The Library

The Library http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/forums/15 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:29:48 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/forums/15 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Stephen Leacock - My Financial Career (1910) ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1182/t/Stephen-Leacock-My-Financial-Career-1910-.html

My Financial Career
Stephen Leacock
Literary Lapses, 1910

When I go into a bank I get rattled. The clerks rattle me; the wickets rattle me; the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1182 Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:29:48 GMT <![CDATA[ Katrina hurricane warning ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1183/t/Katrina-hurricane-warning.html 490 WWUS74 KLIX 281550 NPWLIX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 ...

DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED
HURRICANE KATRINA

A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED STRENGTH ... RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969.

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS ... PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1183 Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:08:52 GMT <![CDATA[ First Contact - Murray Leinster ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1185/t/First-Contact-Murray-Leinster.html

FIRST CONTACT
Murray Leinster (1945)

I

Tommy Dort went into the captains room with his last pair of stereophotos and said:
Im through, sir. These are the last two pictures I can take.
He handed over the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1185 Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:46:53 GMT <![CDATA[ A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1186/t/A-Vindication-of-the-Rights-of-Woman-Mary-Wollstonecraft.html

A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN,
WITH STRICTURES ON POLITICAL AND MORAL SUBJECTS
Mary Wollstonecraft

TO
M. Talleyrand Perigord
Late Bishop of Autun.

Sir: --

Having read with great pleasure a pamphlet, which you have lately published, on National Education, I dedicate this volume to you, the first... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1186 Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:04:34 GMT <![CDATA[ Robert Heinlein - Selections ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1189/t/Robert-Heinlein-Selections.html

THE TALE OF THE MAN WHO WAS TOO LAZY TO FAIL
from Time Enough for Love
Robert Heinlein

c gWell c you said as I came in that eearly rising is a vice.f Did you mean that seriously?h
gMaybe. Gamp Johnson claimed... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1189 Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:35:07 GMT <![CDATA[ Introduction ("Astounding" SF) - John Campbell ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1191/t/Introduction-quot-Astounding-quot-SF-John-Campbell.html
THE ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
John W. Campbell Jr. (1952)

No extensive development of a literary form, the work of many keen and highly trained minds, can take place without some powerful social force behind it. Normally, such a development... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1191 Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:17:41 GMT <![CDATA[ Motion to admit a female to the bar, Wisconsin, 1875 ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1192/t/Motion-to-admit-a-female-to-the-bar-Wisconsin-1875.html
IN THE MATTER OF THE MOTION TO ADMIT MISS LAVINIA GOODELL TO THE BAR OF THIS COURT
Supreme Court of Wisconsin
39 Wis. 232 (1875)

EDWARD G. RYAN, C. J.

... This is the first application for admission of a female to the bar of this court. And it is just matter... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1192 Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:03:30 GMT <![CDATA[ Manifesto of the Communist Party - Marx, Engels ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1193/t/Manifesto-of-the-Communist-Party-Marx-Engels.html
MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (1848)

PREFACE TO 1872 GERMAN EDITION

The Communist League, an international association of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1193 Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:38:11 GMT <![CDATA[ The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1187/t/The-Pilgrim-s-Progress-John-Bunyan.html
THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS
From This World To That Which Is To Come
DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM

John Bunyan

[Note: a sequel was written several years after this work. The two are sometimes referred to as Part One and Part Two. Biblical citations are referenced in-text... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1187 Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:26:15 GMT <![CDATA[ Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Robin (Musmanno, dissenting) ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1194/t/Commonwealth-of-Pennsylvania-v-Robin-Musmanno-dissenting-.html
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. ROBIN
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
421 Pa. 70; 218 A.2d 546 (1966)

MICHAEL A. MUSMANNO, JUSTICE (dissenting)

The decision of the Majority of the Court in this case has... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1194 Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:49:23 GMT <![CDATA[ I am a BAD American ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1195/t/I-am-a-BAD-American.html This is from an e-mail message that has been going around. According to Snopes research, it seems to have been authored (originally in a slightly different form) by bootyist-monk - KA

Yes, I Guess I am A... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1195 Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:12:53 GMT <![CDATA[ Excerpt from play co-written with Billy Shakespeare ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1196/t/Excerpt-from-play-co-written-with-Billy-Shakespeare.html
A crowd of townspeople... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rhui Chatar) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1196 Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:41:48 GMT <![CDATA[ Giuseppe Salza Interview with William Gibson ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1197/t/Giuseppe-Salza-Interview-with-William-Gibson.html
by Giuseppe Salza

CANNES. William Gibson was in Cannes in May 1994 to promote the filming of "Johnny Mnemonic",
a $26 million science fiction movie based on his short story, and starring megastar Keanu Reeves as the main character. Directed by the concept artist (and Gibson's pal) Robert Longo - with a few music video and TV credits, but for the first time in charge of a feature, the film also stars Ice-T, Dolph Lundgren, Takeshi... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (some dark thing) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1197 Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:03:03 GMT <![CDATA[ A Logic Named Joe - Murray Leinster ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1198/t/A-Logic-Named-Joe-Murray-Leinster.html
A LOGIC NAMED JOE
Will F. Jenkins (Murray Leinster)
Astounding Science Fiction, 1946

It was on the third day of August that Joe come off the assembly line, and on the fifth Laurine come into town, and that afternoon I saved civilization. Thats what I figure anyhow.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1198 Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:59:45 GMT <![CDATA[ Utopia - Thomas More ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1199/t/Utopia-Thomas-More.html
UTOPIA
Thomas More
(1606)

INTRODUCTION

Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the Kings Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1199 Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:58:33 GMT <![CDATA[ Waiting For Godot - Samuel Beckett ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1203/t/Waiting-For-Godot-Samuel-Beckett.html
WAITING FOR GODOT
tragicomedy in 2 acts

Samuel Beckett

Estragon
Vladimir
Lucky
Pozzo
a boy

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1203 Tue, 01 Apr 2003 10:22:53 GMT <![CDATA[ Huis Clos (No Exit) - Jean Paul Sartre ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1204/t/Huis-Clos-No-Exit-Jean-Paul-Sartre.html
NO EXIT (Huis Clos)
Jean Paul Sartre

GARCIN [enters, accompanied by the VALET, and glances around him]: So here we are?

VALET: Yes, Mr.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1204 Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:22:12 GMT <![CDATA[ An apology - Colin Mochrie ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1205/t/An-apology-Colin-Mochrie.html
An apology
Colin Mochrie

Aired on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC Television, 11 February 2003

video clip

Hello. I'm Anthony... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1205 Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:52:51 GMT <![CDATA[ Passion in the Desert ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1207/t/Passion-in-the-Desert.html by HONORE DE BALZAC

Translated By Ernest Dowson

"The whole show is dreadful," she cried coming out of the menagerie of
M. Martin. She had just been looking at that daring speculator
"working with his hyena,"--to speak in the style of the programme.

"By what means," she continued, "can he have tamed these animals to
such a point as to be certain of their affection for----"... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rhui Chatar) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1207 Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:53:27 GMT <![CDATA[ Short stories - Tolstoy ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1206/t/Short-stories-Tolstoy.html
THE CANDLE

Quote:
Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil.
- St. Matthew V. 38, 39

It was in the time of serfdom -- many years before Alexander... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1206 Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:51:08 GMT