NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW

Today’s New York Times has a review of the show by Karen Rosenberg, who does not like cats.

REVIEW - WE MAKE MONEY NOT ART

Régine Debatty has written an excellent review of The New Normal at We Make Money Not Art.

Here’s the link.

THIS WEEK IN PRIVACY: Unlucky CCTV cameras, Dangerous reading material

Pelham, New York resident Jared Crystal was nearly hit by a falling tree as punishment for reading the George Orwell book 1984, or so this reporter from Fox news seems to believe:

The Guardian reports that Nottingham University Masters student Rizwaan Sabir, 22, who researches terrorist tactics, was held for six days after police learned that he had downloaded al-Qaida related material from the Internet.

Facebook faces allegations in Canada of 22 separate violations of privacy law.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist was caught making out with his girlfriend by a CCTV camera in a hotel elevator, conveniently ‘proving’ that he is not gay. Another CCTV camera was destroyed by a female rhinoceros in Java after offering a rare glimpse of the rare rhinos in the wild:

THIS WEEK IN PRIVACY: Big Brother, Emily Gould, Feline surveillance

Big Brother was in the news this week as politicians in the UK considered plans for a database that would log every single phone call and email. The announcement came nearly six months to the day after UK ministers apologized for losing another database containing the personal data of 25 million children.

Meanwhile, reality TV earned second place in a list of the worst inventions of all time in a UK poll, beating capital punishment handily, but losing out to the atom bomb by a narrow margin. In another poll, personal trainer Rebecca Morgan voted herself off of Australian Big Brother after deciding that sleeping in a communal bed with other housemates was a bit outside of her comfort zone.

New York Times Magazine editor Gerry Marzaroti ran a story about blogger Emily Gould and the perils of ‘oversharing’, saying it illuminated ‘how the Internet is re-describing how we understand privacy.’

A new service in the UK will allow users to view surveillance footage of cats on their mobile phone.