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Congrats to Irene, who won Fire and Water by Andrew Grey! Fire and Water will be released by Dreamspinner Press on December 15.

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Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (UF/romance) and AAR (romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• “Our bankrupt critical culture”.
• Is there a romance subgenre you think needs more books?
• Scifi/fantasy books by women of color. (via ofgeography)

And More Gift Guides…

• Smart Bitches: Part 4.
• The Mary Sue: Geek chic.
• Travel tools and organizers.
• Office organization.
• Home organization.
• Life-improving books.
• Not-too-expensive kitchen luxuries.
• For “budding chefs”.
• For music geeks.
• For those into science. Even more science gift ideas.
• A list of The Kitchn’s holiday gift guides.
• Ideas for knitted gifts.

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• 15 things you might not have known about The Matrix.
• Time lapse of the International Space Station being assembled.
• History of space travel via art.
• Free online access to Albert Einstein documents.
• There’s a cat cafe opening in New York, and it’s taking reservations.
• “The soaring US outbreak of vaccine-preventable disease, visualized“.

Cookity

• Elvis chocolate bark.
• Cookie butter.
• Pumpkin pie cookies.
• Eggnog marshmallows.
• 10 recipes using eggnog.
• Giant jelly donut cake for Hanukkah.
• Spaghetti squash latkes.
• Harvest salad with delicata squash and kale. (via The Kitchn)
• Salty maple squash with ginger scallion rice and turmeric Brussels slaw. (via The Kitchn)
• Roasted delicata squash, cauliflower, and chickpea curry. (via The Kitchn)
• Kale gratin.
• Avocado puff tart.
• Tom kha gai.
• Fresh cranberry scones.
• Gingerbread granola. (via The Kitchn)
• 10 recipes for Brussels sprouts.

Gluten Free

• Peanut butter banana cookies.
• 5 shortbread variations.
• 3 easy fudge variations.

Crafty

• Smart Bitches lacy cowl.
• Make your own Chuthumas tentacle wreath. (via Tor.com)
• Knitterly links from kmkat.

Cool

• Hand-knitted stop motion video.
• 35 space movies mashed into one video.
• Trailer for The Little Prince.
• Snowshoe snow art. (via mental_floss)
• Four-ton Rube Goldberg machine built by National Geographic.
• The Science Love Song”.
• Battle of Hoth in LEGO.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Cookie cutter for making wee gingerbread houses.
• Lawn dice.
• Rent an ugly holiday sweater. Or buy one from the ugly Christmas-sweater only thrift store.

Wha…?

• “Tweed jacket imbued with the scent of whiskey“.
• Beard baubles. (via mental_floss)
• Vomiting Santa sweater.
• Roaring Wookiee diary.
• We all knew there would be casualties from the TGIFriday’s mistletoe drone, right?

LOL

• Real-life autocorrect/typo.
• The importance of wording.
• “The forbidden Top Gun trailer“.
• Cake Wrecks that leave me wondering if the bakers/decorators even tried.

Teh Cute

• Black kitties who need homes! Baby tigers! Penguins and baby! Cuddly kitties! Baby porcupine! Baby lion! Lioness and baby!

Reading Update
Hockey Prospectus 2013-2014 by Timo Seppa, Ryan Schwepfinger, and Jesse Spector. Ok preview of the 2013-2014 NHL season, with a detailed section on each team. Probably most useful for serious hockey number crunchers or for those with a fantasy hockey team.
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe. Delightful, humorous, and thought-provoking read in which Munroe answers a wide array of “what if…?” questions sent to him by blog readers and proves, yet again, that science can be fun. Now, if only Munroe would write a high school physics textbook…

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“It is good to be free of the cone.” -Chaos (His cornea is completely healed!)

*creepin’ in the background* -Mayhem