content: 2026-05-06 capture run — 28 finds, Kikkerland routed to Amazon, drop 9to5Mac

Captured 28 finds across 14 productive sources. Kikkerland items rewritten to Amazon ASINs (huckleberry slingshot B0GNJ8GCF5, bug blaster B0GS6F32CK) so the affiliate handler tags them at render; croissant bath rug dropped — no Kikkerland-branded match on Amazon. 9to5Mac removed from sources after three runs of category-subpath instability.
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+---
+name: "App Store Updates Deep Link"
+subtitle: "An itms-apps:// URL that jumps straight to the Updates page"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/985456af1a2341cc9f1d5f38fbc9fa7c"
+linkText: "iCloud shortcut"
+source: "r/shortcuts"
+topics:
+  - apple-tips
+tags: [shortcuts, app-store, deep-link, ios]
+description: "iOS doesn't expose the Updates page as a one-tap target — itms-apps://apps.apple.com/updates does."
+---
+
+iOS apps update silently in the background, but staged rollouts mean the version you wanted last Tuesday might still be a few hours away. There's no Home Screen affordance for the Updates pane, so you usually go App Store → tap your avatar → scroll to Updates. The URL `itms-apps://apps.apple.com/updates` jumps straight there, and a one-action Shortcut wraps it for the Action Button.
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+---
+name: "Cling"
+subtitle: "A keyboard-first file finder that sees what Spotlight ignores"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://lowtechguys.com/cling/"
+linkText: "lowtechguys.com"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [search, file-finder, keyboard, indie]
+description: "Fuzzy-search every file on your Mac — including the dotfiles and app-data directories Spotlight refuses to see — in under 100ms."
+---
+
+Cling indexes the parts of your filesystem Spotlight pretends don't exist: hidden files, dotfiles, system directories, the contents of `~/Library`. The whole interface is keyboard: type, see results in 100ms, hit a hotkey to open / QuickLook / batch-rename / drag the result somewhere else. Free for the basics; €12 lifetime unlocks Quick Filters and external-volume indexing.
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+---
+name: "Current Reader"
+subtitle: "An RSS reader built around rivers, not inboxes"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.currentreader.app/"
+source: "Daring Fireball — Linked List"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [rss, reading, indie, ios, macos]
+description: "No unread counts, no badges. Articles flow downstream and age out by the velocity you assign each feed."
+---
+
+Most RSS apps treat your feeds as an inbox: counts, badges, the small guilty drumbeat of unfinished reading. Current Reader is built around the opposite metaphor — a river. New articles surface at the top, drift down, and are considered "gone" at a rate you set per feed (Breaking, News, Article, Essay, Evergreen). $9.99 one-time on iPhone, iPad, and Mac; nine handcrafted themes; syncs with Feedbin and FreshRSS.
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+---
+name: "Echoes of Genius: Enduring Wisdom from Great Minds"
+subtitle: "A self-published quote book arranged as a perpetual calendar"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://geni.us/Kiqgp"
+linkText: "Amazon"
+source: "Recomendo"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+  - gifts
+tags: [book, quotes, calendar, daily-read]
+description: "366 quotes by subject — one per day — sourced from the kind of people who actually had something to say."
+---
+
+A small, self-published volume that pairs the daily-quote-calendar format with the editorial discipline of a curated commonplace book. Each day gets a single quotation from somebody worth quoting, organized by theme rather than alphabet, so the year reads as a slow rotation through ideas rather than a random shuffle. Recomendo's pick this issue.
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+---
+name: "Express Transit"
+subtitle: "Which transit systems work with tap-to-pay in Apple Wallet, worldwide"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://expresstransit.com"
+source: "Six Colors"
+topics:
+  - apple-tips
+  - travel
+tags: [apple-wallet, transit, travel, reference]
+description: "Going to Tokyo, Singapore, London? This site tells you whether you can tap your iPhone through the gates without buying a card."
+---
+
+Apple Pay's Express Transit list is buried inside Wallet and refuses to give you a forward-looking answer to "if I land in Taipei tomorrow, will my watch tap through?" Express Transit (the site) is the publicly maintained directory: every supported transit network, what mode (Suica, ePURSE, EMV contactless), and the current activation steps for visitors. Saves you the panicked Google search at a fare gate.
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+---
+name: "ExtraBar"
+subtitle: "A different approach to menu-bar management on macOS Tahoe"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1t5ccdx/extrabar_a_different_approach_to_menu_bar_managers/"
+linkText: "r/macapps launch post"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [menu-bar, tahoe, indie, customization]
+description: "Tahoe broke the conventional menu-bar managers; ExtraBar replaces the menu bar itself rather than fighting macOS over icon position."
+---
+
+When macOS Tahoe broke the way Bartender, Ice, and friends hide menu-bar icons, most apps tried to patch around the new restrictions. ExtraBar took the other route: it replaces the menu bar entirely with a fully customizable surface, so you decide which icons live there and which don't. A pragmatic answer to an OS that increasingly resists letting you arrange your own desktop.
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+---
+name: "Freud on Spending Affection"
+subtitle: "Today's A.Word.A.Day Thought for Today, on Freud's birthday"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/bombaster.html"
+linkText: "wordsmith.org"
+source: "A.Word.A.Day"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+tags: [psychology, generosity, awad, freud]
+description: "An economy of affection that contradicts every other economy: spending the fund renews it."
+---
+
+> One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.
+
+— Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May 1856–1939). Today's *A.Word.A.Day* Thought for Today, surfaced on Freud's birthday.
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+---
+name: "Hovercraft"
+subtitle: "Stay on camera; let your slides float beside you"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://sandwich.vision/hovercraft"
+source: "Six Colors"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [video-call, presenting, virtual-camera, indie]
+description: "A virtual camera that places slides next to your face on the call instead of consigning you to a thumbnail in the corner."
+---
+
+Screen-sharing during a call shrinks you to a webcam thumbnail and replaces your face with a cursor wandering across the deck. Hovercraft creates a virtual camera that puts your slides into the same frame as you — pinch and resize them with hand gestures, navigate with arrow keys, hide with `V`. Sources can be PDF decks, Keynote files, or any window. $19 single-Mac; no subscription.
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+---
+name: "The Clock Joke"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/R7hFtWv49h"
+linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com"
+source: "icanhazdadjoke"
+topics:
+  - dad-jokes
+tags: [pun, idiom, short]
+description: "A two-line eat-the-clock pun that tells you exactly what kind of joke it is in the punchline."
+---
+
+> I ate a clock yesterday. It was so time consuming.
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+---
+name: "The Einstein, Newton, and Pascal Joke"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/top/?t=week"
+linkText: "r/dadjokes"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics:
+  - dad-jokes
+tags: [physics, math, pun, classic]
+description: "Three physicists, three counting strategies, one chalk square."
+---
+
+> Einstein, Newton, and Pascal are playing a game of hide and seek.
+>
+> Einstein starts counting: "One, two, three…"
+>
+> Pascal runs off and hides behind a large bush.
+>
+> Newton, however, just stands there. He takes out a piece of chalk, draws a square on the ground exactly one metre by one metre, and stands inside it.
+>
+> Einstein opens his eyes. "Newton — I've found you!"
+>
+> Newton: "No, you haven't. You've found one Newton per square metre. You've found Pascal."
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+---
+name: "The Khakis Joke"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/top/?t=week"
+linkText: "r/dadjokes"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics:
+  - dad-jokes
+tags: [accents, regional, homophone, wordplay]
+description: "A two-cities setup that runs the same word through two American accents and lands two different meanings."
+---
+
+> If you lose your khakis in Ohio, it means you can't find your pants.
+>
+> But if you lose your khakis in Boston, it means you can't start your car.
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+---
+name: "The Pea, Lemon, and Potato Joke"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/top/?t=week"
+linkText: "r/dadjokes"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics:
+  - dad-jokes
+tags: [shaggy-dog, produce, physics, long-form]
+description: "A shaggy-dog joke about three vegetables leaving a bar that earns its punchline through the differential rolling behaviour of legumes, citrus, and tubers."
+---
+
+> A pea, a lemon, and a potato were leaving a bar at the top of a very steep hill after a long night.
+>
+> The pea, feeling quite energetic, shouted, "Lads! We're all round — let's just roll home!" and immediately shot down the hill.
+>
+> The lemon wobbled after him, but his oval shape made him list violently from side to side, and he ended up tumbling end-over-end into a hedge.
+>
+> The potato just stood there. The pea, picking himself up at the bottom, called back: "Oi, Spud! Why aren't you rolling?"
+>
+> The potato shrugged: "Because I'm a potato. Potatoes don't roll."
+>
+> "Why not?" yelled the pea.
+>
+> "Because we just sit there. We can't even."
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+---
+name: "Bug Blaster"
+subtitle: "A $8 handheld bug-launcher styled as a galactic ray gun"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GS6F32CK"
+linkText: "View on Amazon"
+source: "Kikkerland"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [novelty, summer, household, kikkerland]
+description: "A pump-action mosquito-deterrent gadget designed to look like the SF prop a six-year-old would assemble out of cardboard."
+---
+
+A $8 plastic handheld that loads bug-spray-style payloads and launches them at the offending mosquito with a satisfying click. The styling is unapologetically retro-future ray gun. The function sits between earnest tool and toy — for a kid it's a toy, for the adult on the porch in July it's a way to handle one mosquito without the bigger spray and the bigger guilt.
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+---
+name: "Huckleberry Slingshot"
+subtitle: "Beechwood and silicone, comes with five foam balls"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNJ8GCF5"
+linkText: "View on Amazon"
+source: "Kikkerland"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [toy, outdoor, kids, screen-free]
+description: "An $18 backyard slingshot with foam ammo and FSC-certified beechwood — built to be a child's first."
+---
+
+The Huckleberry line is Kikkerland's screen-free play sub-brand, and the slingshot is the cleanest piece in the lineup: FSC-certified beechwood frame, silicone band, EVA grip, five 1.5-inch foam balls in the box. $18. Aim it at a paper target or a leaf. The materials suggest it'll outlast the kid's interest, then surface ten years later in a younger sibling's hand.
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+---
+name: "Mac Juice Monitor"
+subtitle: "Bluetooth device battery levels, in your menu bar"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://github.com/p32929/mac-juice-monitor"
+linkText: "GitHub"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [menu-bar, bluetooth, battery, open-source]
+description: "macOS will tell you the battery state of an Apple keyboard but not your Logitech mouse, your AirPods clone, or your gamepad — Mac Juice Monitor fills the gap."
+---
+
+The macOS battery widget shows your AirPods and Magic Mouse but stays mute about every other Bluetooth peripheral: third-party keyboards, gamepads, headsets that report battery over the standard service but not Apple's private API. Mac Juice Monitor reads the public BLE battery characteristic and surfaces every connected device's percentage in the menu bar. Free, open-source, and tiny.
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+---
+name: "Martha Stoumen Wines Membership"
+subtitle: "Quarterly delivery from a low-intervention California winemaker"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.marthastoumen.com/pages/membership"
+source: "Cool Material"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+  - general-delight
+tags: [wine, small-batch, california, membership]
+description: "Two or four bottles a quarter from a winemaker working old varietals — Negroamaro, Carignan, Mission — with minimal intervention."
+---
+
+Stoumen farms in Mendocino, presses with native yeasts, bottles small lots of grapes most California producers won't touch (Mission, Negroamaro, Zibibbo, Carignan). The membership is the only way to get the rarest single-vineyard bottlings; everything is allocation-only. Tier choice is two or four bottles per quarterly release. The kind of wine subscription where you can't predict what shows up — which is the entire point.
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+---
+name: "Mister Plimsoll"
+subtitle: "A free disk-space watchdog from Glenn Fleishman"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://misterplimsoll.app"
+source: "Six Colors"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [disk-space, menu-bar, indie, alerts]
+description: "Set per-volume thresholds; get an iMessage when your scratch SSD or backup drive crosses the line."
+---
+
+Most disk-space tools either nag from the menu bar or assume you're standing in front of the Mac when storage runs out. Mister Plimsoll is built for the case where you aren't — set thresholds per volume (startup disk, backup drive, external scratch) and route the alert to on-screen, email, or iMessage. Free beta, no account, no tracking, no upsell. Glenn Fleishman is the author.
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+---
+name: "'Nothing' Is the Secret to Structuring Your Work"
+subtitle: "A short essay on why an empty workspace is the only useful starting condition"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.vangemert.dev/blog/nothing"
+source: "Recomendo"
+topics:
+  - general-delight
+tags: [productivity, writing, focus, essay]
+description: "Mark van Gemert argues that the productive question isn't 'what should I add?' — it's 'what's already in the way?'"
+---
+
+A short developer-blog essay on the discipline of beginning a session by removing — not adding — until the workspace is genuinely empty. Open tabs, draft files, half-finished thoughts pinned to the screen all carry attentional weight; clearing them isn't avoidance, it's the prerequisite to actually starting. Recomendo issue 513 surfaced it.
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+---
+name: "Martha Nussbaum on Human Fragility"
+subtitle: "On openness as a precondition for being good"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/06/martha-nussbaum-bill-moyers-world-of-ideas/"
+source: "The Marginalian"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+tags: [philosophy, ethics, vulnerability, marginalian]
+description: "Nussbaum's argument from Bill Moyers' World of Ideas: that the condition of being good requires staying breakable."
+---
+
+> To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame.
+
+Martha Nussbaum, drawing on Greek tragedy, in conversation with Bill Moyers. The corollary she gives is hard: closing yourself off to avoid being shattered is itself a refusal of the human project. Maria Popova frames the full piece around the line.
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+---
+name: "Palette Inspiration"
+subtitle: "Color palettes extracted from 22,000+ master paintings"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://paletteinspiration.com/"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics:
+  - tools
+  - general-delight
+tags: [color, design, art, reference]
+description: "Browse the exact colors Vermeer, Hopper, or the Impressionists actually used — by artist, style, or genre."
+---
+
+Most palette tools generate "harmonies" from a colour wheel; this one inverts the question. It pulls palettes out of the actual pixels of paintings — 22,797 of them, from 3,065 artists across 94 styles — and lets you browse by Vermeer or Rothko or by the broader category (Impressionism, Renaissance, Art Nouveau). A free, browser-only resource that's more useful than any "trending colors of 2026" article.
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+---
+name: "Pythagoras on the Philosopher at the Olympics"
+subtitle: "Where the word 'philosopher' actually came from"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/06/pythagoras-olympic-games/"
+source: "The Marginalian"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+tags: [philosophy, etymology, pythagoras, marginalian]
+description: "The story Pythagoras told to explain why he was neither athlete, vendor, nor spectator — and coined a new third category."
+---
+
+Asked at the Olympic Games which of the three kinds of attendee he was — the competitor chasing glory, the merchant chasing profit, or the spectator chasing entertainment — Pythagoras answered that he was none of them; he was there to *watch*. From that he named a new category: φιλόσοφος, the lover of wisdom.
+
+> He seeks to uncover the secrets of nature. This is the man I call a philosopher for although no man is completely wise in all respects, he can love wisdom as the key to nature's secrets.
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+---
+name: "Radmor 'Pop-Art' Leather Driver Headcover"
+subtitle: "A small-batch leather headcover that looks nothing like an animal"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://radmorgolf.com/collections/special-projects-26/products/radmor-script-leather-headcover-driver-black-yellow-copy"
+source: "Cool Material"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [golf, leather, small-batch, accessories]
+description: "Black-and-yellow script leather, hand-finished — a driver cover that doesn't pretend to be a duck or a bear."
+---
+
+Driver headcovers come in two flavours: the licensed-cartoon-character novelty, and the corporate logo block. Radmor's "Special Projects" run is the third option — hand-finished leather in graphic black-and-yellow Pop-Art script, made in small batches and re-released seasonally. Bold without being a costume. The rest of the Radmor catalog leans the same way: heritage-quality construction, modern restraint.
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+---
+name: "RevPDF"
+subtitle: "A free, fully offline Mac PDF editor"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1t4xe3d/update_revpdf_40_a_completely_free_offline_mac/"
+linkText: "r/macapps launch post"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [pdf, editor, ocr, free]
+description: "Edit, OCR, and batch-process PDFs without uploading them to anyone's cloud — version 4 ships a native-feeling UI."
+---
+
+Most "free" PDF tools either route your file through a server or limit batches to two pages. RevPDF runs entirely on your Mac — annotate, redact, OCR, sign, batch-merge — with the PDF never leaving the local disk. Version 4 brings a redesigned native interface and faster batch operations. Useful when the document is sensitive enough that uploading isn't an option.
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+---
+name: "Ritual Intention Paper Incense"
+subtitle: "Write your intention on the paper, then burn it"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/ritual-intention-paper-incense"
+source: "Uncommon Goods"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [incense, ritual, paper, writing]
+description: "A single sheet that doubles as the surface you write on and the incense you burn — a small, deliberate act formalised."
+---
+
+Most "intention setting" rituals end with the paper still on the desk a week later, slowly migrating into a stack of bills. This is the version that cleans up after itself: an aromatic paper that you write on with a regular pen, fold, and light. The smoke is the close-out of the ritual. A small object, but one whose form fully matches its function.
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+---
+name: "Silphium and the Origin of the Heart Symbol"
+subtitle: "The plant that gave us ❤ — and is being un-extincted"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/06/silphium/"
+source: "The Marginalian"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+  - general-delight
+tags: [history, botany, etymology, marginalian]
+description: "The familiar heart shape comes from silphium seeds; the plant went extinct two thousand years ago and a Turkish botanist may have just brought it back."
+---
+
+The reason the cardiologist's symbol doesn't look anything like an actual heart is that it isn't one. It's a silphium seed pod — silphium being the contraceptive-and-aphrodisiac plant the Greeks of Cyrene grew on coins, then over-harvested into extinction by the second century AD. Botanist Mahmut Miski has spent the last decade arguing that *Ferula drudeana*, growing on a single Turkish slope, is silphium's surviving cousin, and that cold-stratification can bring the lineage back. Maria Popova traces the whole 2,400-year arc.
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+---
+name: "Skymap"
+subtitle: "An interactive 3D galaxy catalog in your browser, rendered with WebGPU"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://skymap.rulkens.com/"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics:
+  - tools
+  - general-delight
+tags: [astronomy, webgpu, visualization, free]
+description: "Fly through real galaxy positions in three dimensions; it's the GAIA / NASA catalog, not procedurally generated."
+---
+
+Most "galaxy maps" online are stylised flat illustrations. Skymap is the real thing: actual galaxy positions plotted in 3D, rendered live by your GPU through WebGPU, navigable with mouse and keyboard. Click any object for catalog data; zoom out to see the cosmic web; zoom in to a single elliptical. Works in Chrome and Safari Tech Preview; no install, no account.
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+---
+name: "TablePro"
+subtitle: "A free, native, open-source database client for macOS"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1t45ql1/os_tablepro_free_native_macos_database_client_18/"
+linkText: "r/macapps launch post"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [database, developer-tools, open-source, sql]
+description: "One Mac-native client across 18 database flavours — relational, key-value, document, analytical, cloud — with an MCP server included."
+---
+
+Most Mac database clients force a choice: TablePlus is closed and paid, Sequel Ace only does MySQL, DBeaver is Java pretending to be a Mac app. TablePro is the native, free, open-source middle path — one window for Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, Mongo, Redis, DynamoDB, and a dozen more, with an MCP server bundled so AI agents can drive it. iPad version is in TestFlight.
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+---
+name: "Weeki Wachee Springs State Park"
+subtitle: "The Florida state park with a live mermaid show, running since 1947"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://maps.roadtrippers.com/us/spring-hill-fl/nature/weeki-wachee-springs-state-park"
+linkText: "Roadtrippers entry"
+source: "Roadtrippers Magazine"
+topics:
+  - travel
+tags: [florida, state-park, kitsch, springs]
+description: "Old Florida roadside kitsch at its purest — performers in tails breathing through air hoses behind a glass wall, since the Truman administration."
+---
+
+Spring Hill, Florida. The mermaid theatre is the original 1947 underwater amphitheatre; performers still pass the audition by holding their breath through a 120-foot dive and treading water for ten unbroken minutes. Outside the show: a riverboat to spot manatees, a wildlife enclosure with a three-legged tortoise named Tripod, a roped swimming area in the spring itself. Admission $13. The kind of place that's only memorable because it should not still exist.