No Thanksgiving content, but look for news updates

Brian livingston By Brian Livingston

All of us turkeys are taking a week off, so there won’t be any new articles on our site or a new Windows Secrets Newsletter on Nov. 27, which is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.

Our next regular batch of content will appear on Dec. 4, but we may send out a short “news update” if anything important comes up in the meantime.

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The pleasure instinct
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Our exclusive excerpt of The Pleasure Instinct: Why We Crave Adventure, Chocolate, Pheromones, and Music explains why everything from the smell of cocoa to a whiff of an expensive perfume moves us in unexpected ways.

The printed book won’t be available in stores until mid-December, but you can get our PDF e-book excerpt now through Dec. 3, 2008. Simply visit your preferences page, update your entries, press the Save button, and a download link will appear. Thanks for your support!

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Brian Livingston is editorial director of WindowsSecrets.com and co-author of Windows Vista Secrets and 10 other books.

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