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Linkity’s a little sparse this week – it was pretty quiet online, plus I’ve felt rather vegetative. 🙂

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Bookity

• New releases and more: Fiction Vixen (romances) and AAR (best romance audiobooks of 2012)

• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.

• Sign a petition to appoint John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats to be the US Poet Laureate. (via Largehearted Boy)

• Go over to orannia’s blog to sign up for the 2013 M/M Romance Challenge.

• If you’re a mystery fan, I hope you’re familiar with Stop, You’re Killing Me! It’s a fabulous resource for finding new things to read or just figuring out the order of books in a series.

• Make yourself a TARDIS bookcase. (via The Mary Sue)

• Weave old book spines together into a book spine mat. (via CRAFT)

Ebookity

• According to Pew Internet, the number of Americans reading ebooks is increasing and tablet ownership surpassed ereader ownership in 2012.

• Getting started with a tablet or ereader.

• Some ways in which ereaders are better than tablets. I’d add reading outside to the list as well.

• NASA has released two free ebooks for iBooks users.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• Swedish researchers have some new theories about why celiac disease incidence is increasing.

• How a Calvin & Hobbes comic strip inspired one person to become a tech writer.

• “How Mythbuster Adam Savage solves problems“.

• If you’re on Facebook, you should check your settings now that the new privacy tools are being rolled out.

Cookity

• Creamed spinach with baked eggs.

• 15 brunch recipes.

Drinkity

• 7 winter cocktails.

• 10 easy cocktails for New Year’s Eve.

• Rosemary gin cocktail.

Cool

• TARDIS engagement ring box.

• Cosmic Sans.

• Neil deGrasse Tyson dancing to Michael Jackson.

• Fhloston Paradise (The Fifth Element) in LEGO.

Cool or Wha…?

• Hobbit feet socks. (via The Mary Sue)

• Crocheted knight’s helmet.

Wha…?

• Remote-controlled watermelon.

LOL

• The gift that keeps on giving?

• Henri le Chat Noir on Christmas.

• Chaos?!?!?

• Big cats are harder on Christmas trees and presents than are house cats…

Teh Cute

• Opossum and babies! Kittens! Kitten! Baby lions! Sugar glider! Cheetah and babies! Baby okapi! Kitten!

Reading Update
Hockey fics, FTW! 🙂
Blood on the Ice by AM Riley. ebook short. reread. Very good short paranormal m/m romance about a hockey player who gets bitten by a vampire.
How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You by Matthew Inman. Pretty good collection of The Oatmeal’s cat-themed comics. I knew someone would get me this for Christmas… it was my brother. 🙂 (Or, per the gift tag, his cat Riley, who happens to be Chaos’ mom…)

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