KJ Charles, The Sugared Game: ( post WWI spy shenanigans )

( Spoilers are in the midst of Fimbulwinter )

( saving for retirement, Discipline and Punish, Brigham Young, Matt Taibbi, advice for professional women )

Google’s antisocial behavior.  Also a post about Google’s Real Name Theater, like Security Theater, and then there’s danah boyd’s excellent explanation that no, Facebook isn’t a real name service either.  As I understand it, if a Google+ name violation determination works “right,” you can still use Reader to read but not to share/etc., which is not ( Read more... )

I blame jetlag for my fight with the LJ posting interface just now, anyway.  On my United flight out to San Francisco, they tried to serve me Diet Coke Light (labelled in Italian). Betrayed! I even popped the first can and took a sip before I realized; the taste brought me right around. I know most people don’t taste much of a difference between ( Read more... )

I met Joan Walsh, editor in chief of Salon! Cue fangirling. Anybody else a Salon reader? I enjoy them a lot.

( Martin, Brust, Turner, Avasthi, Sloan; history of sound, addiction, and weight training )

So, I was trying to get inspired to write and I realized that I really, really like a story of mine that nobody else seems to. There are good reasons not to like it: it lacks narrative flow and just sort of ebbs away at the end. But it works for me, in part because it doesn't have a real flow; it's a story of a breakdown, of a man who thinks so ( Read more... )