Launching Gutenberg Radio - Public Domain Audiobooks

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Launching Gutenberg Radio - Public Domain Audiobooks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday April 20, 2003 @01:16PM from the cliff's-notes dept.

tgbg writes "We are proud to announce the launch of "Gutenberg Radio". On these broadcast channels, you can hear the Gutenberg Library and anything else the Gutenberg family cares to share with its public."

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With Project Guttenburg... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 13:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You can actually hear my frost pist!
Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 13:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred in September 2001, followed by a WAR against Islam in Afghanistan and and then ANOTHER war against Islam in Iraq, which seemed likely to be followed by MORE wars against Islam in Syria and Iran, followed by a possible NUCLEAR war with North Korea, but tensions seem to be easing on those lines, and one has to admit, the reconstruction of Iraq is well underway, but you people have the gall to be discussing Project Gutenberg???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!

The bodies of the thousands of innocent civilians who died (and will die) in these unprecedented events could give a good god damn about obscure science fiction, your childish Lego models, your nerf toy guns and whining about the lack of a "fun" workplace, your Everquest/Diablo/D&D fixation, the latest Cowboy Bebop rerun, or any of the other ways you are "getting on with your life" (here's a hint: watching Cowboy Bebop in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddies is *not* "getting on with your life"). The souls of the victims are watching in horror as you people squander your finite, precious time on this earth playing video games!

You people disgust me!
1. Re:Let me get this straight... by TopShelf · 2003-04-20 13:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Feel better now?
  
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2. Re:Let me get this straight... by Cyris · 2003-04-20 13:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Ahh right! We should just sit around and dwell on the crap that is going on.. thats the ticket..
  
  Personally, I would rather not pay attention to all of the negative news that is going on, and instead read about new toys, or advances in technology.
  
  I, for one, am kinda sick of the "up to the minute" news that is going on all the time. I dont really care /shrug
3. Re:Let me get this straight... by darkewolf · 2003-04-20 13:37 · Score: 1, Offtopic
  
  With the risk of being abused by ACs I'll have to reply to the above comment.
  You complain of everyone here having priorities wrong, with their wheeties, computer games and Gutenburg press stuff. Yet in turn your priority seems to be aimed at wasting your time abusing people.
  Oh well, I guess having books to read easily (even in poorer nations that may have just been in a war) isnt really a useful thing. Kids dont need to read I suppose.
  
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4. Re:Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 13:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  A couple of points:
  
  - I've been posting this troll and variants of it hundreds of times since September 11th, 2001. Where the HELL have you been?
  - The very WORDING of my troll should have been a very large clue that it was, indeed, a troll. Get a fucking clue!
  
  P.S. GET SOME PRIORITIES! :-D
5. Re:Let me get this straight... by darkewolf · 2003-04-20 13:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Most likely I missed the comment. I tend not to read too many of the comments in a /. article, cause more or less they wander off topic very quickly.
  As for priorities, I have them. Infact, in a the next minute, after taking a 20 minute or so look at my email and /. I am going back to entertaining my son, and _reading_ him more of the Tain and building castles with him.
  oh well, I expected this :)
  
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Saddam Hussein, leader, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 13:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Iraqi president (holder of the popular vote) Saddam Hussein, was found dead in his Baghdad presidential palace this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an Iraqi icon.
Re:That is SOOO Coool. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 13:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Mr. Gugenheim was one of the ill-fated passengers on board the Titanic who was heard to have said, "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down as gentlemen... but we would like a brandy!"

Oh wait, did you say GUTENBERG?
Woah by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 14:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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I'm drunk by ShatteredDream · 2003-04-20 14:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

and you're not.....

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poooooooooop! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 14:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

poop coming out of my pooper! poop!
I'm not listening unless its read by Homsar. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 14:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"Dohohohooh-no! You sank my Jengaship!"
They already are... by Angry+White+Guy · 2003-04-20 15:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Anytime you mention Bin Laden, Saddaam Hussein, Allah, or use the phrases "Death to the Infidels", "Dirty Bomb", "Jihad", "GEORGE BUSH SHOULD DIEt", the feds get their knickers in a twist and start scouring the net for any kind of information that can be traced back to you, even if you think the president is getting a little chubby.

He's being watched, so am I, and so are you for being part of this thread. The FBI has an inch thick file on Rob Malda, and probably a whole drawer dedicated my innane ramblings.

Oh well, at least somebody finds me interesting, and I'm no longer paranoid for thinking my telephones have been tapped.

Indignant righetousness doesn't mean as much as it used to.

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Re:What about the Chinese? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 15:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'll say this, Asian Girls have sexy eyes.
Easter Bunny, Dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 16:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just saw some sad news on CNN - popular childrens' figure Easter Bunny was found dead on a Georgia road this evening. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.