Archive for October, 2007

F&SF Sept./Oct. Acquisitions

F&SF’s September/October acquisitions include:

  • Fulbrim’s Finding Matthew Hughes (7500)
  • Inside Story by Albert Cowdrey (7350)
  • Five Thrillers by Robert Reed (16,400)
  • Immortal Snake by Rachel Pollack (17,300)
  • Litany by Rand B. Lee (14,600)
  • Reader’s Guide by Lisa Goldstein (3000)

And also, since he let it out of the bag on the radio the other day, it’s safe to say that we acquired the following:

  • The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates by Stephen King (3100)

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Im in ur social networking sites collecting ur passwords

What’s with all these social networking sites inviting you to enter your email address (and/or your instant messenger screenname) and your email address’s password in order to grant the site access to your account? (Not using your email address as a username for the networking site, mind you, but actually granting the site access to your personal email account.) Do people actually do this? Who thought this was a good idea? 

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