• Reading: read (most of) Kelly Link’s Magic For Beginners online, for free, legitimately!  (And then read an interview with her at Meeting House Mag.)  [via Bookslut]
• Watching: watch Stalker, online.  It’s a movie by the guy who did the good Solaris.  What’s not to like? [via Warren Ellis]
• Listening: all about con men.  And by “all about”, we mean “some about”.  Which is still more interesting than none about.  Australian con men, mind you.  Though there’s presumably some universality to conning. [source misplaced]
• Anticipating: Timecrimes.
• Remembering: That word… you know… the one with… it’s like…  Whatever.  Finally, a resource for finding the word you kind of sort of remember, partially.  [Tip of My Tongue, via Lifehacker]

A while since you’ve seen this sort of thing here, but some new fiction just posted elsewhere on this webwork, including “The whole world is dark and funny“, and “This is not a robbery“.  I guarantee you’ve not read them elsewhere!

Well, I made up the second part.

I enjoy a read over by Tawny Grammar (formerly One Pot Meal) once in a while, and this piece reminded me why.

I thought I’d packed a kiwifruit in my lunch, but I guess it was really a wikifruit because just as I was about to slice and eat it a stranger rushed over and told me it was a peach. And before I could say anything, a second stranger ran up and said no, not a peach, it was a rare variant of hairy nectarine, secretly developed by the CIA in the 1950s.

(There’s more.)