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4 Apr 2007, 4:33 pm
This is London, an online entertainment guide for the British capital, reports that "(T)he Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the author's former London home": "On the wall outside his former residence - flat number 27B - where Orwell lived until his death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian author. [read post]
2 Apr 2007, 3:01 am
This is London takes a look at the pervasive surveillance surrounding George Orwell's former home:According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people in the country - and 20 per cent of cameras globally. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 3:26 pm
Likewise, CBS and Viacom settled a case concerning the television show Big Brother.The IPKat notes that, although George Orwell coined the term Big Brother and put the concept down on paper, it has entered the language and culture so thoroughly that perhaps it should be treated as the copyright version of a generic term. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 10:53 am
First, the company that owns the rights to George Orwell's 1984 (it bought the rights from his estate in 1981) is considering suing the guy who made the pro-Obama ad parody of the classic Apple commercial. [read post]
14 Mar 2007, 4:43 pm
"- George Orwell, "In Front of Your Nose," The Tribune, Mar. 22, 1946. [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 10:42 am
George D. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 3:15 pm
Bill Gates has got nothing on George Orwell. [read post]
20 Jan 2007, 1:53 pm
(UK) communications regulator Ofcom, flooded with complaints regarding racism* on Channel 4’s “Celebrity” Big Brother 7 (no, you don’t need links to the story!) [read post]
14 Jan 2007, 9:47 am
Power is politically and morally neutral.But note this: in the sixth year of the Presidency of George W. [read post]
21 Dec 2006, 12:50 am
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"With cameras installed at every turn monitoring a person's activity, Big Brother was a frightening concept in George Orwell's classic novel, 1984, where citizens of a fictitious totalitarian government were watched and punished for slight indiscretions. [read post]
13 Nov 2006, 10:58 pm
Or, maybe, he was - and we need to keep in mind the opening line of George Orwell's essay on Gandhi: "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent". [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 6:01 am
"Shades of 1984," said Maitland attorney Peter Zies, referring to the George Orwell novel. [read post]
29 Oct 2006, 8:22 pm
Last week, I wrote about George Orwell as an unlikely writing teacher for lawyers, managers, and HR pros. [read post]
25 Oct 2006, 7:24 pm
As Rutgers professor William Lutz — himself described as the "George Orwell of the Plain Language Movement" — writes, "Language is power, period. [read post]
11 Aug 2006, 11:16 am
George Orwell denounced such linguistic evasion in his classic 1946 essay, 'Politics and the English Language.' 'The great enemy of clear language is insincerity,' Orwell wrote. [read post]
29 Dec 2005, 2:44 pm
To many, banner ads on Google represented the transition from "Do No Evil" to "Be a Big Corporation", or to paraphrase George Orwell, from "All animals are created equal" to "All animals are created equal, but [read post]
17 Aug 2004, 12:05 pm
" Moreover, although legislation is entitled to a presumption of constitutionality, the answer to the constitutional question does not depend on whether Congress - in the year of George Orwell's prophesy - approved a difficult-to-dismantle regime of push-button sentences determined by bureaucrats and administered by prosecutors, probation officers, and judges rather than jurors. [read post]
