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DSS surveillance tech from Japan makes George Orwell upset

Laptop blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

We take a break from reporting on the impending doom of the human race to bring you news of the latest innovation designed specifically for making our pre-apocalypse lives miserable. Japanese firm DSS is now offering to snap video cameras and ankle sensors -- yes, the same kind that convicts under home arrest have to wear -- onto your employees for the ultimate in workplace surveillance. Sure, you...

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DSS surveillance tech from Japan makes George Orwell upset

Techno Portal (Free subscription) | yesterday

We take a break from reporting on the impending doom of the human race to bring you news of the latest innovation designed specifically for making our pre-apocalypse lives miserable. Japanese firm DSS is now offering to snap video cameras and ankle sensors -- yes, the same kind that convicts under home arrest have to wear -- onto your employees for… Continue reading

Victor Hugo’s House

Write Lah! (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

On our last day in Paris, we visited Victor Hugo’s house. It is in the Marais district at the Place des Voiges, said to be one of the most symmetrical squares in any city. There was a small ticket counter but entry was free, though a printed ticket was still required and up the old [...]

StevieB’s Shared Items – July 5, 2009

Lost in Cyberspace (Free subscription) | yesterday

A need for a new blog ranking system July 4, 2009 Apple blames hot iPhones on the weather, others find oleophobic screen to be fleeting? July 4, 2009 DSS surveillance tech from Japan makes George Orwell upset July 5, 2009 London’s Tower Bridge is on Twitter, I’ll be on the bridge later today July 5, 2009 TweetDeck Marks One Year Anniversary: The Journey and What's Next July 4, 2009 Expono:...

Old Porteous

Laudator Temporis Acti (Free subscription) | yesterday

George Orwell, Coming Up For Air , III.1: It's always that way with old Porteous. All his talk is about things that happened centuries ago. Whatever you start off with it always comes back to statues and poetry and the Greeks and Romans. If you mention the Queen Mary he'll start telling you about Phoenician triremes. He never reads a modern book, refuses to know their names, never looks at any newspaper...

Et in Suburbia Ego The heatwave (the...

Love Sunshine (Free subscription) | yesterday

Et in Suburbia Ego The heatwave (the glorious, glorious heatwave, which is only just petering out) has allowed me to open a door I've been itching to unlatch for 2 years now. I wanted to go somewhere special when researching my chapter on Memory. But, as Joni put it, clouds got in the way. This is what I wrote anyway: "The past is indeed a foreign country. They have much better weather there....

An American reader: Bill Clinton

Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

Bill Clinton is many things -- among them a U.S. president for two terms and a leader of international diplomacy and relief efforts -- but he's also a kind of bookish guy. He's the author of the 1,024-page autobiography "My...

Deane Waldman: July 4th Gift: Freedom from Newspeak, Scotoma, & Rose-Colored Glasses

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

George Orwell's revolutionary book "1984" was radical fiction in 1948 when he wrote it but is almost humdrum today, and close to true. Orwell...

***Fireworks for the 4th***=====

What Really happened (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

I wonder how many fireworks could be purchased to remind Americans of the sounds that secured their freedom... WRH permalink

1984 in 2009

The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

Last night, my wife and I attended a showing of the Edmund O’Brien/Jan Sterling version of Orwell’s “1984.” Orwell was quite prescient, and certainly saw the seeds of modern statism in the 1940s. I commented afterwards on the technology now being put together by the statists - as reported in last Sunday’s “60 [...]

Is Facebook an Israeli scheme to take over the world?

Sophia Sadoughi (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

Is Facebook an Israeli scheme to take over the world? : The founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was born on May 14, 1984. Coincidence? (Hint, Israel’s birthday!) And 1984 - the subject of George Orwell’s book about the battle to control the world! Zuckerberg is from New York, or, little Israel as Osama bin Laden refers to it. He launched Facebook from his dorm room at Harvard, a scholarly institution...

• Israel's New Plot to Control the World ... Facebook!!! - Mizozo

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17 SECONDS (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Ah…1993. It did feel like revolution was in the air, even to those of us isolated from so much, living for a glimpse into an alternative reality provided by reading NME (it used to be more radical, honest) and listening to John Peel. I read George Orwell’s Keep The Aspidistra Flying and it changed my [...]

The Hotel

3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

The early part of the century saw an explosion of literature with the hotel at its heart, reflecting a period of enormous social change on both sides of the Atlantic. At the same time that the work that Matthias explores...

Countries with a Bankruptcy law and some big brother shenanigans - 60 countries to date!

Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Corporate Rescue (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

In a nod to George Orwell (pictured) I have been using Google Analytics to monitor blog visitor activity. I have been doing this to enable a focusing of content towards the core readership. I hope this does not put readers off! Do not worry I have not been selling your URL details to anyone! Interestingly the blog has attracted visits from sixty countries to date. Hello everyone thanks for visiting...

Ode to cigarettes

Bicycle Diaries (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Orwell’s obsession with tobacco Cigarette smoke so permeates George Orwell's stories it almost leaves stains on one’s fingers when reading his books. So writes Josh Indar in Bumming Smokes in Paris and London . I was fascinated to read this last week in PopMatters ' retrospective on the 60th anniversary of 1984 . Anyone who's rolled with me knows that I'm a smoker ... an enthusiastic smoker!...