Slog - Comments on Diamond in the Scruff http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff This sounds like bullshit: Some guy had 10 strands of Beethoven's brown hair. Some other guy thought it would be a good idea to turn Beethoven's hair into diamonds and sell them on eBay. David Hampson, chief executive of LifeGem UKŪ, said: "This diamond is the first ever created from the carbon of a celebrity or historical figure." Here is the site for LifeGemŪ, where you can learn how it's done (extract carbon, heat and compress) and enjoy testimonials like these: Dear Rusty, Well, we all got to look at our LifeGems last night as a family. My Mom was... Copyright 2008 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:52:06 -0800 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:29:38 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Blaire So you can wear your loved oens on a ring? Awesome.

]]> Blaire http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808609 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808609 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:29:34 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger Who at the Stranger is dying? This is week two with strange things to do with dead bodies.

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808610 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808610 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:29:47 -0800 Comment by Blaire Oh, my spelling today is awesome.

]]> Blaire http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808611 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808611 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:30:11 -0800 Comment by Katelyn But why? Who gives a shit about Beethoven's HAIR, the point is his music. The celebrity hair diamond idea is gratuitous tasteless nonsense.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808613 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808613 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:31:14 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 really not that bad an idea, certainly better than wasting space to put people underground. this one just wastes money

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808615 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808615 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:31:59 -0800 Comment by Ari Spool Now I don't know if I want to be a reef or a diamond when I die! Goddammit! I was pretty settled with reef.

]]> Ari Spool http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808617 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808617 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:32:21 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger I want to be made into siding or roofing material for my home when I die. Just imagine the thought of protecting my loved ones from the elements for the rest of their lives! Surrounding them everyday at home with my modified corpse into various building materials!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808633 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808633 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:37:35 -0800 Comment by elenchos It isn't just for loved ones and celebrities. You can also have the remains of your defeated archenemies reduced to diamonds to encrust your throne with.

Those of us with thrones, I mean. And archenemies. And the will to mercilessly crush them.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808638 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808638 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:39:32 -0800 Comment by Al Hmm... do my archenemies have to necessarily be dead first?

]]> Al http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808694 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808694 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:53:23 -0800 Comment by Toby @9: No, you just need to ask them to hold still for a minute.

]]> Toby http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808704 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808704 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:55:41 -0800 Comment by inkweary I always wanted my friends to leave small amounts of my ashes in the ashtrays of my favorite bars but the smoking ban ruined that. The ban did, however, help me quit smoking so I may have more time to consider an alternative.

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808716 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808716 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:59:01 -0800 Comment by maxsolomon this actually is a pretty cool idea, but wrap me in a sheet & bury me at schreiber's meadow on mt. baker.

]]> maxsolomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808719 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808719 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:59:37 -0800 Comment by Tizzle That's just gross.

]]> Tizzle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808795 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808795 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:32:39 -0800 Comment by arduous I can't decide if this is kind of sort of cool, or very, very weird.

]]> arduous http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808819 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808819 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:42:24 -0800 Comment by lilblackcat #2 The Stranger is always coming up with new and exciting ways to hide the bodies. ;-)

]]> lilblackcat http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808827 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808827 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:44:49 -0800 Comment by elenchos Having been in the business of mercilessly crushing my archenemies for their impudence for more years than I can count, let me just say I have breifly -- briefly -- considered slowly compacting their writhing, struggling bodies into diamonds while they begged and pleaded in the face of my heartless laughter.

But you know what? I've been there and done that and the same god damn thing always happens. Whether you're slowly lowering your impudent archenemy's writhing, struggling body into a pool or pit of hungry sharks or snakes or what have you, or slowly bearing down upon their writhing, struggling bodies with a laser beam or spinning saw blade or what have you.

You can only stand their heartlessly laughing for so long before you have to pee. Or the damn phone rings. Or you bumbling minions once again fail you and once again you have to do everything yourself.

And then? The second your back is turned? ...Well, you know the rest.

Nope. My Great Hall didn't get lined with skulls because I never learn. Now I'm all business: taunt them with a horrific vision of spending eternity decorating the old throne of power, then order a trusted servant to take care of them right then and there.

I'm having the skulls made into a nice bracelet, by the way. It's gotten quite cluttered around here and anyway I'm thinking of moving to a condo.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808878 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808878 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:02:58 -0800 Comment by Lawrence Molloy "A diamond that takes millions of years to occur", is incorrect. A diamond is formed in seconds during the erruption of a kimberlite at depths greater than 35km. Only in these conditions is it possible for the coniguration of the carbon go from sigma and pi bonds to all sigma bonds, thereby forming the hardest substance known to man. Lastly, nothing takes millions of years "to occur". LTM

]]> Lawrence Molloy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808980 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c808980 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:58:12 -0800 Comment by Kiru Banzai LifeGem was always a contender for what I wanted to happen to my remains, but diamonds are too flammable. Now I want to be fossilized so as to benefit future archaeologists. Pray God they be cephalopods.

]]> Kiru Banzai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c809207 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c809207 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:19:53 -0800 Comment by BusMan I wanna make a diamond out of Brendans Mustachio!!!!

]]> BusMan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c809319 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c809319 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:56:42 -0800 Comment by labronx The only better thing to do with cremains is to pack them into fireworks and blow the shit up. "You can do that, you know."

]]> labronx http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c809349 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/diamond_in_the_scruff#c809349 Life Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:29:38 -0800