books Unhappy birthday, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four! Devin Nealy

1984 Amusing ourselves to death, a spot-on future prediction from 1985 Gareth Branwyn

muppets Someone made a fake trailer for "The Muppets 1984" Thom Dunn

surveillance Backlash in China brewing against rampant face-recognition in daily life Clive Thompson

DC Comics 'Wonder Woman 1984' trailer features villains Cheetah and an evil man in the White House Andrea James

books China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing "1984" on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four Cory Doctorow

drinks The place of gin in Orwell's 1984 Rob Beschizza

surveillance Santa Cam knows when you are sleeping AND awake Rusty Blazenhoff

books George Orwell's letter from his former French teacher, Aldous Huxley, about Nineteen Eighty-Four David Pescovitz

electricity UK ends coal power generation today after 142 years Rob Beschizza

hurricane helene Watch powerful waves break into windows and flood home, reportedly in Florida (video) Carla Sinclair

television Friday Night Videos is a blast from the past Gail Sherman

television Famed TV host Phil Donahue dead at 88 Rob Beschizza

cute Robie the coin-eating robot: A nostalgic look at Radio Shack's mechanical bank Popkin

science fiction Famed DOS-era word processor WordStar 7 made available for modern machines Rob Beschizza

Games Tetris on the 1989 Sharp Wizard Rob Beschizza

retrocomputing Old Crap is a great new site about retrocomputers Rob Beschizza

Technology Seiko's 1984 UC-2000 smartwatch had it all Rob Beschizza