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And cleaning out my inbox. From last Sunday at 10am until now, I got:

Total emails	368
marked by spamassassin	207
marked by Thunderbird	3
uncaught spam	58
Facebook invites/notifications	10
LJ comments	32
Google Alerts	13
Miscellanous	45

(NB: This doesn't include very high scoring spam, which never even reaches me)

Bloody Media

Headline: Cannabis 'raises psychosis risk'
Content: Cannabis users are 40% more likely than non-users to suffer a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia, say UK experts.
Rebuttal (right at the very end of the article): "Their prediction that 14% of psychotic outcomes in young adults in the UK may be due to cannabis use is not supported by the fact that the incidence of schizophrenia has not shown any significant change in the past 30 years."
Article here.

Shhh, I'm hunting Grendels

Beowulf Trailer here.
What on earth is the point of making an entirely CGI movie and then making the characters look like the actors? You can make them look like _anything_, so why make them less realistic versions of themselves?

Also - I've seen good CGI. Frankly, I've seen CGI so good I didn't know it was CGI. So why does this look like CGI?
(cheers to johnbobshaun for the link)

What Harry Did Next

Not seen this elsewhere yet - but in an interview JK gives away a few things that happened to the remaining cast after the end of book 7.