"I got rhythm" ?

They sploot to cool down, and it's getting warmer, so maybe they sploot more often these days? I don't remember my childhood dogs splooting.

If I was likely to use two or three eggs next time I reached for the box, then 5 or 6. If I was likely to only use one egg, then 7 or 8. I have unreasonably strong feelings against combinations 3 & 4. (With a box of 12 eggs, I start at the edges and work my way towards the middle.)

Ben MacIntyre's books about WW2 espionage are all excellent, especially Operation Mincemeat

Firstly, very excited to read this. And secondly, thanks for recommending Alan Furst in the Locus interview, best new (to me) writer discovery of the year! Hope you have a most excellent Christmas!

My plans are often scuppered!

Spear Winner of Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of Society of Authors ADCI Literary Prize Image description: A book, Spear by Nicola Griffith. On the cover, the background is charcoal, shading to bla…

Nicola Griffith's Spear is my favourite recent take on it - nicolagriffith.com/books/spear/

Out soon. Does not contain artificial intelligence. Or much intelligence of any kind.

I finished this just the other evening, so good, so weird, I wish this wasn't their only novel!

The sour truth of Oxford Street’s candy shop curse Garish sweet stores have been blighting the capital’s famous shopping centre in recent years, but with business rates unpaid, illegal goods seized and money laundering exposed, authorities are fightin...

Those tourist-trap American Candy stores are actually money-laundering fronts - www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ox...

Absolutely. Also, Inventing the Renaissance is an awesome read!

I not so long ago read Fridtjof Nansen's Farthest North, and felt much the same

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I managed to bypass the weird site and grab the induction pdf if you want me to send it your way?

It was horrifying

I once threw a roach out of a 3rd floor window, and it *hovered* and stared at me before buzzing off & returning the next day with 5 of its mates.

I think it has something to do with arches, where the column starts to veer from the vertical towards the apex?

It's so good!

It was! Instapaper is a pretty great replacement if you're looking for one

Do you ever impulsively long press an unfamiliar word to get the definition, and then have a moment of puzzlement before realising you're reading on paper?

There's a Vietnam memoir of a C-130 pilot called, IIRC, One Trip Too Many, which might help.

As a teacher I don't usually say this but I think it will be a good idea for you to do that now and then we can go on our way.

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It's been right there for 45 years and I never saw it until your tweet. Wow indeed.

There's a far filthier, far more demeaning joke to be made here, but I'm not going to make it

That was entirely my day too, until 5pm when desperation toast appeared, as if by magic.

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim

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Not sure if you've already seen this, from the UK's satirical Private Eye magazine