Bookity
- New releases: Book Riot (audiobooks)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from BookwyrmKnits.
- Linkity from the Pen Addict.
- 25 books to help you learn about astronomy.
- A poem about online friends. 🙂
- Unicorn bookmarks you can make and buy.
Learn, Do, Make, Think
- “Cat behaviours explained“.
- A tip for picking a name your cat will respond to. (Both Chaos and May will come when I call their names – Chaos with alacrity (“Fud? Fud? Fud?”) and May at a much more leisurely pace.)
- Brexit. (I couldn’t put this in LOL because reasons.)
- How to use journaling to help with anxiety.
- “The myth that knights could barely move in their armor has finally been dispelled“.
- A little tidbit that didn’t make it into the Mr Rogers documentary.
- “Confirmed: The pockets on women’s pants are indeed bullsh*t“.
- Minneapolis is a good place to live for reliable cell service, apparently.
- The lack of asexual representation in mainstream media.
- What happens when calorie counts are included on menus.
Cookity
- Balsamic glaze.
- Black bean corn salsa.
- 10 quick and easy low calorie lunches.
- 10 healthy one-pot recipes.
- Chocolate zucchini cake.
Gluten Free
Cool
- Yes, this.
- Oh, snap!
- Have I linked to “Space Australian Medicine” before? It blurs.
- “Lily Lake ain’t one of those towns.“
- Would you watch Doctors and Demons?
- That mysterious strand of hair…
- Read the tags before you click through on this one. It’s powerful, but kind of wrenching, too.
- “Dessert, but shot like Murder. I think I’ve found my favorite aesthetic ever.“
- “Fountain pen nibs under a 20x loupe“.
- Gold Medal Park from above.
- The American Swedish Institute.
- Milkjam Minnesota.
- Best. Pedestrian Bridge. Ever.
- “Be a ewe-nicorn!“
- I wonder if that’s spilled Black Cat India Ink?
- Photos from Forbidden Planet (London) Ltd.
- Linkity from kmkat.
Cool or Wha…?
- Complicated wooden cabinet puzzle.
- “French theme park employs trained birds to pick up cigarette butts“.
Wha…?
- “E. coli bacteria made this image of the Mona Lisa“.
- You can use your phone to play old games directly from floppy disk.
LOL
- “How to finish“.
- “Well out of the blue I just remembered today the time I accidentally joined the cast of The Princess Bride…in the middle of the production.“
- Clumsy lion.
- Cake mistakes, corrected.
Teh Cute
- “Girl visits a shelter and gets adopted“. Flamingos and babies! Baby puffin! Baby red pandas! Tiger and babies! Baby leopards!
Reading Update
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. This was the first Neal Stephenson I’ve read since trying and failing to get into his Baroque Cycle, so I was pleasantly surprised at how compulsively readable this was. It dragged a bit in the middle, but I was sucked in by that point. I would love to retitle it Schrodinger’s Witches: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.! (Spare your wrists and read the ebook. This seems like it would be extraordinarily confusing in audio.)
Abstract Painting: The Elements of Visual Language by Jane Davies. Excellent book, summed up well by its title. This is one I’ll probably reread over and over, working to absorb the contents into my subconscious mind.
“Why are all of you upside down?!” -Mayhem