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Here’s a list of ten things you can do for Mom’s PC while you’re home for turkey day.

I recently saw the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. My overall impression: Thumbs-up.

This one is probably the best Harry Potter movie so far. Even though I think that book 3 (Prisoner of Azkaban) was a better book, the movie for Azkaban wasn’t as good as this one.

I think I like this movie because it’s a bit more visceral, it doesn’t follow the same Harry Potter formula (abused by the Dursleys, accuses Malfoy of wrongdoing at Hogwarts, Dumbledore explains the mystery) as the prior stories, and some intentional effort is made to deviate from it. But what else is good about this movie?

Number spirals might lead to some interesting discoveries about prime numbers. They’re pretty, too.

Here’s a bunch of neat optical illusions, including a couple cool ones I hadn’t seen before.

If you want an Xbox 360 before Christmas, you should go to Japan, because they don’t buy them there.