HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H0061 7/2/00 "JULY 2000 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ==================================================== Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 13:38:40 -0500 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for JULY Earlier today, I posted Hardy's "Wagtail and Baby" and "On a Midsummer Eve" as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for July, 2000 and "Afterwards" as the Poem of the Month for August. (I will be out of the country on August 1; hence the early posting.) These two discussions are the seventh and eighth in a series dedicated to Hardy pieces about the meaning of the natural world. You can find the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion by following the links from the main TTHA page at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm or by going directly to http://netforum.ilstu.edu/cgi-bin/netforum/ths/a/1/ Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month discussion, you will encounter a program called NetForum which will give you the opportunity to read the poems as well as any comments they may have generated, compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you like, and finally submit your contribution by clicking on the button labeled Post the Message. (*DON'T use the Reset Message button*; you will lose your work.) If you are composing an intricate or long response, you may want to prepare your message in a word processing program, then copy it to your clipboard before pasting it into the message area of NetForum. And if you prefer, feel free to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu. While the discussions for February, 1998 through November 1999 have been "closed" and their contents edited and published in *The Hardy Review* [I:1 (July 1998) and 2:1 (Summer 1999)] and while the conversations from 1999 about the "Emma" poems are currently being edited for publication, the discussions of "Channel Firing" (January), "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses" (March), "After the Visit" and "To Meet, or Otherwise" (May), "A Singer Asleep" (July), "Nature's Questioning" (January), "The Mother Mourns" (February), "The Subalterns" (March), "The Lacking Sense" (April), "In a Wood" (May), and "To Outer Nature" and "June Leaves and Autumn" (June) are still open, and your contributions are invited. Welcome to the July and August 2000 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussions. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 08:26:35 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: New Technology Dear All, Given our recent discussion about the relative virtues of the web versus the library as a research instrument I thought you might enjoy this: Betty Cortus New technology > Introducing the new Bio Optic Organized Knowledge device, trade named > BOOK. > BOOK is a revolutionary breakthrough in technology; no wires, no > electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. > It's so easy to use even a child can operate it. Compact and portable, > it can be used anywhere, even sitting in an armchair by the fire, yet it > is powerful enough to hold as much information as a CD ROM disc. > > Here is how it works: BOOK is constructed of sequentially numbered > sheets of recyclable paper, each capable of holding thousands of bits of > information. The pages are locked together with a custom fit device > called a binder, which keeps the sheets in their correct sequence. > > Opaque Paper Technology (OPT) allows manufacturers to use both sides of > the sheet, doubling the information density and cutting costs. Each > sheet is scanned optically, registering information directly into your > brain. A flick of your finger takes you to the next sheet. BOOK may be > taken up at any time and used merely by simply opening it. > > BOOK never crashes or requires rebooting. The Browse feature allows you > to move instantly to any sheet, and move forward or backward as you > wish. Many come with an Index feature, which pinpoints the exact > location of any selected information for instant retrieval. An optional > "BOOKMARK" accessory allows you to open BOOK to the exact place you left > it in a previous session, even if the BOOK is closed. > > BOOKMARKS fit universal design standards; thus, a single BOOKMARK can be > used in BOOKS by various manufacturers. Conversely, numerous BOOKMARKS > can be used in a single BOOK if the user wants to store numerous views > at once. The number is limited by the number of pages in the BOOK. > > You can also make personal notes next to BOOK text entries with an > optional programming tool, named: "Portable Erasable Nib Cryptic > Intercommunication Language Stylus" or "PENCILS." > > Portable, durable and affordable, the BOOK is being hailed as the > precursor of a huge entertainment wave. BOOK appeal seems so certain > that thousands of content creators have committed to the platform and > investors are reportedly flocking to the new phenomenon. ==========