By Harvey Nichols, yet.
 
Tags: Wallace, Gromit, makeover, Harvey+Nichols, Harvey+Nicks, clothes, fashion, Lady+Campanula, Tottington

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Here, try this on for size.
Random House Children’s Books has agreed to remove a four-letter swearword from a popular book by Dame Jacqueline Wilson after complaints from Anne Dixon, who insists she is standing up for values of common decency.
The 55-year-old said she was horrified when she came across the expletive in the best-selling book […]

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Here’s the announcement via MarketWatch.
Warner Bros. says they’re rescheduling “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” because summer releases are better for family-oriented “tentpole” projects, and because the Writers’ Guild strike of late ‘07 / early ‘08 has unpredictably changed the pattern of other studios’ film releases for ‘08 / ’09.
While those are both believable claims, you […]

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For those of you who’re interested: Peter and I both have stories out in DAW Books’ new fantasy anthology Enchantment Place. (There’s a lot of good company in the anthology, BTW: Jody Lynn Nye, Esther Friesner, Laura Resnick, Kristine Kathryn Rausch, and numerous others.)
The anthology’s stories center around a shopping mall located in an alternate-Earth version of Chicago. This […]

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Yesterday, [his attorney] said his client asked for a copy of [Josepha Sherman’s and Susan Shwartz’s] Star Trek novel “Vulcan’s Forge.”
Tags: Star+Trek, Vulcan’s+Forge, Clark+Rockefeller, Christian+Gerhartsreiter

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(EDIT: Scroll down to the bottom of the posting for video of the August 11 press conference with Rockefeller / Gerhartsreiter’s attorney.)
I’ve continued to follow the “Clark Rockefeller” / Christian Gerhartsreiter story over the past few days as it just keeps getting more convoluted, and as the subject’s apparent/alleged pathway between Germany and the USA starts […]

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A one-Euro coin with Homer Simpson’s face on it has turned up in Spain.
No, really. (more here and here)
 
By rights, though, it should have turned up in Greece. (Just sayin’…)
Tags: Homer+Simpson, Euro, coin, forgery, hilarious, Simpsons, counterfeit, defacement

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Some days ago the thought occurred to me that the original story got very viral very quickly. Well, maybe there was a reason for that. Gawker puts forward their theory here…
Myself, I’ve been chuckling over the whole business since it started, as I have my own referent for monsters off Montauk. …For certain values of […]

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One more thing I hadn’t thought I needed to be worried about.
(with a tip of the hat to our cousins at Bad Astronomy Blog)
Tags: hadron, abuse, subatomic, particle, CERN

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Like a lot of other people, I’ve been following the “Clark Rockefeller” kidnapping case and its sequelae, bemused by the net of false identities that the guy seems to have woven around himself (partly because I’ve had a very annoying identity thief of my own in the past), and also now grimly interested by his […]

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Gaah.
Tags: computer, detention, laptop, examination, gaah, paranoia, government

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…This is a canned blog entry. At the time it’s posted, I’ll be on my way to Dublin to catch my flight to Sweden. But I saw this and thought that by the morning, maybe there’ll be some take on whether the subject is a hoax, or a genuine monster in the technical sense of the […]

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