Quite exciting, this Potter magic

Well, as I suspected, my sister finished "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" before Monday, so I started reading it. This book has once again confirmed my suspicion that I'm a horrifyingly slow reader. But how can anyone read a 600-page book in two days? I start to get bored after a while, so I put it down. And I have better things to do, like what I'm doing now.

Right now I've knocked down between a half and a third of the book. I think if I read it fast, I can finish it tomorrow, and my sister will no longer have to go off into some other room when she's talking to her friends about it on the phone. (She'd like that, I'm sure.) Indeed I've been avoiding spoilers like the plague, but I'm afraid I might have found out a semi-important plot point somehow. Oh well, I'm not even sure of that, and I don't know anything else about the ending. Meanwhile I'm making my own little predictions about what's going to happen, and it's quite fun.

Tearing through the blogosphere faster than a speeding... weird site... it's Google Moon. The folks at Google have outdone themselves this time, giving an aerial view of the lunar landing sites on the anniversary of the first moon landing: July 20, 1969. (As everybody is doing when they post this link, I should tell you to zoom in all the way to see what the moon is really made of.) I guess this would also be a good time to snuff out the nutty claim that the moon landings were faked.