit version without accents/ -bit version with accents.* may thoughts on present discontents, etc., by burke [thdscxxx.xxx] may that mainwaring affair, by maynard barbour [mnwrnxxx.xxx] may brother jacob, by george eliot [george eliot # ][brjcbxxx.xxx] may misc writings and speeches, lord macaulay v of [ mwsmxxx.xxx] * may misc writings and speeches, lord macaulay v of [ mwsmxxx.xxx] * may misc writings and speeches, lord macaulay v of [ mwsmxxx.xxx] * may misc writings and speeches, lord macaulay v of [ mwsmxxx.xxx] [only volume is done right now, the other three are reserved for later..mh] may king solomon's mines, by h. rider haggard [hrh # ][ kslmxxx.xxx] may king solomon's mines, by h. rider haggard [hrh # ][ kslmxxx.xxx] **two versions, -bit version without accents, -bit version with accents.** may the lifted veil, by george eliot [george eliot # ][lftvlxxx.xxx] may the lumley autograph susan fenimore cooper[sfc# ][lumlyxxx.xxx] may the bridge-builders, by mark twain[mark twain # ][brdgbxxx.xxx] and we have finally finished all the etexts for april, , all listed here: apr anarchism and other essays, by emma goldman [nrcsmxxx.xxx] apr song book of quong lee of limehouse, thomas burke [qunglxxx.xxx] apr the expedition of humphry clinker, tobias smollett[txohcxxx.xxx] apr a little tour in france, by henry james[james # ][altifxxx.xxx] apr the prime minister, by anthony trollope[trollope ][prmnsxxx.xxx] apr female suffrage, by susan fenimore cooper [sfc # ][sffrgxxx.xxx] apr china and the manchus, by herbert a. giles [# ][ mnchxxx.xxx] apr china and the manchus, by herbert a. giles [# ][ mnchxxx.xxx] mnch is the -bit plain vanilla ascii version/ mnch uses extended characters apr phyllis of philistia, by frank frankfort moore [phophxxx.xxx] apr around the world in days jr. ed. by jules verne[ dayxxa.xxx] [a totally different edition than prevously released this = day a.xxx] also see: jan around the world in days by jules verne[verne ][ day x.xxx] apr mary barton, by elizabeth gaskell [gaskell # ][mbrtnxxx.xxx] apr on the makaloa mat/island tales, jack london - [mklmtxxx.xxx] [we stopped numbering the stories individually, but since these are close to the last stories he ever wrote, we will finish jack london this same way. mh] contains apr the kanaka surf, by jack london [jack london # ][mklmtxxx.xxx] apr the tears of ah kim, by jack london [london # ][mklmtxxx.xxx] apr the water baby, by jack london [jack london # ][mklmtxxx.xxx] apr shin-bones, by jack london [jack london # ][mklmtxxx.xxx] apr when alice told her soul, by jack london [jl# ][mklmtxxx.xxx] apr the bones of kahekili, by jack london [london # ][mklmtxxx.xxx] apr on the makaloa mat, by jack london [london # ][mklmtxxx.xxx] on the makaloa mat the bones of kahekili when alice told her soul shin-bones the water baby the tears of ah kim the kanaka surf apr the works of edgar allan poe v [raven edition][ ][poe vxxx.xxx] contest philosophy of furniture a tale of jerusalem the sphinx hop frog the man of the crowd never bet the devill your head thou art the man why the little frenchman wears his hand in a sling bon-bon some words with a mummy the poetic principle old english poetry and other poems including the raven, lenore, and many others. apr the works of edgar allan poe v [raven edition][# ][poe vxxx.xxx] contest the devil in the belfry lionizing x-ing a paragrab metzengerstein the system of doctor tarr and professor fether the literary life of thingum bob, esq. how to write a blackwood article a predicament mystification diddling the angel of the odd mellonia tauta the duc de l'omlette the oblong box loss of breath the man that was used up the business man the landscape garden maelzel's chess-player the power of words the colloquy of monas and una the conversation of eiros and charmion shadow.--a parable apr the works of edgar allan poe v [raven edition][# ][poe vxxx.xxx] contest narrative of a. gordon pym ligeia morella a tale of the ragged mountains the spectacles king pest three sundays in a week apr the works of edgar allan poe v [raven edition][# ][poe vxxx.xxx] contest the purloined letter the thousand-and-second tale of scheherezade a descent into the maelstrvm von kempelen and his discovery mesmeric revelation the facts in the case of m. valdemar the black cat the fall of the house of usher silence -- a fable the masque of the red death the cask of amontillado the imp of the perverse the island of the fay the assignation the pit and the pendulum the premature burial the domain of arnheim landor's cottage william wilson the tell-tale heart berenice eleonora apr the works of edgar allan poe v [raven edition][# ][poe vxxx.xxx] contest edgar allan poe, an appreciation life of poe, by james russell lowell death of poe, by n. p. willis the unparalled adventures of one hans pfall the gold bug four beasts in one the murders in the rue morgue the mystery of marie rogjt the balloon hoax ms. found in a bottle the oval portrait apr egmont, by johann wolfgang von goethe[german] [# ][ gmntxxx.xxx] apr egmont, by johann wolfgang von goethe[german] [# ][ gmntxxx.xxx] we produce two versions of each of our etexts that have diacritic accents, an bit version with the accents included, and a bit version without them, so all our readers can download a version they can read on whatever programs. mh [the bit version filenames begin with xxxx, and the bit ones with xxxx] apr ben-hur: a tale of the christ, by lew wallace [benhrxxx.xxx] apr the bible, in danish, old testament, copyrighted [bbldoxxx.xxx] c apr the bible, in danish, new testament, public domain[bbldnxxx.xxx] apr childhood, by leo tolstoy/tolstoi [leo tolstoy # ][chldhxxx.xxx] apr strictly business[more million] by o henry[oh# ][stbusxxx.xxx] contains: strictly business the gold that glittered babes in the jungle the day resurgent the fifth wheel the poet and the peasant the robe of peace the girl and the graft the call of the tame the unknown quantity the thing's the play a ramble in aphasia a municipal report psyche and the pskyscraper a bird of bagdad compliments of the season a night in new arabia the girl and the habit proof of the pudding past one at rodney's the venturers the duel "what you want" apr extracts from the diary of william bray, by bray [drbryxxx.xxx] apr alvira, heroine of vesuvius, by a. j. o'reilly [alvraxxx.xxx] apr the day's work - part i, by rudyard kipling [rk# ][dywrkxxx.xxx] apr rosamund, by algernon charles swinburne [acs # ][rsmndxxx.xxx] apr the tale of balen, by algernon charles swinburne [balenxxx.xxx] apr stories by english authors in london, scribners [sbealxxx.xxx] contains: the inconsiderate waiter, by j. m. barrie the black poodle, by f. anstry that brute simmons, by arthur morrison a rose of the ghetto, by i. zangwill the omnibus, by "q" [quiller-couch] the hired baby, by marie correlli apr utopia of usurers, et al, by g. k. chesterton[# ][uusryxxx.xxx] apr chinese sketches, by herbert a. giles [giles # ][chnskxxx.xxx] apr the daughter of an empress, by louise muhlbach [dmprsxxx.xxx] apr an account of egypt, by herodotus, tr. by macaulay[agyptxxx.xxx] apr utopia, by thomas more[banned in his time][more# ][utopixxx.xxx] apr murad the unlucky, etc., by maria edgeworth[me # ][muradxxx.xxx] apr original narratives of early american history[var][mohwkxxx.xxx] apr paul and virginia, by bernardin de saint pierre [pandvxxx.xxx] and one from march mar carlyle's "history of friedrich ii of prussia v [ frdxxx.xxx] [we still have more to go in this series] ** notess from edupage navy officials back off dire y k forecast [under duress] the navy issued a statement denying its earlier reports of expected power failures resulting from the year (y k) computer bug for nearly navy and marine corps installations. the first navy report found the probable and likely failure of natural gas, electricity, water and sewer utility services in communities near the installations. the navy retracted the statement, saying it now agrees with the white house assessment, which states electrical failures will be unlikely in the new year. meanwhile, the navy has not yet completed verifying y k computer readiness for various navy and marine corps communities. the navy posted its original findings on the internet, but removed them due to inaccurate and misleading information. navy officials say the database will be put back on the internet, accompanied with text explaining the findings. (washington post / / ) [here is the original report] navy y k report predicts 'likely' utility outages in several cities a recent updated navy report predicts that electric utilities serving nearly of the approximately navy and marine facilities will probably suffer a power outage due to the year (y k) computer bug. the military report also expected power failures in several cities, including orlando and ft. lauderdale, fla.; as well as some midwinter natural gas failures in such places as fort worth, texas; columbus, ohio; and albany, n.y. the navy report is in sharp contrast to other predictions, including conclusions from the white house. john koskinen--president clinton's top y k advisor--said the navy's results were overly cautious and were based on the worst-case scenario. (washington post / / ) wired on campus e-life many students are beginning to pick universities based on how "wired" they are, according to a recent article in usa today. this is because students are performing more functions online, from registering for classes and communicating with professors to ordering take-out, than ever before. of the million students currently attending a college, percent say they go online daily, and percent of students own their own computers, according to research firm student monitor. the company predicts that university students will spend $ million online during the next school year, and over $ billion online annually by . (usa today / / ) microsoft-aol war heats up over net access though america online is on top of the online service provider heap right now, microsoft is aiming to knock it from its perch. while aol continues to charge for its service, microsoft wishes to move the market towards free or cheap access. the company has tested a $ . price point for monthly access fees, and is mulling over the idea of giving free access to consumers who agree to spend a certain amount each month with some of microsoft's e-commerce partners. for its part, aol says that microsoft's attempts to undercut monthly charges will ultimately not be successful, as even deep-pocketed microsoft cannot afford to lose money on internet access forever. meanwhile, microsoft says its moves against aol are protective in nature, believing that in the near future aol is planning to become an online software platform to rival microsoft's windows. (wall street journal / / ) [more on the same subject] altavista offering free internet access altavista thursday launched a free internet access service, becoming the first major internet site to do so. the company, which owns one of the web's most visited sites, hopes to attract more customers by providing free internet access. although altavista will lose subscription revenues, the company believes increased ad revenues will compensate for the loss. altavista users will be required to begin their web surfing from the altavista home page, and will have an ad constantly in the corner of their computer screens. in addition, a microportal will appear on the screen that contains banner ads as well as links to shopping and search sites. although altavista will not sell consumer registration information, it will use the data to customize ads to a user's interests, says altavista spokesperson david emmanuel. (usa today / / ) you have been reading excerpts from edupage: if you have questions or comments about edupage, send e-mail to: edupage@educause.edu to subscribe to edupage, send a message to listserv@listserv.educause.edu and in the body of the message type: subscribe edupage yourfirstname yourlastname notess from newsscan daily cleveland free-net closes down cleveland free-net, which was the nation's first free community computer network, will shut down this fall rather go through the effort and expense of reprogramming the system to make it y k-compliant. one long-time user of the free-net, which started in as an electronic bulletin board at case western reserve university, said: "it's just sad to see it go. it's an institution." (ap/san jose mercury news aug ) http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/ l.htm cryptographer designs super-code-cracking computer cryptographer adi shamir of the weizmann institute of science in israel has designed a computer that uses light-emitting diode technology to crack -bit encryption keys in just two or three days. a recent effort to crack -bit keys took hundreds of computers and several months. twinkle, which stands for the weizmann institute key locating engine, measures the light from the diodes to perform the mathematical calculations necessary to decrypt the keys. the computer, if built, would cost about $ million, and could jeopardize the security of the majority of electronic commerce underway today. longer keys, with , -bits, are now used for highly sensitive documents, but the most popular browsers used for transactions today are set for only bits. (wall street journal aug ) http://wsj.com/ tiptoeing through the web privada inc. of san jose, calif., is offering a new service that allows users to make all of their internet activities - e-mail, online chats, web browsing and e-commerce transactions - completely anonymous. the web incognito service encrypts the data flowing from the subscriber's internet service provider and masks its origins before sending it on to its intended destination. the service, which can be switched on and off by the user, also stores the subscriber's "cookies." web incognito differentiates itself from other privacy products in that it covers all internet activities - not just web browsing or e-mail - and has said it will share the identity of users with law enforcement authorities who have appropriate warrants. "our service is for protecting the privacy of consumers, not for hiding criminals or criminal activities," says privada ceo barbara bellissimo. "we felt it would be irresponsible not to give law enforcement agencies the information if they have valid warrants." (new york times aug ) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/ / /biztech/articles/ data.html broadcom's -in- networking chip broadcom corp. has developed a new networking chip that can perform tasks now handled by up to separate chips. the strataswitch chip boasts million transistors and is capable of analyzing the content of data transmissions and assigning higher priority to those packets containing voice and video. "what this represents is basically the world's first true switching system on a single chip," says the general manager of broadcom's networking business unit. (reuters/san jose mercury news aug ) http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/ .htm sbc to offer e-mail-only phone service [not only sbc. . .so news says] sbc communications plans a september launch for its new emessage service -- designed for people who want to communicate online, but don't want to use a computer to do it. the service will use a portable phone attachment that includes a keyboard and screen. the e-mail-only service marks the first time a major phone company has offered a service geared especially toward the "internet appliance" market. the emessage service will cost about $ a month, and the device will sell for about $ - about half the price of web phones. (los angeles times aug ) http://www.latimes.com/home/business/t .html net enemies list reporters sans frontiers, a paris-based organization that promotes press freedom, has compiled a top- list of countries that severely restrict citizens' access to information on the internet. they are: azerbaijan, belarus, burma, china, cuba, iran, iraq, kazakhstan, kirghizia, libya, north korea, saudi arabia, sierra leone, sudan, syria, tajikistan, tunisia, turkmenistan, uzbekistan and vietnam. most of the countries named have state-owned internet service providers that filter and censor web sites for their citizens, and more repressive regimes, like burma's, require computer owners to register with the government. a few, like north korea and iraq, have almost no internet access at all. and in saudi arabia, the internet is viewed as "a harmful force for westernizing people's minds." (investor's business daily aug ) http://www.investors.com/ instant messaging prodigy, tribal voice and peoplelink have agreed to give their customers the ability to instantly exchange notes with the . million users of the microsoft network's instant message service. this accommodation with microsoft is in stark contrast to the position taken by america online, which has repeatedly counterattacked microsoft's attempt to link its own service with aol's to allow instant communication between microsoft and aol customers. (san jose mercury news aug ) http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/ l.htm judge nixes aol trademark attempt a federal judge has rejected america online's attempt to prohibit at&t from using the terms "you have mail," "buddy list," and "im" on its worldnet service. aol had claimed that the words and phrases were trademarked. "we're pleased the court agreed that these terms are in the public domain - available for all to use," says at&t general counsel jim cicconi. "aol's claim that it owns the everyday language of the internet is another example of aol's attempt to monopolize all aspects of services over the internet." aol says it will appeal the ruling and its general counsel is "confident that the ruling will be reversed." (bloomberg news/los angeles times aug ) http://www.latimes.com/home/business/t .html privacy advocates complain about amazon's "fun feature" amazon.com says its new "purchase circle" feature is "a fun way for people to find out what others are buying yet maintain individual confidentiality," but privacy advocates think it's a step in the wrong direction. the feature allows people to see what the most popular books are among amazon patrons at any large organization; for example, "memories of a geisha" is now no. at charles schwab, and "the end of marketing as we know it" at cocacola. web design expert jacob nielsen says, "from a privacy perspective, it's very scary. it's a true big brother phenomenon." the feature can not be used to learn what individuals are reading; the company only makes public reading profiles of groups that include at least several hundred individuals. [no inferences are drawn from the popularity of particular books at particular institutions.] david sobel of the electronic privacy information center says, "people don't like the idea that their purchases are being turned into profiles, and they certainly don't like the idea that information is turned over to third parties, even it it's not personally identifiable." (usa today aug ) http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctf .htm icann again rejects request for individual memberships the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers (icann) has for the second time rejected a request for representation by a number of persons who own internet domain names as individuals rather than as corporations or other organizations. icann, now meeting in chile, has been accused of letting its decision-making activities be biased in the interests of large organizations that can afford to send their representatives all over the world. (new york times cybertimes aug ) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/ / /cyber/articles/ domain.html forty movies on a single disk japan's science & technology agency and sharp corp. have developed a -inch ( . cm) memory disk that can store gigabytes of data, which is enough to store times more data than a digital video disk (dvd), or the equivalent of two-hour movies. the new disk and disk drive will not be available commercially for at least three years. (san jose mercury news aug ) http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/ .htm plain vanilla internet access swedish isp bip bottnia internet provider is giving internet service away for free to customers who buy ice cream from hemglass trucks. "all visitors to the hemglass trucks will be able to pick up a free internet subscription as a fun extra offer," says the head of marketing at hemglass. the company's trucks make , stops every day, reaching % of all swedish households. (bloomberg news/los angeles times aug ) http://www.latimes.com/home/business/t .html london firm challenges hackers london-based global market is offering $ , to anyone who can crack its high-security " on " service. the service includes a special feature called autoshredder, which allows users to order an e-mail message to delete itself from the recipient's computer at a specified time, leaving no trace. "there are other companies offering security, not quite to the same extent as us, and not to the same level of security. nobody else offers the self-destruct e-mail," says steven james, the company's technical director. (reuters aug ) http://www.msnbc.com/news/ .asp aol launches free uk internet service in an effort to squelch upstart british rival freeserve, america online has launched its own subscription-free service in the u.k. freeserve's free internet access model has been copied by about other service providers in the u.k. over the last year, causing british consumers to lose interest in subscription-based isps. in a further attempt to clone the freeserve model, aol europe has linked with retail giant kingfisher to distribute the free service. freeserve uses parent company dixons' outlets to sell its software. (financial times aug ) http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q a.htm you have been reading excerpts from newsscan daily underwritten by arthur andersen & ieee computer society if you have questions or comments about newsscan send e-mail to editors@newsscan.com to subscribe or unsubscribe to newsscan daily, send an e-mail message to newsscan@newsscan.com with 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. about the project gutenberg newsletter: [goes out approximately first wednesday of each month. but different relays will get it to you at different times; you can subscribe directly, just send me email to find out how, or surf to promo.net/pg to subscribe directly by yourself.] october this is the project gutenberg newsletter of wednesday, october , etexts readable by both humans and computers since before the internet [usually sent the first wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] main url is promo.net webmaster is pietro di miceli, of rome, italy *check out our websites at promo.net, and ask me for our ftp servers.* table of contest: headline news requests for assistance comments about our new files index listings for the new files notess from edupage and news scan headline news the "on-line books page" allows you to search titles and authors of nearly , books on sites all over the internet, including project gutenberg. try http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ this should have over , listings by the time you get there. requests some time ago, after a request made by michael hart, a few volunteers helped posting on pg the spanish literature masterwork don quijote de la mancha by miguel de cervantes. i think that this could be a good opportunity to continue posting etexts in spanish but we need help from people wanting to volunteer. i do not have much time to dedicate to the effort alone, so i ask anyone wanting to help to contribute to contact michael or myself in order to create a "stable" group (like the one that does german etexts, for example) on spanish texts. basically what we need is someone who has time enough to become a "leader" of the team (i can help a little if needed), proofers (to check scanned or already digitized texts) and/or searchers for copyright matters. we would appreciate any help on this. jesus joglar <joglar@iiqab.csic.es> *** publicity and public relations in the uk please let me know of any others who would be willing to team up and work on publicity/pr in the uk. garry gill <gill@geography.nottingham.ac.uk> *** is anyone within a hundred miles of bridgeport, ct upgrading to a new computer in the next half year? i have someone out there who i am trying very hard to get on the net, and this would be a great! home for your current computer. . .will even pay. . . . email me, and let me know the possibilities. . .it is for one of the nicest people i ever met. mh ** also - i have at http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/etext/ jim henry <jimhenry@avana.net> an unfinished etext of benjamin thorpe's pd translation of the elder edda. i can't finish it because i've developed tendonitis & must minimize my typing. but it's there if any other gutenberg volunteers want to tackle it. ** we have a balzac in french if anyone would like to work on it. michael crew <arion@earthling.net>, and please cc:me and we need someone to do french spellchecking. *** comments about our new files this month we have completed our first draft of the human genome. if you have some interest in this area, we are working on a search program. . . to locate "conserved sequences/motifs" as well as specific genes. also, if you would like to write an article about the human genome. . .or know anyone who would, or who would like to play with the program, email me. we have also gotten back on track with our calendar. . .having completed the rather large extra tasks we set for ourselves a few months ago. you will notice [at least while i am writing this, that there are full month scheduled releases this month. . .and three from next month. *** **and now our list of current postings of more project gutenberg etexts** here is a listing of all the etexts for both may and june, , and this time i left in the number i use for counting to make sure there are ... since there are so many notes and comments. for those who actually count . . .which i hope some of you do. . .as i lost track at least once. . . . we also have a few listings from collections we started/reserved previously: mar carlyle's "history of friedrich ii of prussia v [ frdxxx.xxx] [we have now posted of the volumes of this set] may misc writings and speeches, lord macaulay v of [ mwsmxxx.xxx] [volume is not done yet at this time. . .] may misc writings and speeches, lord macaulay v of [ mwsmxxx.xxx] may misc writings and speeches, lord macaulay v of [ mwsmxxx.xxx] may misc writings and speeches, lord macaulay v of [ mwsmxxx.xxx] mon year title and author [filename.ext]#### *****a "c" following a project gutenberg etext number indicates copyright**** jun sketches in lavender, blue and green, by jerome [sklbgxxx.xxx] jun a damsel in distress, by p.g. wodehouse [pgw # ] [dmsndxxx.xxx] jun captain stormfield, by mark twain [mark twain # ][cptstxxx.xxx] jun all roads lead to calvary, by jerome k. jerome # [rdclvxxx.xxx] jun faust: der tragoedie [part ] by goethe[goethe # ][ fau xxx.xxx] * jun faust: der tragoedie [part ] by goethe[goethe # ][ fau xxx.xxx] * jun faust: der tragoedie [part ] by goethe[goethe # ][ fau xxx.xxx] * jun faust: der tragoedie [part ] by goethe[goethe # ][ fau xxx.xxx] * jun reineke fuchs, by johann wolfgang von goethe [# ][ fchsxxx.xxx] * jun reineke fuchs, by johann wolfgang von goethe [# ][ fchsxxx.xxx] * german/two versions/ -bit version without accents/ -bit version with accents.* jun soldiers three [part ii] by rudyard kipling[rk# ][sldr xxx.xxx] this is "part ii" of soldiers three, we don't have "part i" and contains: "love-o'-women" - from "many inventions" the big drunk draf' the mutiny of the mavericks the man who was only a subaltern in the matter of a private the lost legion - from "many inventions" the drums of the fore and aft judson and the empire - from "many inventions" a conference of the powers - from "many inventions" jun kim, by rudyard kipling [rudyard kipling # ] [kimrkxxx.xxx] jun captains courageous, by rudyard kipling[kipling# ][cptcrxxx.xxx] [this is independent of the version of etext # , and we would love if this could be compared to that version, and a better version of both created. let me know via email of you would be willing to work on this. . .michael. . . .] bill stoddard <hscrr@vgernet.net>,david reed <davidr@inconnect.com> [the following files contain the atgc codes from the human genome project] we will be updating these as more data becomes available, but not every month jun human genome project, y chromosome [# ] [ yhgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, x chromosome [# ] [ xhgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, chromosome number [ hgpxxx.xxx] jun human genome project, about the human genome files[ ahgpxxx.xxx] [this file is reserved for information about the human genome project files.] jun the iliad, by homer, translated by samuel butler [iliadxxx.xxx] may stories from pentamerone, by giambattista basile [pntmnxxx.xxx] may the gambler, by fyodor dostoyevsky[dostoyevsky # ][gamblxxx.xxx] may an iceland fisherman, by pierre loti [icfshxxx.xxx] may the master of mrs. chilvers by jerome k. jerome [mschlxxx.xxx] may mauprat, by george sand [aurore dupin/dedevant] # [muprtxxx.xxx] [lucile amandine aurore dupin / armentine lucile aurore dupin/later dudevant] also see: jun biography of george sand, by rene doumic [sandb x.xxx] may a ward of the golden gate, by bret harte[harte # ][wotggxxx.xxx] may the dark flower, by john galsworthy [dkflrxxx.xxx] may boy scouts in mexico, by g. harvey ralphson [bsimxxxx.xxx] may isabella von aegypten, by ludwig achim von arnim [ isblxxx.xxx] * may isabella von aegypten, by ludwig achim von arnim [ isblxxx.xxx] * may der gwissenswurm, by ludwig anzengruber [german] [ gwssxxx.xxx] * may der gwissenswurm, by ludwig anzengruber [german] [ gwssxxx.xxx] * may aufzeichnungen des malte laurid brigge, by rilke [ maltxxx.xxx] * may aufzeichnungen des malte laurid brigge, by rilke [ maltxxx.xxx] * may oberon, by christoph martin wieland [in german] [ oberxxx.xxx] * may oberon, by christoph martin wieland [in german] [ oberxxx.xxx] * german/two versions/ -bit version without accents/ -bit version with accents.* may captains courageous, by rudyard kipling[kipling# ][cptcrxxx.xxx] bill stoddard <hscrr@vgernet.net> this project gutenberg etext prepared by bill stoddard <hscrr@vgernet.net> [this will still need some serious proofreading, which will not be easy,^m given the unusual spellings and language. please cc: hart@pobox.com]^m may maruja, by bret harte [bret harte # ][hllhlxxx.xxx] may unbeaten tracks in japan, by isabella l. bird [utrkjxxx.xxx] may three men on the bummel, by jerome k. jerome [# ][tmotbxxx.xxx] may the marble faun v. , by nathaniel hawthorne[nh# ][ faunxxx.xxx] * [this one is almost ready, but not quite. . .will be online next week i hope] may the marble faun v. , by nathaniel hawthorne[nh# ][ faunxxx.xxx] may in a hollow of the hills, by bret harte [harte # ][hllhlxxx.xxx] may drift from two shores, by bret harte [harte # [[dftshxxx.xxx] may by shore and sedge, by bret harte [bret harte # ][bysnsxxx.xxx] may thankful blossom, by bret harte [bret harte # ][tkfblxxx.xxx] may seven discourses on art, by joshua reynolds [artdsxxx.xxx] may you never can tell, by [george] bernard shaw [# ] [nvrctxxx.xxx] may frau und kindern auf der spur, by gerold k. rohner[ spurxxx.xxx] c may frau und kindern auf der spur, by gerold k. rohner[ spurxxx.xxx] c german/two versions/ -bit version without accents/ -bit version with accents.* may thoughts on present discontents, etc., by burke [thdscxxx.xxx] may that mainwaring affair, by maynard barbour [mnwrnxxx.xxx] may brother jacob, by george eliot [george eliot # ][brjcbxxx.xxx] may misc writings and speeches, lord macaulay v of [ mwsmxxx.xxx] * [volume is not done yet at this time. . .] may misc writings and speeches, lord macaulay v of [ mwsmxxx.xxx] may misc writings and speeches, lord macaulay v of [ mwsmxxx.xxx] may misc writings and speeches, lord macaulay v of [ mwsmxxx.xxx] may king solomon's mines, by h. rider haggard [hrh # ][ kslmxxx.xxx] may king solomon's mines, by h. rider haggard [hrh # ][ kslmxxx.xxx] **two versions, -bit version without accents, -bit version with accents.** may the lifted veil, by george eliot [george eliot # ][lftvlxxx.xxx] may the lumley autograph susan fenimore cooper[sfc# ][lumlyxxx.xxx] may the bridge-builders, by mark twain[mark twain # ][brdgbxxx.xxx] **and a few for next month, of course: aug how to live on hours a day, by arnold bennett [ hrsxxx.xxx] aug not ready yet, sorry. . .michael [ xxx.xxx] aug the discovery of guiana, by walter raleigh wr# ] [guianxxx.xxx] aug he fell in love with his wife, by edward p. roe [inlhwxxx.xxx] new handheld computer to compete against palmpilot the creators of the palmpilot handheld computer, who left their former company to form a new one called handspring, are about to compete against the palmpilot. called "visor," their new device will be sold in modular versions starting at $ and will be aimed at both the consumer and office markets. various modules will enable the visor to work as a digital camera, music player, pager, and wireless telephone. (reuters/new york times sep ) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/ / /biztech/articles/ handspring.html british telecom offers free pcs british telecom has become the first u.k. internet service provider to offer customers a free personal computer as part of its bt internet pc package. the package, which costs . british pounds a month, also includes installation, training, and free weekend isp connections. at the end of three years, customers will own their fujitsu pc. bt says its new service will cost less than p a day, and noted that the free weekend connections would eliminate the potential problem of children running up phone bills during peak internet usage times. (associated newspapers ltd. sep ) www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/new...reviewid= &inreviewtextid= writers win internet copyright suit in china in the first case of its kind in china, a group of six prominent writers has been awarded compensatory damages for having their work published without their permission. the court ruled that century internet communications technology co. had violated the writers' copyrights by putting their works on beijing online's web site. the writers will receive anywhere from yuan ($ ) to , yuan (about $ , ) each. (reuters/san jose mercury news sep ) http://www.sjmercury.com/ freelancers' permission needed to post electronically a federal appeals-court panel has ruled that publishers must receive permission from freelance writers, musicians, photographers and artists before putting their material online or onto cd-roms, and must pay them extra compensation for the privilege unless otherwise contractually negotiated. the original suit was filed in by six writers who accused several media companies, including the new york times, time warner's sports illustrated, times mirror's newsday, and reed-elsevier's lexis/nexis database, of copyright infringement for reproducing their work online without permission. a federal court judge in sided with the publishers, saying that electronic databases are simply revised versions of original publications and that copyright law doesn't require extra payment by publishers. the appeals-court panel on friday found that databases differ significantly because they contain thousands or millions of individual articles that can be retrieved without reference to the original publication. most media companies today require "all rights" contracts, which explicitly include electronic reproduction, but the real problem for media organizations, says attorney bruce keller, is what should be done about articles written during the years prior to this case. (wall street journal sep ) phones outnumber umbrellas in lost-and-found londoners are leaving up to mobile phones on buses and trains every day -- outnumbering the number of umbrellas left behind for the first time ever. according to maureen beaumont, manager of london transport's lost property office, the number of handsets being turned in is up sharply: "it's just creeping up and up and up. it was just a day a couple of months ago. now we're up to or a day." this year so far, there are , abandoned phones waiting to be claimed, but because many users have insurance policies that replace their phones within a few days, most of the misplaced handsets are just left in the lost property office for the requisite six months. "after that we can sell them as a piece of hardware -- we just dispose of the sim card," says beaumont. (financial times sep ) http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q aba.htm wired cities an ohio state university study has identified the "most internet-accessible" u.s. cities: , washington, dc; , chicago; , dallas; , new york; , atlanta; , san jose; , los angeles; , houston; , san francisco; , phoenix; , boston; , seattle; , philadelphia; , st. louis; , denver; , baltimore; , minneapolis; , palo alto; , detroit; , santa clara. the authors say, "in general, cities with more linkages to the internet backbone will have faster access and more reliable connections to global information. this enhanced access results in a comparative advantage that will grow in importance with the continuing computerization of information." (newsbytes news network/usa today sep ) http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/nb/nb .htm microsoft's ie reeling again after two new bugs discovered experts this week found two new security bugs that affect microsoft's internet explorer (ie ) browser. security expert georgi guninski discovered one spoofing glitch that would give hackers access to data on ie even through a firewall. the bug would allow an html javascript to activate once a user visits a web site, and then download files back to the user's computer. since the files are downloaded from the computer back to itself rather than to another machine, firewalls do not prevent the attack. after the information has been downloaded back to the original computer, it can be sent to any ip address. microsoft is now working on a patch, and suggests in the meantime that concerned users disable ie 's active scripting. a second bug, confirmed this week by bugnet and its parent company keylabs, would allow ie 's rendering engine to alter html tags. html tags could change when users working with ie and microsoft's mshtml editing and rendering engine use the "web page, complete" default setting. microsoft is working to repair the problem, and suggests for now that users rely on the "web page, html only" setting. (infoworld electric / / ) you have been reading excerpts from newsscan daily underwritten by arthur andersen & ieee computer society if you have questions or comments about newsscan send e-mail to editors@newsscan.com to subscribe or unsubscribe to newsscan daily, send an e-mail message to newsscan@newsscan.com with 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. ******* study: high cost for windows transition the migration costs of microsoft's windows are so high that companies implementing the operating system would be unlikely to see a return on investment for at least three years, according to a recent gartner group study. the report indicates that the migration cost for windows could amount to as much as $ , per pc. gartner vice president michael gartenberg says by the time a company would see a return on windows , it would be time to switch to another operating system. microsoft has advertised windows as offering "increased reliability, availability, and scalability with end-to-end management features that reduce operating costs." microsoft studies indicate companies migrating to windows will see benefits immediately. microsoft concedes that migration can be expensive, but says windows can significantly reduce operating costs by streamlining help-desk operations, improving pc manageability, and offering businesses greater control over software applications. (c|net / / ) [for those of you who really think there are terabyte cables out there, please note how this gigabyte cable is referred to being so large mh] cut in fiber cable disrupts internet traffic nationwide internet traffic throughout the country was slowed dramatically yesterday after a fiber cable was cut. a gas company in ohio inadvertently cut the cable with a backhoe at about noon yesterday. traffic between the east and west coasts was as much as times slower than usual. some companies experienced so much trouble that they had no choice but to close down. although fiber cuts occur occasionally, a cut to such a large cable is unusual, according to bill woodcock, a network architect for regional isp zocalo. the cable was transmitting billion bits per second. traffic that would usually move through the cable was rerouted, but the congestion that resulted slowed data moving through other network segments. gte, which owned segments of the cut cable, said last night that the cable would probably be fixed by p.m. (new york times / / ) experts fear an outbreak of y k viruses computer security experts are concerned about a possible outbreak of y k viruses after two y k-related viruses appeared last week. experts say y k hoaxes, viruses that are spread via y k-remediation software, and viruses designed to first appear on january , , are among the dangers associated with the beginning of the new millennium. a new "trojan horse" virus appeared last week in the guise of an e-mail offering a free year countdown clock. once activated, the virus enters the computer's internet connection to gain access to the user's passwords and account numbers. the other virus appearing last week, called w /fix , arrives as a note from the "system administrator" and claims to provide software for fixing a y k internet problem. if launched, the virus will attach itself to all future e-mail transmissions. although experts say both viruses are not considered major threats, future viruses could be. (san francisco chronicle / / ) british publisher puts books online dorling kindersley, a educational book and cd-rom publisher, says it's planning to put all of its material online, allowing customers to view entire books online before they decide whether to purchase. the move signals the bookseller's attempt to replicate the experience of shopping in a bricks-and-mortar bookstore: "people want to be able to look inside books just as they would in a store," says alan buckingham, managing director of dorling kindersley online. the company hopes to have % of its holdings online by january. executive chairman peter kindersley acknowledges that customers could print out the pages they need rather than buy the entire text, but says that risk is small in comparison to the benefits of brand awareness: "it is highly unlikely someone will print out a whole book because the cost of printer cartridges is extremely high." (financial times sep ) http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q aeee .htm you have been reading excerpts from edupage: if you have questions or comments about edupage, send e-mail to: edupage@educause.edu to subscribe to edupage, send a message to listserv@listserv.educause.edu and in the body of the message type: subscribe edupage yourfirstname yourlastname *** mac users can download our .txt files in binary mode to avoid the double spacing cr/lf line ends creates. or download the .zip files, which unzip properly for nearly any operating system they are unzipped for... about the project gutenberg newsletter: [goes out approximately first wednesday of each month. but different relays will get it to you at different times; you can subscribe directly, just send me email to find out how, or surf to promo.net/pg to subscribe directly by yourself.] november this is project gutenberg's newsletter for wednesday, november , etexts readable by both humans and computers since before the internet [usually sent the first wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] main url is promo.net webmaster is pietro di miceli, of rome, italy *check out our websites at promo.net, and ask me for our ftp servers.* this message contains index listings for about newly released books this is double the usual number we were scheduled to release, but with a great effort by kimber we have managed to complete the shakespeare just in time for inclusion in this newsletter. . .thanks, kim!!!!!!! table of contest: headline news requests for assistance comments about our new files index listings for the new files notess from edupage and news scan *** headline news i just finished watching biography's " most influential people of the millennium" and our dear mr. gutenberg was # !!! no question - good choice. thought you might like to know - on behalf of all us gutenbergers! from: hoost @aol.com "just got the nov. issue of time magazine today --- focused on the st century. and i was delighted to see michael hart profiled as a visionary in people to watch' on p. ." from richard seltzer ["people to watch" is a new column in time, we made the top of their list, chosen as to lead off what they hope will be a permanent feature.] we should also be the cover story for the chicago tribune sunday supplement on november st. . .this article has been in progress since march and they say it should be the best one of these they have done in well over a year. we shall see, eh? given that we are today releasing about new etexts, we are now approaching being months ahead of schedule. . .our current goal is to get to months . . .actually / months. . .ahead of schedule by the end of , to have , project gutenberg etexts online at that time. . .about / of that goal we originally started with. . .but. . .that goal also included a prediction i made that the other etext producers would be happy to put their public domain etexts on our servers and help us do the appropriate copyright research. the truth is that one of the things we need is a liaison person to coordinate our efforts with the handful of other major etext producers so we can provide the , etexts now available in a proper manner through our worldwide servers. so, if you are the kind of person who can do this, please. . .let us know!!! requests for assistance ben harper <rogajin@hotmail.com> requests: purchas his pilgrimages, by samuel purchas [~ ] if indeed you have some kind of funding to ship over as precious a thing as that book, i'd gladly be it's honored preserver. i bought myself a scanner just today! *** comments about our new files first a correction to an earlier comment: i chose it because my goal was to change the way information is passed from person to person as much as johannes gutenberg did. he reduced the price of books to / th of their previous cost which was equal to that of the average family farm beforehand!! now you can buy a g hard drive for $ . . .and you **could** put thousand copies of the complete works of shakespeare on a drive like that, without compression. . .that's cents a copy! there are terabyte drive packs on the way, that will cost less, and will hold just about every word in even a *large* library!! it will not so many of these to hold the library of congress!!! i have heard estimates from to terabytes. . .but when such terabytes are as common as gigabytes are now. . .who will care? comments about our new files we lead off this newsletter index with uncle remus, in honor of the movie "song of the south". . .which has been removed from a circulating feature [i think by disney] because of "politically incorrect" catcalls from certain political action committees. millions of students saw this movie as "required viewing" in an era before this kind of political pressure, but which had an entirely different "politically incorrect" venue known as: "the mccarthy era witch hunts" which didn't seem to be have the kind of power now wielded by a wide range of groups who could be called politically incorrect, themselves. rewriting history, particularly history that was a "staple" in our educational system, is totally incorrect. i do understand that in any history there are events and values that should not be passed on but neither should they be passed over. by pretending these things never happened we do not encourage a proper perspective, either by these committees, or on the parts of the people more directly involved. meanwhile, our german team continues to amaze me. . . . several more additions are listed below, and more on the way!! i hope they are an inspiration to those considering helping us do etexts in other languages. . .it took us forever to get the german team rolling, and now. . .fantastic. . .please help get us rolling with other languages!!! *** index listings for the new files aug uncle remus/songs/sayings, by joel chandler harris[remusxxx.xxx] aug a set of six, by joseph conrad [joseph conrad # ][seto xxx.xxx] we have two versions: seto .* and seto m.* [markup with accents]. . . . please let us know which you prefer. . . aug legends and lyrics, pt , by adelaide ann proctor [lgly xxx.xxx] aug legends and lyrics, pt , by adelaide ann proctor [lgly xxx.xxx] aug poor folk, by fyodor dostoyevsky [dostoyevsky # ][prflkxxx.xxx] aug a simpleton, by charles reade [smptnxxx.xxx] aug the descent of man, by charles darwin [darwin # ][dscmnxxx.xxx] aug pandora, by henry james [henry james # ][pndraxxx.xxx] aug sketch book of geoffrey crayon, gent, by irving # [sbogcxxx.xxx] aug snow-bound at eagle's, by bret harte [harte # ][sbdaexxx.xxx] aug pillars of society, by henrik ibsen[henrik ibsen ][pllrsxxx.xxx] aug waifs and strays, etc, by o henry pt [o henry # ][ waifxxx.xxx] contains: the red roses of tonia round the circle the rubber plant's story out of nazareth confessions of a humorist the sparrows in madison square hearts and hands the cactus the detective detector the dog and the playlet a little talk about mobs the snow man (two were unavailable- pages torn from book) [if you can help. . .] in the trolley car ruth baldwin chenery in irish rain martha haskell clark aug anthol. massachusetts poets/william s. braithwaite[mpoetxxx.xxx] aug a new england girlhood[beverly, ma] by lucy larcom[grlhdxxx.xxx] aug yet again, by max beerbohm [max beerbohm # ][ytagnxxx.xxx] aug yet again, by max beerbohm[html] [max beerbohm # ][ytagnxxh.xxx] aug david elginbrod, by george macdonald[scottish][# ][lgnbdxxx.xxx] aug twenty-two goblins, translated from the sanskrit [ gblxxx.xxx] aug rosmersholm, by henrik ibsen [henrik ibsen # ] [rsmrhxxx.xxx] aug through russia, by maxim gorky [maxim gorky # ] [trussxxx.xxx] aug havoc, by e. philips oppenheim[e. p. oppenheim # ][havocxxx.xxx] aug devil's ford by, bret harte [bret harte # ][dvlfdxxx.xxx] aug ridgway of montana, by william macleod raine [# ][rdgwyxxx.xxx] aug animal heroes, by ernest thompson seton [seton # ][anhroxxx.xxx] aug the lost road, etc, by richard harding davis [# ][lstrdxxx.xxx] contains: the lost road the miracle of las palmas evil to him who evil thinks the men of zanzibar the long arm the god of coincidence the buried treasure of cobre the boy scout somewhere in france the deserter aug tales for fifteen, by j. f. cooper as jane morgan [tl xxx.xxx] aug imagination and heart, by james f. cooper [jfc # ][tl xxx.xxx] aug the heritage of dedlow marsh etc, by bret harte [dedloxxx.xxx] contains: the heritage of dedlow marsh a knight-errant of the foot-hills a secret of telegraph hill captain jim's friend aug a millionaire of rough-and-ready, by bret harte [amrnrxxx.xxx] aug a waif of the plains, by bret harte[bret harte # ][awotpxxx.xxx] aug new burlesques, by bret harte [bret harte # ] [nbrlqxxx.xxx] contains: rupert the resembler [after rupert of hentzau and prisoner of zenda] also see: dec rupert of hentzau, by anthony hope # [rprhnxxx.xxx] dec the prisoner of zenda, by anthony hope[zenda x.xxx] the stolen cigar case by a. co--n d--le golly and the christian, or the minx and the manxman by h--ll c--ne the adventures of john longbowe, yeoman being a modern-antique realistic romance (compiled from several eminent sources) dan'l borem by e. n--s w--t--t stories three by r--dy--d k--pl--g "zut-ski" the problem of a wicked feme sole by m--r--e c--r--lli aug condensed novels, by bret harte [bret harte # ] [cndnsxxx.xxx] handsome is as handsome does lothow, or the adventures of a young gentleman in search of a religion muck-a-muck, a modern indian novel, after james fenimore cooper terence denville selina sedilia the ninety-nine guardsmen [after the three musketeers, by dumas] miss mix [after charlotte bronte] guy heavystone; or, "entire." mr. midshipman breezy john jenkins; or, the smoker reformed no title [after wilke collins] contains: mary jones's narrative the slim young man's story no. limehouse road count moscow's narrative dr. diggs's statement mary mcgillup, a southern novel, after belle boyd aug confessions of a justified sinner, by james hogg [pmfjsxxx.xxx] [entire title: the private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner] aug the pioneers, by james fenimore cooper [cooper# ] [tpnrsxxx.xxx] aug how to live on hours a day, by arnold bennett [ hrsxxx.xxx] aug tom swift and his motor-boat, by victor appleton [ tomxxx.xxx] not on archive aug the discovery of guiana, by walter raleigh wr# ] [guianxxx.xxx] aug he fell in love with his wife, by edward p. roe [inlhwxxx.xxx] and a few for next month. . . sep droll stories [v. ], by honore de balzac[hdb # ][ drllxxx.xxx] sep the story of my heart, by richard jefferies [tsomhxxx.xxx] sep the choir invisible, by james lane allen [chrnvxxx.xxx] sep the flag-raising, by kate douglas wiggin[wiggin ][flgrsxxx.xxx] sep geschichte des agathon, teil , by c m wieland # [ agtxxx.xxx] sep geschichte des agathon, teil , by c m wieland # [ agtxxx.xxx] ^^^this -bit version is not ready at the time the newsletter is going out^^^ sep geschichte des agathon, teil , by c m wieland # [ agtxxx.xxx] sep geschichte des agathon, teil , by c m wieland # [ agtxxx.xxx] sep hermann und dorothea, by goethe [german -bits] # [ hermxxx.xxx] sep hermann und dorothea, by goethe [german -bits] # [ hermxxx.xxx] german/two versions/ -bit version without accents/ -bit version with accents. sep travels through france & italy, by tobias smollett[ttfaixxx.xxx] sep in the carquinez woods, by bret harte [harte # ][crqnzxxx.xxx] sep the freelands, by john galsworthy [galsworthy # ][frndsxxx.xxx] sep bunyan characters ( rd series), by alex. whyte # [ bnchxxx.xxx] sep the depot master, by joseph c. lincoln [dpmstxxx.xxx] and we have the individual play files for our shakespeare first folio: jul the complete shakespeare's first folio [ plays][ ws xxx.xxx] jul cymbeline, by wm. shakespeare [first folio]=[ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul anthony and cleopater, by wm. shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul othello, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul king lear, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul hamlet, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul macbeth, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul julius caesar, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul timon of athens, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul romeo and juliet, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul titus andronicus, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul coriolanus, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul henry viii, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul richard iii, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul henry vi part , by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul henry vi part , by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul henry vi part , by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul henry v, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul henry iv part , by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul henry iv part , by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul richard ii, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul king john, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul the winters tale, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul twelfe-night, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul all is well, that ends well, by shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul the taming of the shrew, by wm. shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul as you like it, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul the merchant of venice, by wm. shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul midsummer nights dreame, by wm. shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul loves labour lost, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul much adoo about nothing, by wm. shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul the comedy of errours , by wm. shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul measure for measure, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul the merry wives of windsor, by shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul the two gentlemen of verona, by shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] jul the tempest, by william shakespeare [ff][ ws xxx.xxx] notess from edupage and news scan fcc chair to worldcom: not so fast there a statement by federal communications commission chairman william e. kennard indicates that mci worldcom may have some difficulty getting fcc approval of its $ -billion acquisition of sprint: "competition has produced a price war in the long-distance market. this merger appears to be a surrender. how can this be good for customers? the parties will bear a heavy burden to show how consumers would be better off." (washington post oct ) jhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/daily/oct /mci .htm the vergil group, one of several "collective self-study" latin groups on latin@lists.colorado.edu, is currently translating the *aeneid* from latin into english at the rate of - lines a week, using the pg text. participants translate each week's assignments, and then have the opportunity to compare their translations with other participants' work. for more information, contact meredith dixon <dixonm@access.mountain.net> not many notable stories this month. . .sorry. . . . unless you count time and the trib. . .hee hee mh you have been reading excerpts from newsscan daily underwritten by arthur andersen & ieee computer society if you have questions or comments about newsscan send e-mail to editors@newsscan.com to subscribe or unsubscribe to newsscan daily, send an e-mail message to newsscan@newsscan.com with 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. mac users can download our .txt files in binary mode to avoid the double spacing cr/lf line ends creates. or download the .zip files, which unzip properly for nearly any operating system they are unzipped for... about the project gutenberg newsletter: [goes out approximately first wednesday of each month. but different relays will get it to you at different times; you can subscribe directly, just send me email to find out how, or surf to promo.net/pg to subscribe directly by yourself.] december this is project gutenberg's newsletter for thursday, december , [usually sent the first wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] main url is promo.net webmaster is pietro di miceli, of rome, italy we have the etext for may, pretty much ready for you, and some new shakespeare files, though beware!. . .the filenames or numbers may change over the next month or so. . .i haven't quite yet figured out a whole strategy for working with what the mice played with while i went on vacation. . .a vacation i am certainly glad to be back from. it is odd to say, but everything when pretty much the opposite as expected-- i had a great time in la accepting the wired "oscar" on behalf of a thousand project gutenberg volunteers, and did all i was asked to do & and bit more at the party. . .[i was indeed the "life of the party."] as i often try to do, we have managed some new shakespeare to honor my father, who died years ago today, and for whom i try to do some work on this day each year, as well as to light a candle for him. i have a great big thank you to our shakespeare team for getting this ready for today, you will see thousands of corrections in these new files!!! my father was a great shakespeare professor, who instilled in me and many others a great feeling for the classics, in literature, music and art. this one's for you, dad! *** a note from our us director of production, dianne bean: working on a reasonable-sized-print book, water damaged at the bottom: testing omnipage on it and there's a huge difference between this and textbridge--they improved the ocr so it's better by a mile than textbridge, no longer even close...i'm only picking up or errors on a page; where the pages are a little warped at the bottom, tb was making an awful garble, but op sails right through! and it hasn't crashed yet. *** i will be meeting with lawrence lessig of harvard, who apparently is the one the supreme court of the us chose to teach them about computers, and about the internet. we will be planning the lawsuit to challenge all of the new copyright extensions we tried so hard to keep from becoming law. he has asked for some serious volunteers who would also like to sue; the cases are more secure when there are several plaintiffs, not just one. just email me if you are interested. i meet with him monday. we should also like to receive any points you would like included in the suit, and we would like these whether or not you are willing to be a plaintiff. *** and here are the books! may billy and the big stick, by r. h. davis [# ][bbstkxxx.xxx] may the nature faker, by richard harding davis [# ][ntrfkxxx.xxx] may the consul, by richard harding davis [rh davis# ][tcnslxxx.xxx] may my buried treasure, by richard harding davis [# ][mbtrsxxx.xxx] may the man who could not lose, by r. h. davis [# ][mwcnlxxx.xxx] may the black-bearded barbarian, by marian keith [bbbrb x.xxx] may majorie daw, by thomas bailey aldrich [aldrich # ][mjdawxxx.xxx] may cruise of the dolphin by thomas bailey aldrich[# ][dlphnxxx.xxx] may uncle vanya, by anton chekhov [checkov # ][vanyaxxx.xxx] may ivanoff, by anton chekhov [checkov # ][vanofxxx.xxx] may the sea-gull, by anton chekhov [checkov # ][cgullxxx.xxx] may swan song [& intro], by anton chekhov [checkov # ][swnsgxxx.xxx] may el dorado, by baroness orczy [more pimpernell][# ][ldrdoxxx.xxx] may twilight land, by howard pyle [howard pyle # ][twlndxxx.xxx] may [reserved for plato] ******** [ xxx.xxx] may cousin betty, by honore de balzac [de balzac # ] [cbttyxxx.xxx] may other people's money, by emile gaboriau [e.g. # ][opmnyxxx.xxx] may the red seal, by natalie sumner lincoln [redslxxx.xxx] may new collected rhymes, by andrew lang [lang # ][nwclrxxx.xxx] may poetical works, by john milton [pmsjmxxx.xxx] may philebus, by plato [more of socrates][plato # ][philbxxx.xxx] may twelve stories and a dream, by h. g. wells[hgw# ][ sadxxx.xxx] may miss civilization, by richard harding davis [# ][miscvxxx.xxx] may the white moll, by frank l. packard [packard # ][wtmolxxx.xxx] may the flying u's last stand, by b. m. bower [bmb # ][fuslsxxx.xxx] may the black death/the dancing mania, by j.f.c. hecker[bdadm .txt] may statesman, by plato [plato # ][sttsmxxx.xxx] may facino cane, by honore de balzac [h. de balzac# ][fcanexxx.xxx] may cromwell, shakespeare apocrypha [ ws xxx.xxx] * may sophist, by plato [more of socrates][plato # ][sophtxxx.xxx] may secret places of the heart, by h.g. wells[hgw # ][spothxxx.xxx] may the red cross girl, by richard harding davis [# ][rdcrgxxx.xxx] may the schoolmistress, et al, by anton chekhov [ac# ][tschmxxx.xxx] may sister songs, by francis thompson [f. thompson # ][ssngsxxx.xxx] may michael, brother of jerry, by jack london [jl # ][mcjerxxx.xxx] may the deserted woman, by honore de balzac[balzac# ][dswmnxxx.xxx] and: most of these shakespeare files are vastly improved versions from our original complete works of shakespeare [etext # ] but some are new. we had so many requests to post shakespeare as individual files, that we decided a whole new version was worth the effort, and here it is!! notes: we don't have new versions for all the works yet. . .but will. jul king henry viii, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jul the tempest, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun the winter's tale, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun cymbeline, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun timon of athens, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun coriolanus, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun antony and cleopatra, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun king lear, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun all's well that ends well, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun troilus and cressida, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun hamlet, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun as you like it, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun julius caesar, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun king henry v, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun much ado about nothing, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun king henry iv, part , by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun the merry wives of windsor, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun king henry iv, part , by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun the merchant of venice, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun king richard ii, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun king john, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun love's labour's lost, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun two gentlemen of verona, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun the taming of the shrew, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun the comedy of errors, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] jun king richard iii, by shakespeare [ ws x.xxx] *** mac users can download our .txt files in binary mode to avoid the double spacing cr/lf line ends creates. or download the .zip files, which unzip properly for nearly any operating system they are unzipped for... *** from edupage: universal translation service researchers at the united nations university in tokyo are developing a universal networking language (unl) that would take text in any language and translate it into any other language. the university is working with u.n. governments and companies to make unl modules to support the languages of all u.n. member countries by . 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(nef interview) january > project gutenberg europe in europe, project rastko, based in belgrade, serbia, launched project gutenberg europe (pg europe) in january , as well as distributed proofreaders europe (dp europe), with a web interface in languages. ebooks were available in june , and ebooks in october , in several languages, as a reflection of european linguistic diversity. ebooks were encoded in unicode instead of ascii, to take into account many different alphabets. january > ebook # > the life of reason, by george santayana in january , project gutenberg reached , ebooks. ebook # was the life of reason ( ), by george santayana. the driving force behind project gutenberg has not only been great authors, but also outstanding volunteers like greg newby, director and ceo of the project gutenberg literary archive foundation (pglaf) since , and marcello perathoner, the webmaster and main software developer of the www.gutenberg.org website. july > ebooks in languages what about languages? there were ebooks in languages in february , and in languages in july , including sanskrit and the mayan languages. the seven main languages--with more than ebooks - - were english (with , ebooks on july ), french ( ebooks), german ( ebooks), finnish ( ebooks), dutch ( ebooks), spanish ( ebooks), and chinese ( ebooks). january > project gutenberg preprints project gutenberg preprints was launched in january to collect items submitted to project gutenberg which were interesting enough to be available online, but not ready yet to be added to the main project gutenberg collection, because of missing data, low-quality files, formats which were not handy, etc. ebooks were available in december , and , ebooks in february . december > ebook # > twenty thousand leagues under the sea (audiobook), by jules verne in december , project gutenberg reached , ebooks. ebook # was the audiobook of twenty thousand leagues under the sea (vingt mille lieues sous les mers, ), by jules verne, in its english version. if years and months, from july to october , were necessary to produce the first , ebooks, years and months, from october to december , were necessary to produce the next , ebooks. there were ebooks in languages in december . december > project gutenberg news, the official blog in december , mike cook launched the blog project gutenberg news as "the news portal for gutenberg.org", to complement the existing weekly and monthly newsletters. the blog gave for example the production numbers since . the weekly production was ebooks in , ebooks in , ebooks in , ebooks in , ebooks in , and ebooks in . the monthly production was ebooks in , ebooks in , ebooks in , ebooks in , ebooks in , and ebooks in . the yearly production was , ebooks in , , ebooks in , , ebooks in , , ebooks in , , ebooks in , and , ebooks in . july > project gutenberg canada project gutenberg canada (pgc) was launched on st july , on canada day, by michael shepard and david jones. december > distributed proofreaders canada distributed proofreaders canada (dpc) started production in december . there were ebooks in march , in english, french and italian. > million ebooks by snail mail project gutenberg sent out million ebooks via cds and dvds by snail mail in . the dvd released in july included , ebooks. cd and dvd files were also generated as iso files (since ) to be downloaded for burning cds or dvds for family, friends, neighbors, schools and libraries. april > ebook # > english book collectors, by william younger fletcher project gutenberg reached , books in april . ebook # was english book collectors ( ), by william younger fletcher. october > ebook # > the bird book, by chester albert reed project gutenberg reached , books in october . ebook # was the bird book ( ), by chester albert reed. october > th anniversary of distributed proofreaders distributed proofreaders celebrated its th anniversary in october , with more than , books digitized and proofread during ten years by thousands of volunteers. we sent them a digital bilingual anniversary card from paris, france. december > , high-quality ebooks in december , project gutenberg offered , high-quality ebooks, with tens of thousands of downloads every day, websites in the united states, in australia, in europe and in canada, and mirror sites worldwide. ebooks are available in various formats for any electronic device (computer, pda, mobile phone, smartphone and ebook reader). april > , ebooks processed by distributed proofreaders in april , distributed proofreaders celebrated " , unique titles [sent] to the bookshelves of project gutenberg, free to enjoy for everybody. 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(excerpt from the website) april > , english ebooks in project gutenberg the , th english-language ebook was posted on april . its title was the religions of ancient egypt and babylonia ( ), by archibald henry sace. ebooks were also available in other languages. languages were lucky enough to have more than books. languages had up to books. please join distributed proofreaders and contribute. june > , ebooks in many languages in june , the main languages were english (with , ebooks on june ), french ( , ebooks), german ( ebooks), finnish ( ebooks), dutch ( ebooks), portuguese ( ebooks), chinese ( ebooks), spanish ( ebooks), italian ( ebooks), greek ( ebooks), latin ( ebooks), esperanto ( ebooks), swedish ( ebooks), and tagalog ( ebooks). july > th anniversary of project gutenberg --- text: marie lebert cover: jean-paul pfirrmann copyrighted images: @folio project, distributed proofreaders (all websites), librairie ulysse, claude rayon, project gutenberg (all websites), university of illinois public domain images: wikipedia permanent link: http://www.gutenbergnews.org/documents/pg- th-anniversary.pdf copyright © people and organizations above