Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance) and Dear Author (romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Writerly linkity from Becky Black.
• Best fonts for ebook readers.
• Women in Science picture book.
• Sir Ian McKellen reads letters from Roald Dahl. (via The Mary Sue)
• If you enjoyed reading or watching The Martian…
• “50 verbose verbs to drop into everyday conversations“.
• AO3 tag of the day.

Learn, Do, Make, Think

• Count seals in Antarctica on satellite maps to help scientists. (via neighborhoodr-minneapolis)
• Positive things that have happened in 2016.
• On the passive consumption of media.
• The only way to actually get a flat stomach, no matter what the supermarket tabloids promise.
• “Why can’t kids these days just work their way through college the way earlier generations did? The answer to that question isn’t psychology. It’s math.” (via malkinisms)
• Learn more about the heat index.
• Watch lava flowing from the Kilauea volcano.
• “Scientists discover mysterious purple blob at the bottom of the ocean.” Oh oh. I think I saw that movie…

Cookity

• 25 summertime slow cooker recipes.
• 10-minute black bean tacos.
• Make one deviled egg.
• Summer squash gratin.
• Chickpea blondies.
• Brownie for one.
• Frozen Oreo pie.

Gluten Free

• Lasagna.
• Smoky corn and shrimp fritters.
• 10 biscuit recipes.
• S’mores for special diets.
• Nutella cookies.

Artsy Crafty

• Coil and crochet a rainbow basket. (via malkinisms)
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Morgan Freeman narrates himself playing Pokemon Go. Sir David Attenborough narrates Pokemon Go.
• Nichelle Nichols/Lt. Uhuru Barbie!
• “You are never too old for fandom“.
• The year’s best astronomy photos.
• A year on Earth.
• Mr Little Guy.
• Photos taken by locals and visitors in Minneapolis.
• More supervisors should realize this.
• The classic video game, “The Oregon Trail” (“You have died of dysentery”) is now a card game.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• This National Geographic bus ad… eeep!
• Virtual 3D oil painting.
• Pull your suitcase with your butt.

Wha…?

• Human LEGO minifig.
• LEGO Pizza Hut machine.
• Poop emoji plunger.
• “Toronto is getting a poop-themed dessert bar“. My condolences…
• Pumpkin spice Lindor truffles.

LOL

• Autocorrect and pizza night.
• xkcd on language. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text)
• xkcd on walking into things. (The hover text/caption makes it, so you must hover your cursor or long-press to read the additional text.)

Teh Cute

• Hawk checking out a weather camera! Fox and baby! Baby clouded leopard! Baby Little Blue Penguin! Turkmenian flare-horned markhor and babies! Purple gallinule and baby! Scottish wildcat and baby! Andean bear and baby! Moose and baby!

Reading Update
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings. I found this in a Little Free Library in my neighborhood! 🙂 This was an extremely enjoyable look at many things map-related, from the National Geographic Bee to geocaching to Google Earth to maps in fantasy novels (Brandon Sanderson fans take note, as Sanderson and Jennings were college roommates). Jennings’ writing is filled with delightful footnotes and irresistible tidbits of information and at times definitely reminded me of the writing of Bill Bryson.

May was also traumatized by the same storm that traumatized Chaos. Or she’s having an existential crisis. It’s hard to tell from that expression.

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Let’s see how much linkity I can get done in 15 25 minutes…

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance), AAR (romance), and Dear Author (romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• “The psychological benefits of writing regularly“.
• The Little Free Library song.
• Bookish rug.
• The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazney are being adapted for TV.

Learn, Do, Think, Make

• That is not really how I thought a Gutenberg printing press worked.
• The impacts of splitting the vote in a US presidential election.
• VR tour of Rocky Mountain National Park.
• Comparison of 1940s Los Angeles and present day Los Angeles.
• How hard is it to crash into the sun? How many fireflies would you need to match the sun’s brightness?

Cookity

• Charred corn salsa.
• Tomato chickpea salad.
• Sausage and eggplant summer frittata.
• Smoky corn and shrimp fritters.
• Grilled chicken breast with blackberry corn salsa.
• 18 hearty summer breakfasts.
• How to make one chocolate cupcake.

Gluten Free

• Asian chicken lettuce wraps.
• Fudgecicles.
• Blueberry recipes.
• 10 recipes to help you eat gluten free.

Artsy Crafty

• “Making art can reduce stress, regardless of skill level“. I absolutely believe that.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Roadside America.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• There’s a Rocky Horror Picture Show remake in the works.
• “12 of the corniest corn tools“.
• Renaissance map sea monsters shower curtain.

Wha…?

• “Ebay is a waking nightmare of amateur Trump art“.
• A museum that displays “snippets of presidential hair”.
• Watch 80s and 90s commercials for hours…
• Krispy Kreme doughnut-flavored soda.

LOL

• Ink blot test, Cake Wrecks style.
• Autocorrect parental misunderstandings.
• Computer-related autocorrects.

Teh Cute

• Baby red pandas! Flamingos and babies! Fennec fox and babies! Bison and babies!

“Wha…?” -Chaos

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Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance) and Dear Author (romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• There’s a new Librarian of Congress!
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• “12 nifty pencils“.
• Typographic mural.

Do, Make, Think, Learn

• “Octopus eyes are crazier than we imagined“.
• Linkity from Hockey in Society.
• Timelapse of storms with tornadoes.
• “Sheep fitted with cameras are mapping the Faroe Islands“.
• Infographic about relative sizes of dolphins, porpoises, and whales.
• Napkin Finance.

Cookity

• “25 ways to eat salad for dinner tonight“.
• 19 recipes using peaches or nectarines.
• 11 one-pot dinners.
• Pork and broccoli rice bowls.
• Vegan eggplant bolognese.
• Eggplant jerky.
• Eggplant bacon.
• Blueberry pancake casserole.
• Four-ingredient Nutella mug cake.

Gluten Free

• Swedish pancakes.
• No-bake peanut butter pies.

Artsy Crafty

• Self-Important Socks. (via bronwyngreenauthor)
• Glass sculptures that look like knitting.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• So me. So very, very me.
• Serena Williams reacts to “the obnoxious things men sometimes say about women”.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Luggage made from recycled airplane seats.
• When a giant marshmallow man attacks a train station…
• “Simulation recreates the frustration of using a typewriter“.

Wha…?

• Shark-shaped tea bags that “ooze blood red tea”.
• Armpit air conditioners.

LOL

• Simon’s Cat and the laser pointer.
• Possibly NSFW Cake Wrecks.
• Autocorrect and monkeys.
• Autocorrect and swimming.
• Autocorrect and heat.
• Cat plus door.

Teh Cute

• Emus and babies! Lion and baby! Kittens!

Reading Update
Art Escapes: Daily Exercises & Inspirations for Discovering Greater Creativity & Artistic Confidence by Dory Kanter. This one’s focused mostly on using watercolors in an art journal, with a little bit about collage. I found some of the watercolor information to be extremely helpful – the author provides detailed information on specific watercolor brands and shades for primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. And although the book was published 13 years ago, the paints are still available.

“I don’t care that it’s nearly 90F, Mom – you should still have our fleecy blanket over your lap so me and the big kitty don’t have to huddle here by your foot instead!” -Mayhem

*sigh* -Chaos

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Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance), Smart Bitches (romance), Tor.com (genre benders, sci fi), and Dear Author (romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Sunita.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• “Zen and the art of fountain pen maintenance“.
• For those who have trouble actually using their “nice” notebooks…
• “5 science fiction novels about sheep“. (How could they skip the delightful Bellwether by Connie Willis?!)
• Animated history of the book.
• “Unrest in the lexicography fandom“.
• “I went to a bibliotherapist and this is what happened“.

Do, Learn, Make, Think

• Learn how North America was shaped.
• “10 things an autistic person wants you to know“.
• “A crash course in asexuality, for non-aces“.
• “Toyota has a patent for a rear-engined flying car with a shapeshifting body and yet the bastards are still building Camrys“.
• “Thanks to adult coloring books, there’s a global pencil shortage“.
• Tour the new LEGO headquarters virtually.
• Cephalopod infographic.
• How to mind map.
• “What causes/relieves stress: NT types“. (via itsdefinitelyametaphor) (It fit really well for INTJs at least.)
• Linkity from Hockey in Society.

Cookity

• 25 quick summer vegetable dishes.
• 12 eggplant recipes.
• Corn salad.
• Fish tacos with rhubarb-pineapple salsa.
• Strawberry shortcake in a mug.
• Muffin-tin ice cream cakes.

Gluten Free

• BLT pasta salad.
• Biscuits.
• Two-ingredient frozen  yogurt.
• Chocolate crepes.
• 10 cheesecake recipes.

Artsy Crafty

• That is a very good question about the person naming those yarn colors…
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.
• Knitting linkity from knittyBlog.

Cool

• European castles.
• Minneapolis from above.
• Knitted dragon.
• July is the first World Watercolor Month.
• Miniature remake of The Shining.
• “5 things that are harder than registering to vote” as demonstrated by President Obama.
• Maybe cats don’t think of humans as large stupid kittens…
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Death Star toaster.
• Stormtrooper parent.
• From dark bee tumblr…

Wha…?

• Robotic rectum.
• Another Wisconsin cheese heist.
• “Meanwhile in Mpls“…

LOL

• Autocorrect meets laundry.
• Your Presidential campaign slogan… Mine’s way at the bottom. 🙂
• Brexit summarized in a single tweet.
• Home itch remedies. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• A very funny post about emus.
• “Watch this detailed review before you decide to get a cat“.

Teh Cute

• “20+ proud cat mommies with their kittens“. (via malkinisms)

Reading Update

Eco Books: Inventive Projects from the Recycling Bin by Terry Taylor. This has some very clever and unusual projects in it, including making books from old cassette tapes, egg cartons, and mouse pads. Not sure how well a beginner would do with some of the binding instructions, though. And I think that a book about using unusual and extremely non-archival materials should at least mention paper acidity.

“Just passing through, following the sunbeams!!” -Mayhem

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I was in Boulder, Colorado, Monday – Wednesday for work and then work ate my linkity time, too. D’oh.

Here’s the only picture I took in Boulder:

Meanwhile, the catsitter was taking some very mysterious pictures – I am not completely sure which cat this is! :O

*TOO CLOSE TOO CLOSE TOO CLOSE*

Have a safe holiday weekend to everyone in the US! (And Happy Canada Day to our northern neighbors!)

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