- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Rest in power, bell hooks.
- “100 speculative fiction titles to add to your reading list“. There are some great ones in this list!
- An update on the Walnut the crane wife and the keeper she selected for her mate. (Scroll to the bottom.)
- On map projections.
- On box jellyfish.
- “The trees that miss the mammoths“.
- Photos from the 1920s of women with cats.
- I didn’t know chocolate fruit looked like that, or that humans are the only species to which its seeds aren’t poisonous.
- “Study says investing in LEGO will earn you more money” than investing in gold.
- What if Christianity wasn’t the dominant religion in the US?
- “The Lord of the Rings cast reunites for a clever anniversary rap“.
- Fiesta peach SPAM loaf.
- Quick coconut chicken curry.
- Red velvet marble cake with cream cheese glaze. (via The Kitchn)
- Hot chocolate macarons. (via The Kitchn)
- …I can’t imagine how much harder it is to do that with cards than with dominoes. 😮
- Do you know how fragile wet paper is?!?!?!??
- GENIUS. More about the Bayeux Tapestry app (including where to find it).
- WHOA.
- And YIKES.
- The saga of Jean and Jorts. Some additional commentary.
- “America’s worst fireplace“.
- Gen-Xer insight.
- A kitty roomba.
- Tubbitha.
- “Studies in ethical realism: The runaway lobster telephone problem“.
- The best name for anti-sub machinery ever.
Reading Update
Take a Look at the Five and Ten by Connie Willis. Lovely holiday short! I read this in a collection, but it was years ago.
The Hungry Dreaming by Craig Schaefer. Very suspenseful and intense paranormal thriller about saving the past and future of New York City. (Don’t be alarmed that it seems to be the third book in a series – it’s not, really.)
Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren. Ok, but there’s not much to it. And I’m not sure it lives up to its ambitious subtitle.
Drowsing Harry.
Polly by the window, with snow in the background. Most of that snow melted when it was 58F/14C on Wednesday. NOT normal for Minneapolis in December.
Polly asleep, Mayhem mildly annoyed/inconvenienced by Polly’s presence/existence.
The whole ifUS was not Christian went over my head. It was so well religious! Lol,if anyone even mention anything Christian to my kid I tell her it is a fairytale. The holiday is pagan, as it always has been 😉
Thanks for the update on Walnut the crane! Really cool story. And the vintage photos of women with cats looks like a perfect use of photography to me. 😉 I’ve been loving the Jean and Jorts saga on Twitter, too.
Really neat article on the plants that evolved alongside megafauna! Science finds some super-cool stuff.
I actually knew that the cacao fruit looked like that, because I dined at a restaurant (Remy, on the Disney Cruise ships) where they have chocolate formed into that shape for decorative purposes! I didn’t know that the seeds were poisonous to non-humans, though.
Oh god. That is the WORST fireplace.
A recent post from Nicole..WIP Wednesday for 15 December 2021
Lots of great stuff today. A friend sent me a link to the Jorts thing. Poor Jorts.
WALNUT! LOL.
Love the wet origami. So cool.
And the Kitty Roomba… funnier every time I re-watch it.