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Olaplex went from small batches sold from a garage to a $14 billion dollar brand in seven years. Then TikTok turned on them. [alt link]
posted by folklore724 at 7:53 PM PST - 14 comments

Just a bit of silliness from over a decade ago; appropriate for the season. Fellow MeFite (and my partner) Kitteh and I were singing this to each other today and I was surprised it had never been shared here: from back when the Internet was fun, a goofy Hallowe'en treat. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd at 2:56 PM PST - 7 comments

Animator Mike Salcedo had created a project to animate the alphabet one letter a day in February - a project that got a bit out of hand. But it seemed like it was incomplete - until now.
posted by NoxAeternum at 2:54 PM PST - 3 comments

Not Just a Big Fish, but Perhaps the Biggest Bony Fish Ever [NYT; ungated] [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 1:11 PM PST - 24 comments

Part I of my graphic memoir [via mefi projects]
posted by rogerroger at 11:28 AM PST - 15 comments

Before 1976, mangoes were commercially neglected because of its erratic fruiting habit. Am still looking for confirmation that half of the mango supply [in the Philippines] comes from backyard growers, defined as those who own five to 20 fruit-bearing trees.
posted by spamandkimchi at 9:47 AM PST - 20 comments

Peter Schjeldahl, the revered art critic for the New Yorker, has died
posted by falsedmitri at 8:43 AM PST - 9 comments