The guy who built his own Muppet Theater<\/a> — from scratch!! Because, yes, I am just a big enough dork to fully geek out over the awesome of that.<\/p>\n Yesterday Leila highlighted the awesome that is Jillian Tamaki’s artwork for Penguin<\/a>, today the Guardian features The Materialistics and their take on classic art<\/a>. It’s flat out amazing. I’m excited to learn that in December 2011, they’re doing a show depicting children’s books! Yay!<\/p>\n Message in a bottle – it actually showed up! The bottle was launched<\/a> when the boy was five; now he’s 29, and it’s been found by a thirteen-year-old boy in another country. They plan to be pen pals, which is the coolest thing, ever.<\/p>\n Twin babies chatting<\/a>. Yes, ABC is totally late on that one, as the video came out in February (and may I take the opportunity here to say how much I despise the word “viral” in the whole video craze thing?) but as a nation, we’re so stressed out that Twin Babies Doing Anything Cute is a happy place to be. Imagine Shannon Hale’s world<\/a> just now. Her double-trouble duo are too cute.<\/p>\n Since the Bronx Zoo Reptile House is closed at present, mental_floss did a handy list of all other great animal escapes<\/a>. People are strange: we go to the zoo to see captive animals, but paradoxically, people tend to cheer for escaped animals. Remember Freedom<\/a>? (That cow is a whole picture book by herself.)<\/p>\n This made me guffaw in a rather unkind way… there’s a new company starting up called Cloud Girlfriend… they provide… fake… girlfriends… for Facebook. No, really<\/a>.<\/p>\n As usual, the world is stranger – and funnier – than we imagined.![](\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/thewave.png\")
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