Day: December 14, 2010

Heroes of 2010 — Leslie Nielsen

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Huxley vs. Orwell: The Webcomic

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Stuart McMillen’s webcomic does a marvelous job of adapting (and updating!) Neil Postman’s famous book-length essay, Amusing Ourselves to Death, which argues that Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future in Brave New World was ultimately more accurate than the one proposed by George Orwell in 1984. (Via).

“Idea for a Short Documentary Film” — Lydia Davis

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“Idea for a Short Documentary Film,” a very short story by Lydia Davis, from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis –

Representatives of different food products manufacturers try to open their own packaging.