Harry Potter – Page 2 – Today's Mighty Oak

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes” Oscar Wilde

Mike Yesterday's nut September 27, 2012

Alright, a larger update today, let’s see what we have today.

First up, today is the 25th Anniversary of The Princess Bride. Tor has a great article about some little known facts.

J.K. Rowling may publish a new Harry Potter book, or go back and do “Director’s Cuts” of the series.

The best word ever? Probably not, but a cool bracket:

Tuesday, October 9 on the CW. Watch Dr. Horrible’s Sing A Long Blog. And check out the promo.

Also from the Whedonverse, season 6 of the guild starts in a week:

I somehow got to the mobile site, but check out the new Rock the Vote, from Funny or Die.

PittGirl does a cool article about Pittsburgh clubs. Check it out!

Copyranter also has some good ads for when you’re having a bad day:

And today’s politics news: Why voter ID is really voter suppression, but since Republicans in Florida are committing it, we should go police it.

This is awesome, and can be done with any magazine, presumably.

That’s it for now, have a great one!

I keeep my jealousy close, becasue it’s all mine

Mike Yesterday's nut September 24, 2012

Let’s see what I have today. First up, a beautiful time-lapse project of Pittsburgh:

IGN has a great article: Why Video Games Matter.

I missed this when it debuted, Harry Potter, 10 years later:

Wired has a cool article up about children’s exploration in Pittsburgh. Check it out.

And lastly, I don’t watch it very often, but I like it when I do, here’s a fan-made opening of 30 Rock:

Lawyery can so be a word.

Mike Yesterday's nut March 28, 2012

Quick update for everyone, let’s see what I have for you today.

First up, the Harry Potter books are now available in eBook format. The cool thing, is that for the first time, the eBooks are being sold directly from the author with the ability to push them onto Kindles and Nooks, no DRM From Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Amazing!

Things are getting crazy with the Martin case. Think Progress is debunking some of the myths out there, go check it out. And while we’re on the subject (since I’m a pacifist and all), here’s an interesting bit of psychology from the Journal of experimental Psychology.

Infographics go 3D…in Grand Central. Pretty awesome!

And lastly, I’m not sure if the video will embed below, I can’t even find the embed code, so here’s the link. Take a minute and just enjoy the drawing

This is a weremoose, one of the most terrifying and Canadian of all the members of the lycanthrope family, eh?

Mike Yesterday's nut October 8, 2011

Just a couple things right now, first up, a trailer has been released for the next Lego Harry Potter game:

Coming out of Ohio: Amish on Amish violence: cutting beards! Good gravy.

I’m not a huge political movie fan, but this poster looks just awesome:

Need help finding a Sci-Fi or Fantasy book? Answer a few questions and NPR has you covered here.

That’s it for now, happy Homecoming SVC (thinking back, they’ve had awesome weather every year, which is amazing!)!

“The past is our heritage, The present our opportunity. The future our hope.”

Mike Yesterday's nut October 5, 2011

This story is for all who love Randall, and if you haven’t, make sure you check out his horoscope hotline, a bunch of us call it every morning at work. And by the way, Honeybadger doesn’t give a shit, just in case you forgot.

Remember the shooting spree at the summer camp in Europe? Check out this string of text messages between a girl on the island and her mom. Touching and amazing.

It’s a little late at this point, but here’s the Border’s closing bingo!

BuzzFeed has a collection of Harry Potter Tributes, (and a list of HP inspired drinks) check them out, here’s a favorite:

Awesome hidden library hack for those with lofts.

Myths Retold is pretty awesome, although each one is long, so I sadly don’t read it as much as I should. But here is one of my favorites, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Here’s a cool time-lapse of the front page of the New York Time’s webpage through the years:

Nook Books do this, but check out this cool trailer for a children’s book.

And winner of irony goes to this story. I haven’t done much on Google+ because not many of my friends are on it yet, but this just makes me want to hug everyone at Google.

“All the world is BLACK AND WHITE. The COLOR you have to add yourself.”

Mike Yesterday's nut September 26, 2011

I’m just going to start off (I’m yelling this in my head): World’s biggest lightsaber

The blog over at The Office of Letters and Light has a great blog post about the important of hufflepuffs. Make sure to read the whole thing, but here’s a snippet:

But we all know a Hufflepuff. Some of our closest friends are probably Hufflepuffs. A Hufflepuff will split a cookie with you, and give you the bigger half without even thinking about it. Hufflepuffs always know how to defuse awkward situations. They make the best wingmen. They’re not dramatic, they don’t fish for compliments, and they never have problems dealing with change. When your ego gets the best of you, a Hufflepuff will keep it in check. Hufflepuffs are charismatic, empathetic, and easy to take for granted because they put their friends before anyone else.

Why? They don’t need a reason why. A Hufflepuff doesn’t need to know the good deeds you’ve done, or how powerful your wand is, and a Hufflepuff doesn’t care how you do at math (thank goodness).

So, remember the crazy debate of the Park 51 mosque? What if it opened and no one noticed? Yeah, world is still spinning, I promise.

More later, I promise, just wanted to pass on a few links before I lost them.

When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a bowline on a bite and saddle up.

Mike Yesterday's nut May 31, 2011

And I’m back, with more fun stuff for you! First up, watch this trailer, I’m freaking excited for this:

VH1 is bringing back Pop-up Video, and has ordered 60 episodes. I might be even more excited about that.

This PSA ran during the season finale of Glee, and I really, really like it. I hope it’s effective (and I should work on that myself, I’ve gotten better, but it certainly pops out every now and then):

Speaking of Harry Potter (from my last post), what if he had an MBA, check out the gallery here:

One of my favorite blogs has a post up about the fake necessity of repeating something seven times before it is remembered. Go check it out. Enjoy the rage.

And here’s an awesome video involving ball pit balls and magnets:

F5 2011 RE:PLAY Film Festival. Inductance from Physalia Studio on Vimeo.

I’m a little behind, but here is a gallery of awesome signs from Borders:

Stephen Colbert takes on habitual liar (not intended to be a factual statement) Jon Kyl. Here’s a favorite, and here are the rest:

In case the embed code does not work below, go and watch John Lithgow perform an actual press release from Newt Gingrich. I will repeat, these are the words, verbatim, from an actual press release. How amazing!

And finally

We’re adults. When did that happen? How do we make it stop?

Mike Yesterday's nut

Quick update here, although I’m hoping to do some more updates that will show up later this week and next.

Lots of fun movies, lets start with this one, shared by my friend Kyle:

The Hobbit films finally have release dates and titles. I think it’s weird they’re using “There and Back Again” even though the story of the Hobbit (plus a bunch of extra stuff) is going to take two movies. But then again, I don’t really believe that these will stay as the release dates.

Here’s a fun movie to help you learn the 50 states: