Cool Stuff

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. It’s Friday again — you can tell by the scent! Or something. I was a little tired when I wrote that. Anyway, enjoy the weekend, all!

• Snuggling doggies.
• Happiness is a Warm Slayer. Buffy cartoons in the style of Peanuts.
• Carl Jara’s professional sand sculptures. Wow…
• Alien, in LEGO. Scenes recreated in tribute to H. R. Giger.

Cry “Havoc!”, and let slip the dogs of Friday!

• 20 Adorable Animals Caught Stealing.
• Battle of Endor, in LEGO. Complete with exploding Scout Walker.
• Cats on Dogs. That sounds like a Doctor Seuss book…
• Robot kangaroo. I will be very sad if we don’t see these in the Terminator reboot!

I’m gonna start with a rather self-serving link to Sword & Laser, which just posted an Author Spotlight with me. Personally, I think this qualifies as a Cool Thing, particularly the little whiteboard-animated me in the beginning of the video.

• Epic cat-butt-wiggling.
• Adventures in Knitting. Swords and monsters and big fluffy knitted sweaters.
• Star Wars in Miniature. I want to take pictures like this!!!
• Fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay is helping to fundraise for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Very cool!
• How it Should Have Ended takes on The LEGO Movie. Worth it for the closing Batman song alone 🙂

This has been quite the week! Thanks for the birthday wishes, the support and encouragement on the release of Invisible, and for just generally being awesome…

• Meerkats “helping” a nature photographer. (Link from Laura Anne Gilman)
• Cats and boxes.
• Best Batman-related texts from Texts From Superheroes.
• Photos of this week’s lunar eclipse.

Hail Friday!

• 26 Majestic Dogs. (Spoiler: dogs in images may be somewhat less majestic than advertised.)
• Action Bill: Bill Shatner vs. Bill Shakespeare, in LEGO stop-motion animation.
• Photos of dogs in mid-headshake.
• Googly eyes on books. (Must try this on some of my books…)

And when you gaze long into Friday, Friday also gazes into you.

• Cat gifs that made me giggle. (Link from Elizabeth Bear)
• Big dogs and tiny kittens. (Also from Elizabeth Bear)
• Superman, written well. “Who did this to you?” (Linked from Diane Duane)
• Slate’s collection of the best 2013 photos of space.

This is my Friday. It’s little and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good.

• 30 Naughtiest Dogs. (Have I linked to this before? I don’t care. It made me laugh again.)
• Man who rescues owls, and the one that refuses to leave.
• Ferrets playing in packing peanuts. (Link from wyldbutterflies)
• Now I want a lawn dinosaur for my birthday!
• And finally, a Cyanide & Happiness cartoon that might appeal to fans of Goblin Quest…

Friday says, “Beware. I live!”

• The Orchid Mantis. I swear this gorgeous thing is a superhero insect. A mantis was bitten by a radioactive orchid and now fights crime with her sidekick, Aphid-Boy. (Link from Elizabeth Bear)
• May 4 – The Simpsons will be airing a full LEGO-animated episode.
• Pictures of a Tiny, Adventurous LEGO Photographer. (Link from Jay Lake)
• If it Fits, I Sits. (Cats in boxes and other small containers. Because cats.)
• Cats and Dogs vs. Furniture.

I’m off to New York this afternoon for No Such Convention. Have a good weekend, all!

• Cats Taking Selfies.
• Wet Cats. (Link from Michi Trota)
• AT-ATs attack the Winter Olympics. (Link from Comrade Cat)
• Book Sculptures by Malena Valcarcel. (Link from Kat Howard)
• A can of Ravioli is devoured by lava. Just because.