Assorted links 'n' stuff

Austen-hating journalist versus the Janeites' Cluebats of Righteousness.  Sadly, he didn't seem to stick around long enough for a proper fight, but it was fun watching the pwning in action.

You guys know how much I love trashy UK celeb magazines almost as much as I love dodgy celeb biographies?  Be still my beating heart!  Due out in Australia in November.

Here's a wonderful interview with some of Melbourne's independent booksellers.  Includes terrible customers, book recommendations and a serial book thief.  Who, by the way, I'm going to kick in the nads if I ever see him.  Giant pink Thai cookbooks don't come cheap, people!

Geography fail!  Wrong Georgia, kid.

The plot is fairly simplistic but with redundant lines. "Oceania has always been war with Eastasia." "Freedom is slavery." "Big Brother is watching you." In other words, it was nothing but a lot of nonsensical fillers. One-star reviews of 1984. 

This advertisement appeared on a phone booth outside work the other day.  You know how there are weird moments where suddenly you wonder if they all lied and the world actually does revolve around you?  Yeah.