links for 2006-09-16

J.K. Rowling posts her experience in the U.S. recently in which she almost didn't fly because she almost wasn't allow to travel with the manuscript for Harry Potter 7 as carryon baggage.

I'm going to say off the bat that these salaries are inflated. There's a complex list of reasons why (and I'll go into it in another post, but from an insider's standpoint, it's off the mark by at least 20%, if not more).

What happens when you take a couple of Master Replica Force-FX Lightsabers and combine it with some regular sword sparring?

A photojournalist's last pictures at Ground Zero before the towers fell