A life in general, Jashan.org

Collages by Tony Fitzpatrick, quite good…..

The Hippy Clintons via Newsgroper

London’s Metropolitan police has launched a new counter-terrorism campaign complete with anti-photography propaganda.

It’s very interesting, considering the following;

Within 200 yards of George Orwell’s flat 27B overlooking Canonbury Square in Islington, North London, there are thirty-two CCTV (closed circuit television) cameras.

Orwell’s view of the tree-filled gardens outside the flat is under 24-hour surveillance from two cameras perched on traffic lights.

The flat’s rear windows are constantly viewed from two more security cameras outside a conference centre in Canonbury Place.

Britain now has over 4.2 million cameras - that’s one for every fourteen people. A typical citizen is caught on camera an average of 300 times per day.

It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. “Reality control,” they called it: in Newspeak, “doublethink.” - George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty Four)

Via BoingBoing & Technovelgy

Watch it or Read it and spread the word if you are so inclined.

Click the image below to watch the Video or click here for the Transcript.

So I want you to shut your eyes and imagine what it will seem like to a young man in Iraq or in Iran, who wakes up on January 21st, 2009, and sees the picture of this man as the president of the United States. A man who opposed the war at the beginning, a man who worked his way up from almost nothing, a man who came from a mother and a father of mixed cultures and mixed societies, who came from a broken home to overcome all of that to become the leader in his class, at the Harvard Law Review, and an extraordinary success as a politician. How can they see us when they see us as having chosen this man as our president?

There can be no clearer way that we could say, that we could say that the United States could say, that we have changed, than by electing this man. There is no way we could more clearly move on toward peace than this. He represents the very best of who we are, the best of character, of integrity and ideals. And someone who opposed the war from the start.

An environmental nightmare or a blessing for the masses. $2,500, one lakh!

”Dr. Pachauri need not have nightmares,” Tata said at the unveiling,
promising the Nano met all current Indian emission standards!

These News blunders from the New Yorker are hilarious. Some of my favorites:

FOR ONCE, WE’RE SPEECHLESS DEPT:

From an advice column in the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal.

For fun and to try to mix this up a little, you two might develop a verbal or visual cue that is subtler than simply asking for sex. For instance when one of you mentions Vice President Cheney, that’s your code.

Or:

THERE’LL ALWAYS BE ENGLAND

From the Washington Post.

After he was exposed, Lambton told an intelligence officer that he had thrown himself into a “frenzied” round of “gardening and debauchery” to get over the fact that he had lost a three-year battle over the use of his father’s title.

Or:

SILVER LINING DEPARTMENT

From the Bath (Maine) Times Record.

Except for a tragic accident, the 35th annual Bath Heritage Days parade went off without a hitch.