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On Friday, British author J.K. Rowling revealed for the first time that Albus Dumbledore, one of the central heroes in the record-breaking Harry Potter series, is in fact a gay man. Asked if Dumbledore, “who believed in the prevailing power of love,” had ever fallen “in love himself,” Rowling said that he once had with [...]

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JK Rowling has taken Albus Dumbledore — the wizard father-figure of her Harry Potter books — out of the (broom) closet, stating that she always thought of him as gay:
Speaking at Carnegie Hall on Friday night in her first U.S. tour in seven years, Rowling confirmed what some fans had always suspected — that [...]

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A few weeks back, Michael Moore’s latest film, Sicko, was released and fared pretty decently at the box office, despite being available on P2P networks — a situation one hyperbolic article described as “every film maker’s worst marketing nightmare.” That’s a story that’s played out time and time again, as the mere availability of pirated [...]

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Cory Doctorow:
The new Harry Potter novel — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — has hit the Internet days before its publication. The publisher spent a reported $20 million on keeping the book secret. Was the money well-spent? As Bruce Schneier points out, the kind of person who downloads a series of photos of the [...]

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Perhaps the funniest comments I’ve read in a long long time…

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