Anne of Green Gables

By Lucy Maud Montgomery

CHAPTER I: Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Surprised

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde’s door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.

To be continued…

Free Knowledge

“The increasing privatization of knowledge is changing our society in important ways, but for the benefit of very few.”

so says computer science Professor Daryl Hepting of the University of Regina.

Hepting is collecting essays for a volume inspired by the “Free Knowledge” event held at the University of Regina on November 17 and 18, 2005.

Fear not fellow Canadians (and foreign nationals), contributions need not be Saskatchewan-specific. The finished manuscript will be available on the web and there are plans for a print version. I trust that the collection will be published under a Creative Commons Canada licence

Deadline is September 1. See here for more details and to register: http://freeknowledge.cs.uregina.ca

Of interest are essays that deal with current challenges, and promising alternatives, in specific sectors such as (but not limited to) farming and food, computer software, medicine, media, arts, and libraries. Essays dealing with, for example, traditional knowledge, economics, or the historical context of this issue are also welcome.