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1984

From 1984; been a long time since I'd read it~ I'll keep the quotes here for a while yet (thank you, again, Mike Malloy, for reminding me):

"The consequences of every act are included in the act itself."

"It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"And it is the same, he perceived, in all seemingly heroic or tragic situations. On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralyzed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth."

"In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failures are better than other kinds, that's all."

My English version (p. 290) has "2+2=5", while the Korean version (p. 300) has "2+2= " (which matches the movie version), a subtle, some might say substantial, difference.

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October 25, 2006
RESOURCES GONE BY 2050
Humans living far beyond planet's means: WWF

November 30, 2006
OLD CULTURE
African cave art depicts peace

November 3, 2006
SEAFOOD GONE BY 2048
Report: Seafood faces collapse by 2048

October 28, 2006
ESTROGEN MIMICS
Earth�s Unisex Future: Examining the Effects of Estrogen mimics

December 8, 2006
TRUTH, SHINING
Evidence of recent water on Mars

October 27, 2006
EQUALITY: WE THE PEOPLE
New Jersey court recognizes right to same-sex unions

October 26, 2006
NOW WHO'S FLIP-FLOPPIN' ALONG?
pResidential flip-flop on Iraq policy (der Bush)

December 11, 2006
BUSH IMPEACHMENT
McKinney Introduces Bill to Impeach Bush

December 25, 2006
SO THIS IS XMAS
Thousands flee as war escalates in Somalia

December 30, 2006
GEISHA CRAZE
S. Korea idolizes 'geisha' girls

October 26, 2007
TENNIS, ANYONE?
Do we side with the Sunni or Shiite Muslims?

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"Oh, the humanity." When these three words were uttered by aghast radio journalist Herbert Morrison -- as the LZ129 Hindenburg airship crashed and burst into flames in New Jersey in 1937 -- it was seen as the end of airships. The other remaining Zeppelin-class dirigible, the Graf Zeppelin II, was destroyed by the Nazi administration who felt the materials could be put to better use with more conventional aircraft.

While the Hindenburg crash dented public confidence in the dirigible airship concept, the principal cause of the disaster wasn't bad design but propaganda. The Germans were desperate to show off their technical achievement. But the United States, the world's primary supplier of the inert gas helium (which was used to inflate and lift the airships), had imposed a military embargo on the gas. So the Hindenburg was filled with the massively explosive gas, hydrogen.

And it exploded. Massively.

But could large airships supplement the role of large passenger aircraft? Flight International's technical reporter Rob Coppinger is skeptical:

"Whether it is cargo, corporate or mass transpiration I think the issues with airships are; can [airships] carry enough people/cargo between two popular destinations and do it fast enough to carry a sufficient volume of cargo/people to generate enough revenue to pay for the development, certification and running costs?

"I think if it were easy to financially justify, they would exist already."

Coppinger concedes, however, that airships could have potential military applications.

Aeros plans to begin testing a non-rigid airship, the Aeros 40D, in 2008 to demonstrate the helium compression and decompression system. Production of a prototype Aeroscraft ML866 has begun, with a test flight planned for 2010.

Orwell's 1984

Up, up and away!

Airships, the next generation

MUCKRAKERS

Security Threat from Within (wellsphere.com)
The Fall of the Republic (Alex Jones)
A danish scientist Niels Harrit, on nano-thermite in the WTC dust (youtube.com)

BREAD-N-ROSES

Best option for gamers may be surprising (Yahoo!)
Canada Issues a Wake-Up Call: You May Be a Citizen (online.wsj.com)
Asia's Massive Brown Cloud (CNN)

COUNTRIES & ISLANDS

Ancient Futures (book review thru Amazon.com)
Growing Earth nealadams.com (Batman, X-men cartoonist)
"...Punishment or Healing?" (Hartmann thru Huffington Post)