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Kinect: One More Way Big Brother is Watching?

(Nov. 4) -- In an interview with gaming blog Kotaku today, Microsoft director of Kinect technology Alex Kipman assuaged fears that the Kinect's web camera and microphone could be used to spy on consumers gather personal information, causing all the unsuspecting gamers who hadn't yet considered that potential shortfall to...

Opinion: If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Ain't I Happier?

(Oct. 22) -- The precise word to explain this season's big new trend in campaign financing is "obliviousness." Earlier this year, the Supreme Court ruled that everybody is allowed to give as much money as they desire to anybody they choose and absolutely nobody needs to know about it. The upshot of which has all of America...

Are US Officials Putting Orwellian Spin on Iraq Troop Withdrawal?

(Aug. 16) -- "All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome." That's George Orwell, who New York University history professor Hannah Gurman writes...

Blunt-Spoken General to Lead US Central Command

WASHINGTON (July 8) -- The general picked to oversee two wars and lead troops in the most strategically sensitive region in the world is sometimes known as "Mad Dog." At other times he's been "Chaos" and "Warrior Monk." Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis was named to take over U.S. Central Command today by Defense Secretary...

Penn State's Stirring Win-Like Thing

Penn State isn't so much "winning" the "games it is playing." But by God don't tell the guys who slap together the Penn State Football Story every week. This is the most stirring non-win in the history of non-wins that may or may not be the things called losses:You know things aren't going all that well when one of your...

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Orwell Prize 2012: 11 Things You Didn't Know About George

Born Eric Blair in 1903, the writer used the pen name George Orwell for most of his professional career.

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05/31/12 Free Your Mind, and the Rest Will Follow: Three Art... Source: Dallas Observer - Dallas TX Now that television has, for the most part, settled into blessed respite for the next three months, the onset of summer designates an ideal moment to step away from that noise and to recharge one's sluggish mind with some cerebral health food.
05/28/12 The Orwell prize gets Hitched | Richard Seymour Source: The Guardian - London - UK The political writer who, more than any other in the English language, sought to model himself on George Orwell, has finally been recognised with an Orwell prize.
05/24/12 Christopher Hitchens honoured with Orwell memorial Source: Telegraph - London - UK Other awards presented included the Blog award, which went to Rangers Tax Case - an online commentary on the financial problems at Rangers Football Club. The Journalism prize was awarded to Amelia Gentleman, for her work at The Guardian.
05/24/12 Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman wins Orwell prize Source: MediaGuardian.co.uk The Guardian 's Amelia Gentleman has won the Orwell journalism prize for a series of articles chronicling what the judges termed "the most difficult places in our society: the Britain of benefit fraudsters, benefit dependents, the carers of our elderly, and institutions for young criminals".
05/23/12 Orwell Prize 2012: 11 Things You Didn't Know About... Source: The Huffington Post Born Eric Blair in 1903, the writer used the pen name George Orwell for most of his professional career.