A film that denies the link between HIV and AIDS is being screened in the UK by the Spectator, in the name of "spurring debate." The Spectator's editor, Fraser Nelson, describes his motivation: "It's one of these hugely emotive subjects, with a fairly strong and vociferous lobby saying that any open... More.
This 1962 high-school textbook, "When You Marry," is a long, mind-bendingly awful manual for marriage, including sticking to traditional gender roles, staying away from race-mixing, resisting communism and saving yourself for your wedding night.
Love, 1962 American High School Style
(via Makin... More.
You can get another $7 off this cryogenically-treated, gold-plated "audio grade" power socket, but only if you buy four. The customer reviews are splendid:
Finally something to go with my custom vacuum sputtered unobtainium circuit breaker contacts and calibrated studio grade Romex. Now if I can ... More.
A face mask with which to attract hungry, curious hummingbirds, $80 from heatstick.com. The masks do look silly, and the website is nothing if not homebaked. But if the maker's YouTube videos are to be believed, these contraptions do attract the little buggers and make for amazing eye-to-eye enco... More.
Painter/sculptor Gregory Euclide starts his gorgeous diroamas by pouring blue resin onto the forest floor in Colorado. He then builds his lovely landscapes around that cast of nature. Euclide is showing his "Capture" series at Denver's David B. Smith Gallery until November 14. Video and more detai... More.
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Then: À la recherche du temps perdu, by Marcel Proust
Now: In Search of Lost Time, the novelization of the first installment in the major motion picture series.
Then: Das Capital
Now: Life, Inc.
Then: Moby Dick
Now: Sea Trek 2: The Wrath of Ahab
Then: Fahrenheit 451
Now: 450 degrees Celsius, the temperature at which paper self-ignites.
Then: Oedipus the King
Now: Come to Mama [Harlequin Blaze, of course]
Then: Wuthering Heights
Now: Women who love bad men and their insidious effects on their families.
Then: The Taming of the Shrew
Now: The Subjugation of the Bitch
Then: Nineteen Eighty Four
Now: How I learned to stop worrying and love Big Brother.
Then: Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Now: Oh, The Places You Won't Go Because of Tougher Immigration Laws!
CHARLES J. DICKENS
The Twist Progression
CHARLES J. DICKENS
The Jarndyce Inheritance
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE TWIST PROGRESSION
CHARLES J. DICKENS
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
The Havisham Agenda
BOZ SKETCHING
The Cities Trilogy
FROM MASTER STORYTELLER CHARLES J. DICKENS
(Oliver Twist, a Parish Boy's Progress; Bleak House; Great Expectations; A Tale of Two Cities)
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"The Person Of Color & The Narcissus"
"Chairman Steele's Cabin"
"Caucasian Fang"
"Altitudinally-Challenged Womyn"
"Upper-Class Twit Jim"
"Ms. Rouault-Bovary, PhD."
"A Digital Tangelo"
"The MacBeth's"
"The Lucite Game Preserve"
"War With Gingriches"
No one reads here in Honolulu. Reading causes occasional mentation, which is uncomfortable and interferes with hind-brain functions, such as hatred. And that's pretty much all that keeps us going.
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Then: The Book of Ezekiel
Now: The Psychedelic Experience
Then: Schindler's List
Now: Tyler Perry's Schindler's List
Then - The War of the Worlds
Now - The War of the Religons
Then: Jane Eyre
Now: The Girl they Locked in the Red Room (and possibly Intended to Swap for a Packet of Cigarettes...)
Then: Nausea
Now: Existentialism for Dummies.
Steve Jensen
Then: The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Now: Wikipedia Galactica
Then: Das Kapital
Now: Das Boot
Then: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Now: Startup Assets: Social Mobility in a Nation in Recession.
I think number 3 might write for the Onion...
Labeling "The wealth of nations" with "Invisible Hands" just goes to proof you never read the book.
Here are two quotes from the book, just so you read at least some of it:
"But besides all the bad effects to the country in general, which have already been mentioned as necessarily resulting from a higher rate of profit, there is one more fatal, perhaps, than all these put together, but which, if we may judge from experience, is inseparably connected with it. The high rate of profit seems everywhere to destroy that parsimony which, in other circumstances, is natural to the character of the merchant. When profits are high, that sober virtue seems to be superfluous, and expensive luxury to suit better the affluence of his situation."
"But the rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension of the society. On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin."
By Isaac Asimov
Then: "Buy Jupiter!"
Now: "WTF!"
duallain @3:
That'd be:
"Now: 233 degrees Celsius, the temperature at which paper self-ignites at standard partial pressures and oxygen content."
And in a century or so, right around the time that the USA finally decides to go metric:
Kelvin 1EA to 206
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[look here and blink if you want a larger penis]
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The Facebook of Dorian Gray
Oh wait..
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Finding Enkidu: The Edge of the World
The Iliad
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Pantheon: Vengeance of Fire
The Odyssey:
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Pantheon: Rage of the Sea God
Colon: All You Need to Know About Punctuation in Titles
Then: 1984
Now: 2009
@15 +SP+
brilliant!
Ah, such butchery...
Then:
Breakfast of Champions
Now:
Dwayne Hoover: Coming to Terms With The Robots of Midland City
Then:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Now:
A Poet's Memories: Long with Sentences, Short on Time
Then: Crime & Punishment
Now: The Pawn-Broker Murders
Then: Great Expectations
Now: Can't Catch A Break
Then:
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Now:
How To Quit Civilisation: The Downshifting Bible
Then: Dr. Faustus
Now: How to Get Everything You Want in Three Easy Steps
Then: Liasons Dangereux
Now: Biography of a President: The Clinton White House
Then: Pride and Prejudice
Now: Biography of a President: The Obama White House
Then: Animal Farm
Now: Biography of a President: The Bush White House
Then: The Old Man and the Sea
Now: The Favour, The Watch, and the Very Big Fish
Then: A Tale of Two Cities
Now: TL;DR
Then: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Now: Bottom's Up - Sex and Aversion in the Wiccan Woods
Then: Of Mice and Men
Now: Lessons With Lenny: How a Special Man Taught me Some of the Toughest Lessons in Life
Huckleberry Finn
Moon River: a journey of discovery
Dune
The Sand Worms
A Prayer For Owen Meany
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY
Joseph Heller
Then: Catch 22
Now: Catch 22
Franz Kafka
Then: The Trial
Now: Peer Preassure and the Social Psychology of Urban Life - The Fictive Tale of the Mental Adventures of Josef K
Dr. John Gray
Then: Men Are from Mars, Women from Venus
Now: Gender-related Mentalities - A Generalized Overview for the Impatient
Then: 1984, George Orwell
Now: Brave new world, Aldous Huxley
why, it's the Proto-Game! See?
Jules Verne:
20,000 Leagues Under the Seas:
69,000 Miles in a Submarine
Jack London:
The Call of the Wild:
Buck's Animal Trafficking Misadventure
Euclid's Elements
Geometry for Engineers and Applied Scientists...Made Simple!
The House at Pooh Corner and Werewolves
A Sale of Two Titties
A Computerized Citrus
Lewd Mid-day Meal
The President of Several Small Articles of Jewelry
Xenophobe In a Weird Area
The Transportationally Challenged Manual to the Stars
Wealth of Nations is a bad example, since the original title was:
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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/pedant]
Anonymous @#30
"Then: Liasons Dangereux
Now: Biography of a President: The Clinton White House"
Now: Liaisons Dangereux
Then: Liaisons Dangereuses
;-)
"Civil Disobedience" ==> "LIAR!"
Then: The Divine Comedy
Now: To Hell (And Heaven!) and Back: A Memoir of a Spiritual Mid-Life Crisis and a Journey of Self-Discovery
Mein Kampf
Everything You Wanted to KNow about being a Crazy Dictator but Were Afraid to Ask
Then: Sense And Sensibility*
Now: OMGWTF!
(Note: anything can be substituted for the Then book)
#10 is really, really great.
Then: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Now: The Origin of Species
I took a look at new books coming out on Amazon, titles don't really seem that much different for respective works. Non-fiction tends toward longer more descriptive titles, while fiction seems to range from simple nouns like names and places to abstract phrases. People here seem to creating titles that give a non-fiction spin on fiction, which I don't think was the intent of the link.
mdh,
Did you mean to use the dickicon?
The Art of War.
How to make friends and influence people.
@ 51
great
Then: Pride and Prejudice
Now -- No Sex, No City
Then: Fahrenheit 451.
Now: Fahrenheit 460 in 10 Years or Sooner.
Then: Steal This Book
Now: P2P
Then: Logical Investigations
Now: This Game of Language
Then: Ulysses
Now: Leo Bloom's Day Off
Then: Critique of Pure Reason
Now: Thinking with the Categories: What your subconscious mind may already be telling you about space, time, and science
Then: The Stranger
Now: My Own Private Desert Storm
Then: A Brief History of Time
Now: How Black Holes will kill you: Accessible Astrophysics for Everyone
Then: Mastering The Art of French Cooking
Now: French Women Don't get Fat: The cookbook. Now a major motion picture!
Then: Joy of Cooking
Now: Recipes for Everything A to Z. New York Times Best Selling Cookbook, 50 years in a row!
Then: The Bell Jar
Now: The Emo Handbook
What?? Are you implying that Aldous Huxley somehow ripped off 1984 or is there some other joke I'm completely missing here?
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Then: The Kraken Wakes
Now: The Alien Influence: The truth about global warming and it's effect on you.
@#58 I'm not suggesting a rip-off. I merely suggest that were it today, 1984 would not have been written at all, since it's basically all here already. Thus we need to take it even further. Enter: Aldous Huxley. :-)
On second thought, maybe if 1984 was written today )or better still a sequel) it would probably be named: "Told You So"
In #55, I meant "Philosophical Investigations," not "Logical Investigations." Sorry.
@ antinous, is my freudian slip showing? No. I didn't intend it.
Stupid exercise and transparent attempts at displays of erudition. But why not further aid the debasement of literature! Let's make soundbites . . .
Ahh, ok. That makes some sense I suppose. Although despite some of the similarities I've never considered those books along quite the same lines.
Was just a bit confused by that.
my favorites number 7 :)