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26 Jul 2011, 8:20 am by Jonathan Bailey
After receiving such a complaint, PayPal requests proof of legitimacy and, if it is not supplied, cuts off the suspected site from its service. 3: Johann Hari: George Orwell Prize ‘Stripping’ Announcement Delays Amid Plagiarism Row Finally today, UK journalist and left-wing commentator Johann Hari will be stripped of his prestigious George Orwell prize due to a plagiarism row that began after a reader noticed that a quote from one of his pieces… [read post]
23 Jul 2011, 8:25 am
It said he enjoys hunting, the video games World of Warcraft and Modern Warfare 2, and books including Machiavelli’s “The Prince” and George Orwell’s “1984. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 10:45 am by Buce
I gave a copy of George Orwell's Animal Farm to the son of my friend Ed as a gift for the boy's bar mitzvah. [read post]
As we've long pointed out, on a technology level, the world of George Orwell's 1984 is already here. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 9:00 pm by Buce
Tun Huang is a curious pendant to  Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell's classic account of his military (if you can call it that) service in the Spanish Civil War. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 11:56 am by Glenn Reynolds
Richly deserved, in my opinion, and she can be happy in the company of fellow winner George Orwell. [read post]
2 Jul 2011, 11:59 am by Buce
  I still love Barca but I did find myself remembering George Orwell in my copy of Homage to Catalonia that an old girlfriend (now long dead) gave me on my 19th birthday: In Spain nothing, from a meal to a battle, ever happens at the appointed time. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 7:34 am
 Merpel notes that the Orwell Prize is named for George Orwell, author of Animal Farm, a satire at the end of which it becomes impossible to distinguish the formerly revolutionary animals from the humans against whom they rebelled. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 7:45 pm by Timothy Powers O'Neill
You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word. ~ George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1   New proposed legislation, known as the PROTECT IP Act or (PIPA), would create a blacklist of “rogue sites,” and would force Internet service providers to block access to those sites. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 11:35 am by Gabriel Saldana
Consumers Association President Daniel Geherson even compared the treaty with George Orwell’s 1984 novel, pointing out the censorship and the risks to freedom of speech and privacy posed by ACTA. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 11:35 am by Gabriel Saldana
” Consumers Association President Daniel Geherson even compared the treaty with George Orwell’s 1984 novel, pointing out the censorship and the risks to freedom of speech and privacy posed by ACTA. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 8:57 am
Somewhere, George Orwell is cackling. ______ *Credit Chief Justice Lippman on the New York Court of Appeals with that thought in Weaver's oral argument in March 2009. ** Is The E-ZPass Box A Trojan Horse For Privacy Invasions? [read post]
18 Jun 2011, 8:29 am
George Orwell warned that the perversion of language is the first step on the dark road to authoritarianism. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 9:25 am
George Orwell painted the future better than he knew.The first item is the disclosure that mobile phones are being used to track an individual's movements. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 11:46 am
His “Jack of Kent” blog was shortlisted for the George Orwell Prize in 2010) Richard Mollet (Richard has been Chief Executive of The Publishers Association—the leading representative voice for the UK's book and learned journal publisher— since October 2010. [read post]