Saturday, August 8, 2009

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Brave New World is Now

Also, this news story:
In China, DNA tests on kids ID genetic gifts, careers (CNN)

Fordlandia

Jessi forwarded this fascinating NPR story. Take a listen (it's brief).

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Two Interviews with Octavia Butler



On Charlie Rose, around the publication of Parable of the Talents (1998)




And, just for fun, a clip from the film Butler mentions, Devil Girl From Mars (1954). The entire flick is available on Google Video if you've got some down time.

Apple Macintosh Ad (1984)

Thomas Pynchon's Intro to Nineteen Eighty-Four

Pynchon's Intro to Orwell's 1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four Review

Read a 1949 review of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in Time Magazine: Books: Where the Rainbow Ends

Radford's Nineteen Eighty-Four