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Henry Blodget wrote about the wrong Google Firefox product today! The Blogger Web Comment extension is far more important because it is brilliantly viral. It makes the entire Web a substructure for the Blogger universe.
Read more at Tech Fun.
The incredibly cool Blogger Web Comments tool lets me create a link to my book and blog , U NAUTHORIZED A FEAST FOR CROWS ANALYSIS. If you like Blogger and Firefox, and you like ASOIAF, then 1) you are cool! and 2) you should buy my book, because I’m obviously a kindred spirit.
Read more at asoiaf.westeros.org/ind…
Tags: A Feast for Crows, google
Blogger Web Comments is brilliant and incredibly viral.
(It also seems fairly easy to abuse! I made a bee-line for high-volume pages where rare (and therefore visible) blogger comments would help me promote my line of current awareness books.)
Read more about BWC at googleblog.blogspot.com…
It’s also monstrously impressive that a new employee who has been with Google for five weeks (if I am reading his post correctly) can bring something like this out. Wow, what a culture!
Check out my SOLOMON KEY blog, too!
Tags: google, What's New for Book-Lovers
CanMag- Movies- Full Da Vinci Code Trailer!:
I don’t know if it is just me, but doesn’t Tom Hanks look kind of weird playing the role of Robert Langdon? Ahh, it’s probably just me, but I had pictured the character differently while reading the books by Dan Brown. Fortunately, Audrey Tautou (Amelie) looks pretty damn cute as investigator Sophie Neveu and I cannot wait to see this girl in a film without subtitles (I still dig her French films also). Also, does Ian McKellen have to be in every major blockbuster movie? This guy pops up everywhere and I love that Ron Howard decided to use his dialogue (voice) for the trailer.All the rest of the cast fit their parts extremely well including Paul Bettany who plays Silas, the albino Monk. Silas becomes the main villain in the film and is shown practicing the traditions of his extremist faith in the trailer; pay attention to scenes of a guy torturing himself. Yum!
Technorati tags: Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Harry Potter and the Alchemist’s Cell is one of three remaining trademarked titles that may turn out to be the real title of Harry Potter Book 7. If you’re reading this, it’s probably because I guessed right!
I’ve explained why I think “Alchemist’s Cell” might be the title of HP7 in my UNAUTHORIZED HARRY POTTER AND THE ALCHEMIST’S CELL NEWS: HALF-BLOOD PRINCE ANALYSIS (Nimble Books LLC), a 160-page book that includes a detailed chapter-by-chapter analysis of HBP.
Buy the book at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000CS44SE and get free PDF updates forever as HP7 news emerges!
Harry Potter and the Pyramids of Furmat is one of three remaining trade-marked titles that may turn out to be the final title of Harry Potter Book 7. If you’re reading this, it’s probably because I guessed right!
I’ve incorporated an analysis of all three title possibilities in my Unauthorized Harry Potter and the Pyramids of Furmat News: Half-Blood Prince Analysis, a 160-page book that includes detailed chapter-by-chapter analysis of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Buy the book at www.amazon.com/exec/obi… and get free PDF updates forever, as news about book 7 emerges!
Tags: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Patricia Cornwell on Tom Cruise: “I Can’t Watch His Movies Anymore”:
The Guardian reported in 2003 that while Cornwell was growing up, her mother was frequently hospitalized for depression and eventually left her three children in foster care. With that experience, Cornwell felt she could be “a little vehement on the subject.”…
Cornwell said she is worried that children who “hero-worship this actor” will stop taking their antidepressants or other medications because of Cruise’s anti-psychiatric-medication stance. “That little kid,” Cornwell says, “is going to commit suicide.”
“What he’s done is incredibly irresponsible and potentially damaging,” she says. “Something really bad is going to happen and I have to tell you I personally am outraged over that kind of irresponsible and ignorant behavior. I hate to say this, [but] I can’t watch his movies anymore.”
Cornwell’s latest novel, Predator, has sold 298,000 units since its Oct. 25 publication, as reported by Nielsen BookScan, putting it at the No. 10 spot on The Book Standard’s Fiction Bestsellers Chart.
Technorati tags: Patricia Cornwell, Tom Cruise
I strongly disliked Patricia Cornwell until this. I thought (and still do think) that her viewpoint characters have a cold, creepy, narcissistic tone to them. But I feel more compassion for her now … and I completely agree with her about Crazy Cruise.
