Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling Book Review



The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated, arguably over-hyped Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has arrived, and the question on the minds of kids, adults, fans, and skeptics alike is, "Is it worth the hype?" The answer, luckily, is simple: yep. A magnificent spectacle more than worth the price of admission, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will blow you away. However, given that so much has gone into protecting the secrets of the book (including armored trucks and injunctions), don't expect any spoilers in this review. It's much more fun not knowing what's coming--and in the case of Rowling's delicious sixth book, you don't want to know. Just sit tight, despite the earth-shattering revelations that will have your head in your hands as you hope the words will rearrange themselves into a different story. But take one warning to heart: do not open Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince until you have first found a secluded spot, safe from curious eyes, where you can tuck in for a good long read. Because once you start, you won't stop until you reach the very last page.


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Devil Walk by Clint M. Byars

Devil Walk - A True Story by Clint M. Byars



Trapped for months in a living hell!

Mental torment day and night!

And finally…rescued by the power of infinite love!

This is the kind of story that Hollywood dreams of: an encounter with the demonic world in the best tradition of Lovecraft, Craven, and King yet it is absolutely true!

Come along for the ride as Clint Byars bares his heart and tells of the dark night when he descended into the demonic realm and met Satan face-to-face. Experience with him the months of unremitting mental torment when he simply went through the motions of daily life even as he believed he was actually dead and in hell.

Discover with him the true nature of Satan and his realm: a realm built on lies and elaborate deceptions and where Satan himself is a liar and the author of lies.

Join author Clint Byars as he discovers a power greater than the lies of the devil: the power of truth; the power of the infinite love of Jesus Christ that breaks the chains of his deception, frees him from his hell on earth and brings him for the first time into the world of those who are truly alive!

You’ve never read a personal testimony like Devil Walk. Once you read Clint Byars’ incredible true story you will never look at Satan the same way again. You will understand that because of Christ there is no reason to fear Satan. He is a "paper lion" and an already defeated enemy!


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Another Word A Day by Anu Garg

Another Word A Day - An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English by Anu Garg.



In this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual, intriguing words and real-life anecdotes that will thrill writers, scholars, and word buffs everywhere. Another Word A Day celebrates the English language in all its quirkiness, grandeur, and fun, and features new chapters ranging from "Words Formed Erroneously" and "Red-Herring Words" to "Kangaroo Words," "Discover the Theme," and "What Does That Company Name Mean?" In them, you'll find a treasure trove of curious and compelling words, including agelast, dragoman, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, tattersall, and zugzwang. Each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example, interspersed with illuminating quotations.


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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus - The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex by John Gray.



Psychotherapist Gray ( What You Feel You Can Heal ) adds to the growing number of self-help books that assess marital and relationship problems in terms of distinct and pervasive gender differences. Unfortunately, his overuse of gimmicky, often silly analogies and metaphors makes his otherwise down-to-earth guide hard to take seriously. Here Martians (men or Pinky) play Mr. Fix-It while Venusians (women) run the Home-Improvement Committee; when upset, Martians "go to their caves" (to sort things out alone) while Venusians "go to the well" (for emotional cleansing). While graphically illustrative, the hyperbolic, overextended comparisons, particularly in the chapters that refer to men as rubber bands and women as waves, significantly detract from Gray's realistic insights. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.



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Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics - A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner.



Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses (like Pinky) make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet.


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The Worst Person in the World by Keith Olbermann

The Worst Person in the World - And 202 Strong Contenders by Keith Olbermann.



A collection of top-ranked stinkers, rascals, and reprobates, plus a few just-plain-dumb folks, as seen and shared on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann

Controversial, outspoken, and wildly entertaining, Keith Olbermann hosts a popular nightly newscast on MSNBC. A key feature of Olbermann’s unique and witty countdown of the day’s top stories is his daily award for "The Worst Person in the World." Honorees range from dumb criminals to the likes of Tom Cruise, Amber Frey, Geraldo Rivera, the Coca-Cola Company, assorted members of the Bush Administration, and FEMA spokesperson Mary Hudak. Bill O’Reilly of Fox News has a bumper crop of gold medals. From sports figures to schoolteachers, no one is exempt from Olbermann’s ire not even Pinky.


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Squat by Taylor Field

Squat by Taylor Field.



"We live in a squat. We don’t know squat. We don’t have squat. We don’t do squat. We don’t give a squat. People say we’re not worth squat."

In the shadow of Wall Street’s wealth, homeless people with names like Pinky, Olbermann, Squid, Saw, and Bonehead live in abandoned buildings known as "squats" where life is hand to mouth, where fear and violence fester. The light in Squid’s obsessive-compulsive mind’s eye is Rachel, a loving soup kitchen missionary who tells him about faith and unfaith, hypocrisy and justice, the character of God and finding identity in Him. And in the wild twenty-four-hour passage of literary time that is Squat, Squid begins to believe that his life may actually amount to something.


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Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson

Animals in Translation - Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson.



Temple Grandin has been known to crawl through slaughterhouses to get a sense of what the animals there are experiencing. An autistic woman who as a child was recommended for institutionalization, Grandin has managed not only to enter society’s mainstream but ultimately to become prominent in animal research. An associate professor at Colorado State University, she designs facilities used worldwide for humane handling of livestock. She also invented a "hug machine" (based on a cattle-holding chute) that calms autistic children. In Animals in Translation, co-authored with science writer Catherine Johnson, Grandin makes an intriguing argument that, psychologically, animals and autistic people have a great deal in common—and that both have mental abilities typically underestimated by normal people. The book is a valuable, if speculative, contribution to the discussion of both autism and animal intelligence, two subjects on which there is little scientific consensus. Autistics, in Grandin’s view, represent a "way station" between average people, with all their verbal and conceptual abilities, and animals. In touring animal facilities, Grandin often spots details—a rattling chain, say, or a fluttering piece of cloth—that disturb the animals but have been overlooked by the people in charge. She also draws on psychological studies to show how oblivious humans can be to their surroundings. Ordinary humans seem to be less detail-oriented than animals and autistics. Grandin argues that animals have formidable cognitive capabilities, albeit specialized ones, whereas humans are cognitive generalists. Dogs are smell experts, birds are migration specialists, and so on. In her view, some animals have a form of genius—much as autistic savants can perform feats of memory and calculation far beyond the abilities of average people. Some dogs, for example, can predict when their owner is about to have a seizure. Delving into animal emotion, aggression and suffering, Grandin gives tips that may be useful for caretakers of pets and farm animals. She also notes that humans seem to need, and thrive on, the proximity of animals. Indeed, she states provocatively, in the process of becoming human we gave up something primal, and being around animals helps us get a measure of that back.

Kenneth Silber from Scientific American.


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Biggest hole in the world!

This is a clip from an old post that I have made earlier. It goes like this:

Holy mother on earth! What are we not doing to harm our fragile nature.
Look at this clip. It shows the biggest man made hole in the world. This hole is dugg in Russia and it's so big that you can spot it from space.
It is also said that the suction above the hole is so strong that it has resulted in several helicopter crashes. Nowdays all flights over the hole is prohibited.

Click the play-button to start the clip. After the clip you'll be presented an option. If you like it, click the picture/movie.




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Trace Adkins is HOT!

Ohhh! I just love Trace Adkins. I just can't get enough listening to him. His voice is so powerful. Today I heard him on Fox News, and he is sooo sexy!
I saw him on Opryland last year and I fell in love. He represent the genuin american man to me.
On August 15, his new album "Dangerous Man" is released and I have already pre-ordered my copy.

Go to his website and listen to his sexy voice at www.traceadkins.com


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Israel Halts Mombing for 48 hours

The aerial bombardment of southern Lebanon is suspended for 48 hours, starting immediately, to allow for an investigation into Sunday's bombing that killed 54 civilians, a US State Department official said on Monday.

Israel will also coordinate with the United Nations to allow a 24-hour window for residents of southern Lebanon to leave the area if they wish, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli told a briefing in Jerusalem.

Link: The New York Times

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Mel Gibson Donates $500.000 To Israels Children

The L.A. County Sheriff's Department has been caught in a giagntic lie that they now can't undo.
The deputy who arrested Mel Gibson wrote an eight page detalied report but officials ordered the arresting deputy to rewrite his report, eliminating the four pages TMZ has posted on their web site.

The L.A. County Sheriff's Department was trying to "cover up" but now the shit has hit the fan.

People around Gibson has for a long time discussed his hatred agins Jews and he has been tied to anti-Semitism because of his father dismisses historical accounts of the Holocaust as "impossible". (Note! This site may be down due to heavy traffic).
Mel Gibson is trying to clean up the mess he's in to. He is now trying to distance himself from his statements: “I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable,” he said.
And according to initiated sources he has donated $500.000 to israeli children suffering
from the Israel/Lebanon conflict.

Bahh! It's to late for that now Mr Gibson. Maybe you should take those $500.000 and buy Tequilas, that may blur out the negative effects of this rotten story, at least for a short while.

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Mel Gibson blaming Jews for all the wars in the world

Friday 28th July Mel Gibson was aressted in Malibu/Lost Hills station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for drunk driving. Mel Gibson allegedly blurted out anti-semitic remarks as "fucking Jews" and "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world" and asking the arresting deputy "Are you a Jew?"

Today Mel Gibson issued a statement apologizing for his drunk driving arrest and saying he has battled alcoholism throughout his life.

Read the whole official arrest report here.
Read the whole story here.

Picture courtesy of Reuters.

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Biggest hole in the world!

Holy mother on earth! What are we not doing to harm our fragile nature.
I found these pictures on a forum Barbecuestopper, and they show a hole so big that you can spot it from space.
It is also said that the suction above the hole is so strong that it has resulted in several helicopter crashes. Nowdays all flights over the hole is prohibited.









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New Blog

I realized that I'm spreading alot when I write in my blog. I write about everything that come up to my minde. Thats why I started some other blogs to straighten it ut
One of my new blogs is called "Revver Review" where I put all the clips that I find funny, amusing and somewhat interesting, and of couse "a lot of" content that I know you find interesting.

As a matter of fact, there are millions of good video clips out there, so it's hard to put everything up on my page.
And as I'm working with Revver Review, I realized that technorati is not up to date when pinging them.
I have pinged them a copuple of times, but nothing happens. Maybe they don't like my new site.

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Short Movies on YouTube

Are you one of those videoartist that put content in your work. Then YouTube is not a place for you. The chief executive at YouTube Chad Hurley say that they are aiming for the quick-click generation that likes its entertainment in bites of 2 1/2 minutes.

Boooring Chad! You're just going for more advertisments and trying to make more money, by cutting all videos short.

My suggestion is that we all produce a bottle of coke+couscous and send it to Chad!
What? Doing what? you say.
Just look at the clip below and you'll understand.




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Extreme Coke & Couscous Experiment

Guys! You're gonna like this!
It's genious, and you will know why after you seen it.



Nowdays it´s hard to find fun video clips to look at on the videosites like Youtube, zippyvideos, Google Video, MSN Video etc. Mostly people are uploading crap like sexy hot babes tripping around in thong and string pantys. That's not my idea of fun.

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Whats happening on Eefoof.com ?

Hey, what's happening on eefoof.com ?
It seems that the members are bitching about the uploaded media. Some call it crap.
Stop it! This is not Lebanon. War is out, love is in.
How do they dare to call my Glowing Pal Duck "crap"!!!
Actually the duck was crap, that's why I posted it on eefoof, to warn everybody about it.
Some members thinks that the quality of the media will destroy the reputation of eefoof, but don't worry. There are other sites just like eefoof, and they host as much art/crap. eefoof will live long, trust me.

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