Editor Stuart Brown of FirstScience.com wonders if the first five books in the Harry Potter series offer mathematical clues to the length of the last two. Thanks to Eric for the link!

Sheba sent us a report from yesterday’s day of lectures, debates and forum discussions at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia: Admission was free and about 60-70 people turned up. Participants came from a wide variety of backgrounds, including academics, writers, teachers, librarians etc, and were of all ages from teenagers right up to septuagenarians, but …read more!

If you get The New York Times, flip to the front of the Sunday Business section and give a brief double-take at the picture there. If you don’t get it, you can read the article profiling its new president Alan Horn here (registration required, but free), and check out that accompanying picture here.

Thanks to David who sent us the link to Book-a-Minute, a one minute, comical version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Editor’s Note: For more one minute books click on the link at the bottom of the page!

Thanks Black, for sending us these pics of the vandalized Hogwarts Express that appeared in The Sun: Picture 1 Picture 2

The world’s first online movie, starring Harry Potter actor David Bradley, will premiere today.

Warner Brothers is now offering fans of their Harry Potter movie series a chance to get updates via computer.

The Straits Times reports that all applicants for British citizenship must be able to answer several questions about that great nation…including one about Harry Potter. Thanks, Richard!

Manhattan U.S. Attorney James Comey announced that federal postal inspectors arrested John Zuccarini, 53, yesterday morning at a Hollywood, Fla., hotel where he had been living. According to a federal complaint, Zuccarini lured young computer users to pornographic Web sites by misspelling Web addresses of pages that appealed to children and teens, including pages for …read more!

A professor from Southern Vermont College is offering a course on banned books: There have already been 6,364 challenges posed to the American Library Association, and that was only between the years of 1990 and 2000. What if all the challenges went uninvestigated, and the suspect books were summarily banned? No one would end up …read more!