• My wish for all of you.

Bookity

• Smart Bitches on All Romance eBooks (ARe) closing on 2016-12-31.
• Blog Critics on ARe closing. (via Anke)
• Fantasy books with asexual main characters.
• Online places with free audiobooks.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “How to read when the world is terrible“.
• January journaling prompts from journaling-junkie.
• “25 words created by 19th century authors“.
• Cover snark.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• Quotes from Carrie Fisher.
• Some of 2016’s record-breaking weather facts.
• Natural cleaning recipes.
• Make your own musical instruments.
• “‘Charlie X’: 1966 Star Trek episode perfectly demonstrates how to deal with Donald Trump“.
• View Oregon from the air.
• View the earth from space (and ignore the stupid post title).

Cookity

• Cinnamon walnut mud cake.

Artsy Crafty

• How to zentangle.
• Some knitting projects via mental_floss.
• Knitting linkity via kmkat.

Cool

• Construction, domino style.
• Metronomes synchronizing themselves.
• Rhyming video that explains how the rhymes of Dr Seuss helped us learn.
• Indeed.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• “Star Wars: Episode IV sped up every time a laser is shot makes the movie less than 90 seconds“.

Wha…?

• So very, very creepy.
• “Post-Christmas mall brawls“.
• “You can wear this fashionable strainer as a hat“.

LOL

• Some best of 2016 from Cake Wrecks.
• Hanukkah autocorrects.

Teh Cute

• Tiger and baby! Baby snow leopards! Mouse deer and baby!

Reading Update

• Erm… Hockey fics! 🙂

“Yes, I find this new cat bed to be acceptable.” -Mayhem

Contest

• The Drop Dead Easy Knits Drinkalong ends December 31 – enter for your chance to win the book, project yarn packs, and more.

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Tour the Hogwarts’ library.
• Neil Gaiman reading “The Raven”.

Gift Guides

• 18 last-minute gifts.
• 30 inexpensive gifts.
• Last-minute gift ideas from Smart Bitches.
• All the Consumer Reports’ gift guides.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• Some of the scientific discoveries made in 2016.
• “127 things that happened in 2016 summed up in one drawing“.
• 40-minute documentary about canned food… from 1956.
• The earth’s geologic history in less than 10 minutes.
• Feathery dinosaur tail found.
• “You don’t have to objectify women to sell a product”.

Cookity

• Cauliflower and pecan pate. (via Lifehacker)
• Chocolate truffle cookies.

Gluten Free

• Breakfast casserole.
• Turtle cookies.
• Cut-out cookies.

Artsy Crafty

• Knitting projects for scifi and fantasy fans.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Minneapolis City Hall during a snowstorm.
• Dragon ornaments.
• Twin Peaks LEGO minifigs.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Dinosaur bottle opener.
• Millenium Falcon multitool.

Wha…?

• Fruitcake frappucino.
• Andy Warhol artwork as plushies.
• Jet engine ceiling fan.

LOL

• More has been added to the Neighbor Steve saga!
• Bad ants!
• Cultural misunderstanding.
• Naughty Santa autocorrects. Christmas autocorrects.
• Let’s not switch to that version. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Growing up and learning things. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Simon’s Cat and a box.
• Umm…
• Word.

Teh Cute

• Baby cheetahs! Baby penguin! Black cat!

Reading Update

• *whistling*

*derp* -Chaos

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more. And more.
• Neil Gaiman reads “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe.
• Book sculptures.
• Learn about bookbinding.
• Sign of the times.

Gift Guides

• Smart Bitches: Part 8. Part 7. Part 5.
• For readers.
• For language lovers.
• For coffee/tea enthusiasts.
• For “the coffee-obsessed”.
• For people who are hard to shop for.
• For cats and their people.
• Space-related gifts.

Do, Learn, Make, Think

• Do you know what “sealioning” is? You’ve probably seen it in action online.
• San Francisco’s response to t.Rump’s election.
• Timelapse tour through Voyageur’s National Park in Minnesota.
• Lin-Manuel Miranda on Drunk History.
• Spelling and peptides.

Cookity

• Peppermint crunch sugar cookie bars. (via stars-benn)
• Peppermint pinwheel cookies.
• Gingerbread red velvet cake.
• Pumpkin magic cake.

Gluten Free

• Moroccan soup with chickpeas and coconut milk.
• Apple chicken curry stirfry.
• Mac and cheese.
• Pinwheel cookies.
• Soft breadsticks.
• Chocolate shortbread.
• Apple crisp (with oats).
• Bittersweet brownie drops.
• Chocolate chip cookies.
• Soft chocolate chip cookie bites.
• Rice crispy treats.
• Gingerbread house.

Artsy Crafty

• Hockey yarn!
• Barista cowl pattern.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Snowy Minneapolis. More snowy Minneapolis. Before the snow, it was windy.
• LEGO astronaut.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Death Star popcorn maker.
• Death Star lamp.

Wha…?

• Cinnamon roll Peeps.
• The Cheetos Luxury Holiday Store.
• Pickle-flavored candy canes.
• The Poopin’ Moose.

LOL

• The Simon’s Cat guide to winter.
• Making your bed with cats, from Simon’s Cat.
• Humans are weird.
• Snowy autocorrects. Workout autocorrects. Most awkward autocorrects.
• Poop emoji pool floats and “Ohio-scented” candles”.
• Eep.

Teh Cute

• Baby pandas! Baby red pandas! Leopard and baby! Tiger and babies! Black kitty! Lioness and baby! Baby jaguar! Baby pumas!

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance), Smart Bitches (romance), Dear Author (romance), and Tor.com (scifi, fantasy)
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Smart Bitches gift guide, part 1. Part 2.
• Make your own traveler’s notebooks.
• “Why you should participate in NaNoWriMo.
• More than 28 adaptations and retellings of Sherlock Holmes.
• You can download What’s Different in Canada by Kevin Bracken for free.
• “Reading The Handmaid’s Tale in the year of Trump”.
• How to hollow out a book.
• Very cool Harry Potter posters.
• SNAP.

Think, Learn, Make, Do

• A more accurate world map.
• The right to repair. (via emmaseasall)
• “A sketchy history of pencil lead”.
• “Here’s what Chicago sounded like after the Cubs won the World Series”. I’ve had “Cubs in Five” by the Mountain Goats stuck in my head for days now… When the San Francisco Giants won the World Series in 2010, I happened to be in San Francisco, staying at a house between Noe Valley and the Castro. Some book blogging friends had been there, but only Kris (from Australia) and I were left on that last night. We were at the lovely oak dining room table, hanging out on our laptops (as bloggers do), when this amazing human ROAR started outside and never really stopped. There were helicopters flying over. And fireworks in the distance… Quote from Kris at that point: “You Yanks are crazy.” Umm.
• The makers of Nutella would like the FDA to reclassify Nutella from a dessert item to a breakfast item. (Oh, come on, who eats a single tablespoon of Nutella at a time, which is what the serving size would be reduced to.)
• Unusual November holidays.
• Tour the International Space Station.

Cookity

• 20 cauliflower recipes.
• 20 cabbage recipes.
• 20 broccoli recipes.
• Broccoli rabe and white bean gratin.
• Baked polenta with greens and gruyere.
• Two-ingredient pumpkin pasta. (via Lifehacker)
• Pumpkin oatmeal chocolate chunk cookies. (via neighborhoodr-minneapolis)
• Pumpkin cheesecake.
• Pumpkin brownies.
• “17 boozy hot chocolate recipes.”

Gluten Free

• Pie crust.
• Pumpkin streusel muffins.
• GF bread crumbs.

Artsy Crafty

• “Journaling: Therapy for the soul”. (via notebookmuseum)
• Animated needle felting.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• “Nasty women vote”.
• Although my first reaction was “Flee, Iceland, flee!”
• Dramatic photo of downtown Minneapolis.
• Hummingbird and bees.
• Amazing paper sculptures. (via itsdefinitelyametaphor)
• Cat cafe art.
• SHINE ON.
• NASA’s pumpkin carving contest.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Birthday party for a giant stag beetle.
• Magic 8-ball glass.

Wha…?

• Napflix.
• The science of the…unibrow.
• LEGO coffee maker.

LOL

• Goals.
• xkcd on tornado safety. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• “Where to go on Earth to get the interplanetary explorer experience”. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Simon’s Cat 360-degree Halloween video.
• Different types of cats.
• Autocorrect and dating. Autocorrect and chicken.

Teh Cute

• Penguins and babies! Baby tigers! Zoo animals and pumpkins!

Reading Update

• Um. I just poked through Art Journaling magazine (really not worth the cover price) and reread hockey fic…

“I think I left the oven on!” -Mayhem