Dead Plagarists Society

So apparently I have become a blog-a-holic over these last few days. But I had to share this very interesting article from Slate, where I've recently been finding a lot of good reading material.

The article discusses how in the future, Google Book Search may be used to find plagarists from long ago. Of course there are only so many turns of phrase and word combinations that you can use in writing, but it would still be neat to see if not whom plagirized whom back in the day, at least those writers who acted as (literal) inspiration to others.