======== Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org> To: "Project Gutenberg mailing list" <gutnberg@listserv.unc.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:41:04 -0500 (CDT) *This is Project Gutenberg's Newsletter for Wednesday, April 25, 2001* 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 is still a test of doing the Newsletters on a weekly basis. . . . This will only be a test for the next few weeks, expect a full Newsletter the first Wednesday of May, and perhaps even June and July. . .but if we continue to grow, we will have to eventually go to a shorter format. . . So far all responses have been to go to a weekly format, so I will work on getting into that format, with one extra for monthly progress report. Here is a list of the Etexts posted since last Wednesday. REreleased as version 11 with significant improvements. Apr 1995 My Antonia, by Willa Cather [Cather #4] [myantxxx.xxx] 242 And these are the 15 new Etexts we have posted in the last week. Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V8, by Bourrienne [NB#08][nb08vxxx.xxx]3558 Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V7, by Bourrienne [NB#07][nb07vxxx.xxx]3557 Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V6, by Bourrienne [NB#06][nb06vxxx.xxx]3556 Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V5, by Bourrienne [NB#05][nb05vxxx.xxx]3555 Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V4, by Bourrienne [NB#04][nb04vxxx.xxx]3554 Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V3, by Bourrienne [NB#03][nb03vxxx.xxx]3553 Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V2, by Bourrienne [NB#02][nb02vxxx.xxx]3552 Dec 2002 Memoirs of Napoleon, V1, by Bourrienne [NB#01][nb01vxxx.xxx]3551 [Author's Full Name: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne] Much of November is reserved for a new edition of the Human Genome Project Oct 2002 Tour Du Mond 80 Jours[in French] by Jules Verne#15[tdm80xxx.xxx]3456 [This document is supplied in the ISO 8859/1 Latin-1 character set in French] Also see: Jan 1997 Tour Du Mond 80 Jours [in French] by Jules Verne#5[x80jrxxx.xxx] 800 and, in English: Apr 2000 Around the World in 80 Days Jr. Ed. by Jules Verne[80dayxxa.xxx]2154 Jan 1994 Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne[Verne2][80day10x.xxx] 103 Oct 2002 Nederlandsche Sagen en Legenden, by Josef Cohen [nsljcxxx.xxx]3455 Oct 2002 Netherlands Stories and Legends, by Josef Cohen [nsljcxxx.xxx]3455 Oct 2002 Dutch Myths and Legends, by Josef Cohen [nsljcxxx.xxx]3455 [Please note, this is in "Old Dutch". . .there were many changes around 1950] Oct 2002 The Lilac Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang [Lang #33][lifryxxx.xxx]3454 RESERVED or already listed in previous Newsletter Sep 2002 The Suitors of Yvonne, by Rafael Sabatini [#14][styvnxxx.xxx]3430 Sep 2002 Saint George for England, by G. A. Henty [stgfexxx.xxx]3429 Sep 2002 The Two Vanrevels, by Booth Tarkington[Booth T#11][vnrvlxxx.xxx]3428 Sep 2002 Kilo, by Ellis Parker Butler [kilo1xxx.xxx]3427 *** A federal appeals court has ruled that accessing restricted Web sites or e-mail is a violation of the Wiretap Act. Under that interpretation, law enforcement officials would have to apply for a wiretap order instead of a search warrant. Police and prosecutors say getting a wiretap order is out of the question in many cases because of the restrictions placed on obtaining one. However, privacy advocates say that the ruling is overdue, because e-mails and information on restricted Web sites are no different from other stored information such as messages in voice mailboxes, which are already protected under wiretap law. (Los Angeles Times, 23 April 2001) KNOWLEDGE KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES Brazil, Columbia, and Venezuela are collaborating on an Internet-based education program to provide math and science software to their secondary schools. The programs will be developed in modules of curriculum by teams from each country, posted on the Web, and critiqued by the other teams. The International Virtual Education Network program is funded in part by the Inter-American Development Bank and will be designed to take advantage of the benefits of technology and the Internet. Brazilian physics professor Cesar Nunes, an advisor for the program, says the simulation focus of the curriculum will help motivate students to learn. Because the Internet infrastructure of these countries is somewhat underdeveloped, versions of browser software and proxy servers will be installed in schools without good Internet connections so that classrooms can run the programs from CD-ROMs. Altogether, the trans-national curriculum will cost the countries $5 million and has already caught the interest of Argentina, Peru, and African nations. (Wired News, 19 April 2001) 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
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