Free Tor ebooks

Tor.com are giving away free ebooks (in various formats) this week (until Sunday). There's stuff by Jo Walton, Cherie Priest, Peter David and others.
Thanks to themadone for the link!

Brutal spam today

You've probably noticed the recent trend away from "increase your length" type subjects to fake news headlines. Today, it seems to be violence among siblings. I had "Boy pokes fork in sister's eye" and "Boy, 4, pulls of sister's ear" this afternoon.

kylecassidy's "Nazi Toddlers Ruined My Birthday" tops it, though. Straight from the National Enquirer. ;o)

A favour from the TOS geeks among you

Those of you who have the DVD sets, when you have a quiet moment, could you check if Patterns of Force (second season, the one with the Nazis) has a German audio track? I know it's never been shown on German TV but I'm wondering if they actually produced the dub.

Mentioning TOS, has anyone seen the remastered episodes and knows if/when they will be shown on UK TV?

[Film] The Forbidden Kingdom

is very cool indeed. It has everything an entertaining film needs, it's fast, beautiful, funny, lush, dramatic, silly, moving and a little bit sad.
Jackie Chan and Jet Li bounce off each other wonderfully (and often literally). I hope they'll do more of this thing as it was a pleasure to watch them having a lot of fun. The film is an amalgamation of a lot of things, not just classic 70's HK Kung Fu (Jackie Chan basically reprising his Drunken Fist role) to modern OTT Wuxia (the Jade Warlord and the white-haired witch) with elements from some classic fantasy and crossovers like Big Trouble in Little China, too.
I recommend this to anyone who wants 90 minutes of fun, especially if they love HK cinema.

I didn't see the_magician but ran into akonken and jholloway who were out on their date instead.