Kaila Hale-Stern
Most Recently: Sexy Snape In Love: Five Secondary Characters Who Dominate 'Harry Potter' Fan Fiction
Sexy Snape In Love: Five Secondary Characters Who Dominate 'Harry Potter' Fan Fiction
Four years after the publication of the final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and on the day of that film's debut, Harry and all his friends—not to mention his enemies, minor acquaintances and a few of his forebears—are still leading extremely active lives online in the form of fan-made fiction and inspired media. The series has long enjoyed one of the biggest, most productive and considerably vocal fandoms on the Internet, not surprising as its publication coincided with the wider blossoming of the web. READ MORE
Keep Your Hands Off My 67-Cent Cigarettes
It is an ever more wretched time to be a smoker in New York City. Mayor Scrooge McDuck sends undercover investigators to reservations and plots banning cigarette-smoking in public spaces, having nothing better to do or any jobs to create. Now cigarettes can cost as much as $13.50 a pack, putting each cigarette at roughly 67 of your hard-earned cents-rapidly approaching McDonald's dollar menu territory. READ MORE
A Public Service Announcement, with Kaila Hale-Stern: Geocities Is Closing Today. Have You Rescued Your Misspent Youth Yet?
Tonight, Yahoo! will shut down Geocities, the free webhosting service that was a mainstay in many of our early internet adventures. It's sad-particularly for Yahoo!, since they paid $3.9 billion in stock for it ten years ago-but the good news is that there's still time to save your old fanfiction from dotcom obscurity. READ MORE
