Rowling Outs Dumbledore
http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=c2b40da2-2406-4e8f-bc89-6fc11d1b0e41entry=indexsid=rss_topstoriesutm_source=eonlineutm_medium=rssfeedsutm_campaign=rss_topstories http://tinyurl.com/ywcohr Albus Dumbledore took quite a few secrets with him to the grave. And it's possible that even he didn't know about this one. After helping Dumbledore's favorite pupil uncover a treasure trove of information about the Hogwarts headmaster in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final installment of her billion-dollar fantasy series, J.K. Rowling has pulled something new out of the pensieve: Dumbledore was gay. (What you just heard was the sound of conservative religious groups scribbling down one more reason to loathe the Harry Potter franchise.) Falling in love can blind us to an extent, Rowling explained Friday in front of a packed house at New York's Carnegie Hall, where she capped off her first U.S. book tour since 2000. Which explains why the brilliant wizard was briefly blinded as a young man by the charm and skill of Gellert Grindelwald, his companion turned arch-nemesis who turned out to be more interested in the Dark Arts than a three-bedroom craftsman in Hogsmeade. After Dumbledore was horribly, terribly let down, Rowling explained, he went on to destroy Grindelwald in what is considered in the wizarding world to have been the ultimate wand-toting battle between good and evil. That love, she said to raucous applause, was Dumbledore's great tragedy. If I had know this would have made you so happy, I would have told you years ago, Rowling said. If this revelation seems almost too whimsical, consider this: Rowling, who penned much of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in a café while living out of her car, can certainly be a bit cheeky, but it seems highly unlikely that she would try to put one over on a Manhattan landmark full of kids and other readers who have made her one of the richest people in England. While working on the sixth Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which focuses largely on Dumbledore and Harry's relationship, as well as the elder wizard's interaction with a young Voldemort, Rowling said that she slipped director David Yates an eye-opening note after noticing that there was a reference in the script to a girl in Dumbledore's past. There's no word yet on if this will affect Michael Gambon's character in the final two Potter movies, which are slated for release in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Dumbledore's sexuality has apparently been of great interest to bloggers and chat room denizens for years, with his history-and intimate affinities-becoming the subject of much debate and, ahem, original short stories. Just imagine the fan fiction now, Rowling joked. Of course, one could always have shrugged off the lack of romance in his life, what with his hectic work schedule and his penchant for secrecy. And, as the scarred one learned in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore could be quite temperamental, especially when protecting those he loved. xponent Expectnot Decorum Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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On 19 Oct 2007 at 8:34, Julia Thompson wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101702359.html A 75-year-old woman took out her frustration on the lack of reasonable service from Comcast with a hammer. The tone isn't quite journalistic, but if you're looking for amusement, it'll do nicely. Comcast are also, incidentally, blocking P2P and anything that looks like P2P. By packet tampering. http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/10/19/comcast/ This is what a lot of the origional net neutrality was about - the baseline. Prioritisation is fine, degrading selectively isn't. (i.e. You might chose to priotitise VoIP traffic from your selected partner on their pay service so they're allways rock-steady. Fine. But then artifically introducing noise into or dropping other VoIP traffic by shaping those connections bandwidth severely? Not fine.) AndrewC Dawn Falcon ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Rowling Outs Dumbledore
In a message dated 10/20/2007 3:25:38 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dumbledore was gay Now you know the reason why he kept the sorting hat in his office. Vilyehm ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Rowling Outs Dumbledore
At 04:32 PM Saturday 10/20/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/20/2007 3:25:38 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dumbledore was gay Now you know the reason why he kept the sorting hat in his office. Vilyehm I expect I should be glad I don't quite get that . . . -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
150 MPG from a Toyota Prius
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34422/113/ TG Video: Aftermarket lithium-ion battery pack squeezes 150 MPG from a Toyota Prius Ontario (CA) - A new lithium-ion battery pack for the Toyota Prius may not lower gas prices, but it promises to make trips to the gas station less frequent - a lot less frequent. Made by Hymotion and A123 Systems - the same folks that brought you the batteries in the Killacycle - this aftermarket kit converts the car into a plug-in hybrid and allows it to run on electric power for the first forty miles of a trip. As you can expect, total gas mileage goes through the roof and company executives claim drivers can easily exceed 150 miles-per-gallon in the city and 100 MPG on the highways. We inspected one of Hymotion's specially outfitted cars at the Clean Vehicle Technology Expo in Ontario California. The 175-pound battery pack installs in the spare tire well of the trunk and you still have the entire trunk space for cargo. You can even lay the spare tire on top of the battery pack, but Nick Rothman, a kit installer for Green Gears, told us that some companies go without the spare and carry a can of Fix a Flat instead. In your average Prius, the gasoline engine still does the majority of the work and the batteries merely take over at low speeds. The Hymotion-equipped car, however, works much differently. Owners charge up their vehicles with a regular 110 or 220 volt extension cord and afterwards the car will drive dozens of miles solely on electrical power. From empty, the five kilovolt battery pack charges in about six hours with 110 volt and 3 hours with 220 volt electricity. According to Rothman, the kit takes about four hours to install and a few more hours of testing and configuration. Other than the extra batteries and an added charging outlet, the Prius remains stock and unchanged. The Hymotion kits are currently being tested by several companies, but Ricardo Bazzarella, President of Hymotion, told us Prius owners won't have to wait long to get their own kits and plans on having them available in the first quarter of 2008 for approximately $9500 dollars (installation included). xponent Rolling Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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Re: Rowling Outs Dumbledore
In a message dated 10/20/2007 3:03:15 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a message dated 10/20/2007 3:25:38 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dumbledore was gay Now you know the reason why he kept the sorting hat in his office. Vilyehm I expect I should be glad I don't quite get that . . . It was a pointy hat. It was made from pressed wool. Sometimes the point of the hat drooped. The hat was frequently felt up. ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
