HOGSMEADE, ENGLAND- Since its release last Saturday, fans young and old have been poring through J.K. Rowling’s newest book Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince looking for action, adventure, and clues as to what might happen in the seventh and final installment in the series due out in 2007. What they didn’t expect to find was hardcore scat porn involving some of Rowling’s most beloved characters, and yet there it is.
Children as young as eight have reported finding sexually explicit sequences just like that spread throughout the book thanks to a flaw in the publication process officials are calling the “hot cauldron” mod. Understandably, parents around the world are furious over the matter and have called on Congress and Parliament to have the defective books removed from store shelves.
In its defense Rowling’s publisher Scholastic claims that the objectionable material was never intended for young eyes or even public release. The production staff carefully hid the material between chapters through a special printing process, but the millions of counterfeit copies on the market carry a flaw which allows readers to “unlock” Chapter 18 5/8, aka the Slytherin orgy sequence.
The publisher has reassured readers that everything will be fine but advises parents to ensure that their copy is genuine before handing it over to their children.
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Maybe it’s just my dirty mind, but I could not stop laughing at this headline for the opening weekend of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Intentional or unintentional, respect to the Yahoo journo who came up with it.
Could have only been bettered if they threw in something about Willy Wonka and the obvious peverse puns you could make with his first name. Like this shirt from T-Shirt Hell.
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IT IS often said that males and females are different species. For the little fire ant, that seems to be literally true.
The ant Wasmannia auropunctata, which is native to Central and South America but has spread into the US and beyond, has opted for a unique stand-off in the battle of the sexes. Both queens and males reproduce by making genetically identical copies of themselves – so males and females seem to have entirely separate gene pools.
The only time they reproduce conventionally is to produce workers, says Denis Fournier from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in Belgium, a member of the team that discovered the phenomenon (Nature, vol 435, p 1230). But workers are sterile and never pass on their genes.
This is the first reported case in the animal kingdom of males reproducing exclusively by cloning, although male honeybees do it occasionally.
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J.K Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” has broken literary records, by being the largest book to be manufactured in its first printing. 10.8 Million Copies will be made available around the world, that’s up from the 8.5 Million made for the last book.
Barnes & Noble announced that pre-orders for the new “The Half-Blood Prince” have totaled over 750,000 and it will undoubtedly reach 1 Million by the time the book goes on sale.
According to the Sunday time’s rich list, the literary sensation now has a greater net worth then the Queen of England, it seems that the new book will put her well into a completely new level of wealth.
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I’ve already got my copy pre-booked and have no problems with beating parents and children senseless to make sure I get my copy first.
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I’m not sure quite where this site sourced them from, but it has the Top 100 unpublished National Geographic photos. They are absolutely amazing, and I only wish they had some of them at a higher resolution!
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I found that the electronic touchscreens are not really suited for the kind of detailed line work that is required when drawing the intestines, so it kind of looks like a big scribbly mess — but then again, so do the intestines.
You would think that a guy painstakingly copying an illustration of the Mud Zone for several minutes, then shooting up to a half-dozen photos of his masterpiece, would draw some attention. The cashier, a young black woman, pretended to be uninterested in what I was doing. I think she was afraid to say anything, or perhaps she was awed by my lifelike depiction of human innards. Either way: unacceptable.
There is a great little experiment by a guy who was testing how much cashiers really do test signatures. It wasn’t until he bought a $4000 HDTV television that they began to take notice. Previously they have missed everything from musical scores to grids, sentences about whales with pictures to pictures of asses. Its a great read you can find here
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Someone has scanned and put up on the internet two copies of a book on how computers work from 1971 and 1979. These books are fascinating as they try to guess what computers would be like in the future, and their representations of computers of the time. 
Whilst reports appear to be sketchy, it appears even though the movie has not been given the green light, it’s damn close. Replying to a question in an audio interview John DiMaggio (The voice of Bender) is reported as saying the following:
The Family Guy Movie, previously talked about by us 
