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Alister Cameron, Blog Consultant (Free subscription) | yesterday
I use Twitter as a way to let others know of interesting things I see or think about, as they happen. In case you’re not following me on Twitter, here’s some of what I’ve said in the last couple of days: @jdub Headspace2 features big in this great blog post on Wordpress SEO - http://bit.ly/VMQg RT @TWalk: [...]
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Myron's Random Thoughts (Free subscription) | yesterday
Slacker internet radio. Have you tried it? This is a screenshot of the software player you can download. Click on it to make it a bit larger. They have about every genre you can imagine. I like the music selection a lot better than XM on line, which I get because of my dashboard [...]
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spynotes (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
I don’t remember if feeling so definitively wintry so early in the season in a long time. We had 3-4 inches of snow earlier this week, enough to take our first runs down the sledding hill yesterday. I walked up the street to the hill with AJ and The Boy Across the [...]
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Jonny Mac's Place (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Good analysis here at the WSJ of the language used to decsribe the attacks and attackers by various journalists and news outlets. Is it really true that Jon Snow on Channel 4 News called the terrorists ' practitioners '? Insert your own George Orwell reference here. Disturbing stuff, and enough to give one a little flush of the 'Mad Mels' .
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Vidiot Speak (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
While pondering a run for the Senate, Jeb, an old white guy, said , ...the Republican Party needs to adapt in the wake of wide-ranging defeat in the election and move beyond its traditional position as the "old white guy party." Meanwhile, his war-mongering brother got the International Medal of P.E.A.C.E .
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Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
From George Orwell's '1984':...The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case, must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed - if all records told the...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
From our January issue, Contributing Editor Tim Cavanaugh examines the enduring appeal of nightmare visions that didn't come true, from George Orwell's 1984 to Frank Zappa's rock opera Joe's Garage . Read all about it here.
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Random Jottings (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." -- George Orwell...
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Reading matters (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The Little, Brown blog is running an Advent calendar in which they claim to "bring you a series of goodies right up until Christmas". Random House is also running an Advent calendar competition, with bookish prizes being given away every day. I've been eyeing up these Penguin Sets. Unfortunately the £100 George Orwell one, which includes two limited edition posters, has sold out. The Guardian has published...
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Word Around the Net (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome." -George Orwell I really wouldn't be doing a good job here if I didn't at least point to this amazing opinion piece at the New York Times. Ordinarily I give their op ed page
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varnelis.net - network culture (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Yesterday's New York Times reports on something I've been saying all along: that the sentient city is also a surveillance city and the digital trail we leave as we move through it allows corporations and governments to spy on us like never before. Yes, there's a chance it's all for our benefit. But for how long? See You're Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy ?
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Glib & Superficial (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
George Orwell said: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Here's one of them.
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Feminist SF - The Blog! (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
I met a friend this weekend whom I’d never met before, though we had been reading each other’s stories for years. It was interesting to meet her, and towards the end of the meeting - when we were both too tired (at least, I was) for this to go anywhere interesting, I was thinking about [...]
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La Vie d'Auteur (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
by George Orwell If you look up 'tea' in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points. This is curious, not only because tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country, as well as in Eire, Australia and New Zealand, but because...
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CREATT Interactive Group (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
I’ve been riveted by the latest installments in the Orwell Diary blog, in which the Orwell Society posts one diary entry from George Orwell’s 1938 journal every day as a blog-post. Since mid-October, the journal entries have been from a rented villa in Marrakech (sic), and Orwell’s journals have grown increasingly obsessed with the number [...]
