So I just gave you some links to some rocking oldies. Now it’s time to introduce Les Horribles Cernettes, who were around long before the piping hot Pipettes were even learning what a pipette does.

The Cernettes are, as you clever souls guessed it, from CERN and they boast that they’re the only “High Energy Rock Band” around. I’d believe them. I mean, they’ve got a song called “My Sweetheart is a Nobel Prize” (listen here); what further proof do you need??

Now one of the Cernette’s other claims to fame is that they were the first band to have a web page and band picture posted on the web (I’m assuming the one above) online. And again, I’d believe it. After all, the world wide web was created at CERN back in 1989. And the Cernettes webpage was born in 1992. Those are pretty early internet days.

Anyways, like most things that shone bright in the early nineties they’ve staged a come back at this year’s CERN Hardronic festival no less. Read about their first show in six years in the Compact Muon Solenoid Times. The last standing Cernettes are Michele de Gennaro, a 3-D graphic artist at CERN, Anne MacNabb and Vicky Corlass (who’s jobs I couldn’t find right away. But I’m on it).

I equate Etsy with crafty DIY goods that range from lacquered collages to one-of-a-kind earrings that I could make from a visit to the local bead shop. But really, it’s like that fab boutique that you want to outfit your new apartment from: funky silk screened dish towels, gorgeous candles, chic bric-a-brac, and some random items of affordable art.

But that’s all boring. Because look! How do the rest of Etsy’s wares not pale in comparison to the chemistry love notes pictured above.

If that’s not creative geek genius drop me a line and if you can sway me to the contrary, I’ll go jump in the nearest lake I can locate.

They’re copper, copper earrings. Get it? Gold (Au) are a mite too predictable and pricey. But Lead (Pb)? Now that’s creative.

$25 at Etsy. Ooh. And they’ve got Silver (Ag) ones selling for $30. See?