De-romancing the stone. Mark Vadon of Blue Nile wants to turn diamonds into pork bellies. Tiffany's hates him. more inside

Economists. [Flash]

Half-baked ideas. Tattoo eaters. Reverse organizational hierarchy (start new employees as the CEO, and demote them). Dress-up hood ornaments for your car. Hooker stamps (like food stamps, except for... you know). And much, much more.

The Dictionary of the History of Ideas is now on line. Apparently this, the only previous edition, was published in 1973-74, although a new edition is in the planning stages. Sadly, the individual pages seem to be broken under FireFox 1.0, although they work under IE. Also, the server is very slow right now. via Crooked Timber

The guns of The Matrix. What are all those things they're firing?

The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Big brains. Big ideas. Big hair.

Maps of historic cities. Let's take a stroll past Notre Dame de Paris, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, for example.

Saint Clinton.

Trash log. Would be a shlog?

Mouse-eating in Zambia. Includes recipes.

Czech WW I military postcards.

Melvin Sokolsky, photographer. Pictures of pretty women in expensive clothing, 1960's to present. And some other stuff. via jumblies LJ

The McGurk Effect. This is creepy. Dammit, I feel as if the gods of perception have stuck a spoon in my brain and stirred it around a bit. via matociquala's LJ.

100 faces of Arturo Brachetti, master of metamorphosis.
via mister pants

Goth in the suburbs. He worships Satan! He desecrates the Bible! He gardens! He recycles! remember, real goths stick out their tongues when they rake.

Build your own model dinosaur skeleton out of chicken bones. An Apatosaurus, to be specific. See, we told you birds evolved from dinos! If you want a T. rex, that can be done, too.

New Black Hole Sun music video. Vortical interfaces between immiscible fluids.