Photos from exploring the tunnels behind Niagara Falls.

Here's a nice mock-up of the iPhone. This is a nice version featuring professional, rounded corners (ahem).

Last night I got to check out the opening of the Martin Luther King Papers exhibit at the Atlanta History Center. The places was pretty much packed, which was great to see. We arrived at around 1:30 in the afternoon, and our time-ticket wasn't until 5:15! Anyway, we came back after lunch. On display they had hundreds and hundreds of original documents from his life as well as some great photos by Flip Schulke and others. What really struck me, and what I really liked about the exhibit, was the focus on his intellectual biography.

Martin Luther King is occasionally reduced to a nice little rhetorical soundbite or posterboy for a specific political movement. That's not inaccurate, per se, but incomplete. The exhibit showed a pretty impressive history of introspection and inquiry. There were original copies from dozens of his sermons, notes from his many speeches, books from his personal library with marginal annotations, his huge files of index cards for future reference. It makes you remember that he was not just a politico, but a thinker who wrestled with Big Ideas and tried to live them as well. There's really too much to take in on one visit. At least bring some comfortable shoes to stand and read and read and read. So go check it out. It's here in Atlanta until May, and a collection of this size probably won't ever happen again.

The Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain made a comic book about Fair Use. Law professor James Boyle talked with NPR about it.

Etsy, which is something like an eBay for hand-crafted goods, just opened a storefront/ lab. It will house the headquarters as well as some space for workshops, galleries, etc.

The allure of the trophy wife may be fading. [via dangerousmeta]

There are now over 250 games in the Flickr pool called DS Tie-In Games I Wanna Play. There's a new MacWorld game, recumbent bicycle racing, UNIX SysAdmin Adventure, the New Yorker game, Cool Hand Luke, and lots of other good ones.

Seth Godin on Cingular CEO Stan Sigman's anemic performance at the Macworld Keynote where the iPhone debuted: "One could argue that you can be a great CEO without having a clue how to speak in public. But why not either get better at it or send someone else in your place?"

Photos of discarded Christmas trees. Ah, the symbolism.

This website features extensive speculation on Batman's religion, who is most likely a lapsed Catholic or Episcopalian. There are also features on other comics characters.

What's really funny wonderful about the iPhone announcement is not the buzz, but all this post-orgy meta-buzz. You can thank me for later for this insightful coverage of the coverage of the coverage. For now, go read up.

Jason Kottke sums up the "iPhone" trademark dispute quite nicely: "booorrrrr-ring"

Photos of surprisingly colorful and exuberant bus stop architecture from the old Soviet Union.

A collection of photos from College Photographer of the Year, Matt Eich.

Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For.

The British Library lets you browse some classic primary texts online. They've got works like Carroll's original Alice story with his own handwriting and illustrations, Mercatur's first maps of Europe, and one of Mozart's last notebooks.

I've been sitting on this one for a while. I'm not really sure how you review something like this, so I'll just say it's a cool, encyclopedic book. Bruce Sterling calls it a "dizzyingly comprehensive chunk of treeware," which sounds about right. Worldchanging is the meatworld reference book associated with the collaborative Worldchanging website. Inside, you'll find short articles on about a million green-related topics. Let's see... forestry, women's rights, microfinance, product design, DIY, bioplastics, sustainable ranching, social entrepreneurship, climate change, etc. It is a very pretty book: full-color throughout, nicely designed on heavy paper, and with lots of photos (though woefully short of cool, original infographics). The obvious problem is inherent to an encyclopedia, where no topic is covered in depth, and no entry can be as refined or nuanced as it ought to be (e.g., only 7 pages on "Understanding Trade"). It's an honest start, and there's some inspiration to be found if you're already inclined.

I think Andrea Harner speaks for many of us on the GRE/ LSAT/ MCAT torture ride: "Took the diagnostic test on Saturday and am certain when the teacher passes back my test this Saturday she'll be looking around the room for a retarded person to hand it to."

Metacritic scraped the best-of lists from all the major film review publications and presents the aggregated critical favorites from 2006. United 93 and Army of Shadows came out on top.

A Flickr photo collection of vintage children's books.