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Congrats to Susan and Anita, who won Control by Cardeno C and Mary Calmes! Control is being released today by Dreamspinner Press.

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Randonymity

• We had sevenish inches of snow Wednesday night… and it will be 73F on Sunday.

• Chaos’ cornea is healed! Still have to put ointment in his eye through Sunday. Giving him a treat after each application of ointment means he comes running and sometimes purrs throughout.

• Cool custom ring that I love (and am wearing right now). The custom part is that I picked the quote. 🙂

Contest(s)

• Blodeuedd’s giving away a copy of The Miracle Thief by Iris Anthony. Closes April 26. US &  Canada.

• Ava March is giving away a pdf ARC of Sharp Love (Gambling on Love #2)! Closes midnight EST, April 30.

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (UF/romance)

• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.

• Edmond Manning on “the power of ow“.

• “To warn or not to warn, or is that even the question?” And related, “Fetish reading and genre reading“. Is it courteous to warn? (via julio)

• VacuousMinx ponders why serials garner such strong reactions. (HATE THEM!! HATE!! *ahem*)

• “Romance novel as manifesto“. (via Emma Sea)

• Good apps for various sorts of writing.

• UK red telephone boxes being repurposed as wee libraries.

• Crash Course on Jane Eyre.

• Listen to excerpts of modern works being read as if written by Geoffrey Chaucer.

• If you’ve ever wondered what makes George R.R. Martin feel guilty…

• Three-panel Shakespeare web comics. (via mental_floss)

• Dragonriders of Pern cover art flashback.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• Worth a shot if you have an earworm.

• Cheese recommended for the lactose intolerant.

• Things no longer seen at gas stations.

• The IRS trying to convince people (in the early 1960s) that it would be ok for it to use computers. (Flashback to the 1864 1040 form.)

• Kids these days – no idea what a Walkman is! Sheesh. (And get off my lawn!)

• I think I’ll skip the Samsung Gear Fit.

• What would happen if the Earth’s rotation sped up so each day was only a second long? (Spoiler: BAD THINGS.)

• Neil deGrasse Tyson, you are awesome.

• The science behind baby cuteness.

• A study found that the US is actually an oligarchy, not a democracy.

Cookity

• Moroccan carrot and quinoa salad. (via The Kitchn)

• Smoky pea soup. (via The Kitchn)

• Rhubarb and ginger jam.

• Meyer-lemon coconut bars. (via The Kitchn)

• Sticky lemon rolls with lemon cream cheese glaze.

• S’Mores pop tarts. (via puckling)

• Peanut butter eggs. (via Consumerist)

Gluten Free

• Fry bread.

• Angel biscuits.

• Macaroons.

• Lemon pudding cakes.

• Easter cake pops.

• Two-bite chocolate chip blonde brownies.

• How to organize your gluten-free flours.

Cool

• Hockey hugs!

• If you’ve ever wondered what all the Chinese cursing in Firefly actually meant…

• Two elderly ladies fly for the first time.

• Fennec fox sculpture. (via puckling)

• Hockey Night in Canada’s playoff opening video.

• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Short LEGO stop-motion film involving both William Shatner and William Shakespeare.

• There will be a LEGO Simpsons episode.

• Make a LEGO iPad.

• R2-D2 measuring cup set.

• Carbonite Han Solo rug. (Thanks, PD!)

Wha…?

• US tax dollars hard at work…

• Very sneaky, General Mills.

• “Ford built a Mustang on top of the Empire State Building last night“.

• Gay Jeans.

• Drumstick corsages.

• Viagra ice cream.

• Pizza cake.

• Easter Eggnog and Jelly Bean milk.

• Bilbo’s Bath & Shire Gel. (via The Mary Sue)

LOL

• What hockey team should you root for if your team didn’t make the playoffs or gets eliminated?

• Notes from kids having trouble expressing themselves. (Thanks, Cheryl!)

• True Facts about owls. (Thank, Cheryl!) (More True Facts videos by the same narrator.)

• TL;DR Wikipedia. (via Gizmodo)

• 10 Passover autocorrects.

• Things to wish upon your enemies. (via Piper Vaughn)

• Orbital mechanics, xkcd style. (Hover your cursor for additional text.)

• Woe, the poor hungry hipsters.

• When your toddler thinks s/he’s a cat…

Teh Cute

• Baby penguins! Baby lions! Otters and babies! Black kitty! Baby wallabies! Lioness and baby! Meerkats! Baby lion! Baby lion! Baby penguins! Baby mountain lions! Baby takin! Lions! Kittens!

Reading Update
Tales from the Pittsburgh Penguins Locker Room: A Collection of the Greatest Penguins Stories Ever Told by Joe Starkey & Mike Lange. Good collection of anecdotes from current and former players, coaches, and more. My only real issue with the book was how randomly the anecdotes were organized within the time period sections, so my logical brain kept trying to detect a pattern where there was none to be found.

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*purring* -Mayhem

*SCHLURP* -Chaos