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Unfortunately it's the "digest" edition, with only one short story per issue, but it's still free, so that's sweet. Plus a year-long subscription to the "extended" edition, with all the stories, novellas, etc., is only $12 a year. Thanks for the tip! Edited to add a link to the digest...

Braga points out exactly why I didn't find the show very interesting, despite the description of the show sounding exactly like something I'd love: Important message to producers of entertainment: there is no longer a market called "everybody". That died at least 10 years ago, more probably...

Good article, great memories, thanks!

He was referring to TNG, where at least the Borg qualify as being pretty scary.

It looks pretty sweet. I love the larger iPad size but wouldn't mind the Fire for ebooks. There are blogs and stories about the Kindle Fire being an iPad killer, but I think Amazon is aiming more at the Nook Color, a similar tablet that actually eats into Amazon's ebook sales (unlike the iPad...

Wow, Braga does a perfect job of explaining why it's not very good: Why would we need another pablum-filled Star Trek?

Person of Interest: The pilot felt like a somewhat muddled version of The Early Edition with more action. Not a bad thing, but I'll need more to make it watching it a habit. With Abrams behind it I expect that there is more depth to come; I just with it had been in the pilot. The Playboy Club...

Mine is limited to hand sensors, probably infrared, so sinks and towel dispensers and other short-range things. Grocery store doors and other longer-range sensors work fine. I've leased my soul on several occasions but have yet to sell it outright.

I have a similar anti-superpower: automatic faucets completely ignore me. In a busy public restroom I can watch dozens of people walk up to the various sinks and poof, instant water flow when then move their hands near. Me, no matter where I put my hands, no matter what sink I use, nothing. It...

Thoughts so far on shows I've seen: 2 Broke Girls: Actually not bad. Laugh tracks make me cringe but it was actually pretty clever now and then and sometimes funny. Not something I'd watch, but significantly funnier than, say, Big Bang Theory, which is inexplicably popular. Free Agents: Also...

What is this "time slot" thing you speak of?

Agreed, that would rock.

Packing 11-finger multitouch, a dozen sensors, 2 cameras, wifi & cellular radios, 10 hours of battery life, and an operating system and software that's actually good into a device that's smaller than a pad of paper and weighs 1.3 pounds -- that people will clamor to buy, no less -- is at least...

I was super-excited when the original came out and a couple of years later I got to play with one for several hours. No question that it was cool, but the software just wasn't... great. It was neat, but if I'd had multiple millions of extra dollars lying around I wouldn't have actually bought...

FWIW British crime dramas like Wire in the Blood and, even more so, Luther, are far, far darker than anything on American broadcast TV, and darker than any cable-only US crime dramas, with the exception of Dexter. Plenty of very dark stuff there. As to number 11, it's surely not a coincidence...

I also have the magic technology fixing power. One example: a company had a flakey network that would suddenly go down without apparent cause; they called me in as a consultant to resolve it. Their offices were on the 12th floor of a building and the first time I arrived they noted that the...

I had a buddy who had an extremely minor but shockingly effective superpower: if we were standing outside somewhere (in the city, mind you), you could at any time say, "Don, where's a penny?" Without fail -- and I mean utterly without fail, despite having made the request more than 200 times --...

It's a truly beautiful thing, man!

Agreed. In addition if you watch it again you'll see that she appeared to be shocked that the gun went off. Seems to me that it wasn't a conscious choice. Right, that's what I thought right afterward, too. This insane-seeming woman who may well be hopped up on V very nearly killed me with a...

Some other possibilities I've considered: The wall is proof against the Others but different magic -- from the Red God, or dragon fire, or other magic from Essos like that in Quarth -- might take down the wall, or enough of it.   While the Others themselves cannot cross the wall, the wights they...