Randonymity

• If you missed it Monday and are curious, some recent abstract pages and non-abstract pages from my art journal.

Contest(s)

• Blodeuedd’s giving away an ebook copy of Midsummer Dreams by Alison May. Closes July 2.

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Lots and lots of bookity linkity from Book Riot.
• Amazon might start paying authors based on the number of ebook pages people actually read…
• “Publishing and the (un)predictability of reader taste“.
• How to get started reading Connie Willis. (One of my favorite authors!)
• Some thoughts from an employee at a used bookstore.
• Some tidbits from the most recent OED update.
• “11 old-fashioned words for idiots“.
• A very bright Little Free Library I encountered last week.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• What the ALS Association has been doing with the money raised as a result of last summer’s ice bucket challenge. (via zarathuse)
• No more personal belief vaccination exemptions for kids in California. Finally!
• Make a onesie for an overgrooming cat.
• Sploid tried to figure out how sturdy hockey pucks are.
• More uses for chickpea liquid in vegan cooking.
• Make a solar-powered charger in an Altoids tin.
• Short film about the life cycle of an iPhone.
• Whoops. The pricey Beats headphones are made from parts worth less than $17.
• Bill Nye explains climate change using emoji.
• A new part of the human body has been discovered.
• Yes. This.

Cookity

• Sloppy vegan joes.
• Summer squash soup with coconut milk.
• Summer squash shakshuka with baked eggs.
• Baked summer squash.
• Raw Thai citrus crunch salad.
• Kohlrabi and carrot slaw.
• 10 recipes with melted cheese.
• 10 main-dish zucchini recipes.
• 20 breakfast recipes with fruit.
• Olive oil zucchini bread. (via The Kitchn)
• Molten truffle mochi waffles. (via may1girl)
• 10 popsicle recipes.

Gluten Free

• Blueberry pierogi.
• Chocolate zucchini brownies.
• No-bake chocolate cheesecake.

Crafty

• Scarf knitted via brain waves.
• Minneapolis yarnbombing. (via stuffaboutminnesota)
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• “Chelsea Dagger” played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. (via Puck Daddy)
• New mural in Uptown Minneapolis.
• Google Street View tour of El Capitan.
• Stones sorted by color.
• 9 lovely photos of weather.
• Video from the ISS about life in motion on Earth.
• A short film about variations on the story of Cinderella around the world.
• Violent short scifi film shot entirely in moonlight.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Migraine simulator.
• Six-year project to crochet a map from Super Mario Bros. (via alexwhitehall)
• Oh! This picture of the world’s largest boot (at the Red Wing Shoe Company headquarters) reveals the size of the boot.
• And hey, check out the world’s largest otter.
• Cat paw socks to protect your floor from chair and table legs. (via The Mary Sue)
• Escher-inspired furniture.

Wha…?

• Ice-cream flavored breakfast cereal.
• Beer-scented grooming products.
• And this sort of thing is why I never scan QR codes…

LOL

• 25 Father’s Day autocorrects.
• Hopefully cat dads had a good Father’s Day, too.
• What you will see on a roadtrip across the US.
• On “proper” Minnesota salad. (via stuffaboutminnesota)
• Beware!
• Phil Tippett demoted in Jurassic World?
• I’d be slain by the dragon if I tried this!

Teh Cute

• Black-necked swan and babies! Cheetah and babies! Cat and kitten! Pygmy slow loris and teeny tiny baby!

Reading Update
A Rule Against Murder (Three Pines #4) by Louise Penny. Good continuation of the series – the Chief Inspector and his wife are staying at a lodge to celebrate their anniversary when death visits the unhappy family reunion also at the lodge.
Aspertools: The Practical Guide for Understanding and Embracing Asperger’s, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Neurodiversity by Harold S. Reitman. DNF @ 33%. I really wanted to like this book. I liked some of the information in it, but unfortunately I found the author’s style too annoying to continue reading. YMMV.
Doodles Unleashed: Mixed-Media Techniques for Doodling, Mark-Making and Lettering by Traci Bautista. DNF at 43%. Maybe the formatting of the ebook made this seem kind of chaotic? Maybe the paper book is less a nonstop and thus somewhat overwhelming list of prompts? YMMV.

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