Journal: News & Comment

Down the hole

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Lorraine Murphy, the author who spoke at last night's meeting of the Editors' Association of Canada B.C. branch, talked about a site called The Memory Hole.

The site "exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known [...] material that exposes things that we're not supposed to know (or that we're supposed to forget)." Yes, it has a whiff of conspiracy-theorist paranoia to it, but there are fascinating things there nevertheless -- everything from supposed plans for American "Total Information Awareness" to people removing cigarettes from a photo of the Beatles for a poster.

It also links to some images ("This Is War") of what wars really do, but I won't link there directly because they are disturbing enough that you should probably have to click twice to see them.

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