"For seven months, The New York Times managed to keep out of the news the fact that one of its reporters, David Rohde, had been kidnapped by the Taliban"

"But that was pretty straightforward compared with keeping it off Wikipedia."

Atomic Energy Lab

The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was sold in 1951 and came with uranium ore, a geiger counter and other items as shown here.

"The butterflies lay their eggs on flowering thyme plants, and the hatched caterpillars fall to the ground and begin to impersonate immature red ants"

"They secrete chemicals and even make noises that make the red ants believe they are wayward grubs. The ants then mistakenly carry the caterpillars to their underground homes and keep looking after them even though the adopted intruders gobble ant grubs for 10 months before forming a chrysalis and flying away as adult butterflies"

Ben & Jerry's prepackaged fudge sundae

Ben & Jerry's prepackaged "Flipped Out" fudge sundae - - you just flip it over, squeeze it out, and the fudge thaws swiftly. 310 calories for the entire sundae. They have a flipped truck driving around advertising it this summer:

Sarlacc Pillow

Plush Sarlacc "pitlow" by Becky Gould. There are various plush oddities on sale in her Etsy shop.

Portal Posters

Posters for the International Theatre School Festival by Arc/Leo Burnett Amsterdam.

How Elvis Grbac accidentally became one of People Magazine‘s Sexiest Men

JP:

The magazine chose Rich Gannon as its Sexiest Athlete. At the time, Gannon was a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. Still a couple of seasons removed from his golden tenure with the Raiders, Gannon was 33, handsome and likable. In other words, a solid choice. Yet People, being People, simply informed the photographer assigned to the piece that the Sexiest Athlete was the Chiefs’ quarterback. Hence, he took pictures of the Chiefs’ quarterback. Well