Via Boing Boing: After promising to do a blog post about it, I was promptly sent the September issue of F&SF. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction was a favorite of my teens and twenties. I’ve read half of the first story. It is holding my interest. I’ll write more when I’ve read more. On sale at news stands now.
Two hundred and forty three jam-packed pages of action, adventure, high drama, love and revelation, so far, with a few laughs thrown in. Can this possibly sustain through page 759?
Update, July 23: Finished shortly after midnight. The adventure is non-stop, and all questions are answered. Bravo, JK.
Some clever fool has apparently let loose the latest book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
I would like to read the damn thing without spoilers. An internet and general media fast, possibly combined with earplugs and a blindfold would probably work. An immediate wilderness camping trip would be more fun. But neither of these will insure I remain unspoilt.
J.K. or whoever holds the wand, let the bookstores sell now. I see them, they are bundled and sealed in the bowels of giant stores across the world. Release them now!
The GammaBlog pledges not to spoil, and is officially supporting the Release Potter Now movement, forming at this very moment, somewhere else, please.
Transcript of the 60 Minutes interview
Cheney stunned Woodward by revealing that a frequent advisor to the Bush White House is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who served Presidents Nixon and Ford during the Vietnam War.
“He’s back,” Woodward says. “In fact, Henry Kissinger is almost like a member of the family. If he’s in town, he can call up and if the president’s free, he’ll see him.”
Woodward recorded his on-the-record interview with Cheney, and here’s what the vice president said about Henry Kissinger’s clout: “Of the outside people that I talk to in this job I probably talk to Henry Kissinger more than just about anybody else. He just comes by and I guess at least once a month,” Cheney tells Woodward. “I sit down with him.”
Asked whether the president also meets with Kissinger, Cheney told Woodward, “Yes. Absolutely.”
U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press
As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
The articles, written by U.S. military “information operations” troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor, according to U.S. military officials and documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
Houston and Essex Streets. Print on newspaper stock market listings. Maybe a silkscreen print.
