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 2 Mar 99)
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 2,000 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 1 Mar 99)
PREPARE FOR Y2K THE WAY YOU'D PREPARE FOR A THREE-DAY BLOW
Senator Chris Dodd's advice for getting ready for Y2K 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 1
Mar 99)
HALF OF U.S. CLASSROOMS ARE NOW WIRED
The Department of Education says that, largely thanks to government
subsidies, 51% of classrooms, school computer and science labs, and school
libraries had Internet connections in the Fall of 1998 (compared to 27% in
1997 and only 3% in 1994). Smaller and poorer schools are now just as
likely to have Internet connections as larger and wealthier schools.
(Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 1 Mar 99)
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hopeful we can continue even more in a wide variety of languages.
Several new Project Gutenberg sites listed below and more than a whole
month's worth of new Etexts. . .we finished all of November in March--
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Lots of things in this Newsletter, not the least of which is that this
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Wednesday is April 7th, which will gave us a very long month to get up
to completing the November Etexts, but will leave us with less time to
do the December Etexts, a time that is already overloaded with these:
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which will be thoroughly tested this month. This is a BIG project
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[more below on this, probably the most important thing right now]
3. 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
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the translation is not yet complete, but we are working on it. In
Japanese, it is the first file in the list below.
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For May 16, 1999 [Please forward this to Balzac interests. . . .]
In honor of the bicentennial of the birth of Honore de Balzac (1799 -
- 1850) 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 19th 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
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Request for assistance/information: Gothic German typeface
I use a scanner to enter raw manuscript material and a software
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moderately ornate and stylized font has gone out of style since 1945,
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Don Quixote
If anyone is a student at Boston University, their library
system has a 1910-1913 and a 1922-1923 edition which
apparently are circulating, so that would be even better.
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We need a copy of this because we made an Etext,
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Actually we don't really need to HAVE the copy,
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The Jewel of Seven Stars, by Bram Stoker
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1Notess:
You probably already know about this, but I have found Ebay to be a good
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1921 (in titles and descriptions) and found quite a number of books with
a copyright of 1921 (some even with a scan of the copyright page) So you
might suggest to volunteers looking for a cheap book to contribute to
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About our Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Some people thought the filenames would be
pgws05*.txt and .zip
however. . .in this case the volunteer added an extra 0, I know not why,
and the location of the number part changed, so the files you want are:
pgw050xz.txt
pgw050tw.txt
pgw050s.txt
pgw050r.txt
pgw050pq.txt
pgw050mo.txt
pgw050il.txt
pgw050fh.txt
pgw050de.txt
pgw050c.txt
pgw050ab.txt
and
readme.web
Sorry for the confusion, will add to next newsletter. . . .
Newer versions just add one. . .next will be 060. . . .
But most start with versions 10, 11, 12, etc.
Only those we know will be "in progress" for
some time before they are up to our standard,
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And here, finally, is our list of some 45+ new Etexts:
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
Nov 1999 Rashomon, by Akutagawa Ryunosuke [in Japanese] [rshmnxxx.xxx]1982
Nov 1999 The Right to Read, by Richard M. Stallman [of GNU][tychoxxx.xxx]1981C
This Etext is available as tycho10.txt or .zip and tycho10h.htm or .zip files
and in French HTML as tycho10f.htm and tycho10f.zip
Nov 1999 Stories by English Authors in Africa, Scribners Ed[sbeaaxxx.xxx]1980
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 1999 The Perdue Chicken Cookbook, by Mitzi Perdue [mitzixxx.xxx]1979C
Nov 1999 Buttercup Gold, et. al., by Ellen Robena Field [btrcpxxx.xxx]1978
Nov 1999 Phaedra, by Jean Baptiste Racine, RB Boswell, Tr. [phrdrxxx.xxx]1977
Nov 1999 Peter Ruff and the Double Four, by Oppenheim[EPO8][rff44xxx.xxx]1976
Nov 1999 The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins [Collins#22][lcainxxx.xxx]1975
Nov 1999 Poetics, by Aristotle, Tr. SH Butcher[Aristotle#1][poetcxxx.xxx]1974
Nov 1999 Tales of Troy, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #17][tltryxxx.xxx]1973
Nov 1999 History Of The Britons, by Nennius [brtnsxxx.xxx]1972
Nov 1999 Erewhon Revisited, by Samuel Butler [S. Butler #2][ervstxxx.xxx]1971
Nov 1999 A Poor Wise Man, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[MRR #12][pwsmnxxx.xxx]1970
Nov 1999 Catherine: A Story, by William Thackeray[W.M.T.#9][cthrnxxx.xxx]1969
Nov 1999 The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix[#91][hciaaxxx.xxx]1968
Nov 1999 The Brotherhood of Consolation, by Balzac[HdB #90][brcnsxxx.xxx]1967
Nov 1999 The Path of the King, by John Buchan [Buchan #6][tpotkxxx.xxx]1966
Nov 1999 Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini [R. Sabatini #3][cpbldxxx.xxx]1965
Nov 1999 [Reserved for Pietro di Miceli, PG Webmaster] [ xxx.xxx]1964
Nov 1999 The Confession, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [MRR #11][cnfsnxxx.xxx]1963
Nov 1999 A Defence of Poesie and Poems, by Philip Sidney [dfncpxxx.xxx]1962
Nov 1999 Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang[Andrew Lang #16][bkbkmxxx.xxx]1961
Nov 1999 Sight Unseen, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[Rinehart10][stnsnxxx.xxx]1960
Nov 1999 The Crown of Thorns, by E. H. Chapin [thrnsxxx.xxx]1959
Nov 1999 Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[handdxxx.xxx]1958
Nov 1999 Beatrix, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac #89][btrixxxx.xxx]1957
Nov 1999 And Even Now, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #7][evnowxxx.xxx]1956
Nov 1999 The Darrow Enigma, by Melvin L. Severy [dngmaxxx.xxx]1955
Nov 1999 Colonel Chabert, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac#88][chbrtxxx.xxx]1954
Nov 1999 The Diary of an Old Soul, by George MacDonald [#6][doaosxxx.xxx]1953
Nov 1999 The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman2[ylwlpxxx.xxx]1952
Nov 1999 The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer Lytton[Lytton#5][cmgrcxxx.xxx]1951
Nov 1999 A Woman of Thirty, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #87][thrtyxxx.xxx]1950
Nov 1999 On The Ruin of Britain, by Gildas Sapiens [otrobxxx.xxx]1949
Nov 1999 The Story of a Bad Boy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 7[soabbxxx.xxx]1948
Nov 1999 Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini[Rafael Sabatini#2][scmshxxx.xxx]1947
Oct 1999 On War, by Carl von Clausewitz [Volume 1] [CvC #1][1onwrxxx.xxx]1946
Oct 1999 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe [Goethe #2][egmntxxx.xxx]1945
Oct 1999 The Witch, et. al, by Anton Chekhov[Chekhov#14-28][witchxxx.xxx]1944
The stories contained in addition are:
28 THE WITCH
27 PEASANT WIVES
26 THE POST
25 THE NEW VILLA
24 DREAMS
23 THE PIPE
22 AGAFYA
21 AT CHRISTMAS TIME
20 GUSEV
19 THE STUDENT
18 IN THE RAVINE
17 THE HUNTSMAN
16 HAPPINESS
15 A MALEFACTOR
14 PEASANTS
Oct 1999 Louis Lambert, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #86][lmbrtxxx.xxx]1943
Oct 1999 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau, by Balzac[HdB85][rfbrtxxx.xxx]1942
Oct 1999 Letters of Two Brides, by Honore de Balzac[HdB#84][l2brdxxx.xxx]1941
Oct 1999 Christ in Flanders, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#83][flndrxxx.xxx]1940
Oct 1999 A Gentleman of France, by Stanley Weyman[Weyman#2][gntfrxxx.xxx]1939
Oct 1999 Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy [Leo Tolstoi] [LT #6][resurxxx.xxx]1938
and two from December, leaving us 34 more to do in the next 28 days. . . .
Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos610.xxx]2009
Dec 1999 Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington [BT #8] [mbeauxxx.xxx]1983
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MICROSOFT RESPONDS TO PRIVACY ISSUE
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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." (AP 8 Mar 99)
IBM ACTION ENCOURAGES WEB SITES TO POST CLEAR PRIVACY POLICIES
IBM, which is the second-biggest advertiser on the Internet, has decided to
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Apr 1998 Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters [sprvrxxx.xxx]1280
New version, sprvr11.txt and .zip, many corrections
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