Archive for February, 2006

LV: Notes from the Underground -Part 2, Chapter 10

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Notes from the Underground
Here’s the conclusion of Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground:

mp3 audio file: Notes from the Underground – Part 2, Chapter 10

Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Read by: Gord Mackenzie
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Gutenberg e-text #600

LibriVox Catalog Page: Notes from the Underground (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Friday): Arrrrhhh, [...]

LibriVox talk at FACiL (Montreal)

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

I’ll be giving a talk at the next meeting of Montreal’s free-software group, FACiL, about LibriVox.
Date: February 16, 2006
Time: 18:00
Place: 550 rue Sherbrooke ouest, bureau 100. (Montreal)
Admission: FREE (of course).
The topic will be something like this:
Using Open Source Models for non-Software Projects: How LibriVox is Working.
The success of the Free Software/Open Source movement has [...]

LV: Notes from the Underground – Part 2, Chapter 9

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Notes from the Underground

mp3 audio file: Notes from the Underground – Part 2, Chapter 9

Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Read by: Gord Mackenzie
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:21:08

Gutenberg e-text #600

LibriVox Catalog Page: Notes from the Underground (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Wednesday): The Conclusion: Part 2, Chapter 10 , read [...]

LV: If- by Rudyard Kipling

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Another installment of our Weekly Poetry Project: every week someone chooses a public domain poem (not too long) and posts it on the forum under Readers Wanted/Weekly Poetry. Everyone is encouraged to record a version of it.
Last week ago we chose:
If- by Rudyard Kipling
And here is the randomly-chosen weekly poetry podcast:
Stefan Schmelz reads:
If- by Rudyard [...]

LV: Notes from the Underground – Part 2, Chpater 8

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Notes from the Underground

mp3 audio file: Notes from the Underground – Part 2, Chapter 8

Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Read by: Gord Mackenzie
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:30:33

Gutenberg e-text #600

LibriVox Catalog Page: Notes from the Underground (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up: Part 2, Chapter 9, read by Gord Mackenzie.

LV: Notes from the Underground – Part 2, Chpater 7

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Notes from the Underground

mp3 audio file: Notes from the Underground – Part 2, Chapter 7

Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Read by: Gord Mackenzie
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:21:27

Gutenberg e-text #600

LibriVox Catalog Page: Notes from the Underground (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up: Part 2, Chapter 8, read by Gord Mackenzie.

LV: Notes from the Underground – Part 2, Chpater 6

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Notes from the Underground

mp3 audio file: Notes from the Underground – Part 2, Chapter 6

Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Read by: Gord Mackenzie
Bit rate: 64 kbps

Time: 00:27:16

Gutenberg e-text #600

LibriVox Catalog Page: Notes from the Underground (for Ogg Vorbis, mp3 128kb & a zip of the entire book)

Next up: Part 2, Chapter 7, read by Gord Mackenzie.
Please send [...]

Librivox on BBC’s The World

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Cyrus Farivar’s earlier reporting on Wired News was picked up and expanded for an audio segment on BBC’s The World. Hugh, Kara and Rainer are featured reading and talking about our activities.
Listen to the 4 minute segment (streaming Windows Media)

Letter from a Listener

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

This is the most WONDERFUL website! I found it this winter and it’s made my working day zip by. I work part-time in a museums storage unit here in the Oxfordshire countryside, and spend most of my days wrestling with big heavy boxes full of Anglo-Saxon pottery and sheep
bones and struggling through complex [...]

LV: The Owl and the Pussycat, by Edward Lear

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Another installment of our Weekly Poetry Project: every week someone chooses a public domain poem (not too long) and posts it on the forum under Readers Wanted/Weekly Poetry. Everyone is encouraged to record a version of it.
Last week ago we chose:
The Owl and the Pussycat, by Edward Lear
And here is the randomly-chosen weekly poetry podcast:
Catharine [...]