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INSPIONS - Murali's Thought Garage (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Its just amazingly vivid, how a failure can help you grow. I love it. Here are a few excerpts. At the link below you can watch a video and download the MP3 as well. J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement : Harvard Magazine J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, [...]
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/Film (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
USA Today has released a new batch of photos from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Warner Bros has sent us high resolution versions of the photos, which you can check out below. As always, click to enlarge. The article also hints that the upcoming films might stray a little from the books. The idea [...]
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/Film (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The August 2008 issue of Empire Magazine features a new image of a bloodied Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The new issue previews 45 Movies You Need To Know About Right Now, which is basically a fall movie preview. Related Stories: Harry Potter Star Paid $50 Million for Final Two [...]
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Right Mind (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Rowling delivered the commencement address at Harvard University a few weeks ago. She said some pretty incredible things. Here is an excerpt from Harvard Magazine : I was convinced that the only thing...( read more )
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Tonight (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Actor Daniel Radcliffe says the new Harry Potter film will have drug metaphors and sexual references similar to the 1996 film about Scottish heroin addicts.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
London - A set of first edition Harry Potter books signed by author JK Rowling has been sold for 17,800 pounds (34,700 dollars) at auction in Britain, it was reported Wednesday. The set of seven hardbacks, each carrying Rowling's signature on their i...
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SMITH Magazine (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Last fall, I was running out of money in Edinburgh, Scotland and looking for work. I applied for a temporary Christmas job at Waterstone’s, the U.K.’s largest mega-chain bookstore. I filled out a ten page application and didn’t hear a thing—until I checked my mail about a month later. Waterstone’s had sent me a rejection [...]
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Kings Cross Local Environment (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Support your community, support your access to your local train and tube station!!! 16 July. 7pm. Blessed Sacrament Church, Copenhagen Street. King's Cross Railway Lands Group and King's Cross Community Projects invite you personally. This is your chance to show...
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Be Lambic or Green (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Shatnerian tagged me (he tagged me on Facebook, what’s that all about'). The following is a list compiled by the BBC of books we’re supposed to have read. Bold means I’ve read it, underlined means I love it and italics (red) means I started it but didn’t finish. 36 is part of 33 so I’m not [...]
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FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008
JK Rowling looks set to be honoured by the city of Edinburgh for her contributions to literature. The fantasy author’s handprints will be immortalised in the quadrangle outside the City Chambers and she will also receive a special award due to the honour that her achievements have brought the Scottish city. Edinburgh hopes that this [...]
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Zath (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008
To all you Harry Potter fans eagerly waiting to read the ‘Harry Potter prequel’…….here you go! You can now find it over at the Waterstones - What’s Your Story? website. It’s only a very short story that’s about 800 words, and it’s about James Potter and Sirius Black and an altercation with the police. You can find [...]
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Media Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
The Press Complaints Commission has told "Harry Potter" author J. K. Rowling that publication of information about her new digs somewhere near her existing property in Perthshire does not amount to an invasion of privacy. The PCC told the writer...
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The World's Fair (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
This is actually very nicely done - a commencement speech by JK Rowling at Harvard a few weeks ago. I've embedded the movie file below the fold for convenience, but full details (as well as the transcript of the speech) can be found here Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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'Answers' I Ching blog (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
You’ll want to subscribe to the Quoteable I Ching blog, if you haven’t already. Despite the title, it doesn’t just contain quotations from the I Ching, but lovely lucid thoughts on how other things - poems, images, quotations - reflect the hexagrams. Or how the hexagrams reflect in other things. I enjoyed all the posts so [...]