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Remixing the Works of Others into Best-Sellers?

by revgeorge 02.25.2010

Saw a very interesting article the other day over on Techdirt regarding a teenager who remixed and or plagiarized the works of others into a best selling book which is up for a prestigious prize in Germany. I’ll share some passages from the Techdirt article and then a few brief quotes from a New York [...]

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Around the Common Room

by Travis Prinzi 02.18.2010

Lots of Harry Potter in the news recently. Let’s go through a few important stories.
J.K. Rowling Sued for Plagiarism
Rowling and Bloomsbury are being sued; the charge is plagiarizing a story that J.K. Rowling says she’d never heard of before the first accusations in 2004. The supposed source material is the Adrian Jacobs’ book The Adventures [...]

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Joss Whedon’s Firefly View-Through

by korg20000bc 02.12.2010

On the Hog’s Head forum we’re beginning a view-through of Joss Whedon’s brilliant Sci/Fi series Firefly.
This is an excellently conceived, written, acted and produced series that is well worth your time and won’t insult your intellect. Just the sort of series that Fox likes to axe.
We’ll be going through the series episode by episode [...]

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Music To Get Lost To

by Jenna St. Hilaire 02.11.2010

All right, all you Lost fans. I admit to getting so creeped out by the episode where Locke “meets” Jacob with Ben that I never saw another, even though—or perhaps because—that was only the fourth or fifth episode I’d ever seen. As your resident wizard rocker, though, I have to apprise you of a fantastic [...]

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Favorite Tolkien Middle Earth Quotes

by korg20000bc 02.09.2010

Following on the success of Favorite Movie Quotes here’s a place to hoist up your Tolkien bites.
Remember its TOLKIEN not that “based on JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings” tripe, ok?
And that means you.

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2010 Fantasy Movie Preview

by revgeorge 02.07.2010

Over at The Torch Online Heather Hogan has put together a nice preview of upcoming fantasy films in 2010. Quite a few films coming out this year, including some big ones. Ms. Hogan has previewed 15 films, the most notable, in my opinion, being Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Voyage of the [...]

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New Poll: Your 3 Favourite John Carpenter Films

by korg20000bc 02.01.2010

John Carpenter (did he get that name from The Day the Earth Stood Still?)has made some great movies. They’ll always be associated with my teen years (not all of them, of course) and some of the music scores he’s written are still in my head.
Please let us know what you like and why you [...]

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