Two very interesting posts on Neatorama recently...

The Wonderful World of Early Photography takes you from the world's first photograph (a process then called heliography) through the days of the first portrait, photomontage, aerial photograph and moving pictures, all the way to Playboy retouching Anna Nicole for the first time (actually not that far)...watch the birdie.

And you've seen the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs. Well this is what it would look like if the History Channel had bought the show. In the Worst Jobs in History, you can obviously read about the crossing sweepers, but it's the leech collectors, nit pickers, gut girls and sin eaters (yummy) that got my attention. Makes your complaints about the wrong size staples seem a bit petty, huh?