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nostalgia Brooklyn artist Andy Sahlstrom turns Little Tikes tot-toys into dark adult collectibles Rusty Blazenhoff

Toy Story 4 Pixar's brilliant "Toy Story Window" dioramas Andrew Yi

burning man Why Burning Man tickets are shipped with an Atomic Fireball Rusty Blazenhoff

COVID-19 CDC stops reporting COVID-19 cases on cruise ships Jennifer Sandlin

Boing Boing Gadgets Be the life of the party everywhere you go with the Muff 'Spender Boing Boing's Shop

pukers and splitters Help wanted at candy store. No complainers, know-it-alls, whiners, sloths, manipulators, roamers, hiders, shirkers, liars, haters, clock watchers, controllers, passive aggressors, pukers, or splitters Mark Frauenfelder

tardigrades How to catch tardigrades Clive Thompson

the illusion of explanatory depth What do drawings of memory bikes have to do with know-it-alls? Mark Frauenfelder

candy 153 years of uninterrupted Sweethearts candies, interrupted Jason Weisberger

politics Is Oprah going to run for President? Xeni Jardin

halloween The 2017 Halloween Candy Hierarchy: Definitely Not Fake News David Ng and Ben Cohen

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Customizable, animated feminist "candy hearts" for an anti-trumpist v-day Cory Doctorow

supercuts Movie phone call supercut Mark Frauenfelder

#fixthepolice Video: Sandra Bland's jailer calls Methodist pastor a satanist Mark Frauenfelder

writing tools Is Alphasmart STILL the ultimate writers' tool? Rob Beschizza

offworld What's it like to be a hole? Leigh Alexander