The B&R Samizdat Express
The once and future Internet: Here you'll see the Internet the way
it was and should be: useful information for free, with no annoying graphics
or glitz. This site is designed to provide maximum content for minimum
clicks. For more information about our site, see the bottom
of this page. Enjoy, and please spread the word.
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A new and delightful translation of THE
GOOD SOLDIER ŠVEJK by Jaroslav Hašek the anti-war satire classic
from WWI in a new and delightful translation by Zdenek "Zenny" K. Sadlon
and Mike Joyce. This copyrighted work is included by special arrangement
with the translators in a context of 43 classic works of satire plus 325
vintage issues of Punch, the British humor magazine. Table
of contents
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New
book-collection CD: 21 books relating to Nature,
Environment, and Ecology. This includes scientific works, but
also works of literature, by such authors as Wordsworth, Frost, Mark Twain
(Roughing It), Muir, Thoreau, Emerson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ernest Seton
Thompson. Table of Contents
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Rome Travelogue from November
2009
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Most recent book review -- The
Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
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Most recent stories -- Heavenly
Gossip, written Feb.-July, 2009; The
Choice, written April 12-13, 2009
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Most recent article -- Why
Twitter? using it to find and be found
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All fiction by Richard
Seltzer
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Book collections on CD and DVD
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Kindle News and Tips. (Load your
Kindle with great books at low cost. Over three thousand 99-cent books
for your Kindle from B&R Samizdat Express.)
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Blogging about Books -- Thoughts
about books and publishing and other matters of interest to Richard Seltzer
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RSS Feed of Blogging
About Books
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B&R
Samizdat Expess as featured in the New York Times
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B&R Samizdat Express
reviewed by best-selling author Orson Scott Card
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Article about B&R
Samizdat Express in Wikipedia
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"Despite its bland title, this is the most important book on the history
of eastern Africa to have been published for a century." That's the
beginning of a review of my book Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes (my
translation from the Russian of From Entotto to the River Baro and
With
the Armies of Menelik II by Alexander Bulatovich) that just appeared
in the August/Septemter 2008 issue of Old Africa (published in Kenya).
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Ancestor surfing--
using Wikipedia to trace ancestry back 50+ generations
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Fuzzy Thinking About Big Questions
by Richard Seltzer
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My
blog at Amazon
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Web Business Bootcamp,
full text of the book by Richard Seltzer, published by Wiley 2002
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Business on the Internet
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Education
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Ethiopia
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Fiction, Reading, and reviews
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Other interests (games, genealogy, disabilities,
cleft)
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Family and friends
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Article: "Why You Should
Buy Amazon's Kindle Book Reader", March 1, 2008
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Internet-on-a-Disk (free blog-like
newsletter) -- back issues
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Internet-on-a-Disk #71, August
2009
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Writing Tips
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Writers' Paradise: Zoetrope.com
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Book Collections on CD and DVD
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Web Notes by Richard Seltzer
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Why Twitter? using it to find and be found
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Kindle News
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Fuzzy Thinking about Big Questions
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Fuzzy #5 — Coping with a Brain that Changes Over Time
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Fuzzy #6 — Truth and Consequences
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Fuzzy #7 — The Abraham Effect: Be Careful, Be Proud — the Future of the
Human Race Depends on You
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Fuzzy #8 — Exemplary People
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Fiction
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Heavenly Gossip, a short story by Richard Seltzer
This is an experiment, trying to use the Kindle store as a way to create
a community of readers. Each week, I'll post a new book here with
the same product number. That means that you can pay 99 cents once
and come back repeatedly to download new books at no extra charge.
The title of this file will always start with "Ebook of the Week Subscription"
so you can easily search for it. That will be followed by the title
of the book currently offered, so you'll know when a new one is available.
The image that appears in the Kindle listings will stay the same (the logo
for my little company The B&R Samizdat Express).
If you send me a request by email at seltzer@samizdat.com, I'll send
you weekly email messages to let you know what's new. You can also
send me suggestions and feedback at that same address.
These are public domain books (no longer under copyright). Some
are well-known classics, and others are little-known gems, some of
which were "out of print" for many years. Often the books were suggested
by subscribers.
How long will this keep up? I've been sending out a Free Ebook
of the Week as an email attachment since March 2004. Now I'm extending
that service so you can get those same books delivered wirelessly to your
Kindle in Kindle format.
I'll upload the new book each Sunday. There's a variable lag time
-- typically one to five days -- before an uploaded book goes "live" at
the Kindle store. I'll send out email alerts when I know the new
one is live.
Meanwhile Im also be doing a "Kid's Book of the Week Subscription",
with the same sort of set up.
Books on CD and DVD
Our online store at Yahoo
PayPal alternative --
Catalogue with PayPal Shopping Cart links
Buy an Amazon Kindle book reader:
Load your Kindle with great
books at low cost. Over a thousand 99-cent books for your Kindle from B&R
Samizdat Express.
Article: "Why You Should
Buy Amazon's Kindle Book Reader"
Our seller's profile at eBay (with all customer feedback)
Our eBay store
Our
offerings at Floofie.com (a new online marketplace)
New customer orientation
(a summary of everything we do related to books)
We are making books available on CD and DVD, at very low cost, selected
and organized in an easy-to-use, well-indexed format. These CDs and DVDs
contain text, not audio or video; they are designed for PCs and recent
Macs (OS X), that have CD and/or DVD drives. Our mission is to use technology
to make books extremely inexpensive and easy to use.
Our CDs and DVDs are hand-crafted. The selection and organization are
based on our judgment, not automated programs. These are the complete,
unabridged books, in plain text format, with no compression and no encryption,
to make them easy for anyone without computer skills to read, using Word,
a Web browser or any other application that takes plain ASCII texts. You
can move a copy of a book from the CD to your hard drive to edit and add
notes. You can use the capabilities of Word or whatever other application
you use to increase the type size, to copy-and-paste, to print. And the
blind can use these books with their screen readers (which convert text
to voice).
Anyone can put hundreds of books on a single CD, and thousands on a
DVD. (Isn't technology wonderful?) But we're interested in providing not
just large quantities of books at ridiculously low prices, but also providing
a "context". The selection matters. Putting the right books together in
ways that make them easily accessible can create a unique context that
makes it possible to better understand a region of the world, an historical
period, or an author. That's our goal. That's why each of our CDs and DVDs
is "hand-crafted" -- selected and arranged by human judgement, not by an
automated computer process, with file names that are the same as the book
names, arranged first by the major categories used on our CDs, and then
in logical folders,by author or topic, and with html indices that make
it easy to find the book you want and then simply click to open it in Word
or in your Web browser. Related article: www.samizdat.com/dvd.html
Our best bargains are:
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The Complete
Book 3-DVD Set -- 20,884 books on 3 DVDs for just $149. It recently
got a rave review from Large Print Reviews at http://www.largeprintreviews.com/7000bks.html
A few excerpts: "The Complete Book DVD is a monumental collection of books
that is a must for every household, library, school, and college student.
In this collection you'll find books ranging from the works of Charles
Dickens, Mark Twain, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Rice Burroughs,
Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe, Plato, Alexandre Dumas, Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Jules Verne, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Julius Caesar. ... This collection
represents a tremendous resource for students and for the general reader
who desires a convenient and inexpensive means of acquiring, and storing
an entire library of literary classics and nonfiction works. The nonfiction
books in this collection cover a diverse range of subjects, from history
and geology texts to books on public speaking and books about fine art.
... For visually impaired readers, in particular, you will find that this
collection is remarkably easy to navigate, despite the size of the collection.
Seltzer has painstakingly organized the books into thematic categories..."
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All-American DVD
-- 4478 books: Literature and History, for just $89. It
combines the contents of 19 book-collection CDs. The main collections
are American Literature 1740 booksand US History 657 books. The other
collections consist of some of those same books organized in different
ways, to create interesting and usefulcontexts (American Revolution, Civil
War, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt,
Papers of the Presidents, California, Southwest, West, Old New York, Old
New England, Black Americans, Slave Narratives, Native Americans, and Brook
Farm).
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All-British
DVD -- 5137 books: Literature and History for just $89, combines
the contents of 7 book-collections CDs: British Literature (3 CDs), Briitsh
History and Historical Novels, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
We also provide CDs organized by time period (Ancient World, Medieval/Renaissance,
etc.), by geography (Middle East, East Asia, etc.), by author (Shakespeare,
Mark Twain, etc.), by theme (US
History, Black Americans, Native Americans, Women, etc.), and by genre
(drama, humor, philosophy, short stories, travel, etc.)
You can see details (including the tables of contents) of all the CDs
at our online store at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat
our at our catalogue (with
PayPal shopping cart links). Or call me, Richard Seltzer, at 617-469-2269
to discuss your needs.
Check our "User's Guide"
for suggestions on how to get the most out of your books on CD and DVD
Brief description of
everything we have to offer with links so you can buy directly
using PayPal's secure payment system, and avoid shipping costs.
Free Ebook of the Week: Please let me know if you want to join
our
ebook of the week club and/or our kids' book of the week
club
seltzer@samizdat.com
Each week, on Tuesday, I send out a free book as a plain-text attachment.
This service is intended to help people get used to reading books
on their computer screens. Details: http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat/freeb.html
and http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/kid.html
Woodhouse English-Greek Dictionary
At
the request of scholars in the field, I am making the rare and very useful
Woodhouse
English-Greek Dictionary available on CD. The Greek characters
mean that "plain-text" isn't an option for this book. So I did the
CD version as a series of images of the pages of the original book, with
a linked index page that lists all the English words that are defined.
This means that you can search or browse through the index page to find
the word you want and then click to see an image of the original book page
with that word with the ancient Greek equivalents. Please note that since
the heart of the work is in the form of images, unfortunately, this CD
version will not be useful for the blind. Sample
the look-and-feel of this book on CD
CD Updates as inexpensive, high-value gifts: Remember, we continually
update our CDs, adding new books as they become available. If you have
bought a CD from us, you can buy the updates of
that same CDs for just $10 each (up to four times a year). For DVDs,
the update price is $30 per DVD. An updated CD or DVD contains
all
the books, not just the new ones. Buy a new one and give the old
one to a friend. Or buy updates as Christmas gifts. You can order updates
as well as new CDs at our online store at
http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/updatesforcds.html
or you can email me at seltzer@samizdat.com or phone me at 617-469-2269.
Multitasking? Want to Listen to a Book on Your IPOD or Portable MP3 Player
While Doing Something Else?
Many people ask me if they can listen to these books on their IPOD or MP3
player. Software from TextAloud from http://www.nextup.com
makes that possible.
TextAloud, in addition to converting text to voice on your PC (like
ReadPlease), makes it easy to convert a text file to an MP3 file that you
can then load onto your IPOD or burn onto a CD, which should work in any
CD player. TextAloud 2.0 currently sells for $29. (You can also download
a free trial version that is good for a limited time). Then you are going
to want to pay extra for high quality voices. That Nextup.com page let's
you listen to the demos. I recommend the AT&T Natural Voices (Mike
and Crystal) for $25.
The files for the AT&T Natural voices are huge — more than half
a gigbyte -- so you'll need a high speed connection to download them. (As
an alternative, you can pay extra to get the files on CD). And you'll need
a minimum of 256 Megs of RAM to run those voices properly.
With TextAloud 2.0 and the Mike and Crystal AT&T Natural Voices,
in just 3 minutes I converted Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” essay (56 K) into
a 10 meg MP3 file. I also converted in just 30 minutes an entire book (Emerson’s
Essays First Series, 400 K) into a 73 meg MP3. I burned those MP3s onto
a CD, and they sounded good on an MP3 player.
Fortunately, TextAloud has a feature that makes it easy to split a large
(book-size) file into a series of chapter-size files, before conversion;
because book-size files can be very awkward to deal with in MP3 players.
(You aren’t going to want to listen to an entire book in one session).
Keep in mind that AT&T has very restrictive licensing terms
that may prevent you from doing the natural things you would want to do
with the MP3 files you make. “Audio files created by these voices cannot
be distributed to others under the standard consumer licenses.” In other
words, you can’t share or post audio files you make from public domain
books. If the MP3 files you make are for your own use, fine. But if you
want to share them with your class, or your school, or your company, or
your school district, or post them on the Web, you'll have to buy an institutional
license, for more money.
What do we mean by "plain text books"? Many people ask that question
--
Plain text (also known as ASCII) is the simplest form of text prepared
for use on a computer -- without any of the formatting that is usually
specific to a specific program.
Using a plain text book is the same as reading any plain text file on
your computer. You can open a plain text document with your Web browser
or with a word processor like Word. Then you can use the power of that
specific application to modify how the text appears to suit your individual
preferences.
For example, go to http://www.samizdat.com/iraq.txt
with your browser. If you are using Microsoft's Internet Explorer as a
browser, then click on View and on Text Size and see how that book looks
with different type sizes. If you had that book on one of our CDs (it appears
on our "Middle East: Context for Conflict"), you could open it with Word
and then change font or
type size as you would with any other document, if you wish (I keep
the default myself). You also could copy the book to your hard drive and
save any formatting changes that you make or enter and save notes, or enter
and save markers to remind you where you last left off reading, etc. There
are many possibilities.
To practice what you can do with plain text on your hard drive, save
that file http://www.samizdat.com/iraq.txt
as text and then
experiment with the file on your hard drive. (That file is the Library
of Congress Country Study of Iraq, from my CD "The
Middle East: Context for Conflict". There's also a CD on Africa.)
Overview
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For details about all our CDs, see http://www.samizdat.com/readme.html
or
visit our store at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat
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Reviews of our CDs
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Teachers' and Students' Guide:
Suggestions on how to get the most out of your books on CD
Articles about the implications of this new way of publishing and reading
and creating
Business on the Internet
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Recent articles
Internet-on-a-Disk
#69, April 2009
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Off the Wall Ideas
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Heavenly Gossip (perhaps the beginning of a novel
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The Abraham Effect: Be Careful, Be Proud -- the Future of the Human RAce
Depends on You
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Simple Stop-Gap Measure to Slow the Decline in Home Values
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Use Tax-Rate Penalties and Incentives to Make Financial Markets Less Volatile
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Fuzzy Thoughts about Big Questions
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Fuzzy #4 -- The Master-Plot Generation Seeks Meaning
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Book Notes
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The Mystery of the Mystery of Edwin Drood -- a Review of The Last Dickens
by Matthew Pearl
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Read It and Week (and Laugh and Enjoy and...) -- a Review of Tiny Little
Troubles by Marc LeCard
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The Russia Hand by Strobe Talbot
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Web Notes
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The Risks of the Internet Depending Too Much on Google
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Ancestor Surfing
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Ebay Raises Fees While Claiming to Lower Them -- Can Anyone Challenge This
Monopoly?
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For Reading Books on Your PC, Try Free Software -- the MobiPocket Reader
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Online Education
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Hyperllinked Text and Instructional Design
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Internet-on-a-Disk #68,
December 2007
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Off the Wall Ideas
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A simple way for humans to cope with reduced weight on the moon
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Another product recall
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Time stumbles forward
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Junk DNA mystery finally solved
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Why not let agencies handle bank business?
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Cigarettes -- why not put the filter on the other end?
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Movie idea
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Fuzzy Thoughts About Big Questions
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The Challenge
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Fuzzy #1 -- Is Reality Discontinuous?
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Fuzzy #2 -- Getting Personal
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Fuzzy #3 -- Scared to Life: the Plus Side of Night Terrors
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Sports Notes
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Boston Celtics conspiracy theories
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Football rule suggestion -- the four-point field goal
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Reinventing football (reflections on the New England Patriots)
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Customer Service Notes (venting frustration)
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Once again, the US Post Office drives away business
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RCN shoots itself in the foot
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Travel Notes
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London tourist notes
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London theater is dead
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Book Notes
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A pause that refreshes, review of "Ten Days in the Hills" by Jane Smiley
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The political impact of a work of fiction -- review of "A Thousand Splendid
Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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Free ebook of the week: Eureka by Edgar Allan Poe, in which he anticipated
black holes and the Big Bang Theory
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If I only had a brain -- trying to understand "Warped Passages"
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Recommended reading
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Book Collections on CD and DVD
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NY Times article about our book collections on CD and DVD
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Do you want your computer display to look like a printed book???
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Reading books with Linux, and dragging books to your desktop
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New store design makes it easier to find what you want
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Web Notes
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The agony of being "spoofed" and problems created by spam firewalls
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Carbonite online backup service is a lifesaver for small online businesses
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Try buying and selling at Floofie
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Trying to benefit from Amazon Associates "widgets"
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Someone hacked into my Web files and inserted spam in the header of all
the index pages
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Online Education
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Online high schools -- is that the right way to go?
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Coping with the "digital divide" in the classroom
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About Writing Fiction
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I've been publishing this online newsletter since Feb. 1994, frequently
posting my insights and opinions to share for free with all, rather like
a blog, only as plain and simple Web pages. For all back issues, go to
http://www.samizdat.com/ioad.html
You
can now receive Internet-on-a-Disk by email, by signing up at Yahoo
Groups. Either send email to subscribe-ioad@yahoogroups.com
, or register at the Web site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ioad/.
You can also use that group to discuss related matters and share insights
with other readers and with me (Richard Seltzer seltzer@samizdat.com).
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Business on the Web Chat Sessions
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Internet nostalgia (remember the days when the Web was new and very
few companies used it for business?)
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Glimpse of the Future Video. broadband
(256K), dialup
(56K). Open this file to see and hear the original three-minute video
with RealPlayer. This video was created by Richard Seltzer and Berthold
Langer in February 1994, when they worked at DEC, before the launch of
Netscape and half a year before formation of DEC's Internet Business Group.
NCSA (creators of Mosaic, the first Web browsers) and dozens of other organizations,
including Digital's competitors. distributed thousands of copies of this
video, using it to help spread the word about the business potential of
the Web, which, at that time, many business people found difficult to imagine.
Thanks to David Wecker and Gene Kusekoski for converting this video to
a variety of formats.
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The Internet -- a New Dimension
(remarks
when accepting the first ever Internet Marketing Award at Internet World,
June 1994, plus script of the award-winning video "A Glimpse of the Future").
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A Brief History of DEC's Internet
Business Group
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The DEC case study -- Digital
Equipment Corporation: The Internet Company by Sirkka Jarvenpaa, and Blake
Ives
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"My Internet: a personal view of Internet business opportunities,"
(2002)an
etext CD ROM, includes the Glimpse video, plus the full text of four books
by Richard Seltzer (Take Charge of Your Web Site, Shop Online
the Lazy Way, The Social Web, and The Way of the Web),
related articles, speeches (with audio narration) and all issues of the
newsletter Internet-on-a-Disk. Buy it at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat
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A new book, available through Amazon
-- Route 128 & the Birth of the Age Of High Tech by Alan Earls -- includes
a chapter on Digital with many photos from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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Key articles about Business on the Internet
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The Internet Books, Articles and Speeches
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The complete text of books, articles, and speeches about the Internet by
Richard Seltzer, plus related resources (in addition to the "key articles"
listed above).
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Who we
are and kudos
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Can we help you build an
Internet business?
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Articles on:
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Internet-on-a-Disk(newsletter
of electronic texts and Internet trends; every issue, starting Feb. 1994)
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Business
on the Web (edited transcripts of weekly chat sessions hosted by Richard
Seltzer -- "where word of keystroke begins," starting June 1996)
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Internet speeches (slides
and scripts of speeches delivered by Richard Seltzer)
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Internet books by Richard Seltzer
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"My Internet: a personal view of Internet business opportunities," (2002)
an etext CD ROM with the full text of four books (Take Charge of Your
Web Site, Shop Online the Lazy Way, The Social Web, and
The
Way of the Web), plus articles, and all issues of the newsletter Internet-on-a-Disk.
Buy it at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat
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Web
Business Boot Camp: Hands-on Internet lessons for manager, entrepreneurs,
and professionalsby Richard Seltzer (Wiley, 2002). No-nonsense
guide targets activities that anyone can perform to achieve online business
success. Reviews.
Article:
Cyberwinds --
which way are the winds of change blowing? provides updates regarding
sites/services mentioned in this book.
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Take Charge of Your Web
Site: three simple lessons for business people complete text of the
book written by Richard Seltzer (MightyWords, 2001)
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Shop Online the Lazy Way,
complete text of the book written by Richard Seltzer (Macmillan, 1999).
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The AltaVista Search Revolution (Osborne/McGraw-Hill) second edition.
Buy it at Amazon
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The Social Web: a
book about how to build successful personal or business Web sites (text
of the entire book)
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The Way of the Web
lessons from the Internet -- how to adapt to the new business environment
(text of the entire book)
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Internet Business
Insights:audio and text of three speeches by Richard Seltzer --
The Future of Business on the Internet, The Power of Words: Content-Based
Internet Marketing, and Why Didn't the Walls Come Tumbling Down? An Outsider's
View of Distance Education", (requires RealPlayer)
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Resources for doing business
on the Internet
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Internet
experts -- experienced individuals and consultants
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DEC/Digital
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Internet-related
resources for the palm
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Cyber-Movie
Reviews
Mercy Otis Warren
Education
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Ethiopia,
A Country-Study, compiled by the Library of Congress, the complete
text of this book-length document
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The Folk-Literature of the Galla of Southern Abyssinia by Enrico
Cerulli. (Primary source for folk tales, history, legends, and culture
of the Galla/Oromo people, the majority cultural group in Ethiopia. The
texts are presented in the original Oromo, with translations and detailed
notes and explanations. I input this entire book by hand to make it available
to the public.
Fiction, Reading, Movies,
and Reviews
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Most recent story -- The
Choice, written April 12-13, 2009
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Everything but the Internet
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The complete text of novels, children's books, articles, criticism, short
stories, plays, poems and book reviews by Richard Seltzer
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Book Reviews by
Richard Seltzer
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The Russia Hand
by Strobe Talbott
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The Mystery of
the Mystery of Edwin Drood, a review of The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
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Complete list of books
read by Richard Seltzer over the last 50 years (over 3000 of them)
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Book Reviews and
Other Writings by Deane Rink:
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Readers'
room and writers' showcase
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This area has several related purposes: to share book recommendations and
reviews with avid readers, to serve as a showcase for writers who are looking
for readers, and to point people to Web sites devoted to writers and electronic
books authors.
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All
about movies
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This area is intended for sharing opinions about movies, as well as content
and links useful to screen writers and movie fans. Please send your suggestions
and contributions to Richard Seltzer
seltzer@samizdat.com
Other Interests
Family genealogy, history, photos
Family and Friends
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Richard Warren Seltzer, Sr. (Dad)
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Helen Estes Seltzer (Mom)
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Barbara Hartley Seltzer (wife)
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Bob Seltzer (son)
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Bio at Care Capital
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Profile
at Wharton Business School, where he earned an MBA, with a focus in
biotechnology, and an MS in biology.
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"Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic
Purpura: Review of Diagnosis, Mechanisms, and Treatments" by Bob Seltzer
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"Asthma in Timisoara" (Bob Seltzer's adventures
at the 1988 World Youth Chess Championship in Romania) by Richard Seltzer
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Bob Seltzer's Tournament Record -- the first 760
games, from raw beginner to master and U.S. Cadet Champion (ages 9 to 14,
unrated to 2353)
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Bob Seltzer's Chess Games on the Web: 1-60 , 61-120
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121-180
,181-240
,
241-300
,301-360
,
361-420
,
421-480,
481-520,
521-580
,581-640
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641-700
,
701-760
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761-780,
781-800,
801-820,
821-840,841-860,
861-880,
881-900,
901-920,
921-951A
complete set of Bob's chess games (950 of them) is available on diskette
from Amazon.com
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Christian Science
Monitor article from 1988 about Bob's victory in a simul against Former
World Champion Mikhail Tal
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Christian Science
Monitor article from 1987 about "Young chess whizzes"
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Bob Seltzer's victory (at age 12) over Former World
Champion Mikhail Tal in a simul
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The chess simul Bob played against Bill Walton,
Kevin McHale, and Danny Ainge of the Boston Celtics
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Bob
Seltzer's Chess Games by Bob Seltzer. Bob Seltzer was five
times national champion for his age group. This CD contains all his tournament
games from raw beginner to master and U.S. Cadet Champion (from ages 9
to 14, from unrated to 2353). By seeing how he learned from his mistakes
and rapidly improved, you can improve your own game.
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Heather Seltzer (daughter)
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Michael Seltzer (son)
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Tim Seltzer (son)
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Tim's home page
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Videogame reviews by
Tim
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Poetry by Tim
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Tim's music video --
Lord of the Rings We Follow You This is an mpeg movie file. If your
computer gives you the choice of downloading, do so. With a high speed
connection that might take about 10 minutes. Then play it. If your computer
automatically opens a movie player, like Windows Media Player, click "save
as" and save it to your hard drive or click stop and let it sit for a while.
If you have a high speed connection, if you click Play after about 5-10
minutes, it should play well over the Internet.
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Essay,
What is Godzilla by Tim Seltzer
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Best fanfics on the
Web, selected by Tim
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Strength Comes with Time by
Tim (complete)
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Reikai Arc by Sheyasan (crossover
between Harry Potter and Yuyu Hakusho)
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One
Month for Romance by Corisu Li (Inuyasha has lost a bet. Now he has
to spend one full month in Kagome's time. Will the appearance of a strange
youkai change things for the worse?...or the better?)
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Two
Months to Live by Corisu Li (This is a sequel to One Month of Romance.
It is complete in 27 chapters. It has a few plot twists that will shock
you.)
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Van and the
Mercenary by Sakura
This fanfic makes it so that characters from two eras which are hundreds
of years apart (Van being one of them) end up meeting. The main Zoid in
here, called The War Wolf, is very believable.
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The Lone
Mercenary by Sakura
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Zoids
Chapter 2 by Chibi Reli
This fanfic tells what happens to the Blitz Team after the television
show. The Zoid called Rapidfire and the pilot nicknamed Fire Cat are unique.
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Before
I was Fire Cat, Before the Blitz Team
This fanfic is a prequal of Zoids Chapter 2. We see how Ami became
FireCat and how she got Rapidfire.
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Blades of Blood by Kenny Bewley
Good combination of Anime and a horror film. Predator has its little
hunt in the middle of the Meiji era and has a run-in with Kenshin and friends.
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What's Your Problem By Inushoujo
Sakura Akina
This Fanfic is a good Kagome/Inuyasha where Kag isn't a halfdemon (as
far as I know). (Chapter 11 now available).
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Broken by Quickening
This fanfic says what would have happened if the beads on Inuyasha's
neck broke. Never seen a fic this well written and highly loved. In fanfiction.net
this gained more than 600 people commenting on that. Let's try to break
that record, shall we?
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Rurouni
Kenshin and the Lord of the Rings by John the Visionary
This is the best combination of anime and Lord of the Rings that I've
seen yet.
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Silent Requiem by Nightmaresama
This is the best Gundam fanfic you will ever read.
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Buffy the Youkai Slayer
by Sharibet
A great combination of InuYasha and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the two
demonic shows we thought couldn't mix.
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New Age, by Sh33p, Part
one of Trilogy, part 2 = Reign
of Chaos, part 3 = Tides
of Darkness
Hats off to this Zoids fic. It tops most fics I've read....including
most of the ones I posted here.
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Reign of Chaos by Sh33p,
Part 2 of Trilogy, part 1 =New
Age, part 3 = Tides
of Darkness
The great sequel of New Age. It'll knock your socks off.
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Tides of Darkness
by Sh33p, Part 3 of Trilogy, part 1 = New
Age, part 2 = Reign
of Chaos
The final part of this great trilogy. Hope you got airbags, 'cause
this is going to be a crashing end. (This one is a work in progress. More
chapters to come.)
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Two Halves by Dame Wren
Best fic about Hinata Naruto, and their relationship.
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Dimensional
Exchanges By XyoushaX, Sakura is sucked into another world, and has
to figure out a way to come back
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Green Leaf by Ninja
Shen, A fic that shows that Kankuro can occasionally get a girl
of his own...even if it is Tenten (no offense meant to Tenten lovers. I
just see her with Neji so often it's almost like he owns her). Believable
on every front.
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Fox Hunt by dave-d What
is going on? Why do all the girls that Naruto knows want him to father
their children? Answer: Kitsune.
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Variations by EagleheartA
unique alternate universe version of an all time great, Final Fantasy 7.
Damn, it's hard getting a fic of this quality.
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Game ideas by Tim Seltzer
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Paul Seltzer (uncle)
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Sallie Seltzer (sister),
AKA Raven Sadhaka, singer, songwriter, yoga instructor
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Chuck Hartley (brother-in-law)
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parking lot striping,
traffic line markings, road stiping, pavement marking, line marking,
paint striping, athletic field marking, repainting running racks, white
lines, yellow lines, safety lines in Boston
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Greg
Meyers, Web designer/graphic artist
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Deane Rink: producer,
writer, project director, editor
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Explaining Annuities: Articles
that Answer Many of Your Questions About Investing in Annuities
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Authentic African Collectibles and Crafts
from South, East and West Africa www.rrtraders.com
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Grandma Minutia =
cartoons and humor by Kay Kelley
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From
Village Green by David Hodges (a long poem about Plymouth, NH)
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Rex Sexton, surrealist painter
and novelist
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Ed Trobec, sculptor
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Carlos Melgoza, custom-made
hand-carved Mexican furniture
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Thau, Inc., "Helping to build a
sound Long Term Care Insurance industry"
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Fiction by Roberta Kalechofksy
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Free Audio Books for the Blind
and Legally Blind from Ken Wilson
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National Braille Press: publishing
for the blind, Braille books
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