Those little chocolate

Donuts have hardly any carbs

I eat them all day

Coming soon to a smartphone near you?

China's 'social credit system' straight out of Orwell's '1984'

https://nyp.st/2HEs7kf

[Ed. Note: Maybe not Orwell, exactly; more like The Matrix or Minority Report.

Full flower

Somehow I thought I'd read somewhere that the full moon we had in the week just past was a blue moon, but I was (I know how difficult it is to believe) wrong. Somewhat. A friend just corrected me as follows:

If there are four full moons in a (three-month) season, the third is called a blue moon. That rarely happens (hence, "once in a blue moon"). The full moon waning just now is called a "full flower moon."

But it's much more than that: http://bit.ly/2VKkxP1

(Hint: It's also a blue moon.)

If it's not too early to start your Christmas list…

Electric air taxi startup Lilium completes first test of its new five-seater aircraft - The Verge

http://bit.ly/2HsSdqh

There's good news, there's bad news, and there's really weird news

Does this train station smell like ... grapefruit? How the air around us suddenly became so fragrant. - The Washington Post

Even restaurants are piping in scents that mimic food, and because the only thing better than the smell of real cinnamon buns is the smell of fake cinnamon buns cranked to 11.

https://wapo.st/2HqbzfO

Grim and grimmer

Despite warnings, most people still don't change their passwords - Help Net Security

• 8% said that trying to remember all their passwords was more stressful than a divorce or changing jobs.

http://bit.ly/2HkjACS