Seven days ago, a new
YouTube channel teased the creation of a mysterious new website called
Pottermore. Today, JK Rowling
released details about the new site. Pottermore will be 1) the exclusive place to purchase Harry Potter e-books, 2) a Harry Potter interactive experience/social networking site of sorts, and 3) a (free) repository of many pages of back notes about the Harry Potter series, similar in content, different in form, and
possibly replacing the existence of the Harry Potter encyclopedia long-teased by Rowling.
Fans react.
posted by lewedswiver
on Jun 23, 2011 -
54 comments
Greetings from the Twine Ball, wish you were here: "But you can't see out of the side of the car, because the windows are completely covered with the decals of all the places where we've already been: there's
Elvis-O-Rama, the
Tupperware Museum, the
Boll Weevil Monument, and
Cranberry World, the
Shuffleboard Hall Of Fame,
Poodle Dog Rock, and the
Mecca of Albino Squirrels. We've been to ghost towns, theme parks, wax museums, and
a place where you can drive through the middle of a tree ... "
[more inside]
posted by WCityMike
on Jul 8, 2010 -
41 comments
Once upon a time in the town of
Point,
everything - all the buildings,
trees, and even the
people were pointed.
Except for one little
round-headed kid named
Oblio.
"I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'" – Harry Nilsson" [more inside]
posted by ExitPursuedByBear
on Feb 6, 2010 -
44 comments
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
recently leaked on a few torrent sites... or did it?
Security measures taken included pallets of books protected by alarms, baited lawyers, and even delivery trucks with satellite tracking, which seems at odds with this
UPS delivery truck stacked with loose boxes 5 days before they are to be delivered.
A spokeswoman at Scholastic, the book's US publisher, said "she was aware of at least three different versions of the file 'that look very convincing' with what she described as 'conflicting content.'" So what's real and what's fake? We'll just have to
wait and see.
posted by jwells
on Jul 17, 2007 -
124 comments
Anyone who has spent time browsing through
Deviant Art has almost certainly run into the cartoons of a young Australian woman named
Gemma Wilson. She is fond of Harry Potter, snakepeople and (occasionally) torture and hermaprodites. She has a
fan club. And
she has detractors. Make of this what you will.
posted by metasonix
on Jun 26, 2007 -
29 comments
Spoiling Harry Potter: Hacker claims to have spoiled the last Harry Potter book with a technique called
spear phishing.
"We make this spoiler to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring ... It's amazing to see how much people inside the company have copies and drafts of this book." Let's see if we can discuss spoilers and spear phishing without actually spoiling anything here. Warning: The Wired link is safe, but it contains a link to the purported spoiler.
posted by Cool Papa Bell
on Jun 21, 2007 -
82 comments
Harry and the Potters was the first wizard rock band but inspired other wizard rock bands such as Draco and the Malfoys, The Whomping Willows, The Dark Markers, Cousin Wizardface, The Hungarian Horntails, Bella's Love, The Prisoners Of Azkaban and Ginny and the Weasleys." also check out
this,
this,
this, and
this.
posted by alona
on Jul 2, 2006 -
47 comments
Man tells President Bush that he should be ashamed of himself. Bushie has been touring the country talking to the people and the people have been talking back. Today he met with his toughest and most elequent angry citizen, one Mr. Harry Taylor who began with this salvo:
Q: You never stop talking about freedom, and I appreciate that. But while I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right to tap my telephone, to arrest me and hold me without charges, to try to preclude me from breathing clean air and drinking clean water and eating safe food. If I were a woman, you'd like to restrict my opportunity to make a choice and decision about whether I can abort a pregnancy on my own behalf. You are --
THE PRESIDENT: I'm not your favorite guy. Go ahead. (Laughter and applause.) Go on, what's your question? (
full transcript here)
posted by tsarfan
on Apr 6, 2006 -
106 comments
Poor Prince Harry Drug rehab clinic it is. Also chips
thumb playing football and puts
foot through a glass door at party. Wonder if its all connected. PS Rehab for weed and alcohol only? Fishy.
posted by Voyageman
on Jan 12, 2002 -
18 comments
