After I continued to randomly mark large chunks of my feed as read trying to use the Feedly app for Android, I tried a bunch of other feed readers and have settled on Newsfold. It’s not fancy, but it does what I want a feed reader to do. So! *fingers crossed*

Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance) and All About Romance
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• 100 young adult science fiction books.
• 21 quotes from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Huston.
• “The book that reached into the switchboard of my mind and switched everything on“.
• Post-apocalyptic librarians – this snippet is way too short, unfortunately.
• Seriously.
• The fandom experience.

Do, Think, Learn, Make

• The history of the price tag.
• “This mutant crayfish clones itself, and it’s taking over Europe“. That’s the amusing tumblr thread about it – here’s my fact checking link to Science.
• We had a very snowy weekend here in Minneapolis. Very snowy.
• “Bee stings and cow kicks kill way more Americans than sharks“.
• A look at how different Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was from the rest of the Star Trek franchise.
• Some journaling prompts from Lifehacker.
• Good for you, Dick’s Sporting Goods.
• Drunk History on Mister Rogers.
• “Is coffee good for you?“
• “Beyond hope and despair: Teaching climate change“.

Cookity

• Easy roasted veggie salad.
• Yellow curry with root veggies, cashews, and basil.
• Dutch oven chicken pot pie.
• Sheet pan cornbread for a crowd.
• Salted caramel bittersweet chocolate caramel tart.

Gluten Free

• Spicy peanut rice noodles with gai lan.
• Almond flour tortillas.
• 10 “low-stress meals”.
• Chocolate shortbread cookies.

Artsy Crafty

• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Mississippi River in winter, with banjo.
• Geology dragon.
• Nice photo of the Mary Tyler Moore statue on Nicollet Mall.
• A twist on Cinderella.
• The Harry Potter: A History of Magic online exhibit from the British Library.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• This is an interesting way to remember to do something… Wouldn’t it be easier to just set a reminder on your phone?!
• Six degrees of Wikipedia.
• Chopstick gallery.
• Humorous horror short about a pet cemetery.

Wha…?

• “If the moon were the same distance as the ISS“.
• Yellow cardinal.

LOL

• The stages of a cat yawn.
• Dogs getting stuck in snow (video).
• Interaction. (Hover/long-press cursor for caption.)
• xkcd on The Simpsons. (Hover/long-press cursor for caption.)
• Bill Murray, you might be onto something there re: the Olympics!
• “This hero made himself a boyfriend out of boxed wine cartons“.
• “If HAL9000 was Amazon.com’s Alexa“. (Thanks, Cheryl!) (vide0)

Teh Cute

• Kittens (video)! Baby penguins! Baby penguin! Baby otter! Baby cheetahs!

Reading Update
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer. Thoughtful look at being still and meditating, with unexpected Leonard Cohen.

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