Presidential pumpkins, a breakaway blimp, and more amazing news items from the past week. 

The Frightening "Trumpkin" Phenomenon, Chicagoist 

A new phenomenon is sweeping the nation and it's scarier than zombies or ghosts. It's "The Trumpkin." An artist from Ohio turned a 374-pound pumpkin into a larger than life portrait of reality TV star, businessman, and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. It took Jeanette Paras more than 10 hours to complete with the iconic hair taking the longest time. She creates a pumpkin celebrity every year and she chose Trump because he's become the man of 2015, she says. The Donald's constant media attention has inspired others to paint or carve their own "Trumpkins."

Could There Be Life on Saturn's Icy Moon? NYTimes 

Where there is water, is there life? That’s the $64 billion question now facing NASA and the rest of lonely humanity. When the New Horizons spacecraft, cameras clicking, sped past Pluto in July, it marked an inflection point in the conquest of the solar system... We’ve finished counting the rocks in the neighborhood. It’s time to find out if anything is living on them, a job that could easily take another half century.

Twitter Jokes About Breakaway Blimp, USA Today 

A U.S. military blimp, which is more than 242 feet long, came untethered from its Maryland base and is on the loose over Pennsylvania. Naturally, folks on Twitter reacted with humor almost immediately following news reports. 

Proposal to Put City's Homeless in Empty Vaca Rentals, SFist

A resident of San Francisco has suggested that the city's vacation rental companies might be a great resource in the fight to reduce the number of homeless on streets of San Francisco — if only for a few nights here and there — if companies like Airbnb and VRBO were forced to partner with the city to temporarily house the homeless in unoccupied vacation rental units.  

Zuckerberg To End Irritating FB Game Invites, WSJ

Game invitations might be a nuisance for recipients who aren’t interested in playing, but games are often designed to reward senders. In the case of “Candy Crush Saga,” for example, the more requests people send to others on Facebook to play the game, the more “lives” they gain in return. Such features are outdated, Mr. Zuckerberg acknowledged, but updating or doing away with them wasn’t high on the company’s to-do list — until now. He said Facebook had other priorities, but that since it’s now clear this is a top concern for users, the company is going to prioritize the matter.