Randonymity

• Check out Monday’s post (“Where have all the contests gone?“) if you missed it.

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (UF/romance)

• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.

• “The way we read now“.

• “Revisiting reader consent“.

• Romance novels as chronic pain coping mechanism.

• Setting characters in context.

• Habits of British readers infographic.

• Hockey lit. (via #crosbutt)

• About commenting on fanfiction you’ve enjoyed reading.

• Book trailer for Goodnight Darth Vader.

• Pay $20 to get killed in a future Game of Thrones book.

Think, Learn, Make, Do

• Are all the movies about WWII longer than WWII itself?

• Amazon Prime memberships now include music. Gizmodo reviews what’s included and how to use the service.

• Make a crossbow from office supplies – sounds like a sure way to liven up your day at the office!

• xkcd illustrates what will happen without CO2 emissions limits. (Hover cursor for additional text.)

• The ice is finally out on the Great Lakes! Don’t go rushing to grab your swimsuits, though – Superior’s water temp is in the 40s (F) (4-9C).

• Can you name the most abundant mineral on Earth? Hint: It was just named last week.

• Seven literal buildings.

• How to prevent Facebook from using your browsing history to target ads.

• More obvious things confirmed by science.

• Love of bacon might be genetic.

• 10 interesting cities in outstate Minnesota. (via Neighborhoodr: Minneapolis)

• Q&A with the Keeper of the Stanley Cup.

• On evaluating the role of luck in hockey.

Cookity

• Two-ingredient Nutella brownies.

• Chocolate chip cookie layer cake. (via Piper Vaughn)

• Doughnut ice cream sandwiches. (via CRAFT)

• Roasted strawberry browned butter buttercream frosting. (via The Kitchn)

• Pickled strawberry jam. (via CRAFT)

• 10 cauliflower recipes.

• Grilled chipotle lime cauliflower steaks.

• 5 ways to jazz up guacamole.

• Grilled cherry and brie pizza. (via The Kitchn)

• Eggs poached in tomato sauce.

• Thai portobello salad with herbs and snow peas.

• Lettuce-free salads.

Drinkity

• Vegan strawberry Orange Julius.

• Strawberry juice and champagne cocktail.

• Rhubarb blush cocktail.

• Champagne rhubarb jelly shots.

• Grilled summer fruit cachaca smash. (via The Kitchn)

Gluten Free

• Chocolate brownie dough ice cream (no machine required).

• Flourless brownies.

• Strawberry cupcakes with strawberry frosting.

• Stuffed crust pizza.

• Raw buckwheat porridge.

Crafty

• How to make a fabric basket bowl (video) (like the purple one frequently pictured with Mayhem napping in it). (via Love & Hisses)

Cool

• Higgs Boson mug.

• Xray image of the M51 spiral galaxy.

• Did you catch the honey/strawberry moon?

• Tetris notebook.

• If NHL teams were houses in Game of Thrones…

• Embroidered stop-motion video.

• Kitchen pr0n – larder cupboards.

• Minneapolis – Lake of the Isles.

• Linkity and knitting linkity from kmkat. Linkity from Chrissy Munder.

Cool or Wha…?

• Fake keyboard coasters.

• Toilet paper testing.

• Watch what’s happening inside your dishwasher.

Wha…?

• Man arrested for drunk driving… a motorized beer cooler.

• “Meat Rushmore“.

• The new McDonald’s mascot.

• Texting hoodie.

• Origami razor.

LOL

• NHL Playoff Quest.

• Fabulous Swiss Army knife reviews. (And really, the page exists at Amazon, so…)

• The unexpected danger of a Dalek stuffed plushie.

• The terrible crossover fanfiction idea generator. (via marilenalena) “Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining South Park and the Little Mermaid. The story should use unclogging a toilet as a plot device!” Erm, no.

• How to cover up when the tooth fairy is late.

• Good thing the internet doesn’t work like this.

• How cats make decisions.

• New Simon’s Cat!

• I think any cat owner could’ve written that.

• “Mom! You’re doing it wrong!“

Teh Cute

• Black-footed cat kittens! Baby red pandas! Albino baby skunk! Kitten! Baby red wolves! Baby koalas! Penguin! Poor lost baby moose! Penguins! Bison and baby! Baby olinguito!

Reading Update
Breakaway: The Inside Story of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Rebirth by Andrew Comte. Good look at the decline and rise of the Pittsburgh Penguins, from 2004 through the beginning of the 2010 season when the new arena opened. I started reading this shortly before GM Ray Shero was fired and finished it the day before Coach Dan Bylsma was fired (although after Shero was fired, I assumed Bylsma would go, too). So I read this from an odd, sort of cynical place…

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

Taking his apparently much-needed nap. 🙂