A great chart showing the different coat colors and patterns in cats.

Awwww. All the lolcats I'll ever need.

esmerel recommended this recipe. Sounds decadent.

Sticky, spreadable, sweet. Add a vanilla bean for extra yum.

A simple and friendly recipe for making marmalade from Meyer lemons. Lots of photos and step-by-step instructions.

A quick and humorous guide to choosing better food at supermarkets.

Science comes up with a lot of awesome stuff, and you don't need a Ph.D, a secret lab, or government funding to get your hands on some of the coolest discoveries. We've got a list of 11 mostly affordable gifts that are guaranteed to blow your mind, whether or not you're a science geek.

A post-mortem on the rise and fall of a bookstore chain.

A pretty simple and clean GTD task manager. Web-based. Nice so far.

Ten things (and more) you can do now to prepare for a homemade Christmas!

Macarons have a sort of wonder reserved for them... Their tricky preparation and French origins make them seem a little inaccessible to the home cook.... I had two macarons at a fancy pastry shop in New York a couple years ago, and decided to learn how to make them.

Some icons to play with. Includes helpful blanks.

Some nifty optical illusions I hadn't seen before.

"...if perchance you are a little disillusioned with allopathy, here's a handy little flowchart to help you find the ideal alternative therapy to meet your needs."

Decadent bonbons, sweets, and hot chocolates from a New York company.

Op-Ed piece: "A library once housed things that even the wealthy couldn’t get elsewhere in the city; today they offer materials that all but the poorest can get almost anywhere. More money is spent on electronic media and less on books, and more of the money that is spent on books is spent on light reading. Such books are neither expensive nor are they hard to find, and are well within the reach of the literate middle class, who are their biggest consumers. Rather than spend its money to augment what the malls offer, the libraries compete with the malls, and by doing so have less money to stock their shelves with the things that the public might need but which the malls do not sell."

"Remember F-stops? Real apertures? A great photography-inspired watch. Measure time by aperture. It's almost F11 do you know where your children are? It'll warp your mind! "

Hahahahahaha. If you've ever seen the show, this is perfect -- especially the "Omar's Comin'" square.

I'll need to learn how to do this.

Goofy things to do with the photos your phone takes. Free to download. Looks cute.

Nice. Disorienting, though.

Pretty. Speaks for itself.

Interesting all-metal, non-skid quilt templates. Most of them are sold 'windowed,' meaning hollowed so you can see what you're cutting.

"Songs are ideas whose phrases are made memorable by rhyme and melody. They are the most portable little problem solvers I know of, and as humans we’ve fed every single experience we’ve ever had into them in order to try and make sense of our lives."

I just installed Monaco in my IDE and my eyes are happy, happy eyes.

"The right is convinced that the left is evil. The left is convinced that the right is retarded. "

I'm trying out Komodo at work, and I spotted this blog post from another drupal user who uses Komodo as his editor. It has a nice color scheme included.

Some fun applications to slap some vintage looks on the photos your iPhone takes.

*FU. Repeat from *. Win.

Fun sculpture with Legos!

"The AFI's English cousin, the British Film Institute, did a brilliant thing in enlisting Scorsese--probably the most famous student of cinema in the U.S.--to open up and speak at length for this project about the history of artistic survival among Hollywood directors. Scorsese takes a highly intuitive and heartfelt approach in describing how a number of filmmakers--some famous and some forgotten--carefully layered their visions into their work, often against the great resistance or eccentric whims of powerful producers."

How to sew your own tote bag using mostly just the fabrics I already have around the house

I grinned when I saw this and thought of Catherine E. I want to see this book...

The recipes at the end of this article look luscious. This is the time of year when the corn is so plentiful and so amazing that I could eat it every day.

‎"You will need to divide your current possessions into four major
categories:

1) Beautiful things.
2) Emotionally important things.
3) Tools, devices, and appliances that efficiently perform a useful function.
4) Everything else."

(-- Long, but really picks up steam toward the end.

OKTrends is possibly one of the most awesome data-analysis blogs. Ever.

Doctor Who game accessories, including a -- yes! -- sonic screwdriver Wii remote

Some of these designs are utterly fantastic. The urge to steal borrow use is intense.

A unique selvedge star tutorial.

Another good source for reproduction fabrics. I had fun delving into the older patterns. Someday, someday.

A quilt made during the Civil War that has inspired others to recreate all or part of it.

Alejandro mentioned this soup, so I had to look it up. I should try this.

These little popover-style rolls are one of my favorite parts of eating at Fogo de Chão. I'll have to try out this copycat recipe to see if it is accurate.

Some good free quilt patterns on this site

Some gorgeous pens. Whimper, wish.

I'm really intrigued by 'Inconsolata.' I should try that on my personal laptop.

A good pattern that uses up a lot of scraps. Lots of squares.

an interesting and gorgeous tiling pattern.

Taprats is a great little java applet that explores Islamic tiling patterns. It can export to EPS format so it is easy to bring vector data into Rhino, Illustrator, or other programs.

I could do this.

A place (stateside!) you can actually order fat quarters of Dutch Wax fabric. Bonus: French fabrics, too!

An interesting not-quite-pattern I might have to try

Interesting - hadn't seen some of these.

Good tilings info.

Oh my God. Beautiful tile.

This tiling would make an exceptional quilt. Squares and rhombs (diamonds). At first glance it looks like a traditional quilt pattern, but quickly falls apart into its true quasicrystalline nature.

Heptagonal tilings. I'm imagining this in fabric, and drooling.

Fabric shop that carries fabric by designer Keiko Goke, who does some seriously cute stuff I like.

A .svg of a penrose tiling. This can and should be a quilt, damnit.

Quasicrystals.

I wonder if I could make these work for something unusually patterned.

I need to pass these around to some friends and coworkers.

A Japanese quilting textile shop. Fabulous. Should liberate me from some of my money.

I did a variant on this and really liked it.

Hmm, if I ever decide to try this pattern...

Indonesian and Javanese batiks

Javanese and Indonesian batik fabrics.

This line of fabric, 'Rouenneries,' has fascinated me ever since I first saw it. I love the off-whites and muted reds; they make me think of the design aesthetic I saw in Paris. It makes me want to make a French-influenced patchwork quilt.

Stainless steel ring with gears that actually turn.

Lynette says these soaps are fabulous.

Quickie useful code snippets if you're doing Drupal development work in Coda.

Yum. I love brushes-as-shortcuts.

My tiny fabric stash would revel in getting a pound of kimono fabric per month. Tempting, very tempting.

Some nice, basic examples for keeping your coworkers and successors from killing you in your sleep.