For Pratchett fans, "The Color of Magic" ebook with a bonus excerpt from "Snuff!" is currently on sale for 99 cents. This is the Kindle link, but it should be the same price at your favorite ebookstore.

For those who might care, HauteLook is having an Urban Decay sale starting Monday at 8:00 AM Pacific. The email I just got says "Everything $2" (but don't forget to figure in $10 shipping). http://www.hautelook.com/content/4858Read more... )

If you have an account for commenting on Lifehacker, io9, Gizmodo, Jezebel, or any of the other Gawker Media sites and didn't log in using Facebook Connect, you can use this site to find out if your account login information was posted as a result of the security breach over the weekend. (via Making LightEven if your account doesn't appear to be on ( Read more... )

Hey, local-types: If you travel 7100 in the Fair Lakes area, you'll want to know about this if you don't already.

By now you have probably noticed the orange road work signs placed around Fair Lakes ( Read more... )

You'll want to make your hotel reservations soon. The Marine Corps Marathon (which is all full up with 30,000 runners) takes place that Sunday and many hotels, especially in the Arlington/Crystal City area, may be booked up.

FYI: How to stop Google Buzz from showing the world your contacts.

Google Blogoscoped's Philipp Lenssen felt he had to avoid following certain Buzz contacts, as he didn't want to expose his social circle to the wider net. He's right-if you have a Google Profile, once you set up Buzz, those you're following, and those following you, are shown on ( Read more... )

Update from the LJ advisory board user rep (kylecassidy) regarding the reports that specifying gender on your profile would be made mandatory. (Short version: It won't be. Kyle's post has further information.)

So this is what it's like to have a user rep that doesn't disappear off the face of the earth post-election, eh?

Need crazy discounts on (theoretically, at least) comfortable women's shoes? Shoetrader is shutting down, um, tomorrow. They're offering an additional 60% off everything still in stock, although as you might imagine that stock is limited; go to the front page of the site and the discount code is there. There were a few pairs of Clarks that I saw ( Read more... )

My cell phone apparently died sometime between when my alarm went off at 8 AM yesterday and when I got into my car to head home from Boston at 5:30. If you've called/texted me after roughly 8 AM yesterday, I haven't gotten it. I was looking at various pay-as-you-go services anyway, so I guess that it's time to do that more seriously and start ( Read more... )

I have been crazy busy at work this past week, and that will continue at least until the end of next week. (Woo, two releases in two weeks.) I'm pretty much archiving personal email to read later--and, I must confess, have been all week--because it's all I can do to keep up with work-related email; if there's something urgent you need me to see, ( Read more... )