by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC + Practicing Skeptic

An uncut industrial diamond ready for hyping. (photo by Shieldforyoureyes Dave Fischer, via Wikimedia Commons)
When I was fresh out of college, I met this millionaire who made his fortune selling diamond jewelry through supermarket tabloids. You may be wondering, what kind of jewelry sells through the cheesiest rags on the planet — newspapers that you wouldn’t dare use to line a birdcage lest you kill the bird?
That’s a good thing to wonder.
These were genuine diamonds — genuine industrial diamonds, that is, worthless in the general jewelry market. Yet the tabloid readers saw the word “diamond” and their eyes lit up and their mouths watered and their hands reached for the telephone as the words “my precious” escaped from their lips…



Since I’m addicted to furry creatures with pointy ears and tuna breath, I was hooked. Since I also dig on futuristic design, particularly anything with the word “pod” in it, I clicked… 




