Elevenses And Then Some: How To Prepare A Feast Fit For A Hobbit - Now that’s a lot of food… (Via Lisa Costello.)

Benedict Cumberbatch sees Smaug as sexy

Misheard for the holidays: When good song lyrics go bad - (Thanks to Dad.)

The Best of the Worst Logo Designs - Oh geeze. (I think I got this from Steve Buchheit, but I have lost the source.

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Dementia: Terry Pratchett 'angry' with government

Meet Your Body’s Death Eaters - From brain to blood to bone, macrophages take out our cellular trash. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Calvin and Hobbes on ebooks - Hahahah.

Twitter’s World - Languages and Twitter.

Prosthetic Arm Found in Second-Hand Shop - Ah, headlines.

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There's no real way to make a coherent blog post out of this, so you'll have to settle for a bit of narrative ( Read more... )

Walmart Called - Your Christmas Photos Are ready - My eyes!!! Not exactly work-safe.

Mars lake 'much like early Earth' - The ancient lake environment found in Mars' Gale Crater could have supported microbes called chemolithoautotrophs - if they had been present. Remember when the question of whether there had ever been open water on Mars was ( Read more... )

What An Amazing Dam. Wait… What’s That? Are Those…? No Way! - Yup. Goats. (Via David Goldman.)

Cats Recognize Their Owner’s Voice But Chose to Ignore It - Hahaha.

Stolen cobalt-60 found in Mexico; curious thieves likely doomed

An Artificial Hand with Real Feelings - A new nerve interface can simulate a sense of touch from 20 spots on a ( Read more... )

Aging cells share features with cancer - Chemical modifications of DNA look similar in aging and cancerous cells.

Sex versus Cancer - (Via Laurie Mann.)

50 States of Lego - This is cute. (Via ( Read more... )

Novelist Error Messages - Hahahah. (Thanks to Lisa Costello.)

Where writers get their ideas - Hahah.

6 Modern Playgrounds to Make Your Inner Child Lose Its Mind - Some weird stuff. Hah. (Via ( Read more... )

Fate of next year's Sriracha supply to be decided by experts -

Weather could ground Macy’s parade balloons - How many days a year does a Macy’s balloon wrangler work, anyway?

Black hole with unexpectedly ‘elegant manners’ baffles astronomers - The discovery impacts the long search for evasive intermediate-mass black holes.

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Heroines in an ancient film called the flame of the west - How it all looks lately from the point of view of Lisa Costello.

How I Thank God - ( Read more... )

Milo Fowler is giving away a personalized copy of my new novella from Prime Books, Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh

Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional - Boy, do I have a lot to say about this. (Via Beverly Block.)

You, Me, and Every Word We Know - Ta-Nehisi Coates on the languages of labeling, in-groups ( Read more... )