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How Will 2024 Will Be Like Nineteen Eighty-Four?

July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment

My cat’s name is Orwell, so it’s needless to say that I  buy into the concept that 1984 is our reality right now, and not just in some imagined dystopian future-scape. Here’s yet more compelling evidence, not that we needed it… Why 2024 Will Be Like Nineteen Eighty-Four (from Slate) How Amazon’s remote deletion of [...]

Jul

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If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix

July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Posthumously published or not, “A Moveable Feast” should not be subjected to Moveable Words. Didn’t this Hemingway grandson learn anything when Lucas and that other guy destroyed their own masterpieces with newfangled digital effects? It’s common knowledge that it is wrong to mess with a perfect piece of art, ESPECIALLY if it’s not even yours. [...]

Jul

13

Give it away now?

July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I heard an entertaining interview on NPR with Chris Anderson,  the well-spoken editor in chief of Wired Magazine. (Click here to listen.) It was a fascinating radio piece about the nature of “Free” and about Anderson’s new book on the subject: “Free: The Future of a Radical Price”. There is also an article about Anderson [...]

Jul

6

Modern Love:

July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I am in the process of moving, as well as raising a toddler, so please excuse me while I am briefer than usual this month. Enter Bookslut: The following excellent piece discusses a couple of new books that tackle the subject of modern love. Enjoy. Bookslut Beating Hearts Finally, a consideration of love that doesn’t [...]

Jul

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We See Change When It’s A Sea Change

July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment

  The origin, history and nuance of words and phrases will usually excite the mind of a writerly type – and I say let’s revel in it! Thanks to the internet there are vast and deep rabbit holes filled with wonderful word sites of all kinds. An example of a recent foray into the web [...]