They claim that the best looking man only received 38 messages in four months. That's totally untrue. I received 43 messages.

umm...excelsior?

How did we confirm the luckification of these mice? Are the mice in my lab as lucky as the ones in this experiment?

Since Xbox Live and all siloed online gaming is a means by which we are tracking the gifted and talented drone pilots and Dalek operators of the future, this is a mission-critical breach. We need to get computers out of the hands of these hacker terrorists, or else parents might get wise.

Publishers revoking editions ebooks isn't a ban. It's stupid, irritating, and a great example of why I am against DRM, but it's not a ban.

I was talking about selling books. :) My use of the term "disservice" has nothing to do with critical comparison.

Your interpretation of Ingsoc's jealousy is light. Sex is very important. Love is more important. 1984 is not a pro- or anti-theistic work. You do the work's message a disservice when you attempt to use it for a tangentially related polemic in this way. I would hate to see a theistic person's desire to read 1984 discouraged by an inaccurate representation that the work is atheist in its message.

Great comment. I love 1984, but I'm tired of hearing how it's banned. I've never seen it banned.

Ingsoc is atheist. Try reading.

Are the two events related? :)

I think HDM is an international mega-hit, and "banning" by Catholic schools was a godsend to the publishers. Yeah, I said godsend. I crack myself up. You guys know how baited protest marketing works, right?

AFAIK, the protest against HDM was baited, like the "rioting" at the release of the film "Do the Right Thing". The only people who protested HDM were gullible right-wing panic button types in the lead up to the release of a dud film that needed all the publicity help it could get. Not banned. Rushdie would be a better choice by far.