Friday, July 15, 2005

Harry Potter and the Frenzied Fans: The 6th Book Draws a Crowd. Diehard fans of Harry Potter have been flocking to bookstores across the country today to attend festivities planned around the midnight release of the sixth book in the series. By SHADI RAHIMI. [NYT > Books] 11:54:45 PM    comment []

Harry Potter frenzy begins. On CNN [NewsIsFree: Popular Items] 11:53:14 PM    comment []

Using Farmers as Bait. The all-American nightmare of the family that inherits a farm and then has to sell it to pay inheritance tax is mostly myth. [NYT > Opinion] 11:52:38 PM    comment []

Unfortunate T-shirt to be wearing for a mugshot [bOing bOing] 11:52:34 PM    comment []

Rutgers Proposal for Colleges Meets Alumnae Resistance. A Rutgers University task force is recommending creation of a college of arts and sciences that would standardize admissions criteria and other procedures. By GEORGE JAMES. [NYT > Education] 6:42:19 AM    comment []

Origins. Rock legend Bo Diddley looks back on 50 years of influencing the sound of rock and roll and R And in our regular Please Explain feature we'll take a look at the origins of Scientology. [WNYC New York Public Radio] 6:41:52 AM    comment []

Karl Rove's America. President Bush's adviser understood long before the rest of us that facts are irrelevant. By PAUL KRUGMAN. [NYT > Opinion] 6:41:47 AM    comment []

Tools Give Video Freaks the Power. New software makes it easy for amateur broadcasters to share their work over the internet, at higher quality than ever before. The last in a three-part series. By Katie Dean. [Wired News] 6:39:20 AM    comment []

Own Original Chinese Copies of Real Western Art!. China's low wages and hunger for exports have already changed many industries. The art world, at least art for the masses, seems to be next. By KEITH BRADSHER. [NYT > Business] 6:39:12 AM    comment []

Rove Confirmed Plame Indirectly, Lawyer Says Bush Aide Said Columnist Told Him Name By Mike Allen, Page A01 Senior Bush advisor Karl Rove confirmed the CIA operative's identity after columnist Robert Novak raised her name in a telephone interview, according to a lawyer involved in the case. [Washington Post: Top News] 6:38:50 AM    comment []

In South Korea, a test of the Internet's Power to Shame. It began in a subway train with a girl whose dog made a mess on the train floor. When nearby elders told her to clean up the mess, she basically told them to f... off. One of the train riders took pictures of the incident with a camera phone of her and posted it, without any masking, on a popular website, which started a nationwide witchhunt. The "Dog excrement girl" incident that fueled netizens on the Internet last month in Korea then become food for thought among American bloggers. [via mobuzzTV and Picturephoning] [Smart Mobs] 6:37:47 AM    comment []

Discovery of a First: A World With 3 Suns. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, has thrown another nasty curve to theorists of the origin and dynamics of planetary systems. By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD. [NYT > Science] 6:37:25 AM    comment []