[wellylug] OT crap

[Grant McLean]

On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 11:27 +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
> Spiro Harvey wrote:
> > marchetti <marchetti at clear.net.nz> wrote:
> >   
> >> For a dated but pertinent perspective, read George Orwell's
> >> 1984 and the fate of Winston Smith. Nasty stuff and already
> >>     
> >
> > flip your copy of the book around and look on the back cover. Should be somewhere near the bar code.
> >
> > Fiction
> >   
> 
> So was
> 
> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784
> 
> Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it can't foretell the future with
> chilling accuracy.  Many of the memes in that book are coming true now...

Speaking of foretelling the future with chilling accuracy:

  http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930

Grant