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======== Subject: [gweekly] Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, November 7 From: Greg Newby To: "Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter" Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 21:23:07 -0500 In this issue of the Project Gutenberg Weekly newsletter: - Copyright research contact info - Newest mirror site - Online proofreading team - Anyone in Salt Lake City? - Seeking old newsletters - Making Donations, States list - Access to the collection - 14 updated etexts - 14 new etexts - Statistics - Recent news - Information about mailing lists ** Thanks to John Mamoun for assembling this newsletter ** while Michael Hart is out of town. Project Gutenberg's Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, November 7, 2001 ***4,073 Tree-Friendly Titles Online*** Palm OS users: Try our new alice30p.pdb and alice30p.zip, very cute! We need your support more than ever. . .donation information follows! 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.* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://promo.net/pg (aka http://www.gutenberg.net) allows searching by title, author, language and subject. Choose a mirror of the Project Gutenberg collection near you. *** If you are waiting on copyright research from me, and you haven't heard from Michael Hart, please contact: Greg Newby > . . .as Michael plans to be away until after Thanksgiving. *** Please welcome our newest mirror site: epix Internet Services http://ftp.epix.net/gutenberg & ftp://ftp.epix.net/pub/gutenberg
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Jan Jan Jan Jan
2003 2003 2003 2003
Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.
Jan 2003 The Jan 2003 The Jan 2003 The Jan 2003 The [This author
Crewe's Crewe's Crewe's Crewe's
Career, Career, Career, Career,
Dwelling Place Dwelling Place Dwelling Place Dwelling Place is a cousin of
All, by Winston Churchill [#9][wc09vxxx.xxx]3684 V. 3, by Winston Churchill[#8][wc08vxxx.xxx]3683 V. 2, by Winston Churchill[#7][wc07vxxx.xxx]3682 V. 1, by Winston Churchill[#6][wc06vxxx.xxx]3681
of Light /All/Winston of Light, V3, Winston of Light, V2, Winston of Light, V1, Winston Sir Winston Churchill
Churchill[wc05vxxx.xxx]3649 Churchill[wc04vxxx.xxx]3648 Churchill[wc03vxxx.xxx]3647 Churchill[wc02vxxx.xxx]3646 the English Prime Minister]
The following text has been reindexed to be included in the math series (the header on the file itself was also updated): Apr 1993 The Number "e" [Natural Log to 100,000 places]
[Math #20][ee6xxxxx.xxx]
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--=={ AND HERE ARE YOUR 14 NEW PROJECT GUTENBERG E-TEXTS FOR THE WEEK }==-Jun Jun Jun Jun Jun
2003 2003 2003 2003 2003
Diary Diary Diary Diary Diary
of of of of of
Samuel Samuel Samuel Samuel Samuel
Pepys, Pepys, Pepys, Pepys, Pepys,
1663 N.S. Complete Nov/Dec 1663 Sep/Oct 1663 Jul/Aug 1663 May/Jun 1663
Jun 2003 Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1662/63 Jun 2003 Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb 1662/63 May 2003 Songs before Sunrise, by Swinburne May 2003 Monsieur Lecoq, by Emile Gaboriau
[SP#30][sp30gxxx.xxx]4145 [SP#29][sp29gxxx.xxx]4144 [SP#28][sp28gxxx.xxx]4143 [SP#27][sp27gxxx.xxx]4142 [SP#26][sp26gxxx.xxx]4141 [SP#25][sp25gxxx.xxx]4140 [SP#24][sp24gxxx.xxx]4139
[Swinburne#5][sbsunxxx.xxx]4072 [Gaboriau#12][mslcqxxx.xxx]4071
May 2003 The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen [Ibsen#8] [mbldrxxx.xxx]4070 May 2003 The Dawn of Canadian History, by Leacock[#5][Ca#1][cca01xxx.xxx]4069 [This is Volume One in the 32-volume Chronicles of Canada, Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton] May 2003 Froudacity, by J. J. Thomas [xfrdcxxx.xxx]4068 [8frdc10.* is with accents, 7frdc10.* is plain ASCII] May 2003 Frederick the Great and His Court, L. Muhlbach [frdrcxxx.xxx]4067 May 2003 Wild Apples, Henry David Thoreau [HDT #5][wldppxxx.xxx]4066 *** Total PG ebooks available online **AS OF 11/07/01**: 4,073 (This number includes the 13 etexts posted at the PG Australia web site.) Thru 11/07/01:
44 Weeks & 2 Days (310 days) 1,023 total new etexts, yr-to-date. Weekly avg.: 23.25 Daily avg: 3.30
The above translates to the following; Our Total For The Year Is About 1,023 For 310 days, this is 3.30 per day or 99.00 Per 30 day month. . . . This Would Yield About 1,200 For The Year. . . . We are about 44 weeks through the year. . . .
counting each Wednesday as ending one week. *** With 4,073 eTexts online as of November 7, it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $2.46 from each book, for Project Gutenberg to have given away $1,000,000,000,000 [One Trillion Dollars] in books. *100,000,000 readers is one to two percent of the world's population!* This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down [This was the month This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down
from $2.53 when from $2.61 when from $2.70 when from $2.76 when from $2.83 when from $2.90 when from $2.97 when we released two from $3.00 when from $3.10 when from $3.17 when from $3.23 when from $3.33 when from $3.40 when from $3.48 when
Weekly Yearly Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk 11/07/01 14 23.25 10/31/01 23 23.47 10/24/01 31 23.09 10/17/01 31 22.90 10/10/01 22 22.70 10/03/01 29 22.74 October total 136 09/26/01 27 22.59 09/19/01 31 22.47 09/12/01 31 22.3 09/05/01 27 22.2 September total 116 08/29/01 25 22 08/22/01 21 22 08/15/01 30 22 08/08/01 20 22 08/01/01 22 22 August total 117 07/25/01 24 22 07/18/01 22 22 07/11/01 21 23 07/04/01 29 23 July Total 96
we had 3951 Etexts on October 3. we had 3828 Etexts on September 5. we had 3709 Etexts on August 1. we had 3620 Etexts on July 4. we had 3534 Etexts on June 6. we had 3444 Etexts on May 2. we had 3367 Etexts on April 4. full Newsletters at one time] we had 3333 Etexts on April 4 we had 3225 Etexts on March 7 we had 3150 Etexts on February 6 we had 3100 Etexts on January 3, 2001 we had 3000 Etexts on December 6, 2000 we had 2870 Etexts on October 18/Nov 1 we had 2870 Etexts on September 3
06/27/01 22 23 06/20/01 18 23 06/13/01 17 23 06/06/01 20 23 June Total 77 05/31/01 18 24 05/23/01 16 24 05/16/01 18 24 05/09/01 18 25 05/02/01 39 25 May Total 109 04/25/01 15 24 04/18/01 11 25 04/11/01 12 26 Weekly Started Here April total 137 1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg 13 Weeks 326 25.08 And for the 13 Weeks Ending on 07/25/01 We totaled 282 21.69 And for the 16 Weeks Ending on 07/25/01 We totaled 326 20.38 *** ANOTHER BATCH OF NEWSSCAN ARTICLES: SOME STATES BALK AT MICROSOFT DEAL Led by California, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, at least half a dozen of the 18 states involved in the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit plan to tell U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that they cannot support the settlement agreement brokered with the U.S. Justice Department last week. As written, "the agreement is full of loopholes and does little more than license Microsoft to crush its competition," said Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly. "This was thrust on the states at the last minute, under enormous pressure, without enough time to review the details." If even a few states reject the settlement, they could force the case back into court to determine a remedy. Unless Microsoft agrees to further concessions, California, Wisconsin, Iowa, Connecticut, Kansas, Maryland, Florida, Massachusetts, West Virginia and the District of Columbia are favoring opposition, according to states' lawyers. Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina, New York and Utah are seen as likely to join the settlement, with the remaining states' positions unknown. (Wall Street Journal 6 Nov 2001) http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1005005307683086720.htm (sub req'd) NAPSTER ALTERNATIVE USE UP 20% The use of Napster-like peer-to-peer music file-sharing sites like Kazaa, MusicCity and Grokster rose 20% during the month of October, signaling U.S. Internet users' insatiable demand for digital music and video downloads. All three sites use software licensed from FastTrack, an Amsterdam-based technology company, and share the same network. "The growth of the FastTrack network continues to be astounding," says a Webnoize analyst.
"During the last four months the number of users typically logged on has risen by 480%, and in November will likely surpass the 1.57 million simultaneous users that Napster... enjoyed at its peak... As higher awareness translates into higher usage, the FastTrack network may ultimately become many times larger than Napster ever was." Meanwhile, a recent Jupiter Media Metrix survey shows that song-swapping has declined in Europe over the same period. According to the report, music downloads are down by 50% in Europe since February, the point at which Napster usage hit its zenith. (Reuters 5 Nov 2001) http://news.excite.com/news/r/011105/14/net-tech-webnoize-dc HONORARY SUBSCRIBER: FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Today's Honorary Subscriber is the German dramatist and poet Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), whose plays, along with those of Goethe, established a theatrical renaissance in Germany known as "Weimar Classicism." Schiller's father was in the employ of Duke Karl Eugen of Wirttemberg, and at age 13 Schiller entered the Duke's military academy, where the Duke insisted he study law. He later switched to medicine, and when he was 21 he was appointed to the Duke's Stuttgart regiment as a military surgeon. Repelled by the tyranny of the Duke and his schooling, Schiller was attracted by the revolutionary spirit of the time, he expressed his troubled feelings in a play, "The Robbers," which had a successful run in Mannheim, but so angered the Duke that he was placed under military arrest and ordered to cease writing plays. Schiller fled the Duchy, relocating in Mannheim where he began work in earnest as a dramatist. Later he moved to Leipzig and then Weimar, eventually settling in Jena. During this period he continued to write successful plays and expanded his literary output to include poetry and historical writing. His poem, "Ode to Joy" was later used by Beethoven in the composer's "Ninth Symphony," and his "History of the Revolt of the United Netherlands " led to his appointment as Professor of History at the University of Jena. Other writings for which Schiller is noted are the treatises he wrote on aesthetics, foremost among them being "On the Aesthetic Education of Man." In 1790, he met and married Charlotte Von Lengefeld, with whom he had two sons and two daughters. In 1794 a chance meeting with Goethe led to a lifelong friendship and literary collaboration. Under Goethe's influence, Schiller resumed his playwriting, which he had neglected for some years in favor of his other writings. He now undertook to compose his most mature dramas including "Mary Stuart" (1800), "The Maid of Orleans" (1801), and "William Tell" (1804.) In 1799 Schiller re-settled in Weimar, partly to be near Goethe who was director of the regional theater located there. Together they made the Weimar Theatre one of the most prestigious theatrical houses in Europe. Schiller was only forty-six years old when he died of the tuberculosis that had plagued him for many years. MAILBAG: THE WORLD AS WE FIND IT FREE SPEECH 1, TRADE SECRETS 0 http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=4863 In response to the statement from the DVD industry rep that "Beyond our case, if this decision becomes the law of the United States, all trade secrets are unconstitutional," I can only respond "Well, duh!" The court argued that the legal threshold for prior restraint of free speech is very high, and businesses are crazy if they think their economic interests trump the Constitution. I am very pleased to see some common sense come from the
courts on this issue, and hope the trend continues. (Conn McQuinn) NUMERATION http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=468 In Arabic script, numerals don't obviously resemble ours. For example, "5" resembles an inverted card-deck heart. But they are indeed the source of our numerals today. Western scribes wrote the original Arabic numerals in vertical columns, as on a scroll. When western script evolved from vertical alignment to horizontal alignment, scribes correspondingly rotated the Arabic numbers 90 degrees. For example, in written Arabic the numeral for "7" resembles a Latin "V". Rotate "V" 90 degrees counterclockwise, so that the cusp is at the right. The resemblance to "7" becomes obvious. The other Arabic numerals evolved similarly. In several cases, the orientation became reversed, such as for 3. A source about the evolution of the original Arabic numerals to western script is www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Arabic_numerals.html. (Michael C. Potter) COOKIE CUTTING http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=4833 The AOL client on the users desktop communicates with the AOL servers using a proprietary protocol and is therefore capable of recording, silently and invisibly to the user, whatever the user is doing. This however has nothing to do with cookies or what can be done with cookies. An apt analogy for an unwary surfer might be the stickers that some travelers accumulate on their luggage but with the following differences: Cookies can last forever; cookies can be a multitude potentially recording every click, and thus every action by the surfer over an indefinite time and (cyber) space; cookies and particularly their import are not easily visible to the person carrying them; cookies and their import is easily visible to those who plant them and who can relate them to other information. Those who are concerned with their privacy are concerned with the capabilities of those that would collect data, not their expressed intent. (John A. Martin) SUBSCRIPTION INFO FOR NEWSSCAN DAILY: To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to the addresses shown below: Text version: Send message to [email protected] Html version: Send mail to [email protected] NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html *** About the Project Gutenberg Monthly 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.] and now About the Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter: [Goes out approximately at noon each Wednesday, but various 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.]
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64 62
Jan Jan Jan Jan
2003 2003 2003 2003
Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.
Jan 2003 The Jan 2003 The Jan 2003 The Jan 2003 The [This author
Crewe's Crewe's Crewe's Crewe's
Career, Career, Career, Career,
Dwelling Place Dwelling Place Dwelling Place Dwelling Place is a cousin of
All, by Winston Churchill [#9][wc09vxxx.xxx]3684 V. 3, by Winston Churchill[#8][wc08vxxx.xxx]3683 V. 2, by Winston Churchill[#7][wc07vxxx.xxx]3682 V. 1, by Winston Churchill[#6][wc06vxxx.xxx]3681
of Light /All/Winston of Light, V3, Winston of Light, V2, Winston of Light, V1, Winston Sir Winston Churchill
Churchill[wc05vxxx.xxx]3649 Churchill[wc04vxxx.xxx]3648 Churchill[wc03vxxx.xxx]3647 Churchill[wc02vxxx.xxx]3646 the English Prime Minister]
The following text has been reindexed to be included in the math series (the header on the file itself was also updated): Apr 1993 The Number "e" [Natural Log to 100,000 places]
[Math #20][ee6xxxxx.xxx]
63
--=={ AND HERE ARE YOUR 14 NEW PROJECT GUTENBERG E-TEXTS FOR THE WEEK }==-Jun Jun Jun Jun Jun
2003 2003 2003 2003 2003
Diary Diary Diary Diary Diary
of of of of of
Samuel Samuel Samuel Samuel Samuel
Pepys, Pepys, Pepys, Pepys, Pepys,
1663 N.S. Complete Nov/Dec 1663 Sep/Oct 1663 Jul/Aug 1663 May/Jun 1663
Jun 2003 Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1662/63 Jun 2003 Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb 1662/63 May 2003 Songs before Sunrise, by Swinburne May 2003 Monsieur Lecoq, by Emile Gaboriau
[SP#30][sp30gxxx.xxx]4145 [SP#29][sp29gxxx.xxx]4144 [SP#28][sp28gxxx.xxx]4143 [SP#27][sp27gxxx.xxx]4142 [SP#26][sp26gxxx.xxx]4141 [SP#25][sp25gxxx.xxx]4140 [SP#24][sp24gxxx.xxx]4139
[Swinburne#5][sbsunxxx.xxx]4072 [Gaboriau#12][mslcqxxx.xxx]4071
May 2003 The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen [Ibsen#8] [mbldrxxx.xxx]4070 May 2003 The Dawn of Canadian History, by Leacock[#5][Ca#1][cca01xxx.xxx]4069 [This is Volume One in the 32-volume Chronicles of Canada, Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton] May 2003 Froudacity, by J. J. Thomas [xfrdcxxx.xxx]4068 [8frdc10.* is with accents, 7frdc10.* is plain ASCII] May 2003 Frederick the Great and His Court, L. Muhlbach [frdrcxxx.xxx]4067 May 2003 Wild Apples, Henry David Thoreau [HDT #5][wldppxxx.xxx]4066 *** Total PG ebooks available online **AS OF 11/07/01**: 4,073 (This number includes the 13 etexts posted at the PG Australia web site.) Thru 11/07/01:
44 Weeks & 2 Days (310 days) 1,023 total new etexts, yr-to-date. Weekly avg.: 23.25 Daily avg: 3.30
The above translates to the following; Our Total For The Year Is About 1,023 For 310 days, this is 3.30 per day or 99.00 Per 30 day month. . . . This Would Yield About 1,200 For The Year. . . . We are about 44 weeks through the year. . . .
counting each Wednesday as ending one week. *** With 4,073 eTexts online as of November 7, it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $2.46 from each book, for Project Gutenberg to have given away $1,000,000,000,000 [One Trillion Dollars] in books. *100,000,000 readers is one to two percent of the world's population!* This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down [This was the month This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down This "cost" is down
from $2.53 when from $2.61 when from $2.70 when from $2.76 when from $2.83 when from $2.90 when from $2.97 when we released two from $3.00 when from $3.10 when from $3.17 when from $3.23 when from $3.33 when from $3.40 when from $3.48 when
Weekly Yearly Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk 11/07/01 14 23.25 10/31/01 23 23.47 10/24/01 31 23.09 10/17/01 31 22.90 10/10/01 22 22.70 10/03/01 29 22.74 October total 136 09/26/01 27 22.59 09/19/01 31 22.47 09/12/01 31 22.3 09/05/01 27 22.2 September total 116 08/29/01 25 22 08/22/01 21 22 08/15/01 30 22 08/08/01 20 22 08/01/01 22 22 August total 117 07/25/01 24 22 07/18/01 22 22 07/11/01 21 23 07/04/01 29 23 July Total 96
we had 3951 Etexts on October 3. we had 3828 Etexts on September 5. we had 3709 Etexts on August 1. we had 3620 Etexts on July 4. we had 3534 Etexts on June 6. we had 3444 Etexts on May 2. we had 3367 Etexts on April 4. full Newsletters at one time] we had 3333 Etexts on April 4 we had 3225 Etexts on March 7 we had 3150 Etexts on February 6 we had 3100 Etexts on January 3, 2001 we had 3000 Etexts on December 6, 2000 we had 2870 Etexts on October 18/Nov 1 we had 2870 Etexts on September 3
06/27/01 22 23 06/20/01 18 23 06/13/01 17 23 06/06/01 20 23 June Total 77 05/31/01 18 24 05/23/01 16 24 05/16/01 18 24 05/09/01 18 25 05/02/01 39 25 May Total 109 04/25/01 15 24 04/18/01 11 25 04/11/01 12 26 Weekly Started Here April total 137 1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg 13 Weeks 326 25.08 And for the 13 Weeks Ending on 07/25/01 We totaled 282 21.69 And for the 16 Weeks Ending on 07/25/01 We totaled 326 20.38 *** ANOTHER BATCH OF NEWSSCAN ARTICLES: SOME STATES BALK AT MICROSOFT DEAL Led by California, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, at least half a dozen of the 18 states involved in the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit plan to tell U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that they cannot support the settlement agreement brokered with the U.S. Justice Department last week. As written, "the agreement is full of loopholes and does little more than license Microsoft to crush its competition," said Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly. "This was thrust on the states at the last minute, under enormous pressure, without enough time to review the details." If even a few states reject the settlement, they could force the case back into court to determine a remedy. Unless Microsoft agrees to further concessions, California, Wisconsin, Iowa, Connecticut, Kansas, Maryland, Florida, Massachusetts, West Virginia and the District of Columbia are favoring opposition, according to states' lawyers. Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina, New York and Utah are seen as likely to join the settlement, with the remaining states' positions unknown. (Wall Street Journal 6 Nov 2001) http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1005005307683086720.htm (sub req'd) NAPSTER ALTERNATIVE USE UP 20% The use of Napster-like peer-to-peer music file-sharing sites like Kazaa, MusicCity and Grokster rose 20% during the month of October, signaling U.S. Internet users' insatiable demand for digital music and video downloads. All three sites use software licensed from FastTrack, an Amsterdam-based technology company, and share the same network. "The growth of the FastTrack network continues to be astounding," says a Webnoize analyst.
"During the last four months the number of users typically logged on has risen by 480%, and in November will likely surpass the 1.57 million simultaneous users that Napster... enjoyed at its peak... As higher awareness translates into higher usage, the FastTrack network may ultimately become many times larger than Napster ever was." Meanwhile, a recent Jupiter Media Metrix survey shows that song-swapping has declined in Europe over the same period. According to the report, music downloads are down by 50% in Europe since February, the point at which Napster usage hit its zenith. (Reuters 5 Nov 2001) http://news.excite.com/news/r/011105/14/net-tech-webnoize-dc HONORARY SUBSCRIBER: FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Today's Honorary Subscriber is the German dramatist and poet Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), whose plays, along with those of Goethe, established a theatrical renaissance in Germany known as "Weimar Classicism." Schiller's father was in the employ of Duke Karl Eugen of Wirttemberg, and at age 13 Schiller entered the Duke's military academy, where the Duke insisted he study law. He later switched to medicine, and when he was 21 he was appointed to the Duke's Stuttgart regiment as a military surgeon. Repelled by the tyranny of the Duke and his schooling, Schiller was attracted by the revolutionary spirit of the time, he expressed his troubled feelings in a play, "The Robbers," which had a successful run in Mannheim, but so angered the Duke that he was placed under military arrest and ordered to cease writing plays. Schiller fled the Duchy, relocating in Mannheim where he began work in earnest as a dramatist. Later he moved to Leipzig and then Weimar, eventually settling in Jena. During this period he continued to write successful plays and expanded his literary output to include poetry and historical writing. His poem, "Ode to Joy" was later used by Beethoven in the composer's "Ninth Symphony," and his "History of the Revolt of the United Netherlands " led to his appointment as Professor of History at the University of Jena. Other writings for which Schiller is noted are the treatises he wrote on aesthetics, foremost among them being "On the Aesthetic Education of Man." In 1790, he met and married Charlotte Von Lengefeld, with whom he had two sons and two daughters. In 1794 a chance meeting with Goethe led to a lifelong friendship and literary collaboration. Under Goethe's influence, Schiller resumed his playwriting, which he had neglected for some years in favor of his other writings. He now undertook to compose his most mature dramas including "Mary Stuart" (1800), "The Maid of Orleans" (1801), and "William Tell" (1804.) In 1799 Schiller re-settled in Weimar, partly to be near Goethe who was director of the regional theater located there. Together they made the Weimar Theatre one of the most prestigious theatrical houses in Europe. Schiller was only forty-six years old when he died of the tuberculosis that had plagued him for many years. MAILBAG: THE WORLD AS WE FIND IT FREE SPEECH 1, TRADE SECRETS 0 http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=4863 In response to the statement from the DVD industry rep that "Beyond our case, if this decision becomes the law of the United States, all trade secrets are unconstitutional," I can only respond "Well, duh!" The court argued that the legal threshold for prior restraint of free speech is very high, and businesses are crazy if they think their economic interests trump the Constitution. I am very pleased to see some common sense come from the
courts on this issue, and hope the trend continues. (Conn McQuinn) NUMERATION http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=468 In Arabic script, numerals don't obviously resemble ours. For example, "5" resembles an inverted card-deck heart. But they are indeed the source of our numerals today. Western scribes wrote the original Arabic numerals in vertical columns, as on a scroll. When western script evolved from vertical alignment to horizontal alignment, scribes correspondingly rotated the Arabic numbers 90 degrees. For example, in written Arabic the numeral for "7" resembles a Latin "V". Rotate "V" 90 degrees counterclockwise, so that the cusp is at the right. The resemblance to "7" becomes obvious. The other Arabic numerals evolved similarly. In several cases, the orientation became reversed, such as for 3. A source about the evolution of the original Arabic numerals to western script is www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Arabic_numerals.html. (Michael C. Potter) COOKIE CUTTING http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=4833 The AOL client on the users desktop communicates with the AOL servers using a proprietary protocol and is therefore capable of recording, silently and invisibly to the user, whatever the user is doing. This however has nothing to do with cookies or what can be done with cookies. An apt analogy for an unwary surfer might be the stickers that some travelers accumulate on their luggage but with the following differences: Cookies can last forever; cookies can be a multitude potentially recording every click, and thus every action by the surfer over an indefinite time and (cyber) space; cookies and particularly their import are not easily visible to the person carrying them; cookies and their import is easily visible to those who plant them and who can relate them to other information. Those who are concerned with their privacy are concerned with the capabilities of those that would collect data, not their expressed intent. (John A. Martin) SUBSCRIPTION INFO FOR NEWSSCAN DAILY: To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to the addresses shown below: Text version: Send message to [email protected] Html version: Send mail to [email protected] NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html *** About the Project Gutenberg Monthly 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.] and now About the Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter: [Goes out approximately at noon each Wednesday, but various 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.]
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