Contest(s)
- Blodeuedd’s giving away an ebook copy of Emma and Her Daughter by Linda Mitchelmore. Closes February 7.
Bookity
- New releases: Fiction Vixen (UF/romance) and Tor.com (PNR)
- Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
- “Why book price doesn’t and shouldn’t measure ‘value’“.
- Writing-related Tumblr links from Paperback Writer.
- The history of the typewriter. (via pipervaughn)
- Card catalog USB drives.
- A moment of silence, please. (via literaryescapis)
- How to tell if you’re in a high fantasy novel. (via maderr)
- Video of real-time feed of British Library book activity.
- Short film about the beauty of the alphabet.
Think, Learn, Do, Make
- Fandom should be ageless.
- Looking into the whole “chocolate is a superfood” thing.
- Make a world class paper airplane.
- The science behind why cats like boxes.
- Exercises you can do at your desk.
- What’s actually inside a bowling ball.
- The saga of Left Shark.
- More than you ever wanted to know about snot color.
- “The proper names of 17 bodily functions“.
Cookity
- Lentil, mushroom, and sweet potato shepherd’s pie.
- Tex-Mex quinoa salad with cumin lime vinaigrette. (via The Kitchn)
- Winter chopped salad with roasted sweet potato and blood orange vinaigrette. (via The Kitchn)
- Edamame-ginger rice.
- Chicken lentil soup.
- 12 dinner recipes using potatoes.
- Creamy spinach bake.
- 9 cake recipes.
- Hot chocolate pudding cakes. (via esouffle)
Gluten Free
- Kolaches.
- Instant pudding mix.
- Jiffy-style corn muffin mix.
- Chocolate muffins.
- Cookie dough cupcakes.
Crafty
Cool
- Movie montage of ladies kicking butt.
- Timelapse of flowers blooming.
- Poignant short animation about an Imperial Stormtrooper missing his cat.
- Super Bowl commercial highlights in stop-motion LEGO.
- Middle-Earth via Google-esque map.
- Drone footage of the world’s largest ice fishing contest (yes, it’s in Minnesota).
- Linkity from kmkat.
Cool or Wha…?
Wha…?
LOL
- Platonic conversation hearts. (via elvenenchantress)
- A bit more on cats and boxes.
- Oh, kitties.
- I am strangely unsurprised to see a black kitty was the culprit.
Teh Cute
Reading Update
- Erm…
“Wha…?” -Mayhem
“Maybe if I don’t make eye contact, Mom will go away faster.” -Chaos
At last, I can see what Left Shark is all about. With the sound muted. I’m not sure I want to see what is in a bowling ball that I have rented.
Chris- Ice fishing in Minnesota? No way.
(we have it here, and once everybody drinks all the beer, very few fish are ever caught)
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They both looks very content. How about you, Chris?
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Ah, poor lonely stormtrooper.
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LOL, loved the living in a fantasy novel thing
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The flower time-lapse is beautiful. The snowdrops and aconites are in flower here now, the rest will be following before long.
The fantasy novel post and comments are great!
Wait. We call San Francisco The City. Capital C. Always. Does that mean I’m in a High Fantasy Novel? Eeep!
That blooming time-lapse was lovely. And I sent the scientific article about cats & boxes to all my fellow board members at the humane society.
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