Ever see this phenom on Amazon? A group of people get together, and hijack the always-helpful Customer Review threads for one of the more cheesy books/CDs/movies.

The latest one to get hit is the CD The Best of David Hasselhoff.

Last count: 821 reviews.

I just found my next laptop, the Ferrari 3000.

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a Solar System Simulator that shows views in and around our Solar System from a myriad of vantage points.

Saturn as would be seen from Voyager I Spacecraft.

Largest Diamond does not sell...

Excerpt:

The largest diamond ever to go under the hammer failed to find a buyer at a Sotheby's sale in Geneva in what was supposed to be the climax of a glittering week of jewellery auctions

103.83 carat D/IF Diamond to be auctioned in Geneva.

Excerpt:

An employee of Sotheby's holds the largest D color internally flawless diamond offered for auction in Geneva, November 12, 2003. The diamond, weighing 103.83 carats, is the first classic cushion-shape of more than 100 carats to be offered and is estimated to fetch US$ 8,000,000. The auction will be held on November 20 in Geneva.

Brian Kelly wrote an article about Joe Bonafine of Bonafine Jewelers: In search of the best

Pat Summers reports for The Princeton Packet on a shindig held by Hamilton Jewelers to celebrate Marilyn Monroe and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Excerpt:

A great day, in short, to buy a diamond. Or two. Or many.
At the very least, it was a fine time to wallow in diamonds. Which Hamilton Jewelers made eminently possible at its annual two-day "Diamond Extravaganza," open to fancy-diamond fanciers of all stripes — dowagers to career women to husbands with a mission; young couples in love to long-marrieds, still in love with diamonds after all these years.
After a record-breaking day at its Lawrenceville store, Hamilton Jewelers Princeton had a festive air and what looked to be a steady stream of serious customers. Diamonds in their countless iterations may have been the initial draw, but that glamorous and symbol-laden attraction was not all.