Monthly Archives: February 2011

See the stats shoot up – Yet more on plagiarism, nihilist fantasy, thrillers and blogging

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Cora

My website stats have really been exploding these past few days. Yesterday was the busiest day since the revamp/return of this blog in October 2010 with 103 visitors according to the WordPress stats plug-in. Most people seem to have come … Continue reading →

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Sex, Morality and Epic Fantasy

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Cora

There is yet one more response to the nihilism in fantasy issue at the Black Gate blog by someone named Theo, who is also the ultra-rightwing blogger Vox Day. Very unsurprisingly, he agrees with Leo Grin’s original point. There are … Continue reading →

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Berlin Film Festival

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Cora

Among all the plagiarism and nihilism discussions, I completely forgot that the jury of the Berlin Film Festival has awarded the golden and silver bears for 2011. This year was a clean sweep for the Iranian film Jodaeiye Nader az … Continue reading →

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Oh Joy! – Yet more on Plagiarism, Nihilism and Prescriptive Linguists – Oh, Joy!

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Cora

The spam catcher plug-in I use is normally fairly effective, but it also has its moments of fail. Today, it let through an obvious spam comment (for online shoe shops of all things), while a legitimate comment got caught in … Continue reading →

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And now for that other controversial subject

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Cora

The whole nihilist fantasy debate is still driving a lot of traffic to the site. Yesterday, I had 60 visitors, down from an all-time high of 85 the day before. Today, there have been already 17 visitors. Related to the … Continue reading →

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Why Plagiarism is a Big Deal

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Cora

Today, I was at a family birthday dinner. On the plus side, I got to spend some time with a family member in a difficult situation and had an excellent meal of antipasti, pasta with creamy vegetable tomato sauce and … Continue reading →

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More Plagiarism, More Nihilism, Some Romance and Some Metrics

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Cora

There is a definite upside to blogging about hot potato subjects like I did in yesterday’s post. Because February 17th, 2011, was the busiest day since the relaunch of the site with 85 visitors altogether according to the WordPress Stats … Continue reading →

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Plagiarism, Vampires, Nihilist Fantasy and the latest Genre Dust-up

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Cora

I’m busy with work, but lots of other interesting things happened online and off. Hence, I have lots of links for you today under the cut:

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Ruminations on Mad Men

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Cora

There have been at least two article of late where a writer explains why he doesn’t like the 1960s advertising industry drama Mad Men. Here’s

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Book Haul, Romanheft Woes and the Demise of the Cheque

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Cora

Today, I was at the bank to pay a cheque into my account and had an “Okay, now how does this work again” moment, because I haven’t actually handled a cheque in ages. For something that used to be nigh … Continue reading →

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