8 things we wanted to share this week:
- Spoiler Alert: Big Bird isn’t a real bird.
- People’s love of Nickelodeon runs deep. Which Nickelodeon character would you tattoo on your body?
- If you’re up for a weekend project, this two-player pinball machine could be a fun challenge.
- Just in time for summer days at the beach, the soundtrack to Jaws is being released by
Mondo on blue vinyl. - People dressed up to go to the grocery store in years gone by. Now it’s all pyjama pants and flip flops.
- This digital archive of Soviet children’s books provides plenty of new bedtime reading material. Sweet dreams.
- A re-release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind would be awesome! A remake, not so much.
- Lewis Carroll’s original handwritten Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland from 1864 is perfection.

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