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Mister Rogers Mister Rogers' fascinating tour inside the Crayola Crayon factory Mark Frauenfelder

Watch how a candy factory makes 1,680 jelly beans every second (video) David Pescovitz

ice cream Peek inside the two Ben & Jerry's ice cream factories that churn out nearly 1M pints a day Rusty Blazenhoff

book review Review: Some New Kind of Kick is the moving memoir of punk rock icon Kid Congo Powers Gareth Branwyn

Boing Boing Gadgets These are 40 of the coolest things that are on sale this week Boing Boing's Shop

happy mutants To do in Toronto: the Retro Futures exhibit at Metro Reference Library Cory Doctorow

Japan Midori Traveler's Notebook, an invaluable tool from Japan Séamus Bellamy

timelapse Watch Airstream trailers being assembled in this timelapse Rusty Blazenhoff

adventure travel North Korea invites Russians to vacation there, pretending it's "safer than London" Carla Sinclair

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

travel What bees taught me about Cambodia Tom Fassbender

A gay guy and his mom go to a brothel, and have a good time Kelly Kittell