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In the Name of Hope: Perpetual War and the Nobel Peace Prize

Hamdan Azhar | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1984, War on Terror, Hope, Pakistan, Nobel Peace Prize, Iraq, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan War, Anti-War, Geir Lundestad, Peace Prize Response, Superpower, Norwegian Nobel Committee, Politics News
Hamdan Azhar

If the Nobel Peace Prize Committee tells us that war is compatible with peace, who are we to say otherwise?

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Amazon 1984 Settlement: High School Student Awarded $150,000

Computer World | Matt Hamblen | Posted 10.02.2009 | Books

Read More: 1984, Amazon.com, Amazon 1984 Settlement, Amazon 1984, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Amazon Settlement, 1984 E-Book, 1984 Settlement, Books, E-Books, Amazon, Ereaders, Books News

Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a Michigan high school student and an California academic whose elec...

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Lies, Damned Lies -- and the DoubleSpeak I Would Erase From the English Language

Johann Hari | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: 1984, Pentagon, Malawi, Afghanistan, Doublespeak, Vietnam War, Christian, Collateral Damage, George Orwell, Fertilizer, Jewish, Climate Change, Elizabeth, New Labor, Muslim, Richard Dawkins, Queen Elizabeth, Infant Mortality, Global Warming, World News
Johann Hari

The English language needs a spring cleaning to purge phrases that, while posing as neutral descriptions of the world, contain a hidden political agenda that then molds the assumptions of the listener.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Welcome, Big Brother: Ondi Timoner on We Live in Public

Dan Persons | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1984, Fema, The Dandy Warhols, Film, Josh Harris, Exclusive, George Orwell, Facebook Privacy, Facebook, Privacy, New York, Movies, Web 2.0, Cookies, Ondi Timoner, Internet, Quiet: We Live in Public, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Interview, Invasion of Privacy, Soho, Documentary, Voyeurism, Big Brother, We Live in Public, Pseudo, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In the documentary We Live in Public, director Ondi Timoner focuses on an experiment in which 100 people were shut into a Soho, NY basement with all the comforts of home, plus 24/7 surveillance.

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Amazon's Perfect Mistake

Michael Sigman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: 1984, Kindle, Edison, Columbus, Big Brother, Amazon, Perfection, Harry Shearer, Media News
Michael Sigman

Amazon screwed up last month when it sold Kindle users an unlicensed version of a book. The online behemoth then compounded its goof.

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My Kindle Ate My Homework

Marc Hershon | Posted 08.18.2009 | Media

Read More: 1984, I Hate People, Animal Farm, Kindle, Orwell, Amazon, Marc Hershon, Amazon Kindle, Media News
Marc Hershon

Amazon slapped my sense of ownership and control across the face yesterday when I learned they reached right into the Kindles of anumber of customers and deleted -- irony of ironies -- copies of George Orwell's 1984.

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Medvedev Imposes Control Over Russian History

Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: 1984, Russia, History, Censorship, Russian Politics, Truth, World News
Oleg Kozlovsky

Since "falsification of history" is a very vague definition, their field of work is only limited by their own fantasy.

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Deeply Superficial

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Read More: 1984, Google, News Corp, Sting, Twitter, Britney Spears, Cnn, Obama, Facebook, Myspace, Behavioral Targeting, Jimi Hendrix, Big Brother, Celebrities, Ashton Kutcher, Media News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

The internet is like an amusement park: There are rides that get lots of attention then fade in popularity as something newer and faster shows up. The newest attraction on the fairground is Twitter.

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Memo To Right-Wing: Withdrawal Timetable Now Doubleplusgood

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

I'm on a lot of strange press lists, so I get a lot of strange press releases, but this is the first time I've ever gotten one from another dimension, I have to admit.

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"Well . . . I'd Like to Bring about World War, Charlie."

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1984, George Orwell 1984, Sarah Palin Beauty Queen, John McCain 2008, Beauty Pageants, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Watching Sarah Palin attempt to answer some of Charlie Gibson's questions was reminiscent of the responses given by contestants in beauty pageants. ...

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Barack Obama is the President -- Why are Black People Still So Mad?

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1984, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Police, Political Drama, Satire, Violence, Police Brutality, Obama, Black, Justice, San Francisco, African Americans, Civil Rights, Election, Cops, Politics News
Michael Gene Sullivan

A calm day. A sunny, day, for San Francisco - which means really foggy with what will ultimately be an unfulfilled promise of sun later. A nice day, w...

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The Opposite of Voyeurism: Why People Twitter

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Living

Read More: 1984, Friends, Twitter, Digg, Second Life, Cavemen, Facebook, Culture, Friendship, Internet, Loneliness, Youtube, Robert Scoble, Dystopian Films, Blogging, Living News
Michelle Haimoff

Observing large-scale technological phenomena informs us about where the culture's at these days; Twitter might indicate that people are lonely.

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