Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Podcast and Project Gutenberg

I'm familiar with podcasts. The daughter of a very good friend of mine in Georgia is a member of MuggleNet, an online group of Harry Potter fans who have been involved with all of the HP books and films over the past several years. MuggleNet has a podcast, MuggleCast, in which our friend's daughter, Laura, is an active participant. In fact, her involvement with MuggleNet and MuggleCast were instrumental in her acceptance to Maryland's McDaniel College.

I searched Project Gutenberg for an obscure short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called "The Leather Funnel." I used this story as a reference in a paper I wrote and presented last spring to a group of Sherlock Holmes fans; it's about a horrible death due to water being forced down the throat of someone as a punishment for crime and is drawn from actual events surrounding an arsenic poisoner in the Middle Ages. Fun stuff, eh? ;)

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