Real things you can actually buy Soap that goes from happy to sad as it gets used Rusty Blazenhoff

oregon Enormous smiley face appears in Oregon forest every fall Rusty Blazenhoff

facial recognition I tried to access my secret consumer data. Their facial recognition software told me to smile. Thom Dunn

smiley face Alex Pardee's 'Half a Nice Day' Rusty Blazenhoff

crime Brown University shooting suspect found dead Rob Beschizza

politics JD Vance downplays Young Republican leaders' pro-Hitler, racist, antisemitic comments: "Pearl-clutching" Ellsworth Toohey

Games Get this party game that challenges players to describe complex concepts using only basic words like "person," "do," and "thing" Mark Frauenfelder

force-feeding propaganda Trump gets ugly with ABC reporter who won't agree to his Garcia tattoo lie (video) Carla Sinclair

uber Live and dead animals, a DNA test, and 175 hamburgers among odd items left in Ubers Allan Rose Hill

gadgets Qudi Mask hides your face behind an LED display Rob Beschizza

museums The Busy Beaver Button Co is one of the few museums on earth which is devoted to collecting and displaying pinback buttons Popkin

art Duda Lozano creates beautiful, realistic "patch-style" tattoos Jennifer Sandlin

fun Ms. Pearl is a 14-foot-tall squirrel who lives in Cedar Creek, Texas Jennifer Sandlin

roadside attraction Visit the World's Largest Chile Pepper in Las Cruces, New Mexico Jennifer Sandlin

politics According to Pizzagate conspiracy theorists, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Pizza Hut boxes are encouraging Satanic ritual abuse Jennifer Sandlin

Barbie movie Evangelicals rail against Barbie, demand Americans not take children to see film Jennifer Sandlin

Real things you can actually buy Penny loafers made modern with emojis Rusty Blazenhoff

How cute! Mommy and son arrested for helping to steal Nancy Pelosi's laptop during Jan 6 Capitol assault Mark Frauenfelder