A variety of material that for a number of reasons doesn't seem to fit onto my other sites, but ought to go somewhere. Usually others will have a place they'd like to suggest, someplace rather personal and more than a little fragrant, especially after a good heavy meal, but generally speaking, I tend to view this site as being a more appropriate location.

The name of the site alludes to 1984 by George Orwell. Orwell describes a future society, now set a few decades in our past, in a past that blessedly never happened, but may remind one of the world more than a few people one meets online would make a reality, given half a chance. In this story, the English speaking world is part of a totalitarian state called "Oceania", which, as part of its strategy for controlling the masses it pretends to serve, rewrites history in order to make it compatible with the current party line, going so far as to fabricate historical documents, alter historical sites, and otherwise create false evidence to create the illusion that the propagandized version of history is the real one. The hero in the story works in the ironically named "Ministry of Truth", where he replaces documents that don't fit in with the party's version of history with ones that do, sending the old, now obsolete documents down a pneumatic tube named "the memory hole", where they travel to a place where they will be disposed of, after which they will presumably be forgotten.

This site is, at times, a little like that memory hole. Not that I'm comparing myself to the protagonist in that story; in a society like that, I'd probably end up stumbling in front of a firing squad within the week. But, like the receiving end of that tube, this site contains a few things others might not want you to see and have tried to hush up. Not necessarily anything that would bring down any real governments, but certainly at least one thing that makes a fake government look bad, as we see in the Appius Claudius Priscus affair at Nova Roma, and another that doesn't make a collection of self-styled community leaders look much better.

If you'd like to return to your ring, you may do so here.