Video: Salvadore Dali tries to stump a blindfolded celebrity panel as The Mystery Guest on quiz show What's My Line?, with host John Daly, on Jan. 20, 1952.

Surreal to reel – Dali at the movies is the London Times' tale of a new exhibition at Tate Modern titled DalÍ & Film. We begin in 1936, when Sal meets Harpo:

...DalÍ travelled to Paris specially to meet Harpo at a party. The meeting was a success and the two men, both wildly flamboyant showmen, remained in touch. A few months later, DalÍ sent Harpo a handmade Christmas present. It was a harp, decorated with gilded ornamentation, but with barbed wire for strings and teaspoons and forks for tuning knobs, all wrapped in Cellophane.

Harpo was delighted (and) had a photograph taken of himself seemingly playing it, with bandages on his fingers as if he had injured himself while plucking the strings. This was sent to DalÍ with an invitation to visit him if he were ever in California...

He visits, and Harpo gets him back, bigtime.

To sweeten the pot, the story includes video links:
Dali's dream sequence for Hitchock's Spellbound
Trailer for Dali's Disney collaboration Destino
Dali and Buñuel's L'Age D'Or
Dali and Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou<
Salvador Dali on TV show What's My Line?

Emperor's son's new clothes? Thom Browne Spring 2007 Collection in New York Magazine.

Men's fashion? There's a slideshow, and this photo is typical. Seen together, the photos make me wonder if the model is hoping the guys back home won't see him in these duds.

About: Bergdorf to Expand Thom Browne:

Prices for the suits will range from $3,400 to $4,200 and shirts will be $325 to $390.

No price given for the beekeeper's hats.

via Rebecca Blood

Engineer anima: The Top 15 USB geek gadgets: Via Shelley Powers, who notes,

Be sure to check out the USB 'aquarium'. Better yet, watch the 8 inch tall pole dancer that twirls to your MP3 tunes, while you contemplate in utter bemusement the lack of women in technology.