J.K. Rowling is counting on you.
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Friday, September 4, 2015
"Game Of Thrones" Casts "Unreal" Star As Sam's Brother
Posted by Unknown on Friday, September 04, 2015
Freddie Stroma has landed the role of Samwell’s brother in the sixth season of HBO’s drama.
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Hot off his role on Lifetime's Unreal, BuzzFeed News has confirmed that Freddie Stroma will be playing Samwell Tarly's (John Bradley) brother, Dickon Tarly, in the upcoming sixth season of HBO's Game of Thrones.
Stroma played Adam Cromwell, the morally questionable bachelor on Lifetime's acclaimed drama, and Cormac McLaggen in the Harry Potter films.
In George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels, readers have only heard about Sam's brother, Dickon. Their father, Lord Randyll Tarly, deemed Sam unworthy to be his direct heir, choosing the younger Dickon instead and sending Sam to the Wall.
And given the events in the Season 5 finale, it looks like things might go from bad to worse for the Eeyore of Westeros.
We'll Sort You Into A Hogwarts House Based On Your Least Favorite House
Posted by Unknown on Friday, September 04, 2015
What matters is which house you Gryffindon’t want to be in!
OK, so remember how when Harry Potter put on the Sorting Hat, he begged and pleaded NOT to be put in Slytherin?
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The Sorting Hat then put him in Gryffindor, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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But what if Harry was on to something? What if the very house you SHOULD be placed in...is actually determined by the house you absolutely DON'T want to be sorted to? Let's test that theory out.
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"Game Of Thrones" Drawn As "Bob's Burgers" Characters Is The Crossover You Need
Posted by Unknown on Friday, September 04, 2015
Now we just need to see Hot Pie in a burger suit, holding a megaphone.
So, Game of Thrones is pretty great.
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And Bob's Burgers is pretty great.
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So naturally, the two needed to be combined to make something SUPER great.
Alex Cohen, an artist and student at Occidental College, drew all the major characters in Game of Thrones in the style of Bob's Burgers. Clearly, it is amazing.
Cohen is also the artist behind Cage of Thrones and this very important mashup.
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Here are the Starks, with an appropriately angry-looking Arya.
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16 Text Messages That Would Make Any Book Nerd Smile
Posted by Unknown on Friday, September 04, 2015
“Do you want to use my Barnes & Noble 20% off coupon?”
When they describe the perfect night in.
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When they want to divulge in an important conversation.
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When they come up with the best plan ever.
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When they make an offer you cannot refuse.
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19 Awesome New Books You Need To Read This Fall
Posted by Unknown on Friday, September 04, 2015
You’re going to need a bigger bookshelf.
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Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
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Who Would Be Your "Harry Potter" Best Friend Based On Your Zodiac Sign?
Posted by Unknown on Friday, September 04, 2015
Magical BFFs are the best kind of BFFs.
Thursday, September 3, 2015
This Is How “The Wire” Creator David Simon Builds A Writing Team
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, September 03, 2015
“There’s nobody in there that woke up one morning and said, ‘I want to be a TV writer.’ And that’s why I’m interested in them.”
You're either a fan of The Wire, or you're used to the looks of shock and pity you get when you tell people you still haven't seen it — not bad for a show that aired its last season seven years ago. Since then, The Wire creator David Simon has produced another TV show and two miniseries and has started work on three new projects for HBO.
Simon stopped by BuzzFeed's Another Round podcast to talk about his latest miniseries, Show Me a Hero, and what it's like to write about Martin Luther King Jr. with Ta-Nehisi Coates and James McBride.
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Listen to the full episode and read through to find out how David Simon builds a writers room when he starts a new project.
We looked at every writing credit from every TV show and miniseries David Simon has produced. Here's a breakdown of the people who have written for more than one project.
Joy Kecken, the only lady on the list, started as an intern for Homicide: Life on the Street. She went on to be a staff writer for the second season of The Wire.
David Mills was Simon's most frequent collaborator, working with him on four shows over 16 years.
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This Is The Hardest "Divergent" Quiz You'll Ever Take
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, September 03, 2015
Can you get FOUR or more right?
How Edward Snowden Inadvertently Helped Vladimir Putin's Internet Crackdown
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, September 03, 2015
Edward Snowden’s exposés of the National Security Agency’s global surveillance sparked calls to roll them back around the world. But in Russia, where he claimed asylum, Vladimir Putin’s censors seized on his revelations to justify unprecedented control over the internet — and expand the Kremlin’s surveillance state in the very manner he so feared.
What follows is an edited excerpt from Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan's new book, The Red Web, which hits bookstores Sept. 8.
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In the 1990s the global nature of the Internet meant wires. When a user got connected, he could send his e-mail or visit a website anywhere in the world. In the 2000s the Internet meant the rise of global platforms that allowed users to share the same social networks, email services, search engines, and clouds. The Internet became more of a common ground for people from Argentina to Russia — they used the same Facebook, the same Twitter. That also meant that the information users exchanged was stored inside systems located far from the users — systems that could not be readily controlled by nations, their leaders, or their secret services. Most of the servers were located in the United States.
For Russian President Vladimir Putin, this was intolerable. In his mind the solution was simple: force the platforms — Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Apple among them — to locate their servers on Russian soil so Russian authorities could control them.
The challenge was how to do it.
The Kremlin obviously needed a pretext to put pressure on the global platforms to relocate their servers, and Edward Snowden's revelations provided the perfect excuse to start the offensive. The members of the Russian parliament chosen by the Kremlin to define Internet legislation rushed to comment on his revelations. Legislation forcing global platforms to store Russians' personal data in Russia was soon adopted, and came into force on Tuesday, sending Western tech giants scrambling to comply. Russian censors announced plans to blacklist websites including Wikipedia, Github, the Wayback Machine, and BuzzFeed. Snowden had no say in the matter.
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