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...roughly the area of a sheet of paper, the reader could be built to hold, say, a gigabyte of data. That's space enough for 1,000 standard-length books - or the text of the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica three times over, with room to spare for the Harry Potter series...
...Harry Potter has buff abs! Oh, and his acting career is maturing too. DANIEL RADCLIFFE, 17, everyone's favorite boy wizard, cast a different sort of spell when he posed for a series of risqué promotional photos for his stage debut, a revival of Equus, opening in London Feb. 16. The photos, the most chaste of which is shown here, were passed around the Internet like a quaffle around a Quidditch pitch. (Radcliffe's role as an unstable stable boy calls for him to be nude onstage.) He also guest-stars as a comically bad-with-girls version of himself...
...there any replacement for long-haul air travel itself. I can take a train from Boston to Washington, but until we can figure out how to travel via fireplace, Harry Potter--style, the only way I'm getting from Tokyo to New York City is in aircraft that may emit more than 5,200 lbs. (about 2,400 kg) of carbon per passenger, round-trip, according to one estimate. On an individual level, you can try to make your flight carbon neutral by donating to, say, a forestry project that will soak up the greenhouse gases you have created...
...With this in mind, behold Princeton University’s newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, which recently published a somewhat funny joke issue. One article hails the arrival of Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe to the university. Another details a deal where Princeton would swap 10 spots in college rankings with the University of Florida for one of its top athletic programs...
...anyway. 9) Use your own blood to write a note on a paper airplane. Launch the airplane out the window. 10) Catch an unsuspecting pigeon, attach a rolled up note to its leg and tell it to look for help (it worked for Harry Potter!). 11) Find two cups (HUDS, Solo Cups, Starbucks, anything will do), and a piece of string (braided body hair works well too) to make one of those old-school treehouse phones. Hang one end out the window and hope someone decides to listen. 12) Start babbling incoherently, convincing all in near proximity that...