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- 2026-07-16-tools-for-one-craft: Tools for one particular craft (4 items) — edist, spellsurf-word-tool, wyrm-math, youtube-guitar-tab-parser (youtube-guitar-tab-parser has no hero; 3/4 heroes, floor met)
30 of 39 backlog finds now bundled; the unbundled shortlist pool drops to ~9 (the 2 uncovered singletons + 5 review-visible items + 2 ineligible).
## 2026-07-16 — review: tropfsteinmaschine-hamburg
Graduated from find captured 2026-07-16, source: Atlas Obscura.
Hero: Wikimedia Commons File:Tropfsteinmaschine.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0, photographer Hinnerk11) — the only Commons image of the piece; copied from the find hero, credit caption added.
Category: places (existing; matches lai-tak-tsuen-estate precedent for a visitable site).
Fact-check: held up, no corrections. Verified against Bogomir Ecker's own project site (tropfsteinmaschine.de, via Wayback — live domain is Cloudflare-gated) and Kunsthalle sources: Dec 19 1996 start, self-powered, ~10mm/century, 1996→2496 timeline, still installed/viewable. Enriched with verified specifics (1,500 L drought reservoir, the Tropfstein e.V. stewardship association, the isolated machine room, 2021 quarter-century status). ~516-word body.
Amazon: n-a (an artwork).
## 2026-07-16 — review: clasica-fiberglass-camper-trailer
Graduated from find captured 2026-07-16, source: Gear Patrol.
Hero: the maker's own clean product shot (trailer in an Oregon wildflower meadow, Mt. Hood behind; 1920×1398, from Clasica's own Wix media) — preferred over the Gear Patrol photo.
Category: outdoors (new — schema `category` is free-form; honest for a camper).
Fact-check: confirmed a real, actively-orderable product (not vaporware). 1,200 lb dry, 12 ft, sleeps up to 3, galvanized steel chassis + German torsion suspension, Goal Zero Yeti 1500 included, price $28,500, made-to-order (~3–4 month wait, "First 50" Founders Edition). Corrected/tightened: the find's Subaru-specific tow claim broadened to the site's actual "most SUVs and crossovers"; the unverified "1970s Polish one-piece mold" claim explicitly flagged as unsupported (site says only "1970s European design language," European factory partner, OSU engineering help). Link → clasicacampers.com/the-clasica. ~380-word body.
Amazon: omitted — $28,500 direct-to-consumer made-to-order, no ASIN.
## 2026-07-16 — review: moist-towelette-online-museum
Graduated from find captured 2026-07-16, source: Kottke.org.
Hero: reused the find's real photo of the physical display shelves (1600×1200).
Category: history (existing; an ephemera archive).
Fact-check: confirmed John French, the Abrams Planetarium (MSU) display case, donors (Lufthansa/KFC/British Airways), the Star Trek "Live long and prosper!" towelettes, and that the site is live (footer updated Mar 7 2024). Correction the find missed: French has retired and is now curator emeritus; the physical case survives because his successor, Aspen Folse, chose to keep it. Added verified specifics (1,000+ towelettes, every continent but Antarctica, a 1963 "Wash Up!" packet, a Car Talk donation). The fabricated "live moist and prosper" tagline (a Kottke quip) was NOT used. ~396-word body.
Amazon: n-a (a website).