If you're behind in the series (or, like me, have no intention of catching up), here's a quick recap. With cats.

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apparently this style of video is a YouTube channel/series. Here's their take on Glee.

MTV guy tests Harry Potter cast on their American accents


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Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? "According to Sandvine, Netflix accounts for 20 percent of downstream Internet traffic during peak home Internet usage hours in North America. That's an amazing share - it beats that of YouTube, iTunes, Hulu, and, perhaps most tellingly, the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol BitTorrent ( Read more... )

Over the last few days I have finally caught up with the current installment of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (previous post here). This is the awesomest fucking thing I have read since I-can't-remember-when ( Read more... )

via patrissimo on Facebook: "After reading HP&TMOR, I'm not sure I could reread Harry Potter. It would seem so silly & mystical & irrational." Of course, ever since self-torturing my way through the first four books, I'm not sure I could reread Harry Potter, period. This is still funny though ( Read more... )

A Facebook friend linked to what appears[1] to be a birthday video message from Emma Watson, and Facebook captioned the link as "Emma Watson Official" which I wackyparsed as "Emma Watson Legal" which struck me as extremely odd thing for him to be celebrating because (a) the friend in question is gay and (b) she's been legal for 2 years[2 ( Read more... )

CNN:

Bollywood producers set to release a film called "Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors" are working to fend off a lawsuit filed by Warner Bros. that claims the movie title hews too closely to their mega-famous boy wizard franchise ( Read more... )

via patrissimo, a discussion of HP that captures more succinctly and clearly than I could, various elements of why I hate the series and stopped reading after #4. I also love the predictable fanboy responses railing against nit-pickers and people who are too smart for their own good and can't turn their brains off, heh. I don't know about you, but I can ( Read more... )

She's killed several people before, including an elderly senior citizen, and by failing to put her behind bars society has left her open to kill again. She claims this is the "final installment" but can we take her at her word?

WIHP moment: I went out to a nearby sandwich shop for lunch today and as I'm walking down the sidewalk, three women ( Read more... )

rmd posted recently about Harold & Kumar go to White Castle. The phrase "way better than it had any right to be" always seems to pop up in connection with that movie (check out the comments thread -- see?)

One of the other quasi-regulars in the Oaks $30-$60 (I haven't seen him lately, but I don't play frequently myself, and I did say quasi-regular) ( Read more... )