For the love of money (or at least stock certificates)

The stumbler extension for Firefox is a major timesuck, but occasionally you hit something worthwhile and/or interesting. For example scans of the artwork on corporate stock certificates. (One technical note about the link - some of the "last" and "next" buttons are reversed during the slideshow - if the "next" button actually takes you back, try the "last" button.) The images are really surreal when you stop and look closely, and some of the captions the scanner added are genuinely funny.

I can only imagine (thankfully) the corporate brainstorming sesssion that came up with some of these images: "Now, how about we have a giant romance novel cover model in a hard hat surrounded by piping, holding up a beaker and wearing a crown emblazoned with the hazard symbol for nuclear energy? That is sufficiently grandiose and technological. All is favor say 'aye'."

For those of you in the Massachusetts area, one of the stocks is from BostonGas, and it has the famous painted gas tanks in South Boston on the certificate (among other things).