I'm sure that most of us would never run up against the clauses of the EULA (in Russian) that Livejournal is imposing, but the sheer tone deafness of how they did it tells me that they really aren't interested in users ( Read more... )

It is October first tomorrow, so of course the Christmas cans of Pringles are on the shelves at Dollar General.

I'm amazed the stores have enough time for Pumpkin Spice stuff with Christmas nudging its way in.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-naperville-theater-owner-sentence-date-0910-20160909-story.html

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Study Finds 25% of U.S. Homes Don’t Have Pay TV Service

http://ebookclub.tor.com is a free DRM-free ePub or Mobi from Tor every month, starting with "The Three Body Problem", which I neglected to get for my Hugo reading when it was eligible, so this is quite welcome.

Of course, almost everything is a series these days, and I suspect the free books will mainly be volume 1 of N, but so be it.

What an odd path to follow to get to SpudNuts:

https://twitter.com/altonbrown/status/688811169117687808

And, sure enough, the day after I get curious, this appears:
Andy Weir, Author of 'The Martian,' Is Writing a Novel Set On the Moon

I was curious to see, in the wake of his success, how Andy Weir was doing on his follow-up.  (Dreading a sort of "Wonder Boys" scenario.

So I went to Wikipedia, and found this, taken from Reddit:
"Weir is working on his second novel, initially titled Zhek. He describes it as "a more traditional sci-fi novel. It has aliens, telepathy, faster-than- ( Read more... )

I'm trying to find a story.

In it, a secret agent is sent into an enemy facility. There, he is captured and administered the latest in truth serums, which has unfortunate consequences for short term memory.

SPOILERS

So the truth serum messes with the transcription of short term memory, meaning that every so often, he snaps back to before the ( Read more... )